Out There

“Out of Eden” is the first episode which starts off the Guns, Germs, and Steel documentary. This episode kicks off in a country called Papua New Guinea due to the major impact that it had toward Jared Diamond’s findings. In New Guinea, Jared Diamond became inspired to understand why some societies are not as advanced as others. This question has never really entered my mind until I watched this documentary and learned more about Jared’s well thought out theories. In this episode,…

This 1981 American classic horror film directed by Brian De Palma. The protagonist of this story Jack is a film sound man from Philadelphia. When recording sound for a low-cost horror film, he accidentally recorded the evidence of a murder of a presidential candidate and got involved in a bizarre political conspiracy. Palma is known as "the Hitchcock of the United States" and "the Master of contemporary Suspense Film". He is also considered as “part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking”[…

The mise en scène elements of acting, lighting, and color in Steven Soderbergh’s Out of Sight (1998) correlate closely with the moods of different parts of the film, contributing significantly to the film’s storytelling process. In the analyzed shot, many of these elements work in tandem to suggest to viewers a turning point in the storyline. As argued below, the mise en scène elements of acting, lighting and color in the shot of Jack Foley and Buddy packing to leave Miami function to emphasize…

Out of the Dust is focused around the life of Billie Jo, who lives in Joyce City, Oklahoma during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. During this time, a severe drought and dust storms ravage across the great plains, making life difficult for many Americans. Billy starts by describing her family’s awaiting for the arrival of a new member, her passion for playing the piano, and her idols, Mad Dog and Arley Wanderdale, whom support her when she performs. Meanwhile, dust is a regular occurrence…

The movie inside out is about a young girl named Riley who has to move to a new city as a pre-teen. This movie is about the struggles of a young girl who is dealing with her family’s movie to a new city, and it entails the emotional experiences that she has throughout her first months there. This movie depicts the emotions inside her (Joy, sadness, anger, disgust, and fear), and how they deal with her everyday experiences. The emotions accidentally disrupt the main character Riley’s storage of…

1.0 Task 1(a): Teaching of Drama in ESL: Appropriateness of the Chosen Drama “A Night Out” (Form 2) The drama “A Night Out” by O. Henry from the Literature Component for Form 2 has been chosen for Task 1 of this assignment. “A Night Out” tells the story about an ordinary office worker, Towers Chandler who saved some amount of money from his pay check and after ten weeks, he will go out with his best clothes and eat at one of the finest restaurant in the city of New York and on one fateful…

Emotions, Inside Out No matter where you are from, whether it be from New York city or a small tribe in the amazon forest, we all experience the same 6 universal emotions. The emotions we experience are happiness, sadness, anger, surprise, fear and disgust. These emotions are beneficial because they allow us to have feelings and have the ability to categorize events with tags. For example, how we always remember the good events in life when we feel happy and we remember bad events when we feel…

peers, culture, society norms. I believe children who grow up in a home that is warm, loving, supportive and safe tend to learn those behaviors, and bring them to the outside world. What I do not understand, and throws the entire thought process out the window, is when there is a rapist or murderer, whose home life was seemingly a loving stable place and yet they grow to do these horrible acts. I have a personal friend of mine whose child is in jail for rape and murder. I have known the…

contrasting nationalities and beliefs become more prominent in our country, interracial and interfaith marriages are bound to be common. In the article, “Americans ‘Marrying Out’ in Much Greater Numbers”, it is noted how many people participate in interracial or interfaith relationships, explaining “...Greater numbers today are ‘marrying out,’…

How is the colonial idea of Africa (as unquestionably a place to be ruled over by Europeans) reflected in the film Out of Africa? Focus on three examples from the film that illustrate your point while incorporating relevant insights from both Ngugi and Stauder easy The colonial idea of Africa is reflected in the film Out of Africa, by the way the Africans are forced to learn English, how the Maasai tribe’s home is always on the verge of being taken from them, and the way Africans are constantly…