Patricia Highsmith

Patricia Highsmith’s novel The Talented Mr. Ripley and Anthony Minghella’s 1999 screen adaptation of the same name delve into the life of a man with a talent for impersonation, fraud and his desire to obtain a lush lifestyle beyond his means. Sexuality and eroticism play a key role in the film adaptation. The precursor novel does not portray Tom Ripley as an overt homosexual, it displays the character as a sexually ambiguous individual. However, in the film it is evident that Ripley would rather sacrifice admitting his homosexuality in order to lead a luxurious but heterosexual existence. Highsmith never explicitly portrays Ripley’s sexuality as unambiguous, partially due to oppressive views of the society in which the novel exists. Michel…

Highsmith depicts the behaviors of Tom in detail as well as reveals Tom’s inner thoughts explicitly, portraying the figure of Tom Ripley as a tactful while talented liar, who associates with the grey areas of the society and struggles to live a higher-level life, vain and calculating. For example, just after Tom accepts Mr. Greenleaf’s offer to go to Italy, he plans to cheat a last victim from his lists of prospects, Mr de Sevilla. “Shouldn’t he try just one more in these last ten days before he…

The Importance of Friendship Friendship is, by definition, a relationship between two friends. Some believe that friendships are a necessity for human life. Joseph Conrad was a man who grew up not having many friends. As a young child he had missed school quite a bit from illnesses (Kathleen Wilson 200). This made it hard to have close relationships with other children. He did however gain a love for literature and the sea from his father at a young age (www.notablebiographies.com). This is…

Although the majority believed that a princess should be proper and follow the social norms of her day, others believed that a princess should have their own voice and live a life of freedom and choice. In the novel Dealing With Dragons by Patricia Wrede, Cimorene was overwhelmed with the expectations of society and longed for her freedom. This longing manifested inside her until she decided to ignore the manipulating society and escape to a land where her freedom cascaded around her. Cimorene…

and the frightening feeling of the unknown? If you take all of those feelings and heighten them to a new level that is how I felt. I have been on pins and needles all today, packing to go off to college. Because of my desire to pursue a degree in education, I had chosen to attend Texas A&M University, which was three hours away from my hometown. After several trips to the car, I was just about ready to hit the road. I traveled with no idea what to expect starting school in a completely new city.…

is when Gault murdered Rachael. Cornwell had had Kay and Benton go back and forth talking about the scene and using words such as crimson blood and fleshy white. This was my opinion on the book From Potter’s Field. I have just connected to what Rachael might have felt when Temple Gault put the dead dog on her bed, I have visualized the life’s of the characters at the end of the book, and I have evaluated the whole book From Potter’s Field. Everything about this book is fantastic and I wish…

Zullo teaches the intermediate students. Gathering on the carpet for the initial part of the literacy block (one hour and fifteen minutes), Ms. Zullo began the whole-group lesson by reviewing what the students had been working on. They are completing a unit on Patricia Polacco, studying the author in-depth to discover what kind of person she is and how her life has influenced her writing. Ms. Zullo asked the students to brainstorm what they remembered about the author and wrote these ideas on…

Eliminativism is Self-Refuting - Eliminative materialist claims that beliefs do not exist; however in order to assert this claim one has to believe that beliefs do not exist. Thus, eliminative materialism is self-refuting and incoherence because you cannot assert eliminativism without proving that in eliminativism is false . Although this is a common conception among many philosophers that do not agree with the eliminativist’s argument, such a response requires a more solid account because…

Yes, I’ve been fortunate enough to have served in a variety of ministries such as a seniors day program, Church choir, respite camps, Best Buddies and so forth. I find working with the SENACA seniors day program to be my favourite experience. This program entails a wide range of responsibilities and duties. Some days it might be doing tasks like cleaning or taking out the trash, while on other days it’s more focused on planning and doing activities with the senior clients. It’s an absolutely…

As an educator, one who imparts knowledge, it is important that I investigate knowledge through an epistemological lense by questioning its content, source, and nature. In addition, I need to question not only the content of the knowledge that is considered truth, but also the validation process of arriving at that truth. I need to ask how I know? What does it mean to say something is true and what is the genesis of that truth? For the purpose of this essay, I will discuss the epistemologies of…