Poker After Dark

Relevant Scene I decided to choose a combination of scenes from the movie to show the progression of the character and to fully make my point across. The first scene, was when Alfred started to tell Bruce about his time in Burma. He spoke about a thief who was stealing jewels and how they were looking for him, when one day, he [Alfred] saw a kid playing with a jewel, and learned that the thief was just throwing away the jewels he stole. Bruce asks why would the thief steal them in the…

Through the use of motifs, character development, and archetypes, the creators of the movie Batman Begins convey the idea that everyone fears, but only those who have the courage to overcome it will thrive. The character development throughout the story relies in a big change in consequence of Rachel’s words. Bruce Wayne gives the impression of being an unmotivated slacker with an attitude problem. He even comments that Alfred hasn't "given up" on him yet. Rachel not only rebukes him for trying…

final monologue of the film The Dark Knight brings out a number of themes in the story to a logical conclusion. Some of the themes in the film are principles, defeat, rules and order, identity and justice and judgment. Bruce Wayne has powers that can fight crime but they are limited. As a man, he can be killed, corrupted or even defeated. As a symbol, he can be so much more. Towards the end of the movie, Bruce Wayne becomes an uncontainable force to the society. The Dark Knight focuses on the…

a hero following his own rules in order to do good around him requires an individual with a strong set of morals, an issue that is primary in many stories of the Batman, and particularly in Christopher Nolan’s second opus of his Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight (2008). In the movie, ethics are a recurring theme, focusing mainly on how the masked hero deals with ethical issues and the decision he makes to reach his goal, but also observes the regular people’s choices. These ethical issues…

Space is a huge sea of unknown. We are simply specks of dust, trying to figure out the behaviors of giants. Thus it is apparent that the specks can not know much. For now. One of the biggest mysteries is the expansion of the universe; in the 1990s, we knew that theoretically, our ever-expanding universe was slowing down due to gravity, and that it would eventually collapse or keep expanding, just slower as time went on. However, thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope, we now know that to be dead…

In The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger by Stephen King, the gunslinger tries to catch the man in black. The novel is 305 pages long. The book is set in a dystopian parallel universe. The world is similar to our own, having the song “Hey Jude” and its own versions of modern technology. The gunslinger crosses the desert with his mule and he encounters Brown. He tells Brown about what happened in Tull. He questioned the townspeople about a man in black, where he discovers that he brought a man back to…

equal rights. Which all supports the fact that this was a terrible time to live in. As stated before, the Medieval Times are commonly known as the time of dungeons, dragons, knights and magic. The Medieval Times came to be about a thousand years after the collapse of the Roman Empire. This was the time that Western Europe was chaotic and needed a more organized structure. Today, people would call…

Medieval ages, also referred to as the dark ages, started from the 5th century and ended in the 15th century. During this period, in regards to literature, there were many stories with a “dark” background; hence the idea of the Dark Ages. Dante Alighieri’s “Inferno” written in the 13th century and Giovanni Boccaccio’s “Decameron,” written in the 14th century both contribute to this idea. Both stories were written in what is called Macaronic language, a language made up of slang words given Latin…

things truly do fall apart. Okonkwo did not understand his roots at a proper time, and all hell breaks loose. Through interaction with characters like Mr. Brown, Mr. Smith, and the Direct Commissioner, readers are able to understand more about the dark secrets that stories like Heart of Darkness tried to hide. Achebe tries to express the similarities and differences between Okonkwo and these characters. The biggest finding in this book is that although these characters are different, culturally;…

The Middle Ages, a time period in Europe where the thriving society after the Roman Empire declined, and the population was affected by many of the ongoing conflicts. The time of the Middle Ages lasted from 500-1500 CE. Around 1339 in northwestern Europe, the population was beginning to outgrow the food supply and relentless economic crisis began to take place.The winters were extremely cold and the summers were dry. Due to this extreme weather, very few crops made it past harvest and those that…