RMS Titanic

heroes in the movies. Moreover, the relation between themes and the related heroic characters will be discussed. In the project, 5 different kind of movies in recent 20 years are selected as examples: Hancock, Batman Begins, Saving Private Ryan, Titanic and 2012. In order to identify people’s behaviors to heroic actions, we should first define what hero is. There are lots of definitions…

Acclaimed historian Margaret Macmillan once stated “We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do.” Many literary pieces have carefully chosen which parts of history they want to emphasize and diminish to fit a specific agenda, altering the modern day understanding of the truth. The literary theory of New Historicism is based off this concept, and its goal is to understand the…

By definition of middle schoolers, to be beautiful means that someone is physically attractive and enticing, but it also means that a person is content with who they are. For the past one hundred years, beauty trends and icons have changed drastically through each decade. Whether it was Hollywood’s Golden Age or the Roaring 20s, something new was thought of as beautiful at the height of each and every decade. In some decades it was desirable to have an hourglass figure, while in other decades it…