Rocky II

“I came here tonight and I didn 't know what to expect. I seen a lot of people hate me and I didn 't know what to feel about that so I guess I didn 't like you much none either,” a line uttered by Rocky Balboa to an audience full of Soviets after defeating the powerhouse Russian boxer, Ivan Drago. Films of the 1980’s relating to the Cold War era influenced culture in the United States more clearly than any other historical era depicted on the silver screen. It is important to know the background…

In 1942 during World War II a mission was undertaken by an elite group of Norwegians to destroy a heavy water plant high in the mountains of Rjukan, Norway. The brave men apart of this mission risked their lives on that day to stop the Germans advancement in Nuclear Development. It was believed by many of the people that assigned the mission that some would die on the mission. The attack on Vemork is considered one of the most spectacular and daring events of World War II. Now it should be…

Another Opens Immediately after World War II, the United States went to war with another country. This war was not fought like traditional wars, where countries would settle their differences on a battlefield. This war was fought through politics, fear, and through “proxy wars”. The Cold War went on from 1947 to 1991 between the United States and the Soviet Union. What Led to the Cold War? The United States and Soviet Union were not allies in World War II and then suddenly became enemies after.…

funding through the selling of property and possessions by the government at a fraction of its actual worth. Men deemed healthy and strong were transported to farms and industries to work. Near the end of World War II, the Japanese were given the choice to either moving to the east of the rockies or going back to Japan. Most of them decided to be exiled and so the Japanese culture in Canada became more scarce. With this, the Canadians and Americans lacked faith in the Japanese even after the…

his victory over James II, the overthrown Catholic…

Taking place post-World War II, John’s Okada’s No-no Boy draws on tensions that the dominant white culture feels due to an influx of non-white peoples to the United States. He uses these tensions to create a narrative of the painstaking experience of acclimating oneself to a culture quite different from his or her own. The journey to assimilation is portrayed uniquely by Okada as he writes his character in ways different from other writers of whom are portraying Asian Americans at this time. In…

falls on the federal government to formulate a means by which to achieve a level of safety for its citizens. In such cases as federal outbreak, different nations may have different means by which to approach said crisis. Both World War I and World War II can a point of reference in the diverging methods they employed in their original strategy to attempting to ensure victory and safety for themselves and their respective allies. In the case of Max Brooks’ World War Z, the faux accounts of the…

These people arrived from modern Turkey as well as northern Syria, and beginning in the first half of the fourteenth century BC, slowly infiltrated vassal states, even seizing the major port city of Byblos. By the fifth year of the reign of Rameses II, Egyptian control of Syria was compromised, and war had begun disputing the region. While this Pharaoh would eventually expel the…

Hitchcock’s Psycho, from ‘Inside Norman Bates’ and ‘The World Inside Its Image’ The benchmark of horror films could easily be Hitchcock’s most revered work ‘Psycho’ (1960). The black and white filmscape does not downplay the crimson colour of blood spiralling down the plughole after Marion’s fatal stabbing, nor the shock of Norman’s mothers sunken eye sockets. It’s 2015 and this is the first time I have properly been introduced to the film however as a testament to its making I had nightmares…

Among our most intrinsic human characteristics, we strive to express ourselves both creatively and socially. Combining these two traits creates an artistic interaction between an audience and a medium. Cinema, arguably the most visually astounding form of art, not only stimulates visually, but subjects viewers to haptic and acoustic experiences as well. The film scholar, Thomas Elsaesser, makes various points in his book “Film Theory” describing several ways in which we can experience the film…