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Cherilyn Firoozan Professor Perry Sophomore English 26 March 2015 Using “The Force” For Good George Lucas has a significant impact on modern popular culture through the changes he brought the movie industry. No other twentieth-century movie producer has had a massive effect on the film business than George Lucas. His enthusiasm for development produced innovation that altered films. His business understanding transformed film into a multibillion-dollar industry. His "Star Wars" set of…

Influence of Norse Mythology and Christian Values on Tolkien’s Views of Good and Evil The most prevalent theme in John Ronald Reuel Tolkien’s legendarium is the recurring battle between good and evil. The moral struggle between good and evil has been recorded and demonstrated in nearly all cultures, including Norse mythology and Tolkien’s personal philosophy, heavily influenced by his Christian upbringing. Tolkien, having studied both extensively, found inspiration in both when creating his…

Mars Borges Literacy narrative My first comic I fell in love with was Baby Mouse— a sassy elementary schooler going through the ups and downs of early public education. She was funny, the stories were fun, but more importantly, I loved the look of the books. Every comic had a limited color palette of black, white, and pink, which I found to be the coolest thing. The speech bubbles were distinguished, the text had a unique font, the art was cute— sometimes I didn’t even need to read it, just…

which they acknowledge as their own, but a decisive move to actually change that person, their personality, their character. This act was seen by many in the mini TV series, Roots. Roots first aired in 1977 based on the Alex Haley novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family. In Roots there is a scene that atest to the act of changing slave’s names. There is a particular scene where the protagonist (Kunte Kinte) is being forced to accept his new name of Toby. He continues to reject it and his…

In a year filled with one shocking and dominating media story after the other; from Donald Trump's’ election and the Russia Scandal to #MeToo, one narrative has become a surprising fixture in American popular culture and media: Colin Kaepernick's protest of police brutality during the National Anthem. Although it has been almost 18 months since the former college standout quarterback and GQ magazines 2017 Citizen of the Year, took his last snap in the National Football League, his iconic protest…

The rise and fall of Beowulf In the epic poem Beowulf, a hero emerges after the passing away of another. An epic hero must undergo a dangerous journey and faces an enemy that threatens a nation or tribe. Beowulf is the Norse epic saga of good vs. evil and man vs. monster. The famous warrior battles invaders, monsters, and a fire-breathing dragon. This story of Beowulf is one of the oldest in the English language and is what society views as an epic hero. The Anglo-Saxons believed that a hero was…

The novel “is structured as an archetypal heroic saga... beginning with a miraculous birth...proceeding to a period of alienation from his family, and culminating in a quest... for gold, but also for his genealogy” (Fletcher 405-406). Milkman has a noble birth since he was the first African-American child…

When one hears the term “werewolf,” the first thought typically tends to fall inside the general theme of the “brutal, mindless killing machine” shown in movies like “An American Werewolf in London” or “Dog Soldiers.” However, today’s werewolf simultaneously parallels and differs from the medieval werewolf. While versions of the modern werewolf take pieces from its medieval predecessor, they vastly are of their own design. This new design can be traced back to sales; new and original ideas are…

PREFACE “History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art.” Phyliis McKinley In these pages we strive to broaden man’s ceaseless search for truth and his tireless efforts to tear away at the facades of conventional belief. We aspire to bring enlightenment and culture to the unwashed masses who live in this paradise we call Southwest Florida. We walk the reader through eons of events that have reportedly occurred here. Our past is replete with many…

his self-despair attitude in her clinic while still being sensitive to his war experience and encouraging him to communicate with the other amputees in the clinic about their similar experiences. I feel that reading through Lewis Jr.’s well written saga of the patient experience as an amputee will be of great use to me in future treatment. He mentioned thing he was glad his physical therapist didn’t do, such as coddling and pity, as well as things he was glad she did. The recovery process was…