Stephen Dorff

Devil Dolphins of Silver Lagoon is a narrative travel book created by a easy going, yet an extremely skillful seaman who has diving, navigation and photography expertise. This is a collection of happenings that no ordinary person could endure. Captain Michael Bennett intended the audience to be for anyone who wanted to hear his stories and events that happened to him and the National Geographic team on their expeditions. He finds humor in the sometimes distressing occurrences and also describes…

In the movie The Village, M. Night Shyamalan depicts simplicity, peace and welfare within the people in a small isolated community in olde Pennsylvania. M. Night Shyamalan instills readers that working together as a community is the ideal of simplicity and an easy lifestyle. Likewise, in the 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, Sean Covey strives to teach young readers the importance in healthy habits that will further benefit in their foreseeable future. When comparing the two sources, there are…

The general overview of “Why Do Supervillains Fascinate Us? A Psychological Perspective” is that there are different perspectives that could ultimately contribute to the reasoning behind our interest in supervillains. The author believes that some of the factors that contribute to said fascinations can be determined by analyzing them through different psychological views. Travis Langley’s perspectives include shadow confrontation, wish fulfillment, hierarchy of needs, and conditioning. Shadow…

While reading gothic literature, there are many horrifying elements that lead to a sense of doom. In the novel, And Then There Were None, and the short story, “The Bottomless Grave,” there is a sense of inhumanity that leads to a sense of doom. . Both stories have inhumane events and the killer in each story manipulates the characters into actually killing the victims. In addition, these pieces of writing have some differences. In And Then There Were None, the killer had a reason for killing…

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 asked the townspeople about a man in black, where he discovers that he brought a man back to life.…

When I’m talking about the difficulties that go along with being a woman in a male-dominated environment, it’s from experience. Having competed in a field with 50 other guys, I’m pretty familiar with feeling out of place and unwelcome. That situation was definitely unfavorable for me, but I cannot begin to imagine being put in a job field of only men that is also as grueling as the Behavioral Science Unit in the FBI. This is where FBI trainee Clarice Starling finds herself in Jonathan Demme’s…

Under the Shadow is Horror At Its Finest Under the Shadow is an Iranian low-budget horror movie from first-time writer/director Babak Anvari. It is about Shideh (Narges Rashidi) and her young daughter Dorsa (Avin Manshadi) who are haunted by an evil force during the 1980s in Tehran, Iran. It is similar in many ways to the 2014 Australian horror movie The Babadook. In fact, it is almost shockingly similar. But does that negate Under the Shadow’s right to exist? In short, no. It is no secret that…

“District Twelve. Where you can starve to death in safety,.” said Katniss Everdeen. 74 years ago theretheir was a rebellion. They lost, and the punishment was every year theretheir was a game, which children from 12-18 had to fight. This great book was written by Suzanne Collins. The name of the book iswas called “The Hunger Games”. The time period for the hunger games is between 2090-2100. This war had two sides, the Rrebellions and the Ccapital. The Ccapital won. ThereTheir was a treaty signed…

In Gothic Literature, there is usually some type of setting that tends to creep people out, whether it be the readers or the characters. In ¨The Red Room¨ that particular setting is a specific room inside a remote castle. In Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None there is not a specific place that gives off this feeling, rather than the people in this said place. Paranoia plays a huge role in both stories as well. In And Then There Were None, the characters became more paranoid as the story…

The movie Stand By Me, Friendship is shown throughout the story. These Four boys Vern,Teddy, Gordie and Chris in particular, have a true friendship. They each have trouble at home but they Stick together. When they go on a journey to find a dead body they have many heart racing and emotional events and happenings. They also have problems with each other and disagreements but never let it get between their true friendship. One quote is “i never had any friends later on like the ones i had when i…