Stephen Jay Gould

Since the inception of the motion picture, countless filmmakers have made a point of infusing the same ancient tales into their movies for centuries. Some of the best artistic reflection is expressed through writing fiction. Not all movies that attempt to weave deeper themes into their stories succeed. James Cameron’s Avatar is a movie that executes this and does so extremely well. “Avatar is a joyous celebration of story craft and the visual possibilities of cinema.” Meyer (2017) Avatar is such…

Conception Rob Thomas originally wrote Veronica Mars as a young adult novel for publishing company Simon & Schuster. Prior to his first television job on Dawson's Creek, Thomas sold two novel ideas. One of these was provisionally titled Untitled Rob Thomas Teen Detective Novel, which formed the basis for the series. The novel had many elements similar to Veronica Mars, though the protagonist was male. Thomas's father was a vice-principal at Westlake High School near Austin, Texas, and the main…

Broader Sources of Knowledge In ancient times, people passed on survival experience to the next generation through oral method. Later, various ways such as making ropes, drawing pictures on walls, and characters emerged to record daily events. People record daily life in order to educate next generation so that the next generation of people can live a better life. With the advent of photographic film, the recording process becomes more and more lifelike and vivid. With the rapid development of…

determination and is intended to lay the foundation for the important question of reconciliation. The information is used to help find what we can do about it. The book also features full texts of apologies and statements made by parties such as Stephen Harper’s. Jacobs, Beverley. 2008. "Response to Canada 's Apology to Residential School Survivors." Canadian Woman Studies 26, no. 3 (Winter, 2008): 223-225,14.…

Once said by the famous Stephen Chbosky, “Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes ours ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.” I think this book should be banned because it displays delicate and sensitive material and would put bad images into the younger generation 's minds and be corrupted by it. It should only be read by high school and college students because the material in the book can be understood by those age groups and they would know…

Reading is but one means to accomplish this goal. By losing one’s self in a novel, individuals become explorers, heroes, and just as often, social critics. Good authors create literature that allows readers this escape, as is the case with Stephen King, Stephen King’s postmodern novel Carrie blends fiction and reality to create a story that all teens can relate to. The american novel can be described in a multitude of ways. Novel is described as an extended narrative (Baldick 143). Baldick goes…

Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven highlights the importance of art in a world that needs more than survival through connections of modern society to a fictional post-apocalyptic society. In addition, Mandel uses the post-apocalyptic genre convention of dystopian society to emphasize the importance of art for people in a chaotic world dealing with hardships. With the publication of this novel being significantly recent, Mandel tries to appeal to an audience living in a time that is dominated…

LITERARY TERMS Word: motif Definition: A recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation used throughout a work, unifying the work by tying the current situation to previous ones, or new ideas to the theme. Quote: “I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park South. I was wondering if it would be frozen over when I got home, and if it was, where did the ducks go? I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all…

Stephen Covey proposes that there are seven habits that can be learned to improve one’s personal and interpersonal effectiveness. I completely agree all seven habits Stephen has written in this book, throughout the book Covey shares his own personal experiences instead of imagining situations you may be in, it is easier for the readers to relate to our everyday circumstances. I found there are particular areas of each habit to be more influential or relatable to my life. Listening to our…

Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption. In The Count of Monte Cristo, based on the novel written by Alexandre Dumas and screen played by Jay Wolpert, we learn that Edmond Dantès is an intelligent, honest man who turns bitter after he is framed for a crime he did not commit. When in The Shawshank Redemption, based on the novella Rita Hayward and Shawshank Redemption written by Stephen King and screenplayed by Frank Parabont, we come to realize that Andy Dufresne is also an intelligent, honest man…