Stephen Toulmin

Night at the Museum is an adventure/comedy/action film directed by Shawn Levy which was released in 2006. The storyline boasts an unemployed and divorced Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) who seeks for a job in the Museum of Natural History where he discovers an ancient curse which causes historic exhibits to come to life. In this adventurous yet frightening film, the protagonist saves the museum with the help of his son Nick and other historic monuments such as the Tyrannosaurus Rex, Jedediah, Octavius…

it was very creative how Stephen King chose to have a close up of Andy, with his back to the camera while he was using an axe to make a hole in the wall. I believe this shows how much he is willing to go through to try and escape. I liked the extreme long shot of Andy crawling towards the camera, through the hole he made. You could really see his facial expression and the struggle on his face, as he made his way through the hole. It was a really good choice made by Stephen King, when he chose to…

America has become infatuated with this Western-born monster over the years, most of the interest has been, in part, due to author Stephen King. His monstrous catalogue of novels almost entirely consist of the horror genre. One of his most famous and recognizable creations is Pennywise the Dancing Clown from the 1986 novel IT. Pennywise is an extraterrestrial lifeform that manipulates…

Stephen Hawking, a brilliant man who lives with Lou Gehrig’s Disease. Born in Oxford, England on January 8th, 1942. Son of Frank Hawking and a philosophy .Isobel Hawking. Diagnosed at the age of 21 with ALS Stephen Hawking started to lose hope after 2 years of losing his nerves and being able to do daily functions of life, his symptoms started to slow down very drastically and steadied out for him and he took this as a sign to start his life up again. Soon meeting a women Jane Wilde, and…

The Open Boat is a story written by Stephen Crane that portrays a main focus of naturalism in the lives of man, and how that nature is portrayed as malicious, through the sources A Man Said to the Universe and I Explain the Silvered Passing of the Ship at Night. Stephen Crane’s The Open Boat considers three stages of quotes in which the men are affected by nature itself; the storm, the survivors, and the rescue. To begin, Crane starts his anecdote with a miraculous life threatening storm. Crane…

Independent Reading – Connections 1. As of Friday, December 11th, 2015 I have finished reading Paper Towns by award winning author John Green. The book, published in 2009 by A Penguin Random House Company, is a novel about romance and mystery. This book sends a teenager boy who tries to find the girl of his dreams. I have finished 305/305 pages within the book. 2. The book Paper Towns by John green is about a teenage boy, named Quentin find a girl named Margo, the girl of his dreams. Ever…

Everybody loves a good horror story, Gothic Literature has been around since the late 18th century. Gothic genre refers to a style of writing that is characterized by elements of fear, horror, and death. In this essay I will compare and contrast Poe’s Gothic Literature to Modern Gothic Literature. For Poe’s Gothic Literature I will be introducing “The Fall of the House of Usher”. For Modern Gothic Literature I will be initiating “Sunbleached”. I will be pointing out the supernatural…

The movie The Shawshank redemption was produced by Frank Darabont and based off of the Stephen King book The Shawshank Redemption. The film is based around figures of hope for the inmates as a sense of relief to help them by the difficult times. The theme hope is portrayed throughout the film as objects, and in the protagonists Andy Dufresne and Ellis Boyd ‘Red Redding’. The major moments where hope was developed was scenes with music, specifically the scene of the warden’s office and the record…

Stephen King is claimed to be one of the greatest writers of all time with too many novels to count published. On top of the novels, majority of his novels have been turned into a movie or television series. One of the most recognizable novel turned movie is The Shining. The storyline takes place around a struggling writer and his family who became the caretakers of a hotel in the mountains of Colorado for the winter. They are trapped by the snow, and when cabin fever catches up to the man, Jack…

Charlotte Bronte’s literary piece Jane Eyre has established its name as one of the most skillfully written Gothic romance works in the Victorian era and now in present time. Delving deeper into the world within the novel, Bronte reveals a tale where love is perpetuated as the last step to self accomplishment along with thematic elements of gender criticism, feminism and love vs. autonomy. The contrast between Bronte’s novel and Franco Zeffirelli’s cinematic piece Jane Eyre (1996) is clearly…