The My Hero Project

Randall Harold Cunningham (“Randy”) was a Vietnam war hero and a Republican Congress member who represented the 50th Congressional District from years 1991 to 2005 (Stern, 2005). Moreover, he held a spot on the House Intelligence Committee, the House Appropriations Committee and the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee (“DAS”). DAS is responsible for making drafts of bills that set appropriations for defense programs (Stern, 2005). On November 28, 2005, in federal court at the age of 64, Randy…

othering marginalized groups. The character, Othello, was a Moor of Venice who was subjected to racial stereotypes and misogynistic projections upon his wife via the protagonist Iago. The story is a tragedy of a general who was once a respectable hero soon turned into a violent and jealous man based on Iago’s deceit. The racial and sexual tones of the play come in when Shakespeare depicts the treatment and perception of Othello and Desdemona’s characters. Desdemona was a white woman who eloped…

Introduction Frozen (2013), a Walt Disney film, the academy award winner is the movie that I chose to write the critical response on. Preproduction Walt Disney planned to modify Hans Christian Anderson's tales since they started out animating; The Snow Queen had been one too. This individual collaborated having Samuel Goldwyn in 1943 to make a biopic associated with Anderson, which might include animated sequences through many of Anderson's tales - like The Snow Queen. Even so, difficulties…

does affect your social ranking because she is even banned from eating at the table with the Satrapis during meals. This seems to be contradictory to their thoughts on equality and freedom. Another scene in Persepolis projects a young man being carried out of the hospital as a hero but as he is carried out, no one stops to check…

Orange is the New Black (OITNB) is a Netflix original web series created by Jenji Kohan and adapted from the memoir of Piper Kerman, Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison (2010), which explores life inside a women’s prison system. The series includes a diverse cast of historically excluded Black, Latina, and transgender actresses. How do they create seemingly groundbreaking media based on the controversial world of prison systems in a time when inequality is perpetuated by…

act as pleasurable people but in reality they are different in private. “For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, ’tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at. I am not what I am.” (Lines 63-67) A psychopath seems themselves as superior and worthy of the respect of others. “I know my price, I am worth no worse a place.” (Line 12) As a narcissist,…

A fine art, as suggested by the name is the purest form of art. It’s an expression of oneself presented in term of aesthetics and design principles. It can refer to anything made by someone considered an artist, yet the definition of an artist has evolved over time and varies based on context. In Ancient Greece, the term for art was "techne," though that word did not peg art in the modern sense and was instead applied to human activities, especially handicrafts and technical work. The most…

throughout the novel, such as endlessly pursuing knowledge without taking in the responsibilities, and creating the creature, only to immediately abandon it. Shelley subtitles her novel as The Modern Prometheus, and relates Victor to Prometheus, the Greek hero who stole fire from the gods, gave it to all humans, and was punished for it by Zeus. The structure is consisted of stories within one another, with Robert Walton writing letters to his sister Margaret on his way to the Poles, inside to…

With his defiance, he was refusing to participate in America’s plan for a nation far away from home, especially when that plan called for murdering the enemy and violated his faith. Ali couldn’t accept betraying his faith for America while in a foreign land, only to return home to a culture of racial bias and discrimination by the country he just served. 6 Civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.'s came to Ali’s defense. "He is giving up millions of dollars to do what his conscience tells him…

Green day would then plan to do small projects in their free time before they would plan another album release. They starred in a cover of John Lennon’s “Working Class Hero” as a charity album, played in The Simpsons Movie, and produce an entire 60’s style rock & roll as the alias of Foxboro Hot Tubs. After countless days of waiting, Green Day has finally…