The Shawshank Redemption

Prison Break Carmela Estrella B. Enriquez // BAJ 2-1D They locked him up in a closet for Twenty-four years but, he found a way out. He is, in fact, a mechanical engineer, bred with ingenuity and sparked with the right amount of madness. Twenty-four years he was locked up by the society’s machoism but one decision gave him the key to freedom. “I really learned how to strive hard and earn something from myself not from my parents, not from the people around me” he says. “Basically, that's my…

Prison Cultural Essay The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast my culture and the culture of Stanley “Tookie” Williams the author of Life In Prison. The book takes place while Stanley is serving time in prison on death row for being convicted of murdering four people in 1981, during two separate robberies. Stanley is serving his sentence in San Quentin prison in San Francisco California (Williams, 9). Stanley is an african american male who grew up in South Central Los Angeles…

The Silence of the Lambs is a film about Hannibal Lector, a crazed psychiatrist who is serving life in prison for murder and cannibalism. The FBI believes that Lector may have information about a murderer who is killing young women and skinning them. The FBI sends a young investigative student, Clarice Starling, to talk to Lector. Being a psychiatrist, Lector is able to question Clarice just as she questions him. In the end, Lector escapes only to pursue an old acquaintance and Clarice solves…

Convicted By Murder Have you ever dreamed when you were a young teen about going to prison or your parent told you that they were going to put you in a scared straight program? A young male, Alexander Gordon Smith wrote a book called “Lockdown Escape From Furnace”. Furnace Penitentiary, in the distant future, is the world’s most secure prison for young offenders. It is buried a mile beneath the Earth’s surface. One way in and no way out. Once you're there, you're there until you die, and…

The longevity of television shows almost always hinges on the pilot episode. The job of a pilot, or the first episode, is to build up an audience and a fanbase of a show. A pilot will tell you about simple things, like the who, what when, where and why. It can also delve into deeper aspects of the show, like character relationships, conflicts, backstories and so much more. This does bring up many questions, most of them being, how do these different aspects contribute to the pilot episode of any…

Late in the year 1818, a seemingly innocent tailor from the city of Malacca by the name of Tsáfú escaped the withholdings of imprisonment which held him back from his true colors as a fraternal leader. This tailor was previously convicted of murder for reasons unknown. However, what is known is that he was freed from his strict confines by his fellow brethren – men from different regions who were readily available to release him from the “hands of justice”. Tsáfú was not just a tailor, but a…

The glo that applies to Eliot Ness is number 3 complex thinker. The way that Eliot Ness was a complex thinker when he figured that the police force was being payed by Al Capone so how Ness solve this problem of not having the cop on his side was where created a team of his own called the Untouchables which consisted of Jimmy Malone, George Stone and Oscar Wallace. Another way Eliot was a complex thinker was generating this creative idea of basically going to Canada Where the next ] of liquor…

Life for Stanley Yelnats is good, family, friends, school. One mistake changed his life. Finding a pair of shoes, and keeping them, getting chased by the cops, this is no mistake, this is bad luck. Four generations of bad luck, being in the wrong place at the wrong time. He has a choice, jail, or sent to Camp Green Lake for 18 months. He decides Camp Green Lake instead of jail. Camp Green Lake changed his life, digging holes everyday for 18 months. One certain hole changed his family’s curse and…

After they had just escaped from the maze, our new beloved group of teens is on the run again, this time with baddies in hot pursuit. They’ve discovered that their would-be protectors, known as WCKD pronounced wicked, have something nasty planned for them. With that knowledge they fight their way through a zombie-riddled post-apocalyptic city and desert in hopes of finding the rumoured resistance movement, known as The Right Arm. The movie is filled with action, drama, and has even a small…

When Tommy Williams entered prison, he quickly made friends with Andy, Red, and the others. After a year later, James revealed to Andy and Red that he met the man who killed Andy’s wife and lover. After knowing the truth, Andy tried to get the warden on board with getting Andy another trial to prove that he was innocent all these while but warden refuse to. The warden wanted to keep Andy so that they can make money. Because of this, the warden would restrict Andy to go anywhere. Andy was trapped…