The Trio

Having gone through what I did, I never truly had a plan for the future. I knew I had to attend college but it was not until I was recruited by the local TRiO program that I truly believed that there could be a future for me. ConnCAP/Upward Bound was established by the Higher Education Act of 1965 to help low-income first-generation students realize their full potential and attain their goal of completing high school and obtaining higher education. The teachers and students I met through this…

Does anyone remember the last time we saw a found-footage film that was actually good? Seriously can you remember? The Gallows reminds us that even though Hollywood loves making found footage movies they seem to be against making them good. In this horror film we have a gang of cliché annoying teenagers Reese Houser, Pfeifer Ross, Ryan Shoos and Cassidy Spliker. The actors seemed to enjoy keeping their real names in the film and Ryan is the only one to keep both his first and last name, so in…

The American Romantic Hero is a literary archetype referring to a character that rejects established norms and conventions, and has been rejected by society. The 1992 movie, The Last of The Mohicans loosely follows the original book about the journey of Hawkeye and his family as they help Cora and Alice Munro and Colonel Duncan Heyward against Huron war chief, Magua during the French and Indian war. During the movie Hawkeye displays many characteristics that make him an American romantic hero.…

considering the night was about hearing the music, I was not too concerned. After the crowd was served and given a chance to eat, a hush came over us, as The Bad Plus took the stage to provide the music entertainment for the night. The Bad Plus is a trio of performers based out of New York, although the group originated in Minneapolis. The three members, Ethan Iverson, Reid Handerson, and David King play piano, bass, and drums respectively. I personally found the layout of this group…

story, Sam sometimes has a hard time seeing himself as a doctor because he did not know where he fit in. When Sam fell on hard times, it was George and Rameck who were dedicated to helping their friend push through and succeed; that is the way the trio had to be. Coming from such backgrounds, temptation to hang-out with old friends and acquaintances was always high, but those were often the people that would steer the boys to trouble. Therefore, by surrounding themselves with positive…

The quote “Knowing and living with the knowledge that one must die,”- means that death cannot be avoided. In some cases, we can delay death but eventually the reality is that we will all experience mortality. The director, Mark Romanek of ‘Never Let Me Go’ exhibits his views of individuals who are stripped from their personalities and are named as insignificant duplicates. The futuristic film, set in England in the mid-1990’s, portrays a dreary world where cloning is socially accepted with the…

The unity of music is related to the music structures. People followed the musical structures and expected the direction or message of the music. In the 18th century, the most of the music had almost same musical structures and forms. Most of music in this period progressed to the same ways and the structures and forms had conventional elements. Historically, the music became less conventional after the French revolution and the composers had been interested in their own identities for their…

Cycle of Violence in City of God City of God is a film by Fernaldo Mereilles and Katia Lund. The film is narrated by a young boy named Rocket and focused on the stories of the local gang leaders in Rio de Janeiro. Rocket observes countless acts of violence to and from the people of the City of God. Although the plot is driven by numerous individual acts of violence, the film illustrates a cycle of violence throughout the generations. Violence causes death, which incites revenge. Almost…

In today’s society, women are expected to have all of the rights that men do, and those rights are supposed to be equal. However, this idea is preposterous to some males. This was especially true in the 1980’s, where women’s rights were not as much of a norm as it is in 2017. This period of time, precisely 1986, is when Margaret Atwood wrote her dystopian novel, The Handmaid’s Tale. The novel describes a society in which women are stripped of all of their rights and forced into social classes…

In assignment two, the multimedia evaluation, I categorized pizza, a notorious “junk food”, as a nutrient-rich food. I strategically organized my video, beginning with an attention-grabbing introduction, establishing three criteria, and ending with a call-to-action conclusion. Throughout my evaluation, I employed various rhetorical strategies to supplement my claim and convey a message to the audience, pizza lovers and/or skeptics. The use of these strategies combined with the arrangement of the…