Tom Cruise

Dear Ishmael Beah, I am writing to you in regards to your bestselling memoir A Long Way Gone published on February 13th, 2007. I have been a fan of yours for quite some time, but have been convinced by clear evidence gathered that there are some inaccuracy in your memoir. I firmly believe that this memoir contains embellishments and exaggeration on your experience as a child soldier. Several articles have been published explaining controversial facts mentioned in your story that don’t seem…

The Man with a Movie Camera, a 1929 silent film by Dziga Vertov, illustrates the typical life of an average citizen in the city. Through its visual images, without a plot, Vertov allows the audience to make their own interpretations of the events in order to construct an overall meaning of the film. Vertov uses editing, specifically rhythm and continuity, along with cinematography, to convey the theme that life has two sides, birth and death, marriage and divorce, and lastly the young and old.…

Nothing is more interesting and adventurous than a boy who is infatuated with a girl who doesn’t notice him right? It sounds like a typical teenage novel but the New York Times best-seller Paper Towns by John Green will make you rethink that. This book is about Quentin “Q” Jacobson on a quest to find the girl he is in love with, Margo Roth Spiegelman, after they went on an adventure. When Q came to school the next day, excited to be friends with Margo again after quite some time, he found out…

Rory Bremner, a British Comedian once said “Location is everything, I’d rather camp in the Lake District or Scotland than sit in a five-star hotel.” This demonstrates the importance of location and how nature’s purity is better than the corruption in society. In the novel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, the plot takes place on the Mississippi River and the shore, where Huck and Jim, a runaway slave, try to escape their past and become free. While on the river, Huck and Jim…

The novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn sparks many questions as well as controversies on the subject of racism. Many people believe that the book is racist because of its copious use of “the ‘N’ word”, and the racist attitudes of the characters. However, if examined closely, several factors become apparent that disprove this idea. One is that the character’s racist comments are intended to make readers disagree with them. Another is that the main character, Huck, is not racist, and becomes…

Tom Regan “The Case for Animal Rights” The term inherent value is a state in which a being is more than just an object; it professes that any being has inherent value equally. Tom Regan uses the inherent value term to defend his case for animal rights by stating that animals possess these inherent rights and that it is justifiable to abolish the use of animals in science, hunting, and agriculture, etc. There are three main views to argue Regan’s inherent values term. One can argue against him…

Kristin Characters and point of view Characters: The main character in the story is Ponyboy Curtis, who’s fourteen. He has brown, almost red hair and greenish eyes. He’s smart and is always getting good grades. However, he never uses his head outside school that’s why he keeps getting in trouble. He loves to watch movies and read books, and that makes him different from all of his friends, who’s never picked up a book. Personally I think the reason why Pony loves movies and books so much is…

Mark Twain’s novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” will always be controversial whether through the use of the racial epithet “nigger” or its stereotypical portrayal of Jim. Many arguments against the novel originates from Twain’s appearingly nonchalant nature towards racism. Yet, Twain’s novel gains credibility through revealing the immoral ways of a society that claims to be civilized. Despite Twain’s satirical depiction of Huck’s society, it is obvious that many people view the novel…

Remember the time when we were an infant. A small little baby who could not speak, who could not react, who infact could not even move properly, but still could cry. His crying may seem meaningless for an individual but for his mother this was his means of communication. Slowly and stealthily, he grew, he changed. Now, he could speak, he could run, he was happy at times and sad at others. Yes, he transformed, transformed to be better. Though he grew up, but still he was innocent, oblivious of…

Purpose of this essay is to make judgements based on both my individual opinions and scholarly opinions about four different authors. One of the first authors we read in this class was Mark Twain. Mark Twain has written may books, but Huckleberry Finn was the book chosen to read for this class. Overall, my opinion of the book Huck Finn was horrible. It was probably one of the worst books I have ever had to read, because of the dialect. Dialect is the way groups of people talk from where they…