Wallace Stevens

Contact [1997] is an excellent science-fiction film in which humanity is contacted by extraterrestrial intelligence. One of the main messages this film sends is that the reconciliation of science and religion is possible, but only when the two are in their pure forms, and that pure science and religion both increase the efficiency in which we determine the truths about our universe. Another more subtle message that I feel the movie portrays is that our current form of language is very limited…

Castaway is a movie starring Tom Hanks as the main character, Chuck. Throughout the movie, Chuck shows again and again how important communication is to him. It starts out with him delivering packages and such for FedEx, but as a plane he had boarded crashes, he begins to face some difficult challenges. He floated to an island, survived for a long period of time, and constructed a raft to transport him across a vast amount of water to a ship where he was rescued. Four major things in Castaway…

Freakonomics has no unifying theme, rather it has multiple themes. Although there is no unifying theme in the book, Levitt and Dubner have a recurring theme which states that “economists love incentives…The typical economist believes that the world has not yet invented a problem that he cannot fix if given a free hand to design the proper incentive scheme.” Freakonomics can described as the power of incentives and how one acts upon them. Similar to the definition of freakonomics, economics is…

Jack Shea 1/1/16 Media and Film Campbell Novel to Film #2 For my second novel to film assignment I read the book and watched the movie Jaws. The book was wrote by Peter Benchley in February in the year of 1974. The movie was directed by Steven Spielberg. The movie was released in in 1975 and it was a crazy hit in the box office. Jaws is about a woman who was killed by a ginormous shark. She was swimming in the ocean and this shark came up beneath her and killed her. They wanted to…

Charles Wheelan was born in 1966 and later graduated from Dartmouth college with a major in economics. He currently is a democratic candidate the the U.S Representative for Illinois in the 5th District. He is also the author of Naked Statistics, Naked Money and Naked Economics. Wheelan wrote Naked Economics in a way that anyone can understand it, whether you are a professional economist or just a high school student studying basic economics. After reading the entire book, it is now clear to me…

We’re officially one week removed from what many are calling the biggest blockbuster of the summer - Captain America: Civil War. Typically, whenever a monster (no pun intended) hit of this magnitude makes landfall, rival movie studios are smart enough to steer clear of putting any potential moneymaker against it one week later - from fear that it will be drowned out by the moviegoers that decided to wait a week before indulging in viewing said blockbuster. With that said, it’s difficult to say…

What is Bad Parenting? Most people think of a bad parent as being someone who disciplines their kids too harshly or works too hard to have a lot of family time, but in reality, it is the exact opposite. My definition of a bad parent is someone who does not discipline their child, sets no rules, and has no involvement. A parent is supposed to provide you with enough knowledge and information to learn how to live in the real world. By not being a good parent, they can fail to do this. There are…

of history flatter these individuals in stories. Their admirable traits make them very susceptible to immortalisation through myth and legend. Two individuals who have been thus immortalised are Roman gladiator Spartacus and Scottish rebel William Wallace. They continue to inspire people to strive for freedom. As long as rebels survive in the public interest, such as through story, myth or symbolism, history had helped them create legacies of freedom that people still internalise and endorse…

The next tool Wallace employs is an informal and honest through tone diction and word choice. Wallace uses phrases like “just sucks,” “I’m gonna be pissed,” “The story [thing] turns out to be one of the better, less bullshitty conventions of the genre,” and “that special intensity that comes after about the fourth beer” (). Usually using language like that would tear down a person’s character and credibility instantly. However for Wallace, it is used greatly to his advantage. Many times…

William Wallace was a brave warrior, fighting the English for the freedom of the Scots. Starting with only a small militia, Wallace's supporting forces grew to a full blown army taking back Scotland and ravaging the English North. Wallace’s leadership contributed immensely through many overwhelming victories for Scotland’s independence and for the signing of the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton in 1328, the document giving the Scots their freedom, 23 years after his death. Even today, almost…