Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

How to Achieve the American Dream: Hard-Work or Luck? The article “Who Wants to be a Millionaire: Changing Conceptions of the American Dream” by Matthew Warshauer, published in the New York Times in 2003, successfully presents a subject matter that has increasingly become more prevalent in society today. Warshauer argues that while Americans have traditionally sought wealth and success through thrift and hard work, this notion has been by replaced by the ideal of “get rich quick.” Using large-prize television game shows, state lotteries, and compensation lawsuits as his main points of evidence, Warshauer is able to effectively assert his overall claim in a logical, cohesive manner. However, at times, the article becomes repetitive due to the overuse of certain pieces of evidence and phrases. Furthermore, because the article was written…

depicts the vast contrasting representations of poverty between the major feature film Slumdog Millionaire and Kevin McClouds Slumming It. One million people, one square mile. This is the desperate reality of the living conditions in India’s largest slum, Dharavi. Danny Boyles, Slumdog Millionaire, the 2008 drama, glosses over the issue of poverty and is represented in a fun, free spirit way. Meanwhile, on the other end of the spectrum, Kevin McClouds Slumming it, filmed in 2009, delves deeply…

A majority of people who have read and then watched Slumdog Millionaire, would concur that the author and director took very different takes on the same main idea. Vikas Swarup, the author of Slumdog Millionaire, told the story of 18 year old Ram Mohammad Thomas. He was swiftly arrested on the account of cheating on the game show “Who Will Win a Billion”. Ram then had to recount his life story to prove how he knew all of the answers. The director, Danny Boyle, had taken the book Slumdog…

Children grow up protected from harm by their parents. The closest one was ever close to danger, was when one scraped their knees or had the flu; but imagine a life where the least dangerous activity to do was play on a tarmac with planes flying towards one and the most dangerous being in the middle of a war. This is the life of a child who grows up in the slums of Mumbai, India. Slumdog Millionaire is a British Drama film directed by Danny Boyle and written by Simon Beaufoy in 2008. Slumdog…

Slumdog Millionaire In the Academy Award winning film Slumdog Millionaire, directed by Danny Boyle, Boyle constantly used flashbacks to tell the story. In this film the main character, Jamal Malik (Dev Patel), was on the game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire. The show was made to be very difficult so that nobody would win. When Jamal continuously got the correct answers, the men running the game show claimed that he was cheating. The film began to flash back and forth between three different…

Looking Slumdog Millionaire Through Good and Evil In Reading Lessons, Scott Carpenter states “Structuralism is a multifaceted group of theories with varied and disparate goals” (27), explaining it is a collection of many theories and patterns which are not actually focus on a single goal but can be studied from any point of view. Structuralism doesn’t study the original purpose of creator but focus in the structure of the text or movie. Carpenter illustrates that “just because an author meant…

Slumdog Millionaire, a movie by Danny Boyle, set in Mumbai, tells the story of Jamal Malik, a contestant on India’s version of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’. Jamal was born in the slums of Mumbai with little education and was on his way to win the grand prize on the game show. Whilst on the show, he is suspected of cheating but little do his accusers know that Jamal’s life experience provides him with essential clues to answer each question. The movie alternates between flashbacks from Jamal’s…

robotics competition. Davis does an impressive job at telling this raw and brutally true story of these kids who are here illegally but have lived here more of their lives and had to constantly worry about being found out and deported. The book doesn’t just tell their struggles to even make it to the competition but there personal struggles of being illegal immigrants and how in the following years our country made it harder and harder for them to get an education for being here illegally.…

My face was burning as I sat facing the campfire, next to a field of yaks. The sophomore class was on edge because the staff at the Heifer International farm in Massachusetts had told us that yaks attack when provoked. The farm had different “camps” dedicated to areas of the world their organization helps. In the “Tibet” camp, a group of us had started discussing how the Dalai Lama wasn’t allowed to return to Tibet when one of my closest friends Mary walked up to me. Mary was an energetic…

out. She assigned her to an old lady’s house, who wants to clean out her attic and needs some help. “Molly has decided to think of this job as indentured servitude” (Kline 52). She just wants to go in and get her hours done as soon as possible. As you continue to read the novel, you figure out that they have a lot of things in common. The author, Christina Baker Kline, builds a strong relationship between the teenager and the elderly woman throughout the novel. At the beginning of the novel,…