Yoda

Warrior” conveys in an exciting, sad, and inspiring kind of way. The story is about a young gymnast Dan Millman (Scott Mechlowicz) and his struggle to make sense of his life in which he is successful but still unfulfilled. By chance he meets his "Yoda"/Shaolin priest/Boss Paul (Nick Nolte) who helps him "get his head straight" after which he goes on to be comfortable with his athletic prowess albeit not exactly Olympic caliber.…

Welcome to the Dark Side (Still deciding on an opening sentence) In the first episode of Star Wars the Phantom a Menace Qui-Gon Jinn, a Jedi master and his young padawan Obi Wan kenobi are sent to Naboo as ambassadors to negotiate a deal with the trade federation in hopes to end the blockade. Negotiations ended badly causing them to flee and they met a Gungan named Jar Jar Binks while running through the jungles of Naboo. Jar Jar took them to the hidden underwater city called Otoh Gunga to keep…

progression of events. I also deliberately added humor and an allusion to pop culture into the poem, such as “I love writing. / Bad grammar, I hate. / The dark side I sense in you! / Hmmmm!” where I channel the voice of Yoda from Star Wars. In these lines, my idea was to make the reader hear Yoda saying that last…

It would be natural to assume that the central character of The Tale of Genji, a classic work of the Japanese Heian Period attributed to a courtier known as Murasaki Shikibu, is none other than the titular Hikaru Genji himself. His life and exploits provide the main focus of forty-one of the tale’s fifty-four chapters. However, there are those who claim that the real heroes of the tale are in fact heroines. J.M. Maki even declared that the tale has “the most remarkable galaxy of feminine…

Last night on the "Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," Texas Senator Ted Cruz stopped by to talk about the 2016 GOP presidential race, front-runner Donald Trump, and his family. Earlier in the show, Cruz did a sketch with "Donald Trump," played by Fallon of a phone conversation between him and Trump. In the sketch, Cruz gets a phone call from "Trump", who told his opponent he has been on the "'Tonight Show' many times" and to give him pointers before his appearance. Cruz said that it "was a…

During our everyday lives we run into conflict, whether that be between us and another person, or internally within ourselves. There are always different choices to be made and different paths to take when facing conflict. Macbeth is a play that was written by William Shakespeare. And in this play we follow Macbeth and we see the choices that he made. We can see that during the time of Macbeth our live are very different, but yet we both have to deal with conflict. For Macbeth this conflict was…

“No, I am your father!,” quote by Darth Vader to Luke Skywalker. I am reviewing this great movie called The Empire Strikes Back. I watched this epic Star Wars story in my family room. I watched this movie in the summer after I had watched episode 4 A New Hope. I watched this movie on my PS3 and I have watched this 2 times. The movie has many interesting facts and awards and other things to. The genre of this movie is science-fiction and action. There are many actors and actresses they are…

In Cinema, the most common story told is the hero myth. It is a ten-step formula that depicts the transformation of the protagonist on his journey to heroism. When we first see the protagonist, they are portrayed as average people living normal lives. In Captain America: The First Avenger Steve Rogers is a scrawny boy from Brooklyn and in The Wizard of Oz Dorothy is a regular girl from Kansas. Then something occurs in the protagonist life that jumpstarts their journey. In Captain America, Steve…

The Matrix is a very well organized motion picture. There are many different scenes that symbolize various types of conclusions about society. Neo, Trinity, Morpheus, as well as many other characters have different meanings to them. In order to see all of the symbolic references in The Matrix it needs to be viewed numerous times otherwise it's not hard to miss half of them. The Matrix illustrates that modern day life can be depicted and is not as complex as it could be. The characters in The…

"Control, control, you must learn control!" The words of Master Yoda might be more than just advice but could have some backing in psychology. In the video, Roy Baumeister talks about research he has conducted on self-control or willpower. One of his experiments present the subject with a plate of cookies and beats. With a goal of testing not only the self-control of a person but also their ability to perform additional tasks as well as blood glucose tests. Personally I think this research…