Game of Thrones is a thrilling TV series that sets in a fictional time that resembles the medieval time and unravels the journey of powerful families playing a deadly game to claim the Iron Throne. As a fantasy epic, the Game of Thrones presents audience a glimpse of a world filled with supernatural threats, witchcraft, dragons and bloodsheds. In this essay, I argue that the Game of Thrones is a present-day manifestation of a freak show due to the characters displayed in the show and explore the similarities and differences between Game of Thrones and freak shows we have studied through analyzing two characters: Tyrion Lannister, a dwarf of a noble family, and Melisandre, often referred as The Red Woman who performs magic to eradicate one of the dynasts.…
The United States in the 1950s experienced marked economic growth with an increase in manufacturing and home construction amongst a post-World War II economic boom. The Cold War and its associated conflicts helped create a politically conservative climate in the country, as the quasi-confrontation intensified throughout the entire decade. Fear of communism caused public Congressional hearings in both houses in Congress whilst anti-communism was the prevailing sentiment in the United States throughout the period. Conformity and conservatism characterized the social mores of the time. How this relates to The Invasion of the Body Snatchers is through the allegory of communism. In the Invasion of the Body Snatchers we are introduced to Dr. Milles Bennell and recounts the events leading to his arrest in the flashback that follows.…
America faced serious troubles as so many families were affected by the great loss of life during the war effort. In his V-E Day proclamation, President Truman called for every American to join together, regardless of their personal God, in a day of prayer for all those affected. And thanking God for delivering victory over tyranny, in Europe, to the Allied Forces. He also asked that they pray for safety as the war in the pacific still raged on (Obama; “V-E Day”). After Truman’s call to action, we see a resounding answer as Americans rise to give thanks to a God for helping them overcome great adversity. Through the adversities of the Fascist movement and a war fighting said movement, Europe had not seen peace in years. V-E Day, however, would…
Dean Winchester is one of the greatest modern examples of a tragic hero. He was born on January 24, 1979 in Lawrence, Kansas. He is the son of Mary Winchester, a young woman who comes from a long line of respected hunters(monster killers), and John Winchester. Dean's mother, was killed by a demon who was torturing Dean’s brother Sam. Mary’s death inspired Dean and his father to become the most deadly hunters on earth. They travel across the country, tracking down monsters and making sure no one has to suffer like they did. While hunting Dean’s father dies fighting the same demon who killed Mary and Sam steps up to take his place by his Dean’s side.…
Lucy Whitmore is the character with anterograde amnesia. Anterograde amnesia is a loss of memory of what happens after the event that caused the amnesia. It is different from retrograde amnesia, where memories prior to the event are forgotten. To a large degree, anterograde amnesia remains a mysterious ailment because the precise mechanism of storing memories is not yet well-understood, although scientists know which regions of the brain are involved. The disease is usually either drug induced or caused by a traumatic brain injury in which there is usually damage to the hippocampus or surrounding cortices. In Lucy’s case, the amnesia is from the traumatic brain injury.…
The book begins a year after Alison’s disappearance. Aria has been abroad for a year with her family, and the other three girls have drifted apart. When Aria returns from Iceland, Alison’s body is finally found, and the four girls start receiving creepy and threatening text messages from an untraceable number. The texts are signed “A.” A’s texts indicate she knows everything about the girls, which is dangerous because each of the girls has a secret she doesn’t want to expose.…
The boys assault the father and daughter. The boys killed many of Lucys dogs and beat up David. David begins to realize what he has in his daughter and reveals it with a thought, “Count yourself lucky to have escaped with your life. Count yourself lucky not to be a prisoner in the car at this moment, speeding away, or at the bottom of a donga with a bullet in your head. Count Lucy lucky too. Above all Lucy.” It shows how he is changing to genially care for the ones close to him. It is later revealed that Lucy was raped by one of the boys. David and Lucys relationship begins to start falling apart as he does not agree with all the choices she has made. David decides to give Lucy some space and begins to start helping a lady named Bev at the local animal clinic. This leads to David and Bev having sexual relations at the clinic. Which suggests that David as regressed to his old ways. Towards the end of the book, David makes things right with Melanie and her family by talking to the father and going to eat dinner. After the dinner, David receives a call from Bev saying he needs to come back Cape Town. He is then informed that Lucy is pregnant. This was a huge blow to David, who eventually sees the boy in public and speaks his mind to him. As the book ends David had become close to a crippled dog. He states that he is “giving him up” and puts the dog…
Lucy: She is a very smart and sneaky young girl. Even though her dad isn’t normal, she still loves him unconditionally and wants to see him as much as possible. She is also very understanding towards her father and cares about him a lot.…
She should read more troublesome books, and test herself to develop rationally. As times change Sam won't have the capacity to give the correct books, since he may elite a book that is speaking to him, which is additionally engaging a seven year old. Likewise, he may not know about alternate types of mental incitement other than books. Child care guardians will have the capacity to comprehend and legitimately watch out for the necessities of Lucy as indicated by her age. Not exclusively is Lucy needing mental incitement in agreement to her age, Sam needs to comprehend what to do if there should arise an occurrence of crises. In the event that Lucy breakdown, Sam must figure out how to dial 911 and give the suitable data asked for by the administrator. He can't depend on calling the neighbors, in light of the fact that a moment can decide if Lucy lives or bites the…
Sam Dawson (Sean Penn) is a man with special needs who fights to regain the custody of his seven-year-old daughter Lucy Diamond Dawson (Dakota Fanning) which named after the famous Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds."3 Although Lucy's mother, a homeless woman, leaves right after Lucy is born, Sam never gives up. He works as janitor at Starbucks and with help from an agoraphobic neighbour Annie Cassell (Dianne Wiest), he’s doing fine. Sam also gets some help from an entourage of retarded pals, and all goes along pretty well until Lucy, at age seven, begins to surpass Sam’s intellectual ability. The Family Protective Services take Lucy away on her 7th birthday which Sam has a birthday surprise to her. Sam gets intense lawyer Rita Harrison (Michelle Pfeiffer) to help him and soon enough, she learns from Sam to take time to smell the roses and play…
he Vampire Diaries is a hit supernatural teen drama television series about a seventeen-year-old girl, Elena, who is caught up in a mystical world between two extremely handsome vampire brothers. It’s very comparative to Twilight and Buffy the Vampire Slayer with the typical ‘teenage girl falls in love with a vampire’ story. It first aired in September 2009, not long after the topic of Vampires had significantly escalated, and the show instantly became a teen favorite with almost five million viewers watching the premiere episode.…
Sam Dawson (Sean Penn), a man with a developmental disability, is the single father of Lucy (Dakota Fanning), following their abandonment by her mother, who is revealed to be a homeless woman who "just needed a place to sleep". Despite his limitations, Sam is well-adjusted and has a supportive group of friends with developmental disabilities, as well as a kind, agoraphobic neighbor Annie (Dianne Wiest) who takes care of Lucy when Sam cannot. Though Sam provides a loving and caring environment for precocious Lucy, she soon surpasses his mental ability. Other children tease her for having a "retard" as a father, and she becomes too embarrassed to accept that she is more intellectually advanced than Sam. At a surprise party Sam planned for Lucy, a child and his father torment Sam, and Lucy walks in on Sam being pushed around by the father. He is said to have "assaulted" the child, and Lucy is taken away from him, as there had already been several issues, such as Sam unwittingly talking to a hooker, and Lucy "showing signs" that Sam is a burden. In preparation for a custody case, a social worker turns up at Lucy's birthday party and takes her away, allowing Sam two supervised visits per week.…
Lucy is born June 2, 2009 (changed to January 1, 2009 in subsequent airings), in the suburbs of Miami and is still alive in the year 2100. In 2015, she moves into an apartment in Miami and a few months later a powerful hurricane named Linda hits and levels much of Miami, killing thousands of people. She and her parents move to San Diego. She becomes an EMT and meets her…
“Everybody drop to the Floor. Now!”- Dalton Russell. In the film Inside Man, Detective Keith Frazier is the protagonist and is a hostage negotiator who is in charge of the bank robbery. He tries to help the bank robbers to what they want and keeping the hostages safe and sound. Keith works hard throughout the film to show he is the leader of the scene. Inside Man, is a excellent film because it shows how hard a detective has to work to help and save the hostages, while at the same time how people escape with secrets.…
Lucy is a young girl, who used to be a grade A student and win prizes at the prize day at school. She has become friends with the tough girl Bethan. Because of the friendship with Bethan she is in detention for the very first time of her life. She is in detention because she has beaten up the girl who used to be her best friend, just because Bethan told her to. Lucy is very dependent and she is trying very hard to detach and she searches the protection she can get by being friends with Bethan. Lucy does not trust herself and her own opinion, she keeps saying Bethan says, mom says – which I take as a sign of her not believing in herself enough to rely on herself. I think Lucy used to have a good relationship with her mother but after, she has started hanging out with Bethan their relationship is damaged. Lucy’s relationship with Bethan is not equal, Lucy feels save around Bethan because no one dares to touch her, but at the same time she does not really mind when her mother tells her that she can’t be hanging out with Bethan all the time. Bethan has a kind of power or controls to make Lucy do stuff that she would never have done on her own, for example like beaten up Penny. Penny and Lucy used to be really close, and Penny have told Lucy some deep secrets, and I think Lucy feels very bad about beating Penny up, but she wants this new image so bad that she is not true to herself and therefore do not have the courage or the will to tell Penny she…