Mcmurphy breaking the picture window was a turning point in the story. The picture window was a prized possession of Nurse Ratched. It was the difference between her and the patients. She was on one side of the window while the patients were on the more unfortunate side. In a therapy session, R.P breaks the window, in the movie and in the novel, to get cigarettes. The glass breaking wasn't only a turning point in the story, but also for Mcmurphy. McMurphy became a larger than life character to the patients.…
“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” is a book with such an intriguing story that it could be mistaken for a work of fiction. Rebecca Skloot showcased her ability to entertain and inform readers with her literary work, telling of a black woman’s scientific subjugation in and throughout the 21st century. The opportunity to read and analyze “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” proved to be a valuable assignment in English 102.…
What happens when someone can't see the sun revolve around them. Well in the book Diary of ja Wimpy kid, Greg can't see that anyone but himself matters. In the book Greg has to deal with going to camp and doing community service but he doesn't deal with it in a good way because he doesn't like doing anything but playing video games and he only worries about personal gain. The theme of this story is that it's hard to really ever enjoy anything when you only think of yourself.…
Do you like funny/action movies? In my opinion, I love funny/action movies like “The Secret life of Walter Mitty”, about a young man and everywhere he goes, he daydreams of a girl name Cheryl Melhoff . One day Walter was pasting around in New York. He had received a phone call from a random man on the phone, but surprisingly it was Todd from E-harmony. Todd was helping Walter with his profile and explaining how he could send a wink to Cheryl to capture her attention. After a while Walter imagined that he smelled burning fire in the building, so he quickly ran and saved the love of his life, Cheryl. Cheryl was impressed by how he took the time to save her and how he waited to finally get that kiss he been waiting for. Walter ended up daydreaming about Cheryl everywhere he went. I found this movie really thrilling and enjoyable.…
The film Schindler's list, produced by Steven Spielberg in 1993 was based on the book "Schindler's Ark" by Thomas Keneally. Schindler's List was set in Germany during the period of World War 2. Schindler's list is a true story about Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the life's of more than one thousand, one hundred Jews during the 1940s holocaust. The following quote is used to describe the themes in the movie, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" ~Edmund Burke. This quote is relevant to Schindler's list as it relates to the idea of everyone else in the world sitting by and doing nothing as Hitler and Germany continued to invade, attack and expand its empire. The symbolism, music,…
In the novel, “Little Scarlet”, the author Walter Mosley is discussing the ordeal the riots have created in Watts. In 1965, riots had become the only way for people to express their feelings towards racial inequality. The 1965 riots also highlighted issues within the police department. The novel exposed crimes that were going on as a result of the riots. Throughout the novel, Walter Mosley introduces various characters to paint a picture of society in 1965. Mosley uses a murder as a twisted plot for justice. The murder case forces Rawlins to address the ethnic tribulations of the 1965 watts riots.…
The Scarlet Pimpernel is a fiction novel written by Baroness Emma Orczy. In the book, the author uses a style of submerging the reader into the time frame of the French revolution, describing the gruesome guillotine which was used to execute countless innocent lives. The Scarlet Pimpernel, while being the name of the book, is also the name of the unknown savior of those innocent people sent for death by the guillotine. While he saves people, the French ruthlessly hunt him down and try to discover his true identity.…
“Things are rough all over.”(Hinton 35).The novel, The outsiders, By S.E. Hinton is about a conflict of Ponyboy and his family having struggles as a Greaser. Being a Gang that is broken on, is a struggle that makes their lives hard and difficult. While Ponyboy always sees things in a positive way to keep going. S.E. Hinton’s theme “ Things are rough all over.” is evident in the struggles Greasers and Socs face. However the Greasers face more struggles then Socs because, they live in poverty, plus they don't have a great education, and even though the Socs get in trouble too, they get all the breaks.…
Films that claim the statement, “based on a true story” intend to make all of the pictured events as accurate as possible. While depicting a historic moment can be incredible hard, it can be even harder when the original script is constructed upon a lie. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is a movie based the life of the man responsible for creating a genre of television in which we capitalize on today, but also for creating an autobiography so far- fetched that it appears to be true. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind presents a look into the fabricated double life of Chuck Barris.…
Walter Mitty (the protagonist of “the secret life of Walter Mitty”) is basically a normal guy, except for one huge problem. His mind can easily wander. His mind is most prone to wandering when he thinks of his wife. His wife regularly belittles him and does not treat him like a “man”. It is for this reason that whenever Walter Mitty’s mind wanders he goes into a world where he is the hero and the star. He goes into a world where he can be whoever he wants to be and be the best possible at being that person. Much like Walter Mitty, Charlotte (the protagonist of “the yellow wallpaper”), has a husband who persistently tells her what to do and what is best for her. Just like Walter Mitty’s wife, her husband expects her to do what she is told and if she doesn’t then she is just a “silly girl”.…
“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” is the second adaptation of the 1939 James Thurber story. The first adaptation was produced by Samuel Goldwyn and was directed by Norman Z. McLeod wherein Danny Kaye played the role of Walter Mitty. In this 2013’s adapatation Walter Mitty is being played by Ben Stiller together with Kristen Wiig as Cheryl Melhoff, Shirley MacLaine, Adam Scott and mary other more.…
The Manchurian Candidate, directed by Jonathan Demme, is a political thriller made in 2004 as a remake of the film from 1962. Denzel Washington plays Captain Bennett Marco, Liev Schreiber acts as Sergeant Raymond Prentiss Shawa candidate for vice president and Meryl Streep as his mother Eleanor Shaw, a US senator.…
Finally, these women loved their babies and kids, they weren’t just ignored. These mothers showed they had love for their kids even when they abandon their babies. There are some sources and researches that prove that babies had identities to enable the people taking care of these unwanted babies to know the names of these babies and where they from in case they are needed back. In the article, Secrets and lies at the Florentine Foundling Hospital, the autheor talks about the different things that were included with the babies when they abandon them. “So the code above translates as ‘di Piero Lottini’, or ‘Piero Lottini’s child’. The same code language also appears in the record books for the 1530s. Sometimes whole sentences are written in…
“Walter, I thought I told you to change that light bulb.” Mrs. Mitty said scornfully at her husband. Paying no attention to his wife, Walter walked right past he and into their sitting room. I’ll get to it, Walter thought as he sat down on his recliner. His gaze travels to the fish tank on his left. Walter stares at the fish, watching them pop in and out of the plants in the tank. He keeps his gaze locked on a black fish, which kept swimming in and out of a decoration of a sunken ship. “Walter! Walter Mitty, this light bulb isn’t going to change itself.”……
You can achieve anything with hopes, dreams, and goals. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is a story about two men who work on a farm to make enough money to get to their dream of owning land. The Secret Life by Walter Mitty is a story about a man who works for LIFE magazine as the photo interpreter, he meets this girl but hasn't found the courage to ask her out, a famous photographer sent a photo for the last cover photo but Walter can’t find the photo. Walter goes on an adventure to go and find the photographer and try to get his girl. Children of war in Uganda is about the children in Uganda and on mother and her daughter in particular. The daughter is kidnapped by the rebels and the mother wants her daughter back and does not want to stay…