The novel takes place in Holcomb, Kansas, a small farming town with a tight knit community. The Clutters are a prominent and cherished family known throughout the town. Herb is a successful farmer, married for 25 years to Bonnie Fox and is the father of four children. At home, two of his children remain; 16 year old Nancy and 15 year old Kenyon. Discovered by two young girls the next morning, the community is struck by the horrific murders of the Clutters on the night of November 15th, 1959, an event too gruesome for anyone to believe. Meanwhile, nearly 400 miles away in Olathe, Kansas, the two killers; ex-convicts; Dick (28) and Perry (31), proceed with a normal evening as if nothing had occurred the night before.…
In Stephan Budiansky’s book, The Bloody Shirt, he talks about many aspects of the freed black slaves’ behavior that seems to enrage the white southerners. The white southerners manage to react in a very violent way. The white southerners despise giving the freed slaves rights, they don’t seem to happy about being equal to the freed slaves. They don’t want the freed slaves to be in politics or even to become the sheriff of their town. The white southerners try to avoid these problems they have with the behaviors of the freed black slaves by doing some very violent things to them. They feel as if their way of life and even the civilization thy have built for them is at risk of being gone so they try to keep their way of life with violence.…
The Barbarians (1987) – Dirtmaster - Twin barbarians plan to take revenge on the warlord who murdered their tribe and places them in captivity as children. The Dirtmaster, portrayed as Michael Berryman, forces the twins into slavery, where they train to fight as gladiators.…
Early this week in class we watched a short video clip describing the tragic story of Brandon Teena, a victim of a hate crime in the United States. During the video we learn that Brandon lived and loved as a man and for that he paid with his life.…
After Lambert performed on stage, she posted on her Instagram a video of her along with friends covering Taylor Swift's 'Bad Blood' for a "glam jam."…
Carrie is a 2013 remake of Stephen King’s 1974 Carrie novel. This movie film was directed by Kimberly Peirce with the help of Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. The movie shows of a mother and daughter relationship between religious mother Margaret played by Julianne Moore and daughter Carrie played by Chloe Grace Moretz. Peirce shows how Carrie being in the house with her religious mother’s beliefs affects the social beliefs of Carrie at school, and how she takes revenge on everybody. Carrie is and high school senior that never had real friends or any type of social relationship. Margaret made Carrie believe there was in outside world and homeschooled Carrie until the local authorities got involved and made Margaret send Carrie to public school. Now that…
-Toby: Allison’s boyfriend. He tries to act like he’s and gangster and that he’s “hard,” but he is not. It’s all an act that he’s trying to portray to his friends.…
In this trimester, I have studied Paradigm II at Mahidol University International College, which is a core course for the social science division. This course learns about the major paradigms in social sciences during the twentieth century. In the past few months, a lecturer, Eugene Jones, opened a documentary film named Bowling for Columbine. In this film, a filmmaker, Michael Moore, try to find the reason of butchery in the United States. After I watched this film, I had learned that there are numerous reasons why Americans are so violent.…
Performances focused on teaching teens on how to deal with substance abuse and sex…
In effect, by glossing over Selena’s transition into the Latin American the film Selena ignores her accomplishments in the Latin American market which was not easy to enter. Although the film touches on the obstacles Selena had to overcome to become successful in Latin America it still makes it seem as if Selena was an automatic sensation, particularly in Mexico, where it is known she had difficulty winning people over. This is evident through the one scene in the movie where Selena visits Mexico and whilst there speaks Spanglish to reporters without any repercussions as later on a newspaper calls her the “genuine artist of the people.” Yet, it is no secret that at the beginning of her career the language barrier between Selena and her Mexican audience posed an issue as she was derided for using an interpreter to communicate with the Spanish-language media (Paredez 204).…
Beyonce is recognized as an icon of women empowerment. She is one of the most influential celebrities in the world. In Beyonce’s music video, “Pretty Hurts,” femininity is shown through the struggles and pressures women go through to meet the unrealistic standards of beauty. Compared to the topic of femininity, the representation of masculinity is very limited in the music video. Also, the music video challenges the gender stereotypes and deals with third wave feminism.…
Fight Club “Its only after we’ve lost everything are we free to do anything”, Tyler Durden as (Brad Pitt) states, among many other lines of contemplation. In Fight Club, a nameless narrator, a typical “everyman,” played as (Edward Norton) is trapped in the world of large corporations, condominium living, and all the money he needs to spend on all the useless stuff he doesn’t need. As Tyler Durden says “The things you own end up owning you.” Fight Club is an edgy film that takes on such topics as consumerism, the feminization of society, manipulation, cultism, Marxist ideology, social norms, dominant culture, and the psychiatric approach of the human id, ego, and super ego. “It is a film that surrealistically describes the status of the American…
Relationships are often a cyclone of emotions and thoughts that disastrously destroy lives or haphazardly shape paths that lead to new things. In Playing by Heart, the characters experience all these in a short time. While it was a fictional depiction of real situations, much can be gleaned from this film. Being that this movie corresponds with terms in our book the connections are endless.…
Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Smith were found guilty of murder in the first degree and their punishment is death. "Can there be a single doubt in your minds regarding the guilt in your defendants? No! Regardless of who pulled the trigger on Richard Eugene Hickock's shotgun, both men are equally guilty... penalty-death." (303)…
The story consists of a series of flashbacks from one girl’s life of seemingly violent acts. It begins in present day, after witnessing a fight on campus, the thoughts arise as to what could have caused such violence to overtake the two men who were fighting, which, in turn, results in the thoughts of all the violent acts she has witnessed throughout her life.…