Have you ever faced a life-changing experience?People have impacted not only themselves, but also their countries. This idea is analyzed in the memoir Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Patillo Beals, the autobiography¨I Never Had It Made¨ by Jackie Robinson, and “The ¨Father Of Aviation” by Rebecca Maskell. Melba Pattillo Beals, Jackie Robinson, and Feng Ru faced Challenges,discrimination,and turning points. This impacted not only them but their countries too.…
Walk the Line, a 2005 film written by James Mangold, is a biography of Johnny Cash's life, from his days as a young boy to his days as a country music star (IMDb). Johnny Cash had always had a love for music, even as a child, but he never expanded on it, until he needed a way to support his family, which he felt he could do by becoming a musician. He had a dream to become a musician all his life, and by having a little push, he auditioned with his band and was able to make a record. Unfortunately, Johnny's "perfect" life was short lived, when he got tied up into dangerous substances, drugs and alcohol, and these things caused him to lose all that he held dear to him. By Johnny Cash making these horrible decisions, although wrong, they made…
The 1961 movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s directed by Blake Edwards and based on the novel of the same name, is about Holly Golightly a young woman who is living independently as a socialite in New York during the 60’s. The movie is regarded as a large reflection of American culture and the different values and opinions that were held by many people during the time. The movie is also a great example of filmmaking in the mid-20th century and how it compares to today’s style of filmmaking.…
Some common themes that Chrysanthemum deals with are overcoming differences, bullying in school, and self-esteem issues. This picture book is easy for children to relate to because they have all either felt these different feelings. The emotional themes I want to discuss about this book are excited and loneliness. With a new environment, new people and friends, a lot of the times students will become lonely because they do not feel like they fit in or they do not know how to socialize with their friends. In my observation, there is a student name Ryan and he feels very lonely everyday because he does not know how to talk to his friends in his table because he feels shy. He would not talk to anyone during dancing time, work time, lunch and snack…
The Cop and the Anthem by O. Henry shows the journey of how Soapy finally ends up in the comfort of the Blackwell jail. Underneath the storytelling, O. Henry portrays the unfortunate reality of the New York during this time period.…
The Amazing Grace movie shows the hardships slaves had to endure slavery and one man’s fight to stop it. The textbook The American Pageant gives one glimpse into the horrible conditions that slaves had to endure. Both the textbook and the movie show how slavery changed the colonies forever. They both show the fight for slavery was long and hard, but worth it in the end. The movie Amazing Grace was a historical movie to help people understand more about a part of history and how it was back in the older days.…
“The practice of cloud-seeding garnered considerable attention in the run up to the Beijing Olympics.” Jonas had asked the giver why are there no colors. The Giver said, “Our people made that choice, the choice to go to sameness,” (Lowry 95). This describes how in Jonas’s community there is no climate as the community made the choice to have this type of climate control; and this exists in our society today. In The Giver, Jonas finds out that his community doesn’t know what the meaning of color and the feeling of it. Climate control still exists in our world today.…
Ayan Rand in the book, Anthem explains how our world would be in a dystopian manner. Rand support her explanation by describing about who is equality and what choices did he do to change this society. The author purpose is to point out that we have to ourselves so that we do not let anyone force us to act in a certain way. The author writes in an informal tone for prospective readers…
Anthem is a story about a 21-year old boy named Equality 7-2521 and a 17-year old girl named Liberty 5-3000 who are both different from the others in their secluded society which lacks individualism and self-interest. The movie, Divergent, also follows a similar story line. Divergent is a story about an 18 year-old boy named Tobias Eaton and a 16-year old girl named Beatrice Prior who are both different from the others in their society which lacks individualism and self-interest. Anthem and Divergent are similar in that the main characters have one set lifestyle, they change their name, and they develop similar relationships between each other.…
Six feet was too tall: Equality 7-2521 stood head and shoulders above the crowd and his brothers in society looked down on him because of it. In the novella Anthem, author Ayn Rand explores the dangers of a Collectivist society and the freedom that comes with escaping such a place as she chronicles the life of her main character, Equality. Part of Rand’s motivation for writing her novella was her desire to further develop the philosophy that she created that is known as Objectivism. Objectivism is the belief that everyone possesses their own moral compass, and that the highest achievement of a person’s life is to follow that compass to reach their greatest happiness. It is essentially a belief in the individual. On the…
These characters in this book all have their own story and what they want in life.…
A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles dickens first published by Chapman and Hall on 19 December 1843 and adapted for film in 1938. The film tells the story of bitter old miserly protagonist Ebenezer scrooge who does not give to others and is only concerned with his own money and affairs. The film tells of his transformation resulting from ghost visits by Jacob Marley and the ghosts of Christmases’ past, present and future. As the years go by, he holds true to his promise and honors Christmas with all his heart.…
There is a saying, “If you walk in the footprints of others, you won’t make any of your own”. Identity defines a person’s personal or behavioral characteristic(s). However, in order to “activate” it, a person must find it by his own will or fate. Without this trait, there would not be such thing as groups (or divisions) among men. Equality, being the protagonist of the dystopian novel, Anthem expresses that there is a gap between him and society. Men can be easily attracted by one substance causing everyone to follow or fear. The author of Who holds the Clicker explains a scenario in which Mario, a victim of severe OCD, consulted to a doctor to help him sever from his disease. Thus this ties also in with novel The Meme Machine “Strange Creatures”…
After listening to Bohemian Rhapsody most people think that the song has a flux of instrumentals and rhythm as to imply the meaning of the message. The song comes in slowly with a piano and then reaches the guitar; the slow start with the first stanza gives off a confused feeling. As stated in the earlier paragraph the first couple of stanzas Freddie doesn’t want to admit to his stances on sexuality. He’s battling his mind over what he wants so the increase of instruments and pace in the second stanza provokes a little jitter to the listener giving the impression of Freddie’s confusion. Going into the next couple of stanzas the music gets slower with the piano, triangles, guitar, and drums creating the feeling of depression, as Mercury knows…
A Christmas Carol, both the play and the movie, have many similarities with just as many differences. Although the movie was created as a follow-up to the play, there were many times where the movie was completely different. On occasion, there would be times where you could follow along to the movie with the script, but most of the time, it would be somewhat the same.The script compared to the movie is more informing and fills in empty holes. Although watching the movie is easier, in order to get all of the facts straight, it would be better to read the script or see the play.…