In Donovan Campbell’s Joker One: A Marine Platoon’s Story of Courage‚ Leadership‚ and Brotherhood‚ he concentrates on the themes of love and unity. He focuses on his experience as an infantry leader during the war in Iraq. The book revolves around Campbell’s leadership over his forty-man platoon. Joining for patriotism and a desire to lead‚ Campbell explores the emotional attachments he felt through the journey of war. The book opens with Campbell on his first day as a platoon leader. His group
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Case Report on the Joker The Joker is a fictional character originally appearing in the DC comics’ Batman Series created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger. The Joker was and is Batman’s arch-nemesis. Most recently he appeared the major motion picture‚ The Dark Knight (Nolan et al.‚ 2008). This most recent appearance shows the Joker in a way that allows a study of his persona. The Joker is a Male‚ his age is unknown and he is a criminal occupationally. He always wears heavy makeup giving him the appearance
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kill the Joker?” New York Times writers Mark D. White and Robert Arp observe that many messages and topics in pop culture can also be seen in the real world. They show this by referencing three real world ethic principles and applying them to the fictional topic of whether or not Batman should kill the Joker. The authors reference utilitarianism‚ deontology‚ and virtue ethics‚ weighing the pros and cons of killing the Joker. Utilitarianism would favor killing the Joker because the Joker would be
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The Two Faces of Harvey Dent Just like the proverbial adage of love and hate‚ superheroes and villains have a very thin line that separates the two. The I Ch’ing offers the Yin and Yang arguing that good cannot exist without evil. The question arises to try to determine what exactly makes someone a villain or a superhero. There is often a personal or emotional connection that the authors and film directors tries to convey so the audience can identify with the characters. Sometimes‚ fictional
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To Beowulf or not to Beowulf Reputation‚ the backbone of medieval heroes and mean high school girls in movies. In all the stories‚ movies‚ or real life situations the person’s reputation is always bigger than themselves and in most cases‚ precedes them. With reputation comes a lot of glory or gore‚ but is it worth it? Reputation is important because what you gain from it. The risk of having a bad news and losing everything you have is a risk worth taking if it means you can have loyalty of strangers
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Ben Affleck as Batman The announcement about Ben Affleck playing the role of Batman has created intense discussions. The Batman movies have been highly praised for their action filled drama and most recently through the talented Christian Bale which captivated audiences. With such news recently announced‚ many fans have been disappointed over the decision of Ben Affleck playing Batman. Many believe that he is not a good choice based on his bad reviews as the Daredevil where he was said to lack the
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DC Comics drops the first part of what I consider to be one of the most entertaining runs in the history of the Batman monthly title. “Batman Volume 8: Superheavy” collects issues #41 through #45 of the series and DC Sneak Peek: Batman #1 to lay the foundation for a new super-villain and a new Dark Knight Detective fully sanctioned by the Gotham City Police Department and tricked out with all the latest technology they can get their hands on. It’s a tale only the creative mind of one Scott Snyder
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Batman and Robin are the original dynamic duo --- the epitome of a friendship. Batman (Bruce Wayne) and Robin (Dick Grayson)‚ capitalize on each other’s strengths and neutralize each other’s weaknesses to become what appears to be an inseparable and invincible team that fights against evil and protects the city of Gotham. Their relationship begins when Bruce Wayne adopts Dick Grayson as his legal ward to help him and provide guidance after the death of Grayson’s parents. Eventually‚ Grayson passes
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Should Batman kill the Joker? Have you noticed that in DC Comics Batman would always catch the Joker and send him to jail‚ but every single time the Joker would just escape and cause more harm to people. Since the Joker has killed and harmed so many people why doesn’t the Batman just kill him? Many people would agree that he should kill the Joker because it would end the suffering of so many lives‚ but Batman has his own philosophy; he believes that if he were to kill it would make him no better
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It all started in 1994‚ when Harley Quinn was arrested into a federal prison‚ after giving birth to her baby girl Quinnzel. Quinnzel’s father was the one and only Joker. The Joker raised Quinnzel by himself. She was crazier than him and more insane than Harley. Quinnzel‚ just like her father had the big obnoxious/evil grin. Quinnzel’s hair was half purple and half pink. Most people though she was a spitting image of Harley. By the time Quinnzel was 14‚ her and her father planned to help Harley escape
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