Each person has their own version of who the best is and what it takes. For some people, it’s about how far one capable is to push boundaries. How competent and efficient someone is in completing a given task or one they concocted for themselves. The composer, Ludwig Van Beethoven, was the perfect example of […]
Have you ever listened to music as you did your homework? Have you ever wondered why we do this? Many believe music keeps you focused during homework. ‘How?’ you may ask, well you do this by tuning it out and making it into background music. After a couple minutes into the homework your attention completely […]
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Get startedI attended the Clemson University Symphony Orchestra on November 17th, 2018. The concert was extremely diverse, and I gained a new appreciation for listening to a live symphony orchestra. Due to my background in ballet, the first piece that attracted my attention was Tchaikovsky’s “Elegy” from Serenade for Strings. This is the third out of […]
Although it is assumed Oprah Winfrey lived a great life; she was faced with many obstacles before and during the course of her success. Prior to Oprah Winfrey wonderful career, she was faced with poverty. She was born in the rural area of Mississippi, to a single teenage mother. Ms. Winfrey went through a long […]
Heroes are often described as a person who is admired by their courage, achievements, and noble acts. There are various people today who are still looked up to as a hero. People who are recognized as a hero have made some impact on the world to be seen as a hero. A person like Oprah […]
An entrepreneur is someone who is able to create nothing into something and with that they can start businesses and open many opportunities for them so they can be successful in the world. Oprah Winfrey stands out of the many entrepreneurs out there because of her background and what she went through when she was […]
Black history month is a time to remember all of the african american people who have impacted this world. African american people have had a harder life than privileged white people. One African american who fought for everything she strived to be was Oprah Winfrey. She is a prime example of starting from nowhere and […]
Oprah Winfrey is the definition of resilience from not being able to afford clothes as a child and wearing potato sacks to becoming one of the world’s wealthiest and admired women proves that. (Elkins 2015) The road was not an easy one, but she navigated each bump to make it to the top. Opera’s childhood […]
Amidst the various cultures of architecture I’ve learned about, I find that Greek architecture, specifically classical Greek, was the most advanced and fascinating style of ancient time. The Greeks were obsessed with order and translated geometry into their architecture, which I feel was ahead of their time and carried futuristic ideals. With this said, determining […]
The novel Ready Player One is set in the future in the year 2044 and is a science fiction novel. In the book, the world is experiencing global warming, overpopulation, and many other types of social and economic problems. To escape these problems a man by the name of James Halliday creates a free virtual […]
Ideology is identified as a body of ideas that reflect the social need of a group, class, or even just one individual. The time frame of which these ideas manifest do not take away from their importance or impact. Ready Player One is a prime example of a film that presents us with ways of […]
In the story of “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin story is established on common themes that explores suffering experienced by a black family predominantly two brothers as they struggle through individualism, lacks education, drug addiction also imprisonment. It describes many struggles between brothers separated and caught while entangled with time, space, and ideals. The narrator […]
Beauty and the Beast(2017) is one of the greatest fairy tale stories of all time. This live action film, directed by Bill Condon, starring Emma Watson, Dan Stevens & Luke Evans. It is based on the 1991 Disney animated film. It is a magical story about an unkind and selfish prince is cursed to live […]
This weeks film the Truman show, was very interesting. I did not know anything about the film before watching it. I was a bit confused in the beginning but overall I really enjoyed this film. The Truman Show was unlike any other movie I have seen because I was a show within a movie. Truman […]
One cinematographic element that heavily influences the idea of power and influence in the media is its prominent use of non-diegetic and diegetic camera movements. Through the use of different camera movements, viewers can see and assume how Truman is feeling in the movement. For example, in the scene where the stage light falls from […]
During the past three years South Korea has been trying to put an end to North Koreas propaganda attacks on South Korean media and culture. This has been done through the utilization of loud-speakers strategically places along the DMZ blaring music and news. The tool they used to shock North Koreans was the famous K-Pop […]
Military might and conquest have always been attributed to heroes. Every generation has young people believing in past heroes and often set out to go to war in the name of echoing and promoting the values of one fighting for their nation or their glory. The epic of Beowulf comes out as an illustration of […]
Beowulf is an epic that has been created as a result of generations of oral tradition and storytelling. Infused with elements of Christianity and paganism, the story portrays the heroic journey of a character as he overcomes many obstacles and in the end he attains victory for his people. Today, this work of literature is […]
A hero is one who is not only strong, but one who uses his strength to uphold others. A hero is humble, brave and selfless. In the epic Beowulf, the tale demonstrates every characteristic fitting an Anglo-Saxon hero. Beowulf is honest, loyal, and courageous. He portrays these characteristics in the battle against Grendel, the battle […]
The novel Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury exemplifies a world of technological takeover much like present day society. Television is the medium with the greatest socialization effect surpassing all the other social media by far in its influence on society. Television and technology can be seen in homes, schools and even prisons, it is […]
New York became “ The Black Capital” of America during the 1920s. When Black Americans started heading north, or west, during, what we now call, the great migration, Harlem became heavily populated with justice seeking African Americans. Coincidently, this movement was also heavily associated with the Jazz movement, which was also created by Black musicians […]
Teaching history through fiction is dangerous because it may give the reader a wrong idea of the event that’s happening. If the reader is getting the wrong facts of the story, they will always remember the wrong facts of the event. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is an perfect example of why teaching history […]
Porn is by no means natural. In modern day context, pornography is manufactured “explicit media” which is commercially or amateurishly produced for the viewing by others who are looking for some sort of sexual gratification. The internet acts as the main hub of these productions; anyone with internet access and a computer device has entry […]
A genuine splendor and care by director Sidney Lumet are shown in a brilliant movie “12 Angry Men”- a 1957 American courtroom drama film adapted from the teleplay with the same title by Reginald Rose. The movie is focused on the opinions, perceptions, biases, prejudice and judgement of twelve diverse characters whose task is to […]
One approach that this movie had was the laissez faire approach. This approach is defined as leading against the norm. When all twelve of the jurors come into the room, eleven of them decide quickly that the boy is guilty. They decided this because they wanted a quick and to the point process. This is […]
Gun violence in the United States results in tens of thousands of deaths and injuries annually. During the majority of the 1950’s – 1990’s struggles for civil rights, social rights, equality and justice swept the United States. While watching both Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose and the Runaway Jury Film by John Grisham I […]
“I have lost something. I’m not exactly sure what it is but I know I didn’t always feel like this…sedated. But you know what? It’s never too late to get it back.” (Mendes) In American Beauty, the life of Lester Burnham is cut short in the midst of his hunt to rediscover true joy in […]
There are a plethora of resources on this earth. In this day and age, technology is constantly advancing before our eyes. Everything we could ever want is conveniently accessible at our fingertips. With home devices like Alexa and Google Home, we don’t even have to physically move to get what we want. This newfound ease […]
The field of social psychology is a fast growing fields which possesses a very critical vital effect on how people think about the behavior of humans, websites, magazines, newspapers, films, as well as various other forms of media that tend to report the discoveries of social psychologists, as well as the results of social psychological […]
Mark Kingwell is an award-winning social critic, essayist, and professor of the philosophy at the University of Toronto. Kingwell has written the book of In pursuit of Happiness; Better Living from Plato to Prozac (1998). The Author’s reputations Mark Kingwell is not a debatable one but simply a perfection of a competitive standards. He has […]
