Breaking Bad, Season 1 - Vince Gilligan (2008) - Script, Main Character and Direction
Artwork commentary - 1 pages - Television
Breaking Bad is one of the most famous American TV shows of the last decade. In this essay we will focus on the first season of the show which initiates the plot and introduces the main characters. In our detailed plan, we will focus on the synopsis, the main...
Imitation Game - Morten Tyldum (2014) - Does the movie pay a beautiful tribute to Alan Turing, the main character?
Artwork commentary - 2 pages - Film studies
I would like to present The Imitation Game, a British movie based on a true story. Here is my key question I would like to answer: Does the movie pay a beautiful tribute to Alan Turing, the main character? In order to answer my key question, I'd like to start by a short...
Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud (2007) - The Internal Conflict of the Main Character
Artwork commentary - 1 pages - Film studies
Based on Marjane Satrapi's famous autobiographical comic books, Persepolis is a condensed movie of the four volumes of this saga. Co-directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud and released in 2007, Persepolis is the journey of Marjane herself, an eight-year-old girl living in Tehran in...
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey (1962) - The 3 main characters
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
At first sight, this quotation makes me think that in reality it is our acts which determine the person that we are. We can be judged by our acts. It is particularly true in Ken Kesey's novel... The example of the three main characters: The Chief, the Big Nurse and McMurphy.
Presentation of the Character Wonder Woman
Case study - 6 pages - Arts and art history
Wonder Woman first appeared in 1941, created by psychologist William Moulton Marston and artist Harry G. Peter. In her original comic book origin, Wonder Woman is a princess of the Amazons, a mythical race of female warriors that have isolated themselves from the world on Paradise Island. She is...
Presentation of 9/11
Essay - 2 pages - Modern history
A hero is a person who is admired for their courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities. It can be the main character in a book or a film or a person with superhuman qualities. It can also be a modern-day hero, a person who has performed a heroic act or simply our own...
Runaway, Trespasses, Extract - Alice Munro (2004)
Text commentary - 3 pages - Literature
'Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up' wrote the American polemist Camille Paglia. Everything is also a question of identity in Alice Munro's short story collection Runaway, published in 2004. The...
Analysing suspense sequences - Blackout and It Follows
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Film studies
Blackout is set within a medium-sized apartment, with the main locations we see being the bedroom, the kitchen, and a storage room. The bedroom is small, the bed in the middle with a small amount of space on either side. Bedside table with a lamp, some books and a framed photo of a person....
The Screenplay
Worksheets - 3 pages - Film studies
This document is made of ten corrected questions about screenplays.
Build Moral Character Education, Creating The Educated Youths and Ethical
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Education is an investment, both for individuals, families and nations, Because acceptable or not, education san determine the success of a person's success in the future. It is not surprising that education has always been a top priority each country. Likewise with our country, education is...
Character analysis: Okonkwo
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
Okonkwo is the main character of the book “Things Fall Apart,” by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. This character is a hero to his village, a clansman, warrior, farmer and family man. However, no one is ever perfect. As Aristotle said, a tragic hero is defined by a...
What does historical research tell us about the social character and ideas of the Parisian sans-culotte?
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
With his 'Phrygians cap' also called ?bonnet rouge' or the ?cap of liberty'; his blue-white-red striped long-trousers, his carmagnole (short-skirted coat) and his sabots (wooden shoes) characterized the Parisian sans-culotte who was one of the most famous, symbolic active figures...
The Crucible Character Analysis : Abigail Williams "A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing"
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
In any unfavorable situation, we seek a solution and if there is none, then a way out. When one of main characters of Arthur Miller's The Crucible finds herself in a vulnerable position, she not only manages to escape her problems, but also succeeds in placing the repercussions of...
Final Critique Paper: X-men First Class
Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies
Growing up I remember looking at many cartoons and reading comic books about the X-men. I often wished that I had super powers like storm or had knives for claws like Wolverine; whom I thought was the coolest of them all. I use to wonder why that had not created a movie about the older X-men...
The heroism of Catherine Barkley: A farewell to arms
Case study - 3 pages - Literature
Catherine Barkley has been seen as a controversial character throughout the years. To explain the way she was portrayed and her role as a hero, we need to take into account different views of the critics, mainly opposed views. On the one hand, we know that Ernest Hemingway has been...
'Invisible Man' by Ralph Ellison: A comment
Book review - 5 pages - Literature
'Invisible Man' by Ralph Ellison is a novel detailing an unnamed African-American's journey from the south to the streets of Harlem. The reader sees the main character attempt to find his place within the world, as well as within himself. In this novel written in 1947,...
Representations of social class in popular literature
Thesis - 3 pages - Literature
Many of the texts studied in literature portray Canada as a country that is divided by social class. Three of these novels in particular are Who Do You Think You Are?, The Wars and In the Skin of a Lion. The first of these novels is a set of small stories that chronicles the main...
International accounting regulations: Understanding differences - USA/ Europe
Essay - 6 pages - Management
Throughout the globe, U.S.A. has been famous for their notion of freedom, their way of life, and their entrepreneurship, stemming back to its very origins. This is a legacy from the very first pioneer, which still affects them nowadays either in their private or business life. It's a country...
Lily and Becky: A Flower and a Weed
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair was published in book form for the first time in 1848, and was available in serialized editions one year prior. Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth was published in 1905 making it highly likely that Wharton was aware of Vanity Fair and the main...
Women on the Edge of Time: A Literary Analysis
Book review - 2 pages - Literature
Women on the Edge of Time can be referred as a feminist utopia though it presents the reader with the literary choice to question the society capabilities of embracing utopia. After a thorough analysis, the individual reader realizes the role of the human race in changing the future of the...
Everything is illuminated: Book review
Book review - 2 pages - Literature
After watching the movie, Everything is Illuminated; I knew that I had to read the book to prolong the experience that Jonathan Safran Foer wrote about in his novel. There are several different stories inside this single novel. The main story is set in modern day Ukraine and is recorded as...
"Guilty Bloom: Hallucination Technique Reveals Leopold Bloom's Unconscious in Ulysses"
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
A hallucination typically connotes a bad meaning for the character who admits to having one; either the person is mentally unstable or he experiences a hallucination from the consumption of illicit drugs. However, in James Joyce's novel Ulysses there is a different meaning to the word all...
1984 contemporary politics
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Literature has a mysterious way of predicting certain events. The fact that history tends to repeat itself amplifies this phenomena. The novel, 1984, George Orwell seems to make certain predictions that are evident in our current political system. Censorship and government surveillance are two...
Theme of Conflict in The Lullaby, by Leslie Marmon Silko
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Leslie Marmon Silko is an iconic writer and one of the most prolific Native American literary figures. Her short story Lullaby focuses on the story telling tradition of the Native American culture. Ayah the main character is an old woman retracing tragic occurrences in her life in a...
Masculinity in The Woman in White
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
The novel, The Woman in White, “seeks to revise recent accounts of the model of male identity posited by the first sensation novel”(Ablow, Par. 4). In The Woman in White, the author, Wilkie Collins, presents masculinity through the character of Marian Holcombe at a time when...
A God with Different Faces: Conditions for the Redemption of Everyman and for the Condemnation of Doctor Faustus
Tutorials/exercises - 4 pages - Literature
The themes of mankind's redemption from sin and his place in the afterlife are of central importance to the Middle English play Everyman and the Renaissance play Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe. Both Everyman and Doctor Faustus concentrate on the redemption of mankind, but because of the...
Realities and experiences of a war
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Captain Chandler is the main character in one of the episodes of MASH which depicted the realities of the Korean War. Officer Colonel Flagg and psychiatrist Sidney Freedman argue over the fate of the injured officer Captain Chandler who is saying he is Jesus Christ. It is...
Great Expectations, Chapter 41 - Charles Dickens (1861) - Pip's Assessment of a Past Event
Text commentary - 2 pages - Literature
Published in 1861 and written by Charles Dickens, Great Expectations is the perfect illustration of the Victorian period. Through this novel, Dickens portrays different social classes in industrial Britain, and mock the aristocracy. Different styles are blended together (notably gothic and...
A beautiful mind: Study of Schizophrenia
Thesis - 6 pages - Psychology
“Imagine if you suddenly learned that the people, the places, the moments most important to you were not gone, not dead, but worse, had never been. What kind of hell would that be?” (Grazer & Howard, 2001). The hell described in the previous quote is the hell of schizophrenia; of...
Japanese Culture
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
Although the books, Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami and Temple of the Golden Pavilion, by Yukio Mishima, are completely different works, both have uncannily similar characters. Each main character from these two books has at least one character in the other book who...
