American Sniper

Repelling down from a hovering Black Hawk helicopter, running through the streets in a foreign city, bullets hissing past your ears, bombs are exploding all around you, debris flying in all directions, and you have a job to do. In Black Hawk Down, director Ridley Scott mixes a wide variety of camera movement, camera angles, film speed, tone, and music to throw the audience into the thick of the fighting in Mogadishu, Somalia. Scott places the viewer into the boots of Delta Force members, ARMY Rangers, and many other military positions allowing you to experience the nightmare these soldiers are going through. William Arnold stated "Black Hawk Down is a terrific ‘trip' movie that – like Private Ryan – plops us right in the

“Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity.” (Ricky Martin). Being a hero can shape a community as a whole, some people can make a positive impacts but somehow the hero's might not even be recognized and be unscathed of any praise. But also some people consider others heros but do not fit in necessary . A hero is someone who influences makes a positive impact on a person or community.

Olivia Erickson Psych 3203 “12 Angry Men” The film “Twelve Angry Men” does an excellent job exemplifying many psychological processes. This compelling film featured twelve men that must decide weather or not a certain slum kid was considered guilty or innocent on behalf of a murder trial. To begin the votes, all but one decided the man was guilty. Throughout the film, heated discussions sway the minds of the men to vote not guilty.

Many things are classified as “heroes” in modern day society, such as Spiderman; a fictional superhero, that teenagers around the world look at in awe of his web-slinging powers, and also relate to him as he tries to balance his crime-fighting with his teenage life. In a nutshell, old era heroes code of honor has dissipated, and a new covenant had been formed with modern day heroes. Modern society has lost their code of honor.

I think that American Sniper was a great book and it is now one of my all time favorites. I especially liked how you explained the terms you used in the book. I did not know all the terms you used, but with your explanations I was never confused after reading on. I also liked how you made the reader feel like he or she was in the situation in the book. When discussing your battle situations, you used lots of detail. This let the reader know exactly what you were talking about. One other part I liked was the way you used sarcasm. Throughout the book your occasional sarcasm made me laugh and keep reading. For all of these reasons, I will definitely be reading this book again.

Full Metal Jacket and Watership Down explain how military influence natural reactions to environmental changes. As individuals we learn to adapt to our surroundings in order to survive and procreate. Charles Darwin explained that the environment doesn’t favor everyone and certain species adapt and survive, others aren’t so lucky, which may cause a specie to become extinct. Adaptation comes with trial and error, watching others make the mistakes and in turn learning how to stay alive. For instance, rabbits moving from burrow to burrow to survive or soldiers going barracks to barracks to fight in the war.

Twelve Angry Men is about a jury who must decide the fate of an 18 year old boy who allegedly killed his father. The jury must determine a verdict of guilty beyond any reasonable doubt and not guilty. A guilty verdict would mean that the accused would receive the death penalty. After a day of deliberation and many votes, they came up with the verdict of not guilty. I believe they achieved their overall goal of coming up with a verdict they were all able to agree with. It seems there were some individual personal short term goals that were not met. One being that the one juror was not able to go to the baseball game. Another was that a juror was not able to take out the anger he had towards his son on the son accused of killing his

Growing up it is common to come across some kind of superhero that completely fascinates us, not only do we try to mimic their appearance but also the high moral standards they live by. This can range from only fighting evil, always being polite to the most important factor, consistently saving the day. Now this action does not have an age limit, superhero fanatics range from all ages, shapes and sizes this is shown to be true every Halloween and of course comic con. Among today’s society the fixation over an extraordinary human overcoming all adversities and obstacles for the simple purpose of defending human kind has begun to increase over the years. Films like Ghostbusters and Harry Potter to name a few reflect just that, this concept is known as the “hero myth.” Overshadowing an indirect correlation to society with the use of the  “hero myth” further projects the tangent the public creates when confronted with unexplainable evils of their own.

Top Gun was a standout amongst the most well-known movies of now is the right time, and keeps on being an exemplary film. Even though “The film’s strength is its virtuosic and lengthy flying scenes and simulated dogfights shot from a variety of camera angles, but the rest is laughable dialogue, a contrived plot…” (Quart 152), I chose this film for its social importance today, as well as in light of the fact that numerous points examined in this class can be found in this film. Government oversight and sex are only a couple of the subjects exhibited in this film. What 's more, themes, such as patriotism and valor are transferred in this film, which made this film so famous amid this time. Top Gun, coordinated by Tony Scott, is an American

Imagine that you live in a society where masked vigilante heroes with superhuman capabilities exist doing the right thing, taking all the responsibilities upon themselves and pursuing the rightful justice they believe to be correct regardless of what the authority and law dictates. It is just like watching or reading a popular superhero movie or a story where most of the time the ending always leaves you feeling happy. It shows how famous the superheroes are or how they always wanted to be out of the public eye. As Rosenstand (2013) explained in chapter four of her book, heroes tend to behave in a way it is described as selfish or self-interested as per the psychological egoism theory or they are just looking after themselves in an ethical

The genre of this movie (Top Gun) is action, drama, and romance. Overall, this movie is a 2.7 out of five stars. I think that it should be at least three to three and a half stars. The main actors in this film are Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, and, Tom Skerritt. Top Gun was released on September 17, 1986. The movie is about a pilot who goes to a United States Navy flight weapon school and competes against other pilot fighters to determine who would become the best and during the movie his flight partner who was his best friend dies in a crash and Maverick (Tom Cruise) wants to give up but he doesn't and becomes the Top Gun. After he becomes Top Gun he decides he wants to teach at the flight

He knew he had to honor that no matter if it disrupted his personal life. When you're raised in a society that still reflects prejudice into its members regardless of who they really are, Parker had to grow up being teased for not being the “cool” kid or what everyone wanted him to be, especially at school when his teachers used to use it as a way to make him look weak to his peers. Bagley and Bendis knew that Parker would have to fit the character of every common superhero after he was given the chance to become one, but they took it even further. They wanted Spider-Man to be more than just who you thought you could be or envisioned yourself in the story as a reader, but someone who was actually for once, more interesting than the villains he fought. This ability to be able to be flexible and constantly be changing what Spider Man's identity meant to the reader, the authors were able to alter his psychology in ways that forced his heroism to be almost as strong as his anti-heroism. By giving Spider Man, or anyone for that matter, a power that placed them over society, we would tend to misuse and mistreat the advantage to hurt others. But here, through Spider Man having the power’s that he does, he chooses to work with other S.H.E.I.L.D. members and become the best version of himself that he can be and save the good of society. It's true that Spider

The hero should not displease the affection of the audience and as a character he must be

Government agent Amanda Waller has a plan to deal with the sudden, Superman-heralded “metahuman” threat to the world, by therefore assembling the worlds most dangerous bad guys into an emergency super-team. And when Midway City becomes the ravaged heart of a plot to stub out the human race, that’s exactly what she does, with expectedly unexpected results.If Marvel has the best superheroes, so the geek-logic goes, then DC has the coolest villains around. So it’s only sensible they’re finally placed front, center and in the firing line. Filling its entire super-team with previously never seen before antagonists, Suicide Squad represents a fast-speed sprint of a catch-up for the rapidly unfolding DC Cinematic Universe. And, on that front at least, it’s makes for a great never seen before film.

S.W.A.T is 2003 American film that was directed by Clark Johnson. It is worth understanding that the movie was based on a series that was aired on television in 1975. Gamble and T.J. McCabe are the most significant characters in this film with robust characteristics that contribute to the overall plot. Both of these characters could be said to represent Iago and Roderigo from the literature story Othello respectively. Notably, Othello is a tragedy story written by William Shakespeare and both Iago and Roderigo come out as outstanding characters in the story. Gamble represents Iago in the sense that he is also cruel, vengeful, and can easily convince other people to act in his direction. On the other hand, McCabe represents Roderigo in the sense that he is easily manipulated to act in a particular course, he dies out of his trust in other people, and also gets involved in wounding somebody in the film. A close similarity in the behavior of these characters ensures that they are a perfect representation of each other in their different contexts. Gamble and Iago are main characters in both of their roles, and they contribute to the overall development of the story to the end. Both of them show some level of intellect as they try to attract the followership of other characters. McCabe and Roderigo also live similar lives that bring out clear similarities in their roles in the film and literature respectively. Therefore, all of these characters can be related easily through a