Analysis Of The Movie ' Slumdog Millionaire '

Slumdog Millionaire is a British Drama Film, set in India. India is the second largest country by area in Asia, and with over 1.2 billion people it is the second most populous country in the world, after China. The film was released in 2008 and portrays the different aspects of India as a country. Throughout the film different themes are addressed especially the issue of poverty. The word Slumdog refers to someone who lives in a slum, as does Jamal Malik the protagonist in the film.

Pariah is an acclaimed drama written and directed by director Dee Rees in 2011. The film tells the story of an adolescent African American teenage girl named Alike who struggles with her identity as a lesbian. The film introduces Alike to the audience in a club, in which she often hangs out with her openly gay friend, Laura. This rambunctious lifestyle is quickly contrasted by the introduction to her notably structured and religious family. Alike’s mother, Audrey, in particular, seems to not only oppose Alike’s friendship with Laura, but also question her sexuality. Although Alike struggles with an oppressive relationship with her mother, she also does not seem to wholly fit in with Laura and her brazen lifestyle, thus making her a true outcast, a pariah. Amidst everything, Alike forges a friendship with a girl named Bina and a complicated and disastrous relationship quickly ensues, ultimately resulting in Alike’s coming out, estrangement from her mother, and her departure to college. Director Dee Rees draws on particular filmmaking techniques and personal experiences to depict Alike’s struggles to embrace her lesbian identity, ultimately in order to fuel a growing gay rights sentiment.

The primary theme throughout the essay is the cycle of suffering, its mystery and universality in

Sacrificed the truth, beauty and the right to think, happiness and comfort is just indulgent, it is the discomfort brought by the misery, responsibility and the bonding give us the weight of life. The world is full of people who try hard to gain happiness, and we all have at least one time the idea of living in a perfect world, a world without pain, without misery, without getting old and without cancers. We always ignored the importance and the beauty of uncomfortableness, just as a quote in this book said, “Stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand”. After read this book, I started to be more objective at those bad things I used to hate, to understand the significance of art and to be grateful to this imperfect world we are

How would you react if you found your wife in the shower with another man? Any sane person would furious, but would you lose control and beat the other man senseless? Bradley Cooper’s portrayal of bipolar disorder in The Silver Linings Playbook how untreated the disorder can take control of a person’s life giving them manic episodes and major depressive episodes. This film aims to accurately display the struggles any person with bipolar disorder will deal with in their daily life while trying to manage the extensive mood swings they experience. The intended purpose of this paper is to analyze not only in what ways the director and cast accurately display the everyday life of an individual with bipolar disorder, but also the quality of the film. Throughout the movie themes of divorce, medications, the need for social support when dealing with mental disorders and a person’s unwillingness to accept help, will all be brought up in order to help an individual manage their disorder.

Suffering. All of us have encountered suffering and many of us wish we never would have to again; however, what many people do not see is that since we have suffering, we have happiness. One can not exist without the other. Without this feeling of suffering or unhappiness, we would not be able to understand happiness or even know it as a pleasant feeling, since we would never have experienced a life of unhappiness. Journalist David Brooks in “What Suffering Does” and Buddhist Monk Matthieu Ricard in “The Alchemy of Suffering” gave their own input upon the relationship between suffering and happiness. They seem to mention how every person endures suffering, but what is important is not the suffering itself, but the way a person changes or reacts to the suffering. While one may hate suffering, we have to understand that one can not be happy without having suffered. The characterization of emotional suffering as “rewarding” to people fails to account for individuals who have undergone the death of their spouse and have come out of it a changed person. In fact, in the 21st century, pervasive media advertising through television advances western cultural expectations of “perfection”, that in part advance suffering.

Sadness, anger, and fear are vital parts of development in a person, without these emotions one would lack the wisdom that stems from these emotions, and one would be far less empathetic since one would have no background on how the a person suffering feels. Everyone experiences loss, and some degree of tragedy which invoke these ‘negative’ or ‘uncomfortable’ emotions, and coping with such emotions is a necessary part of life. Wisdom is only achieved after experiencing, if we do not experience such emotions as sadness, anger, and fear then we are ignorant to our own self. Sharon Begley wrote in her article ‘ Happiness: Enough Already’ she writes “ One becomes more analytical, more critical and more innovative. One need negative emotions, including sadness to direct your thinking.”

But in reality they are just expressing themselves, Bill the cafe owner paints pictures to show his emotions. David learns to show his color when people are making fun of his mom and he punches a boy out of anger. These are examples of how color gets displayed through emotions. In lovers lane people reading books became colored where the people listening stayed the same and this is because the readers were showing emotion. If color is added is shows emotion rather than a black and white screen showing no mood

In the novel “The House On Mango Street,” Sandra Cisneros shows the themes identity, family, and the house, through Esmeralda’s experiences. She demonstrates the theme of identity by telling the story of Esperanza, the main character, and how she finds out what identifies her from others. Cisneros reveals that Esperanza’s family helps her feel like she belongs to the house on Mango Street and not left out. The house is an important theme of the novel because it helps Esperanza to look back and have a past that she is proud of by living in that house and overcoming many hardships. The themes in the novel “The House On Mango Street,” are identity, family, and the house.

The amalgam of the human experience and the pursuit of happiness is that of an instinctive and inexorable nature; perchance in happiness lays the fundamental purpose of the human experience. Happiness, throughout the lapse of time—regardless of multifarious discrepancies, such as nationality or age, has proven to be an all-inclusive search. Whether it is derived from power, wealth, success, or elsewhere, happiness is a perpetual pursuit. Illustrious philosopher Aristotle believed “happiness depends upon ourselves (Aristotle)”, speaking to a notion of happiness being an individual endeavor.

Dementia is an impairment of thinking and memory that interferes with a person’s ability to do things which he or she previously was able to do (Nehan-Babalola 64). In the United States, there are an estimated 24 million people with dementia (Nehan-Babalola 64). With there being this many person in the United States with this disease, there are sill many who do not know much about it. Today, dementia is one of the main causes of disability later in life (Nehan-Babalola 64). It is important that everybody know about it so that if a loved one becomes diagnosed with it that they will know how to deal with it.

“Ordinary people” everywhere are faced day after day with the ever so common tragedy of losing a loved one. As we all know death is inevitable. We live with this harsh reality in the back of our mind’s eye. Only when we are shoved in the depths of despair can we truly understand the multitude of emotions brought forth. Although people may try to be empathetic, no one can truly grasp the rawness felt inside of a shattered heart until death has knocked at their door. We live in an environment where death is invisible and denied, yet we have become desensitized to it. These inconsistencies appear in the extent to which families are personally affected by death—whether they

Looking at the beautiful landscape of Jamaica, its warm turquoise beaches and comfortable hotels, everyone imagines that this Caribbean nation is a prosperous and developed tropical paradise, but this is very far from the harsh and brutal reality. “Life and Debt” is a powerful documentary film directed by Stephanie Black in 2001 that shows the world the harsh situation and contrast of this country from both perspectives tourists and locals. She takes the audience on an experience inside and outside the glamor-filled hotels to demonstrate that beyond the gates of the hotels is the real Jamaica, a small island hit by high unemployment, extreme poverty, violence and hopelessness for its residents. This documentary also examines the unfair policies of international organizations like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund that favor the wealthy countries and cause the destruction of other countries’ economies like Jamaica. The crusade of tourist sights

Good morning! My name is Anna Johnson. I chose the middle-range theory of chronic sorrow as my project topic. This presentation will include an overview of how this theory came into existence, what the theory is and its components, as well as analyze the usefulness and testability of this theory. I hope you enjoy as you learn more about this theory.

It is common sense that all the human beings would like to live a happy life and they will spare no efforts in order to realize the purpose of really living a happy life in the end. However, different people have different definitions toward what a happy life is and they tend to have different standards as for how a life is that can be regarded as a happy life. There is no doubt that people will then try different means in order to pursue a happy life based on their definition toward what a happy life is. Therefore, the following will talk about the pursuit of a happy life from the perspectives of both Dalai Lama in The Art of Happiness and Viktor E. Frankl in Man’s Searching for Meaning, during which the experiences of some characters from the film Forrest Gump will be applied as evidence. Generally speaking, the pursuit of a happy life in the minds of Dalai Lama and Viktor E. Frankl can be achieved via experiencing sufferings and adversity. It is hoped that this analysis can help people understand what a happy is from a different point of view.