Anubis Sparknotes

Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, and A Dream is a 1990 non-fiction novel wrote by H.G. Bissinger. The story chronicles the pressures and expectations of the Permian Panthers football team in socially divided Odessa, Texas. Throughout the story, challenges are presented with each of the protagonists: James “Boobie” Miles, Mike Winchell, Don Billingsley, Gary Gaines, Brian Chavez, and Ivory Christian.

Ngugi's memoir relates this story of this for years at Alliance High. From inside the walls of the school he begins his education with great anticipation on what the future holds. Outside the walls his brother fights for independence from England colonialism. His almost constant worry is that it will be found out and I would be forced to leave school or worse.

One of the biggest differences between Captain Ahab and Chillingworth is the time periods of their lifetime.

making him less human. Even though Jurgis makes money from his work, it is not enough to

In 1933, only half of German boys and 15% of girls were members of Nazi youth organizations. Some anti-Nazi movements such as the “Swing Movement” and the “Eldelweiss Pirates” resisted the Nazi control of their lives by mocking Germany through songs and accepting the Jews in their clubs. Hitler was shown as an approachable, friendly figure who took care and valued German children. This was meant to create a positive impression of Hitler and encourage more children to join Nazi Youth Organizations Unlike most other propaganda posters, this one had an element of truth to it. Hitler believed that children were the future of Germany, and he greatly valued them, as shown above.

Paper Moon is 1973 comedy-drama written and directed by an American film maker Peter Bogdanovich and was released by Paramount Pictures. The movie talks about the depression and poverty among the American people. Peter Bogdanovich uses a little girl Tatum O, Neal as his main character to reflect on the poverty of Kansas and Missouri in the year 1936. It is a joyful movie from the beginning to the end as it is considered the most charming movie. It is a significant movie because it touches on the real life situations.

Pearl Harbor, the beginning of the war between Japan and the United States, was the start of dreadful war organized by Japanese aircraft. The attack was a withheld, destructive attack against the United State's naval base in Hawaii. This attack on December 7, 1941 was originally a plan to conquer the Dutch East Indies without being interrupted by the U.S. Pacific fleet. The Japanese were tired of negotiations with the United States, they wanted to continue their expansion, but the United States had placed an extremely restrictive embargo on Japan in the hopes of curbing Japan's aggression. This terrible ambush resulted in the United State's entry into World War II. The aerial attacks were sent in two waves, this resulted in the sinking of multiple U.S. Battleships, Destroyers, Cruisers, and Auxiliaries, which led to thousands of U.S. personnel casualties and many wounded army, marines, and navy soldiers including many citizens.

The first night's story in Arabian Nights is that of the Merchant and the Demon. Told by Shahrazad, the story offers a remarkable parallel to her own situation as she faces immanent death. Thus, the story of the Merchant and the Demon is told as a parable within the frame story, presenting a poignant analogy for Shahrazad's own situation. The Merchant and the Demon is a short tale but one filled with themes such as power, guilt, justice, and moral responsibility. Through the clever analogy with her own situation, Shahrazad also explores the theme of creative problem solving in tricky situations. Moreover, the story illustrates the core differences between pre-Islamic and Islamic values in Arabian society. Because the theme of gender roles and norms are not present within the Merchant and the Demon, the story shows how sexism is simply a form of general political and social oppression.

In The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, the genre choice of the graphic novel vividly portrays the life-experience that Satrapi herself gone through as a youth growing up in Iran back in the 1980s. Satrapi utilizes a unique drawing style to emphasize the influence that the Islamic Republic has brought to her. The recurring action of teachers implanting Islamic values in children throughout Marjane’s education in Iran is demonstrated through a set of related images, which implicitly reflect on the destruction of childhood that is caused by a totalitarian regime. For instance, the teachers force the girls to wear veils on page1 and tells the parents that “either [girls] obey the law, or [they are] expelled” (Satrapi, 98) later on. Also, the background of these images takes place where Iran is involved in both revolution and war; it contributes to children’ miserable situation even more.

A veil is an article of clothing that is intended to cover some part of the head, face, or physical feature that may hold some significance. It is especially associated with women and sacred objects. Not only does it conceal a person’s physical appearance, but it contributes to stifling one’s individuality. In Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis, Marjane, the main character, lives in Iran and is required, by fear of punishment, to wear a veil that only leaves her face uncovered. The veil becomes an important symbol and throughout the novel, the reader can see the lasting impact the veil has on Satrapi. It begins as something foreign and detestable to young Marjane; a simple piece of clothing that deprived her of her free will,

Nonetheless, the real adventure for Ciarán and comrades begins when they meet Ani Ohanyan, she is young, beautiful, tough, naively idealistic and a mammy smuggler. Ani needs help getting a shipment of mammy to an area that needs it and Ciarán and friends decide to help her. With Ani and mammy in tow, Ciarán and associates embark on the journey of a lifetime finding perilous adventure, truth, love and themselves, in the midst of their dangerous but revelatory

The spaghetti western genre is a part of the mix of genres which provide the film with its theme of duality and hybridity, and Amirpour has chosen to feed this genre through with the character of the girl. Typical of the spaghetti western genre, the character is nameless. Audiences do not have the privilege of finding out her name, and in the title she is referred to as ‘A Girl’. This feel of uncertainty is heightened with a sense of fear when the only information we are presented about her is when she tells Arash that she has ‘done bad things’. She is representative of the spaghetti western hero in her characteristics and actions. Untiedt, upon analysing the fictional western hero, states that the first defining characteristic of the western hero is isolation (7). Here the Girl is always seen to be walking alone, she has no companions, and lives by herself. Dualism is brought out within the character, as the western hero has a desire to ‘explore without settling’ (7).

Marjane Satrapi’s memoir Persepolis is considered a “coming of age” story based on her experiences growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. This graphic novel explores the life she lead in Tehran which encompassed the overthrow of the Shah’s regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. Undergoing life with such a chaotic environment, it took Satrapi courage to act and live as her “authentic self” and explore what it meant to her to be authentic. Similar to Aristotle, May and Medinas Persepolis examines the concept of courage, through the view of innocence; through Satrapi’s childhood.

Fledgling is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl, whose alarming unhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion. She is in fact a genetically modified, 53 year old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, at the same time learn who wanted and still wants to destroy her and those she cares for. This is a very interesting parable that tests the limits of otherness and questions what it means to be truly human.

Imagine being different. Trying to walk through the park with people glancing at you wherever you go, shuffling away from you wherever you walk. You understand why they avoid looking you in the eye or shaking your hand when they meet you. It is because you do not look ordinary. You like to imagine you are ordinary; you do ordinary things such as eat ice cream, play xbox and listen to music.