the following movies: Forrest Gump, The Long Walk Home, The Help, and A League of Their Own. Forrest Gump is about a disabled boy who grows up and goes into the Vietnam War and eventually owns a shrimp company. The Long Walk Home and The Help are movies based off of equality of race by exemplifying for the viewers what life was like for colored people. The Help specifically is about a lady who became interested in sharing the stories of maids. The Long Walk Home is specifically about colored people…

The Long Way Home was written by author David Laskin. Laskin is an American writer of books concerning history, particularly The Children’s Blizzard, The Family and The Long Way Home. His first and only book about World War I was The Long Way Home, making him a new-comer to the scene. Although he appears to be novice, his numerous reputable sources included in the tail-end of the book and all-encompassing index would prove otherwise, giving him credibility and ethos in his writing. In Laskin’s book…

This essay aims to further extend Pasolini’s argument on the long take through a textual analysis of the Zapruder film and comparing it to a two minute extract of The Eternal Frame. Pasolini’s essay on the observation on the long shot compares the long take to life. The long take as we know is a single point of view that lacks narrative and meaning; it is the single point of view that makes it a reality, reality is always in the present tense. A montage creates meaning and coherence to a film, but…

Background Lily lived in a long-term care home for almost two years. She and her husband Arthur have been married for 52 years and have had a very close relationship. They didn’t have any children. Lily’s husband would visit her in the care home twice a day. Over the course of a few months Lily’s condition began to deteriorate. She wouldn’t accept food and fluids and she died peacefully with her husband present. Arthur had a memorial service for Lily, but few friends came. Arthur had stopped visiting…

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, by Ishmael Beah, tells of the experiences in his intense journey through Sierra Leone during the outbreak of war. Beah had to learn to survive the harsh outcome of the war, resulting in the loss of those whom were close to him, family and friends, and trust in people. The book has a recurring theme of nature and the natural world. In the book, the world at night, as well as the moon, serves as both a safeguard and a bringer of bereavement. As a boy, Ishmael…

A Long Way Gone tells the story of a boy residing in Sierra Leone who loses his innocence at a young age and manages to overcome his traumatizing events through story telling. In Ishmael Beah’s riveting memoir, A Long Way Gone, Beah explores the idea that reminiscing upon joyful memories and loved ones when undergoing distress, allows children to be able to recover from their loss of innocence through the use of imagery, foreshadowing, and flashbacks. Evidently, Beah is seen throughout the story…

Throughout the course of the book, A Long Way Home, Saroo Brierley, the author, encounters a series of traumatic experiences that lead to bittersweet moments. Unlike a normal child’s infancy, Saroo was physically and mentally consuming. Through his experience, we are able to get a glimpse of the many struggles and hardships young children live in India daily. His petrifying experiences of living on the streets, Liluah, and Nava Jeevan finally lead to his safe haven of being taken by the Brierley’s…

This is the final draft of the essay. It’s come a long way from the first draft. The details are present and the thread is more clear. At least to me, the writer, it is. I’m proud of the elements I’ve chosen and of the way I’ve chosen to connect them. The use of freedom as a thread was difficult, yet the perfect challenge I needed. I love my thread, yet I’m not super confident in my imagery within the piece. I tried to incorporate more sensual imagery, but only accomplished visual imagery, a little…

Shajuana Williams Professor: Ellis Grant Assignment: Book Review1 14 February 2015 In the book “The Long Way Home: An American Journey” the author has many arguments and facts that he is trying to point out. “The only defensible war is a war is a war or defense” says Gilbert K. Chesterton. “The long way home an American journey” is about, The United States, always being a nation of immigrants and I say this because the U.S. had started out with foreign nationalities such as the Caucasians because…

The author of “The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War” is David Laskin. Laskin, born in New York, attended the New College, and earned MA in English. Laskin wrote several books about history, travel, and literary biography. In “The Long Way Home”, Laskin shares the struggles the immigrants had to face in America; an endeavor to start over in the land of opportunities, and the ordeal of their return to Europe in uniform to fight. With the intention of having a better…