Feed: Movie Analysis

“Our inventions are wont to be pretty things, we distract our attention from serious things” -Henry David Thoreau. A shocking fact about the book Feed is that Feed was the finalist for the National Book Award. It also won the LA Times Book Award for YA fiction in 2003. There is a quick question for you, would you rather be like Titus or one of his other friends? If you don’t know who Titus was then read more to find out.

The movie Instructions Not Included is shown off as a Mexican, sweet and cheesy chick flick through its previews. This movie is not just comedy, cute, witty, funny, but also contains extremely powerful messages through a truly heart-warming story. The movie follows a resident playboy in Mexico named Valentine. Valentine's life is flipped upside down when his former girlfriend leaves her baby Maggie on his door step, making him believe it's his. He leaves Mexico in search of the baby's mother to a hotel where she is working as a lifeguard in Los Angeles. At the hotel there is no sight of Maggie's mother. An incident occurs where Maggie in drowning in the pool and Valentine jumps off a balcony on the second story, into the pool to save his daughter. There is where he is offered a job as a stuntman.

Imagine you and your group of friends were responsible for a man's life who desperately sought for help, but your group mocked or even ignored him instead. This was the major plot that occurred in the story "The Man in the Well" by Ira Sher. An interesting theme of this story is that groups of people tend to act based on their groups impulse and not their own. Though the negative effect of peer pressure might be the cause of why groups, cliques, and gangs do what they do, their behavior alone tends to be much different than when they are alone. It's as if each character themselves goes through a sudden temporary transformation. However, an interesting p three key concepts, which are personality, actions, and decisions, tend to be influenced

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The film “Juvies” really made me think about how the criminal justice system treats young children. Before watching the film, I was under the impression that children were treated fairly and with care when they commit a crime. After all, they are just kids. However, to my surprise, this was not the case. Many children have been cheated by the law because they are put through the adult system and are not given a fair trial. Meanwhile, these children are expected to make the rational decisions that an adult would make. There is biological evidence that kids do not have the ability to control impulsive behavior because their brains are underdeveloped. Thus, I believe this system is extremely unfair because children are not protected in adult prisons, which makes it very difficult for them to succeed once they are released back into the free world.

Despite the new discoveries in medicine whether it is a new vaccine or antibiotic, the most basic components for disease prevention and death in humans depends on a good nutrition and access to clean water. The RX for Survival: Back to the Basics video depicts how both an inadequate nutrition and malnutrition can impaired a child’s physically and developmentally. It is estimated that over 100 million children in the world are undernourished and causing the death of more than “one third” of the children (WHO). Furthermore, the consumption of contaminated water, which carries disease organism, exacerbates the mortality rate among children.

People interact with each other on a day to day basis, often times revealing more about who they are about a person and what they believe to be right and wrong. The author of “The Palace Thief”, Canin, strategically uses character interactions to evolve a central idea. Morals are a debatable subject because not everyone has a moral code and not everyone follows their moral code as closely as they think they do. The environment in which people grow up and live in for a long period of time affects how strictly they follow their morals, if some people grow up never following their morals, in the future they also aren’t going to follow their morals. Canin utilizes character interactions to support the overall central idea that whether or not we have a moral code, it is set early on in life.

Adding to the consequence of first born sons in Titus Andronicus is the fact that the play opens with Caesar’s eldest son, Saturninus. Saturninus is asserting his right to rule Rome. He exclaims, “Plead my successive title with your swords/I am his firstborn son that was the last,” in an effort to remind the Romans that he is in the rightful position to succeed his father as he is the eldest (Shakespeare 1.14-5). The fact that Bassianus attempts to take the throne from his older brother, Saturninus, creates immediate friction and intrigue, even in present times, because society continues to accept the elevated position of first born sons.

Throughout the film Do the Right Thing, we continuously observe racial conflict that builds up to such an extreme point that it leads to a fight for power. This movie portrays the struggles and realities of a neighborhood with white and black African American people. This can be seen in many instances for example when Buggin ' Out, Radio Raheem, and Smiley march into Sal 's and demand that Sal change the Wall of Fame. Another vital instance shows the height of power struggle. It is when the huge fight starts in the street and results in Raheem being killed by a white police officer.

Negative word choice such as “evil”, “bad”, and “controlling”, forces the story to take on the idea that future will be gloomy, dark, and oppressive. This diction causes direction opposition to the dream most people hold true in their hearts: A bright and beautiful feature. Titus’s diction supports the mood of foreboding in a different manner. It is known that education is highly valued to people today (or hopefully is). The simple diction we see in Titus raises cause for concern. Words and phrases like “da da da”, “I mean”, “all this stuff” show Titus is not educated to the standards we hold today. Along with a poor excuse for a vocabulary Titus is also repetitive, saying “like” more than once in the same sentence. The idea that our future generations will not be educated enough to properly explain key elements of their own society and way of life raises cause for concern, making the reader feel an uncomfortable possibility that this could indeed happen. M.T Anderson crafts the mood of this scene through diction and the casual appearance of who really controls people in the future, corporations. He chooses the mood of foreboding for this scene because it reflects the rest of the novel, the point being to make the reader aware of the similarities between modern times and this conception

The right way to live as an individual in society is an important theme set in this

“When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself” Earl Nightingale. The stories “Good Man Is Hard to Find” and “Everything That Rises Must Converge” both stories written by the author Flannery, O’Connor are stories that implies how the morality and immorality affects the social lives. The story “Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor is a story that define what the word “Good” is, but everybody has a personal opinion of what’s good or not. In contrast, the other story by Flannery O’Connor “Everything That Rises Must Converge” implies how the immorality and judging others without knowing them its worst. Appearances are deceptive without the acceptance of equality in society. The stories “Good Man Is Hard to Find” and “Everything That Rises Must Converge” are seen as what the characters think is good, their values, but their society believes and morality set them apart.

• Audience: Feed was written for a young teen audience because in the first few chapters of the book there is evidence of teenage slang such as “null” which means bored or boring. Other evidence that points that the book is for a teen audience is when the moon trip is described as having “rockiness and the suckiness” by the main character. Also most of the characters in the book want to fit in like most teens because in the chapter the nose grid it talks about how Quendy, a teen female character in the book, says, “Omigod! Like big thanks to everyone for not telling me that my lesion is like meg completely spreading.” • Purpose:

It is worth considering that each individual is developing within a society. That is why the role of the society in shaping people’s characters should not be underestimated. Numerous examples of the importance of the

"Split" is a rated PG-13 horror movie released on January 20, 2017 that was not only written, but also directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Shyamalan is renowned in the entertainment business for his movies filled with a great deal of twists and turns. An example of some of the movies that he has written and directed with such a style are "The Sixth Sense" as well as "The Village". Split is no different and bares M. Night Shyamalan's signature style of suspenseful movies accompanied by many twists and turns.