Harold and Maude

In the Breakfast Club, there are many cognitive advancements that are conveyed. The biggest cognitive advancements that takes place throughout the film are abstract thought, hypothetical thought and multidimensional thought. The movie centers on the essay that the students need to write, “Who do you think you are.” This question requires the group of students to think about their experiences, formulate ideas, acknowledge their knowledge, awareness and reflect on their experiences. The film illustrates how the adolescents thinking changes from concrete thinking- judging their peers and their own lives, to abstract thinking- viewing similarities between the characters and understanding the differences in their lives while showing empathy.

Sunset Boulevard and Double Indemnity, are just two out of the many incredible films directed by renowned director Billy Wilder. The two films which were released six years apart, (Double Indemnity- 1944, and Sunset Boulevard- 1950) are uniquely similar, in that both films share many of the same aspects, idea’s, and similar in narration, as one another. Both of these extravagantly, directed films are indeed classics. The films, both tell an intriguing story of spiritual loneliness of a female character, and how they use their power, money, and provocativeness, to “lure” the male character. We see the life of a once innocent (male) character, who is being hurtled towards his own self destruction, the character is “supposedly” unaware, of his own self harm through his seemingly ‘good/beneficial’ decisions that he makes.

The movie “Babies” was a beautiful film I loved it I actually watched it three times and could not look away it was a very eye opening documentary for me. It is about cultures and differences within them it was truly amazing seeing the different cultures and there parenting methods. I was truly shocked that these four babies are in four very different cultures but all of them were reaching their milestones and developing all around the same time. I would have never thought that the parenting styles would be so similar to each other. In the documentary each child was loved from their parents and family. Each family was very different but all still spent time with there baby and loved them. The film starts from them being born till they are one-year old it shows you how they develop from culture to culture. It shows attachment styles in all four cultures and the results were surprising.

Animal Farm written by George Orwell is an animal fable happens in a farm where animals start building a communism society, but end up being totalitarianism, hinting obliquely at the communists in the real world. The gaps between pigs and other common animals, demonstrate the theme that the corruption of power appears when majority is ruled. The intelligence superior allows the pigs placing themselves at a position which is closer to the power and which is more easily to corrupt. The inability to question the authorization makes the other common animals becoming the naïve working class who suffers the corrupting influence of power. The nature of pigs, greed, is the source of their undying lust for ultimate power. At the end, the

Everything everywhere is constantly changing. People change, weather changes, plans change, everything changes; you can’t escape change. Two movies that really illustrate the concept of change are Pleasantville and Back to the Future. In both of these movies, the main characters – Marty, David, and Jennifer – are sent back into the times of the 1950s and are faced with a world completely different from their own. In Pleasantville, David and Jennifer get stuck in David’s favourite television show, Pleasantville, as the characters Bud and Mary Sue. Jennifer seems to want to stir things up, creating change throughout Pleasantville, causing things to turn to colour, while David is doing all he can to stop Jennifer from destroying their perfect world. On the other hand, in Back to the Future, Marty gets sent back in time to when his parents were his age. Unfortunately, he runs into his parents, causing his mother to fall for him, supposedly interfering with Marty’s future. All of these main characters have to deal with a lot of change – the key concept these movies have in common. While Pleasantville and Back to the Future both focus on the concept of time and change, both movies illustrate change from different perspectives. These movies also have other similar concepts, such as racism, masculinity, and the idea of the “ideal family”; however, they both differ by discussing other social issues as well.

When reviewing and evaluating Anne Applebaum’s article, “If the Japanese Can’t Built a Safe Reactor, Who Can?”, the speaker (student) claims that Applebaum fails at fulfilling her purpose; Applebaum relied too much on emotional appeal rather than logic, and failed to support her claims along with establishing her credibility. The student presents their position with this opening thesis and provides support to why they believe Applebaum’s article is ineffective. They do so by using direct quotes from the original article that were left unsupported; for example, the student mentions how Applebaum highlights the strengths of the Japanese: “cohesiveness, resilience, technological brilliance and extraordinary competence” but fails to cite example

Harold is a young boy who is an attention seeker, a disturbed child and one who is obsessed with death. He loves to act out suicide scenes for a hobby, which usually means that there are deeper issues. Maude, who is an older lady is also interested in death but she is as some people describe her to be “high on life” is always joyous and looking to live life to the fullest.

Anton Chigurh lives by principles and codes according to the film/novel “No Country For Old Men” written by Cormac McCarthy. He is someone who kills people but not always, he let’s the coin flip decide their fate for them.

For this paper, I have chosen to analyze the sitcom That 70s Show. This show follows the lives of a group of teenage friends: Jackie, Donna, Hyde, Kelso, Eric, and Fez. The show addresses many social issues of the 1970s, including: Sexism, sexual attitudes, drug use, and the recession. It also highlights many of the inventions and developments of the entertainment industry, such as the remote control and Star Wars.

David Foster Wallace and Ernest Hemingway both discuss the controversial topic of abortion through fictional short stories describing the situation of a man and woman with an unexpected pregnancy. In both “Hills Like White Elephants” (Hemingway) and “Good People” (Foster Wallace), the main characters- a male and a female- discuss whether the female should get an abortion or not, however neither story actually contains the word ‘abortion’. The stories’ structure, characters, symbols, themes, and tones all have similarities, yet all of the same concepts can be contrasted.

Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men has created controversial views on the significance of this novel. This piece involves a drug deal gone wrong when Llewelyn Moss, a veteran, happens to stumble upon three dead bodies, heroine, and a briefcase full of 2 million dollars. Told in different perspectives, the story continues with Moss on the run from a psychopathic killer Anton Chigurh in search of the money while also being tracked down by Sheriff Bell. Critics like James Wood from The New Yorker see this novel as “an unimportant, stripped-down thriller” solely based on the novel’s outer surface . On the other hand, William Cobb from the Houston Chronicle refers to McCarthy as the greatest living writer and that this novel “... has conjured up a heated story that brands the reader 's mind...and this is a novel that must be read and remembered”(Cooper 2). The literary merit of the novel becomes noticeable when looking beyond the thriller perspective. McCarthy’s literary merit in the novel is discrete, which is why it just appears to be a western thriller that many believe has no greater purpose other than an entertaining story. No Country for Old Men is a neo western thriller based on its writing style that divides the story into different perspectives containing elements such as fragmented sentences and untypical dialogue. The novel remains within the context of a 1980’s Texas plot which influences the diction so it can reflect a western atmosphere. Although it contains

Annie Hall is a romantic comedy directed by Woody Allan in 1977. The film is not any everyday movie but rather a film that revolves around the life of the main actor, Alvy Singer played by Woody Allen himself and his relationship with Annie Hall, cast by Diane Keaton.

In Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Holly GoLightly battles with a psychological struggle between the basic need for stability and the aspiration for freedom. Throughout the book, Holly is coded as various animals symbolizing her independence. She fears being captured by her feelings of belongingness. Although she may toy with the idea of personal connection through superficial relationships, she ultimately chooses isolation, which she believes, is freedom.

Even though the movie has an artistic way of telling the storyline, I feel it will have a big impact on the students who watch it because though the Beatle songs that the actors sing it gets the audience sucked into the story with the characters story. For example one h the main characters Jude sings one of the songs “Strawberry Fields Forever” and there is a montage of him doing his art and his friend fighting in the Vietnam war. Another one is when Judes friend Max Carrigan has to get a checkup to see if he's healthy enough to fight in the war, the sencse start with Uncle Sam coming out of a poster singing the song “I Want You.” There are many more examples which will all show students what the sixties were like and they will be enjoying

In “Hills Like White Elephants”, and “Good People” Ernest Hemingway and David Foster Wallace identify the political and moral problems of abortion and how it effects on loving affairs. Even though the characters in their story share similar behaviors, shown by the dominant males promoting the operation to remove an unborn child, the females who value even though they face some difficulties of child rearing, as well as the two couples’ refusal to discuss conflicts with each other, both authors have different conclusions resulting from the sharp differences in setting, diction, and role of religion; Hemingway indicates love is bare and dull as well as presented by woman’s submissive role to the male’s prerogative while Wallace