James Bond In David Michaels's Die Another Day

James Bond Stockdale did not choose to become a prisoner of war, but he accepted it. He understood the reality of his situation and chose to make the most of it. He did not succumb to threats and maintained his morality. The decisions made when tempted or in a state of chaos emblematizes integrity. Integrity alone did not get Stockdale through Vietnam, his education in history and the classics comforted him. Through knowledge of Vietnam’s history, he discovered that the Vietnamese were once held prisoners. Unfortunately, history tends to repeat itself; using this logic, Stockdale sympathized with the guards and understood their anger and the mistreatment of the P.O.W.s. The knowledge of literature gave solace and answered why he of all people became a prisoner. Life is not fair, how one deals with these obsticles determines their fate. In my own personal account, Stockdale’s theories accurately describe life. His methods of dealing and overcoming hardship resembles a code of ethics that I too follow and believe. What defines integrity cannot be expressed in words, only

In Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels, at the start of the book, readers learn of the Union's gain of one hundred twenty Old Maine deserters. The mutineers are sent to Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, a highly intelligent Union Colonel, to be dealt with. General Meade's orders are clear; either force the men to fight or shoot them. Chamberlain addresses the men, explaining that he refuses to kill them, but would tremendously appreciate their help in fighting for the North's cause. Consequently, his speech turns out as a success, as all but six men agree to fight. The question arises- what would have happened had the Union's Major General John Buford received the mutineers instead? Through the elements of direct and indirect characterization, it is apparent that Buford would have taken similar actions in addressing the issue of the deserters.

James Scobie is a character that appears in Don’t Call Me Ishmael at the very start of chapter 12 when Miss Tarango introduces him. Ishmael describes him as ‘a little too neat’ he also says that ‘His hair was parted perfectly on one side and swept back from his forehead like a poised wave to break’. When it comes to Scobie’s clothes Ishmael say that ‘it was as if his grandfather was his fashion guru’ and all together he was ‘enough to make Barry Bagsley’s eyes light up’. Scobie makes an impression on everyone straight away as a geeky know it all that is very smart, this would then be a perfect target for Barry Bagsley, but little does everyone know that James Scobie isn’t afraid of anything. Further along the novel they realise this. Barry

Chris McCandless was a man who had everything to have a successful life. However, Chris McCandless decided to leave it all behind. Chris thought that he was going to go leave all society behind to go live in the wild. Chris thought that it was going to be very hard. Krakauer He was arrogant and ignorance toward the nature and society. In Into the Wild Chris leaves his life behind to live a life alone in the wild. In Into the Wild Krakauer’s message from Chris’s journey is for people to never get too ignorant or too confident because anything can go wrong at anytime.

We encounter Bond as a fledgling British agent, yet to gain MI6 double-0 Status, with its ‘licence to kill’. The film strikes me as being more violent than previous Bond films, showing him cleaning up after the action - indeed, some of his injuries as portrayed were genuine, according to The Ticket, November 2006. He is less ‘superhuman’, too, than in the other films; for example, he’s not as adept at ‘free-running’ as his adversary. The new less-than-perfect Bond (he upsets M by

Matthew MacCaull first came to my attention earlier this year when he was in the Jason Bourque film (who is an absolutely phenomenal director) Heart Felt. Following that, I watched him in When Calls the Heart, Tomorrowland (I had to buy the DVD after interviewing him), and I remember when it came across my twitter feed that he was cast in season two of Legends of Tomorrow. Now, I admit I'd never seen the show, but I decided it was high time to ask Matt for a second interview. Quite happily, he agreed to answer a few questions about what he has done since we last chatted. As a side note, I just adore second interviews, and when it's someone as gracious and well-spoken as Matt, it's a veritable treat!

When I read “The Pact”, I felt some connection between the characters; Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Hunt Rameck. Throughout their hardship and struggles, It encouraged me to read on. But as I continued reading on, the three main characters stood out the most. But out of those three characters, one stood out in particular. Throughout his experiences and trials, I could see myself in that situation. In how he felt, in the manner in how he saw things around, I could see how I would have done the same thing myself. Dr. Hunt is someone I could relate to, someone I could see becoming friends with.

I predict that Runner killed the Day family. Initially, he owed plenty of money to Libby’s mom, Patty; including numerous amounts of other people. Runner would have killed the family, because he never payed his child support. He thought by killing the family he would not have to deal with paying them back. Runner may have also hoped that the attention the murders attracted would take the attention off him being the killer. Secondly, he had a great deal of anger in him that may have evoked the killings. When Patty kicked Runner out of the house for stealing from him he made a huge scene. “’’ Thanks for…NOTHING!’’ he tramped to the front door, swung the door open so hard it cracked the wall behind it and bounced back. He kicked it open again, grabbed it, banged it into the wall, his head bowed low against it, all

“There is a thin line between politics and theatricals” - Julian Bond, a government official, educator, and civil rights activist. Born on January 14, 1940, at the age of 25 in 1965 he was elected for Georgia’s state legislature; died on August 15, 2015 ending his journey at the age of 75 but leaving iconic history behind.

The drone’s bright red screen says processing before saying in a programmed, “My inferred has picked up heat signals from this area that were more than the legal amount. So I came to investigate.” I stood in silence. I panic and wonder about Clément. Sweat begins to drip down my face as I glance at the hatch, hoping this corrupt drone wouldn’t cost me my son’s life. The drone cruises through the house

Ernie Davis was born into poverty in Uniontown, a Pennsylvania coal mining town in 1939, before moving to Elmira, New York at the age of 12. Once in Elmira, Davis played halfback/running back for Elmira Free Academy. He was so quick and well-conditioned; he was nicknamed the Elmira Express.

In closing, producers of the film, Michael Douglas and Saul Zaentz created the 1975 film and made some alterations, additions, and also deleted some scenes from the original 1962 novel. The alteration was quite evident and changed the whole perspective of the film, literally. Instead of having the story told from Chief Bromden point of view it is told in an omniscient all-seeing perspective. The additions in the film including taking a character who is released early in the book and make him a character who is seen throughout the entire film. Taber takes pleasure in poking at Harding with sarcastic and physical jab and is an important character. The deleted scenes is the viewers of the film fail to see the betrayal by McMurphy which allows

When someone thinks of war, it is usually the uniform, the pride, that comes to mind. The aftermath of war, to those who do not know much about it, will come as a surprise. In the movie, All Quiet on the Western Front, the character, Paul Baumer, enters the war as an innocent person; with no idea on the effects, it may have on him. In the beginning of the movie Paul is shown as an innocent eighteen-year-old teenage boy who likes to draw and read. It is when he enters military training that his innocence starts to wither away. During military training, Paul no longer does what he likes to do, and only spends his time training on how to become a good German soldier. During training, Paul is tortured by his training officer, Corporal Himmelstoss.

During the mid 1800`s, slavery running rampant in the south. The white slave owners were able to treat blatantly their slaves as property and inhumanely punish them for pleasure. However, few slave owners acted civilly towards their slaves and became paternal figures for the downcast slaves. One such slave owner was Hamish Bond from the film Band of Angels. In the film, Hamish Bond is always seen treating his slaves, such as Amantha Star and Rau-Ru with unprecedented respect and kindness, protecting them from the horrors often associated with Southern slavery. It is because of his treatment of slaves that Hamish Bond come to be a father-figure of both Amantha and Rau-Ru after each became orphans.

CRITICAL DIARY 1: According to Bordwell and Thompson, "Narrative is a chain of events linked by cause and effect and occurring in time and space" (2010, p.79). With Respect to the above quote, the whole movie ‘Be Kind Rewind’ by Michel Gondry can be summed up. For instance, Jerry thinking that the power station is a device that the government uses to control people’s mind. And so, he gets an idea to sabotage the power station, which is the cause for him to get magnetised.