Morris Long is a working writer from Chicago, Illinois. In 2015, he graduated from the AFI with his Masters in screenwriting. His script, Dead River Girl won the Austin Film Festival’s Dramatic Screenplay Award. His work has also placed highly in the Page Awards and Script Pipeline Feature Screenwriting Competition. He is currently writing a feature for a Chinese production company, while developing several independent
My name is Peyton Farquhar, of Scots-Gaelic origin meaning “dear or beloved man”, who is thirty-five years old and married to my beautiful wife Catherine, thirty-three years old, with strawberry blond hair, 5’4” and a medium build. We have two respectful, beautiful and intelligent children, eight year-old Willie and ten year-old Mary. I thank my wife and my kind negroes, Grandison, Jacob, Alfred, Milly, Mary and Jenny. The kindness and loving care they have for my children is evident in each child’s trust and affection of them. They are part of the family and we are part of them, as it should be. Willie has large grey-blue eyes, a short straight nose and long fair hair, different from my dark hair. Mary is all of her mother, with my blue-grey
The Catcher in the Rye and Dead Poets Society are very similar stories. Both deal with the coming of age in the lives of prestigious young men. These two stories also deal with the conformity of these young men in their transition from private boys school to the real world. There are two young men from each of the stories whose lives are alike yet different in some ways.
As I watched “The Dead Poets Society” I noticed that most of the adults, other than Mr.Keating, did not believe any of the young men should be able to think freely. They believed that because they were young their input meant nothing, and they did not know what was good for them. Not only was Mr. Keating an independent thinker, but Neil Perry also became an independent thinker after attending a couple of Mr. Keating’s classes and discovering a group his teacher had formed as a schoolboy himself. In “The Dead Poets Society” many are faced with the challenge of being an independent thinker in an academy where conformity is the goal.
Students should be allowed to get paid for playing sports. As we start to think about it, many people are starting to think about how student athletes should get paid. Being a student is like an actual job, because they are required to go film, the weight room, where ever they practice at, and their classes. Since their school sport is ran off of National Collegiate Athletic Association tournaments, they have to stay with that sport for longer periods of time causing that student to miss their class. And since their sport they are playing for is being shown on national television, the school makes a lot of money from it.
I went to Geneva on the Lake and had the most lively time there. First we went to the beach and rummaged through the sand with sifters to find beach glass which was so much fun. We then went to this rundown building with old antiques and knick knacks, and some of the things were shuddersome and freighting. After we went through some more buildings we went to get some food which was really appetizing. Lastly it was time to leave which was hard because I had so much fun there.
Jordan Cross has returned to Holiday, Montana after eleven long years to clear out her late aunt’s house, put it on the market, and figure out what she wants to do with the rest of her life. Soon, she finds herself facing the town that turned its back on her because she was different. Because being labeled a witch in a small town didn’t earn her many friends…especially when it wasn’t a lie.
Sixteen year old Madge Simmons’ days consisted mainly of church, school, and assisting her father on their small farm. Seventy-four now, she recalls those days with an uncomfortable mix of nostalgia and pain. It seemed a time of relative freedom and exploration, but also one of consistent repetitive pain in a very formational period.
We all face life-changing worth opportunities in lives. It is our choice to take the chance or not. In the Dead Poets Society, some students took Mr. Keating’s lesson to become who they are, stand for what they believe in, and dare themselves to achieve what they want. However, the others chose not to take the risk of getting in trouble or going out of their boundaries. Todd Anderson, Neil Perry, and Knox Overstreet followed Mr. Keating’s teaching and changed their whole lives, while Richard Cameron remained the same.
The first significant character in the beginning of Gilead, Edward, who is John Ame’s older brother who was ten years older than him, studied abroad by himself at the age of sixteen in Gottingen, Germany for college and became a remarkable intelligent person with personality and knowledge in John Ames’ eyes. As we know, Edward spent his early years in Europe, published a book in German, and returned back home embracing as an atheist. Yet, this is quite surprising and weird to see how Edward grew up in a family who is very religious and his father and their family happened to be all preaching and believing in God as Christians. Still, the book Edward published was a monograph on Ludwig Feuerbach, who is a German philosopher that supported the
Most people would say they enjoy reading a good book now and then. A good amount of books are being turned into films or have already been. For example, John Green’s novel, Paper Towns, has just been released as a feature-length film. And you are probably aware of the success of E.L. James and 50 Shades of Grey. Lately, females have been dominating the literary world. Here are the top five female authors we think are going to hit it big.
The importance of allowing people to find and pursue their own passions are important and that people can become corrupt in their pursuit of power are two important themes that Peter Weir conveys in his film, Dead Poets Society. Welton Academy is an all boys private school in Vermont, USA, which prides itself in tradition and conformed teachings, where students are taught not to think for themselves. Students, such as Neil, are under constant and immense pressure from the school and their parents, such as Mr Perry and the school. Peter Weir uses the important and interesting techniques of close up and low and high angles to create empathy in the viewer, and to show that finding your passion is more important than being a mindless sheep in society.
Throughout the film Dead Poets Society, the character Mr. Keating displays many attributes of an exemplary leader, according to the five practices of exemplary leadership. Firstly, throughout the beginning of the school year, Mr. Keating builds commitment through small acts in his class room, and builds credibility amongst his students. For example, Mr. Keating teaches lessons on poems about ceasing the day, conformity, and perspective. The group of boys take these lessons, and apply them to their lives, thus gaining respect for Keating. Neil auditions and acts in the school play to cease the day, Charlie acts out in the school, and changes his name as an act against conformity, and Knox constantly looks at his situation in different perspectives
Some people know their fate from the day they are born, while others are wandering through life. The only thing that connects everyone in the entire human race is the belief and hope that actions can change or speed up one’s fate. Such struggles with fate is depicted not just in life, but in fiction, as Edith Hamilton describes in Mythology “we see countless characters who go to great lengths in attempts to alter fate, even if they know such an aim to be futile.” Although Macbeth does not attempt to change his fate, he tries to speed it up, furthering the message that everyone tries to alter some part of their fate.
Dubliners is a collection of short stories written by James Joyce detailing the lives of many seemingly average characters from Dublin during the early twentieth century. Throughout all of Dubliners, Joyce gives the protagonist of every story a sort of epiphany that leads them to realize the source of their unhappiness, oftentimes, the characters choose to do nothing about it. Farrington, the protagonist in the short story “Counterparts,” and Gabriel Conroy, the protagonist in “The Dead,” are two very different characters. Joyce uses this steep contrast between Farrington and Gabriel to argue about the circle of life and its routineness, and how happy endings are not common or to be expected no matter the circumstance.
There is one thing that certain in life and that is the fact that it will, one day, end. Every person is given a certain number of days to live their best life, to make each day count, and to leave something lasting behind. However, not every life is remembered and sometimes a name is never uttered ever again, but this doesn’t take away from the importance of its bearer. In the short-story, “The Dead” by Irish author, James Joyce, he examines the importance of life and the time that is given to live it. The story follows Gabriel Conroy and his experiences at an annual dinner party hosted at the home of his aging aunts, Miss Kate and Miss Julia. Gabriel plans to deliver a speech at dinner and anxiously waits for his time to inspire the guests