Rashomon Reflection

I give this movie a six out of five-star rating. How it managed to keep me on the edge of my seat the entire time is beyond me; I am still in disbelief that I was fully engaged for the entire two hours and twenty-six minutes. Although I had heard many great things about the novel, the film exceeded all of my expectations. The Natural teaches many valuable lessons about perseverance, determination, commitment, karma, relationships, and staying young at heart.

Akira Kurowasa’s film, Rashomon, (released in 1951) is a remarkable detective/crime film which revolutionized the film making industry and won many prestigious awards, and was said to the best foreign film out there. The scene took place in the Ancient Japan. The story of murder talked and showed a Japanese woman who got raped, and her husband getting killed in a sword fight. The Woodcutter who was one of the protagonists claimed that he saw the testimony through his very own eyes. However, there are four distinctive points of view, each telling their own side of the murder. Unfortunately, many of the Western movie critics misunderstood the film, or just simply oversimplified its meaning. They believed the true meaning of the story was the subjectivity of the truth, which is not what the story talked about but rather it’s about the quicksand of ego. The quicksand of ego is an important term since its one of the many moral implications shown in Rashomon which ties nicely with philosophical topics as well as moral dialogue itself. Rashomon effect which is defined as Kurosawa saying the film is not about the truth, but the quicksand of ego, which Priest who was another main character refused to accept. The true and pure meaning behind the Rashomon effect is that we cannot see the truth in everything, because we as a society are questioning our true believes and goals in life. It is very difficult to find truth, especially when

Moreover, he tries to defend his sanity by explaining how wise and cautious he was as he was preparing for the murder. Every night he checked on the old man to make sure he got everything right and get ready to execute his plan. The narration lacks of a concrete explanation of the person or place to which it is addressed, which leaves much room for interpretation for the readers. What we can infer from the story is it is not addressed to the police officers since the narrator says he was successful in making them satisfied. Finally, the climax of the story comes as the revelation of the dead body hidden under the planks. Because the story is told as a memento, our estimation might be that the narrator is addressing a court official or personage who may influence over the judgment of the narrator. Therefore, the story that the narrator is telling is most accurately realized as an appeal for mercy rather than just being an appeal to be thought sane.

The narrator is the reader, he visits not the snowy and desolate area where the story revolves and is intrigued by a tale of seemingly epic proportions. When the legend is revealed it is not though. It is a tale of a depressed and empty man who foolishly makes decisions based upon desire. Every guy has been intrigued by a newer and more youthful companion and a large portion do choose desire over responsibility, but few sled into trees like a

Chris McCandless, the subject of Jon Krakauer in Into the Wild, was not insensible or ill-equipped, but rather he was going out into the wild to locate the genuine importance of life and to perceive what it resembled to live out in the wild all alone. Chris was an incredible good example for children the whole way across the nation; since he was attempting to experience his fantasy and do what he believed was appropriate in the wild and would not tune in to what anybody instructed him to do. Chris McCandless was an adoring and minding individual who esteemed for all creation and needed to make tracks in an opposite direction from the general public and live allowed to locate the significance of life.

i think Equiano is very successful at making readers aware of the injustice the slaves endured. 1 example from the text is from paragraph 6 "the filth of the necessary tubs, into which the children often fell, and were almost suffocated". The second example is from paragraph 4, "on my refusing to eat, one of them held me fast by the hands, and laid me across i think the wind;ass, and tied my feet, while the other flogged me severely." Each passage reflects his purpose of writing this story because in each paragraph he's explaining his experiences and the feelings he had, like in paragraph 4 he says "I now wished for my last friend, death, to relieve me." The events being narrated is for the readers to have a visual of what the writer experienced.

This reflective essay will be adopted from Rolfe, Freshwater and Jasper’s (2001) reflection model. This reflection is based on a case study that I have read and will be based on the intervention I have chosen to treat the patient. Mr. Castello was admitted to the ward for observation after a fight and sustaining a laceration to his right forehead from a beer bottle and extensive bruising and scratches to his left arm. Mr. Castello had a pre-existing chest infection, Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (DM), and asthma. Assessing, cleaning and dressing his wounds is an integral part of his treatment, as his DM can lead to delayed wound healing and increased chance of infection (Salazar, Ennis, & Koh, 2016). This could be successfully achieved through

Two unidentified people come and burn down the safe house. Abe needs to find out who killed Joyce before Anna gets arrested. When they pulled Captain Joyce out of the barrel filled with water, I noticed that Abe and his father started gagging. This tells me that the body smells really bad. I saw that the village had a little party with a huge fire and they had straw stuffed men that had masks on them. They threw them in the fire, so this shows me that they were making fun of those two people and show them that burning down the safe house wasn’t a big deal. At the end Abe and the servant started discussing what was going on with the murder of

Rather it is the old man’s that is so unsettling. Any time the eye looked upon him his. It is that eye by which he is consumed and that eye that sends him into madness. It pushes him to wish to never have to look upon, or be looked upon by, that eye again. His solution, in what seems a rational choice to him, is to kill the old man. With a similar precision as the Montresor took in “The Cask of Amontillado”, the man in “The Tell-Tale Heart” has devoted himself to the perfect method to dispatch the old man.

On the eighth night, the narrator loses his so-called insanity and goes in to kill the man. The way the narrator describes the events leading up to the murder of the eye and concealment of the body is precise and sly. The dramatic irony at the end of the tale describes just how delusional the narrator is; his guilt was making “a mockery” of him. Hearing the heart beating in a ringing tone, louder and louder, he shirked “dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! - here, here! - it is the beating of his hideous heart!” (40). The narrator hears the heart of the old man at the end of the tale in his head, showing the credibility of the tale and the characteristics of the character. The ending of the story merely describes in one sentence that maybe now he knows he has a disease for the worse.

During class on Wednesday, September 8th, Hermeone and I talked to the Professor and gave him the idea of our topic that was discussed on Monday September 5th and he made a terrific suggestion on making sure that we can keep the class attention for 20 minutes discussion about my day care. Hermeone and I looked over the list again and came up with the topic: Giving Presentations and Conducting

context clues throughout "The Tell-Tale Heart" to suggest that despite the narrator's defense of his

The narrator denies the accusations that he is mentally unstable, and begins to tell a tale to prove his sanity. The narrator remember his experience by being inspired to kill the old man who was living with him. One night, the narrator slips into the old man’s bedroom, removes him from his bed, and drags the bed over his body to kill him. He cuts him into pieces and buries the body under the floorboards. Later, the police come to question him, he is disturbed by the sound of the old man’s heart, which he perceives to be still beating beneath the floorboards. He is so disturbed that he confesses to some officers of the murder because of the loud heartbeats of the man’s heart, which symbolizes the narrator’s consciousness. The way the narrator told his story is unreliable because he is not sane, he is uneasy and paranoid, and he is confused about what he really feels and

This semester I learned a lot about writing in English 151. It has been a roller coaster ride with these essays for me this semester. I learned step by step how to write a good essay and how to have your readers be engaged in what you’re trying to tell them. Each essay I did has taught me something valuable I can take to the next level of English. I feel as if as the semester went by I did not take my writing that seriously and that reflected in my grades I received in each essay. It made me a better student and writer and it will reflect next semester. In this essay, I will reflect on what I learned throughout this semester that you should apply in your writing when you begin English 151.

He forces the woodcutter's story out of him. The woodcutter's version is perhaps the most believable of all, and perhaps that's because it portrays everyone at their lowest common denominator. Yet his story could also be completely fictional, as if he had merely combined various parts from the previous tales. Perhaps by telling this lie and believing it, he is attempting to resolve his confusion over the issue.