Sleeper Curve Satire

     Rick is the morally ambiguous night club owner, who hides a sentimentality behind a neutral facade.

According to Jim Piper, “Films aren’t just about people; they are also about the relationships people make…Often, in fact, a relationship is the movie” (159). It is Rick’s relationships that make this movie.

Steven Johnson 's argument is that television can actually make you smarter because when you watch a show, you are trying to understand everything that is happening. Today’s shows have a lot of action and scenes trying to keep people’s attention. Therefore, people carefully tune in to television shows trying to understand everything that goes on during the show. Johnson said, “You have to pay attention, make inferences, and track shifting social relationships.” For instance, depending on how the characters interact with one another, changes happen as the plot of the story continues on. An example of this is if a character happens to disagree with another character and an enemy of both characters comes into the mix, and those two characters join forces to defeat their enemy. The spontaneous changes like this constantly change the storyline to make it more interesting for the viewer. Johnson mentions the “Sleeper Curve” and how it is considered to “enhance our cognitive faculties, not dumbing them down." The author displayed several examples showing the many plots that happen throughout different shows. The more complex the show, the "Sleeper Curve" pattern was more detailed.

The movie I am reviewing is called: Trainsplotting. This movie was based on Mark Renton and his friend abusing heroin. Heroin was a part of their everyday life for example; they called it better than having sex. Mark Renton also explained how choosing a life was harder and that doing heron was much simple. He loved the feeling it gave him and thinks it is a lot better than having an organism.

Now, if you read between the lines you realize that Rick isn’t as he appears. He is said to have done odd jobs such as a roofer, a car parker, a painter, and a tree planter. Roofers tend to be of criminal background. Saying he is a car parker could be code that he stole cars. Painters go into people’s houses and spend time in the house when the family isn’t there. He probably robbed the houses. He probably just made up the tree planting thing to further reinforce the good guy persona. The main character also divulges to us that Rick made a copy of the gas station's bathroom key. That just reinforces a criminal background and the fact that he is using Rick for the disability money. Every relationship in this short story is based in greed. The producer doesn’t want to hire real actors so he can save money. Baldev was getting money to loan out his horrible basement. Lastly, the main character was taking as much advantage as possible of his disability and living conditions to get more

The Walking Dead is a televised American drama series about a group of people trying to survive a zombie apocalypse developed by Frank Darabont. The series stars Andrew Lincoln as sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes, who awakens from a coma after the world yields to a zombie plague (Griffiths, 2011). Dazed and confused from months in the hospital he wanders out to figure out why he cannot find anyone alive. He makes his way home only to find his wife and son missing. He sets out to locate his family and finds many other survivors on his journey (Tucker, 2010). The Walking Dead coordinates with many social themes such as

It became truly serious to John Rick when one afternoon, a court official and other ten men came to his house to arrest his wife. Mrs. Rick was similar to Mrs. Nurse, a virtous and pious Christian woman. John Rick had nearly gone mad; half of his mind told him if his wife was indeed innocent, she would be released. The other half reminded him of Mrs. Nurse’s and Simpson’s deaths. That night, he went around in the town to convince people to sign in a petition for his wife. By the

He is this hard guy who just wants to keep his family safe and find other survivors. Unfortunately he suffers and has to cope with his wife dying in childbirth and the challenge of now not only having a son, but now a baby to take care of. He goes through mental breakdowns, and has moments where he questions his own judgement and sanity. Yet at the end of the day everyone awknowledges he is the glue holding them together and they know that they can conquer anything with Rick leading them. He is resilient.

The most important lesson that the main character, Rick Bragg, learned that by leading a selfless life and being hardworking, individuals will be reward. This lesson is first seen early on in the book with Rick’s mother Margaret Bundham Bragg. Margaret married Charles Bragg who was an alcohol abuser and because of this would beat her as well. When Charles was not home, Rick’s mother would try and support her children by working odd jobs like cotton picking in the fields and even went as far as not buying a new dress in eighteen years. Margret made sure that all of her children were fed and happy and hoped that one day they could “get even with life” as Rick but it. Margaret is finally rewarded at the end of the book when Rick wins the Pulitzer

Before Rick was sent to juvinile detention all he cared about was being the best rugby player and winning a championship. He quickly changed after he realized its more important to help others and surround yourself with people who want you to succeed. When people watch this they will realize that they should help others especially if they are willing to help you in return. If everybody learned this than more people would succeed and we would form friendships that will last the rest of our

At the beginning of the series, Rick wakes from a coma ad finds himself in the middle of a zombie apocalypse. Similar to the man, Rick values his family more than anything. After he wakes from the coma, the first thing Rick does is travel to Atlanta, GA in search of his wife, Lori, and son, Carl. Rick is a former sheriff deputy and is a key leader of the survivors group. Although we expect the man to have some military background, we aren’t entirely sure but we know he has strong survival skills like Rick. Rick and the man also share being incredibly protective over their sons in the apocalypse. Similar to the man in The Road, Rick tries to retain his son’s innocence but his extremely hesitance to welcoming non-group members to the group tests his brutality. At one point, Rick kills anyone who approaches the group. The man is not this extreme but similarly, the man doesn’t allow anyone to travel his him and his son for more than one night (Elly). Rick and the man also share a tendency to place blame on themselves. When the boy forgets to close the gas tank valve and all the gas leaks out, the man takes blame for forgetting to check that the valve was closed. Rick blames himself for the death of his best friend Shane and wife Lori because he is the leader of the group, however it wasn’t really his fault. The man and Rick Grimes share many similarities given their apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic

Rick and Nick were inseparable. Ever since they were born they did everything together. They met in the hospital just after they were born. Nick was born beautifully with no problems at twenty inches long and eight pounds. His parents had an amazed satisfied smile on their face. However, in the room across the hall, about ten doctors huddled around Rick's mother in bed. “MOTHER DOWN! MOTHER DOWN! OPEN UP OPERATION ROOM ONE!” She only had a glimpse of her newborn before fainting unconsciously. Ricks mother had died from the birth. When the doctors went in to inform her husband of her death,

Despite the seemingly silly premise, they have inserted quite a few smart plotlines and clever character arcs. The problem is that the series takes a long time to come into its own. You do not get an instant feel for the mood or character the same way you do with Family Guy, South Park or they way you did with 24.

Both Rick Grimes and his actions are moral and unselfish. Rather than being self-centered, Rick puts his life on the line to protect the group and his family with the best of his ability. The well-intentioned actions and selfless motives of Rick is evident in these three examples. In the early events of

The answer is not very. The creators of the show intentionally portrayed Rick’s alcoholism as inconsequential because in the grand scale of the universe, the issues of one man, or any collection of people, seems relatively insignificant. The depiction of alcoholism is unethical, but the show’s purpose is to blur the harsh lines between right and wrong into more of a grey area. A contrived moral code is unimportant when looking at the universe as a whole. Rick’s perspective of the universe is best summed up in his signature catchphrase, “Wubba lubba dub dub”, which from Birdperson language translates into, “I am in great pain, please help me”. He bears the liberating weight of a cold and indifferent universe, and resorts to a simple solution that he tells Morty after burying their bodies: “Don’t think about