The Babadook

 Her attitude changes threw out the play, she’s very confident in the beginning, she doesn’t really talk back to anyone, but as it goes on her attitude changes and she’s very upset all the time and depressed.

When awake, she is sometimes moving about restlessly, and sometimes quiet or calm” (My Virtual Child, 2014). This is similar to the typical developmental patterns of a newborns. They mentioned how Amelia “moves restlessly. They can confused the baby being awake just because she is moving but that doesn’t necessarily mean she’s awake. As it states in the text, rapid-eye-movement, (REM) sleep is, “brain-wave activity is remarkably similar to that of the waking state. The eyes dart beneath the lids; heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing are uneven; and slight body movements occur.” (Berk & Meyers, pg.144). This is considered normal to the typical development patterns in newborns because the book also mentions that about 50% of newborns are in REM sleep during their sleep time (Berk & Meyers, pg.144). This percentage of REM sleep is more likely to happen in the fetus or preterm

The Babadook is an Australian made film created, and directed by Jennifer Kent. The film was released in two thousand fourteen, and rated a seven out of ten by movie critics. The Babadook follows single parent, Amelia, who loses her husband in a car accident at the beginning of the movie on the way to give birth to their son Samuel. Amelia and Samuel are both struggling to cope with his death. Samuel has begun to misbehave in school, and has discovered an imaginary monster friend whom is quite often troublesome. One night Amelia reads Samuel a nighttime story named Mister Babadook. Every since they read the book, it seems as if the monster has come alive, and mysterious things have been happening to the two of them. The Babadook has started to inhibit Amelia and Samuels lives. Depression manipulates people’s lives, and in this film, The Babadook symbolizes a living form of Amelia’s grief due to her husband’s death.

Washington Irving became the first American writer of the nineteenth century to achieve an international literary reputation .One of his greatest tales is “The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow” is set in a village on the Hudson River (Tarry Town), in which the author created two important characters throughout the story. Ichabod Crane and Brom Bones compete against each other in order to get a woman’s hand in marriage. Although they both want the same girl does not mean that they share more in common. The author compare and contrast both of the characters by describing their appearance, roles and their unique goal of get the girl, in order to let the readers know more about them.

and having carefully analyzed the text, I am leaning towards a diagnosis of, major depressive disorder. The observed symptoms, which the protagonist seems to line up with the following symptoms listed in for Major depressive disorder in the DSM-5 checklist provided in the book (Comer, 2014). In the short story, the protagonist has mentioned and expressed with her actions feeling: in a depressed mood for most of the day, Daily diminished interest or pleasure in almost all activates for most of the day, Decrease in daily appetite, experiencing hypersomnia, daily fatigue or loss of energy (Comer, 2014). These things mentioned are symptoms that are categorized as being

The Babadook is a haunting film filled with twists and turns that leave the audience terrified without ever utilizing a single cliché jump-scare. The audience is constantly in a state of dread and fear along with the protagonist. One of the final scenes in the movie shows the protagonist walking into her basement to feed the monster that she keeps down there. The scene is a unique ending that is not commonly seen in horror films. It revolves around implicit meaning and the interesting point-of-view editing. Without the implicit meaning of the film and the point-of-view editing in this scene, the emotional impact of the film would have been much weaker.

Once Amelia agitated it was easier for the Babadook to control Amelia. The Babadook forces Amelia to tell Samuel that she wished he would have died instead of her husband. Soon after Amelia becomes sleep deprived, causes her hallucinations to worsen. She hallucinates that she was watching television and during the news it was discovered she killed Samuel on his birthday and then committed suicide by

Capitalism can be defined as “when monetary wealth was enabled to buy labor power” (Wolf et al. 77). By the time that “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” was written, Capitalism was the dominant mode of production, and capitalist markets were spreading rapidly. This became especially true in the United States of America, which was heavily influenced by the British in matters of economy. Since capitalism was born in England, the influence of capitalism bled over into America while they were still under British rule (Wolf et al. 2670). However, by 1820, the year that “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” was published, the United States fully adopted the capitalist mode of production, along with the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution. This embrace of the new economic system changed the ways of life for people in both New England and New York, along with the entirety of the country.

Washington Irving wrote “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” in 1820. It tells the story of a man named Ichabod Crane, a schoolmaster who persistently frightens himself with supernatural beings he supposes he sees and hears on his way home from school. Later in the story, Crane threatens to take away the love of a lady from a man named Abraham Van Brunt. This man, known as Brom Bones to the townspeople, took advantage of Ichabod Crane’s credulousness to scare him out of town through a prank in which he impersonated the dreaded Headless Horseman, the ghost of Sleepy Hollow. This caused Ichabod to flee town out of terror. Ichabod Crane’s characteristics of superstition, greed, and fearfulness ended up causing his downfall.

Ominous music and the relentless buzzing sound trace the development of Amelia’s psychosis. Before Mister Babadook appears and even before Sam discovers the pop-up book, Amelia’s strained façade of calmness is penetrated by her sister’s birthday talk. For Amelia, the mere mention of Sam’s birthday – the actual date or the celebration day – brings up memories of her husband’s passing. This is the trigger that sets her off.

The narration in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow functions as a way to give authority to the women of Tarry Town. This power of feminine is elicit by Washington Irving who gives respect and superiority to women indirectly, but yet evidently through third person narration. Furthermore through Katrina he parallels the power of Tarry Town’s women by illustrating their agency to beget the downfall of Ichabod.

Sleepy Hollow is a small Dutch town in rural New York. The women of these Dutch communities sit around their spinning wheels telling each other folklore and legends. One of these legends is about a Hessian soldier who got his head shot clean off by a cannon-ball in the Civil War. Every night he goes out to look for his head. This is what a female story looks like during the 1800’s. Focuses on legends and myths that the women can talk about during their gossip. However, a masculine story usually is about a hero who saves the day. Washington irving combines the two types of stories. In “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, the main character, Ichabod Crane, is given feminine characteristics to create mock-heroic irony and compare male and female storytelling.

This book is a feel good story called The Wonderful Wizard of OZ written by L. Frank Baum. The story starts and ends in Kansas but the majority of the story takes place in the land of OZ. The time period of the book is irrelevant. Dorothy is a girl who used to live in Kansas and her house got carried away to a mystical land and she needs to get to the wizard to get her back home. Toto is Dorothy’s beloved dog who she takes everywhere. Scarecrow is the first friend she encounters along the way to the wizard. On her way she also meets the ‘Tin Man’, and the ‘Cowardly Lion’.

Film Review for Hunt for the Wilderpeople A mischievous orphan and his new found carer go bush in Taika Waititi’s latest film Hunt for the Wilderpeople. This is a movie that is a must watch for people all over the world. The dark and twisted Kiwi humour combined with the appeal of people going bush being something that will change the way people perceive New Zealand. Waititi is known for being creative and unexpected, making this movie one that keeps you wondering what’s going to happen next.

Looking at the symptoms such as anxiety attacks, overeating, fear of accomplishment, fear of abandonment, and so forth—can be interpreted as outward manifestations of unconscious conflicts that have their origins in childhood experiences and defensive reaction to these experiences that are necessary to her as a child.