The Lost Boy By Steven Spielberg

In The Shallows by Nicholas Carr, he asserts that the evolution of information and communication technology (ICTs) is having a detrimental impact on our brains despite the many benefits and advances we have made with it. His main focus is on the internet which he commonly refers to as the “universal medium” (92). Carr presents a very detailed but biased argument in which he views the internet and other technologies as the adversary of critical thinking and progress. To Carr, we are sacrificing our ability to think logically because we are choosing a simpler way to gain knowledge.

The world is far from a uniform system. Each and every individual is placed in a different situation depending on everything from location, race, beliefs, and economic status. Psychology looks at how individuals come out of these specific environments and how they transform into an adult through the trials and tribulations of their growth. In The Blind Side, director John Lee Hancock focuses on an athletically skilled African-American teen, Michael Oher, who is transformed from a homeless orphan from the projects into a highly sought after college football prospect through a positive change in family, school, and supportive surroundings.

Conversely, Kusserow, instead of using irony or literary images, she forms meaning in her poetry through the use of metaphors. As Tyson states, “ A metaphor is a comparison of two dissimilar objects in which the properties of one are ascribed to the other” (143). Kusserow uses several metaphors throughout her poem to help elucidate the effects of the Second Sudanese Civil Wars on the Lost Boys. Regarding the “Lost Boys”, the name given to the groups of over 20,000 boys of the Neur and Dinka ethnic groups who were displaced and orphaned during the Second Sudanese Civil War, Kusserow writes, “packs of bony Lost Boys / roving like hyenas towards Ethiopia, / tongues, big as toads, swelling in their mouths” (15-17). Here, Kusserow has used two zoomorphic metaphors, applying animal characteristics sot humans. She compares the Lost Boys to a hyena, a wild and chaotic animal, depicting the boys as a bunch of mad and violent scavengers, implying that they try to search for and collect anything that can be a source of food for them. Moreover, her comparison in which she describes the tongues of the Boys to be as big as toads, she is illustrating the extreme level of dehydration that the boy’s probable experienced, and how their tongues swell up since that is a symptom of dehydration. From Kusserow’s use of zoomorphic metaphors, we can see that she is trying to show how the Lost Boys have been dehumanized due to the dreadful condition they have had to face as a product of the Second

Nicholas Carr covers an unprecedented amount of material in his novel, “The Shallows.” He delves into subjects ranging from the history of the book to the business of Google to the psychological concept of neuroplasticity. All of these topics support his main argument: the idea that the internet is destroying our brains. He takes the deterministic approach that we are the tools we use, meaning they shape our brains. According to Carr, the internet negates our memories, deems print books useless, and distracts us from reality. His counterargument comes from the instrumentalist approach; this viewpoint maintains that people stay the same no matter the tools they use. His arguments are both sound and flimsy, current and outdated, and he rants

Roald Dahl uses humour in children books he writes to manipulate the reader’s perception of events that occur in the books. The book, Boy is an autobiography written by Roald Dahl. It was his first book and it is a combination of real events in his life. Matilda is one of his fictional books that he wrote later on. Dahl uses events that are actually gruesome and quite horrifying and makes them humorous by using sarcasm, hyperboles, short sentences, imagery, similes and juxtapositions (rose96, 2011). Dahl uses a lot of adjectives to describe the characters in his books to portray them in a humorous way. He uses figures of speech to describe a character and to make this character unique.

If had to choose a Character from the book Schooled By Gordon Korman to be my best friend it would have to Capricorn Anderson.I would pick Capricorn Anderson (known as Cap) because he is very nice and he is not like the usual boys at the school mean,jockey,and reckless.Capricorn is nice,friendly,and generous.Just like when Capricorn found a dead bird in his locker and in the middle of school he host a ceremony for the dead bird that some kids at his school put in his locker.Also Cap really loves his family and the foster home he had to go live in.Sophie is the daughter of the foster mom and her dad left her when she was a little girl.Every year she waits for him to show up at her door on her birthday.Well this year Cap was living there when

E.T. is a heartwarming film. An extra-terrestrial is left behind on the planet earth by accident. E.T is noticed by a little boy who seems to be very lonely. The little boy, Elliot, takes E.T. into his home and tries to help E.T. get home. During the journey of finding E.T.’s way home, E.T. and Elliot create a strong friendship. This film shows the importance and value of family, friendship, and home.

This paper provides a brief summary of the novel Beautiful Boy by David Sheff (2008) that shows life of his son’s struggling drug addiction through the eyes of a helpless father. This paper also expands on the notion of how substance abuse and addiction are represented per several factors – individual, social, cultural and economic, as well as what instances/occurrences may have played a significant role in the development of substance and alcohol addiction Nic, the individual at risk, the circumstances that may have led David to acknowledge his son’s substance abuse problem, and what factors facilitate recovery. In addition, this paper covers the book’s application to the social work practice, including direct social work

Children of Men is a film that forces the viewers to take notice of how the future is born out of the present, and to be conscious of the misguided implications of the choices we make or accept today. The director, Alfonso Cuarón, visually applied the background to tell the story and warn us of a world that is not too far from our own without fully distracting the viewers’ attention from the foreground.

Although psychology class is most likely not the first thing to come to mind when watching a Disney movie, many psychological concepts can be drawn from them. In Andrew Stanton’s 2003 animated film, Finding Nemo, various psychological concepts are exemplified. Finding Nemo tells the story of an overly cautious clownfish named Marlin who losses his son, Nemo, to a pair of divers. He meets a fish named Dory who together seek to find Marlin’s son. Throughout their journey they encounter a storm of jelly fish, surfing sea-turtles, sharks participating in a “Fish are Friends, Not Food (Graham, 2003)” support group, and numerous other conflicts. Hidden between the lines of their comic misfortunes, Marlin suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, many characters fall to acts of conformity, and altruism is a theme that defines the movie.

Movies have always been a way for me to take a step back from life and truly see the effects of my actions and decisions. One movie that has had a surprisingly powerful impact on me is Tommy Boy, a comical movie about a boy named Tommy Callahan who attends college to play rugby. Since he never made his classes a priority over things like partying and sports, it takes him seven years to barely graduate from college. Just after graduation Tommy’s father, who owns a huge company called “Callahan Auto”, gives him a job. Out of the blue, his father dies, leaving the auto company to Tommy. Tommy, along with the help of a fellow employee named Richard, take to the road to attempt to sell a million dollars worth of brake pads to keep the company

The “Silence of the Lambs” directed by Jonathan Demme based on the story by Ted Tally, is a psychological thriller film that involves the main character(s) Clarice Starling, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, and Jamie Gumb. Most of the story in the film takes place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1989-90s. In the film, Jodie Foster played the female protagonist Clarice Starling, an F.B.I agent who worked in the behavioral science unit; which was assigned to confide and interrogate an incarcerated killer to receive insight into a case that would be helpful on catching another vicious serial killer. Anthony Hopkins played a male antagonist Dr. Hannibal Lecter a forensic psychiatrist who is a serial killer, psychopath, manic, and a cannibal that loves to convert the meat of his victims into tasty dishes for himself. However, Lecter is a gentleman who has an astonishing intellect and speaks very eloquently. The third character played by Ted Levine is Jamie Gumb which is the most important antagonist of the movie because he is a fictional serial killer best known by the F.B.I as Buffalo Bill. Gumb is a transsexual who loves to kill female victims, to skin their humps to create skin suit. The plot revolves around the conflicts of good versus evil and loss of a daughter in which the F.B.I agent Clarice Starling has to stop the Buffalo Bill for murdering young women’s and kidnapping a Senator’s daughter. Let us examine one scene that describes the used of mise-en-scene that help tell

In spite of the countless benefits of having an area or city in a movie for the tourism and advertisement, it could be as well a disaster for the local environment or the investments. Undeniably each production is different and nowadays predominates a higher concern about natural preservation than before so we can’t merely judge them by the same yardstick.

‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ (Wes Anderson, 2014) combines a perfect mix of nostalgia and history. The film explores the themes of war as it recreates history through mise-en-scene. Anderson also incorporates other themes such as racism and elitism during pre-war Europe. The film widely explores Europe from many viewpoints, one of which is of Mr Moustafa. His nostalgia is seen through flashbacks of when he was a lobby boy that went by the name of Zero. As an audience the depth of his nostalgia is seen through mise-en-scene. With the help of cinematography and props we see can see the time and place that Moustafa acknowledges. Anderson shows how history is reimagined through ones nostalgia. Mr Moustafa recalls events, which he was not present in yet he explains them as if he were there. This also shows how one reimagines history from another due to emotions and personal attachment. Despite the outcome being the same there are many viewpoints it can be seen from.

The love story between two different teenagers that come from completely different worlds is the most remarkable. The Notebook is about two young teenagers who fell head over heels with each other. They got separated by Allie’s upper-class parents who insist that Noah isn’t right for her. But that obstacle didn’t stop these two young lovers from being together even if it took years. This beautiful tale has a special meaning to an older gentleman who regularly reads the timeless love story to his aging wife to help her remember what they went through and that the story that he’s reading to her was their love story. The story he reads follows two young