The Searchers By John Ford

You have been told that people are influenced by the things around them. People are influenced by other people, circumstances, and many things, but what about the influence of space? Space is just as common an influence as many other things. Space is an important influence in Ready Player One. Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline, is a science-fiction novel centered around a hunt for a fortune that the founder of a virtual world has left that can be unlocked by clues & winning games. The winner will have massive power & fortune. The influence of space is great because of how the OASIS world affects Wade, how the Playstation virtual world affects me, & how gender codes affect you.

Jesse was born on September 5, 1847 in Kearney, Missouri. He lived all the way up to April 3, 1882. He was assassinated by Robert Ford. Robert Ford shot Jesse in the back of the head while he was turned around to fix a picture on the wall. Robert Ford was one of the members in the gang. Jesse lived to be a bank robber best known as the leading member of the James-Younger gang of outlaws. He and his brother Frank served in the Confederate Army. They were both 16 when they became Confederate guerrilla soldiers.

Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline, follows protagonist Wade Watts, better known by his avatar Parzival, as he searches for an Easter egg, containing a billionaire’s life savings, hidden in a virtual reality called the OASIS. Parzival displays loyalty for fellow gunters, dependence on his close friends, and courage in a risky situation during his quest for the egg. Parzival remains loyal to the gunters when confronted by the Sixers. In addition, Parzival depends on the people around him, for both help and company, during the contest. Wade also proves that he is courageous when he invents a plan that could end his life.

Las Vegas is a place where a lot can be gained but a lot can be lost. Everything that happens there is based on luck. If you are feeling lucky Vegas might be the option for you. Vegas is a place for risk takers and gamblers and for people trying to achieve something. In Hunter S. Thompson’s novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Duke and Gonzo take a road trip to Vegas. Drugs and alcohol were prominent in the main characters’ journey and the substances were used to show Duke and Gonzo escape from life, their path to find the American Dream and to bring out the truth of the drug culture in America.

A critical theory by Robin Wood posits that the filmic genres popularized by the Hollywood system are not "discrete", but represent "different strategies for dealing with the same ideological tensions." (478) Wood claims that conventional theories fail to address this ideological phenomenon, and proposes a search for the myths and contradictions, produced by American capitalism, which fuel disparate filmic genres. Wood's attempt to discuss this ideology lists the "components" of a definition of "American capitalist ideology." (476) One component is the character of "the ideal male", the potent hero of the American way. (477) As the films produced out of capitalism tend to uphold the system's ideology, the hero

The book Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline is a book set in the future, where our world is in poverty and chaos. This is because we are almost out of oil, and so a massive power shortage has occurred. The only way people can escape this is too play a online game that has become the internet. This game is called OASIS.

Living in a perfect world where everyone was happy, resources were plentiful, and the word war was never spoken would be the ideal place to live, however without chaos how would people know peace and without evil in the world how would there be good. Society is all about yin and yang, bad in the good and good in the bad. In the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, London is transformed into a society where there are no mothers or father, babies are born in tubes, and there is no talk of marriage or being exclusive to one person. A different civilization than present day. Brave New World was published in 1932, during this time the Great Slump was happening throughout England, which would be understandable because Huxley describes his novel as a negative utopia, or dystopia. The novel is a great read for one who is interested in utopias, dystopias and how society would be different if history had not panned out the way it had. Brave New World is an excellent example of how dystopias are disguised as utopias.

The Searchers is John Ford’s one of the most famous films. Glenn Frankel said, “The Searchers may be the greatest Hollywood film that few people have seen.” The main story line of the film is about Ethan Edwards searches his nieces who is kidnapped by an Indian tribe. However, the main themes of it is not as simple as the story line. Ford created two complex heroes in the film; one is Ethan who is a racist, and the other is Martin who contains Indian blood ties.

In the movie, The Searchers, it is like a old western type of film and you can tell it was at least in the 1940s and up. When the movie first started it played an old song saying to ride along or away. The opening part of the film the intro of the title of the movie was like red and old modern style and said the searchers on it. The first 10 minutes of the film all you really can see is a house in what looks like a desert but it's not and then people would get around on horses and live in tiny wood houses that looks like it was made with logs. In the rising action Debbie was taken by a comanche named scar, and Ethan and Marty come back from looking and end up finding the house burning and then the remains of His brother and His wife. When he

2. Mise-en-scene: The film Dead Man was filmed in multiple locations in Arizona and Oregon to depict the look of the old west in the 1860’s and 1870’s a. In the subsequent sections samples will be given to depict events that occur in the film and that will give further information that will highlight and enlighten our thesis statement. 3. Theme: Dead Man is the story of a man’s passage, this passage is not only in the physical form but as well as an emotional form.

The novel The Call of the Wild is written by Jack London. The novel is known as an adventure fiction; it is known as an adventure fiction because it is based on an adventure by London, but is put into a fictional reading. This novel is told about a dog and his life struggles, but it is based on an adventure taken by London. This novel is important to us because it gives us an insight on how important it is to fight for what you want, and defend your place in life. The theme of this novel is to work for your wants and needs.

Technology and the economy of today is growing and getting more advanced than ever, yet the world can go completely upside down in 29 years from today. In the book Ready Player One, Ernest Cline states that the world is in the year 2045, the future is absolutely corrupt and everyone is living in a dystopian world. Almost everyone uses OASIS, an online gaming program, and is ultimately many people 's escape from their reality. The creator, James Halliday, sent out an alarming announcement interrupting everyone’s day addressing a mission about a hidden easter egg in the game. If someone can find the easter egg , they will inherit Halliday’s entire fortune. Wade Watts, the main character, was set and determined to find the egg and made it his greatest goal when he heard about the announcement. This goal Wade headed towards turned into a new life for him, creating a new persona which led him to becoming whoever he wanted in the virtual world. Wade is alone in the real world, however in OASIS Wade formed friendships. Wade knew if he got too close with the others in the game it jeopardizes his chances of winning in the game.

Ford Madox Ford is a great English author, who has written many great books like The Good Soldier, for people and kids to read. By looking at The Good Soldier, one can see that Ford Madox Ford included the themes of the moral significance of adultery and the difference between appearance and reality because of his actual life.

The Fault in Our Stars, published by John Green in January 2012 is a professional, fictional narration of a sixteen year old girl named Hazel Grace Lancaster and her experience with terminal cancer. Hazel was prepared to die until a surgery followed by radiation and chemo at age fourteen shrunk her tumours and bought her a few more years of life. Hazel has a poor outlook on her remaining years with terminal cancer, she does not wish to form any close bonds due to the fact she is afraid of the impact her death may create on her loved ones. While attending cancer support group which is forced upon her by her mother Hazel meets a seventeen year old boy named Augustus Waters. Augustus is currently in remission from osteosarcoma. Hazel and Augustus form a friendship and agree to read each other’s favorite novels which consist of An Imperial Affliction. The friendship progresses to an intimate relationship and Augustus forever changes her outlook on life and death. Throughout this review I will discuss the main characters, themes, explain why the text is useful to an understanding of death and dying in my culture and I will include my critical thoughts surrounding this novel.

John Ford’s The Searchers plays with the western genre primarily through its straddling of the line between the classical and contemporary western through John Wayne's duality of the hero and anti hero among additional more complex plot elements. The film opens with the typical opening of the frontier hero mode common in classic western with John Wayne’s character appearing out of nature to join the other charters in the story shortly before the conflict of the film is introduced. The conflict of The Searchers is a another common element of classical classical westerns being a confl;ict of white culture vs native culture as the natives come to attack those who are living on their land followed by the retaliation of said settlers in a search