Commentary Essay

Gasland is a documentary that follows Josh Fox around areas in the United States impacted by natural gas drilling. Josh was offered a profuse amount of money in exchange for leasing his land to this gas company, but instead of selling he decided to explore more in depth to make sure it was the right thing for his families’ land. Although as the film proceeds, Fox tries to set up interviews with the gas companies and talks to people within the communities affected, he sadly comes to realize the truth

The immensely heart-throbbing and extremely thought provoking book, Sold, tells the story of a young girl, Lakshmi, who was sold into sexual slavery in India, unintentionally. The story takes place in Nepal where Lakshmi lives with her mother, stepfather, and little brother; times are hard and they have very little. They live in a hut with a mud roof that drips during the raining season, they only have a small portion of land to grow on which is their main source of food, and Lakshmi's stepfather

In the neo-noir film, Chinatown (1974) what is portrayed is people and society as a whole in a variety of different angles. People where only able to get things done because they had the money to do it or simple because they knew they could get away with it. This can be both a positive and a negative thing depending the event that has occurred. What I believe was Polanski’s intent for the film is to have the audience have a sense of betrayal from the corruption and lies. It is revealed throughout

PER REPORTER: Kathy said one of her students by the name of (Shadavious) went to visit her father (David Lee) this weekend when she was told some disturbing information. According to Shandavious, there are four children living in the home with David Lee and one of them by the name of Staciera told her that David Lee makes her do things they should not be doing. Shandavious said Staciera told her David Lee threatened to taker her phone and tell her mother on her if she did not do what he told her

As the story ended, Luma had many problems like helping the families of her teams as much as possible to having a burnt out brake light. And because Luma had many problems that she had to handle she didn't have time to fix her burnt out brake light. As Luma led the way for the loaded bus of soccer players ready to take on the Athens United Gold Valiants. She got stopped by a policeman due to her broken light. He said that her license had been suspended and that he had to arrest her. As she was in

"Miss Brill" by Katherine Mansfield illustrates the story of a woman who goes out out on a Sunday afternoon and sees the world as a play, with everyone - and herself - acting out their roles. She wears a fur which the author mentions throughout the story, and Miss Brill’s realization of her loneliness is only shown at the end of the story as she takes it off. Mansfield employs the techniques of characterization, imagery, and motifs to express the theme of human alienation in society. Mansfield uses

I chose this novel because it looked interesting. I thought it looked interesting because the horse with the girl on the cover and the name of the novel, ’Missing’ it was very compelling. I have always been interested in novel’s that evolve animals, and when I saw the horse I thought it might be a good novel. I have also read some of the authors’ other novel’s and I thought they were very interesting too. The information I needed to know before reading the novel was the main character, the background

The documentary “The released” shared a very important and serious social issue, which is mental illness of prisoners. The film described the inside of the Ohio prison system as it resisted to provide care for prisoners that have mental health problems. The system there allowed prisoners to leave the jail and either go to a shelter or a residential treatment center, to get the health care they need. After the release, prisoners need to take their medications and keep track with a psychiatrist or

Based on the last scene of A Raisin in the Sun the Younger family moves from their current apartment to a house in a white neighborhood. I think that next within that same day the family will go in a car with the movers through the busy streets of Chicago to a narrow road that will take them to Clybourne Park. Where lies rows of houses of the color green, yellow, and white. On the far end of the street they will pull up to their house on the right hand side up a drive way. Mama, Ruth, and Beneatha

The author uses characterization and narrative voice to better illustrate the social commentary that marriage is nothing more than establishing the "right conditions" in opposed to finding true love. Carol is presented as a young incognizant individual trying to find her soulmate in this relentless world. Although such a young soul at the age of twenty-two she has convinced herself that "falling in love" with Howard is only logical because he's got all the puzzle pieces suitable for a marriage.