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Monroe: A Star’s Demise Many people today argue about the truth behind the death of an iconic figure named Marilyn Monroe. Yet, what really happened to her on the 5th of August 1962, when she was found dead in her Los Angeles home? The aspiring actress was found face down on her bed, lifeless and naked. By her night table, empty bottles of medication were strewn. In one hand, she held a telephone. Investigators stated that the 36 year old died because of an overdose and was marked off as a suicide

The film, Billy Elliot directed by Stephen Daldry, is a classic film but it tells a story that is still relevant today. The story follows an adolescent boy, Billy Elliot (Jamie Bell) who lives in a time where he must break societies expectations to fulfil his dreams of becoming a male ballet dancer. Living in Everington, Country Durham during the 1984 miner strike, not only must Billy overcome gender stereotypes but also the stigma around class that he faces as a boy from a working-class family.

The film Rear Window addresses cinematic themes throughout the entire film, specifically throughout the last fifteen minutes. The movie ultimately uses cinematography to heavily describe the dramatic plot regarding Jeff, Mr. Thorwald, and the intense discoveries found when eavesdropping from the rear window. Film making techniques such as cinematography, mise en scene, sound, and more are all cinematic elements included in the film that influence aspects of the films stylistic system. The last fifteen

soldiers in war. This camaraderie is challenged in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five, a satirical novel that illustrates the challenges the protagonist Billy Pilgrim faces during conflict. The book describes soldiers on the same side acting hostile towards one another, with one soldier, Roland Weary, going so far as beating up his companion Billy Pilgrim. Through the novel, Kurt Vonnegut asserts the reality of war contrasts with the idealistic perception of it through the use of diction and imagery

In Slaughterhouse Five, the protagonist Billy Pilgrim survives through the most wretched of situations due to fate and coincidence alone. He is left wrestling with ideas of morality, religion, free will, and purpose in life. An eternally passive character, Billy has no idea how to cope with his trauma until he invents an alien abduction to explain not only what happened to him but how and why he changed as a person. Feeling out of control and overwhelmed is a theme continually present in Billy’s

“We didn't start the fire” Billy Joel discusses major events that go on between 1959-1956. In the song, Billy Joel explains a bunch of events, and a bunch of people, and in a bunch of places, however while he mentions many events, he does not emphasize what happened during these events. In this paper we will discuss what events happened during this song, by looking at what people, events, and places that took place during the song. In the second stanza of the song, Billy Joel mentions 15 different

mental state of Kurt Vonnegut through the character of Billy Pilgrim, a war veteran. Gulani diagnoses Billy Pilgrim with PTSD based on the symptoms he displays in the book. Billy’s PTSD is caused by a near death incident or traumatic event. It is also caused by sensory phenomena, such as the Barbershop Quartet. Billy shows symptoms of PTSD though his rejection to communicate with the world. It is true when Susanne Vees-Gulani states that Billy Pilgrim is a victim of PTSD as he shows symptoms such

something dark on the inside. This theme is present through the main character Billy and his post war life. Billy has many elements of the American dream, a perfect family, a good job, a nice house that's in a rich area, and enough money to buy his wife materialistic things such as jewellery. Billy has the ideal family, a wife and two kids, but he is disconnected from his family. For example, at the end of chapter eight Billy walks in on his son, Robert, who is playing the guitar. He then realizes that

Supervillain Compare & Contrast Essay Super Villains, with powers or not, are remarkably popular considering that they are such unfavorable people. Fictional villains are generally defined as evil, and it is questioned whether this indication leaves for reason to believe that being evil is popular. These characters come in various shapes and sizes, albeit they habitually have similar schemes. Villains dominate a penchant to act upon impulses triggered by greed or a lust for revenge against the

himself inside the book creates an illusion of reality in the fictitious world of Billy Pilgrim. Vonnegut’s emphasis on the jump between reality and fiction highlights the disastrous effects