Christopher Stewart

A Weekend at NASCAR As most people are aware, NASCAR is the fastest growing sport in America. NASCAR, or the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, has become a national phenomenon and is attended by millions of Americans of year. The NASCAR season begins in February at the speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida, and runs until November where it concludes at the final race in Homestead, Florida. The season consists of 36 races at tracks throughout the United States. Some tracks, such

Tandy Hood U.S. Government Professor Neher 11/19/15 Griswold v. Connecticut The first Supreme Court case that I listened to was one brought forth in front of the Warren Court in 1965. The case of Griswold v. Connecticut is a very significant case regarding contraceptive use, counsel and advice with married couples. The case later played a great reference in the Constitutional rights for abortion. The Griswold v. Connecticut case went in front of the Supreme Court in March and was passed a few months

From an issue that was discussed in class, we discussed about the gaze. In Laura Mulvey’s “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” she discusses about scopophilia, which is the pleasure in looking which also incorporates exhibitionism (pleasure in being looked at). This term also applies to cinema. She focuses on the idea of the “male gaze” in cinema, where films are created in favor of the male audience. Thus the action of cinema compromises of “women as image, man are bearer of the look”. Mulveys

Twilight Twilight, is a movie known by many people, directed by Catherine Hardwicke in 2008. Twilight is just the first of many movies in the series, “The Twilight Saga”. Isabella “Bella” Swan (Kristen Stewart), the main character, is a teenage girl, she is moving from her loved home in sunny and warm Arizona with her mom, to Forks, a always rainy and dreary small town in the state of Washington to live with her father. When she goes to school she meets Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) a vampire

the individual. The central question of the film is whether or not the kind of frontier justice of the West, which was built on gun-fighting and local law enforcement, was adaptable to the modern age. The character of Ransom "Ranse" Stoddard (James Stewart) symbolizes the transition of American society by earning his fame as a politician. The true frontiersman, Tom Doniphon (John Wayne), suffers a drastically different fate. Despite being the man who actually shot Liberty Valance, Doniphon remains unknown

The western film “The Cowboys” directed by Mark Rydell, which stars John Wayne as the main character Wil Andersen, who is a stiff necked rancher in Montana, stuck with working with a bunch of inexperienced boys. Wil Andersen is faced with a difficult situation when all of the ranch hands get involved in the local gold rush and he has no more workers. Andersen’s friend Anse will get the idea of having the local schoolboys help him on the drive, but Andersen is not sold on the idea and is still concerned

Within the action and suspense of Rear Window, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, the theme of feminism is uncovered. Throughout Rear Window, Lisa Fremont, the female protagonist, is a symbol of feminism due to her character transformation. In the beginning of Rear Window, Lisa Fremont is introduced during a conversation between L.B. “Jeff” Jefferies and his nurse Stella. Throughout this conversation, Jefferies describes his girlfriend Lisa as being “too perfect, she’s too talented, she’s too beautiful

It was a night just like any other when two cops were driving down Flying Pan Road the driver, police chief Jim Jordan and police in training, Larry Brady. Jim said,”It looks like nothin’s going on today, what do ya want to do?” “Oh, how about we can go to the diner and get some coffee and a donut,” Larry said “Okay.” As the two cops drove down the road and approach the dinner Jim and Larry already know what they are going to get. As they walk in the lady at the counter says,”Oh, Jim and Larry,

about the myths of the vampires and true love. The director of Twilight movie is Catherine Hardwicke and it is written by Stephenie Meyer and produced by Wyck Godfrey and Mark Morgan. Twilight is the story of a teenage girl named Bella Swan ( Kristen Stewart), who falls in love with the vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson). Bella does not has any idea that her life will change too much, when she moves from Arizona to Washington state. During her high school, she met Edward who is a handsome and mysterious

Rear Window is odd in how it is filmed. Focusing on the idea of voyeurism and watching others. You see this is the first scene instead of seeing the main character or even side characters, you see the building the many apartments and the courtyard and then you meet Jeff. Jeff you can see is a broken man, he laying down sweating, unsleep on a chair. But you only see Jeff a glance like he is not important instead the film focus the people in the apartments nearby in the rest of film he will watch out