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Of the all the central characters in Smoke Signals, Victor Joseph is the one whose struggle to cope with his past is at the forefront of the story. Many years after his father Arnold leaves home permanently, in 1998, his mother Arlene receives a phone call from Suzy Song, Arnolds final neighbor, informing her that Arnold died and that he and his stuff would be ready for someone to come pickup at his home near Phoenix. Reluctantly, Victor decides to take a trip down to Phoenix with Thomas, who offered

In the film Watchmen there are an offel lot of superheros moving around, fighting crime, so it may seem hard to pin out and pick a hero that you think best embodies the certain traits you’re looking for. The hero we want is the Anti hero, someone who is selfish, unclearly motivated, has flaws that they don’t see as a problem, and all around be the kind of person that operated in the morally gray areas of life. At a glance, most people would probably say that Rorschach is this films anti hero. After

Hand written mail is a gift, a priceless slip of paper. Usually, it bears news. Most often, it is happy news, others, it is sad news. Occasionally, a mix of both. The most precious of the written communication is between dear friends, unless, of course, the letter happens to be full of contempt and hatred for the country scenery and lifestyle. Charles Lamb, in his letter written to his friend, William Wordsworth, does exactly that, destroying any of Wordsworth’s hope of his friend coming to visit

lived with a mother, father, three older sisters, and a younger brother. We lived in the large city of Los Angeles, California. There was no apparent infidelity that I was ever aware of in my family, but yet there seemed to be a small bit of the same crass attitude that my mother had for my father. He was stricken with a disability and unable to provide in the same manner she was accustomed. All of my siblings that could helped out in any way they could. The point is that we were a family that pulled

“This Lesbian Breaks Down Exactly Why Catcalling Sucks So Much” was an article written by Jenny Block in response to “Hey Ladies – Catcalls are Flattering! Deal With It” by Doree Lewak. In the article Block takes Lewak’s arguments line by line and gives her reasonings as to why cat-calling is offensive to women. Block had one purpose for writing this article, she wanted to express to Lewak as to why catcalls are not flattering. Lewak believes that they are and that they give her a sense of confidence

Streetcar and Students A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams is an appropriate study for grade 12 students as it highlights one’s need to face reality. In addition, the play shows that the need to face reality inherently affects one's relationship with the world. It also exemplifies how the past has a way of coming back with more fight and fury. For instance, and perhaps most powerfully, this play addresses heavy topics such as abuse and trauma, though most interestingly how the characters

“The Office” is a critically acclaimed comedy television series spanning nine seasons. The show is a “mockumentary” a style of satirical comedy that is crass in nature. But uses its platform to shed light on the hazards of societal norms that reinforce stigmatic ideals. This particular show follows salesmen’s lives around the workplace in a dying work field of a small town. Michael Gary Scott, regional manager of the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. On the surface, he’s

Crass also joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) in order to work alongside while doing gigs and raising awareness of socio-political issues. It could be theorised that many other bands such as ‘Conflict’ and ‘Flux of Pink Indians’ also adopted

development of specific attachment is shown through separation anxiety. The most influential versions of this approach was probably that of Sigmund Freud, who believed that the infants upset at the mothers absence is based on the crass fear that bodily needs would now go unsatisfied. The British psychiatrist john bowlby called this the

The presidential elector system is an anachronistic vestige of aristocratic attitudes, both undemocratic and easily manipulated. Its survival until 2013 reflects the power of inertia and founder worship. We should change it. Recent legislative proposals in Virginia and Pennsylvania remind us that the elector system defeats fundamental principles of democracy. Republicans in both states have proposed abandoning the winner-take-all format for choosing electors, where all of the state's electoral votes