George Ripley

were strong believers in this movement were George Ripley and his wife, Sophia Willard Dana Ripley. The Ripley’s decided to create what they believed to be a utopia in Western Roxbury, or modern day Boston (Smith). They named this community The Brook Farm Institute for Agriculture and Education, or Brook Farm. Brook Farm was one of the countless experiments trying to create a utopian society in the United States around the time of 1830 (Gordon). George Ripley was a member of the Transcendental Club

He founded the community back in 1841, in West Roxbury, Massachusetts. Ripley had formed the group which consisted of twenty people, including, his wife Sophia Ripley. Ripley wanted to make the human race more refined and have better morals. George was very big on education, it was his solid idea on what he wanted Brook Farm to become. Before Brook Farm Community was created, George took the time to become accustomed to the acts of living and learning together. The systematic

our aspirations, real. Therefore it is the nature of life to live through reality and to dream. It is fitting, then, that many texts have been composed based on ‘Dreams and Reality’. ‘The Great Gatsby’, ‘Great Expectations’, ‘the talented Mr. Ripley’, and ‘Cat’s in the Cradle’ are some such texts. We all need to have dreams and goals, they give us purpose. This is evident in the

My chosen particular aspect that I have analyzed to be found to have significant connections between my four chosen texts is identity. I have perceived this theme of identity through four different films of Gattaca, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Catch Me If You Can and V for Vendetta. Through these films I have formed three questions off of my theme identity analyzed: What was the effect of identity on the people around the protagonist what drove the protagonists to obtain a new identity? What was identity’s

Monroe starts in the comedy as Sugar Cane who is a very feminine musician. 'Alien 3' on the other hand was made 40 years after and is a sci-fi horror. Sigourney Weaver is the star of the film and plays the character Lt. Ripley. Unlike Sugar Cane, Lt. Ripley is a very tough and manly character. 'Some Like It Hot' is about two musicians. They witness a massacre and try to

the differences between Ripley and Dallas as the protagonist. In the iconic chestburster scene the crew are seated peacefully as they prepare to return to stasis, however this peace is disturbed when Kane convulses and a chestburster bursts out of him. Only the male characters are active in this scene: Parker and Dallas initially comfort and hold Kane down, Brett holds Kane’s legs down, and Ash runs from the other side (farther aways then Ripley and Lambert) to help. Ripley and Lambert initially reach

trying to develop an atmosphere on. The investigation soon turns into a fight for survival and escape, as the colony has been overrun by aliens and is now their breeding grounds. Ellen Ripley, who is played by Sigourney Weaver, is the advisor to the expedition, but quickly becomes the group’s anointed leader. Ripley was recovered by a team, who found her in a state of hibernation, after she had to blow up her ship, because an alien got on board and killed her entire crew. She had been adrift for almost

There is no doubt that Hollywood is an industry based on selling movies and what sells movies better than the marketing of a Hollywood star. An actor or actress can not only make movies successful, but in addition their images are also profitable. The Hollywood Star System has been very profitable for Hollywood and contributed to saving Hollywood in the late 1920s and 1930s when studios found it financially hard to survive. Once Hollywood realized their star’s had financial power there was no stopping

he had finally made it to the car and got in, with tears of frustration and anger running down his cheeks, she had said gaily to her friend, “Sissy! He’s a sissy from the ground up. Just like his father!” ” (Chapter 6 Pg. 38 The Talented Mr. Ripley) Tom Ripley is a character that explores and strives for belonging/acceptance and wellbeing. His parents drowned on a boat in the Boston Harbor in which he had to live with his Aunt Dottie. Aunt Dottie expresses society’s view on Tom as boy by belittling

Tom Ripley isn’t entirely sure of who he is, taking on the identity of multiple characters to hide behind a mask of insecurity. We meet him in the beginning of Patricia Highsmith’s, “The Talented Mr. Ripley” taking on someone else’s job as well as pretending to be a well-educated well-mannered Princeton graduate. Tom Ripley has gotten away with all his frauds, impersonations, and forgeries until his past comes back to haunt him. His imagination runs wild as he imagines the horrible deeds he has done