Nikki Newman

The Catch Some people say money is the root of all evil. I didn’t see it that way. All I saw was a simple task and a big prize. Well, at least I thought it would be easy. I remember it like it was just yesterday. The hot sun. The loud neighbors. The game. This game was like no other. It was called $100 catch, and the rules were simple enough. There were ten levels, sometimes there were obstacles, and you had to catch the ball. If you could do all that, then you’d get the prize-- $100. Easy

Have you ever wasted money in hopes of winning something that you have never received? I have done this once about five years ago; what happened was my family and my cousins once went on a cruise ship for a nice vacation. Since it was vacation, the adults didn't want to deal with us all the time, so they often let us have free reign. There were many activities available to us on the cruise, one of them being an arcade. Before we did anything, our parents gave us a limit to how much money we could

Distinguishing between right and wrong, good and evil, may be troubling when someone who is superior causes you to believe what you know is wrong is right. It can confuse one and have them believing things that they once believed to be terrible is actually okay. In Frank Darabont’s film, The Shawshank Redemption, throughout time spent as an inmate or an employee of Shawshank prison, the characters all partake in actions that they feel are “okay” even though they are aware that they are wrong. Which

and the injustices of the system. In short Cool Hand Luke is a movie that focuses on the struggles of a single courageous man and his quest for freedom. After being incarcerated for a petty crime and sent to a chain-gang jail, Lucas Jackson (Paul Newman) has risen up the ranks of the establishment and become the prisoners’ idol as well as the guard’s enemy. Jacksons’s contrasting relationship with the guards and the prisoners is an important

The song “Never Too Late” by Three Days Grace correlates with the tragedies that Finley McManus, Erin Quinn, and Russell Washington all face during the events of Boy21, a novel by Matthew Quick. The last two lines of the selected lyrics, “The life we had, Won’t be ours again”, connects with the events following Erin being hit by a car. Finley meets her in the hospital, and she informs him that she has shattered her leg, and will never be able to play basketball again. Finley and Erin planned to leave

We are well within the one-week countdown mark to possibly one of the most hyped series of Doctor Who in the show’s five-decade history. On the face of it, the series looks to be like any other. One with lots of monsters, mystery and adventure. Also with the important point of it being another Moffat series to add to his collection (which isn’t a terrible collection at that). So, what makes Series 9 that much more gripping, even before it airs? What have got Whovians the world over raving about

Analyse aspects of visual and/or oral text(s) through close viewing and/or listening, supported by evidence. The film that I will be analysing is “The Shawshank Redemption”. The Shawshank redemption is a film that was directed by Frank Darabont in 1994 and it was set in 1947. This film is about a young hotshot banker named Andy Dufresne, who was wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and her lover. For this crime he was given a double life sentence and he was sent to Shawshank prison to serve

The film American Beauty, directed by Sam Mendes is a film about imprisonment and escape from imprisonment (Mendes, 1999). American Beauty explores the breakdown of a suburban family man whose life journeys from self loathing and emptiness to freedom and liberation but at the ultimate cost of his life. Mendes effectively employs a range of techniques to help convey the meaning of this film such as set design, camera angles, colour and soundtrack. Cinema often uses structured set design and camera

Toy Story and A Bug's Life film Trailer Comparison Toy Story and A Bug’s Life, both directed by John Lasseter, exercise various cinematic techniques to persuade the trailers viewer to watch the film. Toy Story and A Bug's Life are adventure comedies full of surprises in which scenes change from light-heartedness to heart-stopping suspense. The trailers director doesn’t give too much away by revealing only parts of a scene; leaving the viewer frustrated and wanting to know the outcome, music also

The film “The Shawshank Redemption” directed by Frank Darabont is set in Maine. This film is about a young successful banker named Andy Dufresne who is wrongfully convicted of killing his wife and her lover and is sentenced to a double life in prison. Andy ends up becoming an inmate in Shawshank prison where he learns about the unpleasantness and brutality of prison life. Andy holds on to his dreams and his hope and along the way he befriends a couple of his fellow inmates, and one of them was a