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Society often creates an unspoken set of standards on what defines “normal”. Then, we imprint these ideals into the brains of children and they live their lives conforming and never thriving. Tim Burton, an advocate for individuality, uses his films to break these standards. Burton incorporates Misfit protagonists and Motherly/Fatherly figures in Alice in Wonderland and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children to display that young people truly find themselves when they deviate from the path society

adaptation of the novel “The African Queen” that was written in 1935 by C.S Forester. The director of this film is John Huston and the producers were John Woolf and Sam Spiegel. The characters Samuel Sayer and his sister Rose are missionaries from Britain who have gone on a mission in Kungdu, a village of German’s colony in East Africa just when the First World War had started. All the supplies and mails are delivered by a small boat that uses steam and it is named African Queen and it is driven by a rough

culture, Drag Queen culture. Before starting to research topics for this ethnography, I would have never thought of drag community as a sub-culture however they have everything that is present in a culture. The drag community has its own customs, style of dress, interpretation of language and symbols, ideals, and norms. Although drag queens and the queer community are connected I don’t think that you can classify them as the same culture. If you would ask people what a drag queen is, they would

Queen Elizabeth I ruled England during a turbulent time in its history. She was beset on all sides by those who wished to take her throne for themselves, whether it be through marriage or outright treason. With these threats, as well as the unstable political atmosphere across much of Europe, Elizabeth I could not afford for others to see her as weak. Although she distances herself from the stereotypes of women at the time, and even paints herself as a masculine figure to give herself an aura of

“The Bloody Queens” Evil, corruption, power, and hate. Only the biggest hypocrites could pull off such a deceitful time where they made each other suffer. Where they saw the climax of their life flash before their eyes... Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Mary of Scots had just figured out they were cousins when the time for their tremendous lust for the crown begun and the fight between each other started behind a desk... Where lifting a hand could lead to a vicious murder that ended the feud between

When a person watches a movie, and a scene with dim lighting shows up on the screen, that usually makes them feel tense and scared about what is going to happen next. Directors use cinematic techniques to convey feelings or connect with the viewer. In the movies Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Alice in Wonderland, and Edward Scissorhands, Tim Burton uses flashbacks, diegetic and non-diegetic sounds, and high key and low key lighting to show a characters’ thoughts or past, create the mood of a

The police procedural is a recent addition to detective fiction. This is because “[b]efore the 1980s the police novel was a minor, and somewhat maligned, stepchild in the field of crime fiction.”[5] As one of the early police procedural novels, Ed McBain’s Cop Hater was a factor in how detective fiction came to embrace the police procedural. In doing so, it had to deal with the attitudes that caused cop characters to be considered unsuitable protagonists. This process was facilitated by efforts to

Trying to find individuality in a world of social expectations is the most trying challenge any one person is expected to overcome. “The Queen Bee and Her Court” by Rosalind Wiseman gives readers an in-depth look at high school cliques and social hierarchies, and the effects of peer pressure while trying to find one’s self. From the Queen Bee who utilizes her power to control the wannabes, to the target who is just waiting for the end of high school, everyone can see themselves as at least one of

could not find people to sit with. Another time she shows the avoidance style is when she did not tell her parents how the school was really going. She just ran to her room. She ignored the conflict all together. The opposite of Cady is Regina, the “queen bee” of the school. The conflict style Regina used was competition. Competition is someone thinking that the conflict has to go their way or the highway, is a win-lose situation. She showed this conflict style is when she told Aaron the rumors that

Have you ever read a book, and felt that their was a different meaning? When the classic fairy tale “Alice in Wonderland” is analyzed from the critical viewpoint of feminism, readers may discover some very interesting and remarkable surprises. In this book, there are parts where Alice is being treated poorly by men. Also the story suggest that women are irrational,emotional, and loud. Mainly showing that they can’t be relied on to do some of the tasks that the men do. However most of the men in the