Steven Landsburg

In the movie, Back To The Future Part II, when Marty McFly Jr. sits down to watch TV, he doesn’t need to use a remote control to change channels. Instead, he barks commands directly at the big-screen TV and names six different channels that he wants to view, all of which instantly appear in a grid on the TV. In another scene, Marty approaches a “Garden Center fruit dispenser” and commands it to give him some fruit. His first command is “Hey, fruit!” He is ignored by the dispenser because it has

Chapter 5 of Freakonomics starts of by telling the reader that parenting has changed over the years. There has been a lot of contradicting methods, the authors explain on how parenting should be done. These methods range from how long you should breastfeed as to why letting a baby cry is like its exercise (Levitt and Dubner, 2009). The authors then say that fear is the biggest component when it comes to parenting (Levitt and Dubner, 2009). The chapter then leads into a story about how a girl’s parents

The American uniforms in Saving Private Ryan are also exceedingly accurate to the World War Two time period. Scene 11 (Dog-Tags) has the best depiction of American uniforms. This scene starts with the main characters sitting at a crate, digging through dog tags to find Ryan's name. They then take notice of the Airborne Division passing by and stop digging through the tags. Because of this, they start asking the passing Division if they know Ryan. One of the passing men does know Ryan and he tells

All For One and One For All: A Moral and Ethical Analysis of Saving Private Ryan The film Saving Private Ryan focuses on a single squad of Rangers during World War II (WWII), who are tasked with finding and retrieving a single Soldier – PFC Ryan – after the D-Day landing at Normandy. PFC Ryan’s three other brother’s died during or shortly before the invasion, making him the sole surviving member of his family. The realization of this fact convinces General NAME to send Private Ryan’s retrieval squad

Directed by Steven spielberg, starring Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Marie-Josée Croze the movie Munich released in 2005, was nominated for 5 Oscars. Based on the true and fateful events that took place at the 1972 summer olympic in Munich. The film “Munich” takes a look at the aftermath of the palestine terrorist group black september who took 11 Israel olympic team members hostage and demanded that 234 prisoners be released. Eventually all 11 team members were killed and the government hired 5 men

Steven Spielberg is a world-renowned and one of the most successful movie directors of all time. He has won 2 best director awards. Also, he was 4 Oscars and another 14 nominations. Which if you ask me, that is a very impressive achievement. I have a question “What made Steven Spielberg into the amazing director, and storyteller he is today?” Steven Allan Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on December 14, 1946. To an Arnold Spielberg an electrical engineer working on computers, and Leah Adler

1. The Jaws poster is particularly effective due to its bold primary colors of blue and red. The red text jumps out through contrast, catching the viewer’s interest. In addition, isolation, convergence, and location causes the eye to move around the poster. If the viewer’s eye is moving around the image, their curiosity is gauged, rather than simply looking at a plain, boring picture. For instance, the horizontal line of the water’s surface, as well as the woman swimming horizontally, works

Twenty-seven miles due west of the Golden Gate Bridge sits an arbitrary archipelago full of rich history and ambiguity overlooked by many. The Devil’s Teeth, a New York Times bestseller and first-person narrative by Susan Casey, invites her readers to an exciting period into her life as her fascination takes her to the Farallon Islands. Casey joins Peter Pyle the highly respected ornithologist and part shark expert with Scot Anderson, who is a talented marine biologist with a unique sixth sense

Fighting for the freedom of others is heroic and horrific, especially in the case of soldiers who risk their lives to fight in gruesome wars. The film Saving Private Ryan directed by Academy Award winner Steven Spielberg goes through the graphic and horrible events of war. The film is based on World War II and follows Captain John Miller and a group of soldiers on the journey to save Private Ryan, a soldier to has lost three brothers due to the horrific events of war. Throughout their journey, the

Nigel Morris’ Empire of Light offers numerous criticisms of Spielberg’s Indiana Jones series. His conclusions draw on the subconscious biases of the film with topics ranging from American imperialism, anti-feminism, and the “white man’s burden”. Morris argues the hero - the white, American, and masculine Jones - is inseparable from these identities (pg. 77). While he makes interesting points about the role of Marion and other characters in relation to Jones to support this argument, as he acknowledges