X-Men

With an increasing amount of technology invested in virtual reality, real life is now merging with a fictional world that can be created and manipulated. Another manner in which the real world is capable of joining a manufactured world is through the usage of comic books. Real world events have been and are continuously mixed up with the lives of superheroes such as when heroes were depicted fighting against Hitler and the Nazi’s in World War II. There are two main types of representations of real

Superheroes are very popular in our society, most people in today’s world spend their time either watching superhero movies or reading superhero comic books. Although there are many reasons why superhero fans are so popular, the most important ones are, their movies are related to the current world issues, such as fight prejudice, stereotype, good team work, and they always inspire the young children. Superheroes having powers doesn’t mean that they’re not humans, They can save the world and fight

passively and have no feelings, be nonviolent, and love his enemy no matter what kind of attack, verbal or otherwise, he's supposed to take it. But if he stands up in any way and tries to defend himself, then he's an extremist.” – Malcolm X, Activist 1 Life Of a Black Men Martin Luther King Jr was born into a family of Baptist ministers. Growing up as a son of a pastor, he was given opportunities for education and experiences that children raised in poorer urban and rural areas did not have available

There will always be entertainment and in the 1960’s comic books ruled the entertainment industry, and even now they dominate as comic book movies. The worlds created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Frank Millar have become pop culture and people across the world have gazed upon this form of art and literature combined. The protectors of the universe, as powerful as they can be, are missing one key component, the universe. The issue that comic books have not been as diverse as the world they protect

The Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a novel in which the theme of savagery versus civilisation is explored. Some British boys are stranded on an isolated island at the time of an imaginary nuclear war. On the island we see conflict between two main characters, Jack and Ralph, who respectively represent civilisation and savagery. This has an effect on the rest of the boys throughout the novel as they delve further and further into savagery. The theme of savagery versus civilisation

The Jurassic Change Of Boo Radley “Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that's why his hands were bloodstained—if you ate an animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time.” (Lee 16) In the novel to kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses characterization of Boo to show that

Today’s younger generations tend to think of Charles Xavier and Jean Grey when the phrase mind over matter is involved. Charles and Jean are two very power mutants with extraordinary mind powers allowing them to read minds and levitate objects. While some instances of mind over matter might be like that others tend to be much simpler than that. The idea of telekinesis came to be around the late 1800s, when the ability to move objects became more involved with sciences. The idea was already out by

art is the captivating storytelling, immersive artwork, and innovative creativity, these factors have always been constantly overlooked by artists and critics alike. Comic books like Daredevil by Brian Michael Bendis, The Wake by Scott Snyder and X-men God Loves, Man Kills written by Chris Claremont all have one or

their own twists at times. All of these different groups represent great diversity in the movement and the complexity and depth which people tend to ignore. In portraying only two leaders and methods in X-Men: First Class, it reflects how society views not only Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X in reductionist terms, but the entirety of the Civil Rights Movement. These reductionist terms are extended to many other aspects of the movie such as in portraying the mutants in one homogeneous groups

Chimichangas “ You're probably thinking, ‘My boyfriend said this was a superhero movie but that guy in the suit just turned that other guy into a fucking kabab!’ Well, I may be super, but I'm no hero”. This quote from the original Deadpool movie is a perfect description of the movie because Deadpool is not the typical fun loving superhero that viewers would expect to see in a superhero film. If the viewer is familiar with the original Deadpool, they know that Deadpool or Wade Wilson doesn't care