Essays on Belinda

After a read of Belinda Sutton’s 1783 Petition and the 1791 letter dubbed To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Banneker, it is impossible to overlook the authors’ shared perception of men and women of color deserving more than what the Caucasians gave them at the time. Sutton believed that after her years of captivity as the human chattel of one Isaac Royall, she should have a “morsel of [the] immense wealth” her servitude under bondage had given the master (1783, par.5). Similarly, in a wider perspective of the racist ideologies that fueled the slavery system, Banneker insisted that his ...

The chance to reinvent ourselves is one of the most compelling in the vast human experience. It is what compelled James Gatz to become Jay Gatsby, and to leave the life of a dirt farm family to own a series of ostensible pharmacies that sold illegal liquor out the back door, all so that he could win the love of Daisy and be everything that she wanted. It is what compels audiences to watch movies that show stories of change and transformation. Change can be complicated because it can end up leading to consequences that we did not expect, ...

Burnt Norton is one of four T.S. Eliot’s poems in The Four Quartets. It was the first one which was written and published. The other three, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, and Little Gidding, followed only several years later. All four poems are related to each other through the idea of man’s attitude to time and life. Burnt Norton, being the first in the quartet, introduces the theme from the very beginning with philosophical speculations about the interconnectedness between present, past, and future. In her lecture devoted to Eliot’s Four Quartets, Belinda Jack points the three ...

Introduction

Wald, J. & Negulesco, J. (1948). Johnny Belinda. {Motion Picture] United States, Warner Brothers. The movie that I will discuss about in my essay is entitled, “Jonny Belinda.” The movie director was Jean Negulesco and Jerry Wald produced it. Jonny Belinda was produced in September 14, 1948. The screenplay writers of the movie are Allan Vincent and Irma von cube. The movie is based on a play written by an American, Elmer Harris. The movie is in the category of American drama film .The writer had lived long in Prince Edward Island where he came across the story of a deaf ...

Background of Microsoft Kinect:

When you talk about innovative products that have revolutionized the market, then you cannot rule out Microsoft Kinect for Xbox from this list. This product allows you to play video games without using any controller or remote. Kinect is a motion sensing device that was developed by Microsoft for the Xbox 360 video games. (Gustavo Saposnik et al , 2010) Techniques such as facial recognition and voice recognition are used to identify users. It also does a skeletal mapping of the user through the sensors and video camera that are placed on the machine. It was launched for the first time ...