Essays on Endearing

A Passionate Revival of Movie Musical Styles

Film Review: La La Land – A Passionate Revival of Movie Musical Styles La La Land was released by Lionsgate and Black Label Media on December 25, 2016. It is considered a comedy/drama/musical production. Damien Chazelle is the director and writer of the film. Major stars in the movie are Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone and Rosemarie DeWitt (Platt & Gilbert, 2016). It has received 14 Oscar nominations and numerous Golden Globe awards. The plot involves the evolving and troubled love affair between an aspiring actress and a disillusioned jazz pianist. This is a musical production that includes drama, romance and comedy ...

Abstract

Pastoral counseling is gradually becoming a radical provider of mental health services. Clergymen are increasingly pursuing training in both behavioral science and religion. In endeavors to manifest quality clinical practice, they merge theological and psychological disciplines. Pastoral counseling is thus a distinctive psychotherapy, given its ability to include divine and God`s power. The psychotherapy is based on the belief that people desire divine connection. Pastoral counselors mediate healing with God`s loving in order to achieve ideal wholeness. As such, this paper depicts a reflection on pastoral counseling in liaison with previous readings in class. It leverages various ...

Thesis: While my outward appearance and conversational nature is like my dad, I am more like my mom in terms of my personality and characteristic traits. One can never deny the fact that both the parents have a huge role to play in the upbringing of a child. The parents give a lot of time in nurturing their child, and thus go on to have an influence on the young mind. Thus, it is obvious that a child would take after his or her parents in the course of life. In my case too, the involvement of my parents in my development ...

Quirky by definition means that one is “different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion.” One can argue that it is an endearing quality but can also argue that a specific quirk is undoubtedly annoying. In Sherlock, we can see how John finds Sherlock’s quirks annoying—most of the people in Sherlock would agree with John. While they find his quirks annoying, they still find Sherlock to be smart and a great detective. I would argue that while a quirk may seem annoying at first, it can grow on a person when the person the quirk belongs to is ...

In Praise of Folly vs Gargantua and Pantagruel

The books in praise of folly and gargantuan and pantagruel are very amusing books. They present their issues in a way that is very amusing and indeed very appealing to the reader. If a person were to read these works without being keen and paying attention to detail and stylistic techniques of writing such as irony and humor the reader would easily confuse these works for comical pieces with just one aim of giving people a good laugh. This could not be any further from the truth. These books deal with contemporary issues affecting mainstream society and especially the authority figures and ...

Key Principles Of Email Language Use: Case Study of an Individual’s Emails in Different Genres of Communication

Communication is a social medium used to pass information and receive feedback. Since the invention of the internet, computer mediated communication had been used to facilitate communication. Emails are just one f the many forms of CMC that are widely used. Studies have revealed that individuals develop a distinct identity during a repeated communication process (Stein 2006). Since individuals regularly use the email for both official and unofficial communication, it is possible to study individual email communication to pinpoint identity patterns. This paper will use the case study of a lecturer’s communication with his supervisor, students and family members to examine his ...