Essays on Ethan

Response to Case Study Scenario

Physical abuse – is an act of violence against the child, made by a parent or carer as a result of physical punishment or sometimes with intension to get a pleasure from someone’s suffering and pain. (Briggs 2012, p.150) Sexual abuse – is an act of undesirable sexual conduct by an adult upon a child. (Briggs 2012, p.204) Emotional abuse – it is any kind of non-physical abuse over a child, which may lead to different psychological traumas. (Briggs 2012, p.89) Neglect – is any act of dereliction that forms impossibility to provide conditions, which are needed for normal development of a ...

Both films are a representative of a historical period and developments that took place in the 20th century. However, a biopic movie, Chaplin, represents historical period and transformation better compared to the Searcher. This is because; Chaplin has a larger transition of duties and livelihood from the young age to old age and prosperity (Burr 2). This allows the viewers to follow the development process and hence, the historical period is vividly presented. In the film Chaplin, we see Chaplin taking over his mother's duty in stage and growing to become a director in Hollywood. Chaplin involves himself so ...

The Dutch East Indies, today known as Indonesia, has through the history seen different colonizers that governed the country in different periods of time. There were and still are different perceptions of the different colonizing countries among Indonesians. The Netherlands and Japan are one of the most important countries that impacted the country’s nation building. The paper will answer the research question in what ways were the Japanese different than the Dutch regarding nation-building in the Dutch East Indies. There were some similarities and a lot of differences in governance. The historical context played a vital role in ...

The Alabama hostage crisis started on January 29, 2013 and lasted for 6 days, ending on February 4, 2013. During the crisis, 65-year-old Jimmy Lee Dykes, a Vietnam veteran, boarded a school bus and demanded that two children, preferably boys aged 6-10 years old, went with him (Phillips, n.d.). In the note he passed to the driver, Charles Poland, Dykes insisted that children would not be hurt and that he needed “two hostages to force the powers that be to listen” (Phillips, n.d.). As a result, he kidnapped 5-year-old Ethan Gilman and took him to the 6x8-ft underground bunker ...

Introduction to Existentialism

Discuss the film in terms of Nietzsche’s eternal return “Inside Llewyn Davis” by Ethan and Joel Coen is centered on a harshly ironic existential joke and a secular riddle. The film starts and ends with somewhat dissenting versions of a similar event. Llewyn Davis, an aspiring folk singer performs onstage at a coffeehouse called Gaslight and mysterious stranger awaits to beat him up as he steps into the back street. People wondered whether the last scene was a flashback and the first scene was a flash-forward. It is framed in a playful harshness towards the audience and main ...

Executive Summary

The art of management can be very challenging but with the mastering of the basic principles of management, managers can easily navigate a company into success. Setting a business up anchored on the principles of management enables it to operate effectively with checks and balances. Outdoor Adventure Paintball Park was not set up using the right management principles. For a start, the business was set up without a sound plan on how it was going to operate. As much as the business enjoys some advantages given its strengths regarding resources and location, the business also has some weaknesses that ...

Introduction

Summer is a novel by the esteemed writer Edith Wharton, who is mostly known for her books such as Ethan Frome. Summer is seen as a continuation of the theme that Edith delved in her previous book Ethan Frome. The plot similarities can be seen as both protagonists of the two books were ambitious and tired of living an average life. The story revolves around Charity, an eighteen-year-old, who craves for adventure from the bleakness of her situation. She is soon entangled in a love affair with the visiting Lucius Harney. The story is about the sexual awakening, naivety, ...

"No Country for Old Men" is U.S film that was produced in the year 2007. It was written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. The film tells the story of Texas welder and Vietnam veteran. The greed and chance of these two deliver a fate that is neither denied nor wanted in the society. The themes of fate, circumstances and conscience are explained through the film. Furthermore, it talks about the value of particular generation in the society. While on the trip for hunting, Josh Brolin who is a sportsman finds some dead men and a lot of ...

The film “Gattaca” for more than fifteen years of its existence (created in 1997) has already acquired the status of an “iconic piece of art”. The director's chair and at the same time the place of a screenwriter was taken by the legendary Andrew Niccol. Fascinating story glorifying human willpower and spirit embodied by young talents such as Ethan Hawke (Vincent), Uma Turma (Irene) and Jude Law (Jerome). Let the movie be considered by many as a fairy tale, but “Gattaca”, in my book, is one of the most inspiring pictures showing the way of a person hitching his wagon to ...

John Ford’s 1956 film The Searchers is commonly understood to be one of the finest Westerns of all time; much of that is due to John Ford’s gorgeous cinematography, but the lion’s share of the film’s appeal rests on the captivating nature of John Wayne’s character Ethan Edwards. The dubious nature of Ethan Edwards’ heroism is at the heart of the film - a mysterious stranger who rides into town after a long absence, Ethan’s behavior and attitudes change the other characters around him in an irrevocable fashion. Because of his dry, easy wit and ...

Crazy Like Us is a book written by Ethan Watters. Through this book, Ethan explores the spread of anorexia, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and schizophrenia. Through case studies, the author explains the causes, and symptoms of Anorexia in Hong Kong, depression in Japan, post-traumatic stress disorder in Sri Lanka, and how Schizophrenia came to Zanzibar. Moreover, he explains how these disorders are prevalent in the Eastern nations due to the American influence. In addition, Ethan Watters outlines the implications of the American influence, and the urgent need to treat these illnesses in a culturally suitable framework. Ethan states that, American influence ...

Article Summary: The Biblical Context of “Ethan Brand”

This article by Stock (1965) discusses the short story “Ethan Brand: A Chapter from an Abortive Romance” by Hawthorne (1850, 1852), specifically considering the Biblical context. He states that the story’s primary source is the Bible, and that whilst the most obvious biblical allusion is “to the concept of the Unpardonable Sin”, closer perusal of the tale shows that there are other, more complex allusions, the main one associated with the narrative of Cain and his character as encapsulated in legend (p.115). Stock also notes that Hawthorne’s choice of the name Ethan positions the character in a ...

“Young Goodman Brown,” “The Birthmark” and “Ethan Brand” are all notably published works from the dark romanticism sub-genre era published by Nathaniel Hawthorne that have lead characters embracing the concepts of morality and isolation. Hawthorne is an American author well-known mostly for his writings in this particular classification of stories from 1839 to 1860. Hawthorne typically incorporates such topic as isolation, sin, and the devil in his writings. These topics can generate and fester sinister feelings and ideas of alienation, guilt, and gloom. Hawthorn draws influence from multiple aspects of his life, for example, incorporating the use of his ...

Communication

1b. Satire is an influential form of art that has the power to highlight the insufficiencies and paucities in specific human behaviors as well as the social issues that are eventual outcomes of these in a manner in which they transform into ridiculous, often hysterical, which is thus humorous and engaging, and finally reach a wide range of audience. Satire also has the capacity to safeguard its creator from guilt and accountability for the criticism, as it is implicitly expressed instead of being overtly expressed; and eventually, it develops into a powerful tool for dissidents in challenging or domineering political and social ...

Ethan Frome is a story set in a Starkfield, New England. A narrator whose name the reader is not told narrates his interactions with Ethan Frome. The narrator portrays Ethan Frome as a character that has dreams. The story is told based on the interactions made on a winter storm. The narrator is an engineer that is on business in Starkfield. When the narrator sees Ethan in town, he is intrigued and wants to learn more about him. During one time when the narrator is given shelter at Ethan’s house on a stormy night, the narrator overhears a voice of an angry woman that ...

Introduction

This essay is about the detailed analysis of the 2010 comedy movie ‘Due date’ starring Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis. It was the direction of Todd Phillips and writing of Todd Phillips, Adam Sztykiel, Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland that made the movie hilariously comic. It is genre of dark comedy. The acting of Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis along with Michelle Monaghan and Jamie Foxx is amazing. The ‘hangover’ series fame director Todd Phillips and his screenplay team has a knack of producing genuine humor out of awkward real life situation. The situational comedy of this ...

“Facebook denies us a pleasure whose profundity we had underestimated: the chance to forget about ourselves for a while, the chance to disconnect.” Stated by Stephen Marche, a Canadian writer, in an Atlantic Monthly article, he points out that Facebook is just an application that everyone currently uses to isolate themselves from the world and uses it as a tool to escape from reality (Tobar). Looking deep into this statement, we find that there is much truth in the fact, that while Facebook connects people from different parts of the world and brings them together, many people use it as a source of getaway ...

Television comedies come in all shapes and sizes; there are a wide variety of audiences to appeal to and draw in through the use of comedy on television (Mills 1). To that end, television comedies are found in different configurations, with distinguishing factors being the type of comedy, the length of the show, the way each show is filmed, etc. (Mills 33). From The Simpsons to The Office, there are thousands of different comedy shows that have been or are currently on the airwaves, but many of them have several defining attributes to them that set themselves apart from each ...

The short story, ‘Ethan Frome’ written by Edith Wharton in the early 1900’s, tells the story of Ethan who grew up on a farm where his descendants lived and worked and died. Ethan’s story is told from the first person point of view and details the story of a sad and unfortunate young man who lives in a New England village. The choices that he has made have him trapped hopelessly in situations that befall him one by one. Ethan had left home to study technology at a college in Worcester. He had big dreams of living in the city where ...

I Am Legend is a movie directed by Francis Lawrence in 2007. The producers of the movie include Moritz, Goldsman, Lassiter, and Heyman. The movie bases on the horror fiction novel by Richard Matheson in 1954. The novel illustrates the development of the zombie genre to popularize a worldwide plague. The novel adapts the film The Omega Man in 1971, Last Man on Earth in 1964, and I Am Legend production in 2007. Some of the casts in the movie include Will Smith, who represents Dr. Robert Neville, Alice Braga who plays the role of Anna, and Willow who represent Marley ...

Storefront Church

- Thesis Statement This paper gives a detailed and critical report of a live play: Storefront Church, a two-hour play which was casted to thrill the enthusiastic fans - Overview - Storefront Church is a play which was written by John Patrick Shanley and published on 09th/06/2012 and directed by Joy Carlin and organized by the Susi Damilano and Bill English founded San Francisco Playhouse. - It was played on 9th/01/2014 at the prestigious San Francisco Playhouse, San Francisco, C.A. after learning about the play through an online advert; I managed to acquire my ticket online. - I ...

- The Causes of Global Warming Global Warming has always been an issue of debate, with environmentalists vehemently raising their voice against it. The main reason cited for global warming by researchers is the emission of greenhouse gases largely because of ever-increasing population and related changes in standard of living (Derek Markham, 2009). The main greenhouse gases causing this effect are carbon dioxide, Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and methane (WMO, 2011). These are caused mainly by burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gases for generation of electricity, running vehicles, warming and other industrial processes. - ...

This paper discusses three of the important scenes that occurred when the characters in Ethan Frome were in darkness.

The first scene in darkness setting happened at the start of the story. It was midnight and Ethan Frome was walking along Starkfield Streets. He stopped at a place where a dance was happening. Ethan took a view of the event. As the crowd dispersed, Denis Eady went back to the dance floor and the music went on again. In this scene, Ethan draws his focus on Mattie Silver, cousin of Zeena, Ethan’s wife. Mattie worked as a housekeeper of Fromes for a year. Ethan is quite attached to Mattie because they both share the same love for nature. The next scene ...

At first glance of the film ‘The Searchers,’ directed by John Ford, it may appear that Ethan Edwards is a racist warrior obsessed with racial hatred and the absence of love for family. Based on racism that was experienced in the 1960s especially, on the Indians and other, whites the film was seen as harsh; however, in light of today’s events, people view it in a different perspective as it has helped in shaping the American History. Ethan is obsessed about saving his niece from the Comanche’s who burn down his family house killing his family. However, he is ...

The lone gunslinger cowboy is one of the most iconic figures in American history – roguish and tough, with a pistol on his thigh and a checkered past, many Western films of the 50s and 60s feature such a character and their struggles with the chaotic and dangerous world of the Old West. In the case of the 1953 film Shane and the 1956 John Ford film The Searchers, their protagonists couldn’t be more alike while also taking somewhat different paths. Alan Ladd’s Shane and John Wayne’s Ethan Edwards are both mysterious figures who ride into the other character’s ...

In his New York Times article Workers Claim Race Bias as Farms Rely on Immigrants, Ethan Bronner explains the plight of Americans as far as acquisition of employment positions in the agricultural sector is concerned. The articles, dated sixth may, 2013 explains the untold story of the racial undertones that characterize the employment practices in American farms, especially those dealing with the planting and harvesting of onions. Bronner explains that the immigrants, who are admitted to various work stations, are assumed to be working under the guest worker program. Unfortunately, he says, not all of them are registered under ...

In the 1997 hard-sci-fi picture Gattaca, directed by Andrew Niccol, a biopunk utopian society has been created in the future where people have the ability to be genetically engineered from birth – as one fertility expert explains to the parents of the main character, “It’s still you, justthe best of you.” Vincent (Ethan Hawke) is an “invalid,” someone who was not genetically perfected in vitro, and so is discriminated against by employers who would prefer to hedge their bets on more ideal candidates. Despite this, or perhaps because of this discrimination, Vincent wants to leave Earth and go to Titan, ...

Ethan Canin, in a rather compelling story, seeks to explore the life of the narrator in the story, Corey Sifter. The novel talks about different themes but best of all is the theme of class, wealth and power. Corey is a young boy from humble beginnings, a lower class boy that was hired by the wealthy, high class Metarey family. Through these two back grounds the theme of class and wealth is introduced. Being rich and therefore belonging to the first class means that one can determine the future of not only an individual but also a region and even a nation. In ...

The Coen Brothers have, one may say created an absolute masterpiece of a movie, which some may say is an amalgamation of the Wild West movies of old and a horror story. “The wide open plains, cowboys, Texas, guns and horses but has the syntax of a film noir even sometimes a horror movie. There is a murderer, one could even call him an unstoppable force, he kills without mercy and with a semi-novelty killing device. It deals with a man who finds a loot of money and must escape his pursuers who are a bunch of dirty business men, corrupted by greed and the lust for power ...

Classic English literature: America America

‘America America’ is a novel written by Ethan Canin in 2008, which represents the American country in retrospective of the 1970s – the time of elections for Presidency spiced with intricate family, love and social classes’ relationships. The novel draws America as a country, which it used to be and which it continues to be up to the present moment. The system of the characters is quite sophisticated, but there are three obvious ones, who definitely stand out from the others and form the whole story. Corey Sifter, Liam Metarey and Henry Bonwiller – are three ‘whales’ who construct the plot of ...

This paper will discuss the relevance of studying the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne in the twenty first century. The paper commences by providing a brief history on Nathaniel Hawthorne. Thereafter, it will provide a chronology of some of his primary works. It will also provide reasons as to why Nathaniel Hawthorne is still popular very many years after his death . In addition, the paper will discuss some of the major themes contained in his literary works. Also, the paper will look into the symbols and settings that Hawthorne used; taking note of the significance of the aspects in his writings. ...

In 2007, America woke up to a revelation, by the Pew Research center, on the most admired journalist; At number four, was Jon Stewart tied with Brian Williams, Tom Brokaw (NBC), Dan Rather (CBS) and Anderson Cooper (CNN). The question that got the attraction of many Americans was who is Jon Stewart a journalist or a comedian, as most of his shows are comic? What is it that he does that is different from, traditional mainstream, press? A close analysis of the show indicates that Jon Stewart has a significant impact on dialogue with Americans but the contents of the show cannot be ...

In 2007, America woke up to a revelation, by the Pew Research center, on the most admired journalist; At number four, was Jon Stewart tied with Brian Williams, Tom Brokaw (NBC), Dan Rather (CBS) and Anderson Cooper (CNN). The question that got the attraction of many Americans was who is Jon Stewart a journalist or a comedian, as most of his shows are comic? What is it that he does that is different from, traditional mainstream, press? A close analysis of the show indicates that Jon Stewart has a significant impact on dialogue with Americans but the contents of the show cannot be ...

Assignment One: Portfolio of work Maximum

Skyfall Plot

A hard-drive that contains vital information about all the NATO operatives, who are undercover in the terrorist organizations, has been stolen and the head of British Intelligence – M is put under an embarrassing scrutiny by bureaucrats. After a near near-death incident, an out of colour 007 is sent out to retrieve the drive, as he is led to a man called Silva, who is out on a revenge mission to destroy both MI6 and M.

Review

Sam Mendes seems to be playing with the old themes, as well as the new ones with the return of 007 on its 50th ...

The image of Tragic Hero is well known from the ancient times. Such characters were mentioned in Greek, Roman, Indian legends, fairy tales as well as dramas, tragedies and other literature works. One of the most famous heroes, which possess all the features of the tragic character, is Oedipus the King mentioned in the Greek ancient drama written by prominent playwright Sophocles.

In times of ancient Greeks tragedy did not mean a play with unhappy or lethal ending. It only meant that the play would depict a hero, who must fight against his fate. The character should also possess features thanks ...