Essays on Laurence

Film Studies Portfolio

Xavier Dolan’s “Laurence Anyways” Film Review

An extremely ambitious project from a very young director, Xavier Dolan, the romantic drama “Laurence Anyways” follows the love story between Fred (Suzanne Clement) and Laurence (Melvin Poupad). Ironically, although they both have masculine names, Fred and Laurence are women. A transgender who had lived as a man, Laurence comes out with the revelation that he has always felt as a woman inside, and continuing his fake male life would kill him. The filmmaker situates this unique love story in the 1990s, a time when transsexuality was still considered an illness, and ...

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The Gangster Movie: Questions and Answers

1. VIDEO CLIP 1: Identify two classical conventions of gangster genre (e.g. theme, plot device, character type, and/or stylistic device) present in this image and briefly explain the significance of each one. (2 points) The two classical conventions of Gangster Genre present in the first video are theme and character type. The theme that is being explored in the video clip is the immigrant criminal, who has been left to die in humiliation and as a comic, as required by the Production Code Administration (PCA). The character type is the gangster, who has dark, ethnic ...

An issue that has been a main concern in politics has been climate change and of course global warming. Everyone wants to know if the activities of humans are changing the climate. They also want to know if it is possible they will encounter more serious disasters. However, it is difficult to provide answers as their concerns are quite challenging to those who are responsible for solving them. But it is important for all those that have concerns to understand that many new things are happening that were not predicted in the early 20th century. This is why I ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar was one of the first influential poets in the movement that would become the Harlem Renaissance. Older than some of his peers within that group, he published his first poems in 1889, in the Dayton Herald, also serving as class president and class poet despite being the only black student in his grade level. He initially wanted to become an attorney, but his mother did not have enough money to send him off to university, so he started looking for work in his downtown, Dayton, Ohio, but found that there were few openings for black applicants. ...

‘This is the tragedy of a men who could not make up his mind’ announces the movie interpretation of Sir Laurence Olivier, the Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor for his Hamlet. It might be said that the award for Best Picture mainly belongs to William Shakespeare himself as the movie is closely following the original script of the play. In some cases it reveals the perception of the play by the movie director, the order of some scenes was changed. For example, in the first Act, the scenes of the appearance of Horatio, ...

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Promising for the future is an endeavor set for at least unqualified disappointments. The factors involved in the dynamics of reality cannot be totally controlled, oftentimes have their own lives or evolutionary stages to follow, to conform to someone’s idea of how things should be. The idea of ‘should be’ is a visionary’s dream and a realist’s joke. The promise of imperialism in Conrad’s time and perspective as J. Hillis Miller understood it can either be a contrived promise from the imperialist power to deceive the dominated people into ...

Analysis of the title of the play “A Raisin in the Sun”

Introduction The title of the play, “A Raisin in the Sun” has in depth meaning based on the literal outlook. First, we can look at the meaning of Raisin. A raisin is a dried grape. So, when we look at dried grapes, when left in the sun, the probability is that they will get worse in such a way that, a person might not admire them. The title thus has a direct connection to the story which is about dreams and realizing them in life. Many times, people often forget about their dreams letting distractions come on their way ...

Business Law

The case is a promissory estoppel situation where Dhafir acted upon Hansen’s legal action if any damages occur from the falling tree. Hansen can place a claim stating the cutting of the diseased limb and not the whole tree as a premise. The courts will still proceed with the promissory that Hansen made as it is the ignitor of Dhafir’s decision to cut the tree.

Legal Capacity to Contract and Requirement of Legality

The issue is the involvement of a minor in a contract before they attain the legal age of participating in one. The car sellers will hold John responsible for the debts as ...

Stanley Milgram who was a psychologist from Yale, conducted a well-known experiment about obedience which is relevant for human psychology. This happened in 1963 and the experiment was related to the fact that people were in conflict between their own conscience and obeying authority. Milgram was seeking for explanation of people who committed genocide because they were ordered to do so during WWII and he found out that obedience is a powerful impulse. Milgram was inclined to believe that people tend to obey the authority because it is a tactic for survival. “For many people, obedience is a deeply ...

Muslims, who are known for their particular patriotism and devotion to the tradition of their country, have suffered too much nowadays from national oppressions. It is clear, that since the death of the prophet Muhammad, the Muslim society has not been completely formed. Thus, his “people”, in order to retrieve a Homeland of their own or, at least, a society, have made many attempts throughout history. Each one, usually, was followed by the chosen one - the Messiah, who was likely to be the savior of the nation (Maudoodi, Ahmad & Ansari, 1979). The wave of Islamic revival has swept ...

In his article, “The Perils of Obedience,” author and psychologist Stanley Milgram argues that most people obey the authority even when they know that their moral judgement is sufficient enough to determine right from wrong. In ordinary life, a person's conscience conflicts with the need to obey authority. Most decisions in life are made to appease the authority figure that a person's wishes in life. In the ‘blind experiment,' the teacher and the learner were used to determine the level at which punishment affects learning (Milgram 4). In particular, the point at which a person stops inflicting pain ...

The article, The Perils of Obedience, written by psychologist Stanley Milgram describes his experiment which sought to test how much pain an ordinary person could inflict on another because they have been ordered to do so by someone in authority. It is set around the 1960s, written as a scholarly contribution to Yale University. The article examines obedience in an attempt to define the extent to which obedience can go and the impact that it has on conduct. Milgram holds that obedience is paramount to many; obeying authority counts even where that that goes against one’s conscience. The ...