Essays on Nostalgia

Born in 1958 in Shanghai China, Wong pursued graphic design at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University prior to enrolling in the training programs provided by the local television station. He started his career as the screenwriter, initially in television, then in the movies, and established his debut as a director with the 1988 film As Tears Go By, in the prime of Hong Kong movies (Yeh 6). The movie, which had a gangster theme, joined genre conventions with the infrequent visual skill, representing the gift of the formal experimentation, which was still evident in the succeeding work—earning him ...

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 ...

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“The End of the Day” (1990) Materials used in the painting are oil and canvas. The painting is executed in realistic style. It depicts a quiet scene of family life: the end of the day, as the name suggests. The foreground depicts a women, holding a book, with a child sitting on her knees. This is a mother, who is reading a story for her daughter. Interestingly, there are no any scenes or objects on the background, it is just a brown wall, possibly wooden, as it becomes obvious from the texture. Thus, the painting reminds a close ...

There are key features which define Victorian era literature. While some trends in literature may be difficult to define, the Victorian era is not. It is not only easily definable, current classic literature is riddled with examples of it. Victorian era literature contains some combination of several primary characteristics. While not every piece contains every characteristic, it is common to find more than one in those works. It includes serialization resulting in many Victorian era literary works being interminably long. Often ideas of industrialization appear as it reflects the changes people from every social stratum were forced to cope ...

Victorian Era Love in

In Wuthering Heights love comes in many forms. There are various examples of it throughout the novel. Most people think first and perhaps only, of Heathcliff and Catherine. There love was obsessive and destructive. It burned them both with a fire so big it could not be put out even by death. Heathcliff loved and hated Catherine, cursed her soul that she would have no peace, and then begged her to haunt him so he could have none either (Bronte 201). But there is much love to be found in Bronte’s 1847 novel. Consider for example Lockwood. Lockwood ...

The death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022 had a significant practical and emotional impact on the world. Being the longest-reigning queen in British history, Elizabeth II maintained a unique position of influence and admiration not only in the United Kingdom but also globally. In this essay, we will look at how Queen Elizabeth II’s death affected the world in several spheres, namely, the future of the monarchy, international relations, economy, and sentiment.

Queen Elizabeth Death: 2022 Marked the End of an Era

When did Queen Elizabeth die? The monarch died on September 8, 2022, at Balmoral Castle in Scotland at the age of 96. This marked the end ...

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 ...

Thesis

Charles Baudelaire’s poem, The Swan (1860), is a clash of emotions, from nostalgia to despondency, brought about by the destruction of the City of Paris and the memory creation on the events of the war.

The feelings of loss and nostalgia keep on bugging the persona’s mind, and he remembers Andromache, the widow of Hector, a Troy great warrior. When Greece defeated Trojan, the son of Achilles took Andromache as a trophy of war, taking her away from the familiarities of her entire life and surroundings to a new civilization and establishment where she became a wife ...

Abstract

Today, more and more people declare that they have Native American roots, due to the fact that America has become fascinated with the culture and history of this minority. This form of imperialist nostalgia which causes Whites to look at Native Americans with admiration, after having spent many years trying to destroy, harms Native Americans even if it seems to represent a positive change of attitude. By claiming a fake Native American identity, Whites try to appropriate the Indian culture and past, with the same lack of respect and consideration as they did in the past. They attribute stereotypical ...

Teenage boys may feel that girls are aliens, because they seem different, but in Neil Gaiman’s short Sci-Fi story, “How to talk to girls at parties”, the girls really are from another planet. The author humorously recounts the experience of two teenage boys, Vic and Enn, whose lack of experience around girls and nascent sexuality, cause them to ignore the visible signs that the girls they meet at a party are not from this world. Throughout the story, Enn, from whose perspective the story is told, is so focused on trying to talk to the girls he meets ...

It would be difficult for one to survive in a complete isolation from other people and therefore, it is a well-known fact, that people tend to socialize, interchange their experience and knowledge, cooperate and communicate in different spheres of their life. Territory, language, culture and certain traditions let people organize and unite into the groups, which are often defined as communities. Once a person identifies him- or herself with a community, accepts the existing norms and prescriptions in this group, he or she becomes a member of it. Fashion is a particular phenomenon, which is directly connected and dependent ...

The film “Lost in Translation” is really about the difficulties in translation, but not so much in the linguistic sense, as in the human, - translation of others’ feelings ("Lost In Translation (2003)"). The film is not so much the words as the information, the mood and emotions are not concluded just in words. This is perhaps one of the few movies, where the characters’ silence can be comfortable and talk about many things. A slow, as it might seem, dragged action is not the lack of pictures – that's the essence of the whole atmosphere of loneliness – the characters ...

Lewis Black’s One Slight Hitch is a delightful comedy based in the year of 1981. A play on words, not only is the character Courtney Coleman (Jenna Morris) getting hitched that day, her ex-boyfriend shows up causing a slight hitch in the day. The dynamic between her straight-laced fiancé Harper (Conor Farrell) and her free spirited, Jack Karouac loving ex-boyfriend Ryan (Brian Heaton) as well as her straight-laced parents creates a wonderful comedy. The play group was excellent, bringing together impeccable acting, fun scenic designs and appropriate costuming to produce a thoroughly entertaining two-act play. It is little ...

Recent public opinion surveys conducted among citizens of Russia prove that there is currently a significant surge in nationalism and patriotism as well as increasing support for Putin all over the country. The majority of Russian people support the annexation of Crimea and Russian foreign policy taken as a whole. Even despite Western sanctions, dramatic fall in value of ruble, and negative international image of Russia, the public opinion of Russian people regarding political and economic situation in the country remains quite positive, with Putin's approval rating being at record levels. Another important finding relates to the anti-Western opinions ...

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Language can be highly significant breaking common notion among the masses and the video is a valid proof of it. Will McAvoy played by Jeff Daniels does beyond the common answers expected by the audience and reveals the truth about American current position in the world. McAvoy shares statistics and the latest positions held by America on issues such as infant mortality, maths, literacy, life expectancy, science, labour force, etc. McAvoy further justifies his claim by saying the only places America leads is number of incarcerated citizens and defense spending. The result of using such strong language and honest ...

Hayao Miyazaki’s works have been critically acclaimed in Japan, as well as in the Western world, with his Spirited Away winning an Academy Award and becoming the first Japanese animation film to do so. Miyazaki’s works immerse the audience in fantasy worlds, created by the imagination of the director. What connects all these worlds together is the fact that they are set in the past, in relation to the present time, and possess a high degree of traditional Japanese culture infused in the backgrounds, characters and overall mood. Spirited Away is not an exception; however, it is ...

How does reading influence our personality and how can it be changed by reading electronic books? These issues are crucial in Sven Birkerts’ book “The Gutenberg Elegies: the Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age”. Through a series of biographical and anecdotal essays the author shares with us his nostalgia for normal books written on paper and opposes normal reading to technologies which prevent people from self-development and self-making. Birkerts holds that only books written on paper may give us a unique opportunity to pause, re-read, memorize and think of what we have just read while digital words destroy ...

In this paper there will be the analysis of the themes that are present in a chosen short story. Themes can be defined as the prevalent issues that arise from a story. The story to be looked into is A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor. This is a tragic story of a family that decides to go for a vacation and they end up being murdered. There are various things during the story that foreshadow their death like the graveyard that has six graves and the hearse that the character known as the Misfit ...

After the American Civil War, the South lay prostrate before the specter of the Lost Cause. There was a general poverty, both economic and personal. The war had had such a devastating effect that the intellectual capacity of a whole region shuddered, moaned. There could not be a more devastating occurrence to Southern pride than the ignoble defeat of the entire culture. The extent to which the South declined is documented in its literature. An examination of Southern literature during and after the Civil War provides a perspective on how far down the South had been driven before it ...

Introduction

The American film history is rich with the names of the directors who contributed to the world cinematography by the innovativeness and development of the industry. Depending on the era and the technological possibilities accordingly, the genius directors made the cinema the more and more powerful tool of influence on the society. Becoming more complex and profound, cinema in hand of the creator is a true work of art. The genius of his epoch, Orson Welles contributed not only to the cinema, but also theatre, radio, and even the social life of his country. Not only did Orson Welles ...

The documentary is a fine example of creative research. It convincingly conveys the atmosphere of both the past and the present of the Traveller community and the contrast between the two. A nice leitmotif of the film is nostalgia of the older generation as well as the younger one. Adding vividly illustrative pictures, the film appears to be a whole multi-layer insight into a peculiar and highly interesting aspect of Irish culture, explored by George and Sharon Gmelch. It allows the audience to dive into the days of people who “[took] advantage of the moment” and realistically deduced benefit ...

Flannery O’ Connor’s, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” is a compelling story about a grandmother attempting to show everybody how proper she is. The story, however, is useless without symbolism. Using the grandmother’s hat, nostalgia, and the definition of the good man itself, we see how the grandmother wants to represent herself. These three things also symbolize who the grandmother really is, and represent her demise, propelling the story to a brutal climax. While symbols are noticeable throughout the entirety of, “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” perhaps the most obvious use of it ...

1) “By the Rivers of Babylon”: Exile as a Way of Life (Diaz, 149-163) is an essay about how a Cuban in exile relates her life story to Psalm 137. It is about sorrow, longing, nostalgia, hope, vengeance, struggle and forgiveness of those exiled from Jerusalem to Babylon and the Cubans who seek refuge to the United States of America since Castro’s regime. The writer explained through a literary review why she keeps holding on the Psalm as she tries to keep life going in a foreign land. Like the Christians who were forced to exile in ...

I woke up late that morning. I had an intense feeling of tiredness. In fact, it was one of those mornings when I felt like doing nothing. But, it was the beginning of the day and as much as I would have loved to stay in bed I knew I had to get up. I reached for my lifesaver. I needed it to open my eyes fully and drag myself out of bed. And yes, it worked as usual. My morning coffee was always there to help me to start a new day. The freshness of that glorious coffee ...

People generally believe that the Harry Potter book series is destined for children and teenagers. The book series about the adventures of a young wizard and his friends in an enchanted land change with every book. As the protagonists grow up from being children to being teenagers, the story also changes to become darker and more violent. This series addresses young people, who are supposed to grow up reading the series, and the books change with each stage in the growing up process. However, many adults also read books for children and young adults, and I am one of ...

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Every individual is included in the American dream although their participation in achieving success is on an optional and voluntary basis. The American dream is an ethos in the United States that gives a set of guidelines and freedom that are necessary for an individual to achieve success, and a form of social upward mobility for their children and their families. Based on the statements made by Truslow Adams every individual is included in the American dream irrespective of the race, class, or status in the society. Life, in this case, should be richer and better for every individual ...

It is with sincere enthusiasm that I wish to recommend Jean for admission into the PhD program in Marketing major specifically in Consumer Behavior track in your esteemed university.

I have known Jean for four years and can attest to her brand of expertise both as a student and as a professional. I got to know her personally in 2010 when she became my student in Culture and Art Research Methodology. I remembered her as one of my best students in class as she deservingly received high marks in my subject. I also had a chance to work with her dursing ...

David Suzuki, the popular host of The Nature of Things uses the gracious, informative, informative and entertaining style that we have come to associate with him in his essay “The Right Stuff”. David begins his essay with a quotation from another famous publication: Is There Life after High School? that states that impressions formed in high school are more indelible and vivid that those formed at other times in life. Suzuki places emphasis on the high school education’s importance and then embarks on a preparing the readers of his essay for his proposal that is related to making high ...

Part A

Question 1 We went up to the attic, into a long, low room under the eaves where I’ve squirreled away some boxes of old stuff; I dug into one box, and the first thing I hauled out was the very thing he wanted. A thigh-length leather vest covered with fringe and studded with silver, it dates from around 1967, a fanciful time in college-boy fashions. Like many boys, I grew up in nice clothes my mother bought, but was meanwhile admiring Roy Rogers, Sergeant Rock, the Cisco Kid, and other sharp dressers, so when I left home I was ...

Thesis: The treatment of women in Good Bye, Lenin! And No Place to Go shows its female protagonists finding different and unique ways to retreat into their fantasy of an East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Both Christiana and Hanna Flanders, respectively, struggle with the newfound rise of capitalism and its effects on the GDR they once knew. In this respect, themes of simulation and nostalgia underlie the sociopolitical dimension of these films, as the characters construct more comfortable realities around themselves to address their own anxieties about the future of the GDR and their ...

The element of nostalgia in the novel

Great Expectations is a novel that is based on elements of nostalgia. The arch typical nostalgic character is the doomed Miss Havisham, who lives in the past and cannot get over the jilting of her suitor – she leaves her crumbling house just as it was all those years ago. Pip longs for his dead parents since he is treated badly by his sister although he finds comfort in the kindly character of Joe Gargery, his sister’s husband. There is also an autobiographical sense of nostalgia coming from Dickens’ himself, especially with the Kent surroundings forming such an important part ...

Langston Hughes has been recognized as one of the most important figures of the Harlem Renaissance and his emergence in the 1920’s as a major poet and writer took the American literary world by storm. His first breakthrough came around 1924 when a review about his work appeared in the New York Herald and Tribune which described him as ‘already conspicuous in that group of Negro intellectuals who are lending dignity to Harlem with a vibrant and genuine art life’. Hughes went on to be a blistering critic of lynching and other injustices against blacks especially in the Deep South. He also ...

Immigration-The American Dream

Ever since its discovery, the North-American continent has been the synonym for a prosperous country where by working hard one can achieve a fulfilled life and rich and lucrative career. Every day, people from different countries enter the USA in search for a better life for themselves and their children as well. One can notice the glimpse of hope, admiration, and fear in their eyes as they set out on this journey. However, they have to forget their previous social position, their university degrees, their ethnical background, and have to start from the beginning. As children, we listen to so many stories ...

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Book Review: ‘The Farming of Bones’ by Edwidge Danticat

The canons of literature around the globe are bestrewn with great works about wars. A curious thing about war literature is that there is almost always a clear heroic, moral victor who triumphs against a ‘worthy’ adversary – one who is able to fight back and is in no way victimized. Unlike such ‘glorious’ narratives, there are books which deal with less black and white forms of violence. Books such as ‘The Farming of Bones’ by Edwidge Danticat dive headlong into violent narratives where there really is no glory in death. ...

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What is the frozen food industry?

Food is frozen in order to maintain the quality and preserve it in a fresh state when there is a time lapse between the time the food is produced or cooked till the time it is consumed. This process helps elongate the shelf life of the food that is, in another situation, spoilt and considered not fit for consumption after a certain time has passed. It is a very old process of preserving food, apart from pickling the food items. It began in the 17th century and has been adopted by several organizations as well as individuals ever since the ...

Thematic Elements in Two Works of Romanticism

During the late 1700s and 1800s, the Romantic Movement among writers, poets, and painters evolved -- partly as a revolt against Industrialism and partly as a counter-movement in response to the zeitgeist of Neoclassicism. In two distinct works, strong thematic elements of the Romantic Movement are represented. In the painting, The Wanderer Above The Mists 1817-1818, Caspar David Friedrich depicts the raw beauty of communion with nature, solitude, as well as the inevitable passage of time. Similarly, in William Wordsworth's poem, "Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey", key elements of the Romantic Movement are expressed, such as nature, aloneness, and travel ...

In Sherman Alexie’s book War Dances, the author navigates his precarious position in between white and Native American culture, attempting to reconcile the creature comforts and medical science of Western civilization with the innate attributes of the Indian experience. In his titular story, “War Dances,” the slow death of his father and his gradual hearing loss from a hydrocephalic tumor are greeted with the same sense of humor, Alexie attempting to hide his utter fear and his grief at the loss of his father with sardonic jokes and poetry. The effect of white subjugation of Native Americans, and ...

Critique of E. B. White’s “Once More to the Lake” White uses nostalgia in his comparisons of his memories as a boy and his experience as an adult in examination of the form of arrival – farm wagon vs. car; beverages at the local store – Coke vs. sarsaparilla; and boating on the lake – inboard vs. outboard motors. Throughout his remembrances however, White maintains a tone of guarded surprise that so many things remained the same, as they were when he had visited as a child. However, as the writer Epstein observes that a phrase “inexplicably sunny inclinations” as noted in White’s ...

The article Kid Kustomers, written by Eric Schlosser documents the media’s directive to target children during advertising. It outlines the many ways in which they target children, as well as the many ways they manipulate children into becoming bullies toward their parents. Astonishingly, Schlosser also revealed that ad agencies for groups such as Disney have decided to launch cradle to grave ad campaigns, where they intend to brand advertising that will entice sales from the child’s early years, until they die. While the article shows many things about the advertisement world’s regards toward children, none is ...

Analysis of Science Fiction Movie Solaris

Analysis of Science Fiction Movie Solaris Solaris is a Russian science fiction art film adaptation of the Stanislaw Lem’s novel Solaris (1961) shot in 1972, directed and co-written by Andrei Tarkovsky. It represents a meditative drama of psychological character set mostly on a space station that is orbiting around the fictional Solaris planet. The station had a scientific mission that was stalled as the three scientists in the crew fell into the emotional crises. This paper is dedicated to the analysis of the problems brought out by the film and the way the director managed to convey the ideas of Lem, ...

Introduction

The film industry considers the horror genre in cinema, especially in Hollywood, as a staple because it draws a sizeable audience that consequently makes horror movies highly profitable (Hantke, 2010, p. viii). At least, this was the case during the 19th and 20th centuries since the state of the horror genre has changed over time. At present time, filmmakers would confess that horror films today are not as profitable as they were in the past. According to Hantke (2010, p. viii), we can attribute the so-called slump in the horror genre, especially in Hollywood, to its decline as a result of the ...

‘Instructor’s Name’

Answers - Vietnam War is widely perceived to be a strategic misstep by the United States. The Vietnam War which was fought from 1964 to 1972 was another proxy war fought during the cold war era. In this war, the ultimate aim of the US involvement was to contain the spread of communism in Indochina. The war was between North Vietnam supported by its communist allies and South Vietnam supported by anti-communist countries mainly the US and as Zinn opines it was the tussle between the organized technology and human power, with the human power emerging as the winner. ...

Ursula K Le Guin: The Day Before the Revolution

Ursula Le Guin’s short story ‘The Day Before the Revolution’ focuses on the main character’s old age experiences, exploring several important and crucial themes such as ageing, loneliness and grief. It is often seen as a sort of prologue to the more famous story The Dispossessed in which Le Guin explores the rambling themes of racism and political ambivalence. The story follows is about a woman, Laia Asieo Odo, and it follows her throughout a day in her life. Although she is sometimes referred to as Odo, this story is a personal narrative mostly and she is calls her ed ...

When James Joyce was talking to a potential publisher of dubliners, he thought it would turn out to be just one section of Ireland’s moral history. Ulysses turned out to be much the same, in the form of a huge magnification of the ongoing argument that contains the frustrations of a broken heart and the awful clarity with which this Irish writer remembered, from the depths of exile, the specifics of a face that he could not forget. In Ulysses, what you get is some historical fiction showing the average lives of average dubliners thrown in high relief against he scenery of ...

ABSTRACT

In Flannery O’Connor’s short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”, the grandmother clearly symbolizes the Old South, and her endless nostalgia for the past is intertwined with issues of race and her contempt for blacks. Although race was only the indirect subject of the story, it underlies the entire text, including the grandmother’s lost world of plantations, Southern ladies and gentlemen, family graveyards and Old Time Religion. She is literally the product of a horse-and-buggy era, but imagines this as a time when people were nicer to each other or at least pretended to have better ...

Introduction

In his famous autobiographical book the Hunger of Memory: the Education of Richard Rodriguez, Richard Rodriguez, a renowned public speaker and author expertly illustrates his personal experiences of emotional disconnect and societal alienation. He explores how this has had a tremendous influence on his life from his childhood as a first generation Mexican-American boy. The main thesis or theme of the book form the author’s point of view is that the society together with the education system in general requires a radical revision for it to be able to produce people who do not have alienation from life like the he ...

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Contrasting Treatment of Time The two poems, “Piano” by D.H.Lawrence and “To my Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell may appear to depict the flow of time, but while the first one turns the spotlight on the power of the past, the second one stresses on the importance of the present. It is also remarkable how each of the two poets uses language in his own style to produce a very distinct effect, making the poems dissimilar in many ways. Both the poets have drawn vivid portraits with words. A song takes Lawrence back to his past, and makes ...

The years of James Joyce's life mark major transitions in world history, as well as in world culture. When he was born, in 1882, the worldwide transition from an agrarian way of life to the industrial paradigm was still in fits and starts. Wars were still fought hand-to-hand and on horseback. Literature was still primarily a mostly straightforward affair, as were the visual arts. Matters of perspective, the bailiwick of the modernist artists, were still yet to be the matter of much experimentation. However, the arrival of the Impressionist painters began to erode a unified perspective by considering how subjects might ...

Scott Pilgrim’s in Precious Little Life (2004) describes how he fears to grow up. Scott pilgrim is not comfortable when he is becoming an adult because of many responsibilities and high expectations that people have towards him. Scott perceived the existence in the world in a childish manner and by this it can be said that he is refusing to grow up. In another angle, it can be said that Scott looks at the existence in the universe as a child and says that this type of nature is very fragile. The series that Scott has written describes his shaky ...

Analysing the passage ‘Asia’

Analysing the passage ‘Asia’

Introduction

Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the family is a very heart-touching account of how much he wants to travel to his motherland and relive his childhood which he missed. Each passage describes how he is connected somewhere to his past and craves for getting more connected to it. Though he has been living in Canada and evolved as a usual resident of the country but in his heart, but he is imbued in the memories with his family, motherland, trees, forests, animals and the essence of being connected to Ceylon or Sri Lanka. His emotions and nostalgia ...

The literature written during the 1920s brought to life America's fixation of rising to the top within social ranks. The themes and ideals presented in novels and poetry during the 1920s were a depiction of the fantasy that was the American dream. The fantasy, often associated with leaving rural life and joining the ranks of the modern city, was one that most people can still relate to today. Literature in the 1920s highlighted this and offered it as an antidote to rural life. In the twentieth century some American modernist’s decided to blend the concept of pastoral tradition with ...

Soccer

Soccer is one of the most famous and wonderful sports in the world. Researchers believe that the origins of the sport can be traced to over three thousand years ago. Evidence shows that China, Japan, and the Romans must have engaged in a similar sport of kicking around a leather ball (History of Soccer 2013). However, the birth of early soccer began in England. Initially, it was quite the violent game characterized by biting, kicking, and boxing. The game grew so popular among people of all ages urging King Edward III to ban it which he did in 1365 (History of ...

Spider-Man was created in 1962 by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko for Marvel Comics ("Comic Art"). Ever since his first appearance in the comic book Amazing Fantasy #15, Spider-Man has entertained audiences and become a global phenomenon ("Comic Art")! His image has become easily identifiable worldwide and his persona has become synonymous with the word “super hero”. The original Spider-Man comics have spawned countless movies, books, television series and merchandise. The image of Spider-Man has become so engrained into society that the world has fallen in love with this underdog hero and feels “a sharp mixture of projection, longing, admiration, ...

With a large drawing from the types of relationships that people have with others, Fournier highlights that consumers have a complex relationship with the brands in the market. According to Deborah J. MacInnis, C. Whan Park, Joseph W. Priester (2009), Fournier indicates that there is an emotional attachment between consumers and the brands such that the effort by companies to change the brands ever results in a resistance from the consumers in the market. Additionally, Fournier indicates that there is a considerable part that brands play in the lives of the consumers. The result of this thinking is that the brands of products ...

Define and discuss the author’s comic critique of unrealized American ideals and inequitable American realities as regards class and race in Huckleberry Finn

Introduction:

Huckleberry Finn is the archetypical American novel written by the enigmatic Mark Twain and which sheds considerable light on American society as a whole. It tells the story of the son of a town’s vagrant who leaves his son in rags and tatters and who is very much at the mercy of the elements throughout. The boy is a lovable young kid who does not have much going for him but who is essentially good and although ...

Gaines M. Foster, ‘Ghosts of the Confederacy,’ Oxford University Press, 1987

On May 6, 1895, a 70-foot-high monument memorializing Confederate dead was dedicated before an enthusiastic crowd featuring local dignitaries and leaders of Confederate organizations. The statue was part of a wave of commemorations honoring martyrs to the Lost Cause, ceremonies that were commonplace throughout the South for nearly a half-century after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. This ceremony, however, took place in Louisville, Kentucky, the largest city in a state that never seceded from the union and which housed thousands of federal troops throughout the war. It is a measure of the power of the Lost Cause that 30 years after the war ended ...

ON ADULTS AND CHILDREN IN THE US

The Effects of Materialism & Consumerism on Adults & Children in the US

It is a common instance each year that different brand labels launch a brand new or updated product just in time for a special occasion. Whether it may be in time for the change of seasons or just for the holidays, there is something new. In some countries, particularly developed countries, can follow the trend and buy whenever there is a release. For other countries, they would only buy something new once they have the money to buy them. Why are companies bent on releasing new items almost each month and why ...

Explore the use of consumerism and the race with the junkyard in Willy’s destruction in Death of a Salesman. How do various things – the Studebaker, the refrigerator – become symbols, and what do they symbolize? In the first flashback into the past, once Willy has returned from a selling trip and spoken to Biff and Happy, he and Linda discuss their finances. It turns out that the refrigerator needs a repair – the fan belt has broken. The washing machine and the vacuum cleaner also need repairs or perhaps they have been bought on credit: either way the point is clear – Willy ...

INTRODUCTION

Wong Kar-Wai is a director based from Hong Kong, who is hugely respected as not only a director, but an artist who is constantly mentioned by critics and film enthusiasts alike. Although many of his films did not go on to become big as other major films in the Box Office, Wong Kar-Wai's films have begun to be well known for breaking the contemporary style of Hong Kong cinema.

For many years, Hong Kong filmmakers followed a set system of rules in the genre and narrative forms to fit their own personal style; still, they were considered as being nothing more than a ...

During the 1920’ African American writers began to make significant contributions to American literature, especially during the Harlem Renaissance. I will discuss three poems or short stories from this literary movement.

The Harlem Renaissance is the term given to the blossoming of the creative arts amongst African Americans, centered on Harlem in the 1920s, and embodying the cultural awakening and recognition of African American writing, painting and sculpture, in the same decade that saw jazz and blues reach a wider audience. Terms like the Harlem Renaissance can be useful to signal a historic movement, but the terms can be dangerous if ...