The reason this conversation remains is because it is not possible to prove any thing scientifically. As Maggie Cutler wrote in The Nation ‘One of the reasons so many media violence studies have been done is that the phenomenon may be too complex to study conclusively. There’s no way, after all, to lock two clones in a black box, feed them different TV, movie and video-game diets and open the box years later to determine that, yes, it was definitely those Bruce Lee epics that turned clone A into Jesse Ventura, while clone B’s exposure to the movie Babe produced a Pee Wee Herman.” (Cutler) This quote explains the difficultly of proving this relationship, because we can not measure against a clean sample. This means that there are no…
The story takes place in the late 1960’s in McLean psychiatric hospital. The hospital is located in Massachusetts.…
Kimyra Lattimore Senior Literature 1st period 01/11/15 ‘Tumbling’ Synopsis Diane McKinneyWhetstone is an African American author. Diane was born August, 14 1953 to her father, Pennsylvania State’s Senator, Paul McKinney and his wife Besie. Diane has eight proclaimed novels and have many awards including the BCALA Literary Award for Fiction from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. “Tumbling” is a Fiction novel and African American Literature.…
Author Susan Fletcher once wrote, “Shahrazad’s women stood at the door, the women who prepared her for her nights with the Sultan. ‘Go, Marjan,’ Shahrazad said softly. ‘I have the tale here.’ She tapped her temple. ‘I’ll see you in the morning.’ I only hoped that she would” (Fletcher 109). This quote by Fletcher shows how Shahrazad was a brave and confident woman, which is one of the values in the story. The title of the book is Shadow Spinner, by author Susan Fletcher. Shadow Spinner is a historical fiction novel about a girl’s life in Persia. The girl’s name is Marjan, and she gets thrown into a scary world of sneaking outside the harem, telling stories, and getting into trouble. This story is both historically accurate and inaccurate, shown…
The movie that I watched is entitled, “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. It actually started out as a novel, written in 1971 by Ernest J. Gaines. It was produced as an award-winning television movie in 1973. The movie was produced by Robert W. Christiansen and Rick Rosenberg. It was directed by John Korty, with screenplay written by Tracy Keenan Wynn. The main actresses/actors are as follows: Cicely Tyson (Miss Jane Pittman), Eric Brown/Arnold Wilkinson (Jimmy), Richard Dysart (Master Bryant), Joel Fluellen (Unc Isom), Will Hare (Elbert Clureau), Katherine Helmond (The lady at the house), Davis Hooks (Colonel Dye), Elinora Johnson (Mary), Warren Kenner (Job), Dudley Knight (Trooper Brown),…
In The Secret Life of Bees, the book’s protagonist, we see Lily Owens shift from a traditional woman, to a realistic one. Her abusive father treats her terribly, and Lily has to put up with it in the beginning of the book. She wants to be independent and stand up for herself, but she doesn’t have the courage yet. When Lily witnesses Rosaleen stand up to abusive white men, she finds it in herself to ingeniously make an escape plan for herself, and Rosaleen. After meeting the Boatwrights, Lily learns invaluable life lessons that make her realize the importance of independence, strength, and bravery. To conclude, at the end of the book Lily turns into a real woman as she stands up to T Ray. and finds her mother in an unexpected way.…
It isn’t that this novel is bad, but that it deserves to be better. In execution it is too complex and wordily pretty, even dull—yet its conception of these simple Florida Negroes is unaffected and really beautiful. Its story comes mostly through the person of Janie, a mulatto girl carefully married off to a proper fellow whom she ran away from shortly because that wasn't love and living as she hoped it would be. And her second husband, though he built a town and promoted for himself a main place in its life, cooped her up and smothered her with rectitude until he died, leaving her wiser with middle age, and still…
The most meaningful piece of literature that I have read is Crank by Ellen Hopkins. Crank is the first book in the Crank trilogy. After Crank is the sequel Glass, and finally Fallout. Crank is a beautifully written free verse poetry novel that is composed of 544 pages. The novel is about a teenager named Kristina. Kristina is a junior in highschool and has all A’s.She lives with her her mother, dad, and brother. Kristina lives a normal, happy, and carefree life until she is introduced to the drug Meth or commonly referred to as “Crank”. Kristina soon becomes addicted and can't let go of the grip that methamphetamine has on her. The story goes through the ups and downs of Kristina's addiction, often referencing to Meth as “the monster” and…
One event can change the course of people’s lives. World War 2, for example, changed the role of women. They stepped in to do man labor while the men were at war. Women soon realized they are capable of working as doctors, electricians, mail carrier and others after experiencing it. That is when the workforce expanded for women. Another way World War 2 changed women’s lives in a less obvious way was when the only few men came back after the war, a lot of women married these few survived ones, partly because of their relief the men survive and partly because of societal pressures. In The Hours, a novel by Michael Cunningham, one of the main characters, Laura, has this very experience. The Pulitzer award winning novel is a loosely based on the…
I grip my lacrosse stick with my hands shaking and sweat rolling down my face. My eyes are locked on my girl’s belly button, nothing else. She stood six feet tall with frizzy blonde hair, and was pure muscle. Everytime she made a jolt I would jump and be with her the whole time, not a step behind. All I knew about my girl was based off my observations and the fact that she is Agnes Irwin’s best player and a senior committed to a very high level division one program, UVA. I, An eighth grader not even thinking about college, knew I wasn’t close to her level. Colleen, my coach, came up to me the day before the game to notify me I would be faceguarding Agnes Iwin’s best girl. Face guarding is extremely difficult and nerve wracking. If you lose your girl for a second she’s going to get the ball and score, and you really have no one to blame but yourself. I’m not the best player on my team and I’m not the best…
America’s economic success in the world has been based on entrepreneurship. The hypothesis that entrepreneurship is linked to economic growth finds its most immediate foundation in simple intuition, common sense and pure economic observation: activities to convert ideas into economic opportunities lie at the very heart of entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is a source of innovation and change, and as such spurs improvements in productivity and…
“We can begin to explore the lineage of women as tale-tellers in a history that stretches from Philomela and Scheherazade to the raconteurs of French veillees and salons, to English peasants, governesses, and novelists, and to the German Spinnerinnen and the Brother’s Grimm.” (53-54) In the chapter “To Spin a Yarn: The Female Voice in Folklore and Fairy Tale” from Fairy Tales and Society: Illusion and Paradigm, Karen E. Rowe explores the depth and history of voicelessness of women and how the combination of spinning and tale-telling was their way of speaking in a society that would not let them. She takes the reader on a tale of a complex history that starts in ancient history with the Greeks, goes to the French, the English, German and ends with folk tale writers such as Perrault and the Brothers Grimm. The history that is exhibited displays that as long as spinning has existed, women and storytelling has existed. Women have forever used spinning or weaving as a way of having a voice in a time when they could not have their own.…
Elaine MacKay stood out like a sore thumb in the midst of the manicured nails of Phillips Academy. Short, overweight, with a flat face that only a mother could love. Elaine held herself high with pride as the only student at Phillips to have Down Syndrome. The rest of us avoided her. Why would I, a member of one of the most popular cliques in the school, ever stoop down to her level? She had created her own level of the food chain, one that many of my fellow classmates called the ‘Retard Zone’, but was nearly indifferent to the levels above her. She tried to befriend everyone she came into contact to, which I assumed was to make herself feel better. But to my surprise and disbelief, she would successfully change my point of view on her strange ways, and in a way I never expected.…
Just shy of her forty-first birthday Gabrielle Union has accomplished so much in such a small time of her career. Gabrielle Union is mostly known for her role as a cheerleader named Isis in Bring It On. She also played along with, actor, Will Smith in Bad Boys II. Since then Gabrielle made several appearances in many magazines and movies, over the course of this year.…
Margaret Edison’s play Wit is about Vivian Bearing, a professor of seventeenth century poetry, specializing in John Donne. She is a strong willed intellectual being treated for ovarian cancer. Vivian lives a very secluded life and avoids human emotional contact. Just like any tragic hero, Vivian has flaws that prevent her from human kindness, which leads to her downfall. Her treatment of cancer causes her to realize that she needs emotional connection, which she has missed her whole life. Although her flaws are her intellect and wit that cause her an inability to connect emotionally with people around her, she becomes noble because she begins to express her emotions and accept kindness.…
