Essays on Fantasy

Introduction

Maslow calls resilience “ordinary magic.” But in reality, there is nothing magic at all about resilience. Resilience is not even a natural human intact or behavior, it is one that is learned over time and influenced by one’s environment. People are not born naturally resilient. The behavior is an adaptation necessary from their surroundings as they grow and change. Simply, Resilience is a learned behavior.

Infants are not naturally resilient

Starting at the beginning of our life, in infancy, individuals are not naturally resilient. Take for example infants. Infants have a wonderful ability to adapt to their environment, to change and move according ...

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Introduction As a child, the mind is easily in awe and wonder about the simplest or most basic experiences. Experts argue that this may be the case because children’s brains are wired differently compared to when they grow up as adults. When children grow up, their brain physiology and chemistry change so as to accommodate other sections of the brain that are necessary for adulthood. Consequently, individual loses her child-like wonder when experiencing ordinary events as an adult. Therefore, childhood is a time when the brain focuses on allowing the child to develop by ...

King’s College London (2016) published a study that argued that Multiple Personality Disorder or more popularly known as Disassociate Personality Disorder is rooted from traumatic experiences. These experiences include child abuse and neglect. This notion is in contrast with the earlier belief that the disorder is linked to suggestibility or proneness to fantasy (King’s College London, 2016). The report n the controversial disorder came recently as experts attempt to give explanation to complex mental disorder (Harper, 2011). Currently, there are two existing motions about what is the cause of the disorder- non-trauma related view and the recent ...

Each and every part of the fairy tale has its own significant meaning, which makes the story even more unique in the reader’s imagination and brings deeper symbolism into the perception of the tale. One of such elements is the forest, where the little Snow White has found dwarfs. This element has various explanations, depending on the way the reader perceives and understands the tale. The forest may symbolize the dark period of life – the period of decline, depression, loss of hope, etc. It may also symbolize a time of issues, problems represented through the trees and grass, ...

Fantasy is fiction that is often set in an imaginary universe. Characters exhibit behavior that is out of the ordinary as seen in A Midsummer night’s Dream by William Shakespeare and also Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. The two exhibits a child and young lovers get into a fairy tale kind- of life. They transition into a mundane world, they take part in the activities of the magical world that are away from reality and most often the reader gets immersed in it too. The constructed world moves from the conscious and subconscious and vice ...

In “Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings: A Review,” C.S. Lewis famously said: “The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity” (Lewis). The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and The Fellowship of the Ring, are two examples of fantasy novels that support this statement. The former tells the story of some children who are evacuated to the countryside, only to discover the land of Narnia in a wardrobe. The book evokes themes such as good vs. ...

The Mendelsohn elements, in theory, include portal quest, immersive, intrusion and liminal that helps in classifying the antagonists in the ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and ‘The Midsummer Night's Dream.' The protagonists and antagonists from both pieces of fantasy literature have various character traits that are similar and different. Fantasy literature has been used to refer to an imaginary universe that uses magic as well as other supernatural elements. Therefore, the authors have created the characters according to imaginary creatures to fit the overall genre of the story. In most fantasy literature stories, there is a happy ending for the protagonist ...

Kamal Hussein’s Thartharah fawqa al-Nil (Adrift on the Nile, 1971) is the film adaptation of the 1966 novel by Naguib Mahfouz. The film was released in 1971, four years after the Six-day War and a year after the death of Gamel Abdel Nasser, the second president of Egypt and the man behind the Revolution of 1952. The movie stars some of the most iconic actors of the time including Emad Hamdy, Ahmed Ramz and Adel Adham. The film focusses primarily on the protagonist Anis, a civil servant, and his experiences with a group of men who have created ...

The human comprehension of reality and the world in general is truly complicated topic which is extremely individual and objective. Apart from the wholesome systems of different philosophical streams and religions, every person constructs one's own apprehension of reality and the purpose of one's lives, which are based on the whole complex of different aspects and issues, such as the human's background, one's ethnicity and culture, social status, personal traits and features of character, one's inner capacities and talents, personal life experience, etc. Apart from that, every person tends to think and rethink, makes great plans for the future, ...

Invisibility of Women - Literature analyses of “The Women Men Don’t See” by James Tiptree Jr. in compare and contrast to “Invisibility in Academe” by Adrienne Rich

Introduction

The two literary texts analyzed in this essay are centered on the subject of feminine rights, power, and gender equality. James Tiptree expresses disdain for male domination in his story ‘The Women Men Don’t See’. He is concerned with the blatant disregard for feminine rights and identity flaunted by male dominance. On the other hand, Adrienne Rich writes an account of the feminine struggles in the 19th and 20th centuries. ...

Stage 1: Analysis

Ms. Biglow indicates film as the interchange where different ideas intersect (Dargis, 2009). Each film is a creative work of a big team and, while analyzing a movie, we must realize that it is all a huge team work. The aim of the paper is to give the analysis of the science fiction film Back to the Future. It gives contextual information, describes the difference between the story and the plot in the movie, and explains aesthetic choices, social and personal impact of the film. Film theory explores the backbone of the cinema and provides methods for understanding not ...

Tennessee William displayed a new kind of theater when he wrote the play A Streetcar Named Desire. William was an American playwright who was considered as one of the best in the twentieth century. He wrote A Streetcar Named Desire in 1947, a book that was regarded as his best work of all times. The play’s main cast is Blanche DuBois, Stanley Kowalski and Stella Kowalski (Williams). The theme of Illusion v. reality is displayed in the play, and the author uses it to bring out the importance of telling the truth, no matter how ugly it is ...

Theodore Bundy, known as Ted, was born in 1946 and was a source of shame to his mother, who was not married when she gave birth. This was considered a scandalous affair by her parents, who were deeply religious. In order to keep their family intact Ted Bundy was adopted by his grandparents and raised to believe that his mother was his sister. Later on he moved to Tacoma with his “sister”, Eleanor Colwell, to Tacoma, Washington. There she met and eventually married Johnnie Bundy. Despite being raised in a stable, working-class home, Ted Bundy still started exhibiting several ...

Peter Pan is a 1953 American animated fantasy-adventure film and one of Walt Disney' s original classics. It is based on the play Peter Pan or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up by J.M. Barrie. One of Walt Disney’s greatest financial successes, the film has often been criticized due to its unfavorable depiction of Native Americans. The film and the play upon which it is based, reflect American Societal norms at the time. The film has a lot to say about the psychology of the American male and female gender roles during the first half of the ...

Literature has always worked as the quintessential reflection of life and existence in the mortal world. The authors find their liberty as they engage in the portrayal of the fictional character as expressions of their creative zeal. Fiction goes on to get meshed with the elements of reality, thereby portraying the true picture of life in the literary works by the stalwart authors. A close introspection of one such work, The Moviegoer, by the acclaimed writer, Walker Percy would let one develop a perfect understanding of how literature can explore the true meaning of life in this temporal world ...

It is a well-known fact that the linguistic heritage of J. Swift is characterized by vivid satirical orientation. In literary and aesthetic categorization, satire is considered to be an integral part of the more general comic category which is understood as a special form of relations to the reality. In this case, satire is not only a kind of comic, but also the specific means of artistic reproduction of reality revealing it as something distorted, incoherent, internally untenable through the comic, ridiculed, accusatory images. Satire creates an image of high conditionality, and is achieved by means of exaggeration, sharpening, ...

Genre theory explanation, genre conventions and attributes

A genre helps people classify films according to its category or type. It is convenient as viewers know what to expect when they see certain iconography at the advertising bill for instance. Different film genres possess familiar story formulas, character types, settings, and iconography etc. (Goodykoontz & & Jacobs, 2014). Main film genres are: westerns, gangster films, mysteries, film noir, horror, fantasy, science fiction, romantic comedy, musicals and documentaries. In this paper, the fantasy genre will be discussed on an example. Fantasy genre is always a story which lets its characters escape from reality, experience situations where they act beyond the ...

The Japanese term ‘shojo’/‘shoujo’ is translated to English as ‘a girl’ or ‘a young girl’ (Anime-Planet, “Shoujo Anime”). The word is widely accepted in Japan in purpose of one anime genre’s description. This word is in use when we talk about Shojo culture – genre of Japanese art of animation with the young girls as the main characters in manga comics and anime movies. Shojo culture was created at the beginning of the previous century and it went through some changes from its beginning. Shojo art pieces might be based on the fantasy or reality; some are ...

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Introduction: Domestic violence: profile of an offender

In the past, an act of domestic violence was not considered as a matter that merits the engagement of the law. Though men have pummeled, maltreated, and molested their intimate partners for years, the common comprehension of society was that abuse and maltreatment of women was as a part of the marriage. It was only to the end of the 1970s that domestic violence was understood as a criminal offense that warranted the involvement of the criminal justice system. However, there has been much contention as to the establishment of a general, universally accepted ...

The 1980s was a complex era of transition, which saw the rise of military power, but also the emergence of new technology, as the fight against communist threats intensified. During this decade, the sci-fi genre reached immense popularity, and was closely related to the new blockbuster films which Hollywood exported throughout the world. During this decade, illegal immigration, the memory of the Vietnam War and the transformation of masculinity under the threat of feminism became prominent issues, which were reflected in the popular media of the time. As a genre which is particularly fit to reflect the anxieties and ...

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a self-analyzing survey that is done to analyze how people judge the world and how this influences their power of making decisions. This is basically a set of question that helps determine the ability of your brain to adjust things. This test was designed by Katharine Cook Bridge and Isabel Briggs Myers. The ideology behind this test comes from the theory of Carl Jung. The theory revolves around the fact the human psychology interprets any perspective in 4 different categories, namely; thinking, feeling, intuition and sensation, and one of them is always present ...

“Araby” is a short story written by James Joyce. In it the author explores a number of themes such as the difference between fantasy and reality, the process of maturing and desolation. However, one of the most significant themes of the story is the theme of love. It is mainly revealed through the narrator and his love for Mangan's sister. Throughout the story the protagonist was ready to do anything in order to please his beloved. On the example of the narrator Joyce shows how powerful love can be. Furthermore, the theme of power of love is also revealed ...

Manga and anime are two of the most defining parts of the Japanese culture that are known worldwide. Considered as Japan’s authentic forms of animation, manga and anime play a big role in propelling the Japanese culture further into worldwide recognition. Manga is defined as the Japanese comic animation or the animation that the Japanese produce in print while anime refers to the Japanese digital animation or the animation that the Japanese produce digitally through multimedia. These two distinct forms of Japanese animation have been an integral part of popular culture for years in Japan and have played ...

A rhetorical analysis of language is not a summary or an interpretation of what the author meant. Rather, it is a treatise on how the author presents his or her material (Ramage, Bean and Johnson 16). At issue are the rhetorical features of the text-the author's purpose, the intended audience, what kinds of claims he makes, and the way he uses evidence (Ramage, Bean and Johnson 16). That evidence is used to show how an author attempts to persuade whatever audience he has chosen. The rhetorical plan is to analyze the text in terms of with the grain reading, ...

Parallel Worlds in “Bridge to Terabithia”

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson is the story of two children, adolescents, who came up with their own, fantastic country, hiding from the world that does not accept and understand them. This book is about life and death, about the fragility of life and the way of life, about that how hard to find friends, and that people should forgive even enemies. It is sad, but incredibly touching story of friendship, loyalty and love, the first mistakes and incorrigible consequences that children faced living in parallel worlds. Bridge to Terabithia is a story about the friendship of two ...

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“The Hunger Games” and “Oryx and Crake” are books set in fictional post-apocalyptic worlds. This paper seeks to examine the main fundamental human fears that exist in the two novels and storylines. In line with this, the main and fundamental fear in these two novels is the fear of being able to control what we create and what to come. This directly results from not knowing our potential in terms of what one can achieve. Furthermore, it results from not knowing the results and consequences of our actions. The books give an idea of what will happen in the ...

Introduction

The world of art has always been driven by an immortal tradition where the sole artist worked as the creative force and his relationship with the art was way more influential than the traditional author-art relation. In the case of films, the concept of the ‘Auteur’ explains one of the most significant styles of cinematic direction in which the director becomes too dominant over the entire film that he is being ranked as the author for the film. Some directors in the world cinema are reckoned to have such a strong authorial presence in their films that is very ...

The science-fiction authors are interested in writing about the robots which develop the ability to behave or think like the human being. Isaac Asimov and Brian Aldiss are two of these authors. These authors exaggerate the influence of the robotic contribution to the human life. Even, they try to develop the idea of replacing humans with the robots as relatives more than being a part of productions humans need. I will compare and contrast the two authors’ stories in this paper. The main subject I will discuss is the idea of robots can play an essential role in human ...

The exhibition that requires our attention is the one at the Sculpture Center named is In Practice: Fantasy Can Invent Nothing New. Considering the somewhat large name and the game of words in it one would expect to find something exceptional despite the negation at the end of the name. However, this is turns out to be a reference to a lecture made by Freud, where he states that the creative process only facilitates the regrouping of already existing elements into a new perception. Despite the high level of expectation this exhibition did not deliver. Most importantly as it ...

The issue of prolonged life has been debated for centuries. In fact, Ponce de Leon spent his life’s work looking for the Fountain of Youth all over the globe. The century long limit of human life has essentially created the fantasy of those who wanted to live longer. This curiosity of these individuals has led to the fantasy of seeing history when it transpired rather than reading it in a book. For this reason, many television shows and books have explored the possibility of a human living beyond their one-hundred-year timeframe. For example, vampires, warlocks, and the like ...

In a similar manner that the comedic film termed as Dr. Strangelove includes convectional genres as per their time of publication, the Slaughter-House Five also incorporates fantasies, memoirs, autobiographies and science fiction. For instance, whereas the novel is based on the fantasy of time travel describing people being struck at it, the movie analysis the elements of cold war in a satirical manner by describing the doomsday device made by the Russians. Vonnegut perspective was against the warmongering apparent in the society like Kubrick movie. They were both based on an assumption that a superior power would create fear ...

Gustave Flaubert’s debut novel Madame Bovary is a work of literary realism in which Flaubert brings out the provincial life of the protagonists in a little french village. In the novel, Flaubert moves away from the romantic literary traditions of his time and writes a tale that is rooted in reality. In the novel, Emma’s romantic nature and actions become a stark contrast to the very normal existence of her husband Charles. Although the novel centers around Emma or Madame Bovary, the role her husband charles plays in her life cannot be underestimated. Emma grows up reading ...

Psychology of Religion

Psychology of Religion Almost all religions in existence believe in exclusive answers with regards to absolute truth. However, from a psychological perspective, in essence, all religions are equal thus resulting to various research on whether religion is universally present amongst all people. Though religion searches for the sacred, it also associates with certain non-sacred goals such as belongingness and identity, therefore, making religion constitute socially constructed beliefs as well as rituals. Religion is an objective fact of the existence of humans. Various scholars have had different meanings of religion with each having an explanation to why they believed religion ...

Introduction

Both producers and consumers of mass media products like movies, films, and songs play a part in the process of developing the ideas of the products and the public perception. For instance, movie makers invest a lot of time, energy, and resources in building the plot of the story, and getting people to act and deliver a quality product. However, the final opinion of the product is determined by the customer. It means that customers play a huge role in the production of mass media content, as they make decisions depending on customer reaction to similar productions and previous ...

Hayao Miyazaki does not like to give interviews and as a great cinema master he is permitted to avoid them. However, judging by those interviews available, it is possible to conclude that he appears to be rather pessimistic in respect to the future, in general. This is rather interesting, since his cinematic works do not have any element of pessimism. Instead, the majority of his movies provide viewers with the glimpse of hope. For instance in Spirited Away, Chihiro manages to survive the hardship without any complaints and even proposes a fantastic ability to deal with them effectively. In ...

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Joyce Carol Oates’ story. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been is dedicated to Bob Dylan and his song “It’s all over now baby blue” and is said to be inspired by the three murders committed by Charles Schmud in Tucson, Arizona, which were featured in an article by Don Moser in Life magazine on March 4, 1966. The title of the story itself is intriguing, hinting at things to come; at the dilemma that Connie is in when Arnold Friend wants to take her away from her familiar surroundings to an unknown place and future, "The ...

Once Albert Einstein said, “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity” (Moffett et al. 175). Nowadays, his statement is more challenging than ever. We live in the age of technological progress that works both ways. On the one hand, it significantly eases our life and improves its level. On the other hand, almost uncontrolled development of technology makes people dependent and results in loosing humanity. Comparing with previous days, we have become less attentive and more indifferent to everything around us. The aim of this paper is to discuss the impact technology has on ...

The Samurai Ethics: A Paradigm for Corporate Behavior by Shinya Fujimura

In this article, Fujimura advocates for the adoption of the samurai moral and ethical values into the corporate world. The author suggests that the integration of these values by corporate and businesses in wealthy countries such as the US and the UK would aid them in dealing with economic vicissitudes. Apparently, the ancient Japanese samurai culture exemplifies the importance of a society that is driven by loyalty, benevolence, and duty. Fujimura studied for his master degree in public administration at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government where he focused on social change (Fujimura 212). Fujimura also ...

In the article, "Why Game of Thrones is taking over the world," writer Charlotte Runcie considers the popularity of the HBO television series noting that it is one of most popular shows of all time and is broadcast in roughly 170 countries. The series, which is based on a series of books by George R R Martin, is packed abundantly with everything from poisonous murders to beheadings, fights and dragons. The appeal is intricate and intense among fans. The show is recognized as exploring the topic of power, weaving in the comic and harsh realities of what is means ...

Miraculous might be the most popular elements in visual culture throughout the history. The term first appears in the religious context, and is now widely adapted in popular culture including films, TV shows, and animations, etc. Synonyms of miraculous include: supernatural, magical and marvelous etc. The audience of those miraculous visuals, whether religious or not, is always attracted to this interesting element. It is different from the violent or the sentimental since the visuals target a really wide range of audience, regardless of age, race, sex, and taste. According to Hood, “ever since we are born, we generate knowledge ...

Final Reflective Portfolio

This paper is a reflection of the skills I have gained in this class. It focuses on four texts and analyses them as indicators of my development as a reader and creator of literary and cultural texts. Three of the analyzed texts were created for this class while the fourth was written for a math class.

Part 1: Texts

The Ultimate Book of Martial Arts Fay Goodman's book entitled The Ultimate Book of Martial Arts is already an entertaining read by itself. However, different parts of the book contain paratextual elements that give it a new meaning and make it a more ...

The ballad "America," by Tony Hoagland, describes the storyteller's adventure as he experiences a mental and suggested makeover. One of the characterizing components of Tony Hoagland's "America" are the examinations. Illustration is maybe the most imperative graceful gadget inside Hoagland's lyric. The ballad begins off with an understudy contrasting America with a greatest security jail, on the grounds that the youthful understudy grieves the present day American purchaser based worth framework. In "America," Hoagland utilizes allegories to represent the developing impact of consumerism, free enterprise, and above all else the avarice that guidelines the cutting edge American culture. Consumerism ...

1. Why Hedda Gabler and not Hedda Tesman? Hedda belongs to the bourgeois class of her society. Using Hedda Gabler instead of Hedda Tesman is meant to show the audience how Ibsen's main protagonist prefers to identify herself. Hedda is the daughter of a general who ends up marrying into a lower class thereby lowering her social status. However, she still wants to identify herself as an aristocrat. People in Hedda's society enjoy privileges according to their social status. Belonging to the bourgeois class means that she does not enjoy as many benefits as she would enjoy under the ...

The play “The Importance of being Earnest” was written by Oscar Wilde, and was first seen in a theater in 1895. The play is a comedy which uses various literary techniques to bring out various themes in the Victorian era. Irony is a major literary technique in the play in which the protagonist named Jack uses the name Earnest as an alibi whenever he wishes to escape from his reality. He has created an imaginary character in his head in which he has a younger brother by the name Earnest (Wilde 15). In his real world, he is however ...

Cannibals are in a class of their own since even most serial killers only kill their victims but do not feed on their flesh. In the past human beings have been feeding on other persons mostly in war in a belief of gaining the power of their enemy or sometimes to just scare their opponents. Cannibalism didn’t start the other day; it’s a thing of the past, but various human beings do for different reasons. Some do it because they are psychopaths, it is a mental disorder, which could be paranoid schizophrenia as in the case of ...

I have chosen the following players who were drafted in 2014 NFL draft;

He is an American footballer for the Houston Texas of the Nation Football League. Jadeveon played college football at South Carolina after graduating from South Pointe high school in South Carolina. He set South Carolina school records in 2012 in loss tackles of 23.5 and quarterback sacks of 13.0 as he earned defensive playing ability of the years honor at the southeastern meeting. He is described as one of the rare sports changers on defense (Ducking et al. 681). In 2008, south point had 31 graduates. ...

I would like to see the movie "The Great Gatsby", filmed in 1974 by the director named Jack Clayton from the standpoint of psychoanalysis ("The Great Gatsby (1974)"). I will consider the film through the prism of the basic tenets of the theory, developed by the Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud. I will make out a few key points that define psychoanalysis as a theory and show how these postulates are related to the main character of the book by Francis Scott Fitzgerald and Jack Clayton’s film, Jay Gatsby. Immediately, it should be noted that this film is not ...

What is Artificial Intelligence?

Intelligence in computing is defined as the computational ability of machines to achieve desired objectives. Artificial Intelligence is the “scientific understanding of mechanisms underlying thought and intelligent behavior and their embodiment in machines” ("AI Overview", n.d.). The concept of artificial intelligence systems is formed around information processing systems that perceive, learn, and think about what they want and how they feel. A.I. is the science and engineering involved in the design of intelligent machines including computer programs that try to learn and understand human intelligence. However, AIs do not necessarily simulate human intelligence but instead apply mechanisms that solve ...

Analysis of Waldorf

Waldorf Education is a private, developmental curriculum focused on teaching to the holistic needs of children.  Rudolf Steiner developed Waldorf education in the early 20th Century to create a learning environment focused on artistic learning and creative thinking.  Waldorf schools, also referred to as Steiner schools, exist in 91 countries and there are about 1,000 schools in total (Costello-Dougherty, 2009).  Waldorf schools vary in sizes but some have programs from preschool through high school (DeLuca & Hughes, 2014).  As children pass through a series of stages of development, Waldorf curriculum focuses on teaching the right thing at the right ...

Introduction

Ambrose Bierce is a prominent author known for his many works one of which is An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. This is the story of Peyton Farquhar a planter from the South. The story is set during the civil war. Peyton has been sentenced to hang by the Union Army for his failed attempt at destroying the Owl Creek railroad bridge. The author leads the reader to believe that Peyton escapes the hanging by falling into the river below and reunites with his wife and children at his farm. This is not the case since it is revealed ...

Homework #10: Meditations of First Philosophy by René Descartes (pp. 193) (Print: Last, First)

READING QUESTIONS

1. What sort of opinions does Descartes reject as false? What sort does he accept as true? When there is even a small amount of doubt, the opinion should be rejected entirely. Moreover, when something is based on the perception of senses, its existence should also be questioned. Thus, Descartes rejects the ideas based on the senses. In fact, he doubts everything in the physical world that is not proved rationally. Still, he accepts that simple forms are rational because they are true in their ...

The early fiction of Capote usually descends into a subconscious and explores a world of blurred realities and uncertainty whose inhabitants are trapped in unbearable isolation. The short story “Miriam” was first published in 1945 and depicts the psychological deterioration of the protagonist, Mrs. Miller. The sense of captivity and fear overshadow this short story and results from the individual’s inability to respond and accept the reality. Mrs. Miller is given an opportunity to accept someone disturbing and strange and push back the frontier of darkness in the soul and the surrounding world. More essentially, it means that ...

Eragon is the American adventure-fantasy movie, based on novel by the same name made by Cristopher Paolini. Stefen Fangmeier directed this film. The premiere was on 14th of December 2006. This film was the worst reviewed film on Rotten Tomatoes of 2006. The director of this film tries to send a message to his viewer that even high budget and a well-written source cannot help bad director in film screening. Stefen Fangmeier just smashed the expectations of the books’ audience into the wall, by making this pale and weak film with many inaccuracies and mistakes. The original story, book “ ...

A Research Proposal First Draft

Abstract While many researchers and practitioners alike are still finding that it is possible to help children develop creative thinking skills, we are also finding that this practice isn't being incorporated for all our kindergarten and pre-school children. The purpose of this paper will therefore be to investigate the ways in which children at the preschool/kindergarten level are being supported in the development of creative thinking skills, as well as the particular role this has played in helping kindergarten students. After initiating a review of the literature to guide the study, the methodology will involve data collection—interviews with ...

Abstract

Television is a strong media form that can have significant influence to the minds of the minors. Behavioral and psychological effects of television have been documented in research studies, but what is most significant is how literature reviews demonstrated the impact of television shows in the communication of minors and their mindsets. Television, in its various media forms, has the ability to influence behavior and may result in persuasive effects in the use of words and other forms of communication in order to attract its viewers, especially the minors. As the young audience is exposed to television in its ...

Greece has a prolong history, which can be stretched back to thousands of years B.C. Greek Civilization is one of the most ancient civilizations in the world. The cultures and civilizations all over the world change in the course of time. The political, social, economic factors contribute a lot in disappearance of the old values and the emergence of new values in the society. Every culture and civilization has its unique characteristics. Greek civilization too has witnessed several transitions.The present paper aims to analyze those features of Greek civilization between the period of Monolithic Age and the Greece in ...

Introduction

The law designed and implemented in any society is relevant in ensuring unchanging application of cultural values and civic cultures that create a democratic society. It is imperative to solve the issues brought about by a dystopic society that is limited in efforts to prevent actions that could interfere with sustainability of future generations. Children of Men depicts the consequences of a society incapable of establishing equality and flexible obedience to the rule of law that is essential for a democratic society. Uniform laws are the pillars that make people respectful and obedient to the rule of law ensuring ...

Guillermo Del Toro’s Spanish horror-fantasy film The Devil’s Backbone is a unique ghost story for its time, given the film’s setting during the Spanish Civil War and the morally ambiguous nature of the ghosts found in the film. In telling the story of a small orphanage in rural Spain in the early 1930s, haunted by a small boy named Santi whose death provides one of the central mysteries, The Devil’s Backbone mixes the high fantasy of fairy tales with the gritty despair of one of Spain’s most tumultuous historical periods. As evidenced in the ...

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In the contemporary era, it is no secret that childhood experiences are undergoing a drastic change as compared to previous times. Today, children are brought up in an environment that is absolutely saturated with the use of different forms of media. After coming home from school, a majority of children go straight for the TV set to watch their favorite programs and stuck in from of the ‘magic box’ for hours. According to a national survey conducted in the United States, “children aged 8 to 18 years had an average media usage time of 7 hours ...

Introduction

The depiction of female characters in television has long been one of Feminism’s great worries and battles. Throughout the decades, females have been shown as one dimensional and weak, often reduced to mere companions or prizes for the lead, male characters. The popular television saga Game of Thrones has long come under the view of these critics, yet many have reached opposite conclusions. Even though some contend that it is deeply Feminist, other critics believe that it is extremely misogynist, painting women in a negative light. The present text will argue that historical considerations and character development show ...