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Requiem for a Dream depicts the downfall of four main characters as their lives spin out of control due to drug use. Ellen Burstyn portrays Sara Goldfarb, the mother of Jared Leto’s character Harry. Jennifer Connelly plays Marion Silver, Harry’s girlfriend, while Marlon Wayans portrays Ty, Harry’s best friend. All four characters get caught up…

When applying to colleges, I really did not have a super specific major choice in mind. I applied to over ten universities, with majors of both civil and architectural engineering. When clicking the box to choose my major, I chose whichever of the two majors was available, without much thought. I simply wanted to work…

Home, the word itself puts images in our heads about what we personally call our home. Home is different for everyone in which we all live in separate houses, have separate families, and we all have different things that make our homes unique to us. Yes we all have our own so called “homes”, but…

The postmodern status can bee seen and experienced in our everyady lives. Anything from the decor of a room, to societal and economical displacements can be, and are, decribed as postmodern. While modernism looks beyond stuff truth and hunts for abstract truth, postmodernism sees no abstract or cosmopolitan truth. It attempts to overthrow the distincton…

Spring Snowfall is one of the top ten ancient songs in China, one of the top ten famous songs of Guqin. It revealed that how Chinese people feel after the snowing winter, the spring comes, people are very happy to see that kind of scene. The whole song sounds fresh and smooth, the rhythm is…

The American doctrine of freedom of speech, as articulated in the Bill of Rights, is 200 years old. The absolutist doctrine of freedom of speech originates in the arguments and discussions of Pierre Bayle ( 1647- 1706). Although Bayle has long been seen as a major figure in literary studies and the history of ideas,…

From pet to wild beast, we witness the captivating journey of Buck in John Thornton’s novel, The Call of the Wild. Buck, a dog, undergoes various challenges such as encountering men armed with clubs, enduring wintry landscapes, and being thrust into a merciless world of survival. Yet, it is in this wild environment where Buck…

In the Netflix original film “Nappily Ever After”, main character Violet begins concluding the film by giving a sales pitch for a natural hair care line with the follow excerpt, “In the past couple of years, we’ve seen a huge cultural shift towards what’s natural and real. We’ve seen it in the growth of natural…

Throughout the history of this state, the music of African-Americans has remained a strong influence upon our society and civilization. Get downing with the music carried over from Africa with the slaves, up until now, with the new manners created by urban young person today, African-Americans have retained certain elements within their music which makes…

In the 1920s, The Harlem Renaissance was in the golden era for African American writers, musicians, and artists. Diversity in literature began. The “Great Migration” brought over inspiring writers, poets, and authors to Northern Manhattan in New York. Since the writing industry was dominated by white people, the Black Pride movement wanted to make a…