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Creek Bridge is a short story written by Ambrose Bierce. In this short story, the narrator tells of a man named Peyote Farther about to be hanged for attempting to interfere with a railroad during the Civil War. Luckily, as he falls the rope snaps and he falls Into the water below with the noose…

I Am LegendThe search for answers to our numerous questions can have variable consequences. The movie, “I Am Legend” dealt with the escapades and struggle for survival of the supposedly “last man alive” in New York City, and pressumably of the whole world. The film adaptation of Richard Matheson’s novel gave us an insight on…

Disney Princess movies are not as safe as we previously thought. We are unintentionally damaging our kids by subtly enforcing social stereotypes. This is done by using classic story tropes, like the handsome knight saving the pretty, helpless princess. Along with that, it can make girls self-conscious about their own bodies. This is due to…

The song “Heavy” is the lead single from Linkin Park’s seventh album One More Light. This is their first single featuring a female vocalist. The lead vocalist Chester Bennington is found singing about feeling the emotional weight of the problems that are “stacking up” and “unnecessary”. It is a song that is looked after his…

A Tragic Hero In the film Into the Wild, Chris McCandless embarks on a long self-journey through Alaska’s frontier. At the beginning of the story, we are introduced to a troubled college graduate who has little plans, other than to escape from his past reality. From a young age, he is described as an individual…

Remember the Titans is a movie that depicts the concept of a system, which is comprised of multiple interconnected parts functioning together as a unified whole. Within this movie, various examples of how different parts are interconnected and work interdependently, creating a ripple effect and generating synergy can be observed. Furthermore, the film also demonstrates…

In times and places quite different, but both struck with war times, two boys would seem to be very different. Andrew “Ender” Wiggin lives in a future under threat of buggers. Ralph is stuck on an island with many other boys during a war when their plane was shot down. However, both boys have quite…

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…

For this essay I am going to describe, in detail, what Alfred Hitchcock did to make Psycho an innovative film, a new one that hadn’t been around before. It is famous because at the time it had a huge effect on the audience, we’re analysing how and why it did.In the 1950’s America had a…

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…