Essays on Entertainment

This article lists an overall summary and critique overview of the journal article “Losing Hurts: The Happiness Impact of 2 Partisan Electoral Loss”; a journal article contained in the Journal of Experimental Political Science. The article focuses on the reactions a partisan may have or display following a general election....

“White Like Me” - An Anti-Racist Film Exposing Racism in the United States “White Like Me” is an anti-racist film featuring Tim Wise. The theme of the film is to bring forward the matter of racism in the United States. Despite being a white and growing in comfortable places, Tim Wise...

The movie, Tears of the Sun, was released in 2003 to the worldwide audience. The film depicts an elite team of Special Forces deployed in a war zone to extract American citizens. Lieutenant A. K. Walters led the Navy Seals in their mission to rescue Dr. Lena Fiore Kendricks and...

Kurosawa Kiyoshi is one of the most celebrated directors in the film industry in Japan.  Kiyoshi is famous for films known as the J-horror genre, for instance, the Pulse (2001), Retribution (2006) and Cure (1997). In all these films, Kiyoshi explores themes of anger, loneliness, hopelessness, and dissatisfaction that depict...

The Emergence of Social Media The emergence of social media has revolutionized the world in many ways. Social media networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube among others have continued to attract more users in the recent years. The rise in popularity of social media started after the invention...

Social media has become the primary means of communication globally. It has a great following and this has seen the US presidency and other elected leaders use social media in driving their social development agendas, engage with the people they represent and analyze peoples view on a certain topic. Sometimes...

Plato’s ideas as espoused in his writing, “The Republic” greatly influenced Thomas More’s utopian society. Irrespective of this heavy borrowing, the book reveals some highlights which greatly undermine the setup of Plato’s commonwealth because of the contrasting perspectives of More and the context in which the writing takes place. There...

Gambling is an activity which is widespread in many regions in the world. However, it is more prominent in US. In this paper, a comparison in gambling between US and other parts of the world was carried out. It was established that while the games played and the purpose of...

Globalization and Development in "Burn!" Majority of scholars that have studied development as a topic agree on the fact that it is not easy for developing countries to jump from underdevelopment to the developed world, and that it goes hand in hand with civilization and globalization. It has also, for a...

The documentary Bitter Lake offers some of the compelling insights that get to the bottom of the mystery behind the never-ending war in the Middle East, particularly in Afghanistan. Contrary to the majority of narrative that has been in existence in the elucidating the cause of constant wars in the...

The Nobel Peace Prize and Its Significance The Nobel Peace Prize Award is an honourable global program that was initiated by Alfred Nobel and acts from March 1901. As the industrialist, innovator and manufacturer of armaments, Nobel had a significant rationale behind the award with reference to fields such as Physiology,...

Political knowledge and citizenship Political knowledge is a foundational aspect of effective citizenship and the Jimmy Kimmel video shows the extent to which the American public shows signs of poor political knowledge. Overall, the sentiments that they relay either for or against Obamacare and the Affordable Care Act evidence the poorly...