Essays on Entertainment

The Central Park Five Documentary The 2012 “Central Park Five” documentary by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon describes the arrest, trial, conviction and later acquittal of five American youth for the horrific crime of assault, rape, and attempted murder of a female jogger, Trisha Meili on April 19, 1989...

Social Media and Data Protection Social media is one of the most popular platforms used by a large percentage of people in the world, and Facebook happens to be the leading social media platform in terms of users. With more than 2.2 billion users, Facebook faces a daunting task of ensuring...

Why Do People Play the Lottery? Adam Piore talks about an interesting topic on why people play the lottery. He begins his writing with a case study of an 84-year old widow from Florida to win 590 million dollars. The scenario compelled Professor Robert Williams to give crucial reasons as for...

The movie “Lean on Me” is a dramatic American film produced by Norman Twain. The film’s settings are at Eastside High School, a school with crowded classrooms, outdated resources and poor students. Lean on ME is based on Joe Louis Clark’s story, a real-life principal in Paterson, whose school is...

The television as we know it has demanded the attention of the public for years. But what once isolated us, now connects us through phones, computers, and tablets.  It has become apparent that the audience is making its demands on how and what viewers want to see on their screens....

According to the script, Abbey is one among many citizens who have different views on the way things are running in the west. There seem to be a group of people who are not contented with the way things are, and most of them including Abbey, are hoping for the...

Social Media and Free Speech Social media remains an ideal platform for connecting people and facilitating communication between individuals and institutions. Celebrities, international users, political dissidents, and commercial institutions use the platform to share information with the public. Since these sites engage people from all cultures, they experience a free speech,...

Students transitioning from high school to college Students transitioning from high school to college marks a milestone in their personal and social development. They get to leave their parents, high school friends and their normal environments for a new setting knowing that the end goal is to graduate from college and...

Stephen King's Cell: A Horror Fiction Book Stephen King, one of the most preeminent writers once again wows his audience with a horror fiction book titled Cell. This book talks about zombies and how people in the contemporary world take pleasure in shows and novels about zombies as if their lives...

Most cities in the United States can be classified based on their nicknames as their identities. These nicknames, which are related to activities, history and main features of the cities are important in revealing their identities. Behind the nicknames are descriptions of the real situation and events that go down...

The Bombay Circus Experience The Bombay circus had been running its show for the last month in our city. The show had been attracting many crowds and most of the children in our class had attended the show. Every kid who had attended the show in school talked about how spectacular...

The Negative Impact of Social Media on Relationships The social media platforms have reshaped many aspects of society. Everyone who owns a laptop or any electronic device with the ability to access the internet cannot resist the temptation of social media. The social media networking platforms such as YouTube, Snapchat, Myspace,...