Essays on Entertainment

The film Still Alice The film Still Alice depicts the life of a lady whose sense of self is undermined after being diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer s disease. Alice Howland, a linguistics professor, is a successful scholar, wife, and mother at the age of 50. She has...

The Video Incorporates Footage from Various Animated Films The video incorporates footage from various animated films to depict the many stages of personality development as described by Erik Erikson’s psychological theory of development in eight stages. Stage 1: Trust vs. Mistrust The first clip, from Monsters Inc., depicts how children develop trust or...

Everybody Hates Chris is the name of the show I've chosen, which has a social class or inequality theme. Based on the turbulent adolescent years of comedian Chris Rock in the 1980s, the show is an American period comedy. The show's time period is 1982–1987( (Everybody Hates Chris). The television...

The Influence of Social Factors on Mate Selection The notion that “love is blind” and that romance may develop anyplace as long as there is chemistry is shared by a substantial portion of Americans, yet this is not always the case. The process of choosing a spouse is typically influenced by...

The audience is immediately drawn in by the intriguing plot of Living on a Dollar a Day. It is clear that the film's opening juxtaposes the morning routines of a typical family living in a rural part of Guatemala with those of two college students who live in the United...

Maus is the story of Art Spiegelman’s interviews with his father Vladek about his Holocaust experiences. The book was serialized from 1980 to 1991, and the first volume won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992. It is a fable, and it can also be seen as an allegory. It reflects several...

The film Mean Girls incorporates images of subcultural fashion. The Plastics, a group of three females from a bigger high school group, are a subcultural style. The ruling three, led by Regina the Queen Bee, was the school's most elite group. The Plastics were three females named Gretchen, Regina, and...

Introduction One of the most widely used communication platforms in recent years has been social media. This has been made possible by both the ease of use and the advancement of technology, particularly the internet. As a result, many people of all ages, genders, and ethnicities have subscribed to the feature...

In the American criminal drama movie American History X Edwards Norton, Ethan Suplee, Fairuz Balk, and Beverly D'Angelo all appear. The film's American debut was on October 30, 1998, under the direction of Tony Kaye (McKenna 12).The movie tells the tale of two brothers who join neo-Nazi organizations as a result of...

Mary Thompson's Dilemma Mary Thompson saw Tom being cut down with a machete. She lied to the authorities when they questioned her about the incident and the unfortunate occurrence. She insisted that she remained silent.An Anthropologist's Moral Responsibility An anthropologist named Thompson was present to study a South-East Asian civilization. She asserted...

The Jeffersonian crew and the Slave Ship Wreck The Jeffersonian crew is tasked with identifying the skeletons recovered from a shipwreck that was a slave ship headed for New Orleans in Bones' Season 6, Episode 6. The gang had the benefit of having the ship's manifest, which contained the vital information...

Ava Duvernay's 13th is a fantastic movie whose major goal is to show how mass incarceration is a continuation of slavery. The movie itself is a documentary that challenges the audience's assumptions about the junction of three factors—race, mass incarceration, and race in the United States. The movie begins by...