"Crossing the Swamp," a poem by Mary Oliver, confesses a struggle through "pathless, seamless, peerless mud" to a triumphant solitary victory in a "breathing palace of leaves. " Oliver's affair with the "black, slack earthsoup" is demonstrated as she faces her long coming combat against herself. Throughout this free verse poem, the wild spirit of the author is sensed in this flexible writing style. While Oliver's indecisiveness is obvious throughout the text, it is physically obvious in the shape of the poem itself.
The Jamestown settlement was one of the harshest experiences for many of the people on that voyage and it was led by Bartholomew Gosnold. If one family member owned a big section of land the family would often fight over the claim on the land. The settlers lost all of their clean water supply and that caused them to have to drink salt water that carried diseases and illness. Many settlers could not handle the harsh weather. They did not know how to dress for the weather and could not find food.
What is the good life? Nietzsche argues that humans should seek power in order to have a good life. On the opposite spectrum, Hedonism argues that we should seek pleasure in order to have a good life. The book Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey raises the question of whether or not Nietzsche’s view of the good life is correct and if it is better to seek pleasure over power. Nurse Ratched is the head nurse of the mental health ward.
Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing is a film made in 1989 depicting racial conflict in Brooklyn New York during the 80's. The plot involves a group of African Americans, Italians and a Korean couple who live in the same block. There are multiple themes that tie in together in the film, one being the animosity and racism the characters feel towards each other throughout the film. The director makes the theme clear in the film by the conflicts that arise between the characters. An example of this is when Radio Raheem is buying a pair of batteries for his radio at the Korean’s store.
In Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee argues that racial bias leads to an escalation of tension and conflicts in the community. The film portrays the dynamics between African Americans, Italian Americans, and Koreans in a community that struggles with racial justice. These tensions and conflicts in the film dive deeply into how stereotypes impact this community and their interactions. Sal, an Italian American, owns a pizza place that has been in the area for years. Mookie, an African American, is one of Sal’s employees.
In the book Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman, he discusses the “dangers” of television and elaborates his thoughts about how that specific media was affecting American society. Some of the main points Postman touched on can be compared to the modern media society has now. Postman elaborated that television gained control of American society, which meant that Americans stopped questioning the media and opened the opportunity for fake news to be spread. Americans didn’t know what was real and what was fake because, at the end of the day, everything was for entertainment purposes as Postman expresses. The most important topic he covered was that the media was becoming a curriculum where Americans gained their knowledge and ideals.
The conflict between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.'s political ideologies is a major element in Spike Lee's landmark movie "Do the Right Thing." Through a variety of characters and exchanges, Lee contrasts the beliefs of King and Malcolm X as tensions rise in a Brooklyn neighborhood on a hot July day. In the end, the movie provides a thoughtful examination of these opposing ideologies and how they relate to combating racial injustice. America experienced a turning point in the 1950s and 1960s for the American civil rights movement, characterized by the resilient efforts of activists for racial equality. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. are two well-known figures from this movement.
The Last Men Out by Tom Downey is a nonfiction novel based on the lives of firemen spanning from the 60’s to the early 2000’s. During this time Tom shares stories of terroristic attacks collapsed buildings and dozens of other fire calls. The novel begins with Tom Downey sharing his reason for writing this book. He recalls a story that his friend had told him in 2001 about being a fireman in Rescue 2 in New York. The story inspired him to learn more about firefighting.
The poem “ Sick” by Shel Silverstein is my favorite children's poem. This piece is told from a perspective of a young child who is unenthusiastic and reluctant to going to school. The child uses a list of wild ailments to justify her inability of attending school that day. However, at the end of the poem once he lists everything from chickenpox to a shrunken brain, the child is told that the day is Saturday. At this point, all of the illness and afflictions mystically disappear and he goes out to play.
Ken Kesey’s novel “One flew over the cuckoo’s nest” was set during the psychedelic sixties of the post war American society, where many social changes were influenced by psychedelic drugs. During the end of the 1950s Psychiatry had reached the peak of its apparent prestige in the American Society, where psychiatric hospitals were seen as “a utopian monument to the virtues of separating the mentally ill from the community for successful treatment.” In “one flew over the cuckoo’s nest”, Ken Kesey displays an era with the widespread practice of “Therapeutic community” through the eyes of Chief Bromden; the narrator who suffers from Schizophrenia and is seen as the observer in the novel. Ultimately, through the portrayal of a post war American Psychiatric hospital setting, Ken Kesey explores how society smothers difference even though it may come as a valuable aspect to society.
"The Sound of Silence", originally "The Sounds of Silence", is a song by the American music duo Simon & Garfunkel. The song was written by Paul Simon over a period of several months in 1963 and 1964. A studio audition led to the duo signing a record deal with Columbia Records, and the song was recorded in March 1964 at Columbia Studios in New York City for inclusion on their debut album, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.. Released in October 1964, the album was a commercial failure and led to the duo breaking apart, with Paul Simon returning to England and Art Garfunkel to his studies at Columbia University. In spring 1965, the song began to attract airplay at radio stations in Boston, Massachusetts, and throughout Florida. The growing airplay led Tom Wilson, the song's producer, to remix the track, overdubbing electric instrumentation.
In the movie Déjà Vu, director Tony Scott produced an unforgettable movie. It is the city of New Orleans, Louisiana a wonderful day when all of a sudden BOOM a massive ferry explodes. The whole city is in shock. Bomber Carroll Oerstadt (Jim Caviezel) decides to put explosives in a car on the ferry. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) agent Doug Carlin (Denzel Washington) is on a mission to find this bad guy.
Dylan Thomas's poem Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night is a son's plea to his dying father. Within this work, the son expresses his views toward death in negative manner believing that, as stated on the second line of the first stanza, "Old age should burn and rave at close of day". In an attempt to prove to his father that he shouldn't give up on living, the son goes on to classify men into four different categories - all of which show that despite the fact that they will all eventually share the same end, each of these groups still fight for life. The categorization of these classes of men are further proof from the son that no matter the life choices, consequences, or personalities, there is always a reason to continue living.
The American dream is the ability for every citizen in America to have the same opportunities to achieve their goals. Each person has a different view of the American dream. Neil Diamond, Dierks Bentley, and Ronald Reagan each express their view of the American dream in a different way. “Coming to America” written by Neil Diamond voices the views of the American dream as the immigrants that came to America to achieve the freedom they did not have in their home countries. In stanza seven Diamond wrote “Got a dream to take them there they’re coming to America” Diamond is expressing why the immigrants are wanting to come to America.
When it comes to our world, the real world, the one without the fiction and details, everyone can be dissatisfied. All of us, live in a society where we take for granted everything we have. A perfect example is us, the teenage community. We live our life with tons of unnecessary temper, going day by day being furious, believing the world owes everything to us. Don 't get me wrong, there 's many teenagers that appreciate everything that is done for them, but the majority don 't. We want things made our way, to our liking, and nothing else.
