Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Essays

  • Wall-E: Movie Analysis

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    overall directive which is to ensure the health and safety of all aboard the Axiom. From the scenes at the end of the film, it appears that humans are able to survive and even thrive on Earth after the return of the Axiom. Thus, it would have been in the best interest of all on board the ship if AUTO had allowed for a peaceful return to Earth. However, AUTO still resorted to following override A113, a 700-year-old directive, solely because those are his orders. AUTO’s inability to move beyond his directive

  • Themes In Mark Twain's The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer

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    Title “Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.” -Anonymous. Tom Sawyer, the protagonist of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, gradually shifts his mirrors to windows through his experiences. The theme of maturity is prominent throughout Tom’s adventures in the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. One of the themes that Mark Twain explores throughout the novel is that people mature through their life experiences

  • Feminism In To Kill A Mockingbird

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    Mockingbird” demonstrate different features of feminism, from misogyny to the patriarchic system in which society mostly accept and where they functions, it all connects and ties into the novel and life itself. This idea comes from the author’s childhood and the environment where she grew up in, “To Kill A Mockingbird” is a novel of historical fiction written by Harper Lee and was first published in the year 1960’s. Beloved by a lot of readers (winning many awards including Pulitzer Prize in the year

  • Violence In Martin Charles Scorsese

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    “Taxi Driver”, “Raging Bull”, “The Last Temptation of Christ” and “The Departed”- this is only a short list of movies which were directed by a talented Italian-American screenwriter, Martin Charles Scorsese. With more than 50 years of film directing experience, with lots of rewards, including Oskar, he remains to be one of the most influential and recognized film producers around the globe. From very young age Mr. Scorsese was very passionate about film making and at the age of 26 he already

  • Examples Of Dystopia In Animal Farm

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    all animals and the rejection of all human contact. By the end of the novel, the pigs are in an open alliance with the humans and behave just like them, even by walking on two legs. A revolution aimed at improving the lives of the animals, with the best possible intentions, has degenerated into a nightmare. Similar to the creation and destruction of the Soviet Union, Napoleon in Animal Farm is directly connected to Joseph Stalin, while Snowball represents Leon Trotsky, and Old Major is Vladimir Lenin

  • Negative Effects Of Movie Heroes And Villains

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    Positives and Negatives Effects of Movie Hero and Villains People grow up with heroes and villains when they are growing up to show proper behavior. This is displayed through the images in mythology, books, comics, television, and movies. The narratives have a vast influence on society is with movies. The heroes or villains in movies are “the manifestations of how an individual views of life. It can mirror their hopes, dreams and aspirations” (Pedalino) if the individual relates to the hero

  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Portrayal Of Victorian Women

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    Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” critiques Victorian womanhood in several ways throughout the text. Victorian women were expected to be pure, dainty, and perfectly angelic. They were also expected to be perfect mothers, wives, and hostesses at all times. If a woman were to express too much emotion, she would be called hysterical. Hysteria was considered a medical condition which rendered a woman incapable of reason or generally thinking like an adult. However, because of societal

  • Dangerous Knowledge In Frankenstein Essay

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    Throughout Frankenstein, Mary Shelley shows how dangerous knowledge can be. Discuss. In her novel, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley highlights how the pursuit of knowledge can lead to disastrous consequences when it is placed in the wrong hands. This is evidenced by Victor Frankenstein’s carless actions, and that of his creation when it is discovering the world and society for the first time. Victor’s reckless behaviour contributes not only the deaths of his family, but the creature’s nature of becoming

  • Chaos And Order In A Midsummer Night's Dream

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    In the real world, love is a very fragile force. Love can be easily broken and manipulated by multiple other outside forces. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the two most basic themes are the chaos and order that are the causes of all the actions that take place. Chaos versus order in A Midsummer Night’s Dream also is a representation of Yin and Yang. Yin, represents the bad or darkness in the world, this is the chaos in the play. Yang represents the good or light in the world, this is order.

  • A Political Allegory In George Orwell's Animal Farm

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    Rationale Animal Farm is a political allegory that represents the Russian Revolution but instead of people the author, George Orwell, decided to use animals. Also the book emphasizes the communist system at that time but in the story the animals called Animalism. In this written assignment I will create a new character called Tornado who tries to save Boxer after Napoleon lied to the animals and called the Horse Slaughterer to kill Boxer instead of the hospital because he was sick, but Tornado can’t

  • Native Guard By Natasha Trethewey Analysis

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    A Monument to the Dead Throughout Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey there are themes of death, grief and change. These themes are carried through the collection and are present within the entire collection. These set up the mood that this collection is ultimately about change but change for the reader as well as what happens in the collection. In “Monument” we can see all these changes through a paraphrase of the poem and the sense of elongated time from the from the form and imagery of the poem

  • May's Lion By Le Guin Analysis

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    1. May’s Lion by Le Guin. May’s Lion is a story told in another story. This story is told by the person that May had told the story. They are two stories in one. First May recount this story how one morning she woke up and found a sick mountain lion in her yard. Not aware of what to do she calls the police, who end up shooting the lion. According to her “there was nothing else that they could have done”. The second part of the story is by Mays friend who narrates it according to how she understands

  • When We Talk About Love By Raymond Carver Analysis

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    The short story “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love” by Raymond Carver is about four friends- Laura, Mel, Nick, and Terri, gathering on a table and having a conversation. As they start to drink, the subject abruptly comes to “love.” Then, the main topic of their conversation becomes to find the definition of love, in other word to define what exactly love means. However, at the end, they cannot find out the definition of love even though they talk on the subject for a day long. Raymond Carver

  • The Princess's Choice In 'The Lady Or The Tiger'

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    The Princess’s Choice Frank R. Stockton, the author of The Lady or The Tiger, wrote the story and left us questioning who might have been behind the door. The story is puzzling and mysterious all together. The story gives many evidences and hints to the princess’s decision. Some would say that the lady came out from behind the door, but there are several evidence that show that the princess chose the door with the tiger. First of all, if the princess chose the lady, she would be in so much pain

  • Feminism Is For Everybody Analysis

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    Feminism is a movement that’s purpose is to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression as defined in Feminism Is For Everybody by bell hooks. Gloria Jean Watkins, better known as bell hooks, is an American writer, teacher, and cultural critic. Born September 25, 1952, in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, she attended racially segregated public schools as a child and later attended Stanford University on scholarship where she attained her bachelor’s degree. Following her graduation from Stanford, she

  • Million Dollar Baby Analysis

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    Almost everyone loves movies, whether it is action, comedy, romance, fantasy, horror, suspense, and animated. Everyone has their own preferences, but despite of these preferences and different genres, every film has an ending. The endings are either happy, sad or even comes with a cliff-hanger. However, the ones that have sad endings are the ones that really touches and leaves a thought to the people who watches it. If it has a happy ending, then people would just know that it ended nice and the

  • Reflective Essay: Why I Play Football

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    I play football because my family grew up playing it all of my uncles and my dad and my brother and I was also just really good at it because everyone has taught me from a very young age.The main to people who taught me everything were my dad and brother which were both really good at football. When I got to the field that day, it felt like a normal practice. We started off with warm-ups, and then ran the basic drills, like running through the pads. Towards the middle of practice all the positions

  • Who Is The Beast In Lord Of The Flies

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    In an atmosphere where the beast is real, policies and human morals lose their values and become utterly useless. The democracy that Ralph initiated disappears and yields to a chaotic dictatorship, with Jack at the head, which represents evil and the beast viewed as both a dread and a symbol of worship and reverence. The boys’ increasing allegiance to the existence of the monster is demonstrated in their impalement of the sow’s head on the stake given as an offering to the beast. Thus, Jack slowly

  • Short Story Pompei Reaction

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    Pompeii During the process of recording my thought process while reading this story did not help me understand what was going on, the reason or moral of the story. Although i wrote questions down as i read the story, they still were not answered. One thing i liked about the process while taking notes, was the fact that it made me wanna find the answer in the text by reading it over until i got close. I would only recommend this process of reading if reading and understanding does not come easy for

  • Nirvana On Earth Essay

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    Lata who is educated doesn’t understand how one could lead a happy life with a partner she has never chosen but that she is made to like the choice made by the elders. Seth tries to show how the elders of the family always imbibe in their children to follow their life partners throughout their life. Growing in such atmosphere, even the younger generation obeys their parents to the maximum extent. Lata also shows the obedience towards her mother. This was expressed by Lata’s friend, Malati : Well