Alan Menken Essays

Little Shop of Horrors Little Shop of Horrors is the third – longest- running musical comedy in off- Broadway shows. Book and lyrics by Howard Ashman and music by Alan Menken. I watched the movie version from 1960 with Rick Moranis as Seymour. “Little Shop of Horrors” has become a highly successful film version. The 1982 play, Little Shop of Horrors, is one of the successful comedies. The play, Little Shop of Horrors, is based on Roger Corman's 1960 science fiction movie which is best

3.3 Aladdin “Aladdin“ is a relatively old Disney movie, released 1992, which won several Academy Awards and broke grossing records of its days. The animated feature is about a street-urchin called Aladdin, who falls in love with the princess Jasmine as she escapes the palace and meets him at the marketplace. However, the evil vizier Jafar finds out Aladdin is the “diamond in the rough“, the only one that can get into the cave, where the miracle lamp is, that he so desperately wants. So Aladdin is

Attom surrounds himself with all kinds of shady characters, from both factions and other organizations. He has a moral standard, however, if that is any consolation; though in times like these even the smallest of consciences can tip the fate of us all. We have noticed that he keeps his attire on most of the time, we're not sure if that's a defense or what, but it's definitely something to note. The attire he chooses also has a "medieval" tinge to it, possibly something he acquired from the Zeltros

term AI has garnered a very negative reputation from the many examples of “rogue AIs” in fiction. This idea of a thinking machine that is both like us and yet not like us derives from the man many think of as one of the fathers of modern computers, Alan Turing [4]. The Turing Test, proposed in 1950, was designed by Turing to see if a computer could convince a person it was a human being under controlled conditions [4]. This is the basis for the main sub-theme underpinning most fictional Artificial

Cultural Artifacts: Cars Have you ever thought of what might be important cultural artifacts that influence our everyday life? Believe it or not, we make use of cultural artifacts much more than one would think. The cultural artifact that I am choosing to focus on, cars, play an important role in our everyday life by allowing our culture to move about our world and travel to new and interesting places. Andy Crouch has provided us with five thoughts that will help us better understand our culture

Artificial intelligence (AI) is an area of computer science in which creating intelligent machines are emphasized. These machines are created to do tasks that involve aspects like learning, planning, and problem solving. Knowledge engineering is the center of AI creation motives. Artificial intelligence is made with the ideals of creating a machine capable of thinking and reacting like a human (What Is Artificial Intelligence (AI)?). With this field of science expanding rapidly, AI is becoming more

Everyone is the same, everyone is equal, we all know the sames things, or so we thought. The animals in Animal Farm were being told these things when really there was a massive inequality. When the animals began to rebel to gain their freedom from the humans they were told that life without the dictating humans would be so much better. The animals agreed that life would be less stressful and laborious but little did they know that the rebellion would end with their society falling. When creating

The movie titled “The Imitation Game” directed by Morten Tyldum is based on the true story of Alan MathisonTuring. This particular movie was inspired by the biographical book, “Alan Turing: The Enigma” written by Andrew Hodges. Alan Turing was a mathematician, cryptanalysis, and a well known war hero. In 1952, he worked at Bletchley Park, Britain’s code breaking center, during the Second World War. Subsequently, he cracked the Enigma, which is an electro mechanical rotor cipher machine that generates

enforcement that leads for vigilantes to exist. Both Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns, deconstruct the traditional superhero through the theme of vigilantism, Alan Moore’s text offer the realistic interpretation of vigilantes, while Frank Miller emphasizes the dark side of masculine hero through the rebirth of Bruce Wayne as the Dark Knight. In Alan Moore’s work, every vigilante was flawed as humans and represent the possibility of the average-joe becoming a vigilante. The Comedian is one of the many

A building explodes in the distance, who is guilty? The perpetrator who rigged the explosion or the country that caused them to go that far. V for Vendetta extensively explores this topic in a number of ways. V is pegged by the Norsefire as public enemy number one, the worst of the worst, a terrorist through and through, but this novel is told from a perspective that paints him as a hero, the great savior of the land. While he is all of those things, the ways he can be perceived is all about the

The Beloved Country tells the story of Stephen Kumalo, a priest from Ndtoshemi, in search for his son. It describes the despair of characters and shows how our choices can affect others other than ourselves. In his novel Cry, The Beloved Country, Alan Paton uses the metaphor of a phoenix to emphasize the destruction of the tribe but also Stephen Kumalo 's intention to mend the tribe and the metaphor of the storm to show Stephen Kumalo 's struggle throughout the story. Stephen Kumalo comes from a

FACULY OF NATURAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE NAME OF STUDENT : S. GANGATA STUDENT NUMBER : 213240300 MODULE : DATA STRUCTURES MODULE CODE : CSI22M2 TASK : ASSIGNMENT #1 TOPIC : ROLE OF DATA STRUCTURES QUALIFICATION : B Sc. COMPUTER SCIENCE DUE DATE : 04-08-2015 LECTURER : MR L. TINARWO 1. Stack Properties (Weiss, 1992) In a stack insertion and deletion are performed only in one position called the top. Operations of the stack are push, and push is the same as to

The first half of “V for Vendetta”, was quite interesting. The comic book builds a storyline around “V”, the John Fawkes’ masked man, who scours what’s left of London, after it comes under water years earlier as a result of mysterious presumable bomb. Africa and Europe are completely destroyed, and Britain is left standing miraculously. “V”, rescues the 16-year-old “Evey”, from sure death by crazed men. “V” then proceeds to take Evey to watch the Houses of Parliament get destroyed. This is a powerful

In Sam Mendes’ American Beauty, there is a deliberate use of the color red throughout the film. The color is a clear representation of life and death, as the movie’s main theme is about both and how they go hand in hand. Blood is one of the things that gives human beings life, it is what keeps people living at the same time that if it’s gone, we die. Blood is the color blue below the surface of our skin when it is in our veins. But it is when it comes to the surface that it becomes the color red

In V for Vendetta, James McTeigue uses artworks in an intertextual way to portray his character’s emotional development. Today I will be talking about the artworks The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian, Puberty and The Burning of the Houses of Parliament. The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian is symbolic of the political dominance present in V’s society. The term martyrdom refers to killing a person due to their devotion to a religious faith or cause. Saint Sebastian is depicted being tied to the stake and

V for Vendetta directed by James McTeigue demonstrates the rebellion against injustice of an oppressing government of England in 2038 AD. V for Vendetta demonstrates rebellion against injustice through the main character "V." He was a victim of illegal genetic testing by the government in an effort to further their knowledge about the human body’s ability to survive epidemics. V was the only one to survive and escape. His hatred then turns into vengeance. He vowed to bring justice to his country

In the book “Watchmen as Literature,” Sara Van Ness explores the complex theme of vigilantism in the graphic novel “Watchmen” by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. She examines how each character in “Watchmen” differs in their approach to seeking justice and the ethical implications of their actions. Furthermore, their world demonstrates that villainy and heroism are all a matter of perspective. In chapter six of Van Ness’s book, she argues that the vigilantism theme in “Watchmen” reflects broader cultural

Extended Definition Essay: Vengeful Throughout time, one of the most prominent emotions is anger. It is impossible to imagine an event at any point in time that didn’t include some form of rage. However, when people get mad, they tend to do things in retaliation. The word used for this action is revenge or vengeance. That is why for this essay, I have chosen to use vengeful. The first known use of vengeful was circa 1586, nothing about the word is known after that. The Dictionary definition of

Crying in H Mart is a story about identity, relationships, and loss. Zauner chronicles the events of her growing up and her relationship with her mother through Michelle’s adolescence up until her mother’s cancer diagnosis and subsequent journey fighting it. Throughout this story, Michelle reflects on her Korean identity and how she fits herself into the world being half-Korean. When facing the loss of her mother, she attempts to connect with her Korean side through culinary dishes, making cultural

In the comic Watchmen by Alan Moore, there isn't a clear protagonist or antagonist like there is in other classic comic books. The characters, who struggle with life's many moral and personal challenges including bullying, child abuse, and infidelity, are uncannily human for the genre. The majority lack any kind of superpowers. Their morality and minds are what distinguish them from one another; eventually, each is driven to become a hero by a profound longing to be one. A character's views on morality