History vs. Hollywood: “Braveheart” Braveheart is a 1995 epic historical drama that was directed by and starred Mel Gibson. The story is based on Blind Harry's epic poem The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace and was adapted for the screen by Randall Wallace. This extravagant film was also produced by Mel Gibson, Bruce Davey, and Alan Ladd Jr. Braveheart incorporated famous actors and actresses such as Sophie Marceau as Princess Isabella of France, Patrick
She is a sweet brown colored thirteen-year-old girl who is a fantastic writer. Maleeka lives with only her mother because her father has died. She is bullied every day because she is a different color than everyone else. The other protagonist is Mrs. Saunders. She is a new English teacher at McClenton who is very wealthy to teach at this school that is not considered a very good school. Mrs. Saunders has white patches all over her face, which many of the kids (not including Maleeka)
The theory of everything is a British biographical romantic movie which was adapted from a memoir by Jane Hawking (nee Wilde) titled Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen. The memoir focuses on the life and relationship that Jane shared with her ex-husband, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking and in turn so does the movie. The movie follows events to how the main character is diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) as was the case with Hawking in real life. This paper posits that
Graham’s team represents how the company prefers team cohesion to competition. Such trait in Billy and Nick is initially observed during the Quidditch challenge and maintained until their acceptance to Google. • Stability Lastly, both Google and the protagonists share the same mentality of growth and development through change and continuous innovation. Both are more inclined to work in a dynamic environment to achieve growth instead of settling with sustainability. Aside from the objective factors that
catching a fatal disease just rubbed salt into the wound. It’s easier to understand and empathize with a person who has nothing to lose. Walter White himself thinks that living with honor didn’t give him anything but a terminal lung cancer. This protagonist who has nothing left to lose starts taking huge risks and doing everything that he can otherwise he wouldn’t. He shows us how far a man go if he has nothing. Walter is a man who blames the circumstances for his crimes and violence. He gives his
Ambrose Bierce’s Life and Times 1 Introduction This report focuses on one of the short stories authored by Ambrose Bierce. To be specific, the argument of this paper is based on evaluation and analysis of Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, a short story book published by Bierce during his times. I will make emphasis on the story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” in which I will analyze and evaluate the plot, themes, characters, setting, and stylistic devices used by the author to relay his meaning
“Show me Yours” by Richard Van Camp narrates the promising and apparent upturned in life experienced by Richard, a middle-aged man who at the beginning has experienced a nadir in his life caused by addiction issues and harmful friendships. After a bad night, by mere randomness, he decides to glue a found baby picture of him to his grandparent saint’s necklace and wears it under his shirt. Abruptly, the baby picture necklace becomes a trend in his community and seems to encourage care and positivism
fifteen-year-old from Minneapolis who had been in trouble with the law half his life”, like it says on page five in the book Touching Spirit Bear written by Ben Mikaelsen. Cole Matthews is the main character and focus of the book, he is the protagonist. In my opinion I think that Matthews is very in-tune with himself and, extremely selfish. I think that he is a troubled kid who Doesn’t know how to deal with his problems the right way. He does not respect elders, power of others, or people
The “real” main character of The Giver is clearly Jonas. Right from the start Jonas was introduced on the first page. Lois wrote “It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened” (Lowry,1). Though describing the traits of a character first does not impose they are the main character, but Lois continues with his thoughts. Because Jonas is the one to be receiving the memories from The Giver, he will become the main character. The book revolves around the actions of Jonas as he describes
Journal Entry #2 – Insurgent Within the middle chapters, Tris and Tobias have decided to go to Candor headquarters to meet with half of their Dauntless friends. But when they get there, they are both arrested and undergo a truth serum trial. They both tell Jack Kang—Candor Leader—the events that occurred during the Erudite attack in the book of Divergent. They also spill their deepest regrets, leaving Christina devastated over Will’s death, caused by Tris. An unexpected plot twist was when the