Dumplin' by Julie Murphy is a very refreshing take on being fat and in love. The main character, Willowdean Dickson (self proclaimed 'Fat Girl'), works at a local fast-food restaurant named Harpy's. Her life was normal, if you ignore the offensive things people mutter about her weight. Then, she met Bo. Seggel says that 'Author Julie Murphy draws a clear distinction between Will’s confidence, which is largely unshakeable—truly, she’s awesome—and her fears about getting closer to hot boyfriend Bo'
The term in-vitro fertilization (IVF) once created a historical controversy but it is now archaic. Its history dates back to 1978 England when the first test-tube girl Louise Brown was born. Nobel laureate Dr. Robert Edwards’ breakthrough became an overnight sensation and a legacy hero thankful by numerous infertile parents. Against the backdrop of IVF breakthrough, a belligerent bioethical debate for the Sanctity-of-life is inevitable. When Pope Paul VI issued the Humanae Vitae in 1968, the rules
What could possibly be wrong with taking your child to an aquarium? It seems like an innocent enough pleasure. Most children love watching exotic fish swimming behind glass, seahorses, sharks, rays, jellyfish, and turtles. A visit to the aquarium is a mixture of entertainment and education, and seems much less morally dubious than going to a zoo to gorillas, and probably much better than playing point-and-shoot video games. True, recent publicity about the US theme park chain SeaWorld and the treatment
Green's The Fault In Our Stars, a tragic story of two young lovers whose love is doomed to fail due to the fact that they both suffer from terminal cancer, which emphasizes Hero's romantic nature. Later we learn that Beatrice's favourite book is Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (“Q&A 2: The Second One”), which suggests a less sentimental character . In the first Q&A (question and answer) video Beatrice and Hero also discuss their Hogwarts Houses, a question many people who grew up reading J. K. Rowling's
so many genres. In the words of Hortense Powdermaker, “Hollywood is engage in the mass production of prefabricated dreams”. Musicals provided the cheerful notion of “ song and dance as the normal response to life.” (cite 109). Horror films like Frankenstein and Dracula, both released in 1931, reflected the overall feeling of the viewer at the time, yet still set in a fictional setting, safely away from reality. As was the case with Germany, “audiences respond especially to horror on screen during
Up until now, people thought Dracula was a creation from the movie films. There are various vampire tales stemming from the original Dracula. They usually tell a story symbolically portraying an old man trying to purloin the living’s virtue (life force). Written by Bram Stocker, the novel that started it all has transcended into a various episodic movies, television shows, cartoons, myth, and other areas. Dracula is a novel of adventure, fantasy, horror and gothic fiction all in one book considering
My Editor sent me an article titled “17 ‘Arrow’ Action Sequences That Are Better Than Any Movie.” The article shows off some great stunt and action scenes from the TV Show “Arrow” but the suggestion Arrow's action is better than movie is too much. MTV's recent article about stunts in the TV Show "Arrow" is evidence that movie fans misunderstand stunts and action. They know the difference between good action and bad action but they can't explain it. They may not have the language to describe the
Our Extensive Fascination with Horror Since the very first horror film over 100 years ago, this genre has saw a tremendous increase in its fan base. In the article “Why We Crave Horror Movies”, Stephen King suggests that the negative emotions induced while by horror movies are actually an essential key to our well-being. This specific interest is clearly more complex than the obvious reasons, such as the strong appetite to entertain one’s inner child, or confronting our worst fears from the safety
Henry James himself, described The Turn of the Screw (1898) as ‘an amusette to catch those not easily caught’ , suggesting that the excitement of reading is not found in being given a solution, but through creating your own. It is believed that James deliberately left his novella ambiguous by leaving the existence of the ghosts unresolved, as well as many other aspects, allowing the reader to make up their own mind. There are two obvious solutions to the unresolved issues in The Turn of The Screw
Dave Eggers’ The Circle simplified Dave Eggers’ The Circle is a narrative about the life of Mae: a college graduate that got her dream job in the best company she could imagine. Underneath the narrative, Eggers comments on ideas of privacy and social interactions in the digital era through the voice of his protagonist. In particular, Eggers uses ambiguous situations, his protagonist and some minor characters that play crucial role in the novel, well-constructed dialogues and analogies to underscore