Books Essays

L. Russ Bush, The author of The Advancement: Keeping Faith in an Evolutionary Age, has been a notable author, apologist and a teacher, and has been working with students at the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. It was only recently that he decided that the world should have a printed version …

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein sits in the collective conscious as the ultimate scary story; the seminal text on what the Western monster manifests itself as. When analyzing the complex relationship between the monster and Frankenstein, and together the effect of sexuality, a lesser said, more engrained message comes forth, which involves …

The Ancient Greek household has often been described as a place that contained many boundaries, whether physical or non-physical (Antonaccio 2000: 522). What could have appeared to be a normal room may well have been forbidden to certain types of people. In our attempts to explain the notion of public …

In society women are still percieved as unequal to thier counterparts men. This can be shown in a number of ways such as unequal pay, resticted roles and relationships in the work place and with partners and sexual harresment. Although with the equal rights of employment women still experience a …

The scene opens with a plain, blue screen, we become aware that this is water. All is silent at this point. The camera stays still as what seems to be a man -the captain of a ship, sinks past the camera. The captain seems to be bleeding from his nose. …

The Crucible; an intensely emotional and dramatic film based on the horrific story of the Salem witch trials. The opening and concluding sequences are of great importance in conjuring the melancholy atmosphere present throughout the story. The director uses various different devices to achieve this. A variety of camera techniques …

In his autobiography All Souls: A Family Story From Southie, Michael Patrick MacDonald discloses on the adversities his family experienced while living in the projects of South Boston. One historical force present throughout the book is social movement. This is seen when the African American schools of Roxbury were being …

Daniel Radcliffe strides into action with a new confidence in his role of this dark, even sinister tale. And the result is a spellbinding two hours and 40 minutes which glides by as swiftly as his pal Ron’s fabulous flying Ford Anglia. Director Chris Colombus has stuck to the magic …

For my English coursework I have watched two science fiction films. Independence Day and War of the Worlds. War of the Worlds was made in the 1950’s and Independence Day in 1993. Both of which were huge hits of their time. A science fiction film is most likely to be …

Repetition leads to habit. Collective habit in a community though becomes tradition and eventually heritage. Alice Walker in “Everyday Use” uses quilts as a representation of two different approaches of preserving African American heritage in the ever evolving modern world. Dee is the woman who “made it” (Walker 103), who …