Entertainment Essays

Movie 1: Arirang The documentary has two parts, “The Korean American Journey,” which covers the community’s history from 1903 to about 1960, and “The Korean American Dream,” which continues the story through the present. The film begins the story of how and why, in less than three years in the …

The song, I Know I Can”, by raper Nas, has a positive message that encourages people, but mainly children to work hard and stay in school, so that they can be what they want to eb in life. his song’s lyrics instill a certain pride, fight and determination in the …

The internet has changed the world we live in. Emails are sent across thousand of miles in a matter of seconds. People start business with only a few clicks on a computer screen and students can access entire libraries without even leaving their homes. However there is a darker side …

The advent of television and television shows may have come long after film, but it enhanced film production almost instantly. Television naturally derived from early film since each uses basically the same medium: the motion picture camera. Since film had already set a base in the industry and mastered the …

The two main characters of this film are Kathy (Jennifer Connelly), a recovering alcoholic who is struggling to maintain her sobriety while being faced with losing the family’s house that her recently deceased father had worked so hard for. Kathy had neglected the mail after her husband left and didn’t …

Green Day is a California based pop-punk band consisting of Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and Tre Cool. At the age of fourteen, Armstrong and Dirnt decided to form a punk rock band, and at first they called themselves Sweet Children. By early 1989, however, they added drummer Al Sobrante …

As the fluorescent lights dim, a tense hush swallows the audience. Yet as the room itself darkens, the vast movie screen brightens in contrast, and the peal of a single trumpet heralds a familiar tune. “It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have …

As one journeys through his or her life, decisions will ultimately have to be made–whether simple or complex. This will carry a person from point A to point B and, if fortunate, achieving point C along the way. This is never as simple a process as it appears to be, …

“Gattaca”, written and directed by Andrew Niccol, depicts a futuristic world of a cold society, where one’s resume exists in their cells and genes. Although genes play a significant part to a successful life in this world, the path and success of one’s life is not determined solely on DNA …

Set in the not-to-distant future, the film “Gattaca” gives us a chilling yet eye opening glimpse of life bound by DNA. Children are perfected by genetic manipulation before birth and then born into a prejudiced society where DNA determines your social standing. The director, Andrew Niccol successfully expresses a bold …