Entertainment Essays

The Amish are a charming people, gentle oddities in today’s techno world. They don’t do handguns, cars, or telephones, and they’re exceedingly clannish in their desire to keep out technology generally and outsiders in particular. The basis for Witness is an age-old fish-out-of-water story: a modern man trying to fit …

GANDHI the movie is, above all, meant for entertainment. However, the movie is historically correct save for a few exceptions; but it is clear why Richard Attenborough (GANDHI’s director) has made these errors. Gandhi gets so upset at South Africa’s Apartheid laws over just one incident in a train. It …

In the novel “Wild Cat Falling” there are many characters that both entertain and educate the reader. There are many characters that play important roles in the story and contribute to the main characters (Duggan – Referred to as Duggan which is his last name because no first name is …

This essay is an attempt to explore something I noticed when I saw James Cameron’s Titanic on opening night. This concept did not occur to me immediately, but as I saw one of the scenes in the hallway where the water rushed down and around a corner, rushing towards the …

There are a lot of qualities Shah Rukh Khan shares with both his predecessors and his contemporaries. While there are those who claim he’s nothing more than a clever amalgamation of Dilip Kumar and Amitabh Bachchan, there are others who swear he’s made a fine art of hamming (‘Darr’s’ K..K..K..Kiran …

Although India and China are different when it comes to religion and culture, the Taiping Rebellion in China and the Sepoy Rebellion in India had their similarities and their differences, which allowed them to succeed in some parts of their rebellions and fail in other. However, neither of these rebellions …

He’s Bollywood’s original brat. The media hates him; but crowds go wild at the very mention of his name. Girls swoon each time he flashes his bare torso on screen (which is quite often). Gossip rags work overtime fishing out juicy tidbits from his personal life: a brawl here, an …

Oedipus Rex, by Sophocles, and Fences, by August Wilson, are two great tragedies by two outstanding playwrights. The two stories seem intertwined by the great characters that they center around. Although the stories of Oedipus and Troy are separated by centuries, the characters are almost identical. Different backgrounds, different cultures, …

Punk rock music and style has subsisted for several decades since it originated. The punk movement opposed modern culture, not only through its fast paced music, but also through its fashion. The youths who proceeded to follow punk, were reacting to current social situations in the 1970’s and doing so …

It is very hard to decide that recent human social evolution can be disintegrated from mass media or not. In fact our lives are so much dependent on information being generated by various resources that it is virtually impossible to remain effective without any communication systems. Information needs a medium …