Entertainment Essays

Journeys end is an awesome and eye-opening book to be set out as a play; it shows the viewer how devastating and demoralising the Great War was. R. C Sherriff, the author of Journeys End, was a brave man who was unfortunate enough to get wounded while serving in the …

Titanic, the unsinkable is known as the ship of dreams as two young, star-crossed lovers Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Rose (Kate Winslet) struggle to fight for their love despite coming from different social classes. Rose goes back to the past as she narrates a romantic, emotive, death-defying tragedy showing her …

My practical work in July-September 2003 was for option 1 and consisted of Devised work on the theme of Homelessness. We titled our piece ‘Leaving Home’. There were four of us in our group. Our work is based on the play ‘Under the Bridge’. We start with Scene 3 of …

Set in the beautiful seaside resort of Amityville, a picturesque island off the east coast of America, in the mid 1970’s, Jaws was a film with a difference. Directed by Spielberg, it broke box office records across the western world following the theme of ‘man versus beast’. We follow the …

Blake’s poem ‘London’ and Wordsworth’s poem ‘Composed on Westminster Bridge’ at first glance present London in contrary ways. Figuratively, Blake’s London resembles the dark depths of an underground chamber that is isolated from the beauty of nature and instead is claustrophobically filled with Blake’s clever metaphor: “mind forged manacles”, which …

Whenever the issue of the benefits and harms of videogames has been brought up, the responses are always controversial. The importance of this subject is derived from its popularity amongst the masses, most significantly in children of the ages of 11-16. If these children are going to make up the …

Media is all around us and nearly everywhere we go. It features in our everyday lives so obviously it has a large effect on our lives. Sometimes media is good, however it can also be bad. We are influenced by it when we watch TV, listen to the radio or …

Andy Dufresne, a city banker, is sent to Shawshank prison because he was suspected of murdering his wife and her lover but is innocent. He befriends Byron Hadley, head guard, and Ellis Redding, Red, who help him through his time. After 19 years of hard work Dufresne manages to tunnel …

Limestone is a commonly found type of rock found most my in the south of England and in Southern Africa. Limestone is a family word, as far as rocks go; this means that there are different verities, like for example; there is Chalk, Massive Limestone, Oolitic Limestone, and Tropical Limestone. …

The Internet can be considered as “a collection of interconnected networks that use the Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol suite” The Internet has its routes in experimental packet switching work which was conducted by the US Department of Defence Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA). The research and development accomplish …