Life Essays

The very first time I watched ‘The Truman Show’ I thought, wow! What a great film, and never thought in too much detail about it. My subconscious concentrated on the obvious, and without realising, I’d missed a lot of the main points that would have helped my understanding of the …

The Venus de Milo is one of the most famous sculptures in the world. The millions of tourists from all over the globe come to the Louvre museum in Paris to see it. Almost as popular as the Mona Lisa, it played a significant role in the history of art …

The twelfth chapter, although seemingly unimportant- yet a necessary reintroduction of Basil Hallward- in fact reveals a great deal about the way in which he sees Dorian. ‘Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man’s face. It cannot be concealed’ is a clear example of traditional Victorian values …

When Prohibition was passed as a law in 1919 the pressure groups who had backed it hoped for a decrease in America’s social problems and criminal activities. It did bring positives such as; more productive society, men took more responsibility and boom years. But on the other hand, prohibition appeared …

It is the usual question we are asked to answer but with great difficulty. However, to describe yourself with what you most closely identify is easier and more interesting. Each person on this planet has unique qualities that are shared with others. Knowing people is a way to broaden one’s …

The Tsarist state inherited by Nicholas II consisted of many weaknesses. The deficiencies in the state he inherited in 1895 combined to mean that he was on his way to heading a weak state. The weaknesses and faults present at the time of Nicholas’s inheritance consisted largely of political problems …

Yi-Fu Tuan is a Chinese-American geographer whose traits have greatly influenced humanistic geography. Tuan gains his observations from the hustle and bustle of the everyday world and is always on the lookout learning and indeed searching for new meanings towards a persons place within society. He emphasises this by saying …

In ch. 2 of Window Shopping: Cinema and the Postmodern (U of California P, 1993), Anne Friedberg discusses the relationship between the city, modernism, film and architecture. How do her ideas of modernity, particularly her terms ‘machines of vision’ and ‘machines of mobility’, relate to 1 or 2 sequences in …

A Simple Life, based on real story, script by Susan Chant and Roger Lee centers on a warm-hearted story between a signori and a servant, Master Roger (Andy Luau) and Ah Tao (Deanne Yip), who get big break when Ah Tao left Rorer’s family because of having stroke. Although Roger …

Without money and wife, Chris is totally committed to his son Christopher. Will Smith portrays Chris Gardner, a character who has strong wisdom as a single father and desperately wants to do right without complaints and his only hope is drifting away when everything meaningful falls apart at the same …