Charleigh Frederick
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Movie Review: Dismissed
In life, most people will strive to do what it takes to get ahead in school. But it takes someone like Lucas Ward from the 2017 film ‘Dismissed’ to go as far as murdering his only friend in order to get his English teacher thrown out in order to grasp an A. Through the movie we follow Lucas Ward, a student determined to get into Harvard - no matter the cost - and his new English teacher, David Butler, who has decided not to let Lucas intimidate him. “The movie amplifies the desperation a student will go to just to get an A and only so that he can have a better life, a career that will not lead him to become a drunk loser like his father… And if anyone comes in the way of that... He's ready to kill,” writes Palvi Sharma, horror analyzer. ‘Dismissed’ is a shocking thriller movie that explores the ego and where our own lines are drawn in the superego sand, while holding many similar themes to classic horror films.
By Charleigh Frederick2 years ago in Horror
Women
When seen as an object, females are not given large roles. Although in modern times equal rights between genders has been making progress, and women's roles in literature and mass media are changing, it’s hard to ignore that the classics people learn from still hold blatantly sexist themes and messages. Women played a role in pre-classical, classical, medieval, and renaissance literature. The roles women played though, were oftentimes unflattering, objectifying, and demeaning. Oftentimes they were made out to be the cause of pain and suffering, or were considered prizes to be won, earned, and kept. Although women were seen in higher regard come the medieval and renaissance eras, they were still objectified and used to further the plot for their male counterpart rather than playing an actual role in the story.
By Charleigh Frederick2 years ago in Education
Romanovs
“In the house of the Romanovs… a mysterious curse descends from generation to generation. Murder and adultery, blood and mud, the fifth act of a tragedy played in a brothel. Peter I kills his son; Alexander I kills his father; Catherine II kills her husband. The block, the rope, and poison - these are the true emblems of the Russian autocracy,” Russian novelist Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky commented. The Russian royal family, like most royal families, was never a warm and welcoming group. To maintain power requires acts that to most would be unthinkable. The coveting of wealth was one thing, though, that the Russian royal line did well. With money stained in their people’s blood, the Romanovs built an empire and a legacy. Although they were ultimately ended, structures of their status still remain today - structures such as the Alexander Palace, the last home of the Romanovs. From the Alexander Palace’s construction in 1796 until the Russian Revolution, the palace was an intimate space for the royal family and was an agent that contributed to the fall of the monarchy. In the past and present, it serves as a stage reflecting the nature of and mirroring Russia.
By Charleigh Frederick2 years ago in FYI
Non-Aqueous Seas
My darling is a passenger on the non-aqueous sea, though most seas these days are filled with blood, and not water. It's harder to sail through blood, it's contents so much thicker, that the captains raise the prices - through the channelized streams only the rich can afford to go now.
By Charleigh Frederick2 years ago in Fiction
The Oxford Illustrated History of Theater Book Review
The Oxford Illustrated History of Theater was a fascinating tale of the history of the world of theater. Spanning from the dawn of theater in greek society, to how theater changed in a modern age, the book leaves off in the early 2000s, saying what theater has become. Having a plethora of historians contribute to the book created a wide view point on the history of the theater, it’s creation, and it’s growth. Although occasionally biased the book does a good job of showing theater arts history. Main author and editor, historian John Russell Brown, brilliantly tied together the stories of the history of theater, providing a portal to the stages of our ancestors.
By Charleigh Frederick3 years ago in Education
Randall Sundrum Model Analysis
Raman Sundrum, an Indian-American theoretical particle physicist, started his formal education at the University of Sydney in Australia before moving on to receive his Ph.D. from Yale, where he graduated in 1990, nine years before the creation of the Randall Sundrum model. Lisa Randall was born in Queens, New York and studied at Harvard University before going on to be the first tenured woman in the Princeton physics department. Today she works at Harvard.
By Charleigh Frederick3 years ago in Education