Essays on Entertainment

In Vince Gilligan’s Breaking Bad, the main character Walter White was placed on an impeccable journey through the last several years of his life. Walter’s character had developed remarkably, going from a very average high school chemistry teacher to New Mexico’s top methamphetamine cook. Throughout...

Some scholars believe that dystopias could be counterproductive. For example, obviously exaggerated doom scenarios could lead people to completely dismiss the urgency of the environment as a political topic. It could backfire. The Day After Tomorrow is a good illustration of this. This film provided...

In the book, The Hate You Give, Starr Carter is the main character. She is a 16-year-old girl. Starr Carter is an African-American that lives in the “Hood” as some would say. She lives in a neighborhood called Garden Heights. Starr lives with her mother...

The Hate U Give reveals the nature of individual and institutional discrimination in areas of poverty such as black communities being deprived of the opportunities and resources needed to achieve, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy for the suceeding generations of black communities. This loophole many...

Over the years, racism has caused over a thousand people to die per year (Richard Eskow). Angie Thomas’s, The Hate U Give, shows the struggle she carried and others carry as a child being black. Angie Thomas lived her life in a violent black neighborhood...

 The thug life stands for ‘the hate you give little infants fuck everyone’. Which refers to when somebody has to start off with nothing but ends up succeeding. Today thug life is being used for criminals and drugs, which is different from what 2pac was...

The Hate You Give is a young adult fiction based on real life issues around racism and social justice. The common theme in the book is “Thug Life.” “Thug Life” stands for the hate you give little infants F’s everyone. The main characters are Star...

The movie that is based on E.M. Forster’s novel of the same name, A Passage to India, is set in the 1920s where the Indian Independence Struggle was at its pinnacle. Adela, the protagonist’s visit to India can be viewed as exploration of the biggest...

The research question investigated was ‘To what extent do Studio Ghibli productions reflect the political ideologies of their filmmakers?’ The aim of the project was to thoroughly research and determine the various political ideologies that were conveyed through the art, the filmmakers’ intentions, and whether...

The movie Avatar encourages the audience to see nature as something to be respected and cherished through the main themes of Industrialisation and imperialism. Although the movie Avatar may seem quite simple and just some ordinary action movie based in a fantasy world, there are...