What TV show can pack horror, sex, teenage issues, marriage issues into one episode? Maybe you can guess, but if you cannot, this TV show is American Horror Story. The five seemingly unrelated, but somehow connected seasons of this show have been directed by Ryan Murphy. He and Brad Falchuk are the writers for the series. The first episode was aired on the 5th of October in 2011. This first episode is intriguing and sets up a world of horror where real life problems are added in. From the very beginning the pilot episode has a sense of mystery and horror. It starts with a flashback to 1978. Two adolescent twins with baseball bats wander into a spooky, old house after being warned by a young girl that they are going to die in that house. This …show more content…
I see the house as being a character of its own. It has a long, terrifyingly gruesome history. In this first episode, we do not get to know the entire story of the house yet. The only murders that we are aware that happened in that house is the twins from the beginning, and the gay couple who owned the house before the Harmon’s moved in. Most people would be freaked out by the idea that there were people who died in the house they are now living in, especially if they were murdered. That would definitely freak me out, and I love scary and creepy things. Also, the creepy creature in the basement that kills the twins and scares the popular girl has its own storyline that we will not find out in this episode. As the episode continues we found out a little bit more about the house when Ben meets Larry Harvey whose body is Seventy percent burned. Larry tells Ben that his family is in danger and that he needs to leave that house. He then goes on to tell him how he used to live in that house and murdered his wife and two daughters. The audience can tell that he extremely distraught when he talks about it. He said he heard voices telling him what to do and he set the house on fire. Somehow he escaped and now he does not want Ben’s family to end up the same way. If I were Ben I would move out of that house right away! That is enough information to understand that bad things happen there, but that does not happen otherwise it would not be a horror show. Another fun fact that involves the house and its residents, at the end of the episode Vivien finds out that she pregnant, but the audience knows that it might not be Ben’s baby. Instead the guy who she thought was Ben in a full body, black, leather suit that she had sex with one night might actually be the father. Yeah, complicated I know, and this is just the beginning of the
Every author that writes a horror story, don’t always make the same decisions to make it spooky. But, they always make sure it does end up being spooky in the end. It could be a love story that starts out happy, and gets spooky along the way, or it could
Have you ever felt stuck? Wherever you are, it’s the absolute last place you want to be. In the book Into the Wild, Chris McCandless feels stuck just like the average everyday person may feel. Chris finds his escape plan to the situation and feels he will free himself by going off to the wild. I agree with the author that Chris McCandless wasn’t a crazy person, a sociopath, or an outcast because he got along with many people very well, but he did seem somewhat incompetent, even though he survived for quite some time.
The definition of grit is simple; it means being passionate about long term goals, and showing stamina to pursue them, but should students in public schools have a class dedicated to a grit-focused curriculum? This has become a major topic of discussion among teachers and mentors. Angela Duckworth, a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, claims grit is not a fixed quality but one that can be developed. Many disagree with her statement. Grit is something everyone all have within themselves, but some just do not utilize this characteristic as often or as well as others. Grit is a puzzling concept. Duckworth has had an obsession with grit for over a decade. Her obsession started when she visited West Point,
The hit TV show, The Walking Dead, is a survival horror show that typically airs on AMC during primetime (8-11PM). The show revolves around a group of survivors of the zombie apocalypse. At this point in the show, there is a large group of diverse characters of many different backgrounds all banding together for survival in a post-apocalyptic world. The plot of the show revolves around the events which befall the group as they attempt to survive, ranging from the emotional scarring and battling zombies to competing with other survivor groups. Based on the violence and mature topics addressed in the show, it would seem that the show is aimed at a Young Adult/Adult audience (18+).
Imagine having the worst potential Halloween nightmare come to life for a night. Everything from the “Boogeyman” to innocent random people being killed by chainsaws and other disturbing things. The film Halloween does all that and then some. The movie begins with an innocent looking six year old boy named Michael Myers dressed up in a clown costume and stabs his older sister Judith to death. After that incident, Michael ends up going to jail with a plan of being put away for a long time.
While both black and white people fought over segregation versus desegregation, black people defended their freedom and civil rights while white people focused on isolating black people and treating them as under classed.
“Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature”. From the beginning of time man and nature has been in conflict with one another because, as a whole, there is no cooperating. Each one tirelessly wants its way. The Man is fighting for dominance and nature w never yielding its authority. In American Literature, many authors illustrate this theme in their writing. Specifically the writers Jack London in The Law Of Life, Stephen Crane The Open Boat and Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Fin. Each explores the relationship between humans and nature but with slightly different methods. Mark Twain uses nature in a realistic way, Jack London in a naturalistic way and Stephen Crane constitutes a combination of both.
Something worth noticing about the series are the opening credits that appear before each episode. The show begins with a painting of the biblical characters, ‘Adam’ and ‘Eve’, they are standing under the tree that carries the “forbidden fruit”. In the bible, this tree is the tree of temptation; in relation to Desperate Housewives, the tree and the forbidden fruit are representative of the lust and temptation in the live’s of Wisteria Lane’s women. Adam is then crushed by the forbidden fruit (a giant apple). One immediately notices the background music, which is a very upbeat and happy rhythm. This music adds a light humorous tone to the theme of the credits.
Every day, more and more attempts of banning books and taking away the rights of our First Amendment get violated. The challenging of a book is the attempt to remove or restrict materials, and the banning is the removal of these materials. I believe that books should not be banned for these reasons.
Today the world is overflowing with technology that the population nearly completely depends on, from our cell phones, tablets, or computers, that are used to assist us with daily tasks. What if this technology begun to alter the way we live our lives? As a society, we are reshaping our lives by consistently attempting to appeal to our followers on social media. For instance, we constantly photograph daily events in our lives and then proceed to utilize filters so that they appear as photogenic as possible. It’s almost as if we are trying to create an entire new identity, one who’s life is more interesting than our own. What if, however, there was a place that you could travel to, for an outrageous expense, to be immersed into an alternate form of life. In the television series, Westworld, this place previously described can become a reality. Inside the mock society called Westworld as well, the individuals are known as guests, which as a guest you cannot be harmed. The robots posing as people are known as hosts, and to a guest they are known as your servants. Every other person is an automation, built to look and act exactly as
In May of 2006, Gallup Poll found that sixty-nine percent of Americans answered yes to the question "When a person has a disease that cannot be cured, do you think doctors should be allowed by law to end the patient's life by some painless means if the patient and his family request it?”. Assisted suicide is suicide committed by someone with assistance from another, usually a physician. Supporters of the Death With Dignity law believe that anyone should be able to take the lethal pill if he or she has a terminal illness and only has six months or less to live. This is legal in the three states of Oregon, Washington, and Montana. Assisted suicide should be legal in California.
What makes a good person good? According to WikiHow, "We should learn to define our own morals ourselves. One of the simplest ways to do so is to love others, and treat them as you would like to be treated. Try to think of others before yourself. Even doing small things daily will greatly enrich and improve your life, and the lives of others around you." This quote shows us what we need to do in order to be what society thinks as, “good". In order to be a good person, you have to do good and moral things in your society consistently. However people might think that by doing one good thing once in a while will automatically make you a “good person”, but in reality it doesn’t.
This essay examines three reality TV shows: MTV's The Real World: Denver, CBS's Survivor: Cook Islands, and the FX network's miniseries Black. White. The essay argues that the reality shows promote differences in individuals. Each reality show positioned race as the main factor in the conflicts the cast members experienced while on the show. The shows put the cast members in situations that reinforced “cultural codes” (Bell-Jordan) and stereotypes. The cast members of each of the shows were put into situations that were constantly enforcing racial stereotypes, done on purpose by the producers. In the essay, the author argues that media makes the viewers have a struggle in what they choose to believe. She also states that society participates in an unconscious struggle on how to discern what they see on the television. Society is in a fight to discover what is the meaning behind what they are watching on the television. Viewers are not realizing the material being transmitted to them on the television is causing an impact on how they look at individuals of other races. An individual is unconsciously accepting all that is being transmitted to them, but they must decide how valid what is being portrayed about certain races. Producers give specific roles and place stereotypes on individuals in order to gain viewers. Producers place stereotypes on the cast of their show because it attracts attention from viewers; the producers stereotyped the models on the show Americas Next Top Model. The models were given “roles” that categorize them with a specific race. The "role" the models portray is often dehumanizing to the models and is misinterpreting to who is watching the show. The roles that the models are made to act in gives the viewer t...
In the family obligations crash course, the main points were moral obligations to the family, licensing parents, the ethics of care, and the problems with ethics of care. For the moral obligations there were stated three different views about what is owed to the parents. The first view is the unconditional view. A view where being your blood and the reason why you are there you owe them something and anything the minimum being in your company. The second view is the conditional view.
During the first century of rulings within the Supreme Court, it was apparent that oral arguments had evoked a potent effect on the courts overall decision making process. Within today’s modern day society oral arguments continue to maintain their effect over the decisions of the court. There are several legal scholars who argue for the opposite effect. This effect establishes that oral arguments no longer have the same impact on the court because individual Justices have strong attitudes about personal policy preferences. However, oral arguments help Justices gather information not presented in the briefs and further aids them in utilizing those proceedings to raise questions about personal policy preferences. In addition, oral arguments serve