From all over the world, viewers tune in to watch the first episode ever of Doctor Who. This occurred in 1963, and viewers still crowd around the TV to watch season after season of the show, all the way to now, in 2016. The show has been running for 50 years, and is currently the longest running science fiction show. It’s all because of the main character, The Doctor. He can regenerate on the brink of death, changing his face, personality, and sometimes his TARDIS, (The Doctor’s time machine, the TARDIS stands for Time And Relative Dimensions In Space) and Sonic Screwdriver, (a screwdriver that can get through anything except wood. It glows, and makes an annoying sound when you use it). His companions, usually humans who travel with him to help fight his enemies, are constantly changing for many different reasons, like being trapped in a parallel universe or being sent back to the beginning of time. Doctor Who has changed in many more ways than one, usually different characters or different settings, as the show revolves around the …show more content…
Fans prefer certain regenerations based on the Doctor’s personality, though for the most part The Doctor is described as eccentric, an idiot, and a hero. These quotes come from the script of the show, most from important moments in some episodes, like regenerating. The Doctor’s personalities in New Who are based off of his companions, while in Classic Who, it’s mostly random. The regenerations are numbered, each time a new actor plays the Doctor, they are labeled accordingly. Like the Ninth Doctor, who would be the Doctor’s ninth regeneration. Regeneration is part of a Time Lord dna, (Time Lords are the guardians of time, before the Time War, which was a large war between Daleks and Time Lords, Time Lords lived on The Doctor’s home planet Gallifrey,) along with two hearts, a large brain, and the ability to live for thousands of
Literary villains are all around us. For instance, Voldemort from Harry Potter and Darth Vader from Star Wars. What makes a villain? They will go through anyone or damage anything to reach their goal. No matter how small or how tall they are, anyone can be a villain. One of the worst literary villains is Erik Fisher from Tangerine, written by Edward Bloor. He is a liar and a thief. Those traits are what makes the best villains. Throughout the book, Erik shows that he is a villain through his vile and offensive behavior, his need for power, and his insanity.
Doug Swieteck, from “Okay for Now”, by Gary D. Schmidt, lived a life in anger. At the beginning of the book, he was very hateful of everything. He had spent a long time in anger and disgust, trying to find a way in life. Near the beginning of the book, Joe Pepitone gave Doug his baseball cap and jacket in person, to Doug. But, Doug’s mean older brother took the cap and his dad took his jacket. That added to Doug’s anger even more. But, luckily he turned it around in the middle and end of the book. He ended being a lot happier and was able to control his emotions better.
Everybody Loves Raymond Everybody Loves Raymond is a family sit com television show about a married father of 3 children residing across the street from his parent’s house, therefore, his family are constantly interrupted by the kids, his brother, and parents. Season 1 episode 1 starts off with Raymond and his wife struggling to balance life with kids, work, and family. Since his wife is a stay at home mother of infant twins and a 3 year old girl, Raymond allows his wife to take a day off with her girlfriends and to enjoy herself without the supervision of his parents, inviting them without permission or an advance notice. As a result, Raymond’s failure to satisfy his family by lying soon gets caught. The scene allows him the perfect opportunity to voice out his feelings about the privacy of his own house.
Will Allen (2013), a multi-talented, meticulous man who turned his profession from a basketball player to a professional salesman and then finally, into an urban farmer, in his book THE GOOD FOOD REVOLUTION precisely elucidates the significance of being patient in everyday life and how farming played an important role in teaching him this extremely important life skills.
The very beginning of the novel The Death Cure by James Dashner starts off with Thomas, the protagonist, trapped in a solid white room. He is trapped there for months. As he is in the room, he may have thought “ Oh, me, myself and I, solo ride until I die” (G-Eazy). This is a lyric from G-Eazy’s Me, Myself and I. The song is about being alone and not wanting to be with no one. Although Thomas does wish to see and to somebody, he goes perseveres through his problems just like the singer in the song.
“The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his” (Moore, 2011). This quote perfectly describes the book The Other Wes Moore. This book was a story about two people who have the same name and grew up in similar environments, but had very different lives. The author of the book, Mr. Moore, became successful and was given the opportunity to receive “one of the most prestigious academic awards for students in the world” (Moore, 2011). On the other side of the spectrum, the other Wes Moore “will spend every day until his death behind bars for an armed robbery that left a police officer and a father of five dead” (Moore, 2011). Mr. Moore decided to contact the
“Everybody Loves Raymond” is a television show that only few people today can actually say they had not seen this sitcom. It was one of the highest rated show during it run on CBS television network but has anyone ever noticed how much of a gender stereotype bonanza this show was? Most sitcoms follow the same pattern with the primary goal to make us laugh that, we tend to ignore the obvious and just assume this was the expected behavior for men, women even children in our society. I watched the first two episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond, the show was about a stay at home mother Debra and her husband Raymond who goes to work, while her in-laws who lives across the street are always barging in to her home without a thought about what
In Flannery O'Connor's short stories, "A Good Man is Hard to Find", "Revelation", and "Greenleaf", the main character in each share similar traits. Though the grandmother, Mrs. Turpin, and Mrs. May differ from each other in many aspects, there are three notable traits that each clearly possesses. Each of these individuals is highly conscious of their own social status, is socially prejudiced, and is extremely racist.
Writing a story is pretty difficult. Writing a short story is even harder, there is so much that has to be accomplished; in both commercial and literary fiction! The plot, the structure, whether it has a happy, unhappy, or indeterminate ending. There must be artistic unity, chance, coincidence, rising action, climax, falling action. Most importantly there must be characterization. Characters make the story! “anyone can summarize what a person in a story has done, but a writer needs considerable skill and insight into human beings to describe convincingly who a person is” [page 168]
* Leigh, Rob. "Doctor Who star Matt Smith admits that leaving Time Lord role could be a "huge mistake"." Mirror TV. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Dec. 2013. .
Friendship. Halley, from “Someone Like You” by Sarah Dessen, is Friendship. Halley is brave. Halley is strong and helpful for her friend Scarlett. Halley is friendship because she helps her friend Scarlett when she is sad, sick or just needs it. I think that Halley is very respectful to Scarlett and I hope to be as caring to my friends as Halley is to hers.
One of the most debated topics about Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is whether Victor Frankenstein’s creation is human or creature. Throughout the novel, the creature maintains a fragile balance between man and monster. To determine if the creature should be defined as human, one must take into consideration what makes a person human and ascertain what characteristics the creature possesses and what characteristics are absent.
In the early 1900’s Organic Chemists were faced with a problem. They found that certain chemicals, with the same molecular formula seemed to have different physical properties (Melting points, Boiling points, Molecular weights). They could not figure out how a chemical could be two things at once. After several experiments, they came upon a conclusion that still rocks the minds of college students today. They theorized that two chemical solutions with the same atoms in their makeup could be different, because the atoms were connected in different manners. This theory is called stereoisomerism and it is a major theory in Organic Chemistry. What does this have to do with Doctor Who you ask? Well, I believe that the Doctor is a living stereoisomer. When he regenerates, he is not becoming someone different, but he is the same as the docto...
The premise that show runner Vince Gilligan pitched was simple, “We’re going to turn Mr. Chips into Scarface.” It was a bold claim at the time that most television executives dismissed as a bad idea. You would take the show’s main character and slowly but surely turn him into the antagonist. This was unlike most shows at the time who dealt with antiheroes, they had almost always padded them out with sympathetic qualities or redeeming actions throughout their respective seasons like Tony Soprano or Vic Mackey of The Shield. No show had ever fully committed to the idea that its lead character could truly be a villain. Yet Walter White’s transformation from a down on his luck, cancer ridden teacher to a depraved drug kingpin named Heisenberg has
The main character of Mr. Brooks is nothing short of a self-made man with a loving family and a productive business. However, not everything is what it seems. Mr. Brooks has a constant urge to kill. Like most real life serial killers, Mr. Brooks has a charming personality on the outside but a twisted brain on the inside. Every single action he took was thoughtfully played out, as if he were acting in a stage play with no chances of failure. Many psychopaths portray a high IQ and intelligence just like Mr. Brooks had. However, Mr. Brooks was not a psychopath. Deep down inside, he still harvested a strong familial love for his wife and daughter, and understood the mental and physical consequences of his actions. Instead, Mr. Brooks is the type of character that cannot be explained with just one theoretic analysis. The story illustrates that Mr. Brooks was a psychotic suffering from schizophrenia and that somehow his urge to kill could be passed down by generations. With this outline the