The article “ Why You Should Go to the Movies (and Do Other Stuff) Alone” by Jesse Singal, talks about a social investigation on a single person V.S. groups doing activities such as visiting an art gallery and sitting in coffee shops. The article which Singal writes on was conducted by Rebecca Ratner and Rebecca Hamilton. Their experiments were shown to prove that people overthink being judged by others. I think people should be able to do stuff on there own because an individual shouldn’t care about what other people might think of them. An experiment that had me evaluate how I, myself, might act somewhere was when people were told to go into the art gallery in the different circumstances of company. I’m not someone who goes many places
Which is better: book or movie? The age-old debate. But which is better? S.E Hinton's, 'The Outsiders' book is far superior to Francis F. Coppola's motion-picture film portrayal of the book in 1983. You might remember it from the popular quote, "Stay Gold". Today it is mostly read in middle school classrooms. The Outsiders was published by S.E Hinton in 1967 when she was a teenager. The main focus throughout the story is the feud between two gangs: The Socials (Socs) and the Greasers. "We're poorer than the Socs and the middle class. I reckon we're wilder too". The whole book is written in Ponyboy Curtis's point of view. So, we are hearing the story through a Greaser's perspective. It is often difficult to make a connection with a character over the big screen. You miss out on scenes that did not make it into the movie, some that were are not emphasized like they should have been, and some characters were portrayed wrongly.
The article Why We Crave Horror Movies by Stephen King distinguishes why we truly do crave horror movies. Stephen King goes into depth on the many reasons on why we, as humans, find horror movies intriguing and how we all have some sort of insanity within us. He does this by using different rhetorical techniques and appealing to the audience through ways such as experience, emotion and logic. Apart from that he also relates a numerous amount of aspects on why we crave horror movies to our lives. Throughout this essay I will be evaluating the authors arguments and points on why society finds horror movies so desirable and captivating.
Fear, more specifically the fear of rejection, is an emotional response that has affected many people at some point in their lifetime. Most individuals typically overcome such feelings with blind hope, while others seem to get lost in translation. Like mentioned before, most get over their anxiety, but what is it like for the people that can’t seem to shake of the frightening feeling of being rejected? The short film, “The Truth About Meeting Women”, written by Paul Gale and directed by T.J. Misny, takes the audience on a comedic journey through the mind of a shy man as tries to avoid talking to the beautiful women that surrounds him. Overall, this short film is truly masterpiece because of the relatable main character and the actually humorous storyline.
Opponents of the collectivism idea say that there is no room for individuality when a society conforms. Individualism is the idea that the individual’s life belongs to him and that he has an inalienable right to live it as he sees fit, to act on his own judgment, to keep and use the product of his effort, and to
The movie Room is an adaptation of the novel written by an Irish-Canadian author. Emma Donoghue wrote the novel in 2010, and it won the CommonWealth Writers Prize in 2011. The movie was made in 2015, it was directed by the genius Lenny Abrahamson who managed to adapt the novel excellently, and filmed the whole movie just like the novel was written from a little boy’s point of view. The film stars the actor Brie Larson in the role of Ma, and Jacob Tremblay in the role of the little child Jack, whom the novel was written to explain his perspective of the story.
Don’t Let Me Be Lonely by Claudia Rankine is a series of passages relating to life events, loneliness, and the value of life. Her somber lyrics begin with personal tragedy including cancer, death of a friend, and a car accident that kills her sister’s family. Her lyrics move to other tragedies such as violent acts of racism, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and the invasion of Iraq. Each event spreads fear, helplessness, and loneness. The chosen passage deals with feelings for the unexpected and tragic death of Princess Diana Spencer on August 31, 1997. This passage shows the different perspectives of a tragic event from an American and the British people and is significant because people of different nationalities do not have to comply with
...either hasten their own delivery, not resist it" (2767). Would it really be that bad to be an individualist instead of conforming to the crowd? I do not think so.
Random people were observed over a four day span. The four day span consisted of two weekdays (Friday and Monday) and two weekend days (Saturday and Sunday). The observations were made for one hour per day (11:00am – 12:00pm) at the main entrance of the Galleria at Crystal Run in Middletown, New York. As people entered and exited the mall the door was held for individuals at random. If the person walked through the door, they were counted and their reaction recorded.
One of the most popular social networking websites today is none other than Facebook. People use Facebook in order to stay connected with their friends, family and the people around them, to discover what’s going in the world, in addition to share and express what matters to them. The Social Network is a film on how Facebook was created. There was a series of events, character development, relationships and a series of different emotions that are shown throughout the film.
...ferent people believe individualism is a good thing but many different people also believe individualism is a bad thing. There is no right answer to if individualism is good or bad. I feel it is in the middle of good and bad, but it is whatever you believe.
In the 21st century, society considers it essential to be a social person. Society has become extroverted, being influenced by the media, social networks and technology advances. People believe that if they are not extroverts or if they do not attract attention, and called boring, lonely and introverts. Stereotypes have been imposed, causing people who do not consider themselves extroverted, to have problems of self-esteem and confidence. For example, they believe that a person who likes to work alone is an antisocial person, that will not have many opportunities or advantages in life. Their definition of introvert is a person that tends to close in on itself and has difficulty spontaneously manifesting their feelings and thoughts. But, Is
The actions you take should be the only things your concerned with, and not what other people think around you. Knowing this is the difference from being a great man and an inferior one because there will always be people who think they know what is best for you. It is easy to follow the trends of the world and it is just as easy to be an individual all by yourself. The difficult task to accomplish is to be an individual among the people of the world.
The curiosity of how and why an individual behaves the way they do has crossed my mind several times. Through social psychology it has enabled me to understand many things including ideas and concepts that I
"Curiosity: The Secret to Your Success." Psychologies. N.p., 16 Jan. 2013. Web. 23 May 2014.
Movies, wow! I mean everybody loves movies. People of every age, race or nationality, give sometime to themselves to sit and watch movies. Movies are basically a source of entertainment through which people relax, get some knowledge or learn something for themselves or sometimes watching a movie is for pure enjoyment.