Category: Critical Reflection

Stress, stress, stress! It is affecting everyone, including me! I stress about school so much. It was my biggest pressure as a teenager. Most of the time, I feel like I need to be a perfect student. Also, my parents pushed me because they wanted me to be the best student. I always need to…

Being black in U.S. society means always having to be prepared for antiblack actions by whites  in most places and at many times of the day, week, month, or year. Being black means living with various types of racial discrimination from cradle to grave (Feagin, 167). Racial discrimination is still happening today and is…

The impulse towards realism is generally seen as a dominant feature of Victorian fiction as it was a movement that deviated from idealistic romantic fiction and portrayed real-life events and situations accurately. In this essay, I will analyze how realism is a dominant feature to a certain extent in Charles Dicken’s Great Expectations and compare…

What many films made in recent years fail to draw in both the critics and the audience and trying too hard to make a great production to please their expectations can have a seriously negative effect on the final product  even though The Greatest Showman did not win over the critics as hoped, it…

The film Food Matters goes into depth about what we put in our bodies that can increase or decrease our health status significantly. Many officials such as nutritionists, naturopaths, doctors, and journalists give their opinion on what being healthy really means. Food Matters was directed by James Colquhoun and Carlo Ledesma. The film starred people…

Over the years, there have been many arguments about whether Avatar is science fiction or fantasy. My first thought would be that Avatar is both science fiction and fantasy. The movie starts with pure science fiction, as the humans space traveling many light years to the moon Pandora to mine the very unusual and valuable…

Can people who were a part of society be healed by the power of nature? Ella Park investigates the challenges that humans, who are social an animal may face while they are in nature through the book Into the Wild and the film Wild. In the book Into the Wild and the movie Wild, there…

To commence, in Persepolis, Satrapi explores how people adventure captivity and freedom in case they would want to live and have a normal lifestyle while committing acts of revolt against the government or oppressors. Marjane Satrapi lived her early life in Iran, at a few levels during the Islamic Revolution. The governmental modifications were taking…

‘The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind’ is an inspirational movie based on true events. Seeing the poverty and struggles that the people from Malawi, Africa live in is very heartbreaking and humbling, but these conditions cannot hold back 14-year-old William Kamkwamba who is smart, dedicated, and driven. William fights all obstacles to educate himself and…

Throughout his incredible career, award-winning director Martin Scorsese has never disappointed with his thrilling, thought-provoking films. And this one does not. Hugo is all about a young, orphaned boy. His father passes and his uncle becomes his new caregiver. His Uncle Claude, although rude and almost depressing, teaches young Hugo how to work in clocks…