...132.022 February 7, 2013 “Crazy Love” In Steven Pinker short essay “Crazy Love,” he describes the effects love has on us as humans and the way people look for certain spouses. Pinker argues that love has driven people to evoke feelings like happiness, anger, sorrow, violence and obsessiveness for those the love, he also states that “the thought of love can impel us slay dragons and write corny songs.” This essay tends to inform the reader on the effect love have on people, on how romantic infatuation is different from both raw lust and the enduring commitment that keeps lovers together long after their besotedness have faded. Pinker also explains how humans find a mate through shopping for the most desirable person who will accept them for example the 10s marry the 10s, and while the 9s marry the 9s and so on. He also states that people shop for the perfect match as if they were at the marketplace where you want the best price you can get. The author also uses a quote from Kwakiutl Indian in 1896 to emphasize how love has caused people to act out of the ordinary for years. He also explores different way to find a mate “looking for someone who is emotionally committed to you because of who you are,” or “accept a partner who wanted you for a rational reason to begin with.” This essay interest and compel the reader to think about how he or she views love. It relates to our everyday life and how truly important you are to someone you love. Because people tend to go the extra...
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...Miranda, Charlotte fl P. A.203 Crazy Little Thing Called Love The first 15 minutes of the movie was the introduction of the characters and the situation the characters were in. The story is centered on an average, plain-looking and dark-skinned girl named Nam who is secretly in love with an older Grade 10 guy named Shone . Shone, a new student, a rumored troublemaker and a photography enthusiast, easily becomes a popular student in school because of his good looks and soccer-playing skills. The plot was very simple but its simplicity caught my attention. Dark skinned, with glasses and braces = the complete cliché package of an ugly girl falls in love with unbelievably handsome and charming upperclassman. Of course he has to be perfect in every way possible, all sensitive and artistic (but athletic and hot at the same time) while she is the clumsy nerd in the shadows. The movie opens up with Nam's quirky group of friends and a teacher who is too straightforward for her own good. A few juvenile scenes of picking out crushes, passing notes during class and stolen glimpses and suddenly, the story becomes all too familiar. All those enchantment-believing, book-reading and daydreaming moments could might as well be anybody else's story and it was that gravitation to something so recognizable to all, I think, that made this movie so popular and endearing to people who have a heart and once used it for something no matter how one-sided and futile the experience was. But of course...
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...Preface To just read the Bible, attend church, and avoid "big" sinsis this passionate, wholehearted love for God? -Francois Fenelon, The Seeking Heart We all know something's wrong. At first I thought it was just me. Then I stood before twenty thousand Christian college students and asked, "How many of you have read the New Testament and wondered if we in the church are missing it?" When almost every hand went up, I felt comforted. At least I'm not crazy. In this book I am going to ask some hard questions. They will resonate with what a lot of us feel but are generally afraid to articulate and explore. Don't worry-this isn't another book written to bash churches. I think it's far too easy to blame the American church without acknowledging that we are each part of the church and therefore responsible. But I think we all feel deeply, even if we haven't voiced it, that the church in many ways is not doing well. I get nervous when I think of how we've missed who we are supposed to be, and sad when I think about how we're missing out on all that God wants for the people He loved enough to die for. I haven't always felt this way. I grew up believing in God without having a clue what He is like. I called myself a Christian, was pretty involved in church, and tried to stay away from all of the things that "good Christians" avoid-drinking, drugs, sex, swearing. Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God. Whenever I failed (which was often), I'd walk around...
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...It Happened One Night directed by Frank Capra and Crazy Stupid Love directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa are both romantic comedies. It Happened One Night released in 1934 and Crazy Stupid Love released in 2011 expresses different values during two different eras; one of the things these two films have in common is great character development. While both films show different levels of conservatism, they both find a way to show the growth and development of their central characters Ellie (It Happened One Night) and Cal (Crazy Stupid Love). The similarities between these two films is that they tell stories about main characters and how they develop over a course of time. In Crazy Stupid Love, Cal learns that his wife cheats on him and wants a divorce. Cal then with the help of his new friend Jacob changes from a character that the audience feels sorry for to a provocative man that wants to...
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...“I saw something that drove me crazy . Somebody’d written “Fuck You” on the wall! It drove me crazy. I thought how Phoebe and all the other little kids would see it”(Salinger 221).Holden gets enraged at the fact that someone had written expletives on the wall. Holden feels that the sight of these words would have a horrifying effect on the little children. This goes back to his thesis that innocence and happiness go hand in hand. If one does not have innocence and is shown what the world is, than that one would have been blinded by the immoral state of the world, making them cruel and unjust people, or what today’s society would call...
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...Ena Mišković Leonarda Lovrović Modern English Practice 1 15 January 2013 J. D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye The Catcher in the Rye is a novel written by the American author Jerome David Salinger. From its first publishing the novel has arose a lot of controversy. Salinger wrote his novel in the first person, addressing the readers in its very beginning, so the readers have a feeling that he speaks directly to them. Furthermore, sequences follow the exact thought processes of the main character, which brings him, as well as the complete novel, even more close to the readers. The story takes place mostly in New York in December 1949, just before the Christmas holidays. The plot follows a seventeen-year-old boy protagonist Holden Caulfield who retells several days in his life, giving his personal opinion of the society that surrounds him after being expelled from the third school in a row. The novel is presented as his own monologue written in a subjective style, which reflects the teenage colloquial speech of that period of time. A drop-out Holden has attracted a wide audience of adolescent readers, yet gained many negative critiques due to his rebellious way of thinking and acting, and his common use of street language; he expresses himself in slang, in a very witty manner, also using curses and swearwords quite often. However, the Catcher in the Rye has experienced a great success, and has been translated into many languages. It was and still is very influential book...
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...These individuals fear change for the worst, but finding out who you truly are is a step in the right direction. In Catcher in the Rye, while Phoebe and Holden are discussing their dreams in life Holden reveals, “. . . I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff—I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That’s all I’d do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all” (Salinger 173). This quote shows that even though Holden’s dream job might be a stretch for himself, he found his true self throughout the book and works through all his “depressed” moments he shares with the reader. It shows Holden's soft side, as wanting to be “‘the Catcher in the Rye”, and helping kids with their problems. On the other hand, finding one's true self is also present in Pleasantville. For example, in Pleasantville, the scene where Bill is using a napkin...
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...This bugs Holden more than anything because this place is where he is comfortable and happy. This is a major symbol for how the world is corrupt and vulgar for Holden. “I saw something that drove me crazy(Salinger pg 221).” He tells the reader that he is very mad about something that was written on the walls. “You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any(Salinger pgs 224).” Know that he sees that a lot of his favorite places have bad words on them he sort of matures in the fact that there isn't a perfect place. Even though he might have had a little bit of a wake up call it doesn't mean he won't stop obsessing over the ducks from the...
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...In the paperback book it says “You should see her. You never saw a little kid so pretty and smart in your whole life…I mean she’s had all a’s ever since she started school… you’d like her. I mean if you tell old Phoebe something, she knows exactly what the hell you’re talking about.” (Salinger 68-69) Saying that this was Holden’s first relationship where he felt close to someone after Allie died. This was the first time I saw Holden genuinely happy about something especially over another human. He love Phoebe more than anything. But when you have a mental illness it’s really hard to show emotions and have connections with people that proves that Holden purely doesn’t have a mental illness. People might say that he does have a mental illness because of the way he reacts with Phoebe because his reactions are not always good but as we learned Holden as a character we realize that that’s just the type of person Holden is he just might be...
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...He immediately tries to erase or scratch out the message, because he believes if a child see’s it they would lose their innocence. He wanted no one to see it, most importantly the children in Phoebe’s school, and Phoebe herself. Holden resents whoever wrote the message and wishes their death. Holden genuinely cares for children, and is insulted by anyone who tired to destroy youth hood. Holden loves all children and one day hopes to become a catcher in the rye, saving youth from jumping off the cliff which leads to adulthood. As holden entered the museum, his most beloved place in the world, he mentions: “Certain things they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone”(122). Holden doesn't want anyone to change, he doesn't want children to mature and lose their innocence. He need everyone to remain the same because, in Holden’s mind, change and revolution is no...
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...tall he is and how he has gray hair, yet he admits that he still acts young for his age. “It’s really ironical, because I’m six foot two and half and have gray hair...The one side of my head...is full of millions of gray hairs...And yet I still act sometimes like I was only twelve.” (Salinger, 9) Salinger uses this hyperbole to really highlight to his readers that even though Holden might look like he is getting older on the outside, on the inside he still acts young and immature like a child. A second example of hyperbole that Salinger uses focuses more heavily on not liking change. In chapter 25 there is an instance in the novel where Holden is approaching a carousel which he used to often ride as a kid. He reflects on how he loves how the carousel keeps playing the same song forever and never changes. “...We kept getting closer and...
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...While Holden strolls through the museum, he says, “ The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody’d move” (Salinger 157). Holden loves the museum because unlike people and life that constantly evolve, the museum quite literally never changes. Also, everything in a museum is preserved and protected, which Holden strives to do for others. The museum represents the ideal world that he wants to live in, one that does not change, and one that he will not get hurt in. Most of the changes in the book such as Allie’s death, shifts from innocence to adulthood, and etc, have left Holden feeling depressed and lonesome. The reason he loves the museum is because he knows that he will not be hurt in a fixed world. Here, Salinger shows that life will always evolve. No matter how nice Holden’s fantasy sounds, it will always just be a...
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...presence of Disney characters in it. Growing up in Chicago Illinois, Walter Elias Disney strived for greatness. His decision to move to California ultimately would engine his profession as the most well known cartoonist of all time. Soon after his big break with the featurette of “Alice Comedy” he began his production in Hollywood. Walter Disney revolutionized the idea of entertainment by creating Mickey Mouse, Disneyland land, and also establishing the California Institute of the Arts. [86] From silent films to weekly programs, Mickey Mouse has always been in our lives. According to Walt Disney: A Biography http://disney.go.com/vault/read/walt/index.html, Mickey Mouse was created in 1928 and was used in a silent film entitled “ Plane Crazy” but later made his debut in “Steamboat Willie” the worlds first fully synchronized sound cartoon. Now in days we always see fully synchronized cartoons and don’t really give much thought to it because its normal. Walt Disney’s drive to perfect animation was tireless and to his success he became the first to create a fully synchronized sound cartoon in the late twenties. As Walt Disney said “ I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing- that it was all started by a mouse.” The whole Disney empire was started by one character whom at first didn’t even talk . Mickey Mouse is even the iconic symbol for the wonderful Disney franchise. As a result Mickey Mouse was the engine that helped fuel Walt Disney’s success as an animator and the...
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...change, his resultant isolation and his battle between his conscious and unconscious mind. Holden has a fear of change and desire to avoid transitioning into adulthood. His anxiety regarding growing up prevents him from realizing that doing so is necessary for him to gain maturity. Firstly, Holden has a desire for consistency. In the novel, he expresses his admiration for museums as he thinks to himself, “The best thing about the museum was that everything always stayed right where it was” (Salinger 121). He appreciates that museums are places where everything is frozen in history, making them expectable, reliable and unchangeable. The environment of museums not only feels comfortable to him, but also gives him a sense of familiarity. He loves the unalterable nature of museums, likely because it is so contrary to his personal experiences. Before this point in the novel, there were several changes in Holden’s life which caused him to fear taking control of his life and daily life tasks such as going to college, working and starting a family. Thus, he believes that growing up will make his life more difficult. Secondly, Holden wants his girlfriend, Sally, to run away with him and escape the adult world. In the novel, he proposes the idea to Sally and she rejects it, suggesting that they should wait until they are grown up (Salinger ). In response, Holden calls Sally a “pain in the ass” (Salinger ). He believes her idea “would not be the same at all” as his (Salinger ). Holden is...
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...4141- 4141--- Cherished and Cursed:Towarda Social History of The Catcher in the Rye STEPHEN J. WHITFIELD THE plot is brief:in 1949 or perhaps 1950, over the course of three days during the Christmas season, a sixteen-yearold takes a picaresque journey to his New YorkCity home from the third private school to expel him. The narratorrecounts his experiences and opinions from a sanitarium in California. A heavy smoker, Holden Caulfield claims to be already six feet, two inches tall and to have wisps of grey hair; and he wonders what happens to the ducks when the ponds freeze in winter. The novel was published on 16 July 1951, sold for $3.00, and was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. Within two weeks, it had been reprinted five times, the next month three more times-though by the third edition the jacket photographof the author had quietly disappeared. His book stayed on the bestseller list for thirty weeks, though never above fourth place.' Costing 75?, the Bantam paperback edition appeared in 1964. By 1981, when the same edition went for $2.50, sales still held steady, between twenty and thirty thousand copies per month, about a quarter of a million copies annually. In paperback the novel sold over three million copies between 1953 and 1964, climbed even higher by the 1980s, and continues to attract about as many buyers as it did in 1951. The durabilityof The author appreciates the invitationof Professors Marc Lee Raphaeland Robert A. Gross to present an early version...
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