Essays On Entertainment

The music industry has been revolutionized by the invention and evolution of amplifiers, synthesizers, and computer technology. It consists of companies and individuals dedicated to promoting musicians and selling recorded music. Major record companies like Universal, Sony, MI, Warner, and BAM dominate the industry and generate substantial profits. Technology has had both positive and negative […]

Garbage first joined the music scene in the year 1995 to a better level of critical acclaim. I really appreciated their first two albums as they enjoyed a lot of commercial success all around the entire world. However, the scheme was lost with the release of their following two albums. They did not achieve the […]

The transatlantic slave trade proved to be one of the most socially and psychologically challenging ordeal for the Africans captured and those left back at home due to the separation with their loved ones. Africans had deep cultural beliefs and practices; they had deep faith in their religion and cultural norms. Those who got captured […]

The Counter-reformations that supported ars perfecta were highly conservative and somehow outdated when compared to newer musical innovations. Ars perfecta required masses to be celebrated with singing and organ. However, the sixteenth century Catholic Church seems to have been evolutionarily affected and demanded concerted motets or psalms during mass. Secondly, early publications were not specific […]

The Beatles were a worldwide phenomenon who inspired many -from the “flower children” to the Manson Family. Their quick popularity brought “Beatlemania” and the British Invasion into America. While their music was catchy and popular, it often reflected the time and events, mostly political, happening around the world. Across the Universe, directed by Julie Taymor […]

The song “Waving Through A Window” is from the musical Dear Evan Hansen. Dear Evan Hansen is written by Benji Pasek, Justin Paul (music and lyrics), and Steven Levenson (book). The show opened on Broadway at the Music Box Theater in December of 2016. Before it opened on Broadway, the show debuted in Washington D.C […]

Last summer vacation, The Voice of China, a music TV show very popular in China, came back. Among all the singers, Double Angel raised nationwide dispute about their music. They are a group of two girls, namely Big Angel and Little Angel. Big Angel was previously a singer of a band in Wuhan and Little […]

A Beautiful Mind The movie “A Beautiful Mind” directed by Ron Howard is based on the real story of mathematician John F. Nash Jr. , played by Russell Crow. John Nash was a gifted young man from West Virginia that, while studying in Princeton, created his “game theory” also knows as “Nash equilibrium”, which was […]

Schizophrenia’s symptoms embrace social withdrawal, loss of appetence and hygiene, delusions, hallucinations, and also the sense of being controlled by outside forces. These characteristics area unit overpoweringly gift in a very stunning Mind. John Ogden Nash has hassle with chemical analysis and alternative sorts of social interaction. Mr. Ogden Nash gets nervous simply and stutters. […]

By examining the basic substance of the movie. The film “A Beautiful Mind” portrays real events from John Nash’s life, and brings up several ethical concerns related to the representation of mental illnesses and their societal perception. The ethical concerns arising from a popular media event, including the individuality of such concerns, the use of […]

“A Beautiful Mind” relates the story of John Forbes Nash, Jr. , a gifted mathematicianwho overcomes the inner conflict of schizophrenia to achieve the prestigious Nobel Prize. It isa story of tremendous sadness and confusion, as one watches Nash and those dear to himcome to terms with his mental illness. The story opens in the […]

In the poignant movie A Beautiful Mind, I was taken through John Nash’s experiences, a mathematical genius whose schizophrenia slowly begins to take over his life. Even after suffering the humiliation of being detained during one of his lectures and sent to a mental hospital to be deemed as crazy, John Nash refuses to take […]

Overview A Beautiful Mind is the story of John Nash, a real mathematical genius who began having symptoms of schizophrenia upon entering graduate school at Princeton University in 1948. Peers viewed Nash as odd, eccentric, and lacking in basic social skills. Nash often skipped class, wrote mathematical formulas on windows, and spent many hours pursuing […]

The protagonist, John Nash, of the movie “A beautiful mind” suffers from the mental illness called ‘Schizophrenia’. It is a mental disorder or illness characterized by the breakdown of thought processes and by a defect of typical emotional responses. The common symptoms include auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions or disorganized speech and thinking and […]

John Nash, who is the main character in the movie, suffers from schizophrenia. According to Myers (2007), schizophrenia is defined as a multiple personality disorder whereby an individual splits from reality by having a disorganized form of thinking, inappropriate emotions and very disturbing perceptions and actions. Paranoid schizophrenia, according to Myers (2007), is a mental […]

Two detectives, one from over a century ago in London and the other in modern day United States, provide an interesting look at how detectives’ minds work. Both are brilliant and emotionally distant, but approach life and work very differently from that point. Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective living in London, who borders on […]

Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, wrote numerous tales about the intelligent and unique perspective of his renowned consulting detective. Drawing inspiration from his University professor, Dr. Joseph Bell, who was renowned for his deductive reasoning skills, Doyle utilized these methods to develop his fictional character. Doyle initiated his education in Edinburgh’s community […]

Both books have varying degrees of reassuring closure; however, the fact that brutal murders have occurred is a pervasive dampener. An intriguing dichotomy between the inhumane, on the one hand, and the comeuppance on the other, is a fact often overlooked in murder stories; wherein the reader ignores the atrocities of murder and only experiences […]

The two versions of The Hound of the Baskervilles show a discrepancy in different ways. Firstly, the audience get an overall view that in the 1983 version, it is more of an investigation rather than anything else. This appears to make the audience have their own theory what is to come at the end. David […]

Published in 1902, The Hound of the Baskervilles stands out from Sherlock Holmes’ earlier works due to its setting in the rural Devonshire moor, which sharply contrasts with the murky crime world of London. As a detective story, it incorporates Gothic elements, including myths, legends, and descriptions of Baskerville Hall’s “wrought iron gates.” The novel […]

The atmospheres in the stories differ very much right from the beginning as in Lamb to the Slaughter we have a pregnant happily married woman who is waiting for her husband who she loves very much to come back from work so that she can make him something to eat etc. Words like “wonderful”, “Luxuriate,” […]

‘A Speckled band’ and ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’ are two stories about murderers. Lamb to the Slaughter challenges the stereotypical conventions connected a crime story whereas ‘a Speckled Band sticks to the conventions. In this essay I will compare the two stories about their approach to the narration, characters, setting, crime and how each story […]