Charlie Sheen

After experiencing the violence of war, it is difficult for a soldier to readjust back into society causing alienation and a strain to return home both physically and emotionally. In Hemingway’s short story, “Soldier’s Home” the main character Harold Krebs lies, is incapable of love and he struggles to readapt to his family and community. Krebs is a different person than before the war and eventually accepts the idea that he can never really go home. Hemingway illustrates the…

What is humor? Humor can be someone or something that is funny. What is funny can depend on someone’s sense of humor. Humor can be offensive at times by hurting one’s religion, race, sex, and other things to laugh at the expense of others. Despite that there are many television programs and cartoons that make funs of people being in a certain kind of group. Has society fallen so low that we like to hurt each other’s feelings? Bottom line is there are many different types of humor like flavors of…

The 1920’s saw a big boom in the entertainment industry. After World War 1 many Americans had money to blow and turned to entertainment as a way to spend their extra cash. Music, movies, radios, plays, and sports all became popular forms of mass entertainment during this time period. Music was a big part of the Roaring Twenties. In fact, the Roaring Twenties is also known as the Jazz Age. Jazz became big after New Orleans closed its ports and most musicians had to move north to find work.…

Sartre is well known for his work in developing existential thought. The question being addressed in this paper is one that asks what Sartre meant by a “monstrous freedom.” In other words, in terms of existentialism, what did this idea of freedom have to do with the way in which human behavior is explained? In order to understand Sartre’s idea of existentialism, then this question of monstrous freedom must be addressed. One author wrote, “there is an infinite gap between the past and the…

By now we are familiar with Charlie Chaplin’s silent films and his talents; not only as a pantomime actor but also as a writer and director. Certainty, his 1931 silent film “City Lights” is a proof of his talent as an actor, writer, chorographer and director (Kamin) . The film gave Chaplin the opportunity to display his creative talents within the silent film industry. Although, Chaplin’s talents are numerous we are going to concentrate on his acting performance in the “City Lights” film. In…

My interview was with a woman named Miss Norma. She was born during WWI (1917) and will be 100 years old in February. It was interesting how I met, I was a cashier at Walmart when she came through my line. She saw my name tag and asked if I had ever been to the Shekinah festival in Amish country. I told her I had never been and that I wasn’t from Columbus. She then asked where I was from and when I told her New Albany Indiana luck might have it, she was born and raised in my home town and from…

of the silent era knew how to express their feelings through gestures and facial expressions in such a manner that their feelings could be easily communicated to the audience. Indeed, the international success of such silent cinema performers as Charlie Chaplin and Greta Garbo attests to the universal appeal of film acting. As expressed by these performers, such basic human emotions as sadness or happiness…

the opportunity to focus and develop their skills for bebop. There were however, a few influential musicians who were able to produce recordings and albums during this AFM band. The most influential people of bebop would include Billy Eckstine, Charlie "Bird" Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, and Bud Powell. Who's influences came from Coleman Hawkins's harmonic exactness, Art Tatum's harmonic imagination and reharmonization, and Roy Eldridge and Lester Young's melodic and rhythmic…

It is commonly believed that the only purpose comedy serves is to make people laugh. While that aspect of comedy is always enjoyable, the humor in these films usually have a deeper message. The restrictions that movies in the past have are no longer an issue for the films of today. This freedom has allowed movies today to take the social and political aspects of comedy to a whole new level. Films such as The Interview and White Chicks have taken the social and political implications from The…

Melville’s “Bartleby, The Scrivener” and Charlie Chaplin’s “Modern Times” share the same theme, which is the despair of the working class under the upper class. Bartleby and Chaplin respectively represent the working class in their stories, and they both undergo hardships due to the tedious tasks they are given to perform. Both characters eventually rebel against their managers (which represent the upper class) in their own ways; Bartleby constantly rejects the lawyer’s order of proofreading…