Shrek 4-D

Draft #1 Many influential thinkers argued that Indian minds were fueled by the ideas of Western scholars and philosophers who never visited India, never dealt with Indians, and never read Indian literature. A key figure in this regard is Karl Marx and his Marxists vision of the world. Marx wrote thirty-three articles discussing and analyzing Indian affairs that were published by the New York Tribune, from 1853 to 1858, just after the Sepoy Revolt. In his articles, Marx has explicitly and…

The Great Depression was a worldwide economic decline that was said to have begun in the fall of 1929. This tragedy was triggered by a sudden crash of the American stock market on October 29th, which is also referred to as Black Tuesday. With numerous places around the world suffering until World War II, Newfoundland was impacted and changed drastically. Many consequences at this time were that the depression contributed to an increased debt problem for the then self-governed country, and…

Japan, china and the USA have been going back and forth with each other for the longest. This has changed the countries socially, politically, and economically, but for now I will explain how Japan Attacking Pearl Harbor, The Lend-Lease Act, and some visual pictures socially affected these countries. Japan’s attacks on Pearl Harbor socially affected Japan because according to an excerpts from The Way of the Subjects from 1941, it states, “ The way of the subjects is to be loyal to the Emperor…

The Great Depression was the worst economic downfall in the history of the modern world. On October 1929, the stock market crashed, causing consumer investment to drop. Due to this, many companies have gone out of business and unemployed many. Millions of men had to leave their friends and family to find work to provide for them. Many workers joined agencies where they could provide jobs for them. This means that workers had to migrate across the country in order earn money and many friends…

Story Symbols and Themes Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president, a very influential person through the Great Depression and World War II famously said: “The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely share prosperity - or it will move apart.” The Collection stories that we read are the Quilts of a Country by Anna Quindlen, Once Upon a Time by Nadine Gordimer, and the Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln.…

Another writer, Alice Rawsthorn, asks what the true definition of an artist is in this modern world, deciding that it can be anyone. Through her piece, “Can Anybody be a Designer?” Rawsthorn discusses “Unnamed,” an exhibition held in South Korea. This exhibition explores innovation in places that one would normally never look; the code involved in a computer virus can be just as majestic as a rainbow barcode where each color signifies one of the four nucleotides of DNA (adenine, thymine, guanine…

In the book The Brief Life of Oscar Wao, the author focuses on a character named Oscar. Oscar has to struggle through many events of his life to figure out where he belongs and to figure out his identity. He always feels left out. In his home, New Jersey, he is the nerdy kid who likes comic books and fiction movies. He has all the posters from movie covers and characters hanging in his room. So, it is very difficult for him to fit in with the cool kids. His appearance doesn't help him either. He…

In Chapter 4 of Outlier’s "The Trouble with Geniuses, Part 2," starts out about the story of growth in Chris Langan. It about Chris Langan and how came up from poverty and a troubled childhood: with his biological father disappearing at a young age and how he took his last name from his biological mother's abusive and thoughtless fourth husband. After how Langan grew up during hard times, Langan eventually attended Reed College on a full scholarship. However, in which he lost the…

“Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country.”(Kennedy, 1961, Para 26) Many would argue this is the biggest link to the assassinated president, and that this quote changed the way of thinking for most Americans. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the 35th president of the United States of America. He was loved by many through his portrayal of a young, responsible, and charismatic president. On January 20th, 1961, Kennedy gave his famous inaugural speech. In his speech…

Eric L. Tribunella’s 2011 essay, “Boyhood” traces the development of children’s, in particular boy literature, from the inception of the word “boy” to the boy-books of the 2000s. Tribunella calls attention to the word “boy” as being originally a derogatory term for males of a lower social status (22), and how the concept of boy as subordinate to man has maintained in some capacity even as the term has shifted to describe a male child (22). He writes “to be a boy means to be a flawed, inchoate,…