Levin’s target audience is Americans because his use of American symbolism such as “July 4,” and “unconstitutional.” In addition, the United States is not the only victim of terrorist attacks. Many countries around the world also fall prey to terrorism. According to Levin, begins his essay with a brief description of how he believes that societies view the subject of torture as negative thing. He justifies his reasoning on torture by allowing it in order to save innocent lives. Levin’s second claim is that the judicial system is a slow process when time is a factor and the only way to speed it up is by torture.
Contrary to his unwavering independence in technique and style Spike Lee has taken on the challenge of film remake. Remaking a movie is always tricky, particularly when the original has an already strong following. The 2013 remake of the Past Chan-wook’s classic, Old Boy had Lee’s critics wondering why he engaged in such a dark film. When Chan-wook’s Old Boy hit theatres in 2003, it was praised for its unique structure, it’s magnificent and action packed fight scenes, and it’s visual flair, making Spike Lee a very bold choice to adapt the film for an American audience. It’s not a shot for shot remake of the original or the 2003 version, but like Chan-wook’s version, it’s graphic so don’t watch this on a fall stomach.
Going to school at Harvard during the Vietnam War also helped form some of his values and beliefs that industrialized society will be the human race’s downfall. In the end it was his own writing style that brought him down. The Unabomber events are considered an American Crime/Tragedie because what he did was unrighteous, unthinkable, and devastating to the American people. He caused fear, death, and destruction just to get his point of view across. What he did is still talked about today because it is a lesson to learn from, and what he did was unforgivable and
* The Thesis statement of this essay is “Beyond its stereotypic dispatching of the villians, however, Die Hard functions on two additional levels. First, its hero attacks villains who personify major cultural problems and, second, he confronts problems in his own nature.” * Yes, I think Peter Parshall has tons of analysis and evidence that supports it that ties into the thesis of his essay. He first explains how he is a stereotypical hero, and than goes on to how the villains personify major cultural problems, and than he explains how John confronts his problems in his own nature. * After watching the movie Die Hard myself, I had a completely different interpretation of the movie than the author. However, after reading the essay “Die Hard: The American Mythos”, by Peter Parshall, I agree with every interpretation of the author.
Stone’s response to the accusations is quite cynical and in a sense humorous in the “Memo to John Grisham: What’s Next- ‘A Movie Made Me Do It.’?” Stone argues that no work of art should be the blame of a grown persons actions, and that only the one who commits the crime shall be held accountable(Stone1). I agree with Oliver Stone 100%, for his article has statistics based on his argument and is short, sweet, straight to the point, and speaks directly to the reader. People want answers when something tragic of this degree happens so they look for someone or something to blame, in this case, unfortunately Oliver Stone and his movie Natural Born Killers was the answer for John Grisham. Stone’s response to Grisham’s article has more valid points that are backed up by statistics, beliefs, or simply common sense. Grisham’s attempt to grab the reader in was not effective.
There were various scenes that portrayed V as a terrorist and other’s that portrayed him as a hero showing him sticking up for others that were tortured like him. In V for Vendetta, V’s character is a hero, V’s actions are justified to achieve his goal, and he is a major symbol in the film. In the Film V For Vendetta, V represents a hero throughout the story while also performed terrorist acts. V believes that the country had forgotten the meaning of their buildings, which he feels is similar to the government forgetting the meaning of everyone having the right to live free. V’s main goal is to scare the country with terrorist attacks in order to bring them together.
Although, Drone attacks have been quite successful in eliminating terrorists but they have had their negative affects as well. At times, misjudged attacks have led to the killing of civilians. The government of Pakistan has protested against these drone attacks time and again but to no effect. The government’s dual conduct by giving a silent approval of these attacks to the US government and by protesting these attacks on the floor of the national assembly has created a lot of confusion. But the US govt.
“Is war ever justified?” The history of war is as old as the first murder.It is a heinous act which is usually performed either for defend,wealth or property.To those of us who are horrified by war, it is easy to say at once that war is never justified and will totally disagree with this topic. Nevertheless, there are some circumstances in which going to war are justified. Like the war against Jews by Palestinian, war against Indian army by Kashmiries is justified. So I totally agree with this topic that, “Is war ever justified.” First of all, we see that countries are often forced to go to war to defend themselves. A defensive war certainly seems justified.
“Unsung Heroes” follows the same line of thought. It enumerates explicitly false heroes that are often found among former US presidents and military people. Zinn reminds us of the crimes each of them has committed. He suggests that these undue idols be taken off their pedestals and be replaced by real heroes, people who have sacrificed something to make a change, even if it was a small one. Being a war-opponent and social activist, Howard Zinn’s most likely intention in writing “Unsung Heroes” was to educate people about the mistakes (and deliberate lies) that are, in his opinion, very common in the perception of American history.
Racism in America There is surely no nation in the world racism in greater horror than does the United States. Compared to other kinds of offenses it is thought to be somehow more reprehensible. The press and public have become so used details of murder rape robbery and arson that any but the most spectacular crimes are shrugged off as part of American life. Racism though is never shrugged off. Racism is indeed the national obsession.