Breaking Bad is an American television drama series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. Set and produced in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Breaking Bad is the story of Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a struggling high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with advanced lung cancer at the beginning of the series. He turns to a life of crime, producing and selling methamphetamine with a former student, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), with the aim of securing his family's financial future before he dies. [1] Premiering on January 20, 2008, the series is broadcast in the United States and Canada on the cable channel AMC, and is a production of Sony Pictures Television. On August 14, 2011, AMC announced that Breaking Bad had been renewed for a fifth and final season consisting of 16 episodes.
Novel Title and Author: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Author’s Background: Kurt Vonnegut Jr., born on November 11, 1922, to a German-American family residing in Indianapolis, established himself as an American author best known for Slaughterhouse-Five. At Shortridge High School, Vonnegut served as the columnist, editor, and reporter of the school newspaper. Attending Cornell University (New York), he became the managing editor of the Cornell Sun before dropping out to enlist in the U.S. Army in 1943. During World War II, Vonnegut was captured by Nazis and was held prisoner in Dresden. During an Allie raid destroying Dresden, he survived by “hiding in an underground meat locker labeled ‘slaughterhouse-five’ along with other Allied prisoners of war.” This experience provided the inspiration for his premier novel.
Bokk This is a book review of Alex Rider – Stormbreaker by Jamie Lewin. Alex Rider - StormBreaker was written by Anthony Horowitz, Stormbreaker was published in 2006. The main characters of this book are Alex Rider, Mr Sayle, Mr Grin, Mrs Jones, Mr Blunt and Yassen Gregorovich. Alex Rider thinks he is a normal school boy, until his uncle Ian is killed. Alex discovers that Ian’s car is at a junkyard and finds dozens of bullet holes and blood on the seats that proving that his uncle was murdered.
A few months later he stabbed and strangled a woman. The young man with her survived being shot twice and provided the first clue to authorities, the assailant was an average man with crazed eyes. After the second crime, Rader wrote a letter confessing to the first murders and referring to himself as the BTK Strangler. He explained that BTK stood for B-bind them, T-torture them, K-kill them. Psychological Studies on Rader have established that even as a young child in grade school he would often fantasize about bondage, controlling and torturing individuals.
John Hersey wrote the book Hiroshima after the dropping of the nuclear bombs on Japan in 1945. His book surveys the effects of this action by the United States. Hersey’s use of rhetoric in Hiroshima and it’s ability to evoke appropriate reactions to this event was an effective design to his writing. John Hersey’s purpose in writing Hiroshima was to force the reader to weigh the ethical justification in dropping the A-Bomb on Hiroshima, rather than rely on their original, close-minded perceptions. Hersey uses many writing strategies, and targets a specific audience in order to evoke in the American people feelings of remorse, sympathy, and anger, and a personal connection with the victims of the atomic bombing.
Hans and Rosa began to hide a Jewish man, Max Vandenburg, in their basement until Hans made a mistake that forced Max to leave before the authorities came and found him. Alex Steiner, Rudy’s father, also made a mistake that threatened the authority of the Nazi party and he and Hans were drafted into the military. Hans broke his leg and was allowed to come back home to Molching. Late one night, while Liesel was in their basement writing an autobiography, the poorer part of Molching was bombed, where she happened to live and everyone was killed, except Liesel. First of all, the book provided me with many, somewhat random out of context, but interesting facts about what went on outside of the fictional story of Liesel Meminger.
Although there seemed like no way out of death camps, a few rebellions took place in some famous death camps. The method of killing the prisoners in death camps was typically poison gas. (Wikipedia, 2008) Germans use the poison gas from a chemical company called BASF. The people who were too weak to work were sent to the gas chambers to be killed. (Judaism, 2008) The gas chambers had small windows for Nazis to watch the prisoners die.
The first was on a train when Death came to collect her brother, the second was when he came for a pilot who crashed his plane, and the third was after a bombing. It was during his first visit, that Liesel the main character discovered a copy of The Gravedigger’s Handbook, which was only a “first of a series of books she [would] find or steal”. It was after this moment that Death would forever think of Liesel as the book thief and decides to tell her life’s story. Liesel was left to her own devices while she lived her with foster parents, a
“The Shawshank Redemption” is a 1994 drama film based on the novel “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” by American Author Stephen King. It tells the story of Andy Dufresne a banker who spends nearly two decades in prison for the murder of his wife. During his time in Shawshank correctional facility Dufresne, portrayed by Tim Robbins, harbours the ambition to escape and start a new life for himself. He achieves this through his intelligence and people skills to eventually escape. A good example of Andy’s cunning of his surroundings is when he and some of his fellow inmates are working on the roof and he overhears one of the guards financial problems.
He was 40 years old. “The Tell-Tale Heart” was first published in January of 1843, shortly after Poe, then living in Philadelphia, suffered his third heart attack. They say Poe’s inspiration for the story may have come from Daniel Webster’s description of an actual murder in Massachusetts in 1830 or from horror tales by Charles Dickens and Edward Lytton, William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, or from the circumstances in his own life. The story is a psychological portrait of a mad narrator who kills a man and afterwards hears his victim’s relentless heartbeat which, in the end, drives him to complete insanity. “The Pit and the Pendulum” was first published in 1842, also around the time of Poe’s third heart attack.