Essays on Entertainment

A fear or paranoia of pain, vulnerability and death, the feeling that someone is watching you, the feeling that your life is in jeopardy. Aesthetic horror is the same feeling as horror but through what we see. It is similar to horror because it is…

On the recommendation of my classmates, I watched the film ’12 Years A Slave’. This is the first time I have watched a film about black slaves. After watching it, I couldn’t be calm for a long time. The unequal treatment suffered by the slaves…

The determination to find a silver lining in everything makes people unrealistic. This is true in Silver Linings Playbook. Impractical dreams lead to a skewed sense of reality. Furthermore, the recognition and acceptance of mistakes are vital to one’s success and personal development. In and…

As technology and science advance throughout the years, game industries have also mustered up efforts and coming up with fresh ideas to take gaming to a whole new level of experience and entertainment. In this modern era, everyone of all ages has access to video…

Video games, an electronic game in which players control images on a video screen. In 1958 physicist William Higinbotham developed a video game which is thought to be the first ever. The video game had no name but is a very similar version of Pong,…

In the book Monster, by Walter Dean Myers, the readers explore the American legal system through the eyes of a young African American boy named Steve Harmon. The author does an impeccable job delivering the truth of the American judicial system to the readers, by…

 Today I am here to talk about a very wide topic, video games. Video games are a very controversial topic all around the world. There are two main sides, the pro, and the con. People who still believe video games aren’t good for society haven’t…

Jane campions postmodernist values within her 2009 film Bright star and John Keats neo-classical perspective embedded within his poetry effectively assists in reimagining the notion of stories being told by every generation, through the use of intertextuality. Campions Bright star is a romanticised film with…

“The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind,” is the first film directed by the successful actor Chiwetel Ejiofor. The true story of the real-life hero, Malawian engineer William Kamkwamba, is so praiseworthy, heartfelt and genuine that the film deserves no complaints, in my opinion. The movie…

In the early 19th century the Monroe doctrine was set by the United States, this doctrine stopped European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere. This caused wealthy western powers to rush to gain new colonies in Africa. The driving forces behind European imperialism in Africa were…

For almost eight decades, video games have been prevalent. In the most recent decade, pc (personal computer) and console gaming have become more popular amongst teenagers, along with the excessive amount of time they are being played. Throughout the years there has been a huge…

The importance of music in the resistance to colonial ideologies can be seen through the way in which music, more specifically Grime, is used as a means of exploring and critiquing citizenship. Marshall defined citizenship as “full membership of a community” which reveals that citizenship…

In the novel Monster by Walter Dean Myers Steve Harmon is a black sixteen year old that is on trial for allegedly taking part in felony murder. However Steve is innocent or at the very least can’t be proven guilty for multiple reasons such as…

Have you ever heard people around you accusing that playing online games is just a waste of time? This is the accusation that many people (mostly parents) who do not or only have a little knowledge about online gaming usually have when seeing other people…

Do video games cause violence ? A question the researchers asked himself after hearing that this subject turned into a sensitive one after a game called “Fortnite” surfaced the gaming industry. The game became famous after 6 months after its free battle royal game mode…