Essays on Entertainment

In the Japanese anime series Naruto- Naruto Shippuden are two characters that are both similar to each other, yet different as well. Naruto and Sasuke are both talented ninja that have their own background, features, appearances, and personalities. While they were only children, Naruto and…

Mainstream ideas and attitudes set trends. As individuals and as a society, we respond to the ideas put forth by the many facets of entertainment deemed mainstream. But ultimately, as individuals, we need to think about how our values become affected and how the misalignment…

Naruto was the second anime I’ve ever watched from beginning to end. And from it, I started to look at anime with a new appreciation. Before I even started watching anime, my life was pretty simple. To the point where I just sort of drifted…

The question of whether or not rap music should be embraced in a society has sparked a debate for the last two decades. Rap music started as an Afro-American culture, which hitherto has taken roots to hip-hop with both black and white artists. There before,…

“Naruto” fans not only passively appreciating, but also actively researching and analyzing related issues on “Naruto” in China. When the “Naruto” works can’t satisfy the audience endless curiosity, they will seek answers on their own on “Naruto” works and related subject fields in order to…

Music is everywhere, it is all around us.. We listen to it in the car, or in the background of office, the stores where we shop, in the elevators , during the commercial breaks of our favorite television show, and many more places we go….

Ever since the beginning of humankind, people have been evolving. Societies have been built, torn down, and built once more. Attitudes towards certain topics, the ways that we act, and the way humans communicate have all changed. One of the key methods of communication has…

From a rookie boy group struggling to have a spot in broadcasts and variety shows, to international superstars selling millions of copies of their albums worldwide, BTS (also known as Beyond the Scene) captured the world’s attention with their heart wrenching struggles to achieve their…

David Bowie’s 1971 album Hunky Dory is chock-full of symbolic meaning, from the opening track, Changes, where Bowie distances himself from the rock mainstream (“Look out, you rock ‘n’ rollers”), to the closing Bewlay Brothers, where Bowie sings of his struggles with his schizophrenic brother…

BTS, an abbreviation for ‘Bangtan Sonyeondan’, also known as Bangtan Boys, is a seven-member Korean boy-band that debuted in 2013. BTS is highly known to be very versatile in the sense that they are capable of indulging in many different genres of music, ranging from…

The Documentary Before the Flood go through this issue of climate change and global warming issue and how this climate change is affecting the Nature. They focus on ice, the sweeping views of earth, seeing the rushing waterfalls in the glaciers, and, massive land mines…

The documentary begins with a reflection about “The Garden of Earthly Delights” painted, by Bosch, which shows “a paradise that has been degraded an destroyed”. Climate change is a danger that has the potential to do that to our Earth. In the documentary, newly appointed…

It is 1985. It will be on weird summer of for the town of Hawkins, Indiana. On Wednesday, Netflix dropped the primary full-length trailer for this current summer’s exceptionally foreseen third season of Stranger Things. Furthermore, it appears our most loved gathering of bicycle riding,…

No matter how old you may be or what time of day it is, a movie will always sounds appealing. The beauty of a movie is that it can be ambiguous towards an individual’s emotions. A movie can make you shed tears, put the biggest…

Race and religion are two views in the world that can really tie people together, or terribly separate them apart. The movie “Crash” by Writer-director Paul Haggis links several connected stories about class, gender, family and race in Los Angeles. In the Ted Talk, a…