All Quiet on the Western Front - Essay All Quiet on the Western Front, written by Erich Maria Remarque, is a novel that takes you through the life of a soldier in World War I. Remarque is accurately able to portray the many stresses soldiers go through because he was actually a soldier himself, a...
Pete Blieu is a tall, blond-haired teenage boy who enjoys cars, football, and soccer. Joe Schone is a short, chubby, sandy brown-haired teenage boy that enjoys the same fruits of life as Pete. The two boys have been the best of friends since the day they could talk. Their parents had known each ot...
Far and Away is an excellent period epic detailing the struggles of a poor Irish immigrant in Ireland and America. Released in 1992 to mixed reviews, many feel this is director Ron Howard's ode to his Irish heritage and roots. Far and Away showcases Tom Cruise's and Nicole Kidman's second onscreen collaboration ( first being Days of Thunder), and their onscreen chemistry help support the films storyline. Far and Away opens up to Joseph Donnelly (Tom Cruise), an Irish tenant farmer and his battles with his rich landowner after his father's death ove...
Dorian Antes smokes a pack of filtered Camel cigarettes a day. He always manages to wear at least one article of black clothing and is an avid fan of european death metal. He sports a mohawk though he prefers not to put it up with Knox gelatin and has a pair of black flames tattoed on the sides whe...
Mine My Precious The novel Heart of Darkness is a montage of many political and social themes appropriate to Joseph Conrad's era. Imperialism is one of these key themes, believed by Europeans to be the solution to the "White Man's Burden-. In a thoughtful narrative, Marlow recounts a previous jou...
