the smoldering heat for the border control officers to check our passports. The week could finally start after the elongated wait to pass through. On our way to the Forfar Field Station, our campsite, everyone had to cram into white taxi vans with the local taxi drivers. Driving through Andros was truly a unique experience on the trip. The scenery was fascinating, as was

make Travis Bickle and his loneliness, but this chapter is about the society which alienated him. Taxi Driver was released in 1976, and behind it, there is the social background of the United States from 1960s to 1970s. The main character, Travis Bickle lives in New York, the United States in the 1970s, when there were incidents related to Taxi Driver. According to Iannucci, “Historically, Taxi Driver appeared after a decade of war in Vietnam (1976), and after the Watergate crisis and subsequent resignation

The man is Travis Bickle, ex-Marine, veteran of Vietnam, writer of devoted celebration notes to his guardians, taxi driver, and executioner. The film seldom strays a long way from the individual, profoundly subjective route in which he sees the city and gives it a chance to wound him. Travis often changes his perspective of whether he is in control of his predetermination or whether his fate is foreordained. Before all else of the film, Travis whines about being forlorn and not having wherever to

It's a bright sunny morning, birds are chirping and everything is great. In the Hood household Kerry gets a call from her mother Betty saying that it's her birthday tomorrow and what she wants is a Timmy and the Three Turtles or the 3T’s cd for her birthday. Karry is confused with the 3T’s being a rock band. Betty clarifies that that is what she wants. Kerry calls her daughter Little Pink to come down stairs and tells here to buy the new 3T’s cd for her grandma. Kerry gives Little Pink $50 and tells

The scene where Travis is with Betsy at the coffee shop lays the foundation for a major theme of the movie. Betsy says to Travis “that he reminds her of the Kris Kristofferson song ‘Walking Contradiction’ ‘he’s a prophet, he’s a pusher, partly truth, partly fiction’.” Travis being a walking contradiction is fitting, he’s an alienated Vietnam vet, uneducated, possibly psychotic, yet he has a keen sense of awareness and insight that one would not expect. He’s returned home from war to a country that

The Titanic is more than just a love story. It’s about two people who come from extremely different worlds and come together. It’s also about a young woman who breaks free and becomes who she was really meant to be. It takes you on an epic journey back to the year 1912. The Titanic is a wonderful love story, but much more lies behind the scenes in the depths of the movie. The Titanic is a fictional story loosely based on a historical event. So how accurate is the move? The director James Cameron

The Chrysalids by John Wyndham is a well in scripted text portraying the plight faced by many communities and societies in the present world. The narrator, David storm, coherently tries to bring out the scenes and the happenings around the tiny society of Waknuk. The novel tries to bring out various themes in different ways either metaphorically or plainly. Some of the themes which are clearly evident in the text are like fear of authority, religion, sacrifice, oppression, religion and other minor

The film the Quiet American tells the story of a British journalist, a Vietnamese woman, and an undercover CIA agent in midst of the war between the communist Vietnamese and the imperial French Phillip Noyce, the director of the film, thrust into the spotlight, due to directing several films with high budgets, including Rabbit Proof Fence, which was released at nearly the same time as The Quiet American. Noyce was deemed as “an artist on top of his game” by the Seattle Times movie critic Moira