Essay
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
In this sequel, which is also an adaptation, the four friends once again spend another summer without each other after graduating from high school but still send the pants to each other. Tibby and her boyfriend experience sudden changes, Lena goes to Greece to visit relatives and meet an potental flame in the states, Carmen stars in a play for an actor workshop in college and Bridget goes from an archaeological dig in Turkey to visiting her grandmother who helps her heal old wounds. Although the pants up missing, they spend the rest of the summer together.
By Forest Green2 years ago in Critique
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Adapted from a best selling young adult book, four long time friends, Tibby, Lena, Carmen and Bridget find a pair of jeans that happens to fit all of them despite their different body sizes. They are spending their first summer apart and along the way they experience a sense of love, new changes, developing new bonds, loss and facing the past. Lena spends the summer with her grandparents in Greece, Carmen goes to South Carolina to visit her father who is getting remarred much to her surprise, Tibby is making a mini documentary and befriends a younger girl and Bridget is playing soccer in Mexico and falls in love. It shows how strong their friendship is, even miles away.
By Forest Green2 years ago in Critique
The Managerial Revolution
There are few books that have had such a large influence on my life. The Managerial Revolution by James Burnham is one of the few that have changed my life's trajectory entirely. It is a fascinating, insightful, and contemporaneous look at the conflict between Fascism, Communism, and the New Deal.
By Atomic Historian2 years ago in Critique
Extremely Bad
Have you ever been asked, “What’s the worst book you’ve read?” I am often asked this when people find out my passion for literature. I always answer the same: Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink. This book is exhaustingly unreadable. I stopped after the second chapter. I want my time back.
By Atomic Historian2 years ago in Critique
Animal farm
I never liked reading in school. However one book I hope never leaves the curriculum is Animal Farm. Beowulf, The Most Dangerous game, The Crucible, don't even come close. I'll be honest I can't explain why it's stuck with me ever since. The symbolism sure, but there's just something more.
By Dyllon Rodillon2 years ago in Critique
The Peanuts Movie
In this 2015 adaptation of the beloved comic strip, Charlie Brown stills stuggles to do all the things shown there: doing a report on a very long book during winter break, kicking the football and talking to the little red haired girl. However things turn around for him when he flies a kite and the little red haired girl chooses him to become pen pals. Meanwhile his dog Snoopy turns into the World War I flying ace to save his love interest, Fifi from the Red Baron. It is heartfelt and faithful to the original materal.
By Forest Green2 years ago in Critique
Spider-Man 3
In the 2007 sequel things had finally turned around for our friendly neighborhood Spider Man. he gets a much better paying position, his love life is in the middle ground, his school work is on point, he patches things up with his aunt and he is loved by the citizens of New York. However at that come with a cost when he develops a dark side. Also he faces two new villains one of which has a tie to Peter's past and it changes his perspective on things and his friend Harry Osborn wants to do him in personally because even after five years he still believes Peter caused the death of his father, Norman Osborn. This motivates him to become the new Green Goblin.
By Forest Green2 years ago in Critique
Spider-Man 2
In the 2004 sequel our hero Peter Parker being at his lowest. His friends furned their backs on him, strugging with his classes, still reeling from his uncle's death, his aunt showing some resentment, his boss not giving him much and also briefly losing his powers. The villain he faces is Doctor Octopus who develops his powers after a freak accident and wrecks havocs in the city. Peter realizes he must find a middle ground between being the web slingler and his personal life.
By Forest Green2 years ago in Critique
Spider-Man
The 2002 film introduces Peter Parker an average high school who could be down on his luck sometimes. Once he gets bitten by a spider, he gets the powers of shooting webs out of his hands. along the way he puts away common petty criminals, deals with a personal tragedy, falls in love and learns what it means to have responsibility when it comes to having powers. But he faces a much bigger threat in the form of the Green Goblin, the dangerous alter ego of Norman Osborn, who gets kicked out of the company he built. He also sees something in Peter and science happens to be an common interest.
By Forest Green2 years ago in Critique
Social Media: A Critique
Social media, a double-edged sword, fosters superficial connections, validates narcissism, and erodes genuine human interaction in exchange for short-lived highs and dopamine thrills. Its addictive design exploits attention, fuels echo chambers, and undermines privacy. A breeding ground for misinformation and cyberbullying, it's time we reflect on its true societal cost.
By E.K. Daniels2 years ago in Critique
Vocal
No one is speaking or singing, unless one is performing to oneself. We should speak the words of our poetry and sing them if they are also written to a tune, but only we can hear and listen, and whoever and whatever happen to be in our space, our vocal.
By Patrick M. Ohana2 years ago in Critique
