Shawshank Redemption Courage Essay _VERIFIED_

"In The Shawshank Redemption, Andy is courageous, optimistic, and persevering. What are 3 example for each from the book or movie?" eNotes Editorial, 4 Dec. 2017, -help/in-the-shawshank-redemption-andy-is-courageous-54031.Accessed 7 Feb. 2023.

After having read the novel of your choice (Life of Pi or Lord of the Flies) please read the essay writing notes. Then you are ready to choose ONE of the topics listed below and begin your essay. Before you start to write the essay you should work on a few thesis statements. Please feel encouraged to e-mail a few thesis statements to me so that I can help you choose the strongest one.

Hope is the vital foundation for all future plans and dreams. Without hope, there is no reason to believe life can be better. Fear makes the individual believe that finding hope is an impossible pursuit. Hopeful people never give up on their quest to improve life 's circumstance. Andy was a step away from a shattered life and toward the hope things could be different. He was a two-year journey that led to hope, love, and a new way to live. The walls of the prison destroy hope in the minds of the prisoners where they have the ambition to go anywhere. Prisoners who are living a lifetime has already given up hope to escape, but even there is a single bit of happiness, there will be bravery and courage in the individual 's thought and understanding. Love and passion to everything are somewhere in the midst of the feelings that prisoners have in the body. Andy and Red to overcome the soul-crushing reality of prison life to find hope and redemption. Finding hope together, they rise above the hell surrounding them to be a light to themselves and others. The distinction of the characters gives a hint to which individual, the hope embodies. Hope comes in and goes out and never stays around the individual, but it is waiting to be

Without any doubt, one of the biggest dreams of every science champ scholar is to get into MIT. But only a few of them will actually get the privilege of getting in there. And for Prabhakar as well, this was never easy but he never gave up and kept trying. He did not lose his courage and self-esteem even after being rejected in the previous year. 87% on High School, Olympiad medalist in Physics, a score of 108 in TOEFL, recommendation letter and strong personal essay but he still got rejected in the year 2018. He was not disappointed because he knew that it is tough, competition is tough and he needs to be tougher. And as like Red said that hope can drive a man insane, it drove Prabhakar insane, insane in a positive way. The hope, the hope of getting into the best university in the world MIT. But in this case of Prabhakar Kafle, hope was not the only thing that was involved, his dedication, hard-working, commitment, diligence and positivity were always rooting there.

James Benning's feature-length film can be seen as a series of moving landscape paintings with artistry and scope that might be compared to Claude Monet's series of water-lily paintings. Embracing the concept of "landscape as a function of time," Benning shot his film at 13 different American lakes in identical 10-minute takes. Each is a static composition: a balance of sky and water in each frame with only the very briefest suggestion of human existence. At each lake, Benning prepared a single shot, selected a single camera position and a specific moment. The climate, the weather and the season deliver a level of variation to the film, a unique play of light, despite its singularity of composition. Curators of the Rotterdam Film Festival noted, "The power of the film is that the filmmaker teaches the viewer to look better and learn to distinguish the great varieties in the landscape alongside him. [The list of lakes] alone is enough to encompass a treatise on America and its history. A treatise the film certainly encourages, but emphatically does not take part in." Benning, who studied mathematics and then film at the University of Wisconsin, currently is on the faculty at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).Expanded essay by Scott MacDonald (PDF, 316KB)

Based on the memoir by "Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein about uncovering the Watergate break-in and cover up, "All the President's Men" is a rare example of a best-selling book transformed into a hit film and a cultural phenomenon in its own right. Directed by Alan J. Pakula, the film stars Robert Redford as Woodward and Dustin Hoffman as Bernstein, and features an Oscar-winning performance by Jason Robards as Ben Bradlee. Nominated for numerous awards, it took home an Oscar for best screenplay by William Goldman (known prior to this for "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and after for "The Princess Bride"). Pakula's taut directing plays up the emotional roller coaster of exhilaration, paranoia, self-doubt, and courage, without ignoring the tedium and tireless digging, and elevating it to noble determination.Expanded essay by Mike Canning (PDF, 72KB)

"Groundhog Day" is a clever comedy with a philosophical edge to boot. Bill Murray plays a smug, arrogant weatherman caught in a personal time-warp, who is continuously forced to relive the Punxsutawney, Penn., annual Groundhog Day event. At first Murray revels at being able to act dishonorably without consequences, but he soon grows weary of having to wake up every morning to Sonny and Cher's "I Got You Babe" and facing the same day again and again. The deft, innovative script creatively keeps rearranging and building on each day's events, while at the same time moving Murray's character into self-growth, redemption and personal rebirth. Andie MacDowell's character tells him, "I like to see a man of advancing years throwing caution to the wind. It's inspiring in a way." Murray's character knowingly replies, "My years are not advancing as fast as you might think."Expanded essay by Steve Ginsberg (PDF, 270KB)

Underground filmmaker George Kuchar and his twin brother Mike began making 8mm films as 12-year-old kids in the Bronx, often on their family's apartment rooftop. Before his death in 2011, George created over 200 outlandish low-budget films filled with absurdist melodrama, crazed dialogue and plots, and affection for Hollywood film conventions and genres. A professor at the San Francisco Art Institute, Kuchar documented his directing techniques in the hilarious "I, an Actress" as he encourages an acting student to embellish a melodramatic monologue with increasingly excessive gestures and emotions. Like most of Kuchar's films, "I, an Actress" embodies a "camp" sensibility, defined by the cultural critic Susan Sontag as deriving from an aesthetics that valorizes not beauty but "love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration." Filmmaker John Waters has cited the Kuchars as "my first inspiration" and credited them with giving him "the self-confidence to believe in my own tawdry vision."Expanded essay by Scott Simmon for the National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) (PDF, 292KB)

Pioneering woman filmmaker Alice Guy Blache's deft, ironic short film of a man financially compelled to marry by noon, thanks to some sneaky encouragement from the woman in his life.Expanded essay by Margaret Hennefeld (PDF, 217KB)

Highlighted by Sally Field's Oscar-winning performance, "Norma Rae" is the tale of an unlikely activist. A poorly-educated single mother, Norma Rae Webster works at a Southern textile mill where her attempt to improve working conditions through unionization, though undermined by her factory bosses, ultimately succeeds after her courageous stand on the factory floor wins the support of her co-workers. The film is less a polemical pro-union statement than a treatise about maturation, personal willpower, fairness and the empowerment of women. Directed by Martin Ritt, "Norma Rae" was based on the real-life efforts of Crystal Lee Sutton to unionize the J. P. Stevens Mills in Roanoke Rapids, N.C., which finally agreed to allow union representation one year after the film's release.Expanded essay by Gabriel Miller (PDF, 414KB)

Hard hitting is the character, hard hitting is the film. Martin Scorsese painted a visceral portrait of prizefighter Jake LaMotta, and Robert DeNiro fleshed out that portrait, literally and figuratively. DeNiro famously gained 60 lbs. for the role, donned a prosthetic nose and walked away with an Academy Award. DeNiro adroitly captures the fighter's success in the ring and contrasts it to a personal life full of rage, jealousy, and suspicion which ultimately left LaMotta destitute, alone, and seeking redemption. Scorsese's vision is expertly executed by Thelma Schoonmaker's editing of cinematographer Michael Chapman's footage. Joe Pesci and Cathy Moriarity give Oscar-nominated performances.Expanded essay by Jami Bernard (PDF, 476KB)Movie poster

Director Preston Sturges is quoted as saying that "Sullivan's Travels" came about as "the result of an urge to tell some of my fellow filmwrights that they were getting a little too deep-dish and to leave the preaching to the preachers." Joel McCrea, in one of his most memorable roles, plays a successful Hollywood film director who, having helmed only fluffy comedies, decides to make an important social drama and takes to the open road to experience the seemier side of America for himself. Though initially discouraged by his studio bosses (Robert Warwick and Porter Hall) they scheme to turn Sullivan's odyssey into a publicity stunt. Along the way he meets a disheartened wannabe starlet, Veronica Lake, who's giving up on Hollywod and headed home. From there hilarity -- tempered with romance and pathos-- rules the day. Expanded essay by Julie Grossman (PDF, 397KB)Movie poster 2b1af7f3a8

Shawshank Redemption Courage Essay _VERIFIED_

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