Balance: Right and Wrong Actions

In my contemporary world class we are watching the movie Saving Private Ryan. The film’s perspective on right and wrong differentiated between characters. In this article I am going to explain the benefits and drawbacks and the morality of the characters choices. Instead of naming and going through each character I am going to do an ‘in general’ article. This may get confusing so I am going to divide it into sections.

Part 1: The Bad Kind of Good
Army regulations state that after the enemy has surrendered he or she is to be kept alive (without deliberate death). During the attack of Normandy (as per the movie) many German soldiers surrendered, but were still killed out of the troops anger towards them. Perhaps the troops thought they were doing good by ridding the world of Germans and at that exact moment many people would have agreed with them. Looking back now without such a strong sense of the danger the Germans we can see that what the troops did was wrong.

Every Disney Princess Is Related (More or Less)

One of my favorite conspiracy theories is the Disney princess theory. I’ve basically taken the Frozen-Tangled theory and put it on steroids. Since there are way too many Disney princesses for me to explain all of their connections to each other I just gonna keep going until my hands want to fall off my arms.

#1. Anna is related to Elsa (duh!). The movie Frozen directly states this.
-Elsa is adopted which is why she looks nothing like her dark-haired relatives
#2. Anna is related to Rapunzel because they’re mothers are sisters.
-Similar facial and body features (ex. eyes).
#3. Elsa is Cinderella’s grand daughter, (she got her powers from her mother’s story) she has her grandmother’s hair and eyes and her mother’s pale skin.

Now to a different section (2) (we’ll link them back again later)
#4. Ariel’s mother is Merida. After leaving Atlantica as a teen, Merida is taken in by the clan and after fighting for her freedom realizes she still isn’t free on land.
-Merida’s three brothers are the first of a long line of boys
#5. Merida’s brothers are the oldest of Hans’ brothers (Hans is Merida’s younger brother)
-Scotland is an island that south of Norway (where Arendelle is) and Prince Hans is “of the Southern Iles)
#6. Hans’ youngest brother leaves to explore and ends up poor because of his lack of finances.

Section 3
#7. Hans and Merida’s youngest brother, Aladdin, finds himself in Agrabah and meets a beautiful girl named Jasmine whom he falls in love with and marries.
-Jasmine’s daughter is very adventurous, she runs away from home to the east.
#8. Jasmine’s daughter falls in love with a Chinese man named (Fa) and has a beautiful daughter whom she names Mulan.
-Still just as adventurous as her ancestors, Mulan ends up saving all of China, and in the process loses her child who floats away in a basket. Only to be later found by an Indian chief, who is crossing the Bering Straight.
#9. The Indian chief raises the girl as his own and after numerous generations, a daughter by the name of Pocahontas comes along.

Section 4
#10. Princess Aurora has a beautiful son whom she names John.
-John wants to find new land and for his mother goes on an expedition with a mean old fat guy and his dog Percy.
#11. John meets a beautiful native girl who he falls in love with, but must leave behind.
– After returning home John realizes he must follow his heart, but it is too late.
#12. John’s lost love Pocahontas is tormented by her loss and tries to cross the ocean to find John.
– She fails and ends up in New Orleans.
#13. Pocahontas has a daughter with a poor black man and names her Tatianna.

Section 5
#14. The black magic used on Tatianna and her husband,catches up with them and makes them change and they leave New Orleans to hide.
-They colonize Atlantis.
#15. Tatianna’s descendants have evolved to fit Atlantis’ climat better. Her (many greats) great-grand daughter, Kida still has that curious gene.
#16. Atlantis’ gems were brought to them by strange men who mined gems for a living… Dwarfs, maybe?

Section 6
#17. Belle has a beautiful dark haired daughter, but the witch from the Beast’s past comes back to exact revenge.
-The witch locks Belle’s daughter away in a tower
#18. Drusilla (Cinderella’s stepsister) married the Prince after Cindy’s unfortunate passing.
– Drusilla passes quickly and Lady Tremaine is left to tend to Cinderella and the Prince’s daughter.
#19. Snow White is kept away from the world by Lady Tremaine to keep her unhappy.

Final Section

o Snow White runs away with her Prince, but can’t deal with her daughter’s magic and gives her to a lonely King and Queen who live in Arendelle with their infant, Anna.
o Kida meets Milo, an English man who has a numerous number of great-great grandfathers by the name of John
o After Atlantis is submerged completely it becomes inhabited by mer-people and becomes Altantica

Hopefully I made this clear enough… And if I forgot a princess let me know… But I tried my best and you have to admit this level of depth is pretty impressive for some random blogger.

Peace Out, Courtney

The Green Mile- Review

*SPOILER ALERT*

Basic Information:

Director: Frank Darabont

Writers: Stephen King (novel), Frank Darabont (screenplay)

Stars: Tom Hanks (Paul Edgecomb), Michael Clarke Duncan (John Coffey), David Morse (Brutus ‘Brutal’ Howell)

Released: 1999

Nominations & Awards

People’s Choice Award for Favorite Movie (2001)

People’s Choice Award for Favorite Drama (2001)

Critic’s Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actor (Michael Clarke Duncan) (2000)

BFCA Critic’s Choice Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (Frank Darabont) (2000)

Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actor (Tome Hanks) (2000)

Summary: The Green Mile is a movie about the relationship formed between a death row prisoner and the head guard. The prisoner, John Coffey, looks like what can only be described as a ginormous brick wall. He was sentenced to death row because of accusations that he killed two young girls (although we later find out that this accusation was false). John is no ordinary prisoner though. He has a gift believed to be bestowed upon him from God. This gift is discovered by Paul Edgecomb, the head officer of E-Block, who after having trouble urinating and controlling his… him… the… uhm… hmm… genitals? Yeah, his genitals gets help from John. John’s ability allows him to absorb other people’s pain and dispel it back into the world away from its original proprietor, not without some suffering on his part.

After discovering his ability, Paul decides to get John to help his boss’s wife, Melinda, who is suffering from a deadly brain tumor. After taking away Melinda’s illness, John Coffey holds onto it until returning to the mile and then passing it on to Percy. Percy is a small man with a boisterous and cocky attitude, he is dangerous and rude, but is always terrified of where he is (he is also a guard).

After learning about John’s ability, I believed he was innocent because of the likeliness that he was trying to save the girls not hurt them. In the end John couldn’t be saved, but he lived on in the hearts of those he saved.

My Opinion

I enjoyed this film. I have to admit I am a sucker for happy endings and although this one wasn’t happy, it suited the film perfectly and made you forget about wanting or even needing a happy ending. The acting was tremendous because when watching the film I was able to feel the character’s emotions without thinking about the fact that they were actors. I also enjoyed how the majority of scenes took place on the same set. It can be difficult to make a movie interesting without continuous changing of the scenery.

Overall I would give this movie a B+ to A- or an 85-90 average or 4.5 stars

Forrest Gump- KKK Association

So if you have seen the movie Forrest Gump, you know that it is all about the life of this man, Forrest, who was involved in numerous historical events. Supposedly, as a child Forrest met Elvis Presley and taught himbhow to jutt out his hips (which later became his signature move). He, in the movie, was involved in more than 30 historical events. One of which was the KKK (Klu Klux Klan). Although not directly affiliated with the group, Forrest was named after Nathan Bedford Forrest. Bedford was a “Grand Wizard” of the KKK which is a high rank in their forces (in you can call them that).

To break them down in a single sentence I would say the following; They were a Christian-American extremist group who killed African-Americans because they were ‘Satanic beings that did not deserve to walk on His land’. Below is some of the basic information about the Klu Klux Klan.

Basic Information about the KKK:

1st Klan	1865–1870s
2nd Klan	1915–1944
3rd Klan	1946–present
Members
1st Klan	unknown
2nd Klan	3,000,000–6,000,000 (peaked in 1920–25)
3rd Klan	5,000-8,000
Properties
Origin	United States of America
Political ideology	1st Klan: White supremacy Vigilantism Christian terrorism 2nd Klan: White nationalism Nativism Anti-Catholicism Anti-Semitism 3rd Klan: Anti-communism Anti-Semitism Homophobia Neo-Nazism Anti-miscegenation White supremacy
Political position	Far-right
Religion	Protestantism