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A Critical Review: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Critical and Review Writing (MCM 202) Uyo Farida Kadiri 201307009 Mass Communication 200 Level   Here is a critical analysis of The Old Man and the Sea (Video) Critical Review: The Old Man and the Sea Here is the text:                            Critical Review:  The Old Man and the Sea Introduction The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway’s most credible works as an author but it was his last before his death in 1961. The book was published by Scribner's in September 1, 1952. It was originally written in 1951 in Cuba, a country in South America.  The book is based in the same place with a plot that unfolds in the late 1940s. 127 pages long, the book focuses on the characters: Santiago, Manolin, the marlin, Joe DiMaggio, Martin and Perico. It won him a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954 and a Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 195...

Bad Apple - A Short Film Production Introduction to Film, Cinema, and Literature MCM 216 A brilliant young girl gets in the wrong crowd and suffers the consequences. Introduction to Film, Cinema, and Literature (MCM 216) Uyo Farida Kadiri 201307009 Mass Communication 200 Level Here is the script: SCENE 1 HOUSE PARTY - NIGHT FELICIA is at a house party with friends BUJU, KUSH, and PENNY. They’re seated on a large couch where three others are drinking and getting high. The place is dark and becoming scanty as they leave to their various homes. As the place becomes empty, BUJU and KUSH mingle with the small crowd remaining and then come back with two other friends. FELICIA: (Yawns) This party is pretty much over. I want to go home. PENNY: (Lays down on FEL’s laps) Same here, girl. BUJU and KUSH come back with two mysterious guys. BUJU: Ayo! Would like you guys to meet my guys FRANCIS and DAVE, y’nahh’m sayin. PENNY: (Looks lustfully at FRANK) H-hi. FRANCIS: (Sits next to...

I Found You by Lisa Jewell  Atria Books, 2016 352 pages I Found You is a mystery, suspense novel with different characters, each with their own story to tell. Alice finds a lost man on the beach when she’s leaving her home and hands him a jacket for the cold. By the time she gets back, he’s still there. He tells her he can’t remember anything so she invites him to stay in her place till he gets his memory back. Her children name him Frank for the time being.   Meanwhile, Lily has been married for weeks, so when her husband doesn’t come home one night, she panics and seeks help from the police. That’s when she finds out the man she thought she married is not who he says he is.

The moon guides it across the sky white light in soft flashes go unnoticed look up to observe the pink blankets in the twilight look and breathe in sounds of crickets shouting at the navy blue. 'Bring back the sun,' they say. The star comes only once, that is all the moon will send.

Their swords were born of the flesh and armour the patience and resilience of thousand storms; brought knives made of fired clay for others to fight but they were not understood. Their mouths spat madness and wisdom their thoughts enemies and their children the unity of fear and acceptance. They dropped their swords and rested drank from cupped hands and washed their faces with mud. People thought they were done so they took their weapons and ran. another war to win, these men, behind closed eyes a victory unbeknown to man tears of joy and tears of confusion. They look weak and dry but their eyes are flaming. Ask a wise man what they did and he will say they did not place a finger on the world nor did it run from them, the world was not worth their time, they fought battles in their minds. If you enter a house to burn it down you will burn with it, become part of the world, then the world has conquered you.

The Ugly Ones Refuse to D ie by Habib Yakoob Spectrum Books, Ltd, 2004 75 pages When Jude, a former politician, returns to Nigeria with his wife after spending six years in the United States, he’s sucked into the political realm he once tried to escape by his old friend, Esam. This happens while Esther, his wife, rambles about her obsession with the idea of living in America and how she hates the fact that they left. This drama depicts the deteriorating democracy of a country due to its political corruption on a lighter side. It focuses on politicians trying to establish their place in political power by any means necessary. These are the ‘Ugly Ones’ as they always re-emerge; turning what is meant to be a democracy upside down. They simply refuse to disappear, like Jude. After looting millions from the country, he still showed up again, refusing to step down for good. It distinguishes between the good and corrupt ones and what convinces them that their way is right. Mo...