Sound of Thunder, A

Sound of Thunder, A (2005) IMDB rating: 4.00 Plot: “A Sound of Thunder” is about a game hunter (Burns) who goes on a time-traveling safari owned and operated by Kingsley’s character to hunt dinosaurs in the prehistoric era. When he kills a butterfly, he unknowingly sets off a chain reaction that will erase humanity from existence. A team of experts must return back in time and replace the butterfly. McCormack is the inventor of the time-traveling computer.

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Inherit the Wind quote analysis please!?
i need a a good descriptive analysis of these quotes please help its for a test!

1. (Pg 17) Hornbeck: "a man who wears a cathedral for a cloak, a church spire for a hat…"
2. (Pg 33) Rachel: "a schoolteacher is a public servant: I think he should do what the law and the school-board want him to. if the superintendent says, ‘Miss Brown, youre to teach formt eh Whitley’s Second Reader," i dont feel i have to give him an agreement."
3. ( Pg 34) Rachel: "Matthew Harrison Brady came here to find himself a stump to shout from. thats all."
4. (Pg 47) Drummond: ‘all i want is to prevent the clock-stoppers from dumping a load of medival nonsense into the United States Constitution."
5. (Pg 51) Drummond: "im sorry if i offended you. but i dont swear just for the hell of it. you see, i figure language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. so we ought to use all the words we’ve got. besides, there are damned few words that everybody understands."
6. (Pg 51-52) Rachel: "can you buy back his respectability by making him a coward? i understand what berts going through. its the lonliest feeling in the world—to find yourslef standing up when everybody else is sitting down. to have everybody look at you and say, ‘Whats the matter with him?’ i know. i know what it feels like. walking down an empty street, listening to the sound of your own footsteps. shutters closed, blinds drawn, doors locked agaisnt you."
7. (Pg 55) Drummond: " the man who has everything figured out is probably a food. college examinations notwithstanding, it takes a very small fella to say, ‘i dont know the answer!’"
8. (Pg 66) Brown: "O lord of the Tempest and the thunder. o lord of righteousness and wrath! we pray that thou wilt make a sign unto us! strike us down this sinner, as thou didst Thine enemies of old, in the days of the Pharoahs! let him feel the terror of Thy sword! for all eternity let his soul writher in anguish and damination—"
9. (Pg 66-67) Brady: " reverend brown i know it is the great zeal of your faith which makes you utter this prayer. bit is it possible to be overzealous to destroy that which you hope to save—so that nothing is left but emptiness. remember the wisdom of Solomon in the Book of proverbs. ‘he that troubleth his own house…shall inherit the wind’"
10. ( Pg 67) Drummond: "all motion is relative perhaps it is you who have moved away—by standing still."
11. (Pg 68) Howard: "well he said at first the earth was too hot for any life. then it cooled off a mite and cells and things begun to live"
12. (Pg 71) Drummond:"im trying to establish your honor that howard or colonel brady or charles darwin or anyone in this courtroom or you sir has the right to think!"
13. (Pg 72) Drummond: "with allrespect to the bench i hold that the right to think is very much on trial! it is fearfully in dnager in the proceedings of the court!"
14. (Pg 91) Drummond: "it frightens me to imagine the state of learning in this world if everyone had you driving curiousity"
15 ( Pg 93) Drummond: "yes! the individual human mind…. (long speech)"
16. (Pg 94) Drummond: " this man wishes to be accorded the same priviliege as a sponge! he wishes to think!"
17. ( Pg 97) Brady: "i mean to state that the day referred to is not necessarily a twenty-four-hour day"
18. (Pg 110) Drummond: " Bert, whenever you see something bright, shining, perfect-seeming—all gold, with purple spots—look behind the paint! and if its a lie—show it up for what it really is!"
19. (Pg 115) Cates: "I was a schoolteacher. i fee; i am…i have been convicted on violation an unjust law. i will continue in the future as I have in the past to oppose this law in any way I can. I—"
20. (Pg 119-120) narration: "As the orator is maneuvered into position he seems almost to be an inanimate object like a huge ornate vase which must be precisly centered on a mantel." AND " Then like a figure in a waxworks, toppling from it pedestal, he falls stiffly, face forward"
21. ( Pg 126) Drummond: "he that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise in heart"

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I don’t think most people on this forum want to do your homework for you so I would suggest you go to cliffnotes and read their summary of ITW and also their quote analysis. It may help you find the answers you want. Good luck!
hickcrazy1 | Feb 03, 2010

Sidewalks of New York – DivX Version (Normal Quality), DVD (Good Quality), PDA Version

Sidewalks of New York (2001) IMDB rating: 6.50 Plot: Six New Yorkers have an interrelated series of relationships. TV producer Tommy, who’s just broken up with his girlfriend, has a short relationship with commitment-phobe Maria, who he meets in a video store, and also hooks up with married real-estate agent Annie, who he meets while apartment hunting. Annie is open to a relationship because her husband, Griffin, is cheating on her, which she slowly comes to realize through talking to her friend/co-worker who’s gone through the same thing. Griffin, a 39-year-old dentist, is cheating with 19-year-old waitress Ashley, who he picked up in a park; she realizes she can do better when Ben, a hotel doorman and aspiring musician, tries to pick her up, in a belated attempt to recover from his divorce a year ago from schoolteacher Maria (the same Maria from the video store). Most of these relationships seem driven more by a desperate need to be in a relationship than actual love.

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What do you think of this poem?
Life was clear as I ran through the green solemn grass,

chasing crickets until I fell into piled autumn leaves,

delightfully tossing them into the air until the soft powdery snow covered my bright red nose.

Now I know the sea calls home his crystal waves to moan

Tragically I had forgotten time’s dishonesty,

Thus I am left here grown, cold and alone.

Memories soon perish away into reminiscence

as my pale face stares out at the busy nighttime streets;

My apartment grows near,

and it’s emptiness is my asylum.

But, for now I remain counting sidewalk squares below poorly lit lampposts which always seem wet,

hopelessly shuffling in my jacket pockets in desperation for a fictional cigarette.

I know I am my own abrader,

this I will not refute.

Too scream into a hallow shell and have its echoes ricochet off your heart is tiresome,

and past recollections only increase its momentum.

The New York streets don’t help my cause,

Such animosity and loathing rattles me with its continuous barrage.

Finally home, tired and sick,

I notice not a tear cascades down my face as I swallow the pills.

Farewell childhood ghosts,

I am your captor no longer, watch me smile until the bottle spills.

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it’s almost too descriptive .. take away some of the imagery. it got kind of repetitive. no offense, but revise it a bit. good luck.

andrea | Oct 09, 2009

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To much imagery. It sounds almost robotic to a point, even though i know the emotion is down there. I liked your 4th line, it was vivid.
Decent poem.
Kate | Oct 09, 2009

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I really like this poem. It seems as if you’re capturing the image of death. Very emotional I must add. Everything is great except that there is no rhythm nor rhyme making it Free Verse. This is not a good impression on critics as they consider it more of prose rather than poetry.

Can I also know why did you write this poem? Could you please answer me on my e-mail: irfan_helmy_95@yahoo.com
Neopian Master | Oct 09, 2009