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Hugo - Movie Review

Hugo – Movie Review

[Part of the “Movie Review” series]

WARNING: This post contains spoilers for Hugo

Simply put, Martin Scorsese couldn’t have directed Hugo any better. Judging by the marketing material alone, I didn’t think that this movie would be very good. But after just watching the opening sequence, I was intrigued to see what the writer had in store for me. Somehow, Scorsese made a movie that I wouldn’t have…

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Quick Thought - Speed Limits

Quick Thought – Speed Limits

(This topic is written in the context of the United States.)

There has to be some kind of limit to how fast one can drive on a roadway. Otherwise, many drivers would go as fast as they could, without any regard to what is safe or unsafe. Abolishing speed limits would do much more harm than good. However, speed limits are not the ultimate solution. Speed limits attempt to answer a common question;…

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Wait Until Dark - Movie Review

Wait Until Dark – Movie Review

[Part of the “Movie Review” series]

WARNING: This post contains spoilers for Wait Until Dark

According to IMDb, Wait Until Dark is a “thriller”, although perhaps a more accurate description would be “mystery”, despite the fact that we the viewers already know who did what. The director, Terence Young, manages to tell the story in a suspenseful way, even though the audience already knows what the…

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Meta > Series – Movie Reviews

Meta > Series – Movie Reviews

Hello readers! This week will be the first in a series of movie reviews.

You can leave suggestions in the comments, but I probably won’t get to review them. Have a great summer!

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Geography and World War III

Geography and World War III

Almost immediately after the end of World War II, the Cold War began. From 1947 to 1991, fear of a nuclear war held the world in a tight grip, keeping the United States and the Soviet Union in a tense tango. So far, this is the closest World War III has ever come, but the supposed end of the Cold War doesn’t mean the crisis has been averted.

One major start to the Cold War was the Soviet Union’s…

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The YouTube Adpocalypse

On March 17, 2017, Google U.K. made a post on their blog stating that Google would take measures to “prohibit ads from appearing on pages or videos with hate speech, gory or offensive content”. This was in response to more than 250 major companies pulling their advertisements from Google. While Google’s plan sounds good in theory, it is disastrous in practice.

Since this policy change, Google has…

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Common Sense, Not Common Core

Common Sense, Not Common Core

(This post is about the United States, and particularly Southern California. The observations noted in this post may not apply to other regions.)

Back in 2010, the Common Core State Standards Initiative published the final version of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), a new and standardized approach at teaching math and English. Before the standards, some argued that education varied widely…

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Future of Windows 10 Mobile

Future of Windows 10 Mobile

Back in 2016, Microsoft released Windows 10 as a free upgrade to Windows 7 and 8. This new version of Windows brought many changes, and while analyzing every change is well beyond the scope of this post, many of these changes have greatly affected what many consider to be one of Microsoft’s greatest failures.

History of Windows Mobile

[If you’re not interested in this part, feel free to skip to…

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Mediums and their Content

Mediums and their Content

As explained in Bias of Medium, how a medium works has a direct impact on what kind of content is made for it. Each medium has different content, but one medium is distinctly different from the others. This is because of the way we are extending our logic to other mediums, and it is a fallacy that can be solved easily.

Arguably the oldest form of medium, speech is sound-based. This means that, at…

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Blame America for the Cold War

Blame America for the Cold War

(The topics in this post are written roughly 25 years after the events of the Cold War by a person raised and taught in the United States. If you see an inaccuracy, leave a comment. There is another post about how the Soviet Union started the war.)

War between large nations has never been viewed quite the same as it had before World War II. In 1945, the United States of America became the first…

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Blame Russia for the Cold War

Blame Russia for the Cold War

(The topics in this post are written roughly 25 years after the events of the Cold War by a person raised and taught in the United States. If you see an inaccuracy, leave a comment. There will also be another post about how the U.S. started the war.)

The Cold War, often seen as the prominent war of the 1980s, arguably changed how the United States (and possibly Russia) viewed war. The atomic…

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A Look at Cold War Poems

A Look at Cold War Poems

This is an analysis of two poems written during the Cold War. During the war, the threat of global nuclear warfare loomed over Americans and Soviets alike. The two poems I will be taking a look at are “They are hostile nations” by Margaret Atwood and “Under a Certain Little Star” by Wislawa Szymborska.

They Are Hostile Nations

In “They are hostile nations”, the speaker is trying to convince her…

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Democratic Rule

The United States of America is a democratic republic. The “democratic” part comes from the fact that citizens vote on laws and various other political items. The “republic” part is because citizens vote in leaders, such as their representatives and president, into office. However, a “choose one only” vote is not a good idea. When the population is almost perfectly divided on a topic, one side…

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Booting Artificial Intelligence

Ever since algorithms were first used, people have been trying to make inanimate objects do everything that humans can do. Currently the most notable well-known example of such an object is a simple computer. Everything from cheap one-dollar calculators to several thousand-dollar gaming PCs contain what could very well spell out the end of humanity as the dominant self-aware anomaly; the computer…

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Rule by Corporation

(In this post, “people” refers to residents of the United States. The topics in this post are written in the context of the United States.)

The United States has a capitalist economy. By definition, this means that the U.S. allows a free and open market, relying on a balance of supply and demand as regulation. While this idea could work, it has quite a large hole in its implementation. Capitalis…

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Bias of Medium

Today’s society is built on the internet. In fact, only one recent issue has put many Americans on the same side, regardless of race, gender, religion, or even party; the protection of our digital freedom, net neutrality. This shows how integral the internet is to our “modern” society. But although the internet is arguably the most useful resource since physical libraries, considering its arsenal…

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Propaganda: Civil War

(The topics in this post are written in the context of the United States. “Civil War” refers to the American Civil War.)

We have all seen advertisements. Someone is always trying to get us to buy their product or service. This comes directly from our capitalist economy; because there is competition, those that want to sell something have to get the word out and convince the consumers that their…