Shattered Quotes

Kimberly Cheng Film Review for Shattered Glass A. Introduction 1. Give the name of film, producer and the year. Craig Baumgarten, Tove Christensen, Gaye Hirsch, and Adam Merims produced Shattered Glass in 2003. 2. Why did you select this film for your review? I chose this film because I am interested in psychology and social behavior. As a student wanting to switch into a psychological and social behavior major at UC Irvine, I believe that exposing myself to how psychology may be presented in society

Shattered Glass by Billy Ray Have you ever wondered how it would feel to lose your career? Shattered Glass is a true story of a young journalist who fell from grace when it was found he had fabricated over half of his articles. He was a staff writer at The New Republic for three years who rose to meteoric heights as a young writer in Washington, D.C. Looking for a short cut to fame, Glass combined sources, quotes, and even entire stories. He did everything in his power to make sure that everyone

Shattered glass is a film based on a true story. Following Stephen Glass a journalist at The New Republic, caught in a scandal revealing that his stories were made up and untrue. Glass broke journalism ethics, by creating stories. Glass tried to prevent others from catching on in his lie by creating false facts. When his article “Hacked Heaven” was question for its authenticity, he creates a fake website for Jukt Micronics, fake business cards for his supposed sources and even has his brother pose

The film Shattered Glass presents the ethical issues of fabrication and the deception of the writer, Stephen Glass, to his editor and co-workers. He deliberately sensationalized his stories in order to gain his reader’s attention. His facts were partially, if not completely, inaccurate and he presented notes that he fabricated as facts for each of his pieces at the New Republic. Journalists in the media have a duty to the people to report the truth and follow an ethical code whenever reporting stories

1.) What is communication according to you? Discuss various elements of communication and use scenes or aspects from the motion picture to illustrate your view. Communication, by my own means, is a way to for two or more people to interact or influence each other. It is a way of discovering our world without having to travel kilometres or spending millions. Communication is the single most important aspect in our human society, that without it, the chances of survival are finite. There are about

The movie Shattered Glass portrays a young individual writer named Stephen Glass, who is a news writer for the New Republic who made a name for himself from the stories he would write. Stephen had written a story on minibars and drunken antics at a convention, were later getting questioned by one of his fellow workers named Kelly causing him to admit that one of the incidents in the report was not true, but all the rest are reliable and true. Kelly later gets fired after standing up to his boss and

As I watched the movie, I noticed a variety of hints that made me question Glass’ character and I was a little frustrated that the other characters weren’t able to pick up on them. I first sensed that Glass was a little odd when he kept downgrading himself and his own work. This begins when Glass is talking to Gloria and he says that his piece is going “Horrible” and moves into a meeting with Amy and Caitlin where he says that they hate his piece, “it’s the worst thing he’s ever wrote”, and that

Pierre Lacoudre Lacoudre 1 Ms. Wright English I Honors 24 March 2024 Shattered Families in Ragtime Essay The theme of a family being shattered shows up in multiple storylines in Ragtime. Whether it is oppression, poverty, or even jealousy, the hardships of the 19th century can break a family apart. Using many different personalities and complex plots, Doctorow shows the ways in which families are torn apart by social problems, personal choices, and external challenges. This essay shows how

is well-emphasized in the second choral lyric of this play. Lines 632-636 in this tragedy describes what obstacles Pentheus has encountered, since his showdown with Dionysus initially took off. “He razed the palace to the ground where it lies, shattered in utter ruin- his reward for my imprisonment. At that bitter sight, Pentheus dropped his sword, exhausted by the struggle. A man, a man, and nothing more, yet he presumed to wage a war with god.” Euripides boldly uses vivid imagery to express the

Harper Lee uses imagery and onomatopoeia to intensify the mood of terror and suspense as Jem trespassed on the Rradley property. An example of imagery is in paragraph 6, page 71 the text says, and “The shadow stopped about a foot beyond Jem. Its arm came out from its side dropped, and was still. Then it turned and moved across Jem, walked along the porch and off the side of the house, returning as it had come.” This is an example of terror and suspense because the next paragraph says, “Jem leaped

becomes worthless and loses its importance as the story progresses and is shattered at the end, showing how without respect and authority things can lead to savagery. At the beginning of the story, the conch shell signifies the importance of civilization and democracy. As Golding describes in the story, “ I tried to get over that hill to see if there was water all around. But your shell called us” (Golding 23). This quote gestures how the children followed the conch shell as their main source of

The passage given shows us an description of thought about the turning about of Janie’s faith in her love for Jody through the third person. Throughout the book “Their Eyes were Watching God.” there is an oscillation between Standard English and African American Vernacular English that conveys an major theme: the importance of control. The passage given in page 72 is told in Standard Written English and illustrates her lack of control at the moment as it is not told in her native dialect. This absence

home because she would stay at her friends house most of the time. After this Lori moved to New York alone and left home. Soon Jeanette followed Lori’s path and the other two, Brian and Maureen soon did so too. At this point the family had fully shattered just like glass. The family was like a castle because they were strong when they were united and protect one another. They had their troubles but they always stayed together. The mother never divorced the dad even though she had many

gloomy scene. Such instances are part of a constant theme in the book, Meursault being comforted or finding content in the sun. The fact that Camus uses this quote here is to introduce this theme that will be present in the rest of the book. Camus’ ample descriptive style involving the sun in contrast to the short sentences surrounding the quote in this paragraph clearly display the importance of the sun and light in the story. By him even describing the light as beautiful and late-afternoon, the reader

The first quote “War means tears to thousands of mothers eyes when their sons go off to fight and lose their lives” (“War”) shows that war brings destruction, unsettlement and sadness not only to the soldiers themselves that die or get injured, but also to their close friends and family, especially their mothers. It shows that there is not only bloodshed in war on the battlefields, but also that their houses become battlefields in which there is no bloodshed, but rather tearshed. This quote reminds