Directed by Tommy O'HaverStarring Ellen Page, Catherine KeenerRated R92min.Have you ever heard of the bystander effect? The bystander effect is a phenomenon that help does not come when bystanders are just watching a situation unfold. It is often referred to as genovese syndrome. This effect is easy to occur when many people are involved in any accident. We call it diffusion of responsibility. When many people are involved in an accident, they think that their responsibility can be given to other person, and so they believe that ‘another person will do that.’ There is a movie in which a girl d
Written by Yoo Yeong-manGenre: Self-Development BookPublished in December 2009261 pagesIf someone asks a child, “What do you want to be?,” the child might talk about his or her dream. However, if the same question is given to a university student, most of them may hesitate to answer. These days, university students are pretty busy preparing to seek for their jobs, and building themselves through exams and other kinds of work. Here, the Gazette selected a book which can motivate them. The book's title is Youth Management.The author, Yoo Yeong-man, graduated from a technical high school and suff
Directed by Damien O’DonnellStarring James McAvoy, Steven RobertsonRated NR104min.There are many physically disabled people in the world, and we can see them easily. We can see this through a road made for people using a wheelchair and restrooms made for physically disabled people. However, have you ever imagined being in their shoes? There is a movie that can help us to think about the inconveniences and injustices that physically disabled people endure. It’s called Inside I’m Dancing. In the movie, there are two men. One is Michael Connolly, who suffered from polio and has a speech impedimen
Have you heard of the American dream? The American dream is a dream of immigrants to the US. Many immigrants there believe in the American dream, but, in reality, can it come true?In this story, the main character, Hance, was born in the Netherlands. When he entered university, he went to London, and met Rachel in England. They got married and had a son, Jack. They also dreamed of the American dream like many other couples. His wife, Rachel, was smart and a famous lawyer, and a mother who loved her son very much. She wanted to open her own law firm and educate their son in the US. So, they dec
If we say Wall-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) is an animation movie, but Wall-E does not really feel like an animation movie, many people will say, “What are you talking about?” Then, how do you feel when you hear words like ‘robots’ or ‘plants’? Do you think they are interrelated? When I first saw Wall-E , I checked the cover of the DVD and I was surprised. Initially, I thought that it was made for children, but later I found it nevertheless contains many important messages. When you see the movie poster, you will notice that Wall-E is a machine. However, when you watch the movi
The main character in Desert Flower is Waris Dirie, and ‘Waris’ means a desert flower. Such flowers can bloom even in the toughest of climates. Waris Dirie was also able grow strongly through her bravery. She published this book about her childhood and her present life. This book includes Waris Dirie’s life story and especially talks about a longstanding convention in Somalia in Africa - female circumcision. Have you ever heard about this? It is often called FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) and it still happens in twenty eight countries in Africa. According to an estimation done by the United N
Do you have any dream? If so, what do you dream of and what do you try to do to realize your dream? Or do you know the equation R=VD? It has as much power as Einstein's E=MC2, and has its own inner meaning, which is that the dream we vividly imagine can be realized. The Dreaming Garret shows this through successful people who dreamed of their ambitions with those kinds of formula and how they used those formulas in their lives. There are many kinds of techniques such as picture, location, speaking or writing in putting those formulas into practice in life. First of all, the basic technique of
Have you ever read any of Jane Austen‘s works? She was a famous female English writer and wrote Pride & Prejudice, Persuasion and Sense and Sensibility. She usually wrote about ordinary people's lives at the early period of her writing through her modernistic styles. Jane Austen was single for life and her books are usually full of quiet humor. From the 20th century, her works started to get higher appraisal than when she lived. She usually examined the social life of the higher classes, and marriage, and portrayed them very vividly in her works. Becoming Jane belongs to the genre of romance,