...CRASH This movie starts with a car crash between two women out of which one was a Hispanic woman, and one was an Asian woman. Immediately they began accusing each other of being bad drivers. My opinion is that they began accusing each other of bad driving because they belonged to two different races and were immigrants in the country. In this movie, there is physical violence, mental torture, or assault/violence almost at regular intervals. The various elements used to make up the whole movie are racism, different religions, portrayal of immigrants trying to make a mark in the country. Instead of showing us the actual reality of racism, it portrays some scenarios that showcase a distorted reality that forces us to look inside ourselves for self inspection. The sound effects used in this movie are creditable. Those effects make it seem as if the audience is a part of the film and is experiencing it as it happens. The story is narrated or rather portrayed as a series of stories. There are several stories running parallel to each other, but despite each story not being related to the other, there is a connection between them. The dialogues in the movie are full of weight as the characters are seen discussing heavy topics like racism, poverty, and the American institution in general. After the Hispanic woman Ria crashes into the Asian woman (I don’t remember her name), and when she asks the police to write the report, she says “Officer, can you please write down in your report...
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...INTO THE WILD 10.09.13 Task 1 The movie focuses on different values of life. That you should be grateful for the things that is right in front of you. And that we as humans, should not take things for granted, and not always choose the easiest way out of situations. That is the reasons for the movie being so likeable, in my opinion. Because of the way the movie is being told, the watchers can almost feel the adrenalin kick Chris gets every time he sees a potential food source. We, who live on this earth, often forget about the beauty we are surrounded with every day. There are so many values in life, but in our daily life we are quickly to forget about them. And this movie really is a reminder. And because of this, I like the movie. We get to see life in an entire different setting. In the movie we clearly see the contrast in which ways different people want to live their life. And some watchers may feel that it is hard for them to comprehend why some of them would choose to live a life without a TV or a cellphone. For me it’s inspirational. Not in a way that it makes me want to go out into the wild and live without money and a reliable food source, but it makes me want to appreciate life even more than I already do. Instead of sitting inside in front of the TV, I should rather be outside, looking at the sunset. When it comes to the acting, it was excellent. We have Chris’ parents who are very focused on living a materialistic life, and then we have the ones Chris...
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...whereas a person with a low level holds negative feelings. Job satisfaction scales vary in the extent to which they assess the affective feelings about the job or the cognitive assessment of the job. Affective job satisfaction is a subjective construct representing an emotional feeling individuals have about their job. Job satisfaction can also be seen within the broader context of the range of issues which affect an individual's experience of work, or their quality of working life. Job satisfaction can be understood in terms of its relationships with other key factors, such as general well-being, stress at work, control at work, home-work interface, and working conditions. When I started thinking about job satisfaction, it is also really important for me. As for a student who had no job experience, I would like to satisfy in my future job. Not only in a job, we need to satisfy in other fields like...
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...Robert Patterson, who starts off as a Cornell University veterinary student and ends as a tired, old, former circus member. A variety of vital themes that were portrayed throughout the novel were incorporated in the movie in both different and similar ways. The circus is a big deal to Jacob Jancowski. It’s where he regained control of his life after his parents died. It’s where he fell in love with an elephant named Rosie, who went on to become his personal pet. And it’s also where he met the love of life, Marlena. For much of Water for Elephants, Jacob is almost painfully old. He can barely walk, it's a struggle to bathe himself, and many of his desires are severely limited. He thinks about fresh fruit with the same longing he used to reserve for sex. And yet at his core, his personality remains unchanged; he's still the same person on the inside. To make sense of this, he retreats into the past, focusing on a time when his inside and outside matched – a time of adventure, wonder, excitement, and drama. It seems like all of those qualities are missing from his current life. Even though Jacob has aged, his desire for excitement and wonder has remained. And through his decision to return to the circus, we know he's still got that gumption he always had. In the movie, Lawrence chooses to share Jacob Jancowski’s story through flashback method. Jacob is at the circus meeting with a current employee of the Benzini Brother’s when he shares his memories of the circus. However, in the...
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...Not only is this movie a good movie and an interesting mystery to watch. But I can also connect what I’ve learned in sacred geometry to this movie in many aspects. One of the first examples of something I connected to our class, sacred geometry, was the shape of the museum that the dead body was found. The building that the body was found in was the Louvre museum. The Louvre museum is located in Paris, France and was established in 1793. In front of the actual museum there is something that is known as the Louvre pyramid. The Louvre pyramid is a large glass and metal pyramid surrounded by three smaller pyramids. The large pyramid serves as the entrance to the Louvre museum and was opened in 1989. The reason that I can connect this to our course in sacred geometry is the actually structure of the pyramid. There are many small triangles on it, which are also known as the triad. The triad is a three-sided shape and also is known as the first and oldest number. Also this is a pyramid and has many pyramids throughout it. The pyramid is something that we talked about in class to as one of the Zimmer 2 platonic solid. But the pyramid is known as the tetrahedron when we talked about the platonic solids. Another aspect sacred geography that is found in this pyramid is also known as the Sierpinski triangle. The sierpinski triangle is when there is triangle inside of triangles, and then inside those triangles there are more triangles. So this was the first thing that I saw...
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...military tribunal. As the trial unfolds, Aiken realized his client may be innocent and that she is being used as bait and prisoner in order to capture her son, the only conspirator that had escaped a manhunt. He later turned himself in after his mom was executed. The Conspirator had a few scenes that were not accurate. Overall, this movie is historically accurate because after John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln, he was taken to a house across the street from the theater to be cared for, four of the captured conspirators were executed by hanging, and the trial by military tribunal was deemed unconstitutional. On the late evening of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth snuck into the viewing box where President Abraham Lincoln and others watched a play at Ford’s Theater. Booth shot Lincoln in the back of the head at a close range. The President was moved across the street to a gentleman’s home where he was pronounced dead the following morning. According to Lincoln’s family physician, Dr. Robert King Stone in a statement he had made during the trial, “I was sent for by Mrs. Lincoln immediately after the assassination. I arrived there in a very few moments. . . . [I] found that the President had been removed from the...
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...Robert Graham Erin Cooley Engl 101-10 12 October 2012 Why Die First? How many times have you watched a horror movie and laughed at the first person who dies simply because they did something stupid? As a self-proclaimed horror movie aficionado, I too have pondered upon this. As such, I am here to give you a few pointers and a sort of checklist of things to avoid so that you can protect yourself if you ever manage to be cast as an extra in a horror movie. Hopefully these pointers will help you to stay on screen longer and maybe even get noticed. As crazy as this may sound, the first step to avoid being the first to die in a horror movie would be to read the script. If you are reading for a specific part and you realize during your perusal of the screenplay that your character is the first to die, ask for a different part. While reading, pay close attention to the names given the characters. If the name of your character looks something like “man #1 or woman #1”, there is a high probability that you will die within the first five minutes of the movie. After successfully landing an acting job in a horror movie, you will likely have a few rehearsal sessions. While you are doing rehearsals and practicing your lines, make friends with the largest, slowest person who is not playing the killer. The primary reason for this is simple. Any scene where someone is going to die you are almost assured of being able to outrun this person and they will likely die before you. So now...
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...400 Blows by François Truffaut The movie 400 Blows, a film that was created over 50 years ago is as modern and extraordinary as any film presently released today. It was made during the French New Wave timeframe which was a completely different style compared to many other films during that period of time and honestly was similar to most of the “Hollywood” movies that I am used to in this country. This new wave of films fundamentally surrounded itself by creating a feel of real life and personality on the screen that would captivate its viewers, and the movie 400 Blows did everything and more than I expected. This movie exclusively left out a realizable plot, but there is one thing that it did not do. It kept the life that Francois Truffaut was telling as real and as close to authentic as he possibly could. It was shot in first person singular which allows the viewer to imagine exactly what is going on inside the head of the protagonist, in this case Antoine Doinel. We as viewers, are able to follow the childhood of young Antoine as he constantly gets into trouble and ultimately how he deals with living with an uncaring and very difficult family in Paris during his adolescent years. It’s very easy to become captivated with the dialogue and acting within this picture because at certain points you feel the characters emotions and daily struggles as if they were your own. During the time of watching this movie I immediately felt like I was sitting in the classroom with Antoine...
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...“So perhaps I am writing a transposed autobiography; perhaps I now live in one of the houses I have brought into the fiction; perhaps Charles is myself in disguise. Perhaps it is only a game. Modern women like Sarah exist, and I have never understood them. Or perhaps I am trying to pass off a concealed book of essays on you.” (p. 80). As a reader, in this point in the novel, I get thoroughly confused and do not know where I stand, much less where I am headed. I realize that there is an inside and outside of the novel, the inside being a world of a story itself and the outside being the space made known to us by the narrator. After this turning point in the novel and now looking back, this quote gives a brilliant over view of the book. Fowles does a wonderful job of unraveling and expanding your imagination to other things and makes the novel seem a lot more than just any other book. There are a vast variety of themes in the French Lieutenant’s Woman, especially the relationships of the characters. One of the most challenging things as a couple for Charles Smithson and Sarah Woodruff is just the relationship at itself, the relationship answers to the desires of both of them for a life lived outside and in defiance of the rules. Charles is a scholarly and independent man, the superior of the social classes, he is rather confused and fascinated by the mystery Sarah portrays. He is intrigued by the shallowness and signs of weakness shown by Sarah. Charles is starting a habitual...
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...Name: Nicholas L Bomber Date: 11/10/14 IRN# 9008827577 Approved Essay Title: History of American Television or Motion Picture Subtopic 1): historical development of the medium Description of the concrete Experience: I have lived with the television and watched it since I was very young. I can attest to the fact that it is has been the greatest and most influential invention of the 20th century with the exception of the internet. My parents have been changing the television sets since they bought the first one in the 1970’s. Its development has really played a great role in most people lives. The quality of what is being aired on the television has really developed since the medium was introduced in the society. I always see the television as a good source of the most broadly-shared images and messages of the history. Advancement in technology has really transformed the ways of communication. Last month I asked my grandmother what it was like growing up without the television. She told me how they used to tell each other stories since it was the only way of keeping them busy on their free time. She also told me that they had messengers who used to deliver messages to the different communities. Introduction of the television has really changed this for the better. Viewing time and saturation has increased over the years. The television mass rituals have also become very strong and show no signs of weakening its hold. There have been introduction of new types of delivery...
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...Analyzing Literary Terms Within Stories Many authors use their own type of writing skills to make their stories flow nicely and to keep the reader entertained. There are so many different literary terms out there that help a story to flow so much better. Some of the things I like to see while reading a story are similes, metaphors and imagery. I like to see these certain styles of writing, because you can compare just about any two things and make the story that much more interesting. When an author utilizes those specific styles of writing, it can give excellent detail to create images inside the reader’s heads while they read. I consider myself a visual reader, and when the text is dull or boring, it is like the words are going in one ear, and out of the other. So, I particularly enjoyed Alice Walkers “The Welcome Table”, because of the authors vivid use of words and comparisons that helped me to envision what I am reading as if it were a movie in my mind. In Alice Walkers “The Welcome Table” she uses a great number of literary terms. The terms that were used engaged me in the story and helped to keep me interested while reading about the elderly woman in the story. The way she described certain things kept me wanting to read more. The author uses such great comparisons to describe how the old lady looks, and walks. One literary term that the author utilized is imagery. Imagery is “a distinct representation of something that can be experienced and understood through the...
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...“We are all ordinary people but even an ordinary person can within their own small ways turn on a small light in a dark room.” Miep Gies A Brief Summary of the movie Freedom Writers Freedom Writers is a 1990s film which tells the story of Erin Gruwell, a novice teacher and her interaction with a group of students at Wilson High School, located in Long Beach Los Angeles. Through shared experiences and writing she helps the students to become writers themselves. In the beginning of the film, Ms. G, as she was called by her students, had difficulty establishing a connection with her students and turns to her father and husband for support. Her offers guidance, but not the support she seeks. Her husband distances himself from her work and eventually their relationship. Ms. G in turn, dedicates herself to teaching her students, leaving little time for nothing else. She takes on part-time jobs to buy books for the students and spends late nights working in the classroom. The Head of Department and the faculty at large contributes little to helping Erin in the classroom. They offer advice based on institutional standards and past performance of the students, some staff suggesting that the students simply “don’t want to learn.” At the center of the film, lie the stories of the students. The students are skeptical of Ms. G and her interest in their lives. Initially, they resist her attempts and refuse to cross the self-inflicted boundaries they have designated...
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...Movie Review on Serendipity Walking into this movie I had expected to like it. I am a sucker for clichés. Cliché romantic tropes, and anything that has to do with things of that sort such as fate, and love. Things like 27 dresses, dirty dancing, and the notebook are a few examples of romances I’ve been automatically drawn to because it contained those aspects in it. As a hopeless romantic sap, I can’t turn away from these movies no matter how bad. And they do get bad sometimes they are almost always disappointing. The movies that tend to have these aspects in them tend to be awful, and extremely predictable. But I still fall for it every time. Because what is more heartwarming than a couple brought together by fate when they were separated to never see each other again? Love causing people to crash into each other, over and over again like the waves do when reaching out to the beach sand. That’s Romantic, and I can’t keep my hands off of it. In this movie the two Jonathan Trager (John Cusack), and Sarah Thomas (Kate Beckinsale) meet in a Burlington store looking for gifts for their significant others but when they both go to grab the same pair of gloves they end up face to face with each other. From then on they connect, and a short romantic sequence starts with them at a café called serendipity, and at ice skating bonding, and getting close. It’s a sort of instant love connection that they begin to form within a few ours that both began to feel confused about it...
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...Ma. Bernadette B. Valdez Airline Operations BSTM III-3D Ms. Luzviminda Tugade AIR FORCE ONE The movie air force one revolves around a country president who would put his life on the line for the sake of his family and the people working for him. I am not actually a fan of an action packed thriller movie but this one really caught my interest. The plot was somehow suspenseful and some scenes were truly tense which made it breathtaking and more exciting to watch. Harrison Ford as the USA president was really convincing, believable and very realistic. His average joe personality made him a very credible president. It made me think if there was a president of any country that acts like him nowadays. On the other hand, the hijacking scene seems impossible to do. Although the security was really tight when it comes to protect the leader of the country, a bunch of terrorists were able to get on the president’s plane but the film manage to do it more realistically and shockingly than I expected. Aside from the heroic deed of the president, I appreciate the Russian terrorist’s intentions of making an extreme commotion just to get their leader free from the prison. They would do anything to save their leader even if it meant war. I was also surprised with the scene where the president was rushed down to the escape pod but as a wise leader, he managed to escape from the escape pod and stayed on the plane to knock off all the terrorists and save everyone on the plane...
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...O’Bartman October 2013 Limitless (2011) Director: Neil Burger (The Illusionist c.2006) applied quite a lot of flair and flamboyance in this movie; making it fast-paced edge-of-your-seat scenes especially on the early part of the movie. Likewise I am impressed with his use of visual effects (i.e. fish-eye vision) to portray Eddie Morra’s (Bradley Cooper) flawless vision. The Cast: Bradley Cooper, who happens to be one of the executive producers of the film as well; portrayed the role quite convincingly. I believe he is beginning to transform into a better actor taking on numerous characters. Robert De Niro, a veteran in the movie business; as always impressively rendered his character in a natural way. Characters: Eddie Morra (Cooper), a plausible character and sometimes you can see yourself in him; possessing this potential inside you but you just can’t unleash it to become a reality. Carl Van Loon (De Niro), a business tycoon; not so credible with regards to him being a bit of naïve in a world of dog-eat-dog kind of environment. Genre: This is a Sci-Fi Thriller film rated 15A here in Ireland, while PG-13 in the U.S. Plot: During the early and middle part of the movie you can witness some suspenseful scenes (chase along the ice skating rink in Trump Plaza, New York). But then it loses its momentum on the latter section. And as it is from Hollywood, in my opinion, is somewhat unrealistic on the part that those antagonists can break-in quite...
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