...plagiarized. This free service will also let you know what percentage of your paper has been cited. I hope that these tools will assist you throughout your education. Throughout your paper, you will see feedback from WritePointSM highlighted in blue while my specific comments are highlighted in yellow. Please let me know if you have questions! Dark Knight (Include a header) The Dark Knight Andy Axia Student COM/156 April 15, 2010 Axia Faculty [Please make sure to apply double spacing to follow APA guidelines] The Dark Knight was the most popular film of 2008. [Stating it was the most popular film of 2008 is a big statement that needs supporting documentation. Also be sure to indent the first line of each paragraph] Unlike most popular summer movies it was also considered to be a quality film and was thought to be a contender to earn an academy award nomination. Ultimately that honor was not bestowed on the film, but it’s [Contractions should not be used in academic writing. Also in this case “its” rather than “it’s” should have been used. It’s = it is, while its is possessive.] popularity and [Insert a comma before "and" if the following (1) is the last in a series of more than two, OR (2) it begins a new clause (could be a sentence by itself)] ability to elevate the comic book film, which is rarely associated with quality...
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...The Caped Crusader, the Worldʼs Greatest Detective, the Dark Knight, defender of the innocent, crusader for justice, and defender of Gotham City. Now that sounds like a real superhero and someone to look up to. Playboy, Spare Parts Man, alcoholic; does that sound like someone youʼd call a hero? Batman and Iron Man are very different kinds of heroes, but the men behind the masks seem to be very similar on the surface. While Batman has a very strict moral code and refrains from killing anyone when he can, Iron Man has no qualms about killing. Both Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark are billionaires, both seem to be good with the ladies, and both are extremely intelligent. Neither have any real “super-powers,” but both used their intellect to make themselves into heroes. Bruce Wayne outside of his suit could hold his own in a fight with his martial arts background. Tony Stark, on the other hand, seems to have no desire to better himself in hand-to-hand combat. As a child, Bruce witnessed his parents being murdered and swore to keep the city safe. While being held hostage by a group of terrorists, Tony makes the Iron Man suit purely to save himself. After these life changing experiences, both take to the vigilante life but for different reasons: Bruce to protect citizens so that no one else would have to feel the pain he felt, and Tony for the recognition and fame. Letʼs talk about motivation. Batman began because a little boy was left devastated and traumatized. Bruce Wayne was orphaned as...
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...film techniques to describe the segregated societies as different, sync with a bond and how destructive the societies are. In the film Upside Down the two societies, up or down are viewed upon differently. In the beginning of the film the screen goes from darkness to light when describing the science behind the gravities of the two worlds. This is the first initiation that emphasizes the difference between the two worlds. It highlights the separation of the two worlds through their gravities. In a wide-angle shot scene you can see both worlds in the shot, one of them being the light world and the other one is dark. The light world has an elite and aristocratic look to it, which suggest it is the upper class world. On the other had the dark said looks run down and has a other half look that suggest it is the poor world. The idea of the wide-angle shot with the light and dark worlds pushes this view of two different worlds that share the same atmosphere. In the film Upside Down these two worlds, which are different any many ways, just so happen to share a bond within the film. In a wide-angle shot of the two worlds there is a corporation that links both worlds to each other. The worlds share this one thing in common and that is the corporation known as trans world. Trans world is the only means of communication with the upper world. Juan Solanas also takes to use in the film, the two shot technique at the end of the movie when Adam and Eden are both kissing. This shows how...
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...Ruben Baez Professor Ward English Comp. 3/28/15 The Dark Knight Compare and Contrast Essay In the movie The Dark Knight we have Bruce Wayne (Batman) which is basically the hero of Gotham City. With every hero of course there has to be a villain also. The villain of Gotham City is in fact the Joker. I believe Batman and the Joker are one of the best hero villain combos out there, they go together perfectly and their both fit for each other, it wouldn’t be the same if the joker wasn’t around and if batman wasn’t around with the joker. On the other hand though they are far different from each other they have many different qualities, different things that motivate them to do what they do, and their personality and what approaches they make towards things. So in this case I’ll be talking about the similarities and the differences of both the Batman and the Joker in the Dark Knight movie. Batman’s character in the movie is obviously more the hero type, he is serious about protecting his city from crime, he covers his true identity but in reality his obviously a very wealthy person which allows him to have the things he owns like his powerful suit, his indestructible car, and all the gadgets he uses while his fighting crime. The joker on the other hand in my eyes is the perfect villain, his a complete psychopath in the movie, he dresses like a clown and wears make up to make him look a bit disturbing, he had a rough past, his a pyromaniac, he has no cares in the world, and he...
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...The Batman Behind the Mask Greetings! Are you here for your meeting with Master Wayne? Unfortunately he is occupied at the moment, so please take a seat and relax. Oh goodness, where are my manners. Would you care for anything to eat or drink? No? Then welcome to the gorgeous Wayne Manor, home of the one and only Bruce Wayne. I am Alfred Thaddeus Crane Pennyworth, the valet of Wayne Manor, but you may just call me Alfred (“Alfred Pennyworth”). After a valiant career as an intelligence agent, I was employed at Wayne Manor after poor Thomas and Martha Wayne were brutally murdered, which was seen by young Bruce. “ Thomas and Martha were walking home from the Monarch Theater one night with their son, when they were held at gunpoint by a mugger who demanded the pearl necklace that Martha was wearing. When Dr. Wayne refused to surrender it, both he and Martha were shot dead in the streets” (“Batman – Bruce Wayne”). From here, young Bruce made an oath to protect the city of Gotham, traveling the world to train himself physically and mentally. Now, let me tell you about the “real” Batman; the one behind the mask. After his parents’ death, Bruce began to travel the world at the age of fourteen, not to see the beauty in the world, but to train himself into physical and mental perfection. During this time, Bruce “[learned] and variety of crime-fighting skills, including chemistry, criminology, forensics, martial arts, gymnastics, disguise and escape artistry” (“Batman – Bruce Wayne”)...
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...neutrinos, and the mysterious dark matter. In the present, scientists are still bombard about dark matter and what it really is. Although, scientists do not know what dark matter is, they are certain of what it is not. Dark matter is not in the form of stars and planets that we see and it is known to make up about 25% of the entire Universe. By using the effect of gravitational lensing, astronomers are able to determine that dark matter is not affected by most of the other baryonic matters. They also found that dark matter is the responsible substance that makes up most of the masses in the universe (found in galaxies, dwarf galaxies, and cluster galaxies). Dark matter is also the primary influence of gravitational pulls. The mysterious and magnificent space that seems almost empty to the naked eye has fascinated mankind for as long as history can remember. The universe seems empty because it is made up of gas which is primarily composed of particles such as protons, electrons, photons, neutrinos, and dark matter. Dark matter is known to make up about 25% of the entire Universe but scientists have yet to understand completely about this mysterious subatomic particle. What is dark matter and where did it come from? What is really the natural function of dark matter? Where and how can dark matter be found? These questions have been the ultimate challenge for astronomers for the past decades. Scientists and Astronomers have always known that dark matter influenced the cosmos...
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...There is a dispute that has gone on for years. The dispute concerning whether or not the “Dark Ages” should really be considered the dark ages. The era in question has been considered dark, because it’s been said that it was a period of time where people were unable to make any decisive advancements, in technology, literature, economy, or order. A period of disuse, illiteracy, war, plague, chaos and panic. Estimated to be between the years 410 – the late 1300s. “Of all the factors that affected England, The Tudor Wars, the Hundred Year’s War, and the The Great Famine were the most severe.” The Hundred Years' War was a long struggle between England and France over succession to the French throne. It lasted from 1337 to 1453, so in reality it was a little longer than one hundred years, but one hundred sounds cooler. The war started off with several stunning victories on Britain's part,...
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...What is Dark Matter? The Oxford dictionary defines dark matter as a non-luminous material which assumed to exist in space. But what does this mean? If dark matter is non luminous how do we know it’s there? How can we detect it? These are the kind of questions I will try to answer in this short article. Discovery: In the mid to late 19th century scientists observed that stars orbiting nearby galaxies were rotating faster than expected. The speed calculated indicated that the gravity created by them could not contain the matter within the stars. Therefore meaning that the stars should have been ripped apart from their own gravity. This indicated that there could be some other form of matter that is acting within the galaxy; which could have certain properties that explain the larger amount of gravity e.g. more massive matter. Properties of Dark Matter: Figure 1 Figure 1 Dark matter is hard to “get your head” around as scientists say that you can’t see it; then how can it exist? Dark matter is said to be “non-luminous”, therefore it does not absorb, give off or reflect light, which means we cannot observe the existence of Dark Matter (But we could detect it: See section on “Detection”). Detection: Although we cannot see Dark Matter it supposedly makes up 22% of the universe, compared to 4% of normal matter (See Figure 1). The evidence of how dark matter could exist is from experiments held in particle accelerators, such as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. As Dark Matter...
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...unaccounted for. What is this mystery matter that is so crucial to the fabric of the Universe but at the same time is eluding the general public? The mystery ingredients are: Dark Energy and Dark Matter. To be more exact dark matter makes up 23% of our Universe and dark energy makes up 73%.1 Since the beginning of time people have always wondered what is out there in the universe and how it came to be. As the years went by and as technology evolved, astronomers started to answer some of these questions but only to bring up more new questions to be answered. When astronomers first figured out that the universe was expanding, they thought it was in a state of deceleration after it had been expanding for billions of years from the Big Bang. However to their disbelief, when they looked at very faraway supernovae and galaxies, they noticed that the universe was not decelerating but in fact accelerating.1 So this discovery led to the major question of what is the driving force behind the acceleration of the universe. There are many theories out there that try to predict the cause of the acceleration but the one that is most widely accepted is the theory of dark energy. The first person to actually come across dark energy was in fact Einstein. He didn’t even know at the time when he figured this out that it was dark energy. At the time he called it the cosmological principle and he used it in his equation for General Relativity. It was...
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...John ostensibly influences all of the action of the play, he has very few speaking lines for a main character. Don John operates as a plot-device more than a fully fleshed out character. He does give us a little speech about how he’s a bad guy – and likes being a bad guy – but there’s not much that we say about him because we never really know his motivations, or even his reaction to all of the chaos he’s caused. In the end, he has run off before he can even be punished or have a warm, fuzzy change of heart scene. He’s definitely not Shakespeare’s most compelling and complex villain. Ultimately, though, it isn’t a failing of Shakespeare’s that this villain is so thin. It’s actually a reminder to the reader that the play isn’t supposed to be a tragedy, and isn’t even supposed to really analyze evil at all. The more important take-home points of the play are about mirth and the folly of misunderstanding. The illegitimate brother of Don Pedro; sometimes called “the Bastard.” Don John is melancholy and sullen by nature, and he creates a dark scheme to ruin the happiness of Hero and Claudio. He is the villain of the play; his evil actions are motivated by his envy of his brother’s social authority. This character...
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...The term ‘Dark Ages’, in its original use, referred to the Early Middle Ages of Europe. Initially, historians used the name to reference the lack of knowledge regarding the time due to the miniscule availability of evidence from the Early Middle Ages; historians did not know much about this period, so the era was ‘in the dark.’ Nevertheless, as historians discovered documents from this time, the age was no longer ‘in the dark’ and many historians have abandoned the term, as it no longer provides a precise description of the time. However, through a semantic change, the word developed a negative connotation and its definition became ‘a time where Europeans lived without learning of innovation.’ Over time, the term’s definition further developed into to a time of ignorance and...
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...Zack Snyder Wanted Christian Bale In Batman V Superman, But Not As The Dark Knight Gregory Wakeman 15 hours ago image The biggest hurdle for Ben Affleck as Batman in ‘Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice’ is going to be not just matching but eclipsing Christian Bale’s turn as the Dark Knight in Christopher Nolan’s beloved trilogy. But before the rather divisive decision was made to cast the former ‘Daredevil’ actor as Bruce Wayne it was widely speculated that Zack Snyder was hounding Christian Bale to reprise his role for ‘Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice’. It’s now been revealed that rumour was only half true, because Snyder has confessed that he wanted Bale in the ‘Man Of Steel’ sequel, but in a completely different role to Batman. Snyder admitted to Film Ink that this would have been the ultimate proof that ‘Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice’ was in a completely different universe and reality to ‘Batman Begins’, ‘The Dark Knight’, and ‘The Dark Knight Rises’. “This is a total and opposite reality from the Chris Nolan movies,” Zack Snyder remarked. “It’s another universe, so we couldn’t hire Christian Bale if we wanted to, because he doesn’t exist in our world. Maybe we could hire him to play another part. We did talk about that briefly. I just wanted to hire Christian to play another part to make that obvious.” Zack Snyder then joked that Bale could have been plastered with make-up and then portrayed Alfred Pennyworth, a role that Jeremy Irons has in ‘Batman...
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...Sociological theories can be applied to almost any media source. The media source that will be highlighted is The Dark Night. This movie was released in 2008 and was based off DC comic’s super hero Batman. The Dark Night puts the social framework of a fictional city to the test. The criminal in the movie named The Joker who dresses like a clown battles Batman physically and by testing the social duty of the City of Gotham. Throughout the film Joker makes pawns of mobsters, civilians, police officers and city officials and uses them to prove his ideological thinking that all people will do terrible things when they are in fear. The Joker’s motive for all he does is to show the world that everyone, in the end, is just like him. This paper...
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...It’s not going to stop. Actually in a very, very clear obvious way at the end of season three.” We will be seeing him face harsher challenges, beaten emotionally and physically. This applies to the villains. We see how people turn out when their spirits are broken, some of these villains could have easily been the “good guys” if they made the right choices. Thus far, Nygman has killed the mayor, and lost his mentor; he has to make the decision, will be continue on this dark path? Obviously, he will be, but we’ll see him struggle with his identiy. It seems that Penguin and Nygma will be having more interactions as well, Danny Canon says: “Nygma and Cobblepot, their amazing relationship is so much based upon the fact of their similarities but then they are polar opposites as well, because their love for each other is almost the love for themselves. When somebody is too close to who you are, you have two choices, do you merge with them or do you try to destroy them? And I’m afraid they cannot inhabit the same universe, they’re like the same self in the same timeline, [and] they will destroy each other, so they have to break...
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...I Have A Theory The study of the universe as a whole is Cosmology. Although easy to label, it is not easy to explain. The foundation of modern cosmology can be described as an arrangement of observations, hypotheses, theories using science, technology, mathematics, physics, and analytics (to name a few) to strive for answers about our beginning, present, and future. Through time, many types of people have created stories, myths, and ideas of how we came to be. Until the nineteenth and twentieth century, the evolution of theories was slow. According to Shipper, “New telescopic devices permitting people to see parts of the universe never before imagined, in new ways never before conceived, have advanced man's theoretical capabilities on explaining the origin of the universe, a task that has been a part of intelligent man's life for thousands of years” (para 1, n.d.). As our technology advances, we are able to answer questions. Going back a few centuries to a time of revelation to Nicholas Copernicus, he had a revolutionary idea that paved the way of thinking that the sun was the center of our universe. His proposal published in 1543, a book titled, “On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres.” Johannes Kepler, the first astrophysicist, discovered that the planets revolve around the sun in ellipses. This gave birth to the laws of planetary motion. Isaac Newton supported Kepler’s suggestions that planets were kept in orbit by a force, by showing that the same force that keeps our...
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