...Fly Away Peter, written by David Malouf, is an Australian novel that looks at the horror and destruction of war and in particular its relation to the ‘human condition’ through the effects it has on the subconscious of Jim Saddler, the novels central character. In a short timespan Jim has to deal with issues such as loss of innocence, self-identity, the division between the elite and the working class, and the impending effect of war which further presents the issues of life and death and those of the old and the new worlds. Malouf uses foreshadowing throughout the novel to highlight key themes particularly those focussing on the binary opposites of civility and savagery. From the very beginning of the novel Malouf presents the issue of old and new worlds. The sanctuary, being the old world, has an underlying feeling of civility. ”...intensely blue mountains that were soft blue at the time of day but would...
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...Fly Away Home The Protagonist Amy Alden She is the main protagonist of the story. She is involved in a car accident with her mother, which results in her mother’s death. Due to her mother’s death, she now lives with her father who is an inventor. She finds it difficult to adjust with her father’s traits. She is considered as an imprint mother of a group of baby geese. Thomas Alden He is the second protagonist of the story. After the death of Amy’s mother, he is the one taking care of her. He is also an inventor and an artist. He invented all kinds of objects including the ultralight glider they used in the story. He proposed the plan to guide the bird’s migration route to the bird sanctuary. He is the wingman of her daughter, guiding her to the route going to it. Susan Barnes She is the third protagonist of the story. She is considered as an encourager and step-mother of Amy. She is very protective about her and her safety. She thinks that Thomas’ proposal to help Amy lead the flock of geese to their sanctuary is absurd. She is also considered their eyes on both the ground and sky. She tells them where to go and what is ahead of them David Alden He is Thomas’ brother and assistant. He is the fourth protagonist of the story. He assists him in making his inventions. After helping him finish make his glider. He helps Susan in plotting the routes in Thomas’ and Amy’s travel. Antagonist Glen Seifert He is the main and the only antagonist in the story. Thomas came...
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...Unusual Attitudes Objective: The student exhibits adequate knowledge of the elements relating to attitude instrument flying during recovery from unusual flight attitudes both nose high and nose low. The student must use proper instrument cross-check and interpretation, and applies the appropriate pitch, bank, and power corrections in the correct sequence to return the aircraft to a stabilized level flight attitude. Procedure: (Nose High) * Increase Power * Apply forward elevator pressure to lower the nose and prevent a stall * Correct the bank by applying coordinated aileron and rudder pressure to level the miniature aircraft and center the ball of the turn coordinator * Level pitch attitude is indicated by the reversal and stabilization of the ASI and altimeter needles. * Straight coordinated flight is indicated by the level miniature aircraft and centered ball of the turn coordinator Note* The corrective control applications are made almost simultaneously, but in the following sequence listed above. (Nose Low) * If airspeed is increasing, reduce power to prevent excessive airspeed and loss of altitude. * Correct the bank attitude and coordinated aileron and rudder pressure to straight and level flight by referring to the turn coordinator. * Raise the aircrafts nose to level flight by applying smooth back elevator pressure * This whole procedure should be done smoothly and all controls should be moved simultaneously * The attitude...
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...The world can be a tough place, and it is hard being courageous when you're in a tough situation. In the story “Fly Away Home” by Eve bunting, Andrew is a young homeless boy has a tough life in front of him, but he learns how to be courageous even in his tough life. For one Andrew is responsible. Also Andrew does things he doesn't like. Lastly Andrew doesn’t have much money but it is ok and he doesn’t complain about it. Being courageous in a tough situation isn’t easy but Andrew somehow manages to be courageous in his tough time. The first reason is that Andrew is responsible. To begin with Andrew finds work in the airport. For example Andrew returns luggage carts and offers to carry bags. To add on the list Andrew doesn’t argue with his...
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...The Story of Tessie Farrell Shared by the Dead Author’s Loving Husband John Coppola publishes Anne Coppola’s book under LitFire Publishing. Atlanta, Georgia - Adoption can be big hurdle to a child. There is just too much negativity in the word. An innocent child may feel unwanted and unloved. Since they still can’t fully understand how a mother can leave a child behind, it might cause their heart to break. That’s probably what Tessie Farrell felt when she knew about her adoption in Anne Turner Coppola’s book entitled Fly Away Free. Tessie is an adopted, only child of dairy farmers in northern New York. People in town think she’s a brat because of the way she’s acting. And her classmates at school taunt her. Since they don’t know the burden...
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...Time is a Healer In Katherine Mansfield’s short story “The Fly”, she tells of a man and his struggle with the loss of his son. The setting starts out in the boss’s office, where he is talking to a man we know as Mr. Woodifield. Mr. Woodifield is an older gentleman whom since he had a stroke his family keeps him boxed up in his home every day of the week, expect for Tuesdays. Mr. Woodifield and the boss talk about the new decorations of the boss’s office, there is something though that Mr. Woodifield struggles to remember that he wanted to tell the boss. He remembers that is was his daughters had ran across the boss’s son grave while looking at Reggie’s, his son whom he had lost in World War One, grave. He goes on to tell the boss of how well the place is kept, and how his son and Reggie were quite close to one another. After Mr. Woodifield leaves the boss tells his office messenger that “I’ll see nobody for half an hour.” He begins to attempt to grieve over the loss of his son the way he used to be able to. He finds himself unable to weep and he finds himself easily distracted by a simple fly. The fly falls into the ink pot and the boss watches him struggle over and over until he is finally unable to overcome and dies. The moral of this story seems to be that time can heal all grief. Mr. Woodifield is a gentleman whom was a former employee of the boss. He has retired after the stroke he had and comes to visit the boss on Tuesdays, when his wife and girls let him...
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...Hayao Miyazaki attained global acclaim for both Princess Mononoke, released in the United States in 1999, and Spirited Away, released throughout North America three years later. These films are clearly products of the same visionary; each film presents a protagonist of strong will and sound ethic and, in each case, he or she is forced to embark on an epic journey. Both films were very successful in Japan; however, although both were critically acclaimed in the United States, only Spirited Away saw continued box-office success. In order to explain the disparity between these films’ earnings, I will discuss the different approaches, which these films take, to the theme of duality. Naturally, the idea of a double nature is unsettling. However, whereas Spirited Away addresses this theme in a way that invigorates and provides closure, Princess Mononoke leaves the audience feeling uncertain. In order to understand the disparity between these films’ earnings, one must examine not only thematic differences between these films, but also patterns among high-grossing films in the United States. In other words, what are American audiences looking for, which Spirited Away offers and Princess Mononoke does not? When reviewing the history of box-office successes in the United States, one becomes aware of an unfortunate truth: that there is little correlation between what viewers recognize as ‘good cinema’ and what they will pay to see. So what is the formula for a box office success...
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...Entomotoxicology The process of decomposition begins immediately after death and the process can be divided into five stages: fresh, bloated, decay, post-decay and skeletal. Therefore, the availability of tissues and blood samples for toxicological analysis is dependent on the state of decomposition. There are cases where blood and tissue samples are not available or suitable for analysis, the fly larvae found on the cadaver can be used as an alternative toxicological specimen. Successful detection of substances has been accomplished by several extraction methods from maggots, pupae and adults of Diptera and even from the feces of beetles (Miller et al. 1994). Bourel et al. (2001) conducted a study which showed that morphine was detected on third larval instar maggots of Calliphora vicina Linnaeus (Diptera: Calliphoridae) fed with an artificial diet mixed with the drug. This shows that morphine was stored inside the cuticle of the maggots during their development. However, the detection of diethylpropion (Inebex) showed negative result in larvae of Chrysomya megacephala and Chrysomya putoria suggesting the rapid excretion of drugs (Alves et al.2008). Insect succession Insect succession is the wave or pattern of insects’ colonization on dead remains and is also affected by the surrounding environment. Invasion of a body by insects and other arthropods occurs soon after death (Anderson and Goff, 2000). They are capable to arrive and colonized within minutes of the death (Wells...
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...Connection and Web Evolution PHI 339 One piece of art that I really like is called Acceptance vs. Rejection (Username Squish-Squash). This piece was a semi-finalist in Wacom’s 2009 Bring Your Vision to Life deviantART contest. This 2D image depicts a little girl hugging a strange creature that upon closer inspection appears to have the sad face of a pretty girl but the large, monstrous, decaying body of rejected attempts at existence. It is acknowledged to have been inspired by Hayao Miyazaki’s film, Spirited Away (2001). An open property, which I feel is appropriate and which this work incorporates, that will necessarily make every piece of art with its inclusion pleasing to me would be personal connection at a high degree. When I say that I connect/ relate to a piece of art at different degrees it is to acknowledge that I fundamentally relate to all art simply by coexisting with it and that there are also other levels of connection between that and true pleasure. The highest of these levels is elicited by a wild variety of connection “triggers” in my many different mental approaches to the artwork. For example but not exclusively, perhaps if the subject looks like me or an experience I’ve had or vividly imagined, if it’s a subject I’ve studied out of personal passion, if it tickles my brain, if it’s a brand new concept to me, if it’s a polar opposite, if it’s my current favorite color, etc. The triggers that will strike my mind are of such a range that they...
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...‘Spirited Away’ is an anime film by Hayao Miyazaki. ‘Spirited Away’ tell us the story about a young girl who has developed from a weak/vulnerable girl to a much more independent and stronger girl. It is highly entertaining and insightful partly because of the education on Japanese culture, but what I believe makes it more entertaining and insightful is the life lessons within the film. Does culture and gender provide entertaining and insightful material for the audience? I don't believe that the culture and gender title is the only factor that makes the film entertaining. Many of other things within the film make it much more entertaining. In my eyes there isn't much of Japanese culture that gives me interest apart from the buildings and more. The gender stereotype is mostly shown in Chihiro not any other characters which doesn't make it a large factor in the film other although it's put in the main character. Many more different factors of ‘Spirited Away’ make it entertaining and insightful, such as life lessons within the film and how some characters are exaggerated also known as a caricature. Life lessons teach more about what we should know more in general rather than Japanese culture which isn't necessarily important for the majority of us in the future. Hayao Miyazaki has used many...
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...WEEK FOUR HW PROBLEMS There are four problems, each of which is worth one point. 1. Five Proteen Bars and 7 Superdrinks total 1915 calories. Four Proteen Bars and 3 Superdrinks total 1155 calories. How many calories does one Proteen Bar have? One Superdrink? One Proteen Bar has 180 calories and one Superdrink has 145 calories. 2. A plane goes from A to B against the wind in 4 hrs and 30 minutes. It goes back again (WITH the wind) in 3 hrs and 40 minutes. It is 400 miles from A to B. How fast does the plane fly in still air, and how fast is the wind? (Round to nearest hundredth.) The plane flies at 99.09 mph in still air and the wind is 10.2 mph. 3. You want 40 liters of 60% solution. How much 80% solution and how much 28% solution must you mix to produce that result? (Round to nearest hundredth.) In order to produce 40 liters of 60% solution I will need 24.62 liters of 80% solution and 15.38 liters of 28% solution. 4. Seven curly fries and four plain fries cost $16.83. Five curlies and 12 plains cost $23.45. How much does one order of curlies cost? One order of plains? One order of curlies costs $1.69 and one order of plains costs $1.25. 5. Solve the following system of equations: 2X + 3Y = 29 X + 1.5Y = 8 The system of equations is inconsistent and has no...
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...such as specimen cups, pharmacy bottles, labels, nets, and dissecting forceps. Included in their array of gear is a “killing jar,” which is a glass jar containing ethyl acetate-soaked cotton balls. There are a number of procedures forensic entomologists must follow when it comes to collecting specimen. They must first collect any live flies using nets, then the largest maggots and egg mounds found on the remains. The bug experts preserve a few of the collected maggots by plunging them into boiling water then storing them in alcohol. This stops any chance of discoloration or decomposition of the maggots. Not only do forensic entomologist need to collect any insects seen with the naked eye, they also check ear canals, nasal openings, other orifices, and any open wounds for the presence of insects....
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...Castaway The films castaway was directed by Robert Zemeckis. The film is about an Express Systems Analyst who lives and dies by the clock’. He is very obsessed with his job and time even he has put his relationship in the second place but when the plane crushes in the Pacific Ocean, he finds himself strands on a small isolated island. He has all the time to figure out how to survive. In the film we can see the use of visual techniques in showing changes of the main character. Camera shots are used to demonstrate different aspects of character. A wide shot is used after the plane crushes, When chuck was struggling on the yellow life raft floating alone in the big ocean and at that time the weather was bad, heavily raining. This is shows us how small and how powerless he is. The director also uses a when shot when Chuck first arrive the island to show a empty place with no life, no ship and no technology so this means he has to finds water, food shelter and a way to prevent himself from being destroyed by loneliness. Another camera shot that the director uses is close up shots. The close up shots are focusing on his face and hand when he was making a fire to show us that it is huge progress from him because we can see he bites his lip, grills his teeth and there are some sweat on his face. He is concentrating very hard. There are other close up focused on his hand when he used his finger to draw eyes, nose and mouth and gives it a name ‘Wilson’ He shares his feelings with it...
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...Guy Ritchie hit upon a successful formula when directing his first two films, bringing his unique sense of style and panache to the crime thriller genre, but then blotted his copybook when he attempted new things in his following two movies. The husband of mega-popstar Madonna cast his famous wife in one his biggest commercial and critical flops, but has since tried to get his career back on track after divorcing her in late 2008. Guy Stuart Ritchie was born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, to successful marketing executive John Vivian Ritchie and Amber Parkinson. His parents divorced when he was five, and his mother would later marry Sir Michael Leighton, a baronet. Ritchie spent a fair amount of his childhood at the Leighton estate, although his mother and Sir Michael would divorce seven years later. Ritchie was born with severe dyslexia, and at 15 was expelled from Stanbridge Earls School, a specialist school for dyslexics. He worked as a labourer before getting into the film industry at age 25. He began as a film runner (an odd jobber on film and TV sets) before trying his hand at directing music videos, doing “20 videos back to back, really crappy ones with sort of German rave bands”. This gave him some valuable experience behind the camera, and he moved on to doing commercials. With the much-needed grounding, he went on to direct a 20 minute short, ‘The Hard Case’ (1995), which aired on Channel 4. As it did so, it caught the attention of Trudie Styler, the wife of...
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... | | |Date: | | Introduction After visiting the "Studio Ghibli Layout Design" exhibition in Hong Kong Heritage Museum, I was shocked by the original layout sketches and the fine storytelling. The 1300 layouts of films contain the cut of camera work, camera speed and space relation between characters and backgrounds; it gives me an insight of the process of animation making. Hence, I would like to comprehend more about the film produced by animation powerhouse-Studio Ghibli, especially the masterpiece-“Spirited Away”, which helps to promote Japanese animation to worldwide audience. “Spirited Away” is an animated film written and directed by the director of Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki (Cavallaro 2004) in 2001, which have won awards in a number of international film festivals, including Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film and a Golden Bear at the Berlin International Festival (Reider 2005), and become the top-grossing movie in Japanese history. In the following, the film’s themes based on the plot, use of photography and camera angle and aesthetic symbols and motifs will be analyzed throughout the essay to understand the key of success of this fantasy...
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