...Wei Lin Writing 39B Professor Greg McClure February 7, 2017 Rhetorical Analysis Inner Fear In Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend, as the only survivor of the calamity that has wiped out the entire civilization, Robert Neville is the only hope of human civilization and human species. For some reason, the virus that has mutated every human being doesn’t have any effect on Neville which is a bit ironic. Before the plague, he is just a normal person who lives a normal life. All of sudden, he becomes the chosen one. I Am Legend demonstrate his mental condition breaking down along with his human sanity fading away. After finish reading the book, my direct feeling is fear. The fear is not...
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...Companion Book Introduction Legend by Marie Lu, is about about a boy who is trying to save his little brother from a disease. To do so he has to break into a hospital lab and steal the cure. On his way out he ran and got caught by a guard. After he got away from the guard, the guard was killed and he was framed for the murder. In this book there is a lot betrayal and lying. In this writing i will talk about The main theme of the book. I will also talk about The characters development and his relationships. Theme There were lots of themes in my book, here’s a few of them. One of the themes is courage. The main character had a lot of courage during this book. One of the times he was courageous he broke into a hospital science lab to find a cure for his brothers disease. When he couldn’t find any cures, he had to get away without getting caught.When he was trying to get out he was about to be caught by the guards, so he jumped out of a 4 story window to the cemente. He reinjured his bad knee on the fall down, but he could still limp away to safety....
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...I Am Legend Guiding Questions: Was the cause of the plague in this movie viral, bacterial, or protist in nature? A woman claimed to have the cure for cancer, but it ended up giving people a virus. What was it originally meant to accomplish? It was originally meant to cure cancer. Describe the environment around New York City. Very Green, trees and grass everywhere. How has it changed since the outbreak started? (Hint: What type of living things can now be found in New York City?) There is all kinds of animals, deer, lions, zombies... Why did Robert Neville stay behind in the first place rather than try to leave with his family? He wanted to stop the spread of the virus. Does Robert Neville follow any of the steps of the scientific method? Which steps does he perform and how? (Hint: The scientific method involves making observations, asking questions, experimentation, collecting data, formulating conclusions, and revising as needed) Yes, he kept data and had hypothesis and recordings and observations. Why does Robert Neville experiment with more than just one rodent? Because he is trying different cures. How is the disease spread? Are there any intermediate hosts or vectors that transmit the disease? IT can be transferred through bite from darkseekers and or air. What does Robert Neville do in order to ensure that the human race can continue to survive? He gives his life discovering and protecting the cure...
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...Although it fits into multiple film genres, I Am Legend has to be one of the deepest scary/ horror movies of all time. The movies tells the story of Robert Neville (Will Smith), an immune scientist tasked with finding a cure for an infection that turns people into zombie like creatures called Darkseekers. It’s classified into as a thriller horror because of its aggression and reality; there’s, philological confusion, evil vs good, and suspense in every corner. Author Richard Matheson and director Francis Lawrence brilliantly included themes of death, the dark, and loneliness:fears everyone has once experienced, in order to invoke the classic horror movie feelings. At first, the movie seems like a wanna be classic, but after watching it a few...
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...I am legend “I am Legend” is a sci-fi movie based on a brilliant military scientist, Robert Neville, whom becomes the last man on earth. He becomes the last man on earth because of a man-made untreatable virus which turns people into flesh eating zombies. He is immune to the virus and the only one who can save humanity. He spends several years trying to control the virus and also broadcasting radio signals for any other survivors. The Zombies creep around in the shadows, observing the scientist’s every move until he makes a fatal mistake. I liked this movie because the effectiveness and dialogue of it were accurate and I didn’t get lost watching all the scenes. The special effects and background coincided with what was going on throughout the movie and also appeared to be realistic. The performance of the main character, Will Smith, was phenomenal and I also felt as if I was in his shoes. Several aspects during certain scenes made the movie stand out from the thousands of movies I’ve watched. When Neville was driving around New York City with his dog Sam in a 2009 ford mustang GT500, the roar of the engine and the watchful eye of his dog following the deers symbolized modern hunting. After they got out on foot and began chasing the wild animals into the growing forest and the lions appeared out of the fields to take Neville’s priced deer gave me the idea that earth was reverting back into prehistoric times. Finally, when he sacrificed his life after he realized...
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...Chris Martinelli Dr. Cross English 100 5/9/12 Myopic Society We saw him, the man, as he entered our shrouded, isolated corridor. He is different than we are and that enraged something in us; but, we could change him by force. With a single drop of blood we could rip the man from all he believes is rational, condemning him to a sheltered life of darkness. We ran after him with devastating force, but he was fast. He was not as fast as us collectively, but something about his movements startled us. He threw down obstacles for us and maneuvered almost as if he had a mind of his own. Even more disturbing for us was the fact that he was alone, able to think and move on his own outside of a group. We smelled his fear, his struggle to escape and this dragged us further in rage. He ran out of a door into the light of day and we realized at this point, for now, he was out of reach. We got a better glimpse of him once he entered the light: he was the cause, one of the creators of what we are. We are the Dark Seekers and we are a creation of man’s greed. We are the monstrous creation of his kind and we must destroy that from which we are created. Through film, directors can show us a world in which mankind is only surviving on a thread of hope. They can show us a society that only lived to further progress today, condemning the future to the aftermath of their carelessness. They can warn us, visually, of what we as human kind are capable of producing in a way that no other media can...
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...The novel I Am Legend written by Richard Mathewson in 1954 is a classic book that merges horror with science fiction. Its scope and area of discussion is simple, where it involves an era when the nuclear war has ended, but a major mutation spreads across the world. It changes every human being living on the surface of the earth except one person: Robert Neville. The rest of the population is turned into vampires and thousands of others die in the process. This book turns out to be a traditional story concerning the vampires which infects a previously healthy community and poses a threat to its physical and moral survival (Rosemary, 2014). The remaining healthy person: Robert Neville, spends most of his time figuring out if there is a way of...
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...In both A Separate Peace and I Am Legend there were many themes, but one theme stood out the most. War and Rivalry affected both Gene Forrester in A Separate Peace, and Robert Neville in I Am Legend. You can say war and rivalry affected them physically but it affected them much more than that. In A Separate Peace, Gene had a rivalry more with himself than any other character throughout the book. In a lot of instances Gene conflicted with himself just by overthinking things and making things much more than they actually are. “You are both coldly driving ahead for yourselves alone. You did hate him for breaking that school swimming record , but so what? He hated you for getting an A in every course but one last term. You would had an A in that...
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...BATANGAS FACTORS AFFECTING THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF ENGINEERING STUDENTS In partial Fulfillment for the Requirements for Methods of Reasearch by Carandang, Castillo, Gonda, Santos, I. Introduction Engineers nowadays are in demand to lots of companies here and abroad. In fact, thousands of engineering graduates and board passers work mostly in other countries. This is the reason why lots of students took engineering courses. Engineering has always been considered as a very difficult course by most of the students. It’s almost always the last thing that will come to the minds of the students when it comes to choosing their course or program. Engineering, as a program has a lot of difficulties within its name. There are lots of math and science subjects and instructional activities that students will really find it difficult to pass. It requires a great responsibility in achieving the title “Engineer”. Some students who are already taking up engineering doesn’t know the hardships that they are still about to face, that’s why a large number of students tend to have a low academic performances. The field of engineering has become so diverse in recent years that a definition is not easy to come by. Engineers still build skyscrapers, design machinery, and oversee public works. They also address society's needs and problems on a number of other scales with a unique blend of technology and science. At the macro level, environmental engineers are quantifying...
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...League of Legends 1 2.0 Culture 2 2.1. Introduction of gamer culture—becoming a part of mass culture? 2 2.2. Differentiation between international published products & Analysis 3 2.4. Recommendations of product 7 2.5. Promotion 8 2.6. Recommendations of Promotion 10 3.0 Reference Group in Game Culture: take Korea as an example. 11 4.0 Conclusion 13 5.0 Reference List 14 1.0 Introduction Riot games, a game company established in 2006 in the USA. “Players experience first” is the core value of Riot Games (Riot Games, 2013.) This core value makes them succeed within only 5 years by running its most well-known online game -League of Legends. The team is trying to make games not only games, but a part of every player’s life. Other than that, their great success in international market also brought great funding opportunity to them; for example, Tencent, the biggest network company in China, has now acquired the majority stake of Riot Games. (Riot Games, 2011.) It also helps them penetrate the Chinese market. 1.1. League of Legends League of Legends, the only game which is run by Riot Games, is one kind of massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs), the feature of this kind of game is team cooperation. It is session-based and including multiplayer. In each session, players need to destroy nexus which protected by numbers of turrets. The team destroys the nexus first wins the game (leagueoflegends, 2014). The main competitors of League of Legends are DOTA2...
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...substantial numbers of samples are purposively selected to employ the processes of collecting the data. As manifested by the self evaluation of 2nd year nursing students, among the six self regulatory skills five of them namely : metacognition, self concept, self monitoring, strategy formation and volition control are practiced by the respondents at majority of the time, however it was found that metacognition was seen above these five skills with 3.14 factor average. The investigation also revealed that as regard to motivation the respondents’ practiced this attitude generally at great extent even though the factor average is 1.89 on the reason that the inventory statements are stated in its negative manner. CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM AND ITS SCOPE INTRODUCTION Rationale of the Study Self-regulation is an important topic in the study of social cognition, which is distinguished from non-social cognition by its focus on the interaction between social and cognitive variables, Higgins (2000) as cited by Bryant in his work Improving Entrepreneurial Education Through Self-Regulatory Skills. Within theories of social cognition, self-regulation is widely seen as a systematic process of human...
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...through college and even now in the pros. Tim Tebow is not suppose to be where he is at now. He was drafted too high, and he was never supposed to lead an NFL team to a winning record in only his second season. The experts said that he couldn’t even be an NFL quarterback. They said he was the third best quarterback on Denver’s roster at the beginning of the season. Tim Tebow doesn’t care what the experts say, and is proving them wrong every week he starts under center for the Denver Broncos. A sub-par quarterback winning games is not the only reason Tebow has been getting all of the hype. Tebow is a devout Christian and takes every opportunity to share his Christian values. Some are offended by this, and others think that it just adds to the legend in the making that is Timothy Richard Tebow. Tebow is not a loser, he just doesn’t do it. In college he won two BCS National Championships and led the gators to an impressive 34-5 record as a starter. While at the University of Florida he also became the first sophomore to ever win the Heisman trophy. After graduating from the University of Florida, many doubted his talents as an NFL quarterback and rightfully so, who wanted a quarterback who was a better runner than passer and who was highly...
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...Analysis of my own DVD cover, ‘Class On Grass’ I will be analysing my own DVD cover, ‘Class On Grass’. The genre of this film is a hybrid genre of sport and co medy. The stereotypical conventions of sport and comedy include football, running and, for comedy, laughter, of course, to attract a bigger, mainstream audience. My target audience are anybody over the age of 12, who are also interested in football or comedy. The protagonists of my film are England football stars Wayne Rooney and David Beckham. These two are immensely famous and are known all over the world. However, people only know the sporting side to them but not the personal side. This will engage the interest of my target audience because they will desire to see these two legends in this movie and also see the other side of them. Also, the connotations of the colours red, white and green represent the England flag and a football pitch. It symbolises football as a whole. The denotation is that it is Wayne Rooney and David Beckham; the connotations of these two players are skills and legends. This will entice the attention of my target audience, as they will recognise these two players and will want to see them in action. The demographic of this DVD cover is comedy and football fans, which are over the age of 12. They will enjoy watching their idols battle it out for the number 1 spot. They will also ache in laughter as this amusing rivalry is occurring. Firstly, the title is big, bold and clear, as is the...
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...IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING In the summer of 2004, in the occasion of Olympic Games in Athens, Adidas, world famous brand in the field of sport clothing has made one of the most inspiring campaigns I have ever seen. With claim “Impossible is nothing” they have placed focus on the values they wanted their products to transmit and represent. This international company adapted itself to a trend that, in an occasion such as Olympic Games are, inevitably, sees in competition not only the athletes but also the brand they wear; it is a battle led through campaigns in various mass media. Focus of my analysis is placed on three TV commercials, videos each of which lasts 30 seconds. I find it necessary to describe them before proceeding with my analysis in order to provide a better insight in the material I will discuss and to present the way I saw and understood this campaign. Each of the videos has famous athletes as its protagonists and they are all made in the way that with digital trickery present day athletes are matched with champions from the past. First of them is Olympic champion Haile Geberlassie. In the video we find this Ethiopian athlete preparing himself for a surreal, 10 000 meters long race. He is surrounded with his clones, all dressed slightly different but all in Adidas. In the background we hear his voice talking in first person saying that despite all medals won and the records broken it is necessary and possible to always improve yourself and beat yourself one more...
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...Roslyn Marshall Mr. Lerma English 1B 1 December 2014 Word Count: 3,399 Grendel: A Symbol for the Unknown In the history of human civilization, stories have always had an educative role. In the literary works of fiction, authors use diverse images and symbols in order to trigger a particular reaction from the audience. Some authors, however, use traditional images in new contexts challenging the audience's perception of those iconic characters. Authors often argue that characters can have different meanings and symbolism in different cultures and different times. The best example of these new meanings is seen through the writing about iconic monsters in different time periods. From the analysis’ of Beowulf and Grendel: The Truth Behind England’s Oldest Legend by John Grigsby and Grendel by John Gardner, the character of Grendel in both books is the symbolic meaning of how society is afraid of the unknown. When people are confronted with an unfamiliar circumstance, it is human nature to twist the unknown into something frightening and unacceptable....
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