...Juno - Review and characterization Juno is a movie made by Jason Reitman. The main character in the movie is Juno MacGuff, and she is a 16 year-old-high-school-student from Minnesota. She finds out about her pregnancy, but cannot believe it at first. She is going to get an abortion, but is distracted by every noise and movement, so she decides to move on, and choose adoption instead. She finds the perfect couple in the newspa-per, and signed a contract with them. Their names are Vanessa and Mark Loring. Mark and Juno have a lot in common, and become good friends. Mark decides to get a divorce, because he is not ready to be a father. Vanessa decides to keep the baby, even though Mark moves on. I think the movie shows how it feels, to be a teenage mum. But the movie does not catch me, be-cause I am not into such movies about young girls and teenage pregnancy. I did not have high hopes for this movie, because it was the second time I saw it, and like I said before, I am not the biggest fan of these kinds of movies. It was hard for me to keep my concentration throughout the entire movie. From another perspective the movie is very helpful, because I learned a lot from it, for exam-ple, it is very good for your parents to know about the baby, and they will help you all the way through. It is very hard dealing with life when you have a baby, and trying to get an education at the same time. My opinion is that, you have to grow up before having a baby, and make sure you are wearing...
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...Juno I would like to give two characteristics of two of the characters in the film. I have chosen Juno MacGuff and Mac MacGuff. I will start with a short intro about the movie. It’s about a girl who gets pregnant with her boyfriend and she wants to give away because she thinks that she is not mature enough to handle all the troubles with children. She decides to give to a family who can’t get children by themselves. She says that she is immature but that was actually a very grownup and mature decision. Juno: Juno is a 16 years old girl. She has brown hair and she is a bit of a “boy-girl”. She is wearing a shirt under her sweatshirt and a brown jacket. Around the neck she has a blue and grey scarf. Her schoolbag is military green. I think that she is very self-confident. Maybe that is because she does not care what everybody else thinks about her. Actually that’s a very hard thing to do. I would wish that I could be little like her. She goes in high school. She thinks that it is okay, but when she got pregnant all of the other students keep looking after her and point her. It’s like she I become a movie star but it’s just in the negative way. I would turn or go nuts if I was the one who was pointed at and talked about all the time. Her bike is not a regular bike it’s a real racing bike. I think it’s a little unusual for a girl to ride a racing bike. But she fits it. Juno has a boyfriend named Paulie Bleecker. He is also going in the same high school as Juno and that was there...
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...Juno: Film Essay An important idea in the film Juno directed by Jason Reitman, is the idea that all of our choices will have consequences. This idea is shown in many ways throughout the film. For example, Juno’s choice to have un-protected sex, her choice not to abort her baby, and the choice to carry out an adoption even though her plans didn’t turn out the way they had expected, all had following consequences. The protagonist of the film is 16-year-old, Juno MacGuff. Juno has to face the dilemmas of an unexpected pregnancy. She finds what seems to be the perfect adoption couple, but when her adoption plans take a turn for disaster, Juno must dig herself out of her sticky situation and do what’s best for her baby. At the start of the film, Juno decides to have unprotected sex with her close friend, Paulie Bleeker. Her choice to have un-protected sex is a choice she hasn’t taken into a whole lot of consideration, consequently leading Juno to becoming pregnant. The mise-en-scene at the start of the film shows us how Juno now feels about her pregnancy. Juno stands across from the armchair Bleeker and she had sex on, while a voice over says, ‘It started with a chair.’ The armchair seems much larger than Juno even though they are about the same size. The chair represents Juno’s sudden pregnancy, something dominant, something overwhelming her. Juno looks small in comparison to the chair, showing us that she feels small, insignificant and weak. Juno plans to quickly...
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...Juno is a sixteen years old girl who is living with her father Mac, stepmother Bren and little sister in Minnesota suburban community. She was strong and she has sense of humor and joked about almost everything. Juno has a best friend boy whose name is Paulie Bleaker and they used to attend the same school together. One night they had sexual encounter, and Juno became pregnant. The pregnancy was a surprise and she was not prepared for it all. She finally decided the share the news with her girlfriend Leah. Juno wanted go through abortion procedure since she felt she is too young to raise a child. After Juno decided to go through with the abortion, she met one of her classmate in front of abortion clinic who was protesting and screaming that...
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...Juno throughout the entire story does not want Aeneas to found Rome, which is what is fated to happen. Once an object is fated, no one, including the Gods can change it. But as Juno realizes there is some wiggle room inside of fate. Juno may not be able to prevent fate, but she is able to do while staying within the constraints of fate, prolong the process of founding Rome, and kill as many people as possible. Juno realizes that she cannot delay the formation of Rome alone, and will need as many allies and detractions as she can get. She even states: “If I can sway/ no heavenly hearts I’ll rouse the world below” (7, 425-426). She is going to do everything both within her own authority, and the constructions of fate to lengthen the establishment of Rome. Even if this process involves using the mortal world. She is first going to plead with the fellow Gods, and if that doesn’t work she is going to provoke the humans. Juno does provoke the humans when she starts the war between that Latins and the surviving Trojan soldiers. Which in turn accomplishes both...
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...Jenny, Juno This is a Korean romantic comedy movie that deals with teen pregnancy. Despite the rather serious subject matter, the movie actually manages to keep a balance, primarily romantic, which initially slaps it with like 18+ rating, despite its otherwise innocent nature, with the argument that the film trivializes teen pregnancy and makes it seem rather easy. Eventually, it ended up like a 15+ rating for viewers in this rate to learn. The story opens with Jenny, a high-achieving middle student, discovering the she’s knocked up and quickly informing Juno, her middle-school boyfriend. From there it’s a matter of keeping the pregnancy thing secret from their parents and further building their relationship as well. There is something that immediately interest and impressed be about this movie, which is how it was able to keep dramatic urgency or the flow going, despite the fact that the conflict remains rather light throughout the first half of the movie. Instead, we see the couple continuing their very sweet relationship and working to both help Jenny to be a healthy mother and Juno, be a responsible father. The trick to retaining drama, it turns out, is the unspoken threat of parental action should the parents find out about the baby. I also liked how it retained a light-hearted cheerfulness throughout the movie. When things are supposed to get serious, they do, but unfortunately, the drama is more than a little lame, because of the movie’s continuing push to keep its very...
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...for both assignments was the consistent need to refer to the footnotes for a more detailed explanation on those words which had footnotes associated with them. I felt that referring to those footnotes tended to slow down the pace of my reading. The other aspect which I did not like was that the Gods had different names-i.e. Jupiter as opposed to Zeus. That confused me somewhat in the beginning of the readings. In regards to The Aeneid, I really enjoyed how the story begins with a storm which disperses Aeneas’s ships. This separates him and his comrades “For years they wandered as their destiny drove them on from one sea to the next: so hard and huge a task it was to found the Roman people.” (NAWL p.1056) Apparently Juno was still upset with the Trojans “baleful Juno in her sleepless rage.” (NAWL p.1055) Eventually Aeneas arrived in Carthage, where he is greeted by Dido, queen of Carthage. Here Aeneas recaps all of the events of how the Trojans were tricked by the Greeks with the implementation of the Trojan horse “Knowing their strength broken in warfare, turned back by the fates, and years-so many years-already slipped away, the Danaan captains by the divine handicraft of Pallas built a horse of timber, tall as a hill, and sheathed its ribs with planking of cut pine. This they gave out to be an offering for a safe return by sea, and the word went around.” (NAWL p.1063) I found this portion of the story quite interesting, because it gave me insight on how the Trojan people viewed...
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...his mother are the main Gods. Lesser Gods such as Mercury, Neptune, and Aeolus serve as instruments for the main Gods to interfere with during the story. The role of the Gods in The Aeneid play a major part in intervening in certain events and delaying Aeneas journey, but nothing can change what Jupiter has decreed will happen, although they alter the way the events transpire. In book one, the interactions of Gods is clear when Juno is angry that the Trojans are prophesized to destroy her favored city, Carthage. Already having hatred toward the Trojans, to keep Aeneas and his crew from reaching their destiny in return for the most beautiful nymph, Juno calls on Aeolus to let loose “brawling winds and howling storms”(Book 1). However, God of the ocean, Neptune calms the storms down because he does not appreciate this, and says this of Aeolus, “He is not the one who has jurisdiction over the sea or holds the trident that knows no pity. That is my responsibility, given to me by my lot”(Book 1). This shows that even Gods with higher power (Aeolus and Juno in this case) cannot just order anything to happen or have power over other Gods because they must treat them equally. This also indicates that lesser Gods can cancel out orders from even the Queen of Gods. ‘Pious Aeneas’ is what they often refer to as Aeneas in The Aeneid. Aeneas says of himself “I am Aeneas, known for my devotion”(Book 1). In Latin, ‘pious’ is ‘pietas’, which is defined as piety, loyalty, dutifulness. It is Aeneas’s...
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...In the film Juno, directed by Jason Reitman, a character than I admired is Vanessa Loring. Vanessa is a successful career woman in her early 30s who is desperate to be a mother. She is a perfectionist who initially comes across as uptight and controlling but later we learn that she is just nervous about the baby adoption falling through and is struggling to keep her marriage together. Vanessa shows a genuine love for children and a great devotion to being a mother. However her husband, Mark Loring, is struggling to grow up and is not ready to become a father. Film techniques used in the film to make us admire Vanessa are camera work, costume and dialogue. These techniques show us that she is the only mature and realistic adult in her marriage, her realisation that she does not need the “perfect family” to be happy and her natural mothering skills and genuine love of children. Dialogue is a verbal feature used in Juno to make us admire Vanessa. Initially we see Vanessa as cold and controlling, but as the film goes on we begin to realise that she is the only grown-up in her marriage and is having to deal with a husband who refuses to grow up. Vanessa shows great patience when she says, “Hate to interrupt the jam session.” This is how Vanessa responds to Mark after catching him and Juno playing with his guitars when they are supposed to be discussing the adoption. The adoption is a huge deal and Vanessa manages to turn a blind eye to Mark’s insensitivity, showing she is mature...
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...During the time when Aeneas is escaping from Troy with his family, why doesn’t he look back when he feels that his wife, Creusa, is being taken away? While escaping from Troy, Aeneas feels that the Greeks are catching up to the fugitive group and he tells his son to run ahead. Then he says that a strange enemy power robbed him of his senses. Aeneas’ wife is trailing behind him and he feels that she is being taken away yet he doesn’t even look back to make sure that his own wife is still with the group. The main clue for why Aeneas doesn’t even look back to make sure that his wife is there; is when he says that something came over him robbing him of his senses. It is made clearer later when he goes back to Troy to look for his wife. He is walking through the streets of Troy yelling his wife’s name when Creusa’s ghost appears before him. She tells him that the gods forbid him from taking her with him. The ghost says that they are not allowed to be together outside of Troy and that Jupiter, the king of Olympus, also won’t allow it. She tells him that he must sail to Hesperian land and there “great joy and a kingdom are [his] to claim, and a queen to make [his] wife.” The ghost tells Aeneas to put his sorrow of losing his wife away and to look forward to what is to come. At the end of her little speech she says that the Great Mother of Gods detains her at Troy. This also raises another question why did the gods want him to travel alone without his wife. Why are they giving him a...
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...Storming Juno Video Response June 6th 1944, known as D-Day was “the biggest allied invasion in the war”1 and left over 1000 Canadian soldiers either dead or injured. The allied countries each had an assigned beach in France in the invasion. Canada was given the codenamed Juno beach; they successfully defeated the German defenses and moved their way inland 9 kilometres by the end of the day despite so many casualties. This day, D-Day was the point in the war in which the allies took control and ultimately the war in Europe was over on May 7th, 1945, just under a year later. While D-Day was a huge success for Canada as they were the first to secure a beach that day, it was a life changing day for many soldiers. They all saw horrible things which haunted them for the rest of their lives, they lost friends, and many barely escaped with their lives....
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...Juno-Gender roles In Jason Reitman’s film Juno, Bleaker, who plays Juno’s love interest, undermines traditional gender roles of masculinity in that he fails to call the shots in relation to his inability to assert his opinion when being confronted with life changing news. Instead of taking on the manly traits in decision making which include taking initiative and controlling the conversations, throughout the movie, one sees how Bleaker is unsure in pressured situations and fails to make his opinion apparent. A specific time when Bleaker shows this is when Juno goes over to his house to confirm that she is in fact pregnant with his child. Juno is in a predicament where she is not quite sure what the right thing to do is and informs Bleaker, deep down hoping that he would offer a sense of guidance and stability and is in a sense let down by Bleaker’s lack of insight. When it comes to traditional gender roles of masculinity, when the guy is confronted with this type of news, he would then take a firm stand on what he thinks should be done whether it being to keep the child, to terminate the pregnancy, etc… In Bleaker’s case, he is taken back at the confirmation and instead of asserting his opinion, he instead turns to Juno for guidance and asks of her what should be done. In addition to not taking a stance, the way in which Bleaker responds is presented in an unsure, timid tone of voice. With every short word that comes out of his mouth there is an underlying quiver and nervousness...
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...It was a warm summer afternoon, as the day usually is when these type of questions are asked. The sun had warmed the coarse, sweat glass of the room, as Juno stood in place looking out into the window. “We were both so young, two best friends in a big world searching for ourselves,” Juno looked older than Pipper did. Her body was more shapely and tan. Her hair was long and black. Her eyes were dark and mysterious. She had taught herself to put on mascara and had gotten her ears pierced. She was only a couple months older, but it felt like years. As for Pipper, her hair is a messy mop of locks, almost the colour of the inside of an apple. she was very skinny and had a boyish body type. My mother Stella always assured me that I wouldn’t stay like this for long, and that soon I would wake up and be a woman. “But at this age it seemed like it was taking forever, especially in comparison to Juno,” Pipper said in a tone voice....
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...that change him or her and help them grow and mature as a character. Jason Reitman, the director of Juno, also brings up this issue, where the main character goes through a series of conflicts that ‘forces’ her to mature. Both these films show the representation of family and youth and the theme of maturing by the use of language and cinematic conventions. Both these films show two protagonists affected by the issue of having to grow up early and family support. Throughout a person’s life, they will go through changes that will help them mature and grow as a person. Young Olive in Little Miss Sunshine realises that her dream of being a beauty pageant winner is out of her reach but soon realises winning doesn’t matter and overcomes her loss. Similarly, Juno is faced with being pregnant which is unplanned but she is almost forced to deal with it. She decides to give the baby up for adoption, the same as Olive is giving up her dream. Each film uses a variety of cinematic conventions to bring forward the specific issues. For example, in Little Miss Sunshine, several scenes use camera angles such as a close up of Olive with her family blurred out in the background, symbolising that she feels alone and separated yet is determined for them to be an ideal ‘happy’ family, this helps position the viewers to feel empathy towards Olive. Similarly in Juno, there are several shots of Juno by herself showing that she also feels alone yet is determined to overcome the difficult situation,...
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...NT2640 Cisco IOS Admin Distances & Juniper JUNOS Route Preferences Introduction Most routing protocols have metric structures and algorithms that are not compatible with other protocols. In a network with multiple routing protocols, the exchange of route information and the capability to select the best path across the multiple protocols are critical. Administrative distance is the feature that routers use in order to select the best path when there are two or more different routes to the same destination from two different routing protocols. Administrative distance defines the reliability of a routing protocol. Each routing protocol is prioritized in order of most to least reliable (believable) with the help of an administrative distance value. Prerequisites Requirements Cisco recommends that you have knowledge of these topics: * Basics of the routing process. Refer to Routing Basics. Components Used This document is not restricted to specific software and hardware versions. Conventions Refer to Cisco Technical Tips Conventions for more information on document conventions. Select the Best Path Administrative distance is the first criterion that a router uses to determine which routing protocol to use if two protocols provide route information for the same destination. Administrative distance is a measure of the trustworthiness of the source of the routing information. Administrative distance has only local significance, and is not advertised in routing updates...
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