...kind of concept, something scares and disgusts us, but when it comes to horror films, shows, and etc. we find it to be pleasurable at the same time. Noël Carroll believes that the thing that attracts us to unpleasant feelings, like being scared and disgusted, is due to the monster. The monster is why there is a paradox of horror. Humans are extremely curious beings of life. Doctor Who season 4 episode 11, “Midnight”, demonstrates Carroll’s philosophy behind why people enjoy horror. “Midnight” starts off with the Doctor trying to convince his partner in crime to join him on a visit to a waterfall made of sapphires, which is located on the planet called Midnight, but she refuses, and the Doctor gets on the Crusader Tour Bus with seven strangers. On his way to Midnight Palace, the bus stops due to “engine” problems; however the Doctor quickly figures out that the Crusader Tour Bus is in perfect condition. The mechanic seems to see an odd shadow that appears to be running toward them, but the driver says its nothing and that help is on the way, reassuring the passengers and the bus attendant that everything will be fine. Suddenly, a random but constant knocking begins. The plot has finally come to the “monster”. The passengers start panicking and guessing what could be knocking: a person or maybe rocks falling. But it is neither, the viewer is now eager to find out who or what is knocking. Carroll states, “because horror fictions are predicated on that revelation of unknown and...
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...NAME : ARIKRISNAN A/L GNASEGARAN COURSE : DMC201601 STUDENT ID : 005003 SUBJECT : COMMUNICATION ENGLISH 102 Pre-writing Why Is IACT The Best? Location * Strategic place,Public Transport * LRT,Bus and Taxi stands * Places to hangout&purchase electronics stuffs * Shopping mall Facilities * Gym,Café and PC Labs * To keep the students’ body in shape,variety of food * Free for students,cheap * Saves students’ time and Learning Method * Project Learning Method * Creative and Critical Thinking * Industry based practices * Widen students’ knowledge Outline Introduction-Why pick IACT?How does IACT College became the number one choice for creative study?According to the students’ they choose IACT College due to its Location,Programmes,Facilities and Learning Methods. Body IACT is in the strategic place as it becomes handy for the students. * Petaling Jaya – Number of places to eat (eg.KFC,PIZZA and Subway) * Lots of places to hangout(eg.Jaya Shopping Centre,Jaya One and Digital Mall. * Public Transports – Asia Jaya LRT Station,Bus and Taxi stands IACT provides plenty of facilities to give the students a happy campus life. * Recreational facilities such as Monster Fit Gym to keep fit,Swimming pool to cool off and Bat Cave to relax and release mind tension. * Study facilities such as PC Labs and Mac Labs for the students to do their assingments. IACT provides programmes that...
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...On the bus ride home one day, Janie thought over her day’s events. The shyest girl in art gave her a rock to inspire her for her collage. She didn’t know how she would use it. Janie had already done three colleges, but none of them were good enough for her. That day after Monster walks be to the bus and Janie finally gets home, Janie checks her Facebook page. She has a message from Emma. Emma thinks Janie and Monster are a thing. Instead of calling and talking to Sarah about this, she calls the Pine Manor Assisted Living Estates to talk to Mr. Pritchard. Mr. Pritchard answers and already knows that Janie wants to come and talk about the Freedom School. Janie didn’t know what that was so she decided to ask Mr. Pritchard. First he explained and then the two made plans to talk to the lady that ran the school with his wife, Mrs. Brown. Janie couldn’t wait. When she gets off the phone, Janie’s mom rushes into the kitchen announcing that they will be having a hootenanny. Janie knew it would ruin everything. Janie’s mother was inviting most of the community. They would come and eat and then use their guitars, fiddles and harmonicas to make music. It was over the top. Janie thought about this as she practiced playing on her bass. The next day in library, Verbena finds out about the hootenanny and Janie spends the period explaining what one is....
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...have been around since the Anglo- Saxon period. During Anglo- Saxon time, heroes were revered for exhibiting loyalty and bravery whether it is through fighting monsters or wielding godly weapons. In modern times, how heroes exhibit these traits may be less extravagant; however it is no less heroic. The heroic qualities of loyalty and bravery are shown through Beowulf’s actions and compared to the famous Rosa Parks. In the epic poem “Beowulf,” loyalty and bravery is displayed when Beowulf travels to Denmark to fight Grendel for the Danes. These traits are also visible in Rosa Parks who is...
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...Rhetoric in Man Made Monster The movie Man Made Monster is a story of a man’s good fortune gone bad. On a rainy night a bus crashes into an electric utility tower and kills all the passengers except for Dan McCormick. The reason he survived the crash was because he had an immunity to electricity because of his carnival act. When Dr. Lawrence questioned Dan about it, Dan says his tricks are all just a bunch of hog wash. This is an example of rhetoric because Dan is persuading himself to believe that it wasn’t his immunity to electricity that saved him because he didn’t want to feel bad for surviving when all those other people died. He was mentally persuading himself. Ignorance is bliss. Another form of rhetoric was Dan’s character. He had the personality of a knock around guy who was very likable because he wanted to do right. He could be called an “aw, shucks” kind of guy. The characters in the movie and the audience as well were persuaded by Dan’s personality to believe he was a good man. Rigas was a whole different story. He was a different kind of man. Rigas could be pegged as a bad guy right off the bat. His voice, his character, and his actions all persuaded the other characters and the audience that he was spiteful and suspicious. This was also a form of rheotoric because of the persuasion Rigas’s character to others. Rigas also physically persuaded Dan to murder. Rigas done an experiment on Dan that physically and mentally persuaded him to follow the commands of Rigas...
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...MKT 101 Monster Energy company has brought a new product to the market, called “Monster Dragonfruit-Pomegranate”, specially designed for the teens and young adults who are especially vulnerable to insufficient energy and persistent exhaustion as well as for those extreme sports enthusiasts, hip-hop group and gamers. In the following paragraphs, we will look into how Monster Energy is planning to integrate and coordinate its promotional mix tools for maximum overall impact to win its market share. The Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) campaign for Monster Dragonfruit-Pomegranate is “Drink and Go” The overall message of the campaign is that there are so many things around us that are amazing and inspiring which can make us feel our life offers limitless opportunities and willingness to give an attempt to achieve dreams. However all these are ignored due to tiredness we feel which are caused because of our super-charged lifestyle. Hence the campaign message is telling us to feel excited, interested and energized once again by drinking Monster Dragonfruit-Pomegranate, which will give the consumer the energy he needs to continuously work on his ambition. Monster Energy Company is going to integrate and coordinate its promotional mix tools of advertising, public relations, personal selling and consumer sales promotion by combining these elements with place, price, and product to position the firm’s offering in peoples’ minds. By doing this, Monster Energy will...
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...As I walked out of the airport the mid-morning sun felt like blazing fire knives on my eyes. I was incredibly tired from the eight hour flight to Germany. I wanted to crash, just like the Titanic. Before we had walked out of the fuming airport, we sat there tediously waiting for the tardy, egregious bus to show up. Hauling my boulder of a suitcase, I absorbed all the subtle differences of this German city airport. What snatched my attention the most was the traffic signs. They seemed so much more intricate and weird. We drove for a few, long, excruciating hours. The whole time I just wanted to sleep but I was so excited to be in Germany that I couldn’t fall asleep. The area we were driving trough was completely full of farms. There were endless seas of fields all around us. Before we knew, it we were suddenly in the town of Heidelberg. We rushed out of the bus like gushing water being released from a dam. The feeling of being on German soil was exhilarating and extravagant. The first thing a small group of friends and I did was go to a grocery store, and we each bought different things to make sandwiches. We bought all these strange breads and cheeses that had intense flavors, like the intense flavor a gushers fruit flavors, or the power packed taste of Sunny D. We sat around an old fountain statue and eating our sandwiches and watching people go about their day. We looked inside the bottom of the fountain and saw a shimmering pool of glistening golden light from all...
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...Monster of the Sea period 4 Alex Rosales Do you ever wonder what may lay beneath the ocean, where myth and reality come to life? What is the giant squid aka; “THE KRAKEN” as told in tall tales. In ancient myth, sailors told of giant squid attacking the boats. Now movies make them come to reality more feared and scary. Finally a group of scientist called the “squid squad” are looking for the giant creature aka “Kraken” in the big blue ocean. In the beginning ancient sailors told tales of there ships being attacked by a giant squid. They said that some squids would be larger than whales, towering over there ships. Sailors also told tales of the giant squid being stronger than...
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...was the oldest of two, and was born in Wichita, Kansas. “Hey kids come check out what they were throwing away at work,” my mom belted out at us as we sang songs into the black Radio-Shack tape recorder in our room. We come out of our room to see this machine plugged into the television, and on the television we saw our favorite Sesame Street character. Cookie Monster was eating numbers on our color television. We had a computer....
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...Fahrenheit 451-“ The temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns” (title page). In Fahrenheit 451, science fiction author Ray Bradbury wrote a novel about censorship and about governments taking away the rights of citizens. In several ways, Bradbury’s theme seems to describe the circumstances Americans have been living in since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. In the novel, as well as in the film, Bradbury presents the reader with his viewpoints on censorship which provide a parallel perspective comparing how American citizens have lived prior to and after the 9/11 attacks. Bradbury’s novel begins with explicit details describing the burning of books. The opening is somewhat alarming because burning books is not what a normal person would consider to be the duty of a firefighter. The government has made it forbidden and unlawful to read books. As a reader, I could not help myself from thinking back to the times of Communism in the Soviet Union and Nazism in Hitler’s Germany. During the 1950s, in protest to Communism and Nazism, many of the same token books were being burned here in the US. In the film a symbolic relationship between black, evil, Communism, and death is painted by the firefighters jet-black hardened helmets and their jet black flameproof jackets. The color black seems to symbolize the coming of death. The firefighters wore all black uniforms and they rode on a very red box-like shaped vehicle filled with petrol. The red could symbolize...
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...The stench of the young. The moving classroom was filled with it. The surrounding crowd were the producers of said stench. Another name for them would be teenagers. Hormone filled, sex craving teenagers that couldn’t give a single damn what anybody had thought of any of them. He smelt it as he walked into the larger than life van and traded money for a piece of silky paper stating that he was allowed on this particular van at this moment in time. This was routine. He sat down on the seat he claimed as his own, his throne, some might call it. During the process, the man jerked slightly to the left as the bus started gaining momentum. It had begun. Towards the rear end of the bus, there was a man; a tall, slender and sopisticated looking man. What he was doing there was not known to anyone. His looks had made the impression that this tall man was going to work, possibly as an office job. His hairy face and lousy posture could suggest that he did not like the particular job that he held. Surrounding him were the teenagers. What they were doing did not impress the tall man. This had included screaming into his ear holes any names that they had thought of that particular day and spraying their latest up to date ‘smell good powder’ (which clearly does not work) around him. This had not impressed the tall man. The expression upon his face had given the impression that he was bound upon this moving two-story room against his own will. The sex-craving teenagers sensed this upon...
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...5th grade persuasive If you would ask children if they think there should be school on Saturdays, without hesitation they would say, “No way!” What child would want to go to school on Saturday? What teacher would want to go to school on Saturday? If anyone is thinking about having school on a Saturday, they better think again. When would children have their friends over to the house? Sometimes the parents might not have to work on Saturday, but the kids would have school. Now no one can sleep late or have quality time. Parents and children need time to bond. I’ve heard that the biggest influence on kids these days is the parents. Well, it’s not going to be that way for long if the children aren’t even seeing their parents. I think that before you make a decision you should think about what I am telling you. What about out of class projects and reports? They couldn’t be out of class projects if the children are always in class. I see another problem with Saturday school. Another day of homework. Homework already kills a lot of my time. I don’t want another day of it. I think people voting for Saturday school should put themselves in the children’s shoes. Just imaging yourself jumping out of bed on a Saturday morning and you say, “Aaah. It’s Saturday. What fun things should I do today?” Now imagine yourself saying the same thing and then you remember, “Oh, yeah. I have to go to school. Ugh.” Which one would you enjoy more? And think about the fact...
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...to give yourself practice on CXC type reading comprension questions. These are the types of questions that will appear in section 2, paper 2 of the English A exam. | 1. Read the following extract carefully and then answer all the questions set on it.Pita panicked. There was nothing he could do. He was trapped. Trapped with hundreds of others. The monster had come and was slowly, surely dragging them from the deep. He swam through the excited crowd to try the bottom. Then he tried the top again. The great monster had encircled them completely. There were millions of holes in its great hands, but none large enough. If only they were a little larger. Pita tried to push himself through one of the holes again. He squeezed and squeezed. Great tails lashed around him. Not only he but against his eyes. If only his head could get through. He pushed again, hard, and the pain quivered through his body.There was nothing he could do. He heard the breakers roaring above now. That meant they were nearing the shore. Pita whipped his tail in fury. The monster was gradually closing its hands. There were cries now above the surface. Below, the monster grated on sand. The shore! They had reached the shore! Frantically, Pita flung himself against one of the tiny holes. He gave a cry as the scales tore from his back - then a cry of joy. He was free! Free!He lunged forward below the surface. Down he sped, rejoicing in his tinyness. If he was only a little bigger, he would have been dying on the shore...
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...an ad in the classifieds this morning for an electrical engineer at the plant. Pay’s good. Michael: I’ll look at it Dad. I already uploaded my resume to their website, so they already have it on file. Luis: Wouldn’t hurt to mail one in though would it? I know it’s old-fashioned, but it’s how everyone I know ever got a job. Michael: I know Dad. Times are changing though; companies use their web sites for recruitment a lot these days. But I will go to the trouble to print one out and mail it to them. I’ve been looking at some other companies too. GE has a great Facebook site and sounds like a company I’d like to work for. I went to their website and uploaded a resume and profile there too. I also put my resume up on Monster. Maria: Monsters get you jobs? Michael: (laughs.) It’s a website Mom. You upload your resume and fill out a form about what kind of job you’re looking for and where. Then employers and head hunters see it, and contact you if...
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...1984[edit] Ten-year-old Tre Styles (Desi Arnez Hines II) lives with his single mother Reva Devereaux (Angela Bassett) in Inglewood, California. After Tre gets involved in a fight at school, his teacher calls Reva and informs her that although Tre is rather intelligent, he is immature, aggressive, and lacks respect for classmates and adults alike. Frightened about the future of her child, Reva sends him to live in the Crenshaw neighborhood of South Central with his 27-year-old father, Furious Styles (Laurence Fishburne), from whom she hopes Tre will learn valuable life lessons. On the night of Tre's arrival, he hears his father shooting at a burglar who tried to rob the house. LAPD officers arrive more than an hour later, and eventually decide the crime is unimportant because nothing was taken and the burglar escaped completely unharmed. The police, particularly the African American officer, treat Furious with disrespect and contempt. The following day, Tre reunites with childhood friends Darrin "Doughboy" Baker, Doughboy's maternal half-brother Ricky, and Chris, their mutual friend. While Ricky is naïve and trusting, Doughboy is aggressive and street-smart. The next day, Chris takes the group into another neighborhood to view the decaying corpse of a murdered gang member. A Crip gang member tricks Ricky into giving up his football, prompting Doughboy to confront him to get it back. Doughboy is beaten up, but the ball is returned to him by another Crip member. Furious...
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