...Terminator 2: Judgement Day The film ‘Terminator 2: Judgement Day’ is a science fiction film released in 1991 and directed by James Cameron. It is a sequel to the earlier film ‘The Terminator’ which began to explore the theme of technologies increasing impact on human life and the negative fall-out that will result in humanities over reliance on technology. ‘Terminator 2’ continues and then builds upon this theme by using religious metaphors associated with the apocalypse to give the viewers a bleak view of the future and the potential effect of technology. Not only can robots, using technology created by man, be sent back in time to try and eliminate members of the human race, but the technology itself has been developed to the point where it is able to make conscious decisions about the fate of the world and the human race. This ultimately sets the tone that humans will be the manufacturers’ of their own demise and it will be technology will be the cause. There is, however, an underlying theme of hope that technology can provide for man-kind, personified by the terminator character, T-800, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger. The films plot centres on a T-800 terminator that has been sent back in time by the humans to protect John Connor, a young child who will be responsible for leading the resistance to the tyranny of the machines in the future. Another terminator, the T-1000 has also been sent back in time, by the machines, in order to kill John Connor as they know...
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...eliminate human error and respond quickly to enemy attacks. The system taught itself and by August 29th, gained artificial consciousness. The operators panicked after realizing the capabilities of Skynet and attempted to shut it down. Skynet viewed this as an attack and responded. It’s reponse was the extermination of the humans. Nuclear missiles were launched at Russia and Russia responded with a counter-attack. Over 3 billion people were killed that day. The humans were enslaved by Skynet’s army of machines but started a resistance movement. Today, we are still at battle attempting to over power the machines and regain our world. (The Terminator, 1984) The year today is 2015. We are all living outside of enslavement from machines and our world has not been destroyed by nuclear weapons. What you just read was the basis for the 1984 movie, The Terminator. Technology had been made too powerful, gained self-awareness, and took over the world. Thankfully, that is not our world. However, will it be in the future? Technology may not have progressed as fast and as far as the movie thought that it would by now, but it’s getting better by the day and it’s still possible that we could reach that point where machines become self-aware. With help from the Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction and the Cambridge Companion to Fantasy books, we will explore the connection between science fiction and the real world, analyze the uses of modern day technology, like that of the MonsterMind, and find...
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...all movies is the story, and without it, nothing else matters. If a story works, if it engages the audiences for two hours, then there is no wrong way to tell it. If the story doesn’t work, then the opposite is true” (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2011). Avatar (2009), was an American Science Fiction film set in the 22-century. “Avatar cost somewhere between $250 million and $500 million to make, yet weeks after its release, it had already grossed more than $1 billion worldwide for the Twentieth Century–Fox Film Corporation” (Gray, 2010). While to create such a costly movies was a big risk for James Cameron, who directed, wrote, co-produced, and co-edited the film, clearly with a proven track record such film as Titanic, The Abyss and Terminator 2, he knew how to make a blockbuster film. “Avatar was more than a science fiction film; it was itself a product of centuries of theoretical and applied science” (Benitez & Wallin, 2011). When Cameron was asked about what the movie...
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...ESSAY Theme: “International labor division” The international division of labor was an achievement of the spirit of Liberalism. International trade has to some extent existed from the oldest times. There was a regular commerce in some commodities the production of which was limited to special geographical conditions. There was occasional trade when some extraordinary event offered unusual opportunities. But however important the civilizations consequences of this international traffic were and however important its amount was when compared with the technical difficulties that transport had to overcome, the role played by it in supplying the wants of the markets was negligible. A very small part only of the common man's daily consumption was dependent on foreign produce. The commodities imported might for the most part be regarded as luxury goods, as people could do without them without suffering too great privation. At the beginning of the nineteenth century Napoleon's continental blockade even if it had been strictly enforced would not have had any noteworthy consequences on the daily consumption of the masses in Central Europe. In those days for the ordinary man's supply of even sugar (of course, in those days cane sugar only) and cotton were luxuries. Globalization has led to the new international division of labor (NIDL) where production processes are no longer located in the national economies. In the recent past production processes are being shifted...
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...A repeated theme we see in this film that we can see in other cyberpunk films is the idea of man-made technology such as computer systems or artificial intelligence, betraying its own creator for wanting to take over the real world and people’s lives. Clu represents a creation made to do well that ends up doing the opposite. Connecting it back to Videodrome, Brian O’Blivion had originally created Videodrome as a creation for his visions of the future, to which he had no intention to use in malevolent and brainwashing purposes. He tries to stop this and ends up getting killed, leaving his work he left behind in the hands of his daughter that takes over and turns Videodrome into what Max is now dealing with. In Tron: Legacy, though Flynn is not technically killed, he is trapped inside a virtual world he has no control of – a virtual world made up of thousands of pixels that has become Flynn’s own reality. In the end, Sam manages to reclaim Flynn’s disc, and Flynn destroys Clu along with himself, while Sam and Quorra successfully manage to escape back to the real world where Sam quickly deactivates the system. The ending shows how a man’s own work ends up taking his life, this is in the case of Flynn who is “destroyed” along with the computer programs. Flynn became another computer program that was not able to make it back to the real world. Similarly, we see these aspects in cyberpunk films such as when a character is not capable of coming back to his real senses or is killed off...
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...American Cinema/Riggin Film Journal #1 The Terminator It's early 21st century, and a nuclear holocaust has killed off most people. Those that remain are subjugated to a war against sophisticated machines. This sets the stage for the classical narrative that will unfold in James Cameron’s The Terminator. This film provides several examples of the classical narrative style, mise-en-scene, exquisite editing that matches on graphics and action as well as use of camera angles to feature the tale. The classical narrative of The Terminator focuses on the story of Sarah Connor set against the backdrop of the larger conflict. The plot is exquisite in its simplicity as the machines determine to win the war before it even starts. They send the terminator (Schwarzeneggar) back through to kill Sarah Connor (Hamilton) and thereby prevent the birth of John Conner, the future resistance leader. The human resistance sends back a human, Kyle Reese (Biehn), to protect Sarah. Unfortunately for both the Terminator and Kyle, Sarah's residence is not known. So both proceed to phone booths, where they learn that there are three Sarah Connor’s in the phone book. Kyle has the advantage here since he has a photo of her, while the Terminator must resort to assassinating each Sarah Connor in order to achieve his mission. The alternating cross-scenes between the actions of Kyle and The Terminator are played in direct contrast to each other. The Terminator arrives calm, poised and untouched from...
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...Human rights are the entitlements that all individuals possess, regardless of race, religion, sex, colour, believes, or national origin. These rights are considered universal but not all countries recognised these rights as legal. Human rights are legally enforced by the European Union Following the holocaust that occurred in World War II the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was created in Paris by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948. The European convention of Human Rights is an international treaty that protects human rights and freedoms. People who feel their rights has been violated, can take their complaints to the European Court of Human Rights where their case can be reviewed and their rights upheld. The Human Rights Act 1998 was an Act of Parliament that boosted the effect of European Convention of Human Rights in the UK. The Human Rights Act 1998 is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom which received Royal Assent on 9 November 1998, and mostly came into force on 2 October 2000.[1] Its aim is to "give further effect" in UK law to the rights contained in the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, but more commonly known as the European Convention on Human Rights. The Act makes a remedy for breach of a Convention right available in UK courts, without the need to go to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. In particular, the Act makes it unlawful for any public body to act in a way which is incompatible...
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...Essay on Essay Analysis on The Movie "The Terminator" For the purposes of this essay I have chosen The Terminator, a science fiction B-movie feature from 1984. Although I intend mainly to study this purely as a single film, I do intend to study Terminator 2 in addition, thus making the essay a study of the series. In addition, I will be contrasting the theory written surrounding these films in relation to other contemporary postmodern theory, and as a result will be mentioning several other films by way of a comparison or contrast. The Terminator seems quite remarkable to me, for a number of reasons. Firstly, it is one of many action films I watched in my early teens; a considerable number of which, like this film, starred the Austrian body-builder turned actor, Arnold Schwarzenegger. What is so different about The Terminator though, is that unlike most of these films, this movie has enough depth and substance that, not only does it still bear watching now that I am older, but it also has an archive of academic theory written about it. The Terminator tells of a cyborg, a human shaped machine coated in flesh, that is sent back in time, from an apocalyptic future in which machines have 'got smart' and acted on their own to destroy the human race. The cyborg's mission is to assassinate the mother of the human's great leader, the man who taught the survivors to fight back against the machines. The woman, a young waitress named Sarah Connor, is protected only by a lone warrior...
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...Nicholas Vonderheyde Masculine Identity in Science Fiction Film: From Reagan to Bush From the 1970s to the early 1990s, there were many anxieties regarding shifting gender definitions and roles in American society. Ronald Reagan’s attempt to “re-masculinize” the country was during a time when communism and terrorism posed real threats to our nation. After these problems were resolved diplomatically rather than through physical action in the early 1990s, the definition and representation of masculinity began to shift. This was directly reflected in the media in “critical dystopias”, or films that envision an apocalyptic future. Essentially, these Science Fiction productions are artistic critiques of contemporary issues in society. Terminator 2 (James Cameron, 1991) and Demolition Man (Marco Brambilla, 1993) are both critical dystopias from the early 1990s that exemplify the social commentary of such films. The protagonists of both films completely redefine the white, heterosexual male super-body version of masculinity that was popular in the 1980s. By examining the narratives, the characterization, and the cinematography of each critical dystopia, one can see a clear cultural shift in the definitions of masculinity and a growing critique of contemporary masculinity within these films of the early 1990s. Following the Vietnam War, the nation experienced a period of feminization. This can best be depicted in the creation of the “New Man” in men’s magazines; the “New Man” is...
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...Chapter 3 Question 2 Some risks involved in a systems analysis and design project are critical resource availability, the potential of new technology and unfamiliarity of use, user resistance to change and regulatory constraints. A project manager copes with as well as prepares for the risk with good communication, detailed assessments and supporting information to show the concerns have been addressed. Question 4 An inventory tracking system for jewelry is a very challenging one and has its own complexities because jewelers usually adopt the system of tracking inventory based on traditions that have been followed for years together very successfully. These are generally very common sense based approaches and the owner of the store has his own special ways of tracking inventory. With technology in use there are many ways on which inventory can be tracked. The traditional systems are quite good and have been held to be in perfect order and jewelers are used to that old system of tracking for inventory. My initial approach to the project would be to speak with management about their wants regarding the inventory tracking system to determine what their likes and dislikes are of their current system as well as discuss with them future needs and expectations of the new system. My first activity would be to then review the current system specifications. Chapter 4 Question 1 I believe that current resources available is important for first phase because this can save you...
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...Many works in sci-fi try to figure out what makes humans, which is emotions and the ability to make decisions for oneself. Two of such works are, We, a novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin and Terminator 2: Judgment Day, a movie directed by James Cameron. Both works might not seem similar at first, though both have some type of machine that over the course of the story becomes more human. It is the journey that the main characters go on and the different things that they experience that make the stories similar. We is the story about D-503, who lives in what he believes is an utopian future. He lives under the rule of the One State, the leaders who decide everything for their citizens. They decide what to learn, what to read, what kind of art can be made, when their citizens can have sex, and even the schedules that guide their daily lives. D-503’s job is to help build a space ship, called the Integral that would spread the ideas of the One State. D-503 is very happy following the rules and doing what he is told by the One State until he meets up with I-330, who shows him the way that people used to think, and what the outside world is like. He also helps her in starting a rebellion against the One State....
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...GUIDE ANNEXURE – 4 ARINC 424 Path terminators ARINC. Formally known as the Air Radio Corporation of America. ARINC424, the industry standard for the transmission of aeronautical information databases for aircraft flight management system (FMS) use. Path and Terminator (“Path Terminator”). A two-letter code, which defines a specific type of flight path along a segment of a procedure and a specific type of termination of that flight path. Path terminators are assigned to all RNAV, SID, STAR and Approach Procedure segments in an airborne navigation database. Formal Description: (Way point) (Underlined) denotes ‘fly-over’. (Way point) (not underlined) denotes ‘fly-by’ or RF waypoint as appropriate. To (waypoint) denotes a TF path terminator. To (Waypoint) on course XXX denotes a CF path terminator. Direct to (way point) denotes a DF path terminator. (Waypoint) {R,NN,N,LatLong} denotes an RF path terminator, the radius and the centre point of a fixed radius turn in terminal airspace. Climb on track XXX, at or above YYY feet turn right/left denotes and FA path terminator. From (Waypoint) to XXX feet on track XXX denotes an FA Path terminator. Climb on heading XXX, at or above YYY feet turn left/right denotes a VA path terminator. From (waypoint) to XXXX feet on heading XXX denotes a VA path terminator. Continue on heading XXX denotes a VM path terminator. Continue on track XXX denotes a FM path terminator. Abbreviated Description. The...
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...Review Questions 1. E (None of the above) 2. B, C, and D (Connect the printer to a W7 workstation and share it on network, purchase printer with built in NIC, use a print server device that connects to network) 3. B (terminator) 4. A, B. C and D (Learn how networks work in terms of protocols, access methods, and topologies, avoid the risk of implementing fault tolerance, start with a safe mesh design…, understand the physical equipment with data loss) 5. A, B, C, and D (Accessing the internet, sharing a printer, accessing multimedia, sharing files) 6. B (Cable Plant) 7. A (Enterprise Network) 8. C and D (Subject to network congestion, requiring additional network devices to control traffic flow and one defective node or cable can takedown the network) 9. B and C (Star-ring hybrid and mesh) 10. A, B, C and D (software applications, work patterns, computer and OS to be connected to network, security) 11. D (All of the above are commonly used in modern LANs) 12. A, B, and C (Computer attached to network, DVD/CD-ROM array attached to server, printer attached to network) 13. C (IEEE) 14. D (Omit the portion of the order for terminators, because terminators are built into devices) 15. A (two loops for redundant data transmission) 16. C and D (Printer expenditures could be reduced and centralized backup of client files would be possible) 17. B (VPN) 18. B and D (switch and router) 19. B (peer to peer) 20...
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...Table of Flowchart Symbols (aka, Flowchart Shapes, Business Process Map Symbols) |Symbol |Symbol Name |Symbol Description | | |(alias) | | |Process / Operation Symbols | |[pic] |Process |Show a Process or action step. This is the most common symbol in both process flowcharts and | | | |business process maps. | |[pic] |Alternate Process |As the shape name suggests, this flowchart symbol is used when the process flow step is an | | | |alternate to the normal process step. Flow lines into an alternate process flow step are | | | |typically dashed. | |[pic] |Delay |The Delay flowchart symbol depicts any waiting period that is part of a process. Delay shapes | | | |are common in process...
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... Kudler Fine Food Topology Current Topology Network Topologies Kudler’s Fine Foods all use the same Hub for connectivity. The Hubs that they are currently using are ancient history compared to today’s technology. Kudler Fine Foods currently use what is call a bus topology were all stations are attached via cable taps to a single length of cable. Each station sends signals and is able to detect signals on the bus. The bus topology connects each computer on the network into something called the segment trunk. A bus is usually referred to a cable that connects end to end and this is used to transmit the signals from one end to the other end. At every end a terminator is placed so that it understands in which direction the data is traveling and also the terminator is used to absorb the signals. If the terminator does not absorb the signal then the same signal is reflected back to the bus confusing the whole data flow. The bus is considered to be a passive network because the computers are largely dependent on the signal that is being transmitted. Bus Topology Advantages The advantage of the Bus network is that if one computer fails in the network...
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