...WALL-E Approximately seven hundred years in the future, the Earth is over-run with garbage and devoid of plant and animal life, the consequence of years of environmental degradation and thoughtless consumerism. The surviving humans are living on the spaceship Axiom after vacating Earth centuries earlier. Axiom is operated by a large corporation called Buy N Large, whose BnL logo appears even on the artificial sun visible from the ship's main concourse. The original plan was for humans to live in outer space for 5 years while cleaning robots ("WALL-Es" invented by Professor Simon) prepared Earth for recolonization. However, after seven hundred years, only one WALL-E (voice: Ben Burtt) remains. WALL-E spends his days compacting debris into solid blocks and building structures with them. He also collects some of the more interesting artifacts and keeps them in the garage he shares with a cockroach, his only friend. At night he watches Hello Dolly on VHS and dreams of having a hand to hold. Most of his finds are spare parts and electronics but one day he discovers a lonely plant. Not sure what it is, but recognizing that it needs soil and care, he picks it up and puts it in a dirt-filled old shoe. The next day, an enormous spaceship lands and deposits another robot, EVE (Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator, voice: Elissa Knight). WALL-E is immediately smitten and hopes to hold her hand, but EVE is quick to use her plasma cannon, which can blast a hole through anything....
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...WALL-E may be the cutest Pixar character ever, even though he is just a trash compactor with binocular like eyes. WALL-E was a movie created by Pixar to challenge themselves and as well as the world. It was released in 2008 and was directed by Andrew Stanton. It was written by Andrew Stanton and Pete Docter and the movie starred Ben Burtt as WALL-E, Elissa Knight as EVE, and Jeff Garlin as the Captain (of the ship called Axiom). Working along with Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Pictures released WALL-E in Canada and the United States on June 27, 2008, and it blew the competition out of the water as it made $23.2 million on its opening day, $63 million on its opening weekend in almost four thousand theatres, all the while coming in first...
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...Within the current era of opulence excess and waste, the movie “WALL-E” expresses the urgent need for recycling and self preservation. As a society we have lost preservation on the focus of mother earth. Our landfills are filled to an abundance and overflow of human waste that will never breakdown in our lifetime or our grandchildren’s lifetime. During our present society we have predicted an epidemic of obesity directly resulting in the need for instant gratification due to the internet. WALL-E (whose name stands for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) is a cute, squat robot with droopy binocular eyes who is a roving trash compactor and, in fact, the last of this breed exposes the dangers to our society and mother earth in both of these instances. As depicted in WALL-E our societies wasteful nature created the earth as a waste dump. Once there was no more room on mother earth for the humans to cohabitate with the waste, the humans were forced to result to living on space ships. WALL-E was created in attempt to compact the waste for possible re-habitation of earth. In the process WALL-E not only discovers a long forgotten life form “the flower” he also discovers the long forgotten love and companionship of “EVE” (whose name stands for Extra-terrestrial Vegetation Evaluator) who is a frictionless white pod with cathode-ray eyes who has been sent to earth to search for organic life. Although these two do not talk exactly, they ...
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...Analysis of Wall-E . For as little dialogue as there is in the film, Wall-E is an awesome movie which is evidenced by many of the awards it has won. Upon beginning to watch Wall-E, I did not expect an animated film to have such great meaning and address many of the societal issues it does in the film. The main issues Wall-E touches on are consumerism, technology, and environmental problems. The movie brings light to these issues by placing the setting in 2805 and showing the audience what these issues could be like hundreds of years down the road. Many of the readings we have done in class give reason to believe the Earth and civilization could become what it is in the movie Wall-E. The first societal problem brought to light in the film is environmental related issues. The first thing we see in the film are a bunch of stacks of garbage piles, sometimes bigger than skyscrapers. This undoubtedly ties into how we go about disposing of our garbage and sewage today. According to the article read in class called “Why Consumption Matters”, the average American in 1990 would throw out four to five pounds of garbage a day, while being responsible for 124 pounds of behind the scenes consumption. This behind the scenes consumption includes construction materials, fossil fuels, industrial materials, forest, and metals amongst others. We must also keep in mind that this is a 1990 figure, and that Americans consume significantly more in 2014. It is statistics like these that make it...
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...The movie UP is perfect for ABC yeah the movie of the house flying with a bunch of balloons. The movie consists on a young Carl Fredrickson meets a young adventure-spirited girl named Ellie. They both dream of going to a lost land in South America. 70 years later, Ellie has died. Carl remembers the promise he made to her. So he decides to go in an adventure, while he gets stuked with a young scout kid The movie up is perfect for ABC because it covers your basic requirements. The movie UP does not contain violence or profanity it is classified PG, in addition the movie UP has a perfect length of 1hr 29 minutes. ABC wants this movie because this points are important to consider, it is important because there is going to be children of a young age that could be sensitive at violence, that could lead to an unwanted behavior. Furthermore older people can be more susceptible to violence and could dislike the movie if so, your audience will really love this movie. Don't forget about the perfect length you have to take in notice that the movie UP is not a long movie so that kids can stay focused at the movie, and is not short so that you have time to appreciate it you must consider this factor a lot so that you can make you audience happy. I guarantee that they will love it. Paul Chambers from CNN Radio, ''Pure joy and one of the best films of the year. You gotta have a good story, and this one is a gem. It even made a bit misty-eyed. Good stuff from Pixar''. Also Dan jardine from...
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...The movie WALL-E is, on the surface, a cute movie about a robot (WALL-E) that is left on earth after humanity evacuated it when they polluted the earth, and left much waste behind. It is WALL-E's job to clean up the mess. However, after 700 years of this job, it has started to make him eccentric. He collects artifacts from earth, and places them in his house. One day a scout drone comes to earth from one of humanities spaceships. This robot is named EVE. It is on a mission to find life on earth. WALL-E falls in love with EVE. Soon eve finds a plant that WALL-E had stored in his home. EVE then returns to the spaceship, with WALL-E following her. Hijinks ensure, and humanity is eventually led back to earth with the help of WALL-E. They then begin to repopulate earth. However, if you look underneath the 'cute' layer, you will find many references to religious stories. The two I am going to discuss are the tower of Babel and Noah's arc. To begin with, I will note the similarities with the 'Noah's arc' story. I am sure you will be familiar with the story, so here is an outline. God tells Noah that the world will flood for 40 days and nights, and that he should build a large boat and round up two of every animal to survive the flood. Noah does so, and then after he is finished, the world floods, from a lot of rain. After 40 days, the rain stops. So Noah send out a dove, which is called 'eve' in some stories, to retrieve a twig from dry land. After it returns, Noah determines that the...
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...hear we are in the ‘age of technology’. It’s crazy how much technology we use on a daily basis. It has become so routine to have technology incorporated into our daily lives that we don’t realize how much we rely on it. Who would have thought Pixar’s animation Wall-E could have so much technological awareness incorporated into the plot. The director of Wall-E created this movie with a universal message of what will happen to our society over time if we do not stop relying on technology. Thousands of years have passed that we have lived with technology, and it has worked in our benefit in many circumstances. However, it has become an addiction, distraction and a nuisance to our society. Society craves the latest technology, and we want more. I will admit I can’t last without my cell phone. Unlike the past however, humans are buried in technology in which we depend on. Cavemen many years ago survived without technology; why is it now that we have become so reliant on it? Just as the passengers on the Axiom in Wall-E, we are controlled and driven by technology. But, what will society do if technology takes a turn for the worse and goes against us? In the film the robots on the Axiom turned against the passengers to assist Wall-E and Eve in saving the Earth. One-day robots could ultimately turn on society and we will be left with nothing to do. Technology is assisting society in becoming helpless and unable to fend for ourselves. Technology has also created a large impact on communication...
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...probably won't be able to define sustainability, but they might recall seeing the movies A Bug’s Life, Finding Nemo, and Wall-E. In A Bug’s Life, the protagonist must save his colony from greedy human-like grasshoppers stealing their resources. Finding Nemo, shows the effects of the human footprint on tide pools through a father clownfish losing his son. Directed by Andrew Stanton, Wall-E (2008) also uses an anthropomorphistic story to highlight aspects of sustainability. The first sentence of the trailer for Wall-E, sets the story seven hundred years into the future when mankind has abandoned planet Earth and left it’s clean up in the hands of a machine. As the story is being introduced, the audience is shown an aerial view of Earth from outer space. It zooms into the dusty, brown planet, and we are introduced to Wall-E. Standing for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class, Wall-E is the last robot alive from millions of machines whose purpose was to clean up the Earth after humans fled the mess they made. However, after introducing the main character, Wall-E, the trailer then dives into his relationship with his love interest Eve. This undermines the importance of the film’s ecological message by portraying it as a love story. Through its dramatization of excessive corporate control, iconography of relevant waste culprits, and somber cinematography, Wall-E actually serves as a social critique of consumer mentality and illuminates corporate effects on the environment. It appeals...
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...While correlation between both works are present, Feed and Wall-E are not identical; each works have differences, starting off with the human’s habitat. In Feed, everyone lives on Earth. Due to the abundant amounts of pollution, Earth is uninhabitable. Because of this, everyone lives in “tubes” on Earth to keep away from the pollution. While the characters do travel into space and on various planets and moons (Mars, one of Jupiter’s moon, the Earth’s moon, etc.), they still live in the wrecked junkyard of which is Earth. Also, no one seems to mind the degrading environment. Everyone in the novel tries to make the scenario vague; everyone treats lesions (which are caused by the contaminated air) as a norm instead of worrying about the air conditions. However, in...
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...gender onto such characters. Especially inanimate ones is entirely based on the writers imaginations and the features selected to gender something “male” or “female” often reflect assumptions, stereotypes, and conventional gender roles. Pixar’s film Wall-E is a love story between two robots working in an environment following the evacuation and abandonment of Earth under piles and piles of trash. Wall-E is a computer generated animated feature created on Pixar’s own software Renderman.Wall-E is based on a...
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...The animated Disney pixel film wall-e was released/made in 2008 and was great success and was able to warm the hearts of many people. In this movie we saw that wall-e was left alone with nothing, but his pet cockroach on earth, after the human left earth because it wasn't safe to live there anymore. In this film we know that wall-e is a solar powered machine, unlike some robots that need maintenance wall-e can keep going by resting in the sun. Everyday wall-e wakes up and collect the trash that the humans left behind and crushes them into small cubes to make trash skyscrapers, like in the story of Noah, God made Noah build a boat, so Jesus can start start again and more people can believe in him because most people just forgot about him,...
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...E d g a r A l l a n P o e p The Cask of Amontillado foRTunaTo had huRT me a thousand times and I had suffered quietly. But then I learned that he had laughed at my proud name, Montresor, the name of an old and honored family. I promised myself that I would make him pay for this — that I would have revenge. You must not suppose, however, that I spoke of this to anyone. I would make him pay, yes; but I would act only with the greatest care. I must not suffer as a result of taking my revenge. A wrong is not made right in that manner. And also the wrong would not be made right unless Fortunato knew that he was paying and knew who was forcing him to pay. I gave Fortunato no cause to doubt me. I continued to smile in his face, and he did not understand that I was now smiling at the thought of what I planned for him, at the thought of my revenge. Fortunato was a strong man, a man to be feared. But he had one great weakness: he liked to drink good wine, and indeed he drank much of it. So he knew a lot about fine wines, and proudly believed that he was a trained judge of them. I, too, knew old wines well, and 68 E d g a r A l l a n P o e : S t o r y t e l l e r I bought the best I could find. And wine, I thought, wine would give me my revenge! It was almost dark, one evening in the spring, when I met Fortunato in the street, alone. He spoke to me more warmly than was usual, for already he had drunk more wine than was good for him. I acted pleased to see...
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...male had a low hair cute. Their conversation was about school. The young lady had just taken a Civil Rights course and she was describing the impact that the course had on her. Her male friend seemed to be very interested in the conversation. 4. “That cornbread looks good” a group member quoted 5. The restaurant has a coat rack for your coats. 6. Younger couples seemed to sit at the bar and customers that were there by themselves sat at the bar. 7. The waiter’s attires were black tops and blue jeans. 8. The restaurants sits about 125 guests; two levels, black and white pictures on the wall downstairs, colorful pictures upstairs with painted yellow walls. 9. Daily specials were written on the blackboard at the entrance of the restaurant. 10. There was a white phone on the side of the wall. 11. There was a thermoset on the wall by the customers. 12. Restrooms downstairs had no gender on them and there were only two; upstairs there were restrooms as well. 13. The restaurant had energy saving lights as well as lights over top of the tables....
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...30" (76.2 CM) AND 36" (91.4 CM) RANGE HOOD Installation Instructions and Use & Care Guide HOTTE DE CUISINIÈRE DE 30" (76,2 CM) ET 36" (91,4 CM) Instructions d’installation et Guide d’utilisation et d’entretien Table of Contents/Table des matières............................................................................. 2 IMPORTANT: READ AND SAVE THESE INSTRUCTIONS. FOR RESIDENTIAL USE ONLY. IMPORTANT : LIRE ET CONSERVER CES INSTRUCTIONS. POUR UTILISATION RÉSIDENTIELLE UNIQUEMENT. LI3VQC/W10274302D TABLE OF CONTENTS RANGE HOOD SAFETY .................................................................2 INSTALLATION REQUIREMENTS ................................................3 Tools and Parts ............................................................................3 Location Requirements................................................................4 Venting Requirements..................................................................5 Electrical Requirements ...............................................................6 INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS ..................................................7 Prepare Location..........................................................................7 Install Range Hood.......................................................................9 Complete Installation .................................................................10 RANGE HOOD USE......................................................................10 Range...
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...INTRODUCTION Buildings come in various types and shapes, frequently determined by their functions. Unfortunately, there are many types of building defect that may occur in most of the building. Building defect is one of the major components of building that needed attention. Building defect refer to the results in a failure of a component part of a building or structure and causes damage to person or property, usually resulting in financial harm to the owner. Building defect will also reduce the value and the function of a building. There are many types of building defect such as cracking, dampness, spalling, peeling paint, insect or termite attack, corrosion, fungus stain and so on. These building defect can affect the performance and the appearance of the building. Building defect can occur either because of poor design, or low quality workmanship, or because the building was not constructed according to the design, or use of inferior materials. When a building facing defects, the causes of that defect have to identified before any remedial work can be undertaken to remedial it. Therefore, we are required to investigate the building defect of a building. We also have to identify the possible cause of the building defect which occur in that building. We have choose the building of Guest House to make our case study and survey. This building is located at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Pulau Pinang. Guest House is one of the famous hospitality choices for USM visitors...
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