...Clash of the titans movie is not the most but one of the most visual representations so far. I was really fascinated on how people lived in a world were gods can be deceived and gods also had emotions that a mortal can feel. Like what Hades felt to his brother Zeus by planning a great revenge to claim what Zeus has and how Zeus loves his creation, the mortals. I saw Perseus as a realistic hero, he’s not the typical hero that can save people without the help of others, and he also has weaknesses like what happen to his family. Perseus somehow represents how mortals can fight even without having any power even though he’s a demigod, because he has no any powerful device or supernatural power like what his father has, Perseus can only be define...
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...characters are portrayed with god-like qualities or traits, they often still exhibit some traits of mortality which tends to give the reader a perceived one on one connection. As a child, and as the eventual King, Arthur’s ideals, morals and overall character change very little. He is always depicted as a feeling, considerate person who uses his abilities, skills, and influence for the betterment of his people. In the story of King Arthur, from our book, Arthur is presented as a larger than life hero and warrior that is pre-ordained to become king through divine intervention. The book’s story also has him battling giants, monsters and sorcerers. However, I felt the movie shown him to be more mortal and susceptible to mortal weaknesses. There wasn’t so much of a divine force influencing the plot and characters, so much as a force of deep loyalty, moral and ethical tones. Arthur shows some traits of immaturity when he is a child, but I believe this is another way the writer attempts to convey to the reader Author’s mortal side and vulnerabilities. His immaturity is short lived and he quickly takes on the characteristics that make him Arthur. The characteristics that Arthur exhibits as a child remain constant throughout his life and is what makes him such a powerful leader, warrior and ultimately King. The changes that Lancelot’s character undergoes are mostly based in self-esteem. Lancelot is portrayed as struggling with feelings of inadequacy, especially in the shadow...
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...Harry Potter is a movie about witchcraft. The main character is Harry Potter who is a very brave, kindhearted and smart boy. He loves his parents who were both wizards. However, his parents were killed by an evil wizard named Voldemort when Harry was a baby. He survived, and as an orphan, he suffered some unfair treatment in his aunt’s house. Even though he lived an unpleasant life, he did not give up the hope for a better life. The Harry Potter movie series are inspiring and creative and they give moral lessons about bravery, perseverance, and strong friendship. Harry Potter does many acts of bravery and teaches its readers that being brave does not always mean not being scared of anything, but doing something even though you are scared. An example of this would be when he found out that he had to die so that Voldemort would be killed. He is willing to sacrifice himself to save others even though he is scared to die. In order to destroy Voldemort, he must to find all the Horcruxes. Horcruxes are parts of his soul put into different objects. Harry must destroy all the Horcruxes to make Voldemort mortal so that he can die. He then finds out that he is a Horcruxes and must kill himself for Voldemort to die. During the war in Hogwarts, several major characters are killed in the first wave of battle. Voldemort said if Harry comes to the forest, he will not attract other wizards. Harry could run away, but he didn’t. He chooses to fight against with Voldemort. After Harry died, he...
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...It’s the weekend and thousands of children and adults spend their time the same way, watching movies. Flocking to the theater or having a group of friends over to watch a movie is a common activity in the average American’s life. The biggest problem is what movie should they watch; a movie with a good moral story, or a film that fulfils the individual’s pleasure? Comparing two popular movies in 2015, the money spent to view these films says everything. In 2015 alone the popular Christian movie, War Room received 27.9 million dollars and the Oscar nominee Fifty Shades of Grey earned 571 million dollars. Both movies earned a decent amount of money but Fifty Shades of Grey is more recognized and more popular in today’s society. War Room is a moral Christian movie based on a family’s struggle to find peace and trust God, while Fifty Shades of Grey is a film based on...
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...I really enjoyed learning about the training it takes to become a Navy SEAL. I understand now why many people do not make it through the training. I also liked the gunfight. These four men fought through mortal injuries and continued to do so. They threw themselves down a rocky cliff to evade gunfire and were shot repeatedly while falling. SEAL Luttrell described how Lt. Murphy gave his life to rescue the team, how Petty Officer Dietz died in his arms, and how Petty Officer Axelson continued to fire despite being barely able to hold his rifle any longer. I enjoyed how the Afghan tribesmen saved Marcus and tended to his injuries. These villagers especially Mohammad Gulab risked not only their own lives, but the lives of their families. The funniest part was when Marcus ran into the Afghan Special Force soldier wearing the "Bush for President" hat. I also thought how Marcus did not want to cry in front of the Army Rangers who found him. He did not want the Rangers to think they were tougher than a Navy...
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...the Hero (Dionysus and Tyler [via Ed Norton] Dionysus is a Greek god, who went back to the city of Cadmus in Thebes to seek vengeance for his mother Semele, whom had a child with Zeus, but was denied this birth right by the plotting of his grandfather Cadmus and his aunts, one of them being Agava, the mother of the reigning king; Pentheus, in the land of Thebes. (Euripides, 410BC) Ed Norton (narrator) is working in an insurance firm and feels that his life has become too monotonous and he does not feel alive to it. This starts manifesting in his lack of sleep and a suggestion to visit a testicular cancer meet by his doctor sets him off on his self-discovery. Tyler who is one and the same (a projection) of the two main characters of the plot in Fight club is a soap sales man. The narrator of the movie (who remains unnamed) sets out to start a fight club with this soap sales man he met on the plane. The concept is triggered by a mutually agreed scuffle they have while leaving a pub to go home. The patterns of behavior of Dionysus and Tyler via Ed Norton are uncanny. First of all the audience in the movie only learn that Tyler Durden is a projection of Ed Norton at the tail end of the movie, Dionysus on his part also sets out to hide his true identity from the people of Thebes when he sets out on his journey to redeem his mother’s honor, this we are told in the first stanza in the excerpt he says: “I have put off the god and taken human shape”(Euripides, 410BC) Dionysus...
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...The Occult Symbolism of Movie “Metropolis” and its Importance in Pop Culture Fritz Lang’s 1927 movie “Metropolis” is one of those timeless classics that withstand the test of time. Rather than becoming forgotten and obsolete, “Metropolis” is increasingly relevant as many of its predictions are becoming reality. We will look at the underlying occult message of the film and the usage of its imagery in the acts of pop stars such as Lady Gaga, Madonna, Beyonce, Kylie Minogue and others. Metropolis is a silent science-fiction movie released in 1927 by Fritz Lang, a master of German Expressionism. Set in a futuristic dystopia divided into two distinct and separate classes—the thinkers and the workers—Metropolis describes the struggles between the two opposite entities. Knowing that it was produced in 1927, viewing this movie today is quite an experience as many “sci-fi” aspects of the plot are eerily close to reality. Metropolis describes a society where the “New World Order” has already taken been implemented and a select elite live in luxury while a dehumanized mass work and live in a highly monitored hell. As we have seen in previous articles on The Vigilant Citizen, Metropolis is excessively echoed in popular culture, especially in the music business. Whether it be in music videos or photo shoots, pop stars are often portrayed as the character Maria, an android programmed to corrupt the morals of the workers and to incite a revolt, giving the elite an excuse to use...
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...fifth way is taken from the governance of the world. We see that things which lack knowledge, such as natural bodies, act for an end, and this is evident from their acting always, or nearly always, in the same way, so as to obtain the best result. Hence it is plain that they achieve their end, not fortuitously, but designedly. Now whatever lacks knowledge cannot move towards an end, unless it be directed by some being endowed with knowledge and intelligence; as the arrow is directed by the archer. Therefore, some intelligent being exists by whom all natural things are directed to their end; and this being we call God”. Here St. Thomas Aquinas is basically saying that the existence of order and apparent purpose in the universe is best explained by saying that an intellectual being caused it. A good example of this argument is if we were to look at the planets in our solar system. The planets being inanimate objects couldn’t have possible placed themselves in such perfect orbit, but yet they are. So this means that an intelligent being must have done so, and this being is God. Aquinas’s fifth way argument is a...
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...Reaction Paper On Immortality On Ice The movie that we watched was about reviving a person from the dead. This is said to be done in the future but they had already started researching how to use ice as a power to revive a clinically dead person. They used ice as a method to preserve a body and now they are planning on how to revive a person through the use of nanotechnology that can repair all the cells that were ruptured n the freezing process. The technology that they were referring in the movie is called Cryonics. This Cryonics would enable a man to prolong his life and at the same time be able to revive himself in certain conditions. As a technology, it also has technological system which various aspects. The first aspect is the techniques or human activity-form. In the Cryonics, it was seen on how people preserved a dead body. In Egypt, the dead people were mummified and preserved in order to reach the second life. In Cryonics, they also want to follow this ritual or activity. They want to preserved a dead body in order to revive it and not for the preparation of the afterlife. With this technology, they can prolong the life of a person or they can make people “immortal”. The technique that they will use in technology is the power of ice to preserve a dead body. Their example is a frog that was frozen to dead and was still able to revive itself when the ice melted. The second aspect of the technological system is resources, tools, or materials. In studying Cryonics and...
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...Three Issues Considered The first question I will address is “Are science and philosophy closely interrelated, or are they different in their goals and methods? Science supposes that there is only one proper basis of knowledge, it is experiment and rational analysis of nature. Philosophy tends to say that there are many ways of understanding, just as there are many forms of knowledge and many beginnings of that knowledge. In the beginning there were sciences but no actual scientist. They were all known as philosophers. Philosophy invented intellectual thought and rigorous reasoning which in turn is what invented the sciences. Philosophy continues to influence science by questioning the science's weaknesses. Some people think that the sciences can stand apart from philosophy. That philosophy is all questions, never giving a real answer. Where as, science is a methodology that is based on research and experimentation. “The specific sciences cannot and should not break their connections with true philosophy” (Spirkin, A.). By doing this they would have no questions for them to research and experiment. According to Wolff, the Milesians who are considered philosophers were also scientist. Thales who is known as the first philosopher was an astronomer. By his knowledge of the stars he could predict the weather (Wolff, 14). “Following Thales were the Milesians Anaximander and Anaximenes, who expanded and developed speculative theories about the basic components of nature and...
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...Terms – AP English Language and Composition These terms should be of use to you in answering the multiple-choice questions, analyzing prose passages, and composing your essays. allegory – The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning. In some allegories, for example, an author may intend the characters to personify an abstraction like hope or freedom. The allegorical meaning usually deals with moral truth or a generalization about human existence. alliteration – The repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words (as in “she sells sea shells”). Although the term is not frequently in the multiple choice section, you can look for alliteration in any essay passage. The repetition can reinforce meaning, unify ideas, supply a musical sound, and/or echo the sense of the passage. allusion – A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art. Allusions can be historical, literary, religious, topical, or mythical. There are many more possibilities, and a work may simultaneously use multiple layers of allusion. ambiguity – The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. analogy – A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them. An analogy can explain something unfamiliar by associating...
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...anything or anyone else.” Marilyn Manroe, perhaps the most iconic woman of the twentieth century. Due to the suffering she experienced mostly as a child bouncing in and out of foster homes she desperately searched for attention and affection. A part of what she was missing was compensated by the love and admiration her fans showered her with and what she claims made her the star that she was. Her combination of beauty, sexiness, intelligence and vulnerability is what made her legendary, who continues to inspire many till this day, however that is not all that she was. Marilyn was famous for acting, modeling, singing, etc. She certainly had the whole package. However the entire world was mesmerized by her because of her sexuality and charm. She posed nude for a calendar shot and appeared on the first issue of playboy. The promotion of those photos made Monroe a very popular star. Her fame enlarged when she won a golden globe for her performance in the movie “Some like it hot”. And what launched her as a sex symbol was her appearance in big roles like” gentlemen prefer blondes” and “how to marry a millionaire”. Her dumb character was used for comedic purposes in films; however she was not dumb at all. In fact people recall her being a perspicacious and shrewd business woman who took her craft very seriously. Unlike other contemporary celebrities she was not afraid to take risks. She was smart enough to strike a balance between satisfying her appetite without disappointing the public...
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...Do Video Games Benefit Children? Video games are the fastest growing entertainment in the world, becoming more lifelike, complex and common in nature. Today, 91% of children between the ages of 2-17 play video games (NPD Group, 2011). Engaging in video games have several benefits such as, cognitive skills, social skills, motivation skills, and emotional skills. However, research shows that there may be long-term effects as well. The Debate of video games has been going on for roughly 35 years now. The controversy began in 1976 when the arcade game “Death Race” came out (based on the movie Death Race 2000). The game consisted of players running over “gremlins” (what was later found out to be pedestrians) while they yelled and sobbed. In 1992, one of the most controversial games “Mortal Combat” came to our screens with gory graphics such as severed heads, ripping out spines and hearts. It was one of the most popular game of all time. In 2007, “Bioshock” was criticized for allowing players to murder little girls that were turned into mutated monsters to get points. In 2011, “Bulletstorm” was introduced and said to be one of the worst games in the world. There’s an excess amount of profanity and is very gruesome as body parts splat all over the screen (Gross, CNN. 2013). Although there has been negative controversy about these games, research also shows the benefits and adverse effects of games in the same categories, (e.g., shooterames). Several training and research studies...
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...done on the effects of media violence exposure and aggressive behavior. First the term media violence needs to be examined. What form of media violence is perceived to be the most influential? There are television shows, movies, music, news shows and newspapers, video games and cartoons. What type of violence such as, murder, rape, bullying, or theft is the public more apt to associate with and be affected by? Should a look at how true violent crimes are reported by the media also be considered? Last we should also look at statistics of rising population and families that have more than one income to survive now compared to 60 years ago. The term “media violence” is defined by Merriam Webster Dictionary as: Media – Plural of the word medium which is the means of communication, such as radio, television, newspaper, magazines, music etc. that reaches or influences people widely Violence – an exertion of physical force so as to injure or abuse; injury by or as if by distortion infringement or profanation; an intense, turbulent or furious and often destructive action of force. Does Exposure to Media Violence Promote Aggressive Behavior? There are many forms of media and different ways they can influence behavior. Researchers, Politicians, Psychiatrists, and the Federal Government to name a few have mainly focused on video games, movies and music. What about some of the less obvious forms of media violence and influence? Newspaper articles, the many forms of news shows on...
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...forgotten the importance of awareness to the issue. Statistics give us a better idea about the big picture. According to Media Education Foundation, researches indicate that about 89 percent of the top-selling video games contained violent content, almost half of which was of a serious nature. Two-thirds of Hollywood films released in 2001 were rated “R.” (Media Violence Facts, 2005) In September 2000, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reported that 80 percent of “R” rated movies, 70 percent of restricted video games, and 100 percent of music with “explicit content” warning labels were being marketed to children under 17. With this amount of exposure, researchers estimated that by the time the average child is eighteen years old, they will have witnessed 200,000 acts of violence and 16,000 murders. (TV-Turnoff Network, 2001) Those numbers reminds us to think about the issue. Is it too much? What effect does it have on our life, especially for children and adolescents? As we are still looking for the correct answers, multiple cases have showed us how bad the consequences could be. In 1999, at Columbine High School in Little ton, Colorado, two teens killed 12 other students, one teacher, and themselves. According to the police investigation, they had already been discussing about the massacre for more than a year. They videotaped themselves firing guns and produced their own hate-filled website. They also took the look and style...
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