...Critical Analysis # 10 “Who Killed the Electric Car?” From the movie I watched, “Who Killed the Electric Car?” 2006 year by the director Chris Paine, is impressed me very much. The truth that coming out of this movie is leaving in the audience’s mind exclamation, contradiction, and questions. This is not just a film about a car, it is film about us. But more than that, it is an uplifting film about us. About the nation that could be prosper in the future life with amazing life conditions. The plot of this movie is about the electric car in 90-s which was very popular and was becoming very high on demand among U.S. consumers. However, for the big monopolies and for the government was unprofitably to multiply and distribute these electric cars. In fact, the electric cars were much cheaper in use for consumers, because of the several aspects. The first and the most important aspect was petroleum. For the petroleum company the electric car could cause their bankruptcy, and therefore it is not profitably to distribute on the market the electric car. Second, electric cars were much cheaper than gas/petroleum cars; in fact, they did not need the expensive repair like gas/petroleum cars needed. This means that enormous car and dealer shops will no longer need for E.C. Also, no longer need for E.C. expensive spare parts, therefore no more spending on car parts. The big pressure was coming from the petroleum companies and government; however, the biggest reason to terminate...
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...“It is not power that corrupts but fear” (Aung San Suu Kyi). Pol Pot became the leader of the Khmer Rouge and shaped it due to communistic ideas. Pol Pot believed Communism could change Cambodia’s lifestyle to be more beneficial. The Khmer Rouge killed opposition and anybody who questioned their regime. Genocides are often fueled by revolution in a certain society. The Khmer Rouge was no exception, they used ideas of Communism to alter Cambodia’s economic system to try to benefit the people, but ended up creating a genocidal revolution. The Cambodian Genocide was carried out by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge during 1975 to 1979 (Combat Genocide). About 1.6 to 2 million people were killed during the genocide (Combat Genocide). Pol Pot wanted to...
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...1947, MLB fans everywhere would not accept the fact that African Americans could play in the major leagues. They wanted to make sure that this change never occurred. Robinson withstood all of the racial slurs and the threats against his life, and MLB fans started to take notice. They realized it wasn’t a bad thing to let change happen. People accept and resent change from happening all the time in the real world and in books. This is illustrated In Chinua Achebe’s book, Things Fall Apart, and Benjamin Hoff’s novel, The Tao of Pooh, where the authors demonstrate acceptance of change leads to restoration, while resistance to change leads to destruction, which they portray through the characters...
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...add a new character to a book? How will it change? And what will be the outcome? That is what I will be trying to figure out with I am apache, Wednesday war, the umbrella man, and the unwanteds. Will the book end with a better ending or a dark ending? In I am apache there is this girl called Siki and her parents are dead both her mother and father (at least thought to be). While with her tribe Siki is shocked to find that a group of Mexican armed soldiers which attacked her tribe and killed her brother who is her last family member. She is set on getting revenge for her brother...
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...Martin Luther King Jr.’s death was unjustified. Imagine your life being taken away out of nowhere from one day to another, from being alive to the next being dead. Martin Luther King Jr. was an African American who fought for many americans so that we all got treated equally. King’s death was unjustified because nobody should be killed by another human being. It was also unjustified because he was a great man who didn’t do harm to nobody but instead was helping many. The last reason why Martin Luther King Jr.’s death was unjustified was because being killed for hatred is not okay. Martin Luther King Jr.’s death was unjustified. Martin Luther King Jr.’s death was unjustified because nobody should be killed by another human being. Martin Luther king Jr. didn’t deserve to die the day of April 4, 1968 when he was shot outside a motel on his balcony at Memphis, Tennessee. He was a great man who was the voice for many americans in the United States. He inspired many people to fight for what they wanted. He wanted a better life and a better future for us the americans. Being killed by another human just because they hated the fact that a person was speaking up for many people was something so immature to do. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed because a person didn’t like the fact that...
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...for adoption. He had 30 days to find a home. 30 days passed and nobody wanted him; he was killed. Over thousands of dogs are killed in days because they can't find a home to be at for the rest of their lives. There are a lot of dogs in America who are in cages and are killed for not finding a home. Stop killing dogs for not finding a home to live in. You expect dogs to feel safe and not act violent when you have them locked in a cage for days and only allowed to go out once...
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...that changes reader’s perspective on the novel. Three significant symbols in the book change how most people view the novel. The pig’s head which is set upon a spear, the lord of the flies, plays a big and small part in the novel. Then the character Simon, a loner, represents an iconic figure. Then the Character piggy is to be associated with people themselves. All the symbols play key roles in the true meaning of the novel, but the one most remember is the pig’s head. The lord of the flies, the pig’s head, is the one that seems to play a big role in the novel. The character can be seen as the hidden antagonist or as a minor character. The character is meant to be Lucifer or the devil himself, which explains why he is the “mascot” of jack and his band of savage children, he is the ultimate evil. He changes throughout the novel by being a trophy, a prize pig that the hunters captured. Then a manipulative character, he convinces one boy to try to stop the savages and then the boy gets killed himself. Finally, back to the shadows, he goes as he never talks again. There are always two sides of the same coin though, a good and an evil always exists....
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...Communism •same •all people equal •gov't owns everything, people own gov't Snowball •young, smart, good speaker, idealistic •really wants to make life better for all •one of leaders of revolution •chased away into exile by Napoleon's dogs Leon Trotsky •other leader of "October Revolution" •pure communist, followed Marx •wanted to improve life for all in Russia •chased away by Lenin's KGB (Lenin's secret police) Napoleon •not a good speaker, not as clever like Snowball •cruel, brutal, selfish, devious, corrupt •his ambition is for power, killed opponents •used dogs, moses, and Squealor to control animals Joseph Stalin •not a good speaker, not educated like Trotsky •same as Napoleon, didn't follow Marx's ideas •cared for power, killed all that opposed him •used KGB, allowed church, and propagandized Squealer •big mouth, talks a lot •convinces animals to believe...
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...Yang Yixuan BIS 339B Raissa Desmet 10/14/2014 This story happened in a tropical night. It talked about a white woman who killed Jeff Hammond and claimed that she was defending herself. There are two main female actresses in that movie. The first woman is called Leslie. She represents all the features that European women have such as beautiful, frail and transparent. The other woman is called Mrs. Hammond. Her husband was killed by Leslie. She is an Asian woman who wears a traditional headdress during the whole movie. My first impression of her is inscrutable because she always hides in the darkness and acted like a concealing woman which makes people hard to read. However, Leslie displays all her emotions on her face whenever she was happy or sad. I think the reason of this comparison is to make audiences understand the differences between European women and Asian women. First scene: The first scene I choose to analysis is the beginning part of this movie. It’s a really quiet tropical night. A round moon was hanging in the sky. All native Asian workers are asleep in their outdoor barracks which looks like really sample. They don’t have a good house as Leslie does. This represent that this tropical country haven’t reach the same level as European countries. Suddenly, these workers are awaked up by a gunshot. Leslie shouted Hammond four times until she run out all of the bullets. At first, my guess of this part is she must hate this guy so much. Otherwise, she couldn’t shoot...
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...Analyzing The Fourth Amendment And Its Impact On The Safety Of Law Enforcement Officers TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1. ABSTRACT 3 2. INTRODUCTION 4 3. CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUE 7 4. RELEVANT COURT CASES 9 5. PROPOSED CHANGE 13 6. SOCIAL IMPACT 16 7. CONCLUSION 17 8. REFERENCES 18 Abstract The purpose of this paper is to analyze the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America and its impact on law enforcement. Close attention will be paid to the ability of police officers to frisk people, vehicles and occupants of vehicles, also commonly referred to as Terry stops. Currently, the rule of law is that police officers are not able to frisk solely on the basis of officer safety and that they must have a reasonable belief that a person is armed and dangerous prior to frisking. This paper will propose a new standard police should follow. Finally, an examination will be done on the social impact of this new proposed standard. Introduction As Americans, we enjoy freedoms that many around the world do not. These freedoms make us the envy, and the enemy, of millions. The foundation for these freedoms was laid long ago by our founding fathers. After the United States won its freedom from English rule they met to establish the constitution. From several years of schooling I know that in 1789 the first United States Congress...
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...Nwoye’s Struggle for Peace. The novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe was a pure explanation of the full effects the British Colonist who had came to Nigeria. One person who had the most Change in this novel was Nwoye, Okonkwo’s son, he had such a bad time before the missionaries came. The missionaries are the best thing that happened to Nwoye but what he did changes the whole story behind his family relationships. Nwoye was furious with his father before the colonist had came around. Nwoye had an “older brother” name Ikemefuna. Ikemefuna was a trade between two villages because his father had killed a women from Nwoye’s village of Umuofia. Okonkwo was forced to take in Ikemefuna and grew to really enjoy his work around the compounds....
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...However the seed of change is planted right away when he meets the witches and they tell him their prophecy of him becoming king. This makes Macbeth ambitious, and it leads to his demise. Once he kills Duncan the change rapidly begins to accelerate. By the end of the play, and Macbeth's killing spree, his transformation is complete and all of his human thoughts and feelings are gone. Macbeth changes from being a great individual to the focus of everyone's fear and anger, because he loses his human characteristics of conscience and remorse. As the play starts Macbeth is very human; he has feelings and friends and he is a war-hero. As time elapses, he begins to change into a ruthless killer, "a tyrant". Once he meets the witches and learns he will become king he begins to plot and think murderously. When he arrived at a plot to kill Duncan, and told Lady Macbeth, he realized it was the only way. However, in doing this he made a lot of people suspicious. This meant that more people would have to be killed, and this included the king's son who was next in line for the throne. At this point Macbeth experiences the first of a number of breakdowns, and he begins to lose his human characteristics. Macbeth begins to fall into a murderous rage after killing Duncan. He thought this would clear his name, but it only made things worse. Each person he has killed results in another that needs to be killed. With each kill...
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...Adapting to Change In the book Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, adapting to change is the key to survival. The novel begins in Robledo, California, with a young girl Lauren who is the daughter of a Baptist minister in the community. Lauren has a disease called hyper empathy syndrome. She got this from her mother who was addicted to prescription medicines. This disease allows her to feel the pain of others. The major motifs that we see in the book are religion, fire, freedom, community, and adapting to change. The largest theme that we see throughout the entire book is being able to adapt to change. We see this when Lauren has to leave for the first time and is able to adapt to from leftover resources. Lauren lives with her family in a walled community. On the outside of their community life is terrible. There is no food on the outside that people are always trying to break in to the community and steal food, animals, and just any resources that would be useful for them. The outside is full of drug addicts, diseases, crazy people, and dead bodies in the street. Amy Dunn, a young girl from the community wondered out and got killed instantly. Lauren develops her own belief about God. Her new idea of religion is the idea of God as change, and calls it Earthseed. Lauren knows that the outside is a bad life and saves enough money to put together a survival pack with anything that might be useful to her. Keith, Laurens brother wants to go outside of his community...
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...“Destiny is written and we can’t change it,” is quote said by many and a well theme for the story of Perseus. In which Acrisius, King of Argos, was told the future and tried to stop it from ever happening. Acrisius was giving a prophecy by the oracle Delphi in which she stated he would be killed by his daughter's son. In addition, he tried to stop Danae from ever having a child by locking her up , she got pregnant with Zeus child. After this, he send them away in a coffin in the ocean ,for he couldn’t dare to kill his own blood. He tried to escape the ugly future. Fortunately Danae was rescued and so was her son from a fisherman in a city. Then as he growed up Polydectes fell in love with his mom and he protected her until he had to face...
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...Clayton Prescott Macbeth Final Essay Macbeth’s life was great in the beginning, but turned into a disaster in the end. Macbeth was in a situation of power and success and ended up throwing it away due to greed, envy and power hunger. One could call his story a success because he got the power he wanted and was respected and feared by many of his people. Macbeth also had controlled and manipulated people he thought could be of service to him, and he ruined their lives also. Lady Macbeth was changed completely and was the sole reason that they would not be able to keep their murders hidden. Lady Macbeth was sleepwalking and a worker had heard her talking of the tragedies that she and Macbeth had committed. Macbeth was very regretful of the...
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