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    Scientist Trope Analysis

    How do you explain the widespread villainous scientist trope? The global scientistic trope is something humans enjoy to create in films or in literature because the tragedies allow for humankind to evaluate the worst possible case scenario and fears of the future. Society uses these stereotypes of AI to show the frightening unknown future, however, the future is normally not going to end up the way we think it will. Similarly, the movie ¨Back to the Future¨ from 1985 depicted that in 2015, 30 years

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    What Makes An American Film

    typical American Film are moreover entertaining and described as stylish films as in cinematic term. The American Film makers creates entertaining, engaging, and historically accurate feature films selected from American history. The main American genres are action, adventure, comedy, crime & gangster, drama, epics/historical, horror, musical/dance, science fiction, war & westerns. They are sufficiently wide to suit basically any film ever constructed, despite the fact that film classifications can

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    American Stand Up Comedy

    Introduction What is Comedy? Comedy is one of two basic literary modes, tragedy being the other, that have come down to us from Ancient Greek culture. The Greeks understood that life events and even life itself could be such as to make us either laugh or weep. These two ways of viewing life—as either comical or tragic—have informed ways of thinking and writing ever since. One has only to think of Shakespeare, for instance, who wrote both comedic and tragic plays. Comedy in the modern sense is

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    Who Is Ridley Scott's Alien?

    traditional horror movie (Sobchack 26). Therefore, hybrid movies that unite elements of both genres seem to displease many critics because of encountered difficulties to categorize the respective one (27). Adam Roberts’s idea of ‘we know what sf is when we see it’ does not help to detect a medium to only one genre in this case (2). Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979) is a hybrid movie and supports elements of both genres, namely, horror and sf. Blithely, mandatory requirements, according to Darko Suvin’s definition

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    Poli 2300 Winter Term Essay Proposal

    The German Greens achieved their first electoral breakthrough at the federal level in October 1983, with 5.6 percent of the vote and the election of 27 Green deputies (Burchell, 2002, p. 53). In the Germans’ case, the structure of proportional representation served as a

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    Assess the Arguments for Retaining the First Past the Post System for General Elections

    had won 258 seats, conservatives had won 307 seats therefore stating conservatives had received more votes than all other parties and so their votes are the only one that count whilst all other votes are redundant. Systems involving proportional representation, such as the Additional Member System (AMS) are more democratic as electorates receive two votes so they have an impact to the results as both votes are counted. However, this is not all entirely true as in a first past the post system; parties

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    Elections

    The current electoral system has been constantly assessed and targeted by civilians who believe that First Past The Post is no longer effective and should be gotten rid of. Even though it lost in the 2011 referendum, People still believe the electoral system should be changed, especially the liberal democrats who are in favour of this change because they would benefit. FPTP is a simple plurality system the candidate with the most votes in one constituency becomes a MP and then the party with the

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    Assess the Arguments for Retaining the First Past the Post System for General Elections

    had won 258 seats, conservatives had won 307 seats therefore stating conservatives had received more votes than all other parties and so their votes are the only one that count whilst all other votes are redundant. Systems involving proportional representation, such as the Additional Member System (AMS) are more democratic as electorates receive two votes so they have an impact to the results as both votes are counted. However, this is not all entirely true as in a first past the post system; parties

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    Should Fptp Be Reformed?

    Should the Electoral system used in general elections in the UK be reformed? The election system that we currently have in the UK is a lot like marmite, you either love it or you hate it… There are many different arguments for and against this system, however people forget that within getting rid of the First Past the Post system, you will then need to then replace it. This then poses the vital question of which is the best fitting system and should we really change tradition? First past the post

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    Asses the Advantages of the First-Past-the-Post Electoral System (25)

    their choice. There is no need to rank candidates or to make more than one preference, in contrast to other more complicated systems where confusion arises. For example, there are a huge number of spoilt papers under various types of Proportional Representation as a result of voter confusion. In Scotland when STV was used there were thousands of spoilt ballot papers. However it could be argued that the advantage of ease is overrated as the electorate could be prepared enough to cope with another system

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