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    Gattaca Oral Presentation Draft -A review of the film. From the day Vincent was born‚ he had always been concidered as highly flawed‚ and as an ’invalid’. His parents were planning on carrying on the family name with their first born child by calling Vincent‚ Anton‚ after his father‚ Antonio. However‚ once finding out that Vincent was prone to illness’ such as neurological disorder‚ manic depression‚ attention deficit disorder‚ heart failure‚ and was expected to live for only 30.2 years‚ Vincent’s

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    Gattaca is a movie directed by Andrew Niccol and the film is set in the "not too distant future." Andrew Niccol’s perception of the future isn’t what most people expect‚ but once thought about carefully it seems quite believable. This movie presents us with a new method in which society strives for perfection and it also makes us wonder if genetic engineering is morally correct. Your place in society in Gattaca is based on your genetic makeup and the way you were born. People born the way we know

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    various forms of cancer. This research could potentially lead to these terrible diseases’ near end. In Andrew Niccol’s Gattaca‚ a society is portrayed where there are no diseases due to advanced genetic engineering. This movie‚ based in the future‚ depicts couples that are able to basically hand-pick a perfect child. While modern technology has not evolved near as far as in Gattaca‚ stem-cell research is on the verge of creating a way to counter vicious diseases. One development that seemed

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    portray how appearance might be totally different from reality. " A married man’s story" shows us inside the husbands thoughts and memories and how in reality he is dispassionate about everything around him . While ‚ in "Bliss" we get a glimpse of how Bertha believes her life is "Bliss" instead of facing reality. We enter the mind of the husband in " a married man’s story" and we reveal that even though from the outside his family seems happy and well suited . In reality however‚he is

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    The 1997 science fiction drama film Gattaca by Andrew Niccol illustrates a dystopian world condemning genetic engineering which plays a primary role in determining whether the human being will be genetically superior or genetically inferior. Niccol utilizes his ‘degenerate’ protagonist‚ Vincent‚ to highlight the flaws of a system which encourages predeterminism over ambition and discrimination over acceptance. A society is presented where love has no value and one’s genetic make-up is more important

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    How are the themes of appearance and reality presented in Macbeth? William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon on April 23 1564. Shakespeare‚ according fto the church register‚ was the third of eight children in the Shakespeare household – three of whom died in childhood. Shakespeare attended the free grammar school in Stratford‚ which as the time had a reputation to rival that of Eton‚ which explains his great work. Between 1585 and 1592 he became a successful writer. Shakespeare used his

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    Fiction Vs. Reality Animal Farm is a book that relates to everyday problems of leadership and authority. There is a stark correlation between fiction and reality in the book‚ highlighted by George Orwell through two characters that have power and use different manipulative techniques to secure different outcomes. In reality‚ Orwell uses the pigs to symbolize the powerful people in our society‚ such as Muammar Gaddafi‚ who manipulate their people using suppressive and alluring tactics. Through

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    Morality vs. Reality The story "Battle Royal" is the key in understanding and seeing the relationship between morality and reality. The characters in this story‚ namely the grandfather and his grandson‚ reveal to us their individuality‚ principles‚ morals‚ and ethics doing so they unfold a map that reveals their mental reality. Because their principals‚ morals and ethics reveal to us their mental reality‚ then their mental reality discloses the reality of the society in which they live in. The

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    stating "that I am here‚ clothed in my dressing gown‚ seated at the fireplace‚ when in fact I am lying undressed between he blankets!" (222). Descartes describes how a dream may feel so real‚ one might actually think their dream is in fact reality. He goes on further saying "plainly that there are no definite signs to distinguish being awake from being asleep that I am quite astonished‚ and this astonishment almost convinces me that I am sleeping" (222). This all lead to Descartes coming

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    knowledge. But is everything what we learn in school or read on the Internet true? Can I be certain about any knowledge I have gained in my life? It is the theory of knowledge that deals with these kinds of questions‚ to distinct things between appearance and reality‚ between what things seem to be and what they are. The technical name for the theory of knowledge is epistemology‚ which is derived from the Greek word episteme‚ meaning “knowledge‚” and the suffix ology‚ meaning “science of.” In its original

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