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    James Cameron’s film‚ Avatar‚ is a very moving story about freedom and choices. Jake Sully‚ an ex-marine‚ travels to Pandora to fulfil his brother’s dream of being in an avatar body and researching the environment on Pandora. Jake goes through a lot of hard times and ends up having to choose between being human and destroying Pandora‚ or being one of the Na’vi and saving the girl he loves and her people. James Cameron has highlighted choices that we have to make in our world by presenting them in

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    Case Study: Do Our Avatars Learn? 1) According to the text‚ classical conditioning occurs when a stimulus that elicits a response is paired with another stimulus that initially does not elicit a response on its own. As time passes‚ the second stimulus is able to cause a similar response because of the fact that we associate it with the first stimulus. An example of classical conditioning would be one that was demonstrated by Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov. He conducted research on digestion

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    We are so tired‚ but we still pursue something we can’t reach. We set new goals insistently to push ourselves to achieve‚ but we never stop to think if that desire come from our heart. During the interview of the hero in James Cameron’s film- Avatar‚ a very common actor Samuel Worthington defeated many famous film stars and got the chance to be the hero

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    In the article “When Will White People Stop Making Movies like Avatar?‚ Annalee Newitz makes the point that James Cameron is making this out to be some culture conflict as race but it is not. Its mainly about how readers and watchers don’t think movies could have many meaning to it that we human don’t really think of . Annalee is basically trying to make us look at it in many way. I was puzzled on if I agreed to her side. I disagree with reading this story as it makes it seem stereotype. We as

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    and turn on those around them in hopes of feeling better about themselves. And many feel they are victims‚ rightly so. These are all completely normal reactions‚ but where do they lead us? Through two of Langston Hughes’s poems and James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ I will discuss how oppressed people react to colonial conquest and exploitation‚ and how they become better people because of it. The painful ordeal of oppression and colonization turned the black people of Africa into a country of exiles and outcasts

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    "The Hero’s Journey: An Analysis of Cameron Crowe’s Film Almost Famous Using Joseph Campbell’s Monomyth" an analysis of Almost Famous (2000) Almost Famous (2000) is a dramatization of writer/director Cameron Crowe’s real-life experiences as a teenage rock reporter for Rolling Stone. Based on thinly-veiled autobiographical material from the precocious beginnings of Crowe’s early career‚ the screenplay shapes sentimental memories into movie magic. But how did Crowe give his own coming-of-age

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    UNIT 1 Lesson 4 Key Question: The monomyth has become one of the most popular and highly used archetypes in literature. The short essay “The Step Not Taken” is an example‚ entailing the three stages: separation‚ struggle‚ and reintegration. During the separation stage‚ the narrator Paul D’ Angelo encounters a junior executive who begins to cry during an elevator trip‚ and his life drastically changes. He also encounters his guide‚ who helps him during the monomyth. Throughout the struggle stage‚ he

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    Harris D01B Monomyth Essay 2/27/2013 Beowulf Joseph Campbells idea of the monomyth and the hero is that there is stages of a heros journey. He states in Hero with a Thousand Faces‚ "A hero ventures forth from the world common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man" (Campbell 30). The three stages of the monomyth are separation

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    the reader on his personal journey to find a satisfactory way to respond to another’s suffering. This story follows the basic plot structure of a monomyth: the separation‚ the struggle and initiation and the return and reintegration. In the beginning of the essay “The Step Not Taken” by Paul D’Angelo‚ the narrator is in the separation stage of the monomyth. He is called to adventure when the young junior executive joins him on the elevator. He makes a point of mentioning that there was nothing distinguishing

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    Monomyth "The Steps Not Taken" By Paul D’Angelo Monomyth or the hero’s journey is a basic pattern‚ which is found in many narratives and myths from around the world. The monomyth is “one of the dominant archetypal pattern in literature‚ film‚ and even video game text is the story of a journey.” Through an in-depth analysis of The Step not taken by Paul D’Angelo‚ this essay will give an explanation of the three stages of a monomyth. The monomyth is made up of three stages that the hero moves through

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