SOC/100 January 3‚ 2012 Sociological Perspectives Paper Introduction to video and clarification of the applied theoretical perspective. The video of School girl attacks identifies an attack on school girls in Kandahar‚ Afghanistan. Zahira‚ who is a 13-year-old‚ is interviewed by NBC told her story about the attack. Zahira‚ who always showed excitement about attending school‚ lost her joy after the attack on her and five other girls. The attack took place during the girls walk from
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Which film deals with colonization? In fact‚ this is one of the highest grossing movies of all time. James Cameron’s 2009 film Avatar serves as a great example‚ with many instances of events representing the notion of colonization. Avatar takes place in the year 2154 on an alien planet called Pandora. Humans on Earth have depleted their natural resources severely‚ which forces a private company called the Resources Development Administration to mine for minerals in Pandora. The inhabitants of Pandora
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Ethnocentrism in Anthropological perspective - Avatar Using highly advanced technology to replicate and to creating false bodies which humans use to walk amongst the natives known as the Na’vi living in the planet Pandora hence the name ‘Avatar’. The story focuses on an ex U.S. soldier name Jake Sully who is wheel-chair bound‚ was called upon as a last resort to replace his late brother whom had trained for 3 years in a project which was invested with so much money that the researchers could not
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ESSAY COVER SHEET AN1001 Anthropology Cultural Diversity in Global Perspective ASSESSMENT TASK: Analysis of Avatar QUESTION: How is ethnocentrism depicted in the film Avatar? Discuss with reference to the notions of exoticism‚ primitivism and romanticism. TITLE: Ethnocentrism in “Avatar” WORD COUNT: 589 words Tutorial Class: Thursday 1000-1150 J James Cameron’s Avatar This essay aims to identify scenes where ethnocentrism and three
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The question of whether the movie ‘Avatar’ is a metaphor for Earth or not is really a simple question to answer. I wouldn’t even say it is a metaphor. It is more of a prediction of where we are heading with the Earth. The story of the movie makes several references to Earth and how it’s dying. In the opening scenes of the movie‚ you see how overpopulated the Earth has become. They don’t specifically say it‚ but the battles the main character‚ Jake Sully‚ had been in and received his crippling
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Avatar Essay In the movie Avatar the military was sent to an unknown planet that is known to be “sitting on a pile of gold”. The military troops were trying to drive out a group of foreign beings‚ and their only connection to their ancestors‚ by any means. Money is to blame for a lot of suffering in this world. wealth causes a standard to be set such as rich‚ middle class‚ and poor. Money causes people to do almost anything because if you don’t have it you cannot live or survive. Money sometimes
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when two cultures come in contact with one another‚ though media‚ trade‚ or immigration. The film Avatar is based on cultural contact and the outcomes of this concept. Pocahontas‚ another example of a film based on cultural contact‚ both films are relatively alike‚ they show ethnocentrism to other races until two people from different cultures fall in love‚ and learn to accept each other’s culture. Avatar depicts several concepts of economic globalization by portraying‚ ethnocentrism‚ acculturation
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Avatar synopsis- Opening scene: a camera sweeps high across the treeline of a lush‚ green world. Intercut is a sequence of images of Jake Sully‚ a crippled war veteran and former Marine. He wakes up in a giant spaceship on its way to Pandora‚ a lush Earth-like moon orbiting Polyphemus‚ a blue planet similar to Jupiter. He is one of a large number of passengers‚ all waking up after almost six years of cryosleep en route to Pandora. Drifting out of his sleeping pod in zero G he’s tended by the ship’s
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In the film Erin Brockovich‚ several different social theories can be related to the storyline of the film. Although different‚ theories from Karl Marx‚ Emile Durkheim‚ and Max Weber can all adequately describe what happens in the film. The film is about a small law firm that takes on an extremely powerful organization‚ PG & E (Pacific Gas & Electric)‚ on the account that they were knowingly polluting Hinkley‚ California’s water supply and harming the citizens. From Karl Marx‚ the film can
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Avatar Review Avatar is a clear example of imperialism‚ which has occurred throughout history immensely. There are many times in history were natives of a country have been imperialized by a foreign country for their lands resources‚ this occurred in Avatar as well. For example when the Native Americans were imperialized by European countries. Also when Africa was imperialized by Britian. They were taken over for their lands’ resources‚ without recognition of how the natives felt. Avatar’s imperialism
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