Frankenrunner Final Notes Context Frankenstein Bladerunner 1818 Romanticism – rejection of the Enlightenment‚ celebration of nature and creativity Galvanism‚ electricity‚ genetic engineering Locke‚ Rousseau – blank slate theories Wollstonecraft – feminism Godwin – criminalisation of the mind Shelley’s parents were radical idealists‚ brought up in a high minded household. 1982 Globalisation Consumerism/capitalism Environmental degradation (starting from Rachel Carson’s 1961 ‘Silent
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Texts in time convey values of their respective contexts that contain dire warnings through time‚ do you agree with this statement? Evaluate how this message may be apparent in Frankenstein and Bladerunner. Texts entail values proportional to their milieu. Composers of each era analyze and inquire the potential consequences of what their societies deem as progress. Composers Mary Shelley and Roy Batty‚ in their respective texts‚ Frankenstein‚ a gothic-based epistolary novel‚ and Bladerunner‚
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Through his observations‚ Joseph Campbell discovered a pattern called the Hero’s Cycle‚ in which no matter the culture all heroes follow. In the book‚ Ender’s Game written by Orson Scott Card‚ the main character Ender follows the typical Hero’s Cycle. In Ender’s world the humans are planning to destroy their alien enemy the Buggers. When Ender was six years old the government sent him off to Battle School‚ the first step in making him into a someone that could command the human army against the Buggers
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In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?‚ the spaces between the real and the artificial‚ in this case colonizing humans and the colonized non-humans (also known as androids)‚ are negotiated through the planetary colonization program‚ the program which sent humans to space and created androids. The real‚ the humans‚ are viewed by the fake‚ the androids‚ as aggressors‚ while the humans view the androids as their personal slaves. As such‚ there is a clear distinction between the real and the fake within
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The paper looks at how Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and Andre Tarkovsky’s Solaris (1972) make art cinema out of the popular genre of science fiction. Further‚ it focuses on the specific ways the two directors deploy to construct extraterrestrial space to explore key concerns of science fiction‚ including the relation of humans to technology‚ human to the alien or non-human‚ as well as the relationship of the present to the future. The specific constructions of those films shape
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Laura Solano English 209.17 Professor Olbey April 13‚ 2018 Life algorithm The Search for Authentic Human Experiences in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by‚ Phillip K. Dick In the twenty-first century‚ many of us have become accustomed to the ubiquitous presence of technology. The fusion between us and technology blurs the line between the real and tangible world with the simulated realm that resides in the pockets of most of the population. The danger that lies in the transfer between real
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Mount & Blade was one of the first games to master horseback combat in a way that worked consistently and where the controls didn’t make you feel like you were piloting a rickety ice-cream truck. Yet‚ Mount And Blade didn’t stop there. The developers created an open world where your destiny is your own‚ where your level upgrades actually had a noticeable effect‚ and where the battle maps were more than just a melee of iron and blood. Factors That Make Mount & Blade Awesome There is no aim to the
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Due to differing contexts‚ Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Riddely Scott’s Blade Runner explore overarching themes in diverse ways. Exploration of these themes in light of the context of the texts reveals the underlying warnings present in both Frankenstein and Blade Runner. As a result‚ comparison of the two texts leads to a greater understanding of these themes‚ including nature‚ technological advancements and the notion of humanity. The natural world is explored throughout the texts in such
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Case Problem: Blades‚ Inc. 1. One point of concern for you is that there is a tradeoff between the higher interest rates in Thailand and the delayed conversion of baht into dollars. Explain what this means. ANSWER: If the net baht-denominated cash flows are converted into dollars today‚ Blades is not subject to any future depreciation of the baht that would result in less dollar cash flows. 2. If the net baht received from the Thailand operation are invested in Thailand‚ how will
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Shelly and Scott reflect‚ nature and the natural world in the texts they create‚ Frankenstein and Blade Runner using literary devices and societal context. In Blade Runner‚ Scott uses the aspects of the 20th century tradition of dystopias and film noir as literary devices. Throughout Shelly’s work of Frankenstein‚ the romantic and sublime themes of the era are examined as literary devices. The appreciation for the natural wonder of the world is evident throughout Frankenstein when Shelly emphasises
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