2010 English (Advanced) Paper 2: Texts in time Band 6 student sample Analyse how Frankenstein and Blade Runner imaginatively portray individuals who challenge the established values of their time. | Mary Shelley’s seminal novel Frankenstein and Ridley Scott’s cult classic film Blade Runner express the contextual concerns of the post-industrial and post modern eras respectively. Where Shelley’s novel operates as a Gothic expression of the conflicting paradigms of Romantic idealism and Enlightenment
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Taking opportunities gives great memories to look back on. Competitive running has always been a getaway‚ leading me into a world of peace and balance. The memories and lessons I have gained cannot be forgotten. Being a runner gives you a chance to experience life in a whole different way. My last track meet was upon me. My coaches have motivated me all season for big meets like this. Sectionals were the only thing keeping my team from State.The whole day was spent warming up and talking about awesome
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In the Maze Runner Thomas encounters difficult setbacks as he discovers his plan to escape the Maze. First Thomas wakes up with no memory of his past life. Other teenage boys are there to greet him. The next day a girl arrives in the Box which is very unusual. A note came along with her stating that the Creators wouldn’t send another Glader. Then Thomas learns the roles of the Gladers and being a Runner is calling to him. Runners go in to the Maze to see if there is a pattern in the way the walls
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The Kite Runner The Kite Runner is one of the best novels which have the story of friendship between two boys‚ Amir and Hassan. In this novel we‚ as a reader will be able to see the love and loyalty that Hassan shows toward Amir‚ but their friendship and trust broken because of Amir’s betrayal. The major character in the novel The Kite Runner is Amir Agha. He is the main character and also the narrator in the story. He was born in Kabul‚ in 1963 and he only lives with his father who he called
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The Kite Runner The Kite Runner by Khaled Hossenini is his first novel that debuted in 2003. This novel has been on the New York Times best seller list for two years as well as being published in over 40 different languages in over 48 countries so more can enjoy. It was also turned into a film which was nominated for best motion picture as well as best foreign language film at the Golden Globe Awards. The Kite Runner tells the story of a young man; Amir who shares his experience‚
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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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