Alex Garland’s critically acclaimed film‚ Ex Machina‚ has received national attention as a tech-based creation story. The film is abound with biblical references and imagery‚ along with strong parallels to Ovid’s tale of Pygmalion in his Metamorphoses. In the film‚ Nathan Bateman‚ the pseudo-genius founder and CEO of Blue Book‚ a massive tech company complete with a Google-esque search engine‚ has been working on advanced A.I. The film begins with Caleb Smith‚ an unassuming programmer employed by
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Renee Lewis ENC 1101 November 14‚ 2008 How to break up with someone. Almost everyone has had to break up with someone. Some go well and others do not‚ but I am sure that most people can agree that it’s not easy. Relationships will not always turn out the way people expect them to. Problems inevitably occur. And while some couples try to patch things up‚ sometimes‚ the only solution left is breaking up. Unfortunately‚ breaking up to end problems in a relationship can result to more problems
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Conceptualization of African American Ex-Offenders and Job Placement Conceptualization of African American Ex-Offenders and Job Placement "For nearly forty years‚ the United States has been gripped by policies that have placed more than 2.5 million Americans in jails and prisons designed to hold a fraction of that number of inmates. Our prisons are not only vast and overcrowded‚ they are degrading—relying on racist gangs‚ lockdowns‚ and Supermax-style segregation units to maintain a tenuous
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Ex-situ conservation Ex-situ conservation means literally‚ "off-site conservation ". It is the process of protecting an endangered species of plant or animal by removing part of the population from a threatened habitat and placing it in a new location‚ which may be a wild area or within the care of humans. While ex-situ conservation comprises some of the oldest and best known conservation methods‚ it also involves newer‚ sometimes controversial laboratory methods. Colony relocation Normally
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A Reading of Updike’s “Ex-Basketball Player” The purpose of this essay is to inform the reader about a poem by John Updike‚ called “Ex-Basketball player”. The speaker in the poem talks about a man named Flick Webb and his apathetic life. He informs the reader about Flick Webb’s exceptional talent as a basketball player in high school. Towards the end of the poem the realization is that Flick Webb’s exceptional basketball talent had been berried under his reality of life. In the eyes of the
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Ex 16.2 (Basic Types of Manufacturing Costs) Into which of the three elements of manufacturing cost would each of the following be classified? a. Tubing used in manufacturing bicycles. b. Wages paid by an automobile manufacturer to employees who test-drive completed automobiles. c. Property taxes on machinery. d. Gold bullion used by a jewelry manufacturer. e. Wages of assembly-line workers who package frozen food. f. Salary of plant superintendent. g. Electricity used in factory operations
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apple extract/juice can be used as a disappearing ink The following are the procedures used to make a disappearing ink using the apple extract. The following are the materials; Q-tip‚ paper‚ apple juice and a Candle (any source of heat will work‚ ex. lamp‚ iron‚ oven). Begin by pouring a bit of the apple juice into a bowl. Use a q-tip‚ toothpick‚ or a paintbrush to write your message on the paper. Let the paper dry thoroughly. This will take about an hour. To decode the message‚ you will need
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Critical Lens Essay 12/8/10 American poet Robert Elliot Gonzales once wrote‚ “A good many family trees are shady.” What he means is that parents do not always give their children what is most necessary to achieve in life. In Ex-Basketball Player by John Updike and Death Of A Salesman by Arthur Miller the main characters lack self-esteem and cannot fulfill their dreams primarily because of their lack of familial support. More specifically‚ the protagonists‚ Flick Webb and Biff Lowman‚ suffer
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Many people have a difficult time letting go of their past. When you can’t let go of your past‚ you can’t move forward into the future. In the “Ex-Basketball Player” by John Updike‚ Flick Webb finds himself holding onto the past and not being able to move on. Flick’s disappointment in the present causes him to try and relive the glory days of life that he had in the past. To explore Flick’s disappointment in the present‚ Updike utilizes setting‚ tone‚ and irony. In the first stanza‚ Updike
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Hades but he wouldn’t listen. So Zeus had no choice but to leave his own brother with nothing to do but reminisce about the recent things that have happened to him. As Hades was thinking he became so enraged that he immediately went to war with Zeus. While they were at war Hades lost his mind‚ He was killing everyone who stood in his path that he knew would eventually lead up to Zeus. Zeus had no choice but to stand at mount Olympus and watch the fight prevail. When Hades finally got up to Zeus
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