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    survive we need a wide spectrum of genetic differences. People with diversity can sometimes over come there diversity and use their differences as motivation. Many people where gifted with unique traits and use them as self motivation. In the movie “Gattaca” Vincent used his imperfections to drive his sprit and become an astronaut. When Hitler was attempting to create to create the “master race” anyone who did not fit his ideal race was exterminated. It’s

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    Discrimination Discrimination is usually on the basis of gender‚ race‚ age‚ colour‚ religion ‚sexuality‚ disability and family structure. Discrimination is the treatment of an individual based on their actual or perceived membership in a certain group or category‚ "in a way that is worse than the way people are usually treated. It involves the group’s initial reaction or interaction‚ influencing the individual’s actual behavior towards the group or the group leader‚ restricting members of one

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    Production Techniques from Gattaca and Their Importance In the movie "Gattaca"‚ the director uses lots of production techniques to prove his point and ideas about a futuristic world where they "have discrimination down to a science". In the movie are used lots of color filters. The most important images are shot through a range of yellow‚ green and blue filters as if the camera were filtering out any imperfections. Gattaca has a special yellowish-orange glow that makes it look cold and unnatural

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    Existence of Discrimination : From the U.S to Vietnam In the article “Change of Heart”‚ which appeared in the March‚ 2005 Reader’s Digest‚ Mary A. Fisher tells the reason she changes her attitude forward minority of immigrants after she had been deeply racist against people who are immigrants and are not whites. In 1989‚ she bought a house in an interethnic neighborhood in Los Angeles in which there were many people from Mexico‚ El Salvador‚ the Philippines and Vietnam because it was affordable

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    Gattaca Not-Too-Distant-Future     "Consider God’s handiwork; who can straighten what He hath made crooked?" Ecclesiastes 7:13       "I not only think that we will tamper with Mother Nature‚ I think Mother wants us to." Willard Gaylen   Gattaca deals with the morality involved in technologically engineering human life. As a species‚ is humanity wise enough (Homo sapiens) to play the role of God? The film begins with two quotes: one from Ecclesiastes and one from Willard Gaylen. Ecclesiastes

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    DISCRIMINATION Discrimination is the unjust treatment of people or things‚ especially on the grounds of race age and gender. Everyone is discriminated in somehow on a daily basis it is something that everyone faces. As a colored skin person have come across this many times‚ I walk into a shop and everyone looks at me like I am going to steal something‚ I ask someone for directions and they just walk by me like I was invisible. This had been ongoing issues for decades and it still is‚ but it takes

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    there were discrimination and corruption in the society 75 years ago. The movie somewhat relates to discrimination and corruption to this day. For example‚ back in 1935‚ white people thought black people were lower than them. In 2013‚ some Americans think they are above illegal immigrants from Mexico. The racial profiling of Arabic people can compare to the thinking that every black person in the movie was a share cropper. Those are just a few examples of the movie’s relation to discrimination in today’s

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    containing genetic material that has been artificially altered so as to produce a desired characteristic. Why would one such desire a needed characteristic to modify themselves? Is it to please themselves or to please others? I was shown the movie GATTACA and this movie is about a young man named Vincent who was naturally birthed into the world and was expected to have health problems because during this century about everyone has genetically modified their child before birth. Afterwards they had another

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    Genetic engineering is shown in the movie GATTACA through genetically modified characters who were not limited by society and those who were genetically inferior and banned from the best of everything. The movie shows how the main character overcomes his “invalid” status and becomes one of the elite. Today‚ we have the ability to edit genes which may one day lead to designer babies. We are not aloud to genetically modified children now‚ but maybe in the future. This essay will talk about about how

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    Name: ____________________________ Year 11 English – Outcome One (Part A) Gattaca - Character Study Task You will work either individually or in pairs. It will be your role to prepare an oral presentation in which you will have to speak as your allocated character (in other words‚ in the voice of that character). You will have 7-10 minutes to complete your presentation during which you must fulfil the following criteria: 1. You must provide us with insights into your character: what is

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