The movie Lincoln‚ was more accurate than previous portrayals of Abraham Lincoln. However‚ the movie did fail to include important facts‚ such as Lincoln’s belief that African Americans were unequal to whites and some details of the passing of the 13th Amendment. All in all though‚ the movie portrayed the Civil war and presidency with considerable accuracy. Lincoln focuses mainly on the passage of the 13th amendment and the trials Lincoln and his supporters went through. The film insinuates that
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Movie Report: Madea’s Family Reunion Sierra Hicks HDFS 2000 Summer 2013 Madea’s Family Reunion displayed examples of several themes and concepts that have been discussed in class thus far. The most obvious concepts were related to family. Although this movie focused on family‚ there were several ideas that dealt with aspects of love and marriage. There are three that caught my attention concerning family: types of family‚ how choices influence family‚ and strengths and challenges of African
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Kinsey Movie Mini-Assignment Kinsey realized he lived in a society that lacked sexual understanding. He met with his students after hours to offer them sexual advice. His work as a sex professor was limited. He had a hard time providing data and statistics to his students regarding sex because there was a lack of information available. His survey of his students led to a breakthrough in his understanding of sexual practices. He learned that there was a major difference of what people assumed
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shock. Communicating‚ eating‚ catching a train‚ catching a taxi‚ even going to the bathroom became a challenge. Todd was still living an American life style in India. It wasn’t until about half way through the movie that Todd stopped resisting India and started enjoying it. I felt like this movie did very well at portraying the life style of the Indian culture and how they communicate. It shows that cross culture understanding is very important. Without it‚ even a simple phone call between someone in
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Paola Álvarez Guízar 6/06/2013 Assignment 1 Gattaca Gattaca is a science fiction film written and directed by Andrew Niccol in 1997. In this movie it stars Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman. In 1997 the film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. The movie at the beginning takes places in the United States where a couple has a baby named Vincent who has problems with his heart and also has myopia. When he was born the doctor
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Crash. A collision between entities that results in damage. In the movie “Crash” different dialectics ultimately crashed. Racism was a key concept in this movie and it greatly influenced how the audience perceived the movie. In “Crash” all of the characters in some way‚ shape‚ or form were affected by each other. Their lives seemed to somehow “crash” into each other’s and have a significant effect on their outlook on society. Referring to the concept of reality as motion and the concept of contradiction
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http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/Internet-of-Things The Internet of Things (IoT) is a scenario in which objects‚ animals or people are provided with unique identifiers and the ability to automatically transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction. IoT has evolved from the convergence of wireless technologies‚ micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) and the Internet. A thing‚ in the Internet of Things‚ can be a person with a heart monitor implant
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46.) Quote- If you tell the truth‚ you don’t have to remember anything. Conditional- If you tell the truth‚ then you don’t have to remember anything. Hypothesis- You tell the truth Conclusion- You don’t have to remember anything. Inverse- If you do NOT tell the truth‚ then you have to remember everything. 47.) Quote- One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar. Conditional- If one feels the impulse to soar‚ then one can never consent to creep. Hypothesis- One feels the
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Spring Book Review In The Things They Carried‚ Tim O’Brien tells the tale of not about war‚ but rather about war’s effect on one’s mentality. Ultimately‚ this novel is built on a foundation of the items that the soldiers of the Vietnam War carried. Whether it was the way Jimmy Cross uses the pebble to escape from his duties as a soldier or when Norman Bowker realizes that courage comes form within‚ not from receiving a Silver Star; O’Brien uses baggage as a symbol throughout the book to teach
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The movie Downfall‚ or Der Untergang‚ is a German film directed by Oliver Hirschiegel. Downfall tells the story‚ from Hitler’s private secretary’s standpoint‚ about the final days of Adolph Hitler leading to the eventual surrender of the Nazi Party. The movie was nominated and won several awards including being nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year in 2005. Foreign language films are interesting to watch especially when they tell a story about history. The reason why
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