Category One – Context Context investigates a text’s personal‚ social and historical context. Blade Runner‚ directed by Ridley Scott‚ was first released in 1982. At this time‚ computers were at an all-time high in popularity and productivity‚ businesses were booming and the environment was being ignored for financial profits. All of these values had an impact on the way Blade Runner was written and directed. Blade Runner was released right in the middle of the ‘Computer-Age.’ This was the period in which
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Freebie marketing A free gift knitting row counter given away byWoman ’s Weekly in the 1980s-1990s. Freebie marketing‚ also known as the razor and blades business model‚[1] is a business model wherein one item is sold at a low price (or given away for free) in order to increase sales of a complementary good‚ such as supplies (inkjet printers and ink cartridges‚ "Swiffers" and cleaning fluid‚ mobile phones and service contracts) [2] or software (game consoles and games).[1] It is distinct
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Mary Shelley’s gothic novel Frankenstein‚ first published in 1816‚ and Ridley Scott’s science fiction film‚ Blade Runner‚ released in 1992‚ share common themes and ideas as well as similar warnings based on the time period. Despite being produced nearly 200 years apart‚ both texts reflect upon the values of their times as well as raising concerns that are timeless. Both Frankenstein and Blade runner explore the implications of Science and technology‚ the relationships between the creator and creation
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1. As an option writer‚ what is the best option to take when you forecast the market to be bullish? Sketch the profit/loss diagram and determine the in the money‚ out of the money and at the money. 2. The call option of Diamond Bhd stock has a striking price of RM30 and a cost of option RM2 per share with one month expiration date. The current market price of share is RM26. If you buy 3 lots (1 lots = 100 shares) of shares‚ calculate the profits or losses at the expiration date for each of the
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Professor Charpentier English 102 4 February 2013 The science fiction film Blade Runner is about cinematic vision. In the beginning of the film‚ a difference between the lens and mirror is shown. A close up of an eye is shown with flames which symbolizes the camera that has just shot the scene. Eye imagery occurs throughout the movie being the film’s obsessive exploration of the theme. The protagonist‚ Rick Deckard uses an “Esper machine‚” a high tech apparatus‚ to dissect a photo left by a replicant
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Thomas Driscoll Comm 225 Blade Runner Mise en Scene Analysis A Misen Scène is a word borrowed from the French theatre. It is actually everything on screen including scenery and the props used. The setting‚ costumes and lighting are also essential in an opening scene. It is essential in all films‚ as so much of the appearance and audience’s attention goes directly there. Scott has also used Film Noir which implies to the film‚ set forty years
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Mary Shelley’s nineteenth century epistolary novel‚ Frankenstein (1818)‚ and Ridley Scott’s late twentieth century post-modern film‚ Blade Runner (1992)‚ bear striking similarities when studied as texts in time‚ as they both aim to warn humanity about attempting to usurp of the role of God in creating life. However‚ their respective contexts mean that the way in which they present notions about humanity differs. Shelley and Scott have extrapolated their various concerns born from their respective
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Pay It Forward (film) Pay It Forward is a 2000 American drama film based on the novel of the same name by Catherine Ryan Hyde. It was directed byMimi Leder and written by Leslie Dixon. It stars Haley Joel Osment as a boy who launches a good-will movement‚ Helen Hunt as his single mother‚ and Kevin Spacey as his social-studies teacher. Plot When eleven and a half year old Trevor McKinney (Haley Joel Osment) begins seventh grade in Las Vegas‚ Nevada‚ his social studies teacher Eugene Simonet (Kevin
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Analyse how Frankenstein and Blade Runner imaginatively portray individuals who challenge the established values of their time. Texts provide us with a gateway to the values and ideals of a given time‚ as it is difficult‚ if not impossible‚ for any author to compose in isolation of their cultural‚ political and historical contexts. They shape the ideas‚ themes and relationships explored within a text and enable us to better understand the concerns and values of the author. In particular‚ texts often
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Blade Runner’s Eldon Tyrell proclaims the company’s motto as ‘more human than human’. How has the notion of humanity been explored in Frankenstein and Blade Runner? Thesis: The nature of humanity is progression‚ when we progress too far we play God and lose basic traits of humanity. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein draws on concerns from the romantics era to illustrate the instinctive and greedy appetite for progression that is part of the nature of humanity. Furthermore Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner
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