Storytelling is more important to me than anything else‚ and I believe film is one of the most rewarding and honest forms of storytelling. Ever since I was a little kid I have been in love with movies. When I was nine I got a camcorder for Christmas‚ and I would make my friends help me remake scenes from my favorite movies‚ and when they said the lines wrong I would yell at them and make them do it over and over until they got it right or got so annoyed with me that they went home. As I got older
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The film Gattaca presents a world in the “not too distant future‚” where human beings are judged and defined solely by their genetic make-up‚ a world in which the scientific determination of one’s existence is placed over faith‚ religion‚ and free-will. Parents have the ability to choose their children’s genes and can essentially create the “perfect” child through ensuring that their best hereditary traits are passed on. Those who are conceived naturally are referred to as “God-children”‚ children
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Week 4 of Intercultural Communication has given me the opportunity of presenting and discussion facilitator of the topic “Connected but‚ alone?” The assignment was to lead a discussion on a topic throughout the week‚ which means acknowledging and following up with your classmates’ posts‚ asking clarifying questions‚ and summarizing the discussion for the week. The topic is based on a Ted Talk hosted by Sherry Turkle giving her perspective on modern communication and how they are redefining
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The ingenuity of Kreuzpaintner in Krabat (Question 1) The movie Krabat‚ directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner‚ addresses the adventure of a young orphan named Krabat who learns black magic from an evil sorcerer in a satanic mill. Krabat goes through several struggles that help him develop into this heroic character and ends up fighting for his freedom through love and friendship. The movie was released on September 7th‚ 2008. The main actors in the movie were David Kross as Krabat‚ Daniel Bruhl as Tonda
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aware of intercultural communication challenges to better their communication in the workplace and improve student learning. Through conducting secondary research‚ the authors revealed that nurses faced difficulties when communicating with “culturally and linguistically diverse colleagues and students” (Henderson et al.‚ 2016). As result of these findings‚ descriptive qualitative research was conducted among clinical nurses‚ nurse academics‚ and student nurses to identify what intercultural communication
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Essay question: what techniques does the director‚ Danny DeVito‚ use in the film Matilda to illustrate the character‚ Agatha Trunchbull‚ as evil and malicious (mean)? The film ‘Matilda’ directed by Danny DeVito released in 1996‚ is a film in which the principal‚ Ms Trunchbull‚ is depicted as an evil and malicious person through her intimidating appearance‚ unpleasant personality‚ the suspenseful lighting and lastly the unflattering camera angles. To begin with‚ Ms Trunchbull’s intimidating appearance
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The way Memento was edited is the thing that makes this film to a great degree unmistakable from different movies. Since the film has a section and non-straight structure‚ it is told in reverse with scenes hopping in fifteen-minute augmentations of story time. This happens until the end of the film really meets the start of the Leonard’s story. Everything in color is in an opposite request grouping plot and every scene connotes
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The Godfather is one of the greatest films of all time. The story begins in the 1940’s with Don Vito Corleone’s daughter’s wedding. This is where we first see how powerful "The Don" is as he is granting requests as true to Italian mafia traditions‚ no request can be denied. The requests are from a regular worker to a famous singer who wants a part in an upcoming motion picture. The story focus on the Mafia crime world and inner workings of it including who is on the payroll as the Carleone family
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one of that can be taken as fact and other is a fiction. In reality we tend to take our own personal ideas and beliefs. When we attempt to put the events of our lives into story form it is no wonder that we each crate our own individual story. In the film‚ four characters create their own version of what happen. They intend to tell a instead of saying and doing the right thing. Why do people always intend to tell a lie instead of saying the truth? Why does a person only believe in what they want to
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“I don’t have a culture”. Until I have read the first chapter of the book Intercultural Communication: Globalization and Social Justice by Kathryn Sorrell‚ I began to think more deeply about this concept‚ about my cultural identity and positionality. My view about culture became broaden when I learned about the definition of culture which is a site of shared meaning‚ of contested meaning‚ and a resource. To me‚ intercultural communication is a process of exploring one’s culture among different groups
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