Film 1: Avatar‚ 2009; director: James Cameron Avatar tells the story of a bitter and discouraged former Marine named Jake. Jake always thought that since he was sadly in a wheelchair that there was nothing else to live for. But when Jake is recruited to join an expedition to Pandora he is ecstatic. On his journey he meets a lot of wonderful “Na’vi”. During his journey Jake learns a lot of great values and remembers what it feels like to love life (Film Jabber). Avatar is mainly influential because
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1 Rachel Smith Transcendentalist Essay 7‚ November 2012 Features of Transcendentalism in Avatar Transcendentalism is an American philosophy started in the 1800’s‚ which is still part of modern culture today. Transcendentalism was developed by Immanuel Kant‚ and was based on the idea that‚ in order to comprehend the nature of reality‚ it must first be observed and explored using the method of reasoning. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were fundamental figures in Transcendentalism
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meant to me. - Evey Hammond: He was Edmond Dantés... and he was my father. And my mother... my brother... my friend. He was you... and me. He was all of us. Avater 2009 -Jake Sully: Everything is backwards now‚ like out there is the true world‚ and in here is the dream. -Jake Sully: One life ends‚ another begins. -Jake Sully: Up ahead was Pandora. You grew up hearing about it‚ but I never figured I’d be goin’ there. 500 Days of Summer 2009 -Rachel Hansen: Just because she likes the same bizzaro
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In Avatar linguistic anthropology is seen especially when Jake begins to learn the native language of the Na’vi. Throughout the movie cultural anthropology was perceived by showing the use of emic and etic. Jake was etic to their culture‚ but later himself became emic to the culture by becoming one of them and becoming a considered native to the Na’vi culture
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Avatar One of the most interesting aspects of the movie Avatar is the culture that makes it up. The Na’vi is an entirely made up and brand new culture with language‚ norms‚ relationships‚ religion‚ and beliefs. Western civilization tries to move in on their land and their ways‚ believing the Na’vi are savage and primordial who must be living in the past due to their lack of modern technology uses and spending their every day and night in nature. The Na’vi have very close ties to their ancestors
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and it is what we want crave to have‚ and is usually the evil in us. The anima archetype is the woman in men. Men have a certain secondary female sexual features to them‚ and men try to hide the feminist side of them. In Avatar Colonel Miles Quaritch is the shadow figure to Jake. Colonel Miles is someone who just follows orders and doesn’t care about other lives besides him. He is a beast like man‚ and he thinks that violence is the answer to his problem. He doesn’t think about the natives
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Reading Assignment - "Language in Thought and Action" by S.I. Hayakawa and Alan R. Hayakawa book report Language in my Thought and my Action Since I was born‚ I have been learning languages consciously and unconsciously without asking why. S.I. Hayakawa and Alan R. Hayakawa‘s Language in Thought and Action remind me the goal of the study of language – to learn to think more clearly‚ to speak and to write more effectively‚ and to listen and to read with greater understanding. This book is divided
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Daniel Ruiz English 104 31 July 2012 The White Messiah Many people assume that in order for a movie to be worth watching a movie a hero must come and save the helpless. In many cases the savior has to be white‚ young‚ handsome‚ likeable and masculine. Such an assumption can be dismissed in the movie Gran Torino. The movie depicts not only the very apparent differences between races‚ but in cultures as well. In Gran Torino‚ Walt Kowalski defies a person’s expectation of a white savior. He is
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The biggest problem humans have been having since the dawn of time is‚ ’how do we entertain ourselves? ’. One would assume it began with fire‚ something that aroused the eyes and entertained the mind.Though fire may have been the beginning‚ centuries upon centuries later a much more highly intelligent form of entertainment revolutionized the world‚ motion pictures. In the dog eat dog world of entertainment Film reigns alpha dog. Film has some of the biggest influence on the world around us. It shapes
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Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger Everyone has a hero either it’s your mom‚ dad‚ or great great grandpa. How about American heroes like Rosa Parks or Nelson Mandela? Chesley Sullenberger or Sully for short was the first man ever to land a plane in water with saving 155 people due to a bird strike in its engines. Sully was born January 23‚ 1951 with a family of three. His mother and father named Pauline Hanna and Chesley Burnett Sullenberger‚ and older sister Mary Sullenberger Wilson. In June 17
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