Extra Credit: The Lord of the Rings The Lord of the Rings‚ famous movie series that consist of the quest to destroy the Ring and defeat the evil‚ has significant character roles that can be evaluated by Sartre’s definition of existentialism. Sartre defined existence as chaos that we must impose meaning upon. Sartre particularly focused on following our own consciousness and ego. In the movie‚ main characters are constantly challenged with the concept of free will. Characters are put in situations
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Tobechukwu N. Olumba Professor Burgess English 105 31 March 2014 Turning Around Doing a lot of work in college is always thought-provoking without a textbook‚ but with the textbook‚ it can be the simplest and most effective way to work hard. Sometimes‚ being on social media after completing some study time is desperately acceptable. It takes about fifteen minutes for some videos‚ posts‚ and tweets. I’m usually not in a good mood for those things during my study time before Friday. The
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gang of greasers that get into trouble when one of them kills a Soc. The greasers get into a mess and it is very kaotic. The Fellowship of the Ring is about a group of nine people sent on a quest to destroy the ring of power. The fellowship faces hard obstacles like trolls‚ orcs‚ black riders‚ and many more. Both The Outsiders and The Fellowship of the Ring may have many differences but they have similar themes
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Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring is a movie that received many awards and set the bar for Fictional Fantasy movies like itself. With the usage of many film making techniques‚ Jackson brings fantasy to a more realistic place. Peter Jackson successfully uses great characterization and other film making techniques to make a very successful and well-rounded movie in general. With the real setting in New Zealand but fictional characters‚ it makes the line between real and
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THE7RINGSOFINFLUENCE. There may be 6 degrees of separation; but there are 7 rings of influence between them. Knowing how trends and therefore culture (attitude‚ customs‚ behavior of a group) is created‚ is essential to manifesting cultural influence en masse. In “Virus of The Mind‚ The New Science of Mimetics‚” Richard Brodie introduces us to the meaning and repercussions of memes: “a unit of information in a mind whose existence influences events such that more copies of itself get created in
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ANGELA TAN ENGLISH SPEECH DRAFT “What goes around comes around” If I said to you‚ “think about your childhood right now”. I bet most of the people will think of their families‚ their houses‚ or their “little boyfriends or girlfriends”‚ but perhaps one more thing they will think of‚ which is the fairy tales that they were once get so addicted to. For hundreds of years‚ people tell fair tales or bedtime stories to their children for variety of reasons‚ but for one main reason‚ is by telling
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When reacting to the Black Plague‚ Christian and Muslim responses were very different but the same in some ways. Some tried to find cures and others found people to blame for it. They had tried to find treatments and preventions for the plague. The responses from the living were shocking but yet expected and during the time that the Black Plague hit‚ religion was the most powerful and the two big and common religions that got hit hardest were Christianity and Islam. The cause for this disease and
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The Black Death was a deadly‚ devastating outbreak disease also known as the Bubonic Plague‚ it was between 1347 and 1352‚ that caused an estimated 25 million deaths in Europe. Many suggest it started in Asia. The disease was carried by fleas that lived on rats. Historians think that black rats living on European merchant ships caught the disease‚ eventually bringing it to Europe. First why don’t we figure out what exactly the Bubonic Plague means. Bubonic is named after the buboes (swollen lymph
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‘WHAT GOES AROUND COME AROUND’ Personally‚ l I believe this is true. The cliché‚ "What goes around‚ comes around‚" is the American definition for Karma. Karma deals with causality. A specific action leads to a specific result. A positive act will lead to a positive result‚ hence‚ to the experience of positive events‚ may it be in this life or in future ones. On the other hand‚ negative acts will unavoidably sooner or later lead to suffering. This is the Law of Cause and Effect of itself‚ because
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Summary The Fellowship of the Ring is the first book in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. This story is set in the world of Tolkien’s invention‚ known as Middle Earth. A specter of evil is looming over Middle Earth as the Dark Lord‚ Sauron‚ seeks to consolidate his already immense power‚ by reclaiming the One Ring that he has lost. Most of his power is held in this ring. With this power‚ he can enslave Middle Earth and unleash an incredible evil with
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