This movie‚ Avatar‚ is about creatures in another world called Pandora. These people have a lot of beliefs and are very religious. The main character‚ Jake‚ is paralyzed but when he is put into a machine he becomes an avatar in the world‚ he is not paralyzed. He can go into this world whenever he wants‚ and he starts becoming one of the Avatars. They start trusting him and teaching him how to fight and survive in their world. He falls in love with a real avatar from Pandora. He tries to warn her
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What is a residential school? In the 19th century‚ the Canadian government believed it was responsible for educating and caring for the country’s aboriginal people. It thought their best chance for success was to learn English and adopt Christianity and Canadian customs. Ideally‚ they would pass their adopted lifestyle on to their children‚ and native traditions would diminish‚ or be completely abolished in a few generations. The Canadian government developed a policy called "aggressive assimilation"
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Future James Cameron’s attention getting and highly developed film Avatar is a one that delves into serious moral‚ social‚ and economic issues; ones that directly reflect the same issues in our society today. After “The Matrix was released in 1999‚ Mr. Cameron furthered his movie cyborg movie pattern with the construction of what would become another example of his effort in a paradigm shift of Science Fiction films‚ Avatar‚ finally exposed to the public in 2009(Dargis‚1). The idea of the alien
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However‚ in spite of the many differences‚ there are similarities between the two stories. Romeo and Juliet and “Teen Couple Executed by their Parents…for daring to fall in love‚” both involve the deaths of the couples all happening at a young age‚ all of them dying before the age of 19 before any of their parents died. Throughout both stories a common factor is that the couples were forced to make adult decisions about their lives and love lives; while‚ the adults around them were making many poor
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Nature with Technology With the movie Avatar‚ Pandora is presented as a virgin land of unspoiled beauty‚ a paradise with a vast landscape full of wildlife‚ huge trees‚ plants that react and move like animals‚ astonishing rainforests‚ wonderful waterfalls‚ lakes‚ rivers‚ massive cliffs hovering above the ground‚ impressive mountains and magnificent animals. It is nature as something divine and marvelous. Contrary to Pandora’s magnificent natural landscape‚ the base’s environment is purely a military
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The slave laborers were exhausted. They lived in camps infested with disease. The Nazis used gas tanks to murder the weak. There are many similarities as well as differences between The Holocaust and The Crucible. The Holocaust can be compared to The Crucible for a number of reasons. In the beginning of the Crucible‚ a scene told the audience how a teenaged girl‚ Abigail‚ helped her employer‚ John Proctor‚ commit adultery. She knew she had grudges toward some people‚ including her mistress‚ because
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supported the notion that the earth rotated around the sun. Doctors tried to reason with mothers that believed taking vaccines would give their children autism. Both of these instances have clear similarities‚ despite the era they occurred‚ as well as other outstanding differences. The differences between Galileo’s spat with the Church and the controversy about autism being rooted in vaccines are numerous. Obvious differences include the time these controversies occurred‚ the subject matter they were
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Similarities between Creon and Antigone In Sophocles’ play Antigone‚ Creon was engaged in a conflict with Oedipus’ daughter Antigone. Creon and Antigone did not see eye-to-eye the entire play due to extreme differences. Creon and Antigone had many similarities despite their enormous discrepancies. Having as many differences as they did‚ it made them uniquely similar in numerous ways. The similarities that Antigone and Creon shared were independence‚ loyalty toward their views‚ cruelty and arrogance
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The early civilizations of China and India are similar but also quite different to the civilizations of Sumer and Egypt. A common similarity is the use of rivers. Most early civilizations built cities near rivers to gain food‚ water‚ and other necessities‚ this is one common theme between civilizations of China‚ India‚ Sumer‚ and Egypt (Stearns‚ 50). A common difference is the way the emperor/king ruled. In civilizations such as Babylon‚ the ruler created rules to fix family issues and property problems
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Remember that the major character has to learn how to interpret the reactions of the others. CLAIM/THESIS The movie AVATAR is an excellent example of the use of nonverbal communication for Storytelling. The central messages are dramatized nonverbally‚ visually contrasting the conflicting communities and showing through symbolization‚ use of light and color the stark differences between the cultures. The anthropomorphization of the aliens provides numerous examples that can be translated into human
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