Star Wars Episode 4 and Star Wars episode 7 share many similarities. Honestly‚ both episodes are near exact‚ I could classify it as a remake. From destroying the enemy’s base‚ to the murder of a “mentor” character‚ there are very little differences at all. But there is a reason why J. J. Abrams decided to make these episodes so similar. He did it as a marketing tactic to get people more excited for this trilogy. Star Wars episode 4 and episode 7 are very similar. They both find a droid that has
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communication. They include kinesthetics(body language)‚ proxemics(perceiving space)‚ paralanguage(variation in speech)‚ and chronemics(use of time) (Fred C. Lunenburg 1). These 4 characteristics of nonverbal communication are all seen in the movie Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi. In the opening
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Star Wars is a story of aliens and space battles; but it’s also a story of ghosts and mystical powers. Is Star Wars science fiction‚ or is it fantasy? More importantly‚ what makes it one or the other? Magic vs. Science The difference between sci-fi and fantasy is a much-debated subject. One common dividing line‚ however‚ is that science fiction is about scientific and technological advancements that could reasonably occur in the future‚ while fantasy exists only in the realm of imagination. Much
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Pop art is a visual art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in parallel in the late 1950s in the United States. The coinage of the term Pop Art is often credited to British art critic/curator‚ Lawrence Alloway in an essay titled The Arts and the Mass Media‚ although the term he uses is "popular mass culture" Nevertheless‚ Alloway was one of the leading critics to defend mass culture and Pop Art as a legitimate art form. Pop art is one of the major art movements of the twentieth
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Star Wars versus The Odyssey The Odyssey and Star Wars are two great examples of epics. Both the stories fulfill the epic hero cycle to the fullest. In The Odyssey‚ Odysseus is the hero‚ he goes to Troy to fight a war and get lost at sea for 20 years. In Star Wars Luck is the hero‚ he gets introduced to the rebel force that is trying to ensure the safety of their universe. The Odyssey and Star Wars follow the same basic cycle. Both adventures show hard challenging tasks in order to complete
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the world‚ sport has become a very dominate theme in advertising. Sports stars are seen as idols and almost like super heroes to young kids in the American society. Many brand owners corporate with sports stars to promote the sales of almost any kind of products‚ even if they have no apparent relationship with sports. “In the beginning‚ no one was giving us a chance‚” said Rich Paul‚ a childhood friend of the NBA’s biggest star‚ LeBron James‚ “but it’s a new day. Sports marketing in 2006 is different
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within the story. The use of archetypes are prevalent throughout mythology in the ancient world but are they still alive and well in our contemporary entertainment. Delving deeper into the characters and stories such as the Harry Potter series‚ Star Wars‚ and even Disney Films we kind find that these ancient archetypes that have been used in storytelling for centuries are still very much alive and in use in the majority of contemporary works. An archetypical character is a
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familiar tune. "It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships‚ striking from a hidden base‚ have won their first victory‚" the screen announces. Fans’ eyes dart to read this opening of Star Wars: A New Hope‚ now a pinnacle in the domain of science fiction. Millions applaud its classical texture: the slight taste of fairy tale archetypes that appeals to a variety of audiences. These same paradigms also complement an underlying theme of the trilogy. Within Star Wars: A New Hope and Return of the Jedi‚
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this event it was just another chapter in the ongoing war of 1812. I (Adalie Peterson) am an editor for Houghton-Mifflin and I also am a publisher of social studies books for middle school students. Due to the reasoning that our expenses are going up‚ some of the publishers I work with want to eliminate the War of 1812 from the books‚ therefore saving money‚ ink‚ and space in our books for more valuable information. I believe that the war of 1812 is
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Does it ever cross your mind how two very different pieces of entertainment are alike? In the epic‚ “The Odyssey” by‚ Homer and in the movie‚ Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope the two main characters‚ Odysseus‚ and Luke Skywalker undergo a hero journey. A Hero’s Journey is a pattern of narrative that appears in drama‚ storytelling‚ and myths in which involves a hero who goes on an adventure‚ and in a crisis wins a victory‚ and then comes home changed or transformed. Their journeys are both different
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