On Thursday‚ March 17th at 7:30 pm in Williams Hall‚ I attended the lecture Descent into the Spanish Labyrinth: Politics in Contemporary Spain‚ which Dustin Shannon presented. After studying abroad at the Complutense University of Madrid‚ Dr. Shannon slowly gained an appreciation and became accustomed to the daily lifestyle in Spain. As a result‚ he has lived and taught in Spain for about the last 17 years. During the two decades‚ Dr. Shannon was able to acquire more knowledge on Spain‚ which allows
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In storytelling‚ monsters are used to express the fears and worries of humans. They allow us to discover our values by questioning our morals through imagination and illusion. In both Donnie Darko and Pan’s Labyrinth illustrating real-life monsters Captain Videl and Jim Cunningham enhances our fear of monsters. These villains symbolize the vulnerability we feel as we identify ourselves with the victims of the attack. We can relate each example of monsters to an evolution of our fears throughout
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Toro is a director that likes to portray fairy tales‚ myth and legends and science fiction stories using magic‚ fantasy‚ horror‚ darkness‚ creatures and monsters. The two films that I have selected to study and analyse are Pacific Rim and Pan’s Labyrinth. Pacfic Rim (2013) is a fantasy‚ science fiction story that tells of how aliens‚ (Kaiju) come from a disastrous‚ dying and chaotic underground oceanic world with their objective to destroy mankind. To defend their Planet‚ mankind manufacture robots
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A memorable scene in the movie Pan Labyrinth‚ directed by Guillermo del Toro‚ involves a young girl‚ Ofelia‚ undertaking a difficult task to enter the labyrinth and retrieve a special dagger. The scene is intense and suspenseful‚ with various effects – music‚ lighting‚ camera angles‚ time passage‚ foreshadowing – all working together to create anxiousness and uneasiness. The viewer becomes increasingly nervous watching the action unfold. There is a clear sense that something bad is about to happen
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Psychological Labyrinth What does it really mean to be insane? Most people put labels on others because they can’t really understand the way that “crazy” person’s mind works. Everyone is different in terms of how they think but society as a whole usually thinks similarly. However‚ there are those few individuals whose minds operate outside of the moral‚ ethical and logical thinking of society. In the novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov‚ a man named John Ray‚ Jr.‚ Ph.D. received the manuscript‚ entitled
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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter uses “walking” as symbolism to connect to Dimmesdale. More specifically‚ walking was used to exemplify his moral actions. Ancient labyrinths and his encounter with the forest depict his moral struggle. Ancient labyrinths are connected to Dimmesdale. In Greek mythology‚ a labyrinth contained a minotaur‚ which was a creature wielding an axe‚ for the sole purpose of killing anyone that enters the maze. Additionally‚ the chance that anyone entering will come
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Pan’s Labyrinth – Mise En Scene Guillermo del Toro contrasts two worlds with mise-en-scene‚ the romantic world compared to the realistic world. He accomplishes this with a distinguished use of lighting as well as objects‚ changing the styles based of which world he aims to portray. He paints reality has unforgiving and harsh while the romantic world receives a more fantastic‚ lighthearted tint. He also uses German Expressionistic qualities of mirroring internal landscapes of the characters with
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Sales of video games have more than quadrupled from 1995-2008‚ while the arrest rate for juvenile murders fell 71.9% and the arrest rate for all juvenile violent crimes declined 49.3% in this same period. The 2008 study Grand Theft Childhood reported that 60% of middle school boys that played at least one Mature-rated game hit or beat up someone‚ compared to 39% of boys that did not play Mature-rated games. California passed a law in 2005 that would have required violent video games to include
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Video Games Video games originated as a new form of relaxation back about 30 years ago‚ with the first ones being just basic ideas and basic goals. But as time has gone on they have grown into a far greater thing spanning to all walks of like. There are hundreds of ways to help alleviate the stress you experience every day‚ so I’m going to focus on one that many of you may not have considered before: video games. If you’re in a stressful situation that you can’t avoid‚ it’s important to take
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the researchers do this game to practice the brain of the student‚ to refresh their minds and at the same time they are enjoying it because they play and learn at the same time. INTRODUCTION Games have always been a means to leisurely spend one time. They provide fun and enjoyment to every player who play the game and to the people who are watching and know how to play the game. Although some of the game are done for the sake of enjoyment and fun‚ but there are some games that requires more physical
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