Timothy Vita Lisa Cecere CINE 120 1 December 2010 Feminism in Aliens Having carried their gender as a burden for years‚ woman have now grown to have a massive and essential influence in worldwide cinema. Feminist film theory challenges audiences to understand the source of gender inequality. Predominantly a masculine industry‚ early film have been said to contain the "male gaze‚" where the audience is placed in the shoes of a heterosexual male and woman are a merely objects to be viewed or
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performance in the air duct scene from “Alien”. In this scene‚ we follow the character Dallas (Tom Skerrit) as he searches for the alien in the ships air ducts‚ whilst communicating with the rest of his crew. At this point the audience are already aware of how dangerous the alien is‚ as it had already killed Kane (John Hurt) and Brett (Harry Dean Stanton) Not only this but Dallas had previously asked the ships computer “What are my chances?” referring to killing the alien‚ and the computer replied “Can
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Works Cited Primary Sources “Aliens to Be Held in Southwest.” New York Times‚ 19 Dec. 1941. New York Times‚ query.nytimes.com. This article from the New York Times included information about the first decision to create Japanese internment camps. This was used in the documentary to show the initial reactions of the American government to Japanese-Americans after the Attack on Pearl Harbor. Bishop‚ Katharine. “Day of Apology and ‘Sigh of Relief.’” New York Times‚ 11 Aug. 1988. New York Times‚ nytimes
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Aliens coming to earth is a topic constantly being used for books and movies‚ from the full out war for survival in Independence Day‚ to the cute aliens who didn’t mean any harm in Home. “Forget about flying saucers and little green men and giant mechanical spiders spitting out death rays. Forget about epic battles with tanks and fighter jets and the final victory of us scrappy‚ unbroken‚ intrepid humans over the bug-eyed swarm. That’s about as far from the truth as their dying planet was from our
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Shay’s Rebellion is more than a simple act of civil disobedience of citizens against their government. There were a lot of key causes and factors to Shay’s Rebellion. All of theses factors and problems added up cause an uproar. The Rebellion in itself was not that big of a rebellion‚ however it did create a very big impact on the leaders of the nation. The Rebellion occurred in many places all over the new colonies‚ but most of the effect of the Rebellion took place at Massachusetts. The current
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and other issues. One of the largest groups of unfree people in the United States‚ the slaves‚ also performed their own acts of resistance in hopes of freedom. While ultimately none of them destroyed the system of slavery‚ they did have an impact‚ especially on white Southerners. Often‚ large scale slave rebellions were inspired by Christian sermons and meetings and small scale acts of individual slave resistance were motivated by a hope to achieve the popularized idea of American freedom. These actions
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The Whisky Rebellion- George Washington’s Secretary of Treasury proposed a new excise tax on whisky to gain revenue to pay off the countries debt. Hamilton knew that the idea of tax was not accepted by Americans in previous years‚ however‚ he saw it necessary to form a strong and effective national government. Initially‚ the rebellion began in July of 1794 when a group of angry tax protesters demolished the home of a tax inspector (PBS). The rebellion grew and many protesters brought back the idea
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The word rebellion describes “an effort by many people to change the government or leader of a country by the use of protest or violence”. In a more basic sense‚ rebellion is a refusal or opposition of what is perceived or enforced as a standard. A rebellion can be as simple as a child disobeying a parent‚ or as complicated as an entire population of people fighting a high power for what they believe in. The rebels which carry out any rebellion are often portrayed as selfish‚ ignorant and dangerous
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this anthology. Dennis Enright’s free verse‚ simply structured poem‚ ‘The Rebel’‚ explores the idea that rebels will do the complete opposite to the majority group no matter what this may require. The poet uses humour to criticise how young rebels act. This poem has fifteen stanzas‚ each with two lines. Just like any typical free verse poem‚ this poem does not have any rhyme at the end of each line‚ but the repetition used in each stanza gives the poem musical qualities. Each pair of stanzas is very
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Bacon’s Rebellion‚ an uprising of indentured servants‚ was the result of tensions between social classes‚ which identifying the need for slaves‚ indicating racism‚ and promoted American independence through the idea that anyone can stand up to authority. Bacon’s rebellion occurred due to the fact there were many unhappy freemen wandering the Virginia area because they had no wife or land. This rebellion resulted due to the fact Governor Berkley was friendly towards the indians and prohibited people
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