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- 5181: Mindwalk: International Relations
- ... to make sure that your brain was in full gear. The concept and idea the author is trying to get across just doesn't run to you. It requires concentration and an evaluation of the world around you. Even with this in mind, I'm not even sure I came across with everything the film was trying to point out. The setting of a medieval island castle in Paris jumps out ... two personalities will carry the film. Still furthermore when Jack, the failed politician, and Thomas, a little-known poet, meet up with Sonya, a secluded scientist, the movie takes a deep inner-look at the world. As the three characters get to know one another, they begin to discuss (actually debate) various topics about the world around them. As they all begin to tell their side, it becomes clear why the author chose these characters. Each has a very separate, very unique view on the subject he is trying to ...
- 5182: Analysis of the Final Scenes of Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious
- ... devices in his scenes such as fades from shot to shot. By doing this, Hitchcock illustrates his character's different viewpoints. The fades themselves are used to connect Alicia's two different worldsher fake' world (her marriage to Sebastian), and her `real' world (her relationship with Devlin). For example, when Alicia is unable to make contact with Devlin due to her illness, there are several shots of her in her sick bed, then fading to Devlin waiting impatiently at a bench. The fading between shots usually comes at a point when Alicia is feeling trapped, and this suggests that the fades represent her desire to escape back to her `real' world. Since, obviously, it is difficult to use colour as a nuance in a black and white film, Hitchcock makes use of light and dark images. When Alicia and Sebastian are alone together, it is ...
- 5183: A Doll's House: Nora Perceived by Other Characters
- ... spendthrift" (Ibsen 8). Christine tries to point out to Nora that there are more important things in life to worry about besides money. "Christine, a woman who has been forced to live in a hard world starts out patronizing Nora" (Rogers 83). She believes Nora is living in a dream world, one that nothing can go wrong, instead of living in the real world where everything is not always so perfect. Christine understands that Nora has led a sheltered life for she was always taken care of, first by her husband and then by Torvald. Nora has never ...
- 5184: Martin Luther King Jr
- ... Discussion and Analysis Of some of his Contributions As Well as their Social, Political and Economic Impacts Since the Thirteen Colonies first united, the United States has had one of the strongest economies in the world. Over the years, many theorists have had varying opinions concerning the reason for this nation's strong economic standing. One reason that has often been overlooked is that a great many of this nation's ... gradually, fulfilling one's duty was not only important but it became the moral obligation of every individual (the highest form of moral activity). Before the Reformation, the Catholic Church did not believe that everyday world activities had a religious significance. As a result of Luther these world activities were quite important in adhering to God's wishes. Rather than devote one's life to worshipping God through prayer, and instead of sacrificing all worldly goods to follow Christ, the Protestants believed ...
- 5185: Alexander The Great
- ... by the ingenious tactics instilled in them by Alexander. He and his armies conquered the Persian Empire, which stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to India and formed much of what was then considered the civilized world. Through his conquests, Alexander helped spread Greek ideas, customs and laws throughout Asia and Egypt and adopted a uniform currency system to promote trade and commerce. He thus spread the rich Hellenistic culture enjoyed by the Greeks throughout the world. Alexander had a dream of the brotherhood of mankind where every person shared a common language, currency and loyalty, but he was unable to see his dream through due to an illness that claimed his ... now set forth to conquer Egypt. Upon arriving, he was welcomed as a "...divinely sent liberator from Persian rule" and was crowned pharaoh (Durant 544). While in Egypt, he founded Alexandria, which would become a world center of commerce and learning, and he visited the temple and oracle of Zues-Ammon. In 331 B.C. Alexander marched back to Asia to attack Persia. He was greeted by Darius III and ...
- 5186: Old Madison Square Garden: Fond Recollections of a True Landmark
- Old Madison Square Garden: Fond Recollections of a True Landmark From the world cup of soccer to the superbowl, people all throughout the world have dreams of being sport stars or even just meeting their favorite athlete. It is in some peoples mind, the ideal american dream. In a time known as the roaring twenties, people throughout New York ... combination of commerce and sport to bring the people together. The friendly confines of Old Madison Square Garden was a melting pot for not only residents of the community, but for athletes all over the world. Athletes would come to New York not just for competition, but also for the experiences and different cultures (Jackson 72). Nowhere else in the world do you get what's in New York. How ...
- 5187: Plato Vs. Materialists
- ... Materialists Plato was concerned with Epistemology. Epistemology deals with the possibilities and limits of human knowledge. It tries to arrive at a knowledge of knowledge itself. It tries to answer such questions as: Is the world as people perceive it the basic reality, or do people perceive only appearances that conceal basic reality? Knowledge may be regarded as having two parts. There is, first of all, what one perceives using the ... understood the relationship of the mind to the rest of reality. Plato used his Theory of Forms to link the mind and reality. For the average person, common sense says that there is a real world of perceivable objects. These objects can be analyzed and understood. Philosophers have not let the matter rest there. Plato taught that the real world consisted of universal ideas (forms). The world that people actually see is given form by these ideas and is thus less real because it is always changing, but the ideas (forms) are eternal and ...
- 5188: Greek Gods
- ... to-day life such as sex and disputes between mortals were supposedly influenced by godly workings. Unlike modern religions such as Catholicism, Buddhism, and Hinduism, where an omnipotent force supposedly controls the workings of the world, a hierarchy of Gods characterized religion in ancient Greece. Working as one big family, which they actually were, each one of the Greek gods governed a certain aspect of the world in a way that usually reflected their own humanlike personalities. These unique personalities also contained many human flaws such as envy and greed, and were where the Greek God s importance lay. Greek religion was more concentrated on the way an individual dealt with situations that popped up in the world around him than on understanding the world itself. In other words the Greeks were more interested in the workings of the mind than in the workings of the environment around them. This was so ...
- 5189: Ferdinand Magellan
- ... help the tribe fight an enemy tribe. Magellan was killed in the fight against the natives, and another man called Juan Sebastian finished the voyage and was given all the credit for sailing around the world. Out of the five ships only two ships, the Trinidad and the Victoria, made it to the Spice Islands. Magellan's crew had made the first voyage around the world! Because of Magellan, it was proven that the world was a sphere, and can be circumnavigated. Magellan was the first to see that the oceans are all one. His voyages changed the people he met by getting rid of the bad Arab leader, ...
- 5190: Computers 2
- COMPUTERS Could one imagine what the world would be like today without computers? For one, I would not be typing this paper right now. Computers were actually developed in early history. The first major use for a computer in the U.S ... business. One area deals with the advertising industry. It has completely re-arranged the advertising business. Before computers companies used to advertise only on magazines, billboards, and T.V. The internet has spawned a new world for advertising. If anyone has ever been on the Internet; they know that it is a major contributor to this. Instead of companies paying around 1 million dollars to advertise for a 30 second commercial ... turned from perhaps what some considered an unthinkable business into Fortune 500 companies (Maney 48). Such companies as: Microsoft, Intel, Dell, Gateway, Cisco, and Apple have become some of the most successful companies around the world. They have also caused the infamous Silicon Valley to sprout up. This area located in mid-western California has become one of the most well-known areas along with the most profitable (Horowitz 38). ...
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