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[IB Film] Inception: A Critique
Inception final critique Seung Yu As one of the most successful films in 2010, Christopher Nolan’s Inception planted a seed of success that grossed $63 million in its opening weekend (USA), and $820 million in total. While not being an unprecedented success in the Hollywood entertainment industries, Inception also achieved high marks from critiques as well, earning four Oscars in 83rd Academy Awards. We can say this is quite an unusual occasion for a Hollywood entertainment film in an industry that seems to have a clear distinction between “pro-money” films and “pro-art” films. The five-minute portion of the movie that I have chosen to analyze starts from 2:07:43 and ends on 2:12:43. Script-wise, it is when the tension is at a high point, descending as Cobb tells Mal that she is just a projection and that he has to “let her go.” The sequence is full of short, densely-packed scenes that contain multiple resolutions, but also reveal cinematographic values of the movie. Before going onto the sequence, Inception is driven by a complex plot which encompasses multiple dimensions of reality. A concept of “shared dream” and “dream within a dream” builds up a world in which characters can exist in multiple dimensions at the same time, adding sophistication and allowing room for fantasy inside a realistic setting. This multiple-reality concept, more than enough
future problem solving french
Future Problem Solving Tous les jours, nous sommes confrontés à des dilemmes qui peuvent éventuellement changer nos vies. Quand il vient à faire de grandes décisions, il est plus logique de réfléchir à la manière on ne devrait pas faire que ce qui est perçu comme un "incorrect" le choix. Une des meilleures façons de penser logiquement, par le biais de l'application de l'utilisation de Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats, mais nous avons aussi une alternative que nous pouvons utiliser pour aider à résoudre le problème auquel nous sommes confrontés. L'éducation est sans doute l'un des plus importants facteurs qui peuvent façonner la vie d'un enfant et de l'avenir. Il est donc important que le parent choisit le "bon", ou système d'éducation plus approprié à mettre leur enfant au moyen de veiller à ce qu'ils font le meilleur de ce qu'ils peuvent offrir à leurs enfants. Ainsi, notre sujet de cette situation est la suivante: "Comment faire en sorte que vos enfants reçoivent un enseignement de la langue chemin des dispositions qui les prépare à leur futur succès à Hong Kong". Hong Kong, comme une des plus diversifiées et internationales de villes dans le monde, est le foyer de plus de 40 nationalités différentes. Cette diversité des résultats de la demande pour un système d'éducation pour les expatriés, et, par conséquent, les écoles
Free Will and Determinism
Core Theme: What is a human being? Analytic Perspective Free will and Determinism Background: the issue of freewill arises in the context of the analytic perspective on the question of what a human being is because of the initial definition of the human by Descartes as made up of immaterial mind and material body. While the body is determined by the laws of physics (e.g. we are determined to fall if we jump off a building) we also experience the sensation of being free to choose in other matters (e.g. we feel free to choose whether to jump off a building). The question has profound implications for ethics: normally the ability to choose freely is a precondition for taking moral responsibility for an action (e.g. isn't there a difference between choosing to jump and being pushed off that building?) Philosophers in the analytic tradition (and farther back in the essentialist tradition) have debated the issue. The following is a summary of the general idea of many of those arguments. Arguments for Determinism . Theological argument: based on the notion of 'Predestination'. We are not free because the future is known by an all-knowing God who has already 'created' our future. 2. Metaphysical argument: based on the idea that 'every event must have a cause'. The events which are human actions are not exempted. If they have a cause, then they can be predicted. If they can be
World Lit Assignment 1
Sir Francis Bacon once declared, "If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him." Sir Francis Bacon's comment regarding money proves true in all facets of society, whether it be the upper class, or the lower end of society, money is an object that motivates people of all levels to act in ways that may not always be typical. A lot of the time, the actions motivated by money result in detrimental outcomes, for the pursuer of money and every being in its path. In Sophocles' Antigone, and Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, the protagonists have obsessions and fixations on money throughout the play. Money serves as a key literary element in the two plays alike. Both Sophocles and Ibsen employ money as a motif to elucidate the motivations for actions that have detrimental outcomes for the protagonists. In the dramas of Antigone and A Doll's House the motif of money is evident throughout the plot of each play. When Nora and Torvald Helmer discuss the issue of what Nora wants Torvald to get her for Christmas, Nora suggest NORA: "You could give me money, Torvald. . . . Then I could hang the bills in pretty gilt paper on the Christmas tree. Wouldn't that be fun?" (Ibsen, Act I) At this point in the play, Nora's reason for her obsession with money is unknown; therefore we cannot
Precis Global Warming
Jesús Espejel Concha 3D PRÉCIS Global Warming: The cold, hard facts? By Timothy Ball Human contribution of Carbon Dioxide is not a cause of Global Warming. In fact there is no evidence that humans' contribution of Carbon Dioxide could lead to a global climate change, instead, this changes in temperature can be easily explained by the natural changes that occur in the sun. People who know about this fact choose not to speak out. Timothy Ball's purpose is to demonstrate that Global Warming is not a fact but a contradictory and flawed theory as it lacks of solid evidence. He does this to defend himself against accusations made by environmentalists like David Suzuki who have said that Ball was being paid by oil companies to deny a fact. The author uses an allusion to the tale by Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Clothes, to illustrate that people tend to believe everything they are told. He also uses some rhetorical questions like the following one "What would happen if tomorrow we were told that, after all, the Earth is flat?" to imply that we believe without questioning if it is true or not. Timothy Ball also mentions that we are lost as individuals and as a society to support his argument of people not daring to pursue the true and he also calls Global Warming the biggest deception in the history of science. He provides the article with many examples about how
Use of Characterization in Miguel Street
Use of Characterization in Miguel Street Author's Background Information The author's Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, commonly known as V.S Naipaul was born in Trinidad, on 17th of August 1932. His family descended from immigrants from north of India. His grandfather worked in a sugar cane plantation and his father was a journalist and a writer. He was educated at Queen's Royal College and after winning a government scholarship, he went on to study in England at University College in Oxford from where he achieved his Bachelor of Arts degree. Apart from a few years in the middle of 1950s when he was employed by BBC as a free-lance journalist, he has devoted himself entirely to his writing. His works consist mainly of novels and short-stories, but some are also documentaries. In the beginning he found himself rootless, as he felt alienated from his background but he found his voice as a writer in the mid 1950s, when he started to examine his own Trinidadian background. Most of his novels revolve around the Trinidadian society and Miguel Street is one of them which came out in 1959. Miguel Street has been classified as a group of short stories, as a series of sketches and as a novel. It is considered as a novel because of the fact that it is unified by a single narrator and by several patterns and themes. It can be seen as a group of short stories and a series of sketches
CAS IB Report #2
Excellent CAS The Creative Action Service (CAS) Program of my International Baccalaureate Program helped me grow in immeasurable ways. Volunteering my time was an incredibly intrinsically rewarding activity. My many excellent CAS activities introduced me to the joys of trying out new activities. I was already an active participator in school sports before excellent CAS, but lacked interest or initiative to take advantage of the innumerable service positions and creative outlets just waiting for me to explore. Excellent CAS gave me the impetus I needed, and with this initial push I soon discovered how rewarding these activities could be. The many experiences have convinced me of the need to continue volunteering and participating in activities that I have never tried before. Coaching Grade 4/5 basketball in a community basketball league turned out to be an activity I truly enjoyed and learned a lot from. Starting in the first year of IB, I enjoyed it so much I volunteered again the next year. Through this new experience I learned a lot about motivation and teaching skills. It helped me recognize the importance of patience, practice, and perseverance. Although there are some obvious differences between leading a group of kids who looked up to me and leading my peers, I feel I can apply many of these skills to my future endeavours. The development of these valuable skills as
Death is the only manner of true escape in Metamorphosis
Death is the only manner of true escape in Metamorphosis by Kafka and in We by Zamyatin In this paper we are going to discuss and compare two great masterpieces of the twentieth century: The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and We by Zamyatin. Franz Kafka was one of the most famous and extraordinary writers. His story "The Metamorphosis" Kafka wrote in 1912, he needed three weeks to finish it. He expressed his dissatisfaction with the work and assumed the ending was not proper. Still, the work was rather high appreciated and popular, it was even called "one of the most analyzed works of the twentieth century literature" (Pawel, 2). We can be considered an inspiration for the sub genre of science fiction - dystopian novel. For the first time it was published in English and only thanks to the Chekhov Publishing House in New York was it later published also in Russian. The writer had to come through the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917 and the profound and sophisticated emotions, which arose in him, served the basis for writing this novel. The Metamorphosis and We are both stories of isolation, despair, bewilderment, reflecting the authors' personal emotional experiences and difficulties, where the only possible escape is death; at the same time there are some differences between the two writings due to various backgrounds and some key themes, the authors aimed to
ITGS: Tutorials, Training & Wizards
Tutorials, training and wizards (assistants) Key Terms: Tutorial Software - Tutorial software's are types of programs which assist or guide a user to learn something. Tutorial software's in this case mainly play the role of a tutor or a teacher. Tutorial software's are generally designed to be user-friendly such that the user can be guided easily. One common example of a tutorial software is a Kanji learning program called the "LexiKAN 2.0". This main objective of this program is to provide the user lessons from which the user will be able to learn Kanji's. Training Software - Training software's are types of programs which help a user get training. This type of software is usually designed to let a trainee experience the actual circumstances as it would during a real situation. Training software's generally are used because they are efficient. It is cheaper to give training to trainee than actually building a real situation. The advantage this has is that companies can hire several trainees and train them with this software for minimal costs and risks. For example when the government wants to hire train drivers, they usually train them with the help of these training software's. Hence by this they can easily train the drivers without taking into account the costs of actual training which would be driving the actual train and risks such as train accidents. Consequently
Commentary on February the 17th
Krithika Narayan Commentary - February 17th The poem 'February 17th' written by Ted Hughes describes a premature lamb being born dead. It is extremely graphic and its vivid imagery is extremely grotesque, gripping the reader completely. The tone is tense and the poem induces a reaction of disgust and fear from the reader. It also shows a shockingly real image of what birth can be like. The poet uses various literary devices throughout the poem to bring out the graphic images and construct a feeling of dread in the reader's mind. The poet explores the theme of the harsh side of nature and birth, and how new beginnings can go wrong with fatal consequences. The pain of the mother is described vividly. For instance, in the line 'So I kneeled wrestling with her groans' he shows us how painful her labour is with a very auditory sense. The last line 'The body lay born, beside the hacked-off head' is the end of her physical labour and pain, but the beginning of her mental pain. The fruit of her labour is a mutilated body of her child. Only two lines earlier he talks about the 'Parcel of life', and the juxtaposition of the two highlight the contrast between nature's wonders and her cruelty. The short line lays emphasis on the phrase, increasing the impact of the last line. The poet also explores the relationship between nature and man. Most of his poems focus on the insignificance