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“You give, and you give, and you give. It’s just never enough.” While remodeling the home that was wrecked in a fire that belonged to her husband, a woman’s serene life is interrupted as uninvited guests keep showing up at their house. With a strong dose of Rosemary’s Baby, and clear nods to Hitchcock’s thrillers, director Darren Aronofsky attempts to recall the fear and paranoia cultivated in these classic films while adding his own philosophical views. From the opening shot, this film has a…

The Faintest Breath of Strawberries Guy Montag, a firefighter, lives in an isolated and lonely society where books have become outlawed by government fearing people. Taking place in a dystopian society, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, describes the duty of firefighters to burn any books on sight and send the offender to an insane asylum. Using imagery and symbolism, Bradbury helps the reader understand the characters of Clarisse and Mildred. When Montag first saw Clarisse he was struck by “her…

Throughout the history of film and television, writers have explored the dangers and what-ifs of human society, when it is closely intertwined with technology. The Netflix anthology series, Black Mirror, is, “about the way we live now – and the way we might be living in 10 minutes' time if we're clumsy” says the shows creator, Charlie Brooker. Black Mirror presents itself as dark, satirical, cautionary tales about technology that play on one’s own uncertainty and unease about the present and…

Mankind creates all of the constructs that it places upon itself, negatively impacting their experience in this world. Corruption in government, religion, and even romance are all things that someone can take steps to avoid but chose not to because one feels the desire and lust for power and other idiotic things, and in the midst, think they are pursuing a happy life. Candide is a satirical novel written by Voltaire, that highlights and exposes this false logic. The book can and still will…

The first four issues of the “Deadpool Killogy” falls under the title “Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe”, which is the main focus of this rhetorical analysis. This title is, for the most part, self explanatory in the basics of what happens in those four issues; Deadpool moves through the marvel universe killing every hero, villain and antihero. Deadpool’s psychotic break is caused by his realization that he is a comic book character with no true control over his actions. In absolute defiance…

This novel received the Nebula Award for Best Novel of the year, which was awarded by the Science Fiction Writers of America. Additionally, it is acknowledged as a work of science fiction. Yet, nowhere in the book does it mention aliens, outer space, or mutated superhumans derived from a science experiment gone wrong. Unlike the typical science fiction story, Daniel Keyes focuses on the impact that science and technology has had on the protagonist, rather than the world. Though this story does…

Computed tomography (CT) is a computerized method that uses a computer to process the data collected from the passage of x-ray beams through the region of interest. The multislice CT (MSCT) means CT that the system equipped with multiple rows of CT detectors to create images of multiple sections. The data obtained from the patient will be transformed into “cuts” or cross-sectional slices of the human body (Romans, 2011). In early 1970, they use a single slice CT scan that contributes too many…

1. In the case of Century Insurance Ltd v Northern Ireland Road Transport Board the vicarious liability applied, where the lighting of a match to light a cigarette and throwing it on the floor while transferring petrol from a lorry to a tank was held to be in the scope of employment. It is observed that, where an employee is acting in a manner which is expressly prohibited by the employer, but acting in his everyday tasks and duties then the employer is vicariously liable. 2. In the case of…

One major theme that is predominantly shown in chapters two and three of Nineteen Eighty-Four is that individuals do not have any control over their own destinies as they are being oppressed by a totalitarian party. This theme is clearly demonstrated when Winston can hardly recall anything of his childhood: “…he was struggling to think his way backward into the dim period of his early childhood…. When there were no external records that you could refer to, even the outline of your own life lost…

Night and The Book Thief are closely related works of literature. Both illustrate the challenges of prejudice through religious intolerance. Yet, these stories are shown through the eyes of totally different perspectives. Both books have countless struggles that happen simultaneously during time. Max Vandenburg, from The Book Thief, leaves his mother and other family to hide away with one of his father’s closest friends. Before going into hiding, Max was a fist fighter. His first taste of a…