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In todays society, people who do good are generally looked up to and people who do evil are looked down upon. What can be questioned though, is the motive behind why people act the way that they do. Do people act virtuous to create a good image of themselves or because it is truly who they are? The movie The Dark Knight is more than just a film for entertainment, it is a great representation of why humans act the way that they do. Throughout The Dark Knight, many different characters a put into…

hallucinating and passes out as she is on the verge of death. “The world begins to bend in alarming ways. A butterfly balloons to the size of a house then shatters into a million stars. Ants begin to crawl out of my blisters on my hands and I can’t shake them free. Tucking my knees up to my chin, I wait for death. Then the ants bore into my eyes and I blackout” (page 277). Katniss is saved by Rue, a little girl from District Eleven, who nurses her back to life with medicated leaves. Rue also…

Huy Trinh Professor Richard Dollieslager ENF 2 September 12, 2017 Adopting the Creator Mindset In an article in his teaching blog, Prof. David Mirman was talking about “Do you think like a Victim or a Creator?”. According to Skip Downing “a Creator is a person who consistently makes wise choices which create the results that they wish to achieve”, and “a Victim is someone who does not believe they can effect or control the things that happen to them in life”. According to my own thoughts,…

Claim: Thoreau feels as if technology and labor are the primary causes of distress for 14th Century Americans. Thoreau feels that technology is an unnecessary distraction that keep us from connecting with others and living a fulfilling life.Thoreau saw the practical benefits of new technology, however, he also believes that these innovations did not address the real challenge of finding a purposeful life. He claims that “men think that it is essential to... export ice, and talk through a…

you need to understand that balance, and respect all the creatures from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope”(The Lion King). While expanding Simba’s knowledge about the unity of the world, Mufasa is helping him achieve enlightenment. Human beings are one with nature and the earth, as well as all things that inhabit it, making them interdependent. The self-sustaining lifestyle that aids all creatures, from ants to antelopes, allows all parts of nature to work in harmony. Thus, the theme of…

included in the piece are repetition, texture, and balance. Repetition is shown because the clocks in the painting all appear to be melting. Texture is also shown because of the curves and edges of the mountains. There also appears to be texture with the ants and the lashes on the face. The piece also represents balance. Balance is shown because the left side of the painting includes a lot of detail in the watches, while the left side includes a lot of detail in the mountains. There is also a…

Stevenson Jean Prof. Neil Leach Fall 2016 Emergence Chapters summary Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software, by Steven Johnson The word emergence is defined as a system that has many mechanism, but none of the mechanism is called to be the leader of that system. The system works as a whole; every constituent knows their role to fulfil their task without any interruptions. Within the system, all entities follow basic rules and behave to achieve their goal in the same…

“Nothing, in this film, symbolizes anything” (Buñuel). Both Dali and Buñuel strived to have no image or idea in the film, Un Chien Andalou, have any logical or rational explanation. However, when you break up what Buñuel says you can argue that “nothing” stands for all the images and ideas in the film that to one represent nothing logical or rational, and these images can “symbolize anything” to the individual. When making this film, Buñuel’s intentions were to astound and offend the bourgeois…

In my society of 2036 the most problematic issue being technology, that slowly degrading traditional value, and communicating with others. The use of technology in my society became a major important to live itself; this great invention of us humans is rewriting how the human world was in the past. Technology in my society of New York 2036 has a great deal of diversity of technology for all kinds of use in the world. Some of the technology that we of 2036 have invented is the flying car, nanny…

The Fire Once upon a time my mom told me that me that when I was only 1 year old I was in a fire this is how it happened, my mom was laying on the golden brown blanket in the hotel and iI was next to her then she got a phone call from my dad,he was wondering what she wanted for lunch and dinner at the store so they made a grocery list than my mom smelt smoke it smelt bitter and rotten it was gross, and told my dad to call her back she grabbed me and walked to the door and the smoke smell got…