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Moviegoers and cinephiles alike have become enamored with the allure of ‘Hollywood’, known as the mecca of the entertainment industry. As one of the oldest film industries, the US has produced major films such as Star Wars (1977), Titanic (1997), and Avatar (2009). In addition, iconic American actors such as Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe rose to worldwide stardom. Its popularity, through successful films and prominent figures, has allowed the industry to create an international platform, from…

Human Sexuality in the film ‘Her. ' ‘Her’ is a science fiction futuristic love story directed by Spike Jonze that features a depressed soon to be divorced man known as Theodore Twombly. Due to his boredom and loneliness, he decides to buy an operating system a form of artificial intelligence for companionship. The operating system names herself Samantha (Scarlet Johansen) and the two fall in love as the movie advances. Their innuendos develop into a relationship in which the two engage in a…

Informed by Lacan 's Antigone Psychoanalysis and Politics, I will explore the political limits of an ethical act determined by perseverance in desire. The tragedy of Antigone by Sophocles, presents us with the attitude of two characters with differences. In which actors a man who holds power and a woman who is fighting for that his brother has a dignified burial. Are two sides of the same coin, different roles and the same destination; death. What is of interest to the psychoanalysis with this…

ideas, but there are also key differences, such as the concepts of duty and attachment. One of the most important Hindu texts is the Bhagavad Gita, which is the story of Arjuna, a warrior who doesn’t want to fight, and who is convinced by Krishna, the avatar of Vishnu, to fight anyway and fulfill his dharma. One of the main texts in Buddhism is the Dhammapada, which describes in verse many of the main concepts of the religion. If the author of Dhammapada were giving Arjuna advice instead of…

Three Technologies Review (From your list of five technologies above, you will select three to review) Web Address Description of resource Targeted Grade Level Content Areas 1. http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives is a website the engages students in learning and understanding mathematics. This website uses manipulatives to help students visualize relationships and applications. This resources allows teachers to enrich their mathematical lessons…

Why do you want this rank?: you should choose me as a staff member because I am very experienced at being a member of staff on minecraft servers. I love lending out a helping hand and being there if there is any trouble going down. I know a lot of the players on this amazing server (OpCraft) , and really think that selecting me as a member of staff would be a great idea, as I know a lot of people and could potentially help boost the server population by being there to help and making the server…

Annotated Bibliography Chang, Y., & Edwards, J. K. (2015). Examining the relationships among self-efficacy, coping, and job satisfaction using social career cognitive theory an SEM analysis. Journal of Career Assessment, 23(1), 35-47. doi:10.1177/1069072714523083 The authors use social career cognitive theory to explore the relationship between coping style, self-efficacy, and job satisfaction. Social career cognitive theory states that job outcomes are a result of goal-orientated behavior,…

Video games with violent content have recently become popular among teenagers, children and the adolescent. This new trend has raised great concern from parents, teachers, and legislatures. Many have come to voice their opinion on the need for a limit to be placed on the amount of hours the young generation should spend on the games. In fact, some have even argued that there is a need to stop completely adolescents from accessing the violent scenes in video games. This study outlines the impact…

innovations, Nintendo sources talents from its users by inviting them to develop the video games for the Wii, and will sell them through the Wii-Shop channel. It is called Wii-Ware program, and was launched in early 2008. Future Strategy Mii – The Digital Avatar for Wii’s Mii Channel Some gamers are not really fond of personalizing the characters on games, thus by providing hassle free personalization will help them win people. This is done by taking a picture and placing it automatically in the…

their own hyperreality – an order of representation that is not the unreal, but has replaced ‘reality’ and is more real than real. Nations fight for information the way they used to fight for territory, technology mediates knowledge, and we are only avatars of our former selves. In her book The Great Transformation, Karen Armstrong states that in our age we seem to have lost the “sacred inviolability of every single human being.” The global race for profit, the narcissistic and monologic…