Deus Ex

At my form’s Christmas party, my secret Santa brought a shimmering star, filled with an expensive perfume that smells of burned sugar, melting caramel and snow. Someone put a thought into this, took my name literal, in a nice way. I look around, check the faces, smooth images with only names attached: I cannot tell. Tessa and I exchange our presents later, while drinking mulled wine and Whams! Last Christmas is playing for the fifths time. The main lecture hall is dipped in red and fairy lights…

Kim Lee and Choi, the story of the trafficked slaves is left undeveloped. The audience does not know who these immigrants are, why they are in America, what they are going to do now, or how they got there in the first place. They merely serve as a deus ex machina and an excuse for the filmmakers to use more ethnicities in the ‘diverse’…

For Cliff, he was stubborn; as he believed that someday his views and powers of film shall be triumphant, there were no capitulation. Cliff is not as stubborn as Sol, whose view is that the Deus Ex Machina eventually covers up the whole subject with the ultimate judgement from God. However, this amount of adherence was enough for Cliff to clash with the harsh world around him, who mostly were in the real world. His wife eventually divorced him…

it is where countless amount of people gather to play together. Playing games like Lineage gives the player the experience where I can be an international financier, buying and selling items at different parts of the virtual world. People who play Deus Ex can experience life as a government special agent, where political violence and terrorism can be questioned. The Sims Online allows the player to experience many real life situation like running up for president in a virtual city with real…

Lost In Judaism The year 2004 was just not a very good year overall. In this year, devastating tsunami struck multiple countries in Southeast Asia, President George W. Bush was re-elected, the Los Angeles Lakers lost to the Detroit Pistons in the finals of the NBA Championship, and last but not least, the USA Men’s Basketball team lost to Argentina in the semifinals of the 2004 Olympics in Athens. However, despite all the news of disasters and disappointments, some good things also happened in…

In the eighteenth century, reputation and power were some of the most important issues facing society, particularly the two ends of the spectrum: the upper-class and the criminals. Pursuing greater social status led many high class individuals and families to neglect basic human necessities such as love and comfort for the appearance of perfection and the gains of a influential or wealthy reputation. Much like the pirates, reputation was the key to everything that the higher classed individuals…

The tale of Little Red Riding Hood (categorized as tale type 333--Little Red Riding Hood, or The Glutton) is one known to most children growing up; it is a narrative that has evolved epically throughout its incarnations, but at the center of the story is a story of sexual maturation which cannot be erased. By giving a young girl responsibility, we are able to see what she does with it--that is, by all logic, she squanders it on her own personal gain. The selfishness of the child, as contrasted…

I became conscious of gender in a societal sense at seventeen when I was first introduced to the Bechdel Test which asks the listener to think of a time in a movie or book when two named women are speaking about something other than men. At the time, I was reading The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway. Though maybe I was drawn to the book because I had delusions of living adrenally running from bulls or being “hard boiled” in the day time, I began to make passing mental annotations about the movies…

Just as the savages are about to murder Ralph, “A naval officer stood on the sand, looking down on Ralph in wary astonishment”(Golding ch 12). The officer is a deus ex machina and represents absolute power with his strict, rule-driven life in the military. Where Ralph and Piggy's rules and wisdom failed, the officer was able to come in and bring order to the savages. His mere presence made the boys once again civil…

The play Tartuffe by Moliere is a play with many underlying complicated themes, and one of them might be the way it mocks the weaknesses of the characters. The play exaggerates the human folly of characters like Orgon and their inability to see beyond their narrowed perspective and believing everyone else to be following the same train of thought. Also, the play highlights the strict conduct blindly followed by french society like gender norms and religious affiliation and puts them out of…