Imitation

struggle towards regaining self-confidence is an uphill battle, once the battle has been won, the renewed self-belief is enough to propel a person towards success. For instance, the movies, Captain America: The First Avenger by Joe Johnston and The Imitation Game by Morten Tyldum, both revolve around the theme of overcoming the disheartening attitudes of one’s peers to become triumphant. In both movies,…

The Imitation of Life and The Bluest Eye were two pieces of work that let their audience take a look at the world through the eyes of females in the 1930s. The Imitation of Life debuted in 1934 and was produced by John Stahl. Because it was set and made in a time before the Civil Rights Movement, there were a lot of guidelines that the production crew had to conform to that so the “wrong” message was not being displayed. There was a lot of scandal behind the making of the movies because many…

chances were not presented to those who were of a darker complexion. Two different plots with the same concept that shed light to a situation where pretending seemed to be the only way out of the hardships of what life had to offer for blacks. “The Imitation of Life” one of the greatest movies of the 1950 's era with a strong message and a tear jerking ending. Kate Chopin gives her audience another critical, yet, mysterious story in “Desiree 's Baby.” Both the movie and story introduces the…

stories. The experiment Searle uses to test this theory of the mind is known as the “Chinese Room” thought experiment. The thought experiments, the objections, and the replies given in his article also enable us to draw conclusions about Turing’s “imitation game”. In this critical response, I will consider Searle’s refutation of the claims of strong artificial intelligence, and I will argue against his view that mental occurrences of…

In a large social group it is easy to distinguish between the leader and the followers. Many of the followers fall under the spell of the leader. If the leader is good his/her charisma will have the followers eating out of the palm of his/her palm. After this hypnotic proposition takes effect, the followers become engrossed in the leader. After the initial meeting or get together and all is said and done the followers are on the same train as the leader. This gives the followers something to…

In the film, Imitation of Life, director Douglas Sirk utilizes the visual elements of mise-en-scene to affect viewers emotionally when presenting them with life’s limits of race. Throughout the film Sirk provides the viewer with a particular perspective of American life during the 1950’s. There are specific conventions and mise-en-scene devices that Sirk employs which are conducive to displaying the limitations of race. An example being, the scene where Annie and Sarah-Jane first arrive at…

During my analysis of Nick Tingle’s “The Vexation of Class” and Paulo Freire’s “The Importance of the Act of Reading”, it quickly became evident that both authors chose to reflect on the experiences and challenges that students face when entering a classroom, and did so through the perspective of both a student and a teacher. Tingle explains his vexation experienced growing up within a working-class household—complimenting his argument by explaining the struggles endured by students who have…

teacher; in fact I am in the development phase for learning how to teach. Over the past 28 years, I have had experience as a military instructor; however, in the military we primarily stick to one style of instruction, “Demonstration, Explanation and Imitation” which in my opinion limits the amount of learners that could potential be reached. In this paper I will summarize my philosophy of teaching and expand on how the results I obtained from the Teaching Perspectives Inventory (TPI) reflect in…

is through imitation. He was tasked with writing to the monks about St. Antony, and while he has a multitude of things to say about Antony, he chose to fixate on Antony’s imitation of scripture and other holy men. Athanasius tells the monks to “guide yourselves by imitations of him,” referring to Antony, and the irony is that Antony became a saint through imitation of others (28). He is showing the monks that imitation is the best way by recounting the times that Antony used imitation to…

similarities and differences between my own imitation, that is essentially a missing passage after the first ending of the second page, and the original, named “We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families” by Philip Gourevitch. Such similarities include the use of descriptive language, reflections/analysis, some similarity in sentence structure, and similar themes and ideas also prevalent in the original. Additionally, some parts in my imitation were more direct,…