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    professor, either, who’s suffering from a debilitating case of Alzheimer’s, which has thwarted his abilities and made him an unpredictable, telepathic nuclear bomb. As we learn, if he’s without his medicine, all hell breaks loose. That hell itself is why they’re on the lam. Xavier has been deemed a public risk, and it’s up to Logan to make sure he stays not only healthy, but completely off the grid. Fortunately for him, a slightly reluctant albino mutant Caliban (a nearly-unrecognizable Stephen Merchant) helps watch over Xavier when Logan’s out doing odd jobs, Even so, the weight is all on Logan’s shoulders, and that burden has taken its toll. He’s no longer the fast-healing, berserker-raging beast of yesteryear; in his place is a slow-healing, aching old man who coughs when he’s not shouting obscenities. To make matters worse, their kind has become mythology — relegated to literal comic books — as there hasn’t been a new mutant in decades. Naturally, that all changes when Logan crosses paths with a young and seemingly innocent mutant named Laura (an outstanding Dafne Keen), whose naivety opposes her violent and aggressive manner. Without spoiling too much, the story inevitably becomes a long and choppy road trip, one in which Logan, Xavier, and Laura must evade the wrath of a secret government task force led by a villainous Boyd Holbrook. Rather wisely, Mangold uses this opportunity to build upon his futuristic world, leaning less on the grander details and more on…

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    One issue that the gifted students in X-Men deal with that individuals with disabilities struggled with in the past is the way in which people refer to them. Referring to the gifted individual’s in the movie as mutants, probably originates from Winter et al. (2015) summarization of mutation as the normally slow process which is key to evolution, enabling people to “evolve from a single celled organism in to the most dominate species on the plant”. Referring to the gifted individuals as “mutant”…

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    X-Men X Marks The Spot These mutants were not human but they worked together in perfection:"Flawed and complex, the mutant antiheroes known as the X-men were the perfect comic-book champions for the disaffected youth of Generation X" (Bradford Wright). These mutants were both heroes and enemies to mankind. The X-men was formed Professor Charles Xavier who brought in those individual mutants. They all came together by choice not by force to all fight along side to help save mutants and human.…

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    X-Men Belonging Analysis

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    he would have done if he belonged. Similarly, in ‘X-Men’, Magneto, as a mutant, is thrown aside. This is because he is different and does not belong, which causes him to crave for power and control. Magneto had the mindset that if he threw the humans aside and out of the control of the society and placed his species, which are mutants, and himself as the people in control, then he would belong in a world of his creation. Magneto also talks about the mutants in contrast to the humans, claiming…

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    However, he was not a normal boy; he was a mutant who had the ability to control metal telekinetically. In Auschwitz, a Nazi leader named Sebastian Shaw murdered Erik’s mother due to Erik’s inability to use his powers. Additionally, Erik like many other mutants had to hide his powers because he was viewed as dangerous to many humans. Therefore, Erik faces many obstacles by humans because of who he is, a mutant and a Jew. Thus, due to the countless tragedies faced throughout his life caused…

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    focus more on originality and keep to the focus of the main ideas for the show. Cartoons are animated ideas of art. They showcase originality and imagination, however, children who have grown up with the 2010s era cartoons are more likely to be less original and less imaginative than those who did grow up in the eras of originality. Your mindset is revolved around your perspectives and experiences. You are what you watch. What makes the 1990s era better than the 2010s era? The 1990s era was the…

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    21st century is known to be the start of new beginnings. It was that generation where machineries evolve the economics and social life of the human beings: from traveling to one place to another, a click of a button for communication, and to sending news to the residents of the world. But, as the year progress the mortals abused the capability of these machines. One of the problems is how they report news and how they edit stuff to create news and spread rumors. Can news reporters be fully…

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    regards to today’s news. Social media has changed many aspects of journalism. Now, for the consumer, sharing news has become more important than searching for it. Based on who you follow or who you’re friends with will determine what kinds of information pops up on your timeline. Because of things like Twitter, where news is easily accessible with real-time updates, there is a demand for instant news stories that quickly inform. Newspapers cannot cater to the majority of the population because…

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    The new social media has not made for a more enlightened, connected and democratic society. Instead, it has used mechanisms to instill fear and mass hysteria to those following them and will continue to negatively influence and mislead people in the future. The traditional media that baby boomers have used is the newspaper. A newspaper passes through many editors and every person is assigned a single section, so you know your section well. Information is passed through journalists to writers…

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    The American news spends a lot of time discussing the events that take place Iran, Syria, Eqypt, England, and a few others. Some countries are not a majorly discussed country in the news in the United States. There are several others that could be mentioned more, as well. Scotland, Ireland, Australia, Denmark, Switzerland, and Sweden are just a few that we rarely hear anything about in our media. American news networks seem to only discuss a fraction of countries that make up the world.…

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