Parallel Cinema

Who knew Undertale a RPG is the best game ever? Undertale is a roleplaying game where you play as a child who fell down a mountain into a place called the Underground. The Underground is where the monsters live because the humans put a magical seal to trap them down there, inside the Underground you can spare or kill everyone. Anything can enter, nothing can leave, or so they thought. Undertale is the best game because you get to choose what your gonna do in the game, The characters make the…

Heroic Heroes “Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed. Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity”-Ricky Martin. Heroes are courageous and willing to lose their life for other people or for themselves.Their are 3…

constantly and with constant polarity. As opposed to alternating current, which changes its flow direction at regular intervals and can also increase or decrease in value. In this essay I will be mainly describing DC circuits wired in series, parallel, and series-parallel. In a DC series circuit the components are all wired together from end to end with the same amount of current flowing through each component. In a simple series circuit all that is required is a power source (battery),…

options to avoid confusion when grading. Furthermore, there is no pattern in the correct answers. Item #1 Revised Taxonomy - Cognitive Levels In answering this item, the student must recall the definition of parallel. Thus, the student must remember the factual knowledge that resistors in parallel have the same voltage. Item-writing Guidelines In creating this item, simple language and grammatical conventions are used, and the stem does not provide any clues to answer the item. Also, the options…

At one point in an individuals life, the drive, ambition, and will to accomplish a specific goal will become a key aspect towards the choices they will make, in order to insure the success of their future. Whiplash an Oscar winning independent film, helps convey this ideology, but in a very unorthodox manner. The director chooses a unique approach to presenting this message by turning what appears to be an unethical abusive musical film, into an astonishing success story. This approach helped…

Discussion Questions for “Run, Lola, Run” 1. Why do you think Tom Tykwer’s film was so extraordinarily popular, not only in Germany but throughout the world? I think the film was popular because it was a fusion of the fast-paced nature of American films with the artistic elements of German film. That makes it appreciable to several markets, worldwide. 2. The film tells the same story three times. Which elements are exactly the same each time? Which elements change? Are there any elements which…

Field Notes In this week, I interview two of my friends (Rupinder and Priya) to collect data for my anthropology class assignment. Rupinder and Priya both were born in India, so they are know as Asian Indian. Rupinder came to U.S.A when she was five year old so she is raced and live in U.S.A, but Priya was rased in Indian then come here in U.S.A in 2010. Both of my friends speak Punjabi as primary languages with their family members but they both also knew how to speak English and Hindi as a…

As a term, expanded cinema generally refers to cinematic exhibition or spectacle in which the concept of established filmic practice and structure is broadened by incorporating immersive and dynamic elements as opposed to single-screen viewing experience. ‘Expanded’ components may be evident in the materiality of the spectacle, such as in the employment of numerous surfaces for a screening, juxtaposition of various interdisciplinary mediums not restricted to cinema, immersion of the viewer and…

Parched means being “extremely thirsty” or one can say that something is bereft of moisture or water that it needs, and that is exactly what the film, Parched, is about. Parched is directed by Leena Yadav and Russell Carpenter is the cinematographer (Sharma). The film is about having a desperate desire for love, freedom, and sex, but being not permitted to have such thoughts because it is against the “custom” or the “norm”. Parched is a bittersweet tale about four women living undesired lives,…

In Japanese film there is a flowing trend of a desexualized mothers. In this essay the interpretation is of both Japanese Horror, and Japanese Noodle Western. In movies such as Like Dark Water and Tampopo the reoccurring trend of the asexual mother is shown. Through the articles of The Ambivalent Self of the Contemporary Japanese, Filming “Chinatown: Fake Visions, Bodily Transformations, and Introduction to Japanese Horror Film the mix of the Western, Japanese and Chinese’s cultures intertwined.…