Valerian: Luc Besson’s hero drives a Lexus A younger generation raised after Star Wars might think, when looking at Valerian, the film, that it borrowed many ideas from George Lucas blockbuster, but the reality is different: Valerian inspired Star Wars. Valerian, the film, picks the comic series from 1967 and mixes it with a promise of the future: the Skyjet vehicle designed by Lexus for a world set 700 years in the future. The first trailer from Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets,…
In March of 2016, Carthage College staged a new production entitled the Breath of Stars, which was advertised as a modern adaption of Shakespeare’s the Tempest. In the same month, the College of Lake County offered a traditional performance of the Tempest, which served as an excellent means by which to evaluate the relative proximity of Carthage’s production to Shakespeare’s original text. This essay will begin with a detailed description of the College of Lake County’s production of…
After watching the Star Trek episode, “The Measure of a Man” while comparing it to the material that I read in Haskers, Metaphysics: Constructing a World View, my conclusion on the view that I think Picard would hold is materialism. While I believe Maddox would hold the view of interactionism. The reason why I believe Picard would hold the view of materialism is because in the episode he tends to hold to the view that there is no need for a mind to express an attitude. That is why Picard…
The ACE Star Model depicts various forms of knowledge in a relative sequence, as research evidence is moved through several cycles, combined with other knowledge and integrated into practice. It provides a framework for systematically putting EBP processes into…
The documentary of The Star of Bethlehem was very impactful. As a whole, the documentary was excellent in many ways. To begin with, the message wanting to be showed was very successfully delivered. Mr. Larson had strong supporting evidence to his side, and he also avoided being bias by including other sides of the argument. Also, the content of this documentary was very interesting. I was quite impressed with the findings about the star. Lastly, the journey this guy went through to find out what…
exaggeration. I have more than one life-threatening ailment. Without the professor job I have now at the North Harris campus, I wouldn’t have medical benefits. Without them, I might not even know I was a walking time bomb. That’s one example of how Lone Star College has influenced my life. It has through a job, benefits and education. I needed a job. After decades of working as a journalist, I had gone private. I was consulting independently. This meant I could work with various companies or…
called the Star Bellied Sneetches. In this fable, this guy comes into the land with this machine, the machine can put or remove a star from their bellies. Some Sneetches have stars and some don’t , and the star bellied Sneetches think they are better than the starless Sneetches. They back and for through this machine until all there money was spent , and they didn’t know who had what to begin with. Then the Sneetches after a while thought, “ We’re all the same even if we have a star or not.”…
The Candle Star In The Candle Star, the main character's name is Emily Preston. At the beginning of the book, she is a very uptight, doesn’t-do-anything-because-i-am-too-good-for-that, rich girl. When she comes of the age to be married, her parents start becoming stricter and more controlling. So what does she do? She throws a temper tantrum. Then her parents ship her off to her Uncle Isaac with their loyal slave Ezekiel, but they just call him Zeke. She HATES it there. She has to go to…
The STAR Scholar summer program has been an eye-opening experience that truly put my current academic and future professional career into perspective. Although numerous people have played an essential role in the program, the one person who has led and stretched my capabilities to the fullest is my faculty mentor, Dr. Ellen Giarelli. She has taken what the program offers and compounded her expertise to fully mentor me as a student researcher. My project is unique in the STAR program in that she…
In all fairness, Battlefront could be utter drivel and it would still bring in the hype on band name alone. Battlefront feels like the accumulation of Battlefield's slightly tarnished name needing a break, and EA identifying the rebirth of Star Wars fever. It's natural to approach Battlefront with a cautious look, even more so given DICE's recent track record of broken promises and broken games. As per usual, Battlefront's release has been set-up with a multiplayer Beta. Boasting two…