Ted Stevens

Week Three Freakonomics Analysis Question The authors of Freakonomics (2006) relate a gang of drug dealers and how their operation works to a tournament or a winner take all market. They imply that a person starts on the bottom of the chain like an athlete or game player would in a sporting tournament, then they work their way to the next level of the game by winning or beating all of the other opponents on that level. The player would eventually work their way through all of the levels until…

Most people have heard the famous shark motif from Jaws at least once in their life, whether they’ve known it or not. The infamous theme comes from a classic movie from 1975 that is iconic for its music, plot, director, and use of camera angles to progress the suspense in the film. This ahead-of-its-time movie sets the standard by which all summer blockbusters have since been measured, and became one of the most influential movies in film history. The power of a good movie that's so ahead of its…

Jesse Gabriel a 18 year old. He is a professional trainer and surfer. Graduated high school and a freshman in college. Jesse is a risk taker and traveled around the world to explore new adventures. It was a beautiful July day in the Miami Beach,Florida. Before, he got into the water he saw this beautiful girl surfing and she was amazing at surfing. After a while,being the water the weather started to get a little windy and the waves were getting crazier each minute. Jesse thought to himself…

The film “Jawbreaker” is about three very popular girls who accidentally kill their friend with a jawbreaker, when a kidnapping prank goes horribly wrong. This film is written and directed by Darren Stein. The characters, shots, and conflict help to tell the story of this film. The film “Jawbreaker” is a character-driven movie. Character-driven films focus on the characters and their attitudes, personal evolutions and decisions, and how those change the shape of the plot and the story as a…

Contact [1997] is an excellent science-fiction film in which humanity is contacted by extraterrestrial intelligence. One of the main messages this film sends is that the reconciliation of science and religion is possible, but only when the two are in their pure forms, and that pure science and religion both increase the efficiency in which we determine the truths about our universe. Another more subtle message that I feel the movie portrays is that our current form of language is very limited…

Castaway is a movie starring Tom Hanks as the main character, Chuck. Throughout the movie, Chuck shows again and again how important communication is to him. It starts out with him delivering packages and such for FedEx, but as a plane he had boarded crashes, he begins to face some difficult challenges. He floated to an island, survived for a long period of time, and constructed a raft to transport him across a vast amount of water to a ship where he was rescued. Four major things in Castaway…

Freakonomics has no unifying theme, rather it has multiple themes. Although there is no unifying theme in the book, Levitt and Dubner have a recurring theme which states that “economists love incentives…The typical economist believes that the world has not yet invented a problem that he cannot fix if given a free hand to design the proper incentive scheme.” Freakonomics can described as the power of incentives and how one acts upon them. Similar to the definition of freakonomics, economics is…

Jack Shea 1/1/16 Media and Film Campbell Novel to Film #2 For my second novel to film assignment I read the book and watched the movie Jaws. The book was wrote by Peter Benchley in February in the year of 1974. The movie was directed by Steven Spielberg. The movie was released in in 1975 and it was a crazy hit in the box office. Jaws is about a woman who was killed by a ginormous shark. She was swimming in the ocean and this shark came up beneath her and killed her. They wanted to…

Charles Wheelan was born in 1966 and later graduated from Dartmouth college with a major in economics. He currently is a democratic candidate the the U.S Representative for Illinois in the 5th District. He is also the author of Naked Statistics, Naked Money and Naked Economics. Wheelan wrote Naked Economics in a way that anyone can understand it, whether you are a professional economist or just a high school student studying basic economics. After reading the entire book, it is now clear to me…

We’re officially one week removed from what many are calling the biggest blockbuster of the summer - Captain America: Civil War. Typically, whenever a monster (no pun intended) hit of this magnitude makes landfall, rival movie studios are smart enough to steer clear of putting any potential moneymaker against it one week later - from fear that it will be drowned out by the moviegoers that decided to wait a week before indulging in viewing said blockbuster. With that said, it’s difficult to say…