Six Characteristics Of A Utilitarian Civilization In The Movie : Arrival

Another thing that makes Arrival a great film is that Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner do an amazing job portraying Ian and Louise in Arrival. “Amy Adams is a miracle worker of an actress – she makes us believe in whoever and whatever she's playing” (Travers). That quote can’t be truer. Amy Adams really makes the viewer believe that she is a linguistics professor who has previously worked for the military and is now acting as a liaison between the aliens and the humans. The first encounter with the aliens when Amy Adams is experiencing all of this for the first time, you can tell it is suspenseful because she is not sure what is going to happen making all these questions arise within the film. During the third encounter with the aliens Adams and Renner take off their hazmat suits. Adams touches the glass to try to almost connect with the

Today’s culture includes a melting pot of struggling people. Regardless of their background, it can be assumed that they constantly grapple with the meaning of life. With postmodern ideas stressing individualism and nonconformity, it is no wonder why so many people feel lost. The mystery is not how we came to this predicament, but how Phillip K. dick and Ridely Scott predicted these outcome decades in advance.

In the original trilogy the protagonists are underdogs, however, in the prequels, the supposed “good” guys are shown to be a powerful combination of government and military lead by monastic warriors. The structure of the Jedi order and their influence over a “republican” senate closely resembles the relationship between the Roman Catholic church, the Knights templar, and western European countries. Christendom historically was a socio-religious community that became corrupted by greedy individuals. It transformed into a geopolitical, secular power controlled by the wealthy and imposed its will by force. This conception of corruption and war profiteering is depicted in the Star Wars films when looking at how the senate enlists the Jedi as generals

People across the globe have been afraid of extraterrestrial beings for centuries. Most of these fears are brought about by the thought that any being that is more technologically advanced will inevitably want to bring destruction to all humans. Many people think this due to the history of human beings that shows those who come up with a better technology use that as power to be wielded against others. C.S. Lewis in Out of the Silent Planet shows that humans tend to fear the possible power of beings that are different and are technologically advanced. His characters show continuously the views that humans have for new or different beings. He constantly gives examples throughout the book of the ways humans look at, down at or up to, creatures of different levels of intelligence and of different appearances. The three species of “aliens” in this book give a good example of how well a society could work together if they looked at their differences as ways to help each other, rather than looking at them as a way to differ between higher and lower class. The creatures disregard appearance and intelligence and show just how little those characteristics matter in the total scheme of things.

The film Linguists is a very unique exploration into the indigenous cultures and the prevalence of their languages. Researchers Gregory and David examine endangered languages in several regions to further understand the different ways the human mind can make sense of the world around it. Linguists covers a diverse range of topics regarding the importance of language to culture, the number of languages that are

Arrival of an Alien written by David Suzuki attempts to give insight to the reader about the impact of human actions and disapprove its result on the environment. Suzuki explains the technological advancements represent the knowledge of the human brain yet these advancements are supplements to the prior knowledge obtained by homo sapiens. Our human ancestors are what have brought us to where we are in our advancements but todays civilization can not execute the tasks preformed by our antecedents. In the article Suzuki metaphorically refers to humans as aliens, demolishing the environment with every movement. However, we are able to see the ramifications of our actions but we do not respond in a way that will restore the damage.

In the proposed assignment I intend to support that the theme of “alien invasion” constitutes a significant parameter in the American culture as it reflects the fear of the unknown. American society, likewise any other society, fears greatly that anything unknown, such as a person or an idea, will suddenly appear in their peaceful life, will not be assimilated and as a result will contribute to the distraction of their American identity. Given that US is a materialism-based culture, which contradicts the school of thought of communism, the fear of the unknown was especially focusing on it – among other things – during the Cold War. Authors were clearly referred to Russians as a threat – like they were aliens themselves – like in the case

Recently some students of an English class watched a short film called Arrival, directed by Denise Villeneuve. One of the main stars of the film was Dr. Louise Banks, the hetapods that are actually called aliens. Arrival is about how these aliens called hetapods come down and land one of the 12 spacecraft’s on Earth. In the film they create world chaos to the point where the military is involved and the military needs Dr. Louise to help answer the citizens questions? “ Why are the hetapods here?” Due to them being aliens Dr. Louise job assigned by the military is to use her career skills as a language expert to understand these hetapods language and to communicate with them. Eventually she can communicate with the hetapods, considering reality how likely do you believe it is to have aliens or other intelligent beings would be on Earth? Thinking about their language, habitat lifestyle and how would the world react to them being here. How would we contact them? Could the world afford to use money for scientific tools and resources attempting to find and listen for space aliens?

anguage is a system of communication used to convey information. In the movie Arrival, Linguistics Professor Louise Banks tries to decipher alien logograms to learn why the aliens have landed on Earth. She starts off trying to translate it through field research. Banks tries to teach interact with the aliens and teach them basic English words. Due to the complexity of language and the semantics of words in a phrase, Professor Banks has a hard time asking simple questions to the aliens.

The arrival of Europeans in the New World introduced a way of life that was unfamiliar to the Native peoples. The Europeans’ interpretation of civilization was the opposite of the Indians. Europeans regarded themselves as the superior beings. In a document, a Micmac composed a scathing response to French criticism of Indian civilization. The Micmac testified, “Though sayest of us also that we are the most miserable and most unhappy of all men, living without religion, without manners,

Civilization to me is what makes up our lives. As humans we are part of different civilizations, but these civilizations are made up of specific cultures and societies. The actual book definition of a civilization would be, “networks of cities that emerge from pre-urban cultures and are defined by the economic, military, diplomatic, social and cultural interactions among them.” Over the course of the past couple weeks, I have had the chance to listen in on a podcast actually provided by Stanford University. This podcast is being made while a professor is teaching a class covering the geography of world cultures. I believe that geography has a lot to do with civilization, not only because location in this world plays a role in our lives,

I also hope the Aliens serve as a means of inspiration, and not lock ourselves into the ‘’can’t’’ and more strive for the ‘’will’’. I remember sitting with my roommate discussing politics, and how we can truly accomplish anything we want. Money holds no value, but instead the value we enlisted onto it. The resources we encounter everyday mean nothing, aside of the value we see in them. While some are integral for survival, others mean nothing. We can do whatever, we want and achieve whatever because we’re not limited to the planet or system that harbors

A civilization is a place defined by its culture, its characteristics, and its social structure.There are many important characteristics of a civilization, but if it had to come down to 3 of them I would say social class, writing, and government are most important.Even though technology is an important characteristic to civilization I believe that social class, writing, and government are most important.

The theory of Utilitarianism states that actions should be judged as right or wrong depending on whether they cause more happiness or unhappiness. It weighs the rightness and wrongness of an action based on consequences of that action.

What would happen if alien life forms landed on earth? How would we communicate and cooperate with them? If there was a conflict, how would we fix it? The movie Arrival, directed by Denis Villeneuve attempts to answer these questions.