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In class and watching this movie we find out that Chauvet Cave was discovered in December of 1994 when Christian Hillaire, Eliette Brunel-Deschamps and Jean-Marie accidently found it, because they had felt a draft. In the introduction to the movie we find out that the cave sits next to this beautiful river named Pont d’Arc. We later find out that it might be this river that feeds into the cave that brings some bones into it, such as golden eagle bones. I also find out that the entrance that these hikers had found was actually not the true entrance. We find out that the actual entrance was covered when the cave had collapsed in earlier times. I was really surprised that they were able to find the actual entrance. I thought since the cave had collapsed that it would have damaged or destroyed the original entrance.

In the novel Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng uses character, setting, and resolution to create the theme that selfishness, whether purposeful or subconscious, leads to ruin.

2) What are some of the themes that are central to the film? How have they been communicated?

They settled down and took off whatever gear they were carrying, had a meal and shared information about the cave, told a story to boost morale and went to sleep. Waking up to an alarm since it would be impossible to wake to the sun at such a depth underneath so much earth, the crew did some stretches, had another meal and put their gear back on. The sounds of preparation and movement the only sound they could hear in the cave's silence. It was then that Zuzia pointed out something they must have missed, in one of the walls with a sheet of crystal growing on it one could tell if looking close enough there was another cavern on the other side. Motioning for the others to come look it was decided Bill would blow a hole in the wall, moments later the explosion sounded and the cave shook. Luckily the cave held firm and nobody was injured, many others have died when pulling off such risky maneuvers,but are sometimes needed to truly explore future colonies. As suspected the newly created passage led to a huge cavern compared to their first, crystals where everywhere with even some grass, and oddly enough a small light coming off some of the crystal stalactites. Only one thought came to mind as the group

In The Republic, Plato talks about chained cave dwellers watching shadows projected on the wall and listening to sounds from outside the cave. (Plato, 1941) This famous allegory can be clearly seen in the relationship between the workers, the company management and the union who represents them. The workers equate the shadows and the sounds with reality, the reality as presented to them by the unions who represent them. The workers are effectively chained to the unions, who they rely entirely on, to secure the most favourable environment for them to work in. The cave is that environment. The major redesign of production operations represents the outside world. The unions fear the day one of the workers experiences the world outside. If they do, will they ever return to the cave? The unions have convinced the workers, that their way is the only way forward. What if the workers realise there is a better way? What if they return to the cave preaching the virtues of the new production redesign? Not only will the unions lose control of this factory, but perhaps all the other factories being proposed for this redesign. Perhaps the workers will turn on the unions, deciding that they were more concerned with their own interests

The “Myth of the Cave” is how we are blinded to everything around us and need to truly open our eyes to see what our world is like.

3. Choose one or two themes from the following list and show how Spiegelman conveyed this in Maus: Loneliness; Discrimination; Abuse of Power; Loss of Innocence, Guilt, Survival.

As I sat in class to watch Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing", I noticed that a 20 year old film could convey such overwhelmingly real, modern social viewpoints. Many of the themes portrayed in "Do the Right Thing" which pave the way to the inescapable disarray of the movie that are issues which we confront today. Bedford–Stuyvesant or better known as Bed-Stuy, this Brooklyn neighborhood has gradually been the objective of gentrification since the mid 90s. Hip hop fans realize that Bed-Stuy is home to some of the most illustrious and well known artists like Jay Z, Notorious B.I.G., Mos Def, Lil' Kim, actor-comedian Tracy Morgan, thus some more.

The theme of the novel, Everything, everything, is that you must take risks in order to be satisfied with your life.

1. Describe in your own words the events, actions and characters depicted in the animated sequence, the use of both on-screen and camera movement, and the general colour scheme. What might these elements be suggesting to us about the content, mood and themes for the rest of the film?

A theme, by literary definition, is a central topic of a text.This means that they are a always a part of every story. Mainly, themes symbolize the meanings of texts. In one particular story by Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who WAlk Away from Omelas,” one of its main themes centers around the neglection of morals and ethics. Throughout the text,this idea of moral neglection is apparent and it describes how derelict the ethics of the people of Omelas has become.

What do you think of when you hear the word "wise?" You might think of someone like Yoda from "Star Wars," or just anyone that's old in general. Although Yoda and older people are both correct answers, if you thought of someone that possesses a lot of knowledge and experience, you are in fact correct. Wisdom is something that people of old age often have because they've been through so many situations in life. The stories "The Old Grandfather and His Little Grandson" and "The Wise Old Woman" both include characters that show wisdom throughout their stories. Both stories also have universal themes. A universal theme is a theme that is shared in multiple stories and can be applied to our lives everyday. The universal theme expressed in both of the stories is that you should treat everyone they way that you would like to be treated. Although the two stories include the same theme, they both present it in different ways.

-How memories can warp over time- At midnight on the eve of his 26th birthday, Niles always wakes up on the morning of his 20th birthday. Niles has no way of recording what happens in each cycle of his life, so he can only rely on his memory. The brain is not perfect, and memories fade, distort, and occasionally appear out of nowhere. Niles will have to occasionally deal with forgetting key elements of his past that could help him escape the cycles and remembering events that did not really

1. What is the true subject or the theme of the film, and What kind of statement, if any, does the film make about the subject? Which elements and which themes contributed most to addressing the theme of the film?

What did I find fascinating? I loved how they started their images and ideas in caves in Drakensberg Mountains in South Africa. It was like they were plotting and really getting into detail, and not rushing their work because they knew it was going to take them somewhere far