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    Introduction: The film Avatar (italics on titles - plus remove the bold writing on your paragraphs and remove all the planning above when you submit the final) directed by James Cameron is the story of Jake Sully; the man who is asked to take the place of his twin brothers place at Pandora for a scientific experiment. At the start he was very hesitant toward taking his brothers (apostrophe) place, there were times when he felt like not continuing with the program. Along the way he faced a series

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    Dyadic and Mass Communication: Relational Messages in Avatar Name University Dyadic and Mass Communication: Relational Messages in Avatar Communication beliefs and practices evolve as relationships develop. In the film, Avatar, produced and directed by Cameron (2009), humans have already consumed the earth's resources, creating an energy crisis in 2154. As a result, the Resources Development Administration (RDA for short) seeks to mine a valuable mineral, unobtanium, in Pandora, a densely

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    The films, Avatar and WALL-E share a common theme in the aspect that they are both about the ecological destruction of worlds. However, Avatar is the intentional ravaging of an alien planet while WALL-E is the accidental environmental degradation of our home planet, Earth. The two movies share a converging theme about the use of advancing technology and the ethics that come along with the ability to do more because of this technology. In both films, we as humans fail to use this technology ethically

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    In the movie Avatar, James Cameron, the director, conveys the message that imperialism can cause harm to the environment and lead to conflict. In the movie, human beings have come from Earth to Pandora to gather unobtainium and to study the native people. Unobtainium is a substance that can be used for powering things and sells for a large amount of money. It is discovered that a large deposit of the substance sits beneath a tree which is the home of The People. This discovery causes conflicts between

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    Jake Wood Hero

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    Jake Wood has made a huge difference on Earth with the work he has done for the endangered environments around the world. Jake Wood is a modern day hero; he is brave, strong, caring and kind. Jake is willing to help anyone who is in need, it is his second nature. He has helped so many people who are struggling and in need and he loves what he does. Jake Wood has created a foundation and a team that helps people from all over the globe. It is amazing how one person can make such a difference in the

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    Avatar Evolution

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    Avatar is a film set in 2154, where humans have run out of resources and have been spruing into a severe crisis of materials. However, a planet called Pandora is accessible to the humans, and offers rich materials, such as unobtanium. Pandora is a lush but deadly moon, located by the gas giant Polyphemus in outer space. Pandora’s atmosphere is poisonous to humans, but is inhabited by Na’vi, 10-foot tall, blue-skinned humanoids. They worship a Goddess called Eywa, and the clan’s main gathering place

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    Research Paper On Avatar

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    Avatar: Just a movie or more? Avatar is a beautifully made film, rich with details and refernces made to the early start of America, and dealing with the native americans. The skypeople, humans, refer to the pilgrams while the Na'vi represent the native americans. The skypeople offer the education and medication in order to get them to move from their homes. The mineral the people are trying to get represents the land which the native americans had. They mentioned to Jake to learn their ways

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    The Na’vi tribe values all of nature, freedom, and life. When Jake gets attacked by thanators, Neytiri comes and helps Jake. After she kills them Jake thanks her. Neytiri responds, “Don't thank. You don't thank for this! This is sad. Very sad only,” (Cameron, Avatar). This shows that the Na’vi values life, and they want nature to live freely on their own. On the other hand, the humans do not value nature, the humans value the money from the unobtanium. While talking to Parker Selfridge, Grace shares

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    Avatar is more innovative and than District 9, it manipulates the Sci-Fi genre more. In Avatar humans become the Aliens because they travelled to another planet, while District 9 is a cliché Sci-Fi movie because the Aliens come to Earth and are the enemy because they are different. In Avatar humans become the enemy, this is a different take on Sci-Fi films, District 9 follows the cliché that Aliens are the dangerous ones not humans. In the beginning of Avatar Jake Sully awakes from cryosleep, he

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    Avatar Themes

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    In the movie Avatar James Cameron used themes like population, food chains/food webs, use of natural resources, developed vs developing nations, and biodiversity. Pandora has to do with all that i mentioned as you can tell from the movie and i will be talking and explaining how James Cameron used them in the movie and what they mean. For starters the Na'vi people live in pandora they are established in a rainforest type of environment. The average height for a Na’vi is 10 feet with blue like colored

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