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    A Clockwork Orange & Blade Runner (Final Cut 2007) To make an attempt at depicting the future it is necessary to first look at the present and in particular at the nature of humanity. The question of what is inherent in society and will last through time versus what is simply a trend must be addressed by those who wish to create a vision of a future world; the films A Clockwork Orange and Blade Runner take on the challenge of transferring the society of their day to a not so distant future to show

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    Anthony Swofford Jarhead 2003 Jarhead is a Non-fictional book written from a marine’s point of view during the gulf war. It deeply describes how Anthony Swofford thinks while deployed. It tells what he goes through and how it affects him and his life. He also tells us about how a marines is treated and what others should expect if they enlist. Anthony is a young man who is deployed as a marine during the Gulf War. He describes events as they take place. While he is deployed he does not make

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    The Metamorphosis of Alex in A Clockwork Orange      As both the protagonist and narrator of Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange, the character of Alex is an intriguing study from start to finish. Specifically, in comparing part one and part three of the novel, Alex's world, internally and externally, his characterization and travails are shown to be mirror images of each other, both identical and reversed. Where Alex was the soulless victimizer in part one, he finds himself repeatedly a victim

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    The short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Man with the Twisted Lip,” is based on disguises of wealth and appearance and how these disguises change the point of view that people have in the social classes and what they think about each other during the Victorian Era. Disguises can be used to create an identity for one’s own personal gain or to protect an individual 's identity. Neville St. Claire uses disguise to validate his place as a gentleman. His status as a beggar allows him to become

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    Alfred Hitchcock 's Psycho (staring Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins) is one of the most influential films in motion picture history. Hitchcock uses cinematography, dialogue, costumes and lighting, as well as many other film techniques to thrill the audience and keep them on the edge of their seats from the beginning of the film to the very end. The scenes we have just viewed are a typical example of Hitchcock 's great ability to tell a story in a horrific way and haunt the viewers for a long time

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    Validity - 131 – appropriateness of the interpretations of the instrument used in studies. The score of the verbal portion of the SAT, measures the student’s vocabulary. The same portion will not measure the student’s mathematical ability. 2. Reliability - 137 – the extent of consistency, stability, and dependability of scores of the participants and/or rater. If using more than one grader, the graders should trained together and produce similar scores. 3. Equivalence – 138 – the connection or

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    outwardly racist and discriminatory as they were in the past centuries, there is an underlying bias that can lead people to act in ways opposing their beliefs. In their book Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good people, psychologists Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald explore the ideas of unconscious identity, the judgment and treatment of others based on stereotypes and the phenomenon of association, and our inability to simply stop being biased as opposed to outsmarting it. Children are taught that

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    In the film, The Last Castle, I found many aspects and theories that involve organizational communication throughout the movie. The film is about a US prison where the prisoners have formally served in the military and have committed crimes while serving their time. The movie shows how the prisoners come together when a former well-respected general is sent there to overpower the man that runs the facility. The first theory and probably the most noted theory is the Adaptive Structuration Theory

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    Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz The book, Stormbreaker, by Anthony Horowitz is about a boy named Alex, whose uncle had just died in a car crash (or so they say). He finds out that his uncle was really shot by a man named Yassen Gregorovich. Alex’s uncle, Ian Rider, really worked for MI6. He was a spy that was hired by MI6 to figure out the secret behind Herod Sayle and his Stormbreaker computers that he was donating to every school in England. Ian Rider had figured out the secret, but before

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    Jean-Jacques Annaud, The Name of the Rose historical fiction murder mystery illustrates monastic life in the 14th century. This medieval film takes place in a remote Benedictine abbey in Northern Italy. Annaud is historically successful in recounting monastic life during the Middle Ages. The enriching backdrop of this film presents the culture of monastic life. The setting is beautifully examined and replicated to show the distinct and complicated architecture of the times. The characterization

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