Ewen Cameron Essays

  • The Black Bean Episode Analysis

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    were reunited with Fisher’s group and they immediately started a plan to escape.As they gathered around their breakfast of boiled rice in the early morning light of the 11th, however, Cameron and a few other Texans observed Fisher and his officers ride out of the

  • Dumbo The Flying Elephant Analysis

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    In October 1941, Disney introduced Americans to Dumbo, a young, bashful circus elephant ridiculed for his unusually large ears. Made to regain funds lost from Fantasia and Pinocchio, and based upon Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl’s children story, “Dumbo, the Flying Elephant,” Walt Disney’s Dumbo is one of Disney’s shortest animated features running at just under 64 minutes. Throughout the film, Dumbo the elephant faces many challenges stemming from his uniquely large ears, however, with the help

  • Red Riding Hood Rapunzel Analysis

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    In a world of fairy tales, happy endings and justice are always a common sight. Although it ends in good terms, these stories have an ambiguous meaning and are open to different interpretations due to the stories covering contentious aspects such as the portrayal of women. Popular fairy tales all the way from Red Riding Hood to Rapunzel highlight this highly debated topic of how women are portrayed as the weak and vulnerable in order to achieve this “happy ending”. Furthermore, almost all stories

  • Rise Of The Spanish In The 19th Century Essay

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    It is also probable that there would be more tourists because the events today would be even more known. Cameron County would be an even more favorable destination due to economic improvement. Since Carlos Cascos (Previous Secretary of State for Texas) talked about some matters that is likely to be fixed in the future. He talked about how there are about 500

  • Film Summary: A Brave New World

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    Jake Sully is a former Marine stuck to a wheelchair with a warrior’s heart bitter and frustrated. He finds an opportunity to fight again in the place he least expected on a distant world. He is recruited to join a mining operation on the moon Pandora. The operation is strip-mining for a mineral worth $20 billion per kilogram on Earth. Jake use a link system that projects his mind into a hybrid of humans and Pandora's native species the Na'vi this is called an avatar. In his new avatar Jake can once

  • Avatar Essay Questions

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    NDW4M-AVATAR James Cameron’s epic adventure film Avatar runs in direct parallels with various concepts and ideas discussed in our course thus far. Throughout the film, evidence of invasion, assimilation, colonization, and intrusion of capitalism. The film also relates to how Canada has affected its indigenous in recent history, occurrences of mistreatment still happening today. In the very first scenes of the movie, one comes to understand that humans have landed and set camp on planet Pandora.

  • Examples Of Greed In The Movie Avatar

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    The film Avatar is a movie with vivid colors and images. The director and writer of Avatar is James Cameron, he won best director, movie and best picture. In 2009 it was one of the highest grossing films that came out due to the fact that it was budgeted at over 237 million dollars. There were many scenarios portrayed in this movie, but the one that caught my attention the most was greed. I want to recount the scenes in avatar that depicts that greed was shown through the use of technology. The Avatar

  • Movie Essay: The Success Of Rain Man

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    Three hundred fifty four million dollars; that’s much of the most awarded, most successful, and most influential movie of the 1988’s made. The Academy Award winner of 1988, Rain Man, is often considered the best film of that year. Thanks to the director, Barry Levinson, Rain Man has achieved many successes in its production, its success after the film was produced, and achieves success in its own script. Although Rain Man is a meaningful and touching film, it did face plenty of challenges. One

  • Symbolism In There Will Be Blood

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    Paul Thomas Anderson's film, There will be Blood and is the best film of 2007. This is the best film released in the 21st Century. They are using the tools for oil trade in late 19th and 20th century United States. They are murdered. When they murder their workers and then their blood mix with the oil they exact from the earth. In this film Denial Plainview is an oil man. He is also the miasma that brings death, heartbreak or ruin to everyone. The difficulty of Daniel Plainview that makes him far

  • John Quincannon Analysis

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    John Quincannon is the lead protagonist of the John Quincannon series of detective thrillers by Bill Pronzini. The first novel of the series was Quincannon that introduced former United States Secret Service agent John Frederick Quincannon and his partner Sabina Carpenter that team up to start an investigations business. Pronzini the author was born in California in 1943 and showed early predilection to reading. Some of his favorite novels were the mystery digests and science fiction books that belonged

  • Bag Of Bones Stephen King Analysis

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    As Stephen King once said, “Get busy living, or get busy dying.” Stephen King, an american horror author, is considered by the masses to be one of the most influential authors of the late nineteenth and twentieth century. With at least 136 works from novels to novellas written, King has left a lasting impact on everyone all around the world. King combined horror with mystery to give readers a story to remember. Kings books not only appear in almost every library, but are shown through movies ranging

  • Cameron Smith Scandal Analysis

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    Most recently, the latest affair has been the Alex McKinnon and Cameron Smith scandal. Former Newcastle Knights player, Alex McKinnon, was spear tackled during a game against Melbourne Storm, which left him fully paralysed. One year after the tragedy, Alex spoke out to 60 Minutes, speaking about his progress, however mainly focusing on Melbourne Storm’s skipper, Cameron Smith. The common perception is that channel 9 has constructed Cameron Smith to be evil and this analytical essay will explain this

  • Impact Of Social Darwinism

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    In England in 1859, Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution titled “On the origin of species”, This theory was then taken one step further by a sociologist named Herbert Spencer. Spencer’s theory, titled Social Darwinism, stated that some races were superior to others based on the technology they had developed as well as the countries they had conquered. Social Darwinism further stated that the weaker races would die off as they were less sophisticated and couldn’t adapt to their surroundings

  • The Godfather Film Analysis Essay

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    The Godfather (1972) is said to be one of the greatest films ever made. When this movie was released in 1972, it was nominated for Ten Academy Awards and it won three: Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay. The film was adapted from the book with the same name written by award winning author of mafia fiction, Mario Puzo. This film takes place in a span of ten years following the life of Don Corleone, the head of the Corleone Crime Family. It was a film that changed the history of cinema

  • Theme Of Greed In Avatar

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    The major thematic concept seen in the movie Avatar is greed. When arguing with Dr. Grace Augustine, Parker Selfridge says, “This is why we're here; unobtanium, because this little gray rock sells for 20 million a kilo. That's the only reason.” Greed was the reason the corporation went to Pandora, . The humans went to Pandora to mine Unobtanium, a valuable mineral that could save the humans from an energy crisis back on Earth. In the movie we can see that the humans are willing to do anything and

  • Archetypes In The Film Avatar

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    An archetype is a model for common symbols or story pattern seen throughout similar works. For example, that of the “Hero’s Journey”. In James Cameron’s 2009 film Avatar, an ex-marine by the name of Jake, finds himself on Pandora after his brother passes away. While there, he takes part in a mission left behind by his brother Tommy, in which he becomes an avatar and tries to earn the trust of the native Na’vi people. Colonel Quaritch tells Jake that he must negotiate with The People and report back

  • Creative Writing: War Veteran

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    Jake is a fifty five year old American war veteran. Seattle, Washington is where Jake grew up. He still lives there. Jake served as a Navy SEAL for 10 years. Jake is tall, about 6 feet 4 inches. He had white hair and he combed it over so it wasn’t in the way. Everyday Jake runs 3 miles. He is in good shape for a fifty five year old man. Jake woke up one morning, it felt like a normal day. He made his coffee turned on the news and put his feet up. “Breaking news, a zombie virus is spreading on the

  • Examples Of Greed In Avatar

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    Cameron, James. “Avatar 2009.” Disney+, 18 Dec. 2009. In Avatar (2009), humans have discovered a valuable mineral called unobtanium on the moon Pandora, inhabited by a humanoid species called the Na'vi. To extract the mineral, humans create avatars, which are genetically engineered human-Na'vi hybrids controlled by humans. Jake Sully, a disabled former Marine, who was recruited to replace his deceased twin brother as an avatar operator. Jake quickly becomes close with the Na'vi people and their way

  • Jake Sully's Use Of Thresholds In The Movie Avatar

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    Traveling to a different planet and exploring this new place while transforming into a whole new species sounds like a pretty cool adventure. This becomes a reality for many different characters in the movie Avatar. This film is about humans who discover a planet called Pandora and on this planet there are helpful resources but the environment in poisonous to human. So, each human is assigned an avatar, a body of the indigenous people, and with this avatar they can roam the planet freely. To connect

  • Good Bye Lenin Analysis

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    Good bye Lenin! At the 2003 Berlin Film Festival, Good bye Lenin! Was awarded as the Best European Film. The experts say that, this touching film was so fruitful in its introduction that it earned more cash in Germany than the Harry Potter movies did in their first month. The title of the film mirrors the changing political scene of the time, with the authority send-off of Soviet impact and the fall of the Berlin Wall. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was a historically huge occasion not ony