...Edward Scissorhands directed by Tim Burton is a classic horror theme inspired by the story of Frankenstein, where an evil creature enters into a peaceful community and disrupts the calm. Burton, however, changes the horror genre and on many occasions turns the audience upside down by presenting a mixture of horror, comedy, romance and fairytale. Even before watching the film, a person knows that it is not a complete horror. The advance publicity for Edward Scissorhands used the phrase 'the story of an unfinished gentle man' and posters showed a picture of a gloomily dark Edward with a butterfly resting on one of the sharp blades constituting his hands. Contrasting images such as these show the idea of a mixture of the romance and horror genres. Even without seeing publicity material, the choice of teen favorites Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder for lead roles suggests that this is a film aimed at the teenage kids. A close look at the opening sequence of Edward Scissorhands shows many of the conventions associated with the horror genre but these are offset by elements of comedy and romance. As the credits roll, the music, the graphics (names white on black, making jagged scissor shapes) and the colures of black and white show the relationship with the horror genre. We then see visual images associated with the conventional 'haunted house' (huge door closing, cobwebs, strange gadgets) yet the music becomes lighter, more frivolous and on closer inspection some of the gadgets look...
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...Can the attempt to create a utopia bring more conflict or bring eternal peace? The concept of a perfect utopia is vividly expressed in the book, “Looking Backwards” by Edward bellani. This book takes place around the time 2000 where a perfect utopia was created, the type that believes in a society that has no class struggle. Interestingly, this utopia was created while Jilian West was alseep, so the start of the utopia is unclear. Throughout the story Jilian West discovers how the utopia became this unbelievable place where people only dream about. However, there are a lot of aspect about this utopia that Jilian does not agree with. Despite having an improved society with less crime and some equality I think this utopia has many greatness and weaknesses but in the end I would not want to live in a utopian society. The society where there is only a common warehouse to buy everything from is one that I can appreciate and admire. This method of one warehouse allows people to save time and expenses. On the other hand, it still has its flaws where the cities that are far from the main warehouse receive things much later than the closer cities. As West asks, “about the variety in the size and cost of house, how is it … with the fact that all citizens have the same income?” I fear that every family would try to have more members in their family to receive more, resulting in overpopulated cities. This in return can lead to chaos as civilians might fight for land. One of the many great...
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...Edward Scissor Hands “The years spent in isolation have not equipped him with the tools necessary to judge right from wrong. He's had no context. He's been completely without guidance. Furthermore, his work - the garden sculptures, hairstyles and so forth - indicate that he's a highly imaginative... uh... character. It seems clear that his awareness of what we call reality is radically underdeveloped.” (IMDb) This quote comes form the psychologist who is talking to the character officer Allan during the middle of the movie which is after Edward is released from jail. For those who have not watched the movie Edward ScissorHands it is a comedy mixed with horror. The movie starts off with Kim tucking in her grandchild to go to bed. Kim's grandchild asked for a story so Kim told her the story of Edward the man who lives in the house on top of the mountain. The story starts off with Kim's mother Peg who is a door to door Avon sales women. She was having a rough day with no one wanting to buy the Avon products. Peg then decided to go up to the house on top of the mountain. When Peg arrives she is confronted by the beautiful garden. She then lets her self in to the house and finds Edward in the corner of the attic. Peg then takes Edward home were all the woman in the neighborhood are curious to find out who the mystery man is. One day when Kevin, Peg's husband is in the backyard Edward sees him cutting the hedges so Edward cuts the bush and makes it into a dinosaur. Peg then throws...
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...------------------------------------------------- Topic: Edward The Second as a Modern Tex Christopher Marlowe was an embodiment of the Elizabethan golden age. Alfred Lord Tennyson once wrote, “If Shakespeare was the dazzling sun of this mighty period, Marlowe is certainly the morning star.“Edward The Second” is Marlowe’s one of the most perfect achievement in dramatic structure and one of the most furnished and satisfactory of Marlowe’s plays, evidently and carefully written with the skilful handling of the historical material. We hear in his plays the great voice of the Elizabethan England .He represents its overwhelming pride ,the enthusiasm of discovery and conquest, the stout of success, the limitless aspiration of passion and intellect and the inflexible power of an abnormally developed will .In the present era, whether for good or for evil, we are much closer to the Elizabethan temperament than any of the generations stand between. “Edward The Second” is generally known as a chronicle tragedy play based on “Holinshed’s Chronicle” but it also contains some striking modern elements for which it can also be regarded as a modern play. The elements such as homosexuality, desire for power and authority, dealing with Edward’s personal obsession, his peculiar psychology etc. have made the play very distinct .This play is about desire for power and authority and the struggle for it, the complex psychosexuality of Edward and Gaveston:their homo-erotic relationship and the King’s...
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...Edward Jenner (1749 – 1823) * Born in Gloucester. * His father was a vicar. * At the age of 14 he took an apprenticeship with a local surgeon and then later studies medicine in London. * He returned back to his native town of Berkley to practice medicine. * Lady Montagu was contracted with smallpox after she married her husband who later became the British Ambassador in Turkey. * She witnessed the inoculation of smallpox when she was in Turkey. * Unlike Jenner’s theory; it contained a small amount of the disease itself which encouraged the antigens to fight it within the system. * Having suffered it herself (with the permanent devastation of having permanent scarring and loss of eyelashes) she encouraged her children to receive the treatment while they were in Turkey. * Jenner’s theory was created when he recognised the pattern in that milk maids that received cow pox did not suffer at all from smallpox. * He then took the puss from a milk maid’s blister and injected it into a young boy who was used as a test subject for this experiment. * The boy was called James Phipps. Jenner cut into Phipps’ skin and poured in the cowpox infection. The boy had a small fever but recovered. * Jenner then inserted the smallpox however Phipps’ remained healthy. * The two other subjects that were in the bed with Phipps also remained healthy. * Phipps being the son of a poor farmer was not paid to be the subject of this experiment...
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...Edward T. Hall : Cultural Dimension Introduction „A fish only realizes it needs water to live when it is no longer swimming in the water. Our culture is to us like water to the fish. We live and breathe through our culture." As Trompenaar's quote outlines, culture is a crucial part of someone's life or even indispensable for the life of humans. This is because culture determines a human's basic assumptions, values, norms and belief systems as well as a human's behaviour, language, food, drinking habits and other determinants of one's daily routine. Understanding his or her own culture is a key factor in order to live in his or her society, but understanding other cultures gives the opportunity to look out of the box. It provides someone, for example, with the ability to interact between two cultures. A vital aspect when it comes to make business upon international terms. This paper will focus on the discoveries of Edward T. Hall and will also provide especially european countries as examples. 2. Hall’s dimensions of culture Edward T. Hall, Anthropologist, developed a culture model with three dimensions. Context, the most popular dimension, Time and Space. The following paragraphs will outline and explain the three dimension. Overview of the most popular culture models HALL | HOFSTEDE | TROMPENAARS | HIGH-CONTEXT vsLOW-CONTEXT | POWER DISTANCE | UNIVERSALISM vsPARTICULARISM | | | INDIVIDUALISM vsCOLLECTIVISM | HIGH-TERRITORIALITY vs LOW-TERRITORIALITY...
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...Ard Hopper “Automat” was painted by Edward Hopper in 1927. The painting was displayed for the first time on valentines day, and was sold for $1200. The picture depicts a young woman sitting alone in some kind of cafeteria. She is drinking a cup of coffee, while she’s staring at her hot drink. She is dressed in a long warm winter coat, and a hat pulled down on her head. On her left hand she is wearing a glove, while holding the coffee cup in the right. The painting method is oil on canvas. The colours in the painting are both dark and light, which makes the painting very cold. The background of the painting is the outside of the automat (a café with mechanical service) and is all black, and you can’t see what there is behind the large windows. In the windows you can only see the bright reflects of the lamps in the ceiling of the automat, which seems to be never ending the night. The inside of the cafeteria is being lightened by the bright lamps, which is the only light source in the painting. The light of the lamps is very harsh and bright and not cozy at all, which is typically for the type of lamps in automats. Because of Edwards colour choosing and the fact that the woman is hiding in a large green coat, indicates that the temperature inside the automat is low. The woman’s facial expression makes her look sad, because of her tightened mouth and her eyes staring down at the table. As she sits without companionship she looks a bit afraid, which might be the reason she...
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...from the textbook that have been scanned and emailed to you. Edward came to the throne at the age of nine. This led to memories of minorities of the previous century, when the accession of minors had led to conflict. For the minority Protestants Edward was potentially the new Solomon. He had after all been education in the Protestant traditions. Conservatives feared the worst – Edwards tutors were Protestant evangelists fresh from Cambridge. Protector Somerset – the Kings Uncle fought expensive foreign wars dissolved the Chantries and introducing a moderately Protestant settlement in 1549, which went beyond anything Henry VIII would have permitted. The nations finances were stretched – the Treasury exhausted and the coinage debased (reduction in amount of precious metal made to make coins). Protector Somerset fell when he failed to take the rebellions of 1552 seriously. The Duke of Northumberland emerged as the new ruler. He cut spending and made peace with France and Spain. Northumberland attempted to prevent Mary Tudor from succeeding when Edward died in 1553. He wanted to place Lady Jane Grey in the throne. Key Questions: Does the fact that Edward died before he became an adult distort our understanding of Edward’s power and influence? Do we assume that because he was a child he was bound to be insignificant? Should we accept the proposition that Edward’s opinion could have mattered? What did Edward think about the key issues of the day? – religion, government...
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...Cognitive Theorist- Edward C. Tolman Cognitive Theorist- Edward C. Tolman Edward C. Tolman’s contributions to the research of learning and motivation were substantial to the field of psychology. Regard as a cognitive behaviorist, he acquired his specific behaviorism when the likes of Watson were governing the field (Kimble, 1991). Through many of Tolman’s contributions to psychology, his trademark to the field of psychology took place at Berkeley this is where his cognitive learning theory was shaped. Tolman considered learning is encouraged from fragments of cognitions about the environment and the relationship with organisms. This theory was in distinction to the theories of Hull and Thorndike who supposed of learning as a strict stimulus-response connection. (Kimble, 1991). To analyze learning, Tolman performed orthodox rat experiments; involving maze running. During his observation expressed reinforcement plays a contributor in the method of how the rats gain knowledge and technique through the difficult mazes. Tolman’s research with the rats ultimately began the theory of latent learning; expressed learning that transpires in the lack of an apparent reward (Barker, 1997). There was controversy from Edward Tolman’s latent learning theory, thus several researchers established that rats do learn in the absence of rewards (Hothersall, 1995). Edward C. Tolman characterized his method of psychology purposive behaviorism; describing his essential conception on...
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...Edwards Plateau Aquifer Through time and the history of the Earth, many events have shaped the land and regions we all, as humans, know so well. One thing is certain, without the resources of our planet home, we would not survive. The natural resources of, air, plants and animal life for food, water, Sunshine, and the Earth and land, we are able to live and breed to continue onward. In this presentation, the element of water resources will be explored and given a voice and praise. We will look at one water source, in particular, the Edwards Plateau Aquifer. This Aquifer developed over millions of years’ time, to be the faithful water supplier we all know in Texas. The water is naturally cycled through limestone and still needs some treatment after it has been in the ground in this matrix of limestone rock beneath. This water supplies many towns and cities in the region and spans thirteen counties. It is fed by rivers, creeks, and tributaries along the distance (Eckhardt, 2011). Because of the cracks, faults, fractures, sinkholes, and caves, the rivers and streams too, can be contaminated carrying the pollutants to the recharge zone, therefore it must be checked often for quality control. The Edwards Aquifer Authority, along with other groups, like the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, and the U.S. Geological Survey, monitor the aquifer for anything toxic which can cause illness or diseases to ensure...
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...The John Edwards Mistress Scandal The John Edwards Mistress Scandal By Terri Clark Critical Thinking and Creative Problem Solving Loius Held July 6, 2012 The John Edwards Mistress Scandal Rielle Hunter has made quite a name for herself in the political world. This article talks about John Edwards’ dealings with his mistress and the book, written by Hunter, telling what she calls the truth about her dealings with Edwards. This clear and accurate article is very informative in that it reiterates the fact that Hunter was hired by Edwards to video record his campaign behind the scenes. After working together over time, Edwards and Hunter initiated an affair between each other and had a little girl. After six months of Edwards denying Hunter and her baby, the truth was brought to the light. The article ignored the fact the Edwards’ wife had been ill with cancer during his time with the mistress but goes on to inform the public of the 1 million dollars paid to two people by Edwards to hide Hunter during the earliest part of his campaign. Hunter however, was acquitted of the charges placed against him a month ago. Hunter never testified in the case against Edwards even after she was guaranteed immunity from prosecution. Hunter had another perspective. She blames John’s old friend Andrew Young implying that Young was the one who initiated the idea of claiming paternity of the Edwards and Hunter’s little girl. Young was also the one who Hunter says solicited money...
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...An ‘uncommonly gentle man’, Edward, is the main character of the film ‘Edward Scissorhands’. Edward is an unfinished robot who has scissors instead of human-like prosthetic hands. He was built by an inventor who lived in a huge, spooky mansion on the top of a hill. The film ‘Edward Scissorhands’ is about this abnormal man who fell in love with a young woman. Because of Edward’s differences, the people in the community were unable to tolerate him and at last Edward hid into the mansion again. There are few differences Edward had in the film, and the biggest difference he had was that his hands, the scissors, were far more dangerous than human hand because they were sharp. Even though he was a gentle and respectful person, the existence of his scissor hands proved to be incredibly dangerous. No one had ever tried to enter the mansion at the top of the hill until a huge outcast opened the door of the mansion and included him into her family. “Why are you hiding back there? You don't have to hide from me - I'm Peg Boggs, your local Avon representative and I'm as harmless as cherry pie…” Peg took Edward from the dark mansion and introduced the town to him where there were strange colourful houses and lots of people which seemed to excite Edward. Peg...
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...continent is hard, let alone the person in your neighbourhood. . Set in a dark fantasy world , the film Edward Scissorhands , by Tim Burton, and the identity defining book The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan, explore the challenges faced with being different. Although there are some slight differences, they are overcome by the striking amount of similarities. Characters in both texts come face-to-face with the challenge of being different, which consumes most of the texts. However , there are minor differences that revolve around society’s reactions to the challenges and changes faced by some individuals, such Edward Scissorhands and “the thing”. Conformity and social isolation are both explored and scrutinised deeply throughout both texts, with strong messages delivered about the problems with being different. Whilst the texts focus so strongly on the challenges or problems of being different, they ironically reveal a stronger message about the ignorance of a society that behaves exactly the same. Conformity is a result of the influenced change in one’s behaviour and beliefs in order to fit in with a group or individuals or society. It is a main theme explored in Edward Scissorhands and The Lost Thing. The ‘thing’ in The Lost Thing is different as it is a red mechanical being , as opposed to the human characters on the beach in the book. Alternately, Edward’s character In Edward Scissorhands is seen as different from he neighbourhood, as he hides himself away in a dark castle, away...
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...In the film Edward Scissorhands, directed by Tim Burton the idea of “Fitting in is difficult when you are different” is very prevalent throughout the film and is shown a number of different ways. Such as the main character Edward’s appearance, how he cannot do everyday things or even have normal relationships. Camera Work, Dialogue, Costume and Music are several film techniques used to show us this idea as we learn that fitting in can be a difficult when you are different A way the idea of “Fitting in” is presented in the film is through Edward’s appearance and how it isolates him in the town. Since Edward arrives he is branded as an outsider, Through the use of costume we can see Edward looks very different with his wild hair and leather...
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...John Edwards - Democrat John Edwards was birthed June 10, 1953, in Seneca, South Carolina. Being the initial individual in his household line to participate in university, he initially participated in Clemson College as well as after that moved to North Carolina State College, where he finished with a bachelor's level in fabric modern technology. John Edwards' very early lawful profession could be explained as sensational, while his individual life could be defined as an endure battle in the face of catastrophe. Having actually wed early, he had 4 youngsters, one of which, Wade Edwards, was eliminated in a vehicle crash at age 16 in 1996. His lawful job has actually been noted by hostile test attorney task. His name has actually come to...
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