...Hardly anyone in the world has lived with locked-in syndrome, but author Jean Dominique Bauby is able to put us in the mindset of someone who has. In his memoir called “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” Bauby suddenly experiences a life-threatening stroke that had no oncoming. Bauby was diagnosed with locked-in syndrome which restricts him to the use of one eye to communicate with the world. The whole book was written by Bauby using a single eye to explain his deepest thoughts and to explain how it feels to have locked-in syndrome. Bauby effectively portrays the duality of the mental and physical existence through the use of tone and, language portrayed in the vignettes he writes. In the vignette “The photo,” we open with Bauby taking...
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...Before Dungeon 1 [0101] NEW ITEMS: 3 Treasure Charts (#7) - Get Treasure Chart #7 (Battleship Game Shop) Enter the house opposite from the school, which is the Game Shop. Win the Battleship game once to get a Heart Piece, then again to get a Treasure Chart. Win it a third time, breaking the record score for a second Treasure Chart. 1. Dragon Roost Cavern [0102] - you down. Jump across the platforms and go up the ladder. Grapple the nearby overhang, then go through the unsealed door. - (OPTIONAL) If you've got a GBA connected, you can get a Tingle Statue in this next room. On the GBA, find the question mark on the ledge opposite the entrance and bomb it. The chest contains the first Tingle Statue. a room where Link swings across to a seemingly pointless ledge - this room is located right outside the room with the boss key. Once you swing across to the ledge - place a bomb against the wall in order to spawn a chest - Grapple to the opposite ledge, then jump to the next ledge. Jump and hook to the next door, and go through it. Before Dungeon 2 [0103] NEW ITEMS: Note to Mom "Song of Passing" Deku Leaf Deluxe Picto Box 1 Bottle (#2) 7 Treasure Charts (#3,#18,#24,#29,#31,#33,#38) 5 Heart Pieces (#5-#9) NEW NINTENDO GALLERY FIGURES: NOTE: These are simply the figurines which it is possible to get right after you've opened the gallery. Of course you can wait until you have easier and faster means of travel before getting them;...
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...Hayao Miyazaki attained global acclaim for both Princess Mononoke, released in the United States in 1999, and Spirited Away, released throughout North America three years later. These films are clearly products of the same visionary; each film presents a protagonist of strong will and sound ethic and, in each case, he or she is forced to embark on an epic journey. Both films were very successful in Japan; however, although both were critically acclaimed in the United States, only Spirited Away saw continued box-office success. In order to explain the disparity between these films’ earnings, I will discuss the different approaches, which these films take, to the theme of duality. Naturally, the idea of a double nature is unsettling. However, whereas Spirited Away addresses this theme in a way that invigorates and provides closure, Princess Mononoke leaves the audience feeling uncertain. In order to understand the disparity between these films’ earnings, one must examine not only thematic differences between these films, but also patterns among high-grossing films in the United States. In other words, what are American audiences looking for, which Spirited Away offers and Princess Mononoke does not? When reviewing the history of box-office successes in the United States, one becomes aware of an unfortunate truth: that there is little correlation between what viewers recognize as ‘good cinema’ and what they will pay to see. So what is the formula for a box office success...
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...Critical Thinking – Spring 2011 In, “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” by Jean-Dominique Bauby, the diving bell is Bauby's dreadful physical limitations and the butterfly represents his fertile imagination. With flashbacks of his life, we see him as a fully functioning person at work and at home. These scenes enhance the tragedy of his situation. The diving bell is Bauby’s body which is like a dead weight. Jean compares his “locked in syndrome,” to being trapped in a diving bell. A diving bell was used prior to the invention of scuba diving equipment. This device looked like a large bell, which was lowered into the water by a tether. Water pressure was used to keep air in the bell so that those inside can breathe. Those inside were limited in their movements because moving would cause for losing air supply. “My hands, lying curled on the yellow sheets are hurting, although I can’t tell if they are burning hot or ice cold.” (pg. 5) “So it is likely that several years will go by before I can expect to wiggle my toes…But for now, I would be the happiest of men if I could just swallow the overflow of saliva that endlessly floods my mouth.” (pg. 12) Bauby realizes his actual state when he stares at a stained glass image of the wife of Napole’on III, Empress Euge’nie and notices an unknown face in the reflection. He sees a twisted mouth, damaged nose, one eye sewn shut, the other eye wide open. “For a moment I stared at that dilated pupil, before I realized it was only...
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...Connection and Web Evolution PHI 339 One piece of art that I really like is called Acceptance vs. Rejection (Username Squish-Squash). This piece was a semi-finalist in Wacom’s 2009 Bring Your Vision to Life deviantART contest. This 2D image depicts a little girl hugging a strange creature that upon closer inspection appears to have the sad face of a pretty girl but the large, monstrous, decaying body of rejected attempts at existence. It is acknowledged to have been inspired by Hayao Miyazaki’s film, Spirited Away (2001). An open property, which I feel is appropriate and which this work incorporates, that will necessarily make every piece of art with its inclusion pleasing to me would be personal connection at a high degree. When I say that I connect/ relate to a piece of art at different degrees it is to acknowledge that I fundamentally relate to all art simply by coexisting with it and that there are also other levels of connection between that and true pleasure. The highest of these levels is elicited by a wild variety of connection “triggers” in my many different mental approaches to the artwork. For example but not exclusively, perhaps if the subject looks like me or an experience I’ve had or vividly imagined, if it’s a subject I’ve studied out of personal passion, if it tickles my brain, if it’s a brand new concept to me, if it’s a polar opposite, if it’s my current favorite color, etc. The triggers that will strike my mind are of such a range that they...
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...‘Spirited Away’ is an anime film by Hayao Miyazaki. ‘Spirited Away’ tell us the story about a young girl who has developed from a weak/vulnerable girl to a much more independent and stronger girl. It is highly entertaining and insightful partly because of the education on Japanese culture, but what I believe makes it more entertaining and insightful is the life lessons within the film. Does culture and gender provide entertaining and insightful material for the audience? I don't believe that the culture and gender title is the only factor that makes the film entertaining. Many of other things within the film make it much more entertaining. In my eyes there isn't much of Japanese culture that gives me interest apart from the buildings and more. The gender stereotype is mostly shown in Chihiro not any other characters which doesn't make it a large factor in the film other although it's put in the main character. Many more different factors of ‘Spirited Away’ make it entertaining and insightful, such as life lessons within the film and how some characters are exaggerated also known as a caricature. Life lessons teach more about what we should know more in general rather than Japanese culture which isn't necessarily important for the majority of us in the future. Hayao Miyazaki has used many...
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...Castaway The films castaway was directed by Robert Zemeckis. The film is about an Express Systems Analyst who lives and dies by the clock’. He is very obsessed with his job and time even he has put his relationship in the second place but when the plane crushes in the Pacific Ocean, he finds himself strands on a small isolated island. He has all the time to figure out how to survive. In the film we can see the use of visual techniques in showing changes of the main character. Camera shots are used to demonstrate different aspects of character. A wide shot is used after the plane crushes, When chuck was struggling on the yellow life raft floating alone in the big ocean and at that time the weather was bad, heavily raining. This is shows us how small and how powerless he is. The director also uses a when shot when Chuck first arrive the island to show a empty place with no life, no ship and no technology so this means he has to finds water, food shelter and a way to prevent himself from being destroyed by loneliness. Another camera shot that the director uses is close up shots. The close up shots are focusing on his face and hand when he was making a fire to show us that it is huge progress from him because we can see he bites his lip, grills his teeth and there are some sweat on his face. He is concentrating very hard. There are other close up focused on his hand when he used his finger to draw eyes, nose and mouth and gives it a name ‘Wilson’ He shares his feelings with it...
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...Guy Ritchie hit upon a successful formula when directing his first two films, bringing his unique sense of style and panache to the crime thriller genre, but then blotted his copybook when he attempted new things in his following two movies. The husband of mega-popstar Madonna cast his famous wife in one his biggest commercial and critical flops, but has since tried to get his career back on track after divorcing her in late 2008. Guy Stuart Ritchie was born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, to successful marketing executive John Vivian Ritchie and Amber Parkinson. His parents divorced when he was five, and his mother would later marry Sir Michael Leighton, a baronet. Ritchie spent a fair amount of his childhood at the Leighton estate, although his mother and Sir Michael would divorce seven years later. Ritchie was born with severe dyslexia, and at 15 was expelled from Stanbridge Earls School, a specialist school for dyslexics. He worked as a labourer before getting into the film industry at age 25. He began as a film runner (an odd jobber on film and TV sets) before trying his hand at directing music videos, doing “20 videos back to back, really crappy ones with sort of German rave bands”. This gave him some valuable experience behind the camera, and he moved on to doing commercials. With the much-needed grounding, he went on to direct a 20 minute short, ‘The Hard Case’ (1995), which aired on Channel 4. As it did so, it caught the attention of Trudie Styler, the wife of...
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... | | |Date: | | Introduction After visiting the "Studio Ghibli Layout Design" exhibition in Hong Kong Heritage Museum, I was shocked by the original layout sketches and the fine storytelling. The 1300 layouts of films contain the cut of camera work, camera speed and space relation between characters and backgrounds; it gives me an insight of the process of animation making. Hence, I would like to comprehend more about the film produced by animation powerhouse-Studio Ghibli, especially the masterpiece-“Spirited Away”, which helps to promote Japanese animation to worldwide audience. “Spirited Away” is an animated film written and directed by the director of Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki (Cavallaro 2004) in 2001, which have won awards in a number of international film festivals, including Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film and a Golden Bear at the Berlin International Festival (Reider 2005), and become the top-grossing movie in Japanese history. In the following, the film’s themes based on the plot, use of photography and camera angle and aesthetic symbols and motifs will be analyzed throughout the essay to understand the key of success of this fantasy...
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...Hayao Miyazaki is a Japanese chief executive of Studio Ghibli. He was born in Tokyo, Japan on January 5, 1941, making him 72 today. Miyazaki is one of four siblings under his father Katusji Miyazaki; this family initially worked within Miyazaki Airplanes, a family business. His father moved their family to Utsonomiya City later on. These different environments would soon serve as inspiration for the settings of his stories and the basis of plot. Nausicaa (produced in 1984 (Kraemer)) would reflect Miyazaki’s dislike for governmental war and Princess Mononoke would contain the forest inspired setting that he grew up with in Utsonomiya City. Miyazaki would even take personal experiences –like his mother’s diagnosis of tuberculosis- and incorporate...
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...What were Chuck Noland’s most prized possessions while stranded on a deserted island? The three items that helped Noland survive while stranded on a deserted are, a Wilson Volleyball, a broken pocket watch, and portable toilet. The items that he uses can no longer function, but he finds ways to make each item work to his advantage. The first thing Chuck Noland finds most valuable is a Wilson Volleyball. He came across a FedEx package containing a Wilson Volleyball and they instantly became best friends. One day, while talking to Wilson, Noland cut his hand, blamed it on Wilson and palmed him away. He felt bad, so he went to find where he landed. Chuck Noland felt so bad that he emphasizes to Wilson, “I’m dory, Wilson. Wilson, I’m sorry! I’m...
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...Spirted away, a japense film by Hayao Mizaki tells the story of a young girl named Chihiro. At the beginning of the film Chihiro and her parents are driving to there new house. Along the way her parents end up getting lost, the car ends up spinning out of control. Then stops at a huge statue in front of a faded building. The statue is symbollic in the film because it marks the beginning of the other world. Being curious as most people would her parents decide to venture into the building as well as the wind which pulls the parents through the tunnel. Hayao creates a sense of mystery through a darkened tunnel. Behind the tunnel is a bunch of buildings all of which abanadoned as well, her parents smell food and not being wise eat it. Chihiro...
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...Away From Her The only thing we can say about Sarah Polley’s screenwriting and directorial debut is: wow! Basing her script on the short story “The Bear Came over the Mountain” by Alice Munro, Polley had created a masterpiece. Julie Christie plays Fiona, a woman suffering from the beginning stages of Alzheimer’s Disease. She and her husband, Grant (Gordon Pinsent), have not been apart from each other for nearly four and a half decades, so understandably he takes it quite hard when she decides it would be best for her to enter into a nursing hope for people suffering from Alzheimer’s. Over the course of time, Grant becomes somewhat alarmed, and even a little jealous, over the strength of friendship that she develops with a fellow patient named Aubrey. As can be expected, Grant has to struggle to come to terms with this new relationship and with Fiona’s fading memory. Although Julie Christie has been widely recognized for her performance (nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, winner of the BAFTA, Golden Globe, and National Board of Review, Screen Actors Guild for the same, as well as numerous film critics societies), and not to take anything away from that, the story is driven by Gordon Pinsent’s performance (he won the award for Outstanding Male Performance from the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television, and Radio Artists…they’re version of the SAG Awards). Also of note is Olympia Dukakis playing Marian, Aubrey’s wife, as she also...
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...The ABC Murders - Summary and analysis Summary (Spoiler Alert): Hastings, Hercule Poirot's partner and assistant, returns to Britain, just as Poirot receives a sinister letter from an unknown person under the alias ABC. The letter says, that he should look out for Andover, on the 21st of the month. Just as stated in the letter, something happens on the 21st. A woman in Andover, named Alice Asher, turns up dead. On the crime scene an ABC railway guide is found, and Andover is marked. The police believes that this is just a coincidence, and that the letter and the murder are not connected. On the very same day, Poirot receives another letter. This time it tells Poirot, to look out for Bexhill on the 25th. On the 25th another woman is found dead. This time it is Elisabeth Bernard. Once again, an ABC railway guide is found on the body, and it is opened on Bexhill. The Police slowly starts believing that this is not just a coincidence. He receives the third letter three days late due to an error in the address, written on the letter. The next morning, a Sir Carmichael Clarke is found dead in his estate in Churston. The fourth and final killing happens in a cinema in Doncaster, where a guy named George Earlsfield is stabbed to death. ABC has erred, since Earlsfield does not start with a D. The police believes that the killer is a mad man, who has failed, and that the killings might be over. Poirot on the other hand, does not believe in coincidences. Therefore he believes, that...
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...Xiao-Qiang GUO, Wei-Yang WU, He-Rong GU Yanshan University Phase locked loop and synchronization methods for gridinterfaced converters: a review Abstract. Phase locked loop and synchronization techniques are one of the most important issues for operating grid-interfaced converters in practical applications, which involve Distributed Power Generation Systems, Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS), and High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) Transmission, and so on. This paper presents a comprehensive review of the recently developed phase locked loop and synchronization methods, then a comparison and selection guide are provided. Finally, a list of more than 40 technical papers is also appended for a quick reference. Streszczenie. Techniki PLL i synchronizacji są ważnymi elementami przetworników w systemach sieciowych, takich jak: rozproszonych systemach mocy, FACTs czy HVDC. Artykuł przedstawia przegląd tego typu metod a następnie porównanie tych metod. Na końcu ponad 40 podstawowych artykułów z tej tematyki jest przedstawionych.(Metody synchronizacji i PLL w przetwornikach sieciowych – przegląd). Keywords: Grid-interfaced converters, phase locked loop, synchronization Słowa kluczowe: uchłady PLL, synchronizacja. Introduction The basic phase locked loop (PLL) concept was originally published by Appleton in 1923 and Bellescize in 1932, which was mainly used for synchronous reception of radio signals [1-2]. After that, PLL techniques were widely used in various industrial...
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