...Symbolism in Theater and Cinema Arts 100 Daniel Jacobson What if I never saw the movie Jaws? Would I still feel the same way about sharks and the ocean? These are some of the questions I feel a lot of people can ask themselves after they have seen Jaws. What does this mean? Can the shark in Jaws represent or symbolize something more than just being a hungry shark? I remember watching Jaws as a kid, as you can imagine I was pretty scared. I think I was eleven at the time, and was living in San Diego. So going to the beach looking for seashells and swimming in the water was a regular thing to me, not after that movie! It wasn't till I was an adult that I truly was able to enjoy or appreciate Jaws as a movie. I love the ocean and have been snorkeling, spearfishing, and even swimming with sharks. And there is always that feeling in the back of your mind that at any moment something is going to sneak up behind you or come up from the dark water below you and attack. So where did that fear come from? Ive never been bitten by a shark so why would I be afraid of them? So what does the shark represent or symbolize, if anything other than a shark? I believe that the shark in jaws symbolizes the shear element of fear. You can see how the director captures this element when in “monster mode” by looking at the fear on each victim's face from the sharks point of view. The ocean is so foreign to us. Dark water, animals that are bigger, stronger than us and can swim faster than us....
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...and the ability to detect just one drop of blood from 0.25 miles away! Given the entitlement of nature's top predator, these "monsters" are feared by many all around the world. Sharks, although many claim them to be, are not all bloodthirsty killers. The American thriller films Jaws, Jaws 2, Jaws 3, and Jaws: The Revenge, simply gave them a bad rap. In the serious, the great white shark goes around barbarically murdering people that go into the ocean. Ever since the films were released, they have struck terror upon the public viewers. People only seem to think...
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...Signs That It’s Time To Remove Those Wisdom Teeth Your dentist might have their own opinion on how to handle wisdom teeth. They may be in favor of removing wisdom teeth early in order to prevent a problem from happening, or want to wait until it is clear that a problem will occur. Wisdom teeth may not grow to the point where they disrupt the teeth next to them, so it’s easy to understand this point of view. If you and your dentist are opting to wait until a problem occurs, be aware of these signs of when wisdom teeth should come out. Rear Jaw Pain Take note of when you feel pain along the rear of your jaw. This is a sign that the impacted wisdom tooth is causing problems. Pain can quickly become intense to some people while being kind of dull...
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...The Lottery Today, there are many traditions that people take part in but have no idea why. It seems that whatever someone grows up seeing the people around them doing, they will do as well. For example: popping fireworks on New Year’s and July 4th, or trick-or-treating on Halloween. Most people don’t know why they do these things, it’s just tradition. In “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, it’s a tradition for the people to hold a lottery every year and most of them don’t even know why. From little kids on up to senior citizens, everyone in the village participates in the lottery. The lottery is where the 300 people living in the village gather together and everyone draws a slip of paper from a box. Whoever’s paper has a black dot in the center gets stoned to death by the rest of the villagers. It doesn’t seem like something that someone would want to partake in, but everyone does simply because its tradition. This story is a prime example of why blindly following tradition is weak. Anything that a person does in this world, they usually know why they are doing it, and most of the time it’s because they choose too. However, when it comes to tradition most people do not know why they are participating in certain things; and in situations like this one, that could be dangerous. The author starts the story with a sense of liberation. “The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass...
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...Gabrielle Ibanez Cinema Appreciation 15 April 2015 Jaws “The Beach Scene” Steven Spielberg is without a doubt a director whom has become a household name. With many thousand project titles under his belt in one way or another, one must wonder what the magic behind a Steven Spielberg blockbuster is? In this paper I will be analyzing Spielberg’s story telling in the uncut beach scene in Jaws. This was only Spielberg’s second large studio film and he shows signs throughout every bit of it to be quite an artist with a gift that allows his scenes to breathe organically. Spielberg’s early work has a under layering feeling of Hitchcock styled moments which can be felt throughout the beach scene and Jaws in general. In a very fluid motion he reveals all of the scenes critical elements. First, the camera direction is one that is worth noting. The scene starts with a left pan following a large woman, anyone in the audience would assume she would make quite a full and appetizing meal for the shark lurking in the depths of the ocean. Behind the large woman we see the young man in yellow playing fetch with his dog who will later act as the first red flag that danger has already arrived. Once the woman goes into the water and the young man’s dog goes that direction as well, the young boy we are really meant to follow enters from the left; opposing the camera direction. I feel that the large woman, the dog and the young man in yellow act like arrows pointing your attention towards the...
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...Great White Sharks Great White Sharks perhaps one of the most feared and misunderstood creatures on planet earth. Popular culture’s point of view of this wonderful and magnificent organism has been slightly skewed because of television and movies such as Jaws. Which depicts these great animals in a negative light typical of Hollywood. In a positive light this generated more interest among people to hopefully begin to understand this exceptional predator of the seas. Analyzing the fossil record of ancient sharks can be quite a bit difficult task since sharks are made of mostly cartilage which decomposes and leaves almost no trace. Paleontologists are left looking for fossilized teeth and jaw bones. All sharks are extremely well suited for their aquatic environment. The Great White Shark physiology is far superior to that of any ocean hunter. Through evolution they possess six senses that enhance their ability to hunt; vision, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and electro-reception. These characteristics give a tremendous advantage to the Great White while looking for prey. They have supreme hearing with external ears located just above the eyes very difficult to see however the highly developed ear stones are able to sense the tiniest vibrations in their environment (http://ocean.si.edu/great-white-shark). One of the most interesting developments that Great White Sharks possess that humans would be extremely jealous of is the electro-reception. In the front of snout of...
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...swelling of blood vessels within the head. Interestingly, this explanation of blood vessel swelling is close to the belief today that such swelling is involved in migraine headaches (Edmeads, 1997). At the turn of the twentieth century, Sir William Osler proposed that headaches were due to 'muscular rheumatism' of the head. This was probably the first suggestion that muscle abnormalities might be involved. During the 1940s, Wolff carried out a series of experiments that showed that involuntary contraction of scalp and neck muscles could result in headache development. Other causes have been suggested; these were more serious than muscle dysfunction and would evidently require other medical interventions (Solomon, 1993). In the worldwide view, headache can be such a big health problem as evidenced by the establishment of the World Headache Alliance in 1997. The organization exists to alleviate the burden of headache worldwide, in particular, by sharing information among headache organizations and by increasing the awareness and understanding of headache as a public health concern with profound social and economic impact. Worldwide, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), migraine alone is 19th among all causes of years lived with disability (YLDs). Headache disorders impose recognizable burden on sufferers including sometimes substantial personal suffering, impaired quality of life and financial cost. Repeated headache attacks, and often the constant fear of the next...
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...Some people use it for relaxing, some for learning and some as a profession. It’s undeniable that music has a special place in your life at some point. The sound of one note, one chord, can take you to a certain time or place in your life like a childhood memory, your wedding day or even a movie. Composers are known for having this ability to pull on the emotions and change the mood of their audience. One of the most underrated aspects for music is how filmmakers use these ablilities when choosing music for their movies. The role of music in a motion picture is in direct relation to the level of ambiguity in a particular scene. The more ambiguous a scene is, the more filmmakers rely on the music to develop a mood that interprets the meaning of the scene for their audience. Therefore, music provides a cue for the listener to tell whether the narrative is suppose to be perceived as scary, romantic, funny, sad, or happy--ultimately, affecting the audience's mood. Horror movies are great examples of that concept. Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), is a perfect example of how a music can tell its audience what's about to come. The most memorable scene in the film was the brutal shower stabbing scene with Janet Leigh. The use of music in this scene allows the viewer to achieve a fear of the unknown. As Leigh is showering, the camera view point is of Bates walking into her room. Then, the music gets eerie and scary. The audience can feel something is about to happen to Leigh's character...
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...believed that the appearance of their mouth would affect their social relations, as bizarre as this might sound, in American culture, a similar belief is based on the social view of beauty. In American culture, appearance can affect how others perceive an individual. No one dares to have missing teeth or bleeding gums because of the fear of being shunned or viewed as an outcast for not obeying society’s expectations. Due to the negative stigma of having a flawed appearance, our rituals, like those done by the Nacirema are habits enforced by society’s shared belief that if one does not follow these expectations they will be...
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...larger fish got bigger and better teeth to break the armor etc. Chapter 5: The four human gill arches relate to the sharks gill arches. The first arch in both humans and sharks relates to the jaws. The second arch in sharks holds many bones comparable to ours used in this arch. The second arch for humans is to swallow and hear. The second arch for sharks is used as support for their jaws. The bones the sharks use to support their jaws are used in humans to hear and swallow. As for the last two arches the bones we use to talk and swallow are comparable to the structures in sharks that are support for their gills. Chapter 6: Scientists often work collaboratively and even if they are doing an experiment solo, there is often other scientists doing the same experiments. Doing an experiment done before or that another scientist is currently working on as well isn’t counter productive because you could find something new that no one in the past has found (if it is an experiment that has been done before). Also technology advances play a part in the results of the experiment. An example of collaborate scientists are Karl Ernst von Baer working with Christian Pander who had the resources to support the experiment. Working collaboratively also gives both scientists a different point of view so the analysis of the results could be more accurate. There could be research out there related to the experiment indirectly which would be helpful to know as well. The organisms used in the experiments...
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...However, Mr. Ramsey believes that it will cut the production cost and then increase the sales growth. For that, Mr. Ramsey decides to push Briggs to resign. This culture is not effective in this company. Clan Culture is the least describes the senior management culture. Clan Culture focus on the involvement and participation of employees. However, because Mr. Ramsey publishes anyone who against his view, employees do not share their opinion freely. Moreover, Clan Culture needs leader to take care of employees. However, Mr Ramsey keeps humiliating Briggs in the public and hopes Briggs to resign. It causes Briggs’ death in the end of movie. Therefore, Clan Culture is the least describes the senior management culture. Dominant Values, Beliefs, Behaviors and Assumptions: In Organizational culture, domain value is very important. In Ramsey Company, although Briggs believes that the good will about taking care of employees is the most important, Mr. Ramsey does no think of that. Mr. Ramsey says that, Briggs’ view is also his father’s view. However, this view is out of date. As the leader of company, Mr. Ramsey believes that they should take sales growth as the dominant values. He says that, “the business cannot be run by ‘thank you’” and “this company belongs to us only because we can keep producing”. It makes sense. Because if they cannot make profit, they will no be able to take care of those employees. Moreover, because the recent external environment...
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...describe him in vastly different ways. One letter was written to John Stuart Mill, and the other to a Mrs. Baring. Carlyle’s point of view and respect for Emerson remains in both, however due to the different audience, his tone and use of language is incredibly different. The difference in audience was the main reason the letters were so different. In the first letter, Carlyle wrote to another Victorian writer, thus making his language much more formal. An example of this would be the way he says “was thro’ the whole Encyclopedia with us,” when describing Emerson to Mill. Carlyle wrote in a sense of recommending Emerson for a job, making Emerson seem extraordinary. In contrast, when Carlyle wrote to Mrs. Baring, he said that Emerson seemed to have a rule that “talk should go on incessantly except when sleep interrupted it.” When he wrote this letter, he seemed to be talking to a friend informally....
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...acute. As Henry (Ewan McGregor), Maria (Naomi Watts) and their three sons Lucas (Tom Holland), Thomas (Samuel Joslin) and Simon (Oaklee Pendergast) settle into the beachfront resort in Thailand on Christmas Eve, there are shots of calm cerulean waters, lush palm trees, exotic orchids and a refreshing swimming pool in which to relax. An ordinary day by the pool turns into an almost unimaginable nightmare as the wave hits. The family are tossed around like toys as the rush of water is like a freight train and the camera’s point of view initially focuses on Maria and her oldest son Lucas as they are both submerged into soundless, murky depths. We are taken with Maria as she is pulled along the violent flow, slashed, battered and absolutely crushed along the way by debris before surfacing to a maelstrom of heart wrenching screams and being left in a landscape transformed from holiday paradise to a place from hell. It is the sort of film making that leaves your jaw open in utter amazement wondering how the hell they did it. If Maria’s pain is physical, it is...
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...product or concept with pre-determined goals rather than from scratch. Creativity techniques and multidisciplinary workgroups have been referred in literature as means for creating innovations. However, these methods lack context of technical system and are general in nature and could be used for any problem with assistance of experienced moderator and a group of individuals. These techniques and methods are not included in this study. An approach from retrospective case study is presented. It was found that the mental process of an innovator follows more problem solving theory than design theory. However, the structuring and verbalization of the problem, in which constraints and resources are considered, do not include multidisciplinary view of different technologies. A new approach is developed based on the assumption of the inventor’s mental process. However, further study is required to develop a method, which...
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...Terminology Describe: o When describing something or someone you should give an exact account of what that thing is like. Describe Subjectively: o When describing subjectively you describe from your own personal point of view. Explain: o When you explain something you provide more exact information to make something clearer or easier to understand. Justify: o When you justify something you must give a reason or a purpose for it. Analyse: o When analysing something you provide detailed information about it, to make this easier you can break the subject down into sub groups. Compare: o When comparing something you look at the difference between two or more things. Skeletal system Learning Objectives: o Know the different types of joints in the body o understand the structure of a bone and what they are made up of o Be able to perform the different movements of a joint and five a sporting example of each. Immoveable joints: Fixed joint Synovial or freely moveable joints: Gliding joint Ball and socket joint Hinge joint Pivot joint Saddle joint Fixed joints are when there is little or no movement at all with in the joint, an example of this would be the skull and pelvis as there is no movement or there is very little movement within this joint. Pivot joints are one or more bone rotates in a ring of another bone that does not move for example...
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