...In the film, Regarding Henry, the id, ego, and superego are expressed through the protagonist, Henry. Freud states that the human is born with the id and taught the superego throughout life, however is this so with Henry who experienced a tragic accident? In the beginning of the film, Henry came across as a man who spoke his mind and acted with instinct, not to mention he impulsively said, “that table looks like a goddamn turtle” without hesitating the fact that he was saying something hurtful that was not to be said in public. In addition, while Henry was waiting in line to buy a pack of cigarettes at the gas station, he was acting impatient and became indignant, blaring at the employee causing him to get shot. After Henry was released from the hospital, he was able to walk and explore Manhattan with the little knowledge he possessed. While doing so, Henry saw a dog in the store window. He thought it was captivating, so he bought it and took it home. Sarah was aghast unlike Rachel, who was overwhelmed with bliss. Henry also uses id while at the breakfast table. Rachel accidentally spilled her orange...
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...The movie Regarding Henry, Henry Turner is a successful lawyer that ends up getting shot in an accident of the way to a convenience store. He has to relearn how to walk and talk and be a part of society again. He is mainly in his superego in the beginning of the film, sometimes being fairly critical and morality. By the end of the movie Henry is so different that his natural state completely changes from his Superego to his Id, and then back to his Superego. There was one scene right before he gets shot, when he wanted to go out and buy cigarettes. He walks into a convenience store and asks the store clerk for a pack of cigarettes, when another man pulls out a gun and he realizes that he has interrupted a robbery. The man asks him for his wallet and he says no twice, and gets shot twice. Most people would have just given up the wallet for a chance of safety, but he refuses. After the accident there are many times when Henry is in the state of the id. One scene was when his family came to get him at the hospital and he just decided that he did not want to go. He had his mind made up and that’s what he wanted to do. Then he remembers grey carpet and wants to go home. It’s just this impulsive, immediate state of mind....
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...Living in the Moment Written by Alan Bellows on 25/09/10 In memory of the Infamous H.M “I don’t remember things,” Henry explained to the unfamiliar female interviewer. She seemed very curious about how he spends a typical day, and about what he had eaten for breakfast, but his efforts to summon the information from his mind were fruitless. He could easily answer her questions regarding his childhood and early adult years, but the indefinite expanse of time since then was bereft of memories. In fact, from moment to moment Henry feels almost as though he has just awakened from a deep sleep, with the fleeting remnants of a dream always just beyond his grasp. Each experience, dull or dramatic, evaporates from his memory within a few dozen heartbeats and leaves no trace. For over fifty years Henry has lived with anterograde amnesia, a form of profound memory loss which prevents new events from reaching his long-term memory. As a result his only memories are those he possessed prior to his amnesia, and the small window of moments immediately preceding the present. The amnesia frequently depicted in fiction is a very rare retrograde variety known as dissociative fugue, where one’s identity and all memories prior to the pivotal event are compromised. In contrast, anterograde amnesia does not deprive the sufferer of their identity, their past, or their skills; it merely prevents new memories from forming. As a consequence one’s final memories are frozen in perpetuity, often accompanied...
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...blurred out background that focuses on the face of a young girl. Below that lettered in, bold says, “Vote against amendment one.” This amendment would legalize same sex marriage in that state. This ad in particular appeals to curiosity due to never stating what amendment one is. Assuming the basis of the audience, is either informed or not informed, thus compelling them to go out and find out more about amendment one. Both ads with their motivated appeals are persuasive using curiosity. While the North Carolina ad makes an emotional appeal beckoning with the image of the child a need to nurture and curiosity, as to why there is an image of a child present for a uniformed audience. Regarding the Smirnoff ad, using some sort of statistic in conjunction with the pairings of drinks, perhaps regarding happiness with marriages. Similarly, the ad from North Carolina could use a statistic in conjunction with the advertisement. Doing so would give the advertisement more credibility because it provides additional...
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...The mind is a very complex thing to try and comprehend; you also never really know what it is capable of either. Many people usually act one certain way with their id controlling them for the most part, or the superego. In Regarding Henry, Henry Turner was a well-known lawyer in New York City that has a reputation for always winning his cases no matter the people who got hurt in the process. Turner, for the majority of his life, the id controlled his life, until a very unfortunate event occurred where he lost his memory. People can argue either way in which what his natural state was, but I believe that he defiantly is a mixture of both. The id of the brain is a more impulsive, pleasurable side of the personality. Many say that it...
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...Engineering Ethics released an ethics dvd entitled Henry’s Daughters. This 32-minute film dramatizes a case study involving numerous ethical dilemmas and concerns and is supplemented by discussion questions and other training materials designed to make the dvd an effective educational tool. This month’s column focuses on one of the situations depicted in Henry’s Daughters and explores the questions it raises from the perspective of ASCE’s Code of Ethics. SITUATION: A state department of transportation (DOT) has awarded two grants for the purpose of funding a yearlong “smart highway” research and development project. The project is organized as a competition between the two recipients; each is to prepare design specifications for an automated highway and car control system, and at the end of the year the DOT will award one recipient a $25-million contract to implement its design. To ensure the integrity of the competition and to protect each team’s intellectual property, the four DOT staff members assigned to this project are split equally between the grant recipients, each staff member providing help and input only to his or her team. Laura, a licensed professional engineer, is the project manager for the DOT’s smart highway project; her responsibilities include overseeing the four staff members assigned to the grant recipients as well as making recommendations to the DOT commissioner regarding the final award. Her younger sister, Julie, has recently accepted an internship with...
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...Film Critique: STEALTH Cheri Adams ENG225 Instructor: Matthew Norsworthy May 15, 2011 Film Critique: Stealth Stealth was made in 2005 and is presented by Columbia Pictures, directed by Rob Cohen, Produced by Mike Medavoy. The Executive Producer was Arnold Messer. The movie starts out with wording and music, similar to Star Wars, giving the prologue of the movie. I feel that the Director’s vision is that he is trying to warn us about what the future is capable of happening, if we put “brains” in computers. In this thesis I will be telling you about the movie so you will be able to understand what is happening. I will also be telling you who is in the movie and what their roles are, the style and directing of the movie. I will also Critique the film regarding the flaws that was done, the editing to the style and the acting. The Original music was done by BT. Music plays throughout the movie; the colors are neutral at the beginning of the movie with certain key items showing full color, in one scene a United States flag is flying on a building. Dean Semler does the Cinematography’s work. His work includes Secretariat (2010) and Mad Max: Fury Road (pre-production) (2012). Stephen Rivhin did the film editing. His most recent work was Avatar (2009), Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007) and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006). Making a movie is a genuinely collaborative effort...
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...Topic: My essay will discuss the extent to which commercialization has entered into children’s culture, the particular concerns associated with this process, how valid such concerns are and whether this is an issue to be seriously addressed and rectified. The example of Disney will be used as a model to examine the influence of commercialization on children’s culture. Disney who for over 70 years and through generations has infiltrated the world of children, has simultaneously over time marketed itself into permanent existence in the daily lives of young children in America and globally. Within contemporary society the topic of commercialization and children is of high interest questioning whether the subtle and not so subtle insertions of “Disnification” are exploitive feeding on the vulnerability of children with the intention of creating children as future consumers. Thesis: Commercialization of children’s culture is becoming a global issue and in order to make any decisions about whether it should be dismissed as positive or negative is difficult to state unless you take into account various inside and outside factors at play. Understanding the forces playing on this issue such as popular culture is to understand the trends and direction in which society is generally moving. Recognizing too that such processes like commercialization cannot operate in isolation and separate from many parts of society is to identify that indeed popular culture provides the perfect venue...
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...The Anxiety of Nostalgia: The Jewish Writer in Pre-WW 2 Europe and North America Wednesday 05:50 pm-08:50 pm SW 329 Spring 2016 This course will focus on a constellation of Jewish writers who lived and worked in Europe and North America from the 1900s to the 1940s. By discussing the particular relationship between anxiety and melancholic nostalgia in authors such as Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, Joseph Roth, Henry Roth, Bruno Schulz, Martin Buber and Arthur Schnitzler, we will attempt to discern and/or further complicate the notion of “Jewish Literature” or “Jewish Thought.” By focusing on texts from a period of history that precedes the events of the Holocaust and the founding of the state of Israel, we will be able to better examine the literary identity of a stateless people that preceded the political identity that would fully emerge in the years following the war. C Credit Learning Outcomes: -Students will write a minimum of 20 pages of expository prose. -Students will develop the skill of revising their writing, with specific feedback from instructor. -Students will critically engage with texts, not just as passive consumers of literature, but as active participants in an ongoing dialogue. O Credit Requirement: -Each student must give two twenty minute oral presentations. Required Work Load: -As this course is registered as a C, and O (oral) 300 level course, each student will be required to keep up with the workload of the course. Students will read...
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...with Ron Powers. The novel I read was adapted for young people by Michael French and published in 2001. The author, James Bradley, intended to retell the lives of the men in the infamous flag raising statue. Among these figures were James Bradley’s father, John Henry Bradley. Since few people knew who these young heroes were that raised the flag, James Bradley was going to make it clear the intention of these men’s lives and their dedication to the United States of America. James Bradley spent four years of his life researching with these six men’s families about what they knew of their relatives’ lives. As time progressed, James Bradley realized that these men all had one thing in common. They were all humble men that fought in the battle at Iwo Jima to defend their lives’ of their families and of those around them. James Bradley was one of eight children. His mother was named Elizabeth Van Gorp. In the beginning of this novel, the author introduced the men and their individual lives before the war. Each man had his life ahead of him. The six flag raisers, John Bradley, Franklin Sousley, Harlon Block, Ira Hayes, Mike Strank, and Rene Gagnon, and all young men in America were planning their futures regarding women whom they would marry, what job...
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...documentary about the actual causes and consequences of the financial crisis of 2008. Directed by Charles Ferguson and narrated by Matt Damon, the movie is not a piece of muckraking or breathless support. It rests its infuriation on proper reason, research, figures and careful argument. Several interviews of eminent personalities from political, financial and academic backgrounds, along with news clips and aerial shots of New York, Iceland, London and other disaster areas — are all in there! Though dealing with a very complex issue, the movie has beautifully dealt with the topic and made it much easier for common man to understand the reason behind the nerve wrecking recent financial crisis that hit USA and then the world’s economy. The film is divided into five main parts, covering a wide scope- Who, what, when, why, how… it is all answered! Unlike most other documentaries that have been released over the past several years, ‘inside job’ bases its arguments on numbers and facts and doesn't just emotions. The first part of the movie- “How we got here?” Takes the viewers back to history in the 1930s when US had a strong financial system. The regular banks were local businesses and were not allowed to mess around with the depositor’s money. The investment banks were private partnerships and thus did not make risky investments. The journey of US’s finance and banking sector towards its own self destruction began under the regime of president Ronald Reagan who introduced a lot...
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...video games to minors without doing the same for other forms of entertainment, like literature and films. Not only was possible censorship of video games an unconstitutional infringement on First Amendment freedoms of the creators and retailers of video games, but also to minors. Just as with rulings on adults' right to free speech, younger citizens are entitled to First Amendment regulations that are minimal and just. However, in this case, the decision on what minors see and do in their free time should not be up to the government but to the parent or guardian. Additionally, what is determined to be "acceptable" in terms of entertainment for adolescents differs from household to household. Thus it is unlikely that a universal ruling on what is acceptable for minors would be largely agreed...
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...ISSN 1009-5039 Overseas English Overseas English zwwx@overseaen.com 2011 8 http://www.overseaen.com Tel:+86-551-5690811 5690812 Narrative Patterns Research in O Henry's Novels · ， （ ， 332000 ） Abstract：O· Henry is living in the time when novelists are in the great pursuit of narrative pattern research. Hence his works is inevitably Henry's novels in my opinion is also marvelous for his outinfluenced. Beside his humorous language, surprising ends and expressions, O· standing narrative patterns arrangement. In this article, a research will be conducted onto his narrative pattern in the aspects of narrative perspectives, narrative space and narrative time. By this research, more information and references is intended to obtain for the further study on this area. Key words: Narrative Pattern; Narrative Perspective; Narrative Space; Narrative Time ： I02 ：A ：1009-5039(2011)08-0350-03 1 Introduction · O Henry (1862-1910), as one of the most famous writers of short story in American literature history, or even around the whole world. Plus his contribution in narrative patterns research, he is also honored as the one of the founders of American short story history. Great praises, as well as critics are raised from the world onto his short novels which are well known for the humor, vivid spots description, surprising endings. However, in this article we will pay attention to the narrative patterns in O· Henry's novels, the area of which seldom calls focus and research...
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...The Purdue OWL: Citation Chart Category General Approach MLA The Modern Language Association (MLA) provides a method for source documentation that is used in most humanities courses. The humanities place emphasis on authorship, so most MLA citation involves recording the author’s name in the physical text. The author’s name is also the first to appear in the “Works Cited” page at the end of an essay. The most recent MLA formatting can be found in the seventh edition of the MLA manual. APA The American Psychological Association (APA) provides a method for source documentation that is used in most social sciences courses. The social sciences place emphasis on the date a work was created, so most APA citation involves recording the date of a particular work in the physical text. The date is usually placed immediately after the author’s name in the “References” page at the end...
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...Dear Skeptical Person, I am writing to you in the name of all students that have studied media, are studying media, and will want to study media. I am writing to you to try and change you point of view regarding this field that you consider ‘useless’ or ‘a waste of time’. Moreover, I am writing to let you know the reasons why media plays a huge role in our day-to-day lives and why it is something worth studying. You may argue for subjects such as Math, Physics, History or English Literature. I want to prove you wrong and also to help you understand that with the evolution of the society comes an evolution in the way we think and in what matters to us. Who am I? It is not relevant, so I consider myself as the voice of the people who you spent...
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