...The Gods Must be Crazy; Overview and Criticize In “The Gods Must be Crazy” they take the perspective of a simple Coke (glass) bottle form a tribe that has never seen such a thing. It shows a coke bottle thrown from a passing plane landing in a tribe. This coke bottle instantly seems to turn into a gift from the gods. Everyone in the tribe starts to fight over it and even use it as a weapon at one point. A tribe member is sent to throw it back to the gods. On his journey back he kills a goat, not knowing the meaning of “property”. He is put in jail where a man that used to be in his tribe saves him. He and his buddy then save Kate (the school teacher) from some guerillas and continue his journey to ”the end of the world”. He later gets to a cliff that may seem to him like the end of the world where he chucks the bottle and returns to his tribe. This movie not only makes the tribal people seem ridiculous unintelligent it makes them seem clueless in a sense. They find a bottle and al of a sudden start to go mad. I did enjoy how dim some scenes are in this but this as about all I enjoyed. The lack of realism that the movie shows is a part that makes it seem as if it could never happen. Overall Jamie Uys (director, producer and writer) do not do a good job making the plot and story realistic enough for any of this to be...
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...The film "The Gods Must Be Crazy" illustrates the stark contrast between the culture of the Bushmen and modern society through the interactions between socialized members of each of these very different cultures. The cultural contrasts are evident in the characters' actions, values and differing world views. The film paints an exceptional portrait of the differences between human cultures, as well as the belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group, that runs common to all. The Bushmen culture is one of simplicity and contentment. The pace of life in the Bushmen culture is relaxed and slow. The Bushmen culture was one without social classes. They never punished or even spoke harshly to their children and yet the children were surprisingly well behaved. The Bushmen place the greatest value on their family and their relationship with god. The Bushmen seem to have a deep respect for all life both human and non-human. In the film, the Bushman shoots an animal with a tranquilizer dart and waits until the animal lays down to go to sleep; before taking the animal's life the Bushmen would apologize for having to kill the animal and explained that he must do it so that his family could eat. His action was important because it showed that the Bushmen hunted only out of necessity and never for sport. Although the Bushmen lived in circumstances that we think of as squalor they seemed to be very happy and completely content with their lives. The most striking aspect of the Bushmen...
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...The gods must be crazy Introduction The film, The Gods must be crazy directed by Jamie Uys, contrasts two distinctly different societies: the “Bushmen” of the Kalahari desert and the civilian urbanities of post colonial Africa. Bushmen in the Kalahari desert lived with peace and unity until a bottle of coca-cola came in to their tribe and had started the commotion of the people living in Kalahari. The bottle was used by the people living in the said tribe, they make use of it as an instrument, patternmaker, utensils and many more which caused the people to be greedy, and even exposed the tribe to anger and violence they want the bottle for themselves only. They won’t stop until they have the bottle in their own hands. It’s like they are willing to kill and fight for the bottle. Plot One day something fell from the sky. Xi had never seen anything like this in his life. It was clear and hard. He wondered why the gods sent him something like this. They thought of it as a wonderful thing they have ever seen. Theme The theme of this movie is that way of living in a rural and urban life is so much different. In the rural side there is no need of technology because a simple and peaceful life will do. In a urban side, there are already technologies introduced and people keep fighting of what they want, no unity at all. Visual Elements The movie was made to watch by everyone. It is one good movie that I think everyone will like. From the first to the last scene...
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...through their beilefs and laws they were an intolerant group that goes against American values set in the constitution. The biggest American value set in our constitution is the separation of Church and State. We enjoy basic human freedoms, like freedom of religion and speech. This was not the case with the puritans. They imposed concrete belief in the Bible and lived by it. Maintaining your life based on the Bible sets valuable limits. Prior to following the Bible, the Puritans looked at laughter and pleasure distasteful and unacceptable behavior. Morality of religion and family played a huge factor in the life of the Puritans. All people practicing witchcraft were condemned by the Puritans. In Puritans pursued themselves to be more pure with God. Happiness was looked upon as unnecessary and intolerable of the Puritan lifestyle. Within...
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...------------------------------------------------- Analysis and interpretation – The Nine Billion Names of God In 1953 Arthur C. Clarke wrote “The Nine Billion Names of God”. This is a science fictive short story where we meet a group of lamas who wants to write the nine billion names of God. Atypically, the lamas will not use the ‘normal’ alphabet; but their own alphabet where they have invented and written in their holy books. In over three centuries they have been typing these names down, and it would take another fifteen thousand years for them to complete the chore. Therefore, they purchase a special computer, Mark V, from a company, which can calculate and write all the letters down. Compared to the fifteen thousand years the computer will do the job in a hundred days. Later on we are following two engineers named George and Chuck. They have been hired to complete the project. However, one day Sam Jaffe tells Chuck the real purpose of this task. The real purpose is to find all the names and when that is been done, God’s intention with the mankind will be achieved and the universe will cease to exist. Of course, the scientists think that it is pure nonsense and they begin to plan their home travel at the same time, as the computer would be done printing out the names. They are afraid of the monks’ reactions when their task will fail, because of course it will fail. Unfortunately, on their way to the plane, they look up and suddenly without a fuss, the stars are going out...
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...beliefs of the Greeks represent to us through stories and incorporate themselves into our mind. I believe the Odyssey to be an allegory, meaning it has two parts of interpretation to it. The obstacles, problems and goals relate to our modern day lives. It symbolizes the events that occur in our life and how we react to them just shown in the Odyssey. Odysseus and his trails put a representation of obstacles that ourselves face in our present day life. The journey to the Land of the Dead where the dead receive reciprocity was not so much a test for Odysseus as it is an epiphany. His mortality is put in context as he watches shades of warriors, comrades, legendary figures, and even his own mother. To followed instruction, he must speak to Tiresias, the blind seer from Thebes, before he can allow his mother or any other to approach. Then, he drank the blood to temporarily revitalize the deads , so they can communicated with Odysseus to speak the only truth. First, Tiresias warn him when he goes to the island of Helios his crew shouldn’t eat his cattle. If they does, they would die. At last, he met Achilles, who rather choosing living out a long uneventful life than die in glory on the battlefield. “ I’d rather slave on earth for another man/.../ than rule down here over all the breathless death.” (Homer 265) In this story, the two heros also brood on the differences between...
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...all and end all. I am well a wear there are people out their who can only use the cursed L word when regarding Pizza. But I believe Love is only as powerful, and as meaningful as the one who is claiming to possess this powerful emotion. To begin, I would like to start with my outlook on the topic. i have a very simple but at the same time complex outlook. It does make sence just bare with me. My saying is “ to truly love one must first loose” now unfortunately you’re just going to have to take my word for it that I did make that up and didn’t get it from anywhere, but if this gets to the internet im certain someone will find something to frame me as a liar. To you sir or madem I bid to you a fuck you and thanks for purchasing the book. I believe that one must loose something they believed to be “love” before they can find their true love. For some people, this is a small and easy process. But for others it can be painstakingly long, hard and stressful. Some don’t even make it through it at all and claim they will never love again. To those people I must insist to trust me in what I say and believe me what I say is true. However many people have different out looks and opinions on love. Some people love men, some love women, some believe love is nothing but a coping mechanism to deal with the every day strains of life that don’t bring any reasoning, so they turn to love to comfort them. I personally think this is a truly fascinating outlook, and would consider it as my own personal...
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...LADY MACBETH: That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; What hath quench'd them hath given me fire. Hark! Peace! It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bellman, Which gives the stern'st good-night. He is about it:(5) The doors are open, and the surfeited grooms Do mock their charge with snores: I have drugg'd their possets, That death and nature do contend about them, Whether they live or die.(10) Enter Macbeth |Lady Macbeth (Worry, holding hands) I cannot wait until Macbeth kills the King | | |MACBETH: |Macbeth: | |Who's there? what, ho! |Who's there? | |LADY MACBETH: |Lady Macbeth (Hands are touching the head) | |Alack, I am afraid they have awaked |Did he kill King Duncan before the guards wakes up, I am so | |And ’tis not done. The attempt and not the deed |afraid and worried about Macbeth | |Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready; | | |He could not miss ‘em. Had he not resembled(15) | | |My father as he slept, I had...
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...Though there may be some that members that may go astray from the others. Anyway from the movie Mumbaki we can see the culture of the Ifugao wherein their belief in their so-called 'baki' or gods is so strong that they would even forgo the medicine putting their whole trust in the mumbaki, fearing that if ever they would not follow him their pagan god would bring them diseases and plagues. In the movie also we saw here how that in just a small argument a war might erupt just like the dispute of the Alimit and the Lidum tribe. From there it can also be said that revenge always happen once again because their god might bring them incurable sicknesses and even death thus when the epidemic diseases already experienced by some has transferred to many refusing the medicine given by their attending physician. For my own personal standpoint I must say they are all idiots, I have been to Banaue been born there and had my childhood there and in there I have seen adults carrying pigs in bamboo stalks even in the early morning or late at night, they always perform this ritual whenever they need the guidance of their pagan gods such as looking for a lost person in the forest, an offering to their gods for a newlywed but the most common time you see it is in the funeral. My comments about it? Crazy and Fanatical the reason is why would I need to dance around a pig several times before killing it and worse even chanting some weird stuff while dancing around like a mad man. But still what...
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...one that all Christians struggle with at some point in their lives - that God is the one at fault for all the pain and suffering in the world, and that He does not care about His creations. Basically you think that God pushed humanity into sin by giving them the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and allowing a being like Satan in His ‘perfect’ world. That God gave Adam no choice when he ate the apple, and that humanity should not be punished for that one sin. In my mind you have very good arguments and I am currently struggling with similar doubts and questions about the purpose of evil in the world. However, you claim that God didn’t give us a choice when He created us, but I believe that God did....
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...Pura Jalalon BSBA 1 The Gods Must Be Crazy 2 Characters: N!xau ... Xixo Lena Farugia ... Dr. Ann Taylor Hans Strydom ... Dr. Stephen Marshall Eiros ... Xiri Nadies ... Xisa Erick Bowen ... Mateo Treasure Tshabalala ... Timi Pierre Van Pletzen ... George Lourens Swanepoel ... Brenner Richard Loring ... Jack Lesley Fox ... Ann's Secretary Simon Sabela ... General Ken Marshall ... Convener Peter Tunstall ... Chief Game Warden Andrew Dibb ... Computer Operator Shimane Mpepela ... Man on Bike Paddy O'Byrne ... Narrator (voice) Summary: The film is split into four stories: * Xixo trying to find his lost children * Two elephant poachers traveling in a truck on which Xixo's children are stuck * A man and a woman are stuck in the desert * Two soldiers fighting each other The story starts with two elephant poachers crossing the area in which Xixo's tribe lives. Curious about their vehicle, Xixo's son Xiri and daughter Xisa climb into the water tank trailer and are subsequently taken for an involuntary ride as the poachers continue. Xixo follows the truck on foot, determined to retrieve his children. A young lawyer named Ann Taylor arrives at a bush clinic to participate in a lecture. Since she has some spare time, she accepts the invitation by a young man to take a joy ride in his two-seat, twin engined ultralight aircraft. They go to see scientist Dr. Stephen Marshall, who exchanges places with the other...
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...required to break down barriers of race, class, and gender in politics. Govender was an advocate for meditation and believed that it “deserves a more prominent and unapologetic place in our social change repertoire.” (pg. 251) I can agree that through meditation, real change can occur. In my own practice and research on the topic of meditation, I am finding more and more evidence of the changes meditation brings into my own personal life and I believe that when we are able to make personal transformations that bring about love, compassion, mindfulness and forgiveness, we can start making changes in the world around us. Also in the chapter, she discusses the “spiritual inquisitivness” (p.235) that Govender was grappling with. Questions about God, temptation, and truth surfaced and forced her to explore the logic of South Africa as a whole. I felt like I could relate to Govender’s thought process. I personally have, since starting this class and exploring spirituality versus religion have begun to question everything (from...
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...Love causes people to do stupid and crazy things, such as stay out late past their curfew, change their entire style, and skip classes to be with their loved ones. However, in Euripedes’ play, Medea, the main character, Medea, was not only a crazy, homicidal lady, but she was also persuasive, as she had caused the deaths of many innocent lives. Medea has a past of convincing naive people to kill their loved ones. Because Jason was going to marry another woman, Medea was going to be exiled from Corinth, which she did not like. Betrayed and angered by Jason’s actions, Medea reacted horribly and cruelly to the people around her. Wanting to seek revenge, Medea plotted the deaths of the King Creon’s daughter, whom Jason was going to marry, the King, and her children, thus leaving Jason to mourn over the death of his new bride and children. Although Jason was leaving Medea for another person, Medea did not have a right to seek revenge against Jason. Upset by Jason’s betrayal, Medea maliciously plotted the death of King Creon’s daughter as her last act before her banishment. Knowing it will be suspicious if she were the...
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...given away their lives due to crazy superstitions. Let us see few crazy superstitions around the world. In Brazil its is inauspicious to allow you purse fall on the floor. They think it will result in the person losing all of his money. In Egypt is considered to be dangerous to use a scissor without cutting anything. In Lithuania whistling inside your house is forbidden as people think it may summon the evil spirits. In Turkey it is bad to chew gum in the dark as people believe it becomes the flesh of dead ancestors. You could now see the different beliefs of different countries in various parts of the world.In most of these cases it would not even have any sense. When we distinguish between science and superstition, we must be careful because the science of era may be the superstition of another. For example,astrology was once viewed as means of obtaining knowledge but is now regarded by astronomy as superstition. Humans have always expressed a need to understand natural phenomenon and to answer questions regarding their way of life and what happens once they die. These needs resulted in the development of a variety of religions and philosophies that can be found throughout the world today. At first, humans developed belief systems that were localized to the area in which they lived. As civilization developed, polytheism, or worshipping many gods, became quite common. Often cities, such as Athens, Greece, would worship patron gods who were seen as their protector...
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...over him. I felt an awful fear when I looked at him, but thought it was just wedding jitters. From that point on, he was different. Our whole honeymoon he was in a bad mood and very short-tempered. When we returned and were packing to move to a new state, he became enraged over something and started screaming obscenities, throwing things at me, and saying he wished he had never married me. This was after 6 days of marriage, and it was just the beginning. From that point on he was this strange new man, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, incredibly sweet one moment, and explosive the next. I never knew what would set him off, and walked on eggshells constantly. He was extremely verbally abusive, manipulative, and played head games, often making me feel crazy. He became physically violent after a few weeks, throwing things, shoving me, and trying to throw me out of the house in my underwear. At one point he even pulled a knife on me. But I continued to stay, always praying, always hoping that he would change back into the man I had known before we were married. I thought, he hasn't hit me, so it's not that bad, I can stay. For years during our marriage I went to counseling off and on and begged him to come with me, but he wouldn't. He said the problems in our marriage were because of me, that he didn't have a problem. That he got angry because of what I did or how I was; if I would just be better, than he wouldn't have to get angry. So I fixed his favorite gourmet meals, cleaned the house, said...
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