Case Study: Do Our Avatars Learn? 1) According to the text‚ classical conditioning occurs when a stimulus that elicits a response is paired with another stimulus that initially does not elicit a response on its own. As time passes‚ the second stimulus is able to cause a similar response because of the fact that we associate it with the first stimulus. An example of classical conditioning would be one that was demonstrated by Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov. He conducted research on digestion
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Do we learn our gender? This essay will look at the question of whether we learn our gender. It will begin by looking at the sociological meaning and interpretations of gender and how this is important. Following the discussion of how socialization plays a vital role in the argument of if we do learn our gender or not. Further to this it shall look at how gender roles have changed‚ comparing in particular pre-1960 to the modern day and also what key factors played crucial roles in this change.
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Do We Learn from our Mistakes? Architecturally speaking‚ I think we learn very little from our mistakes‚ as there are so many thousands of mistakes to make in architecture without repeating a single one. A child may learn not to touch a hot stove‚ but that is because the child receives an immediate response for doing so. This is not true with the mistakes we make as architects. Sometimes years go by before we learn the results of our errors; mostly our ethical errors. Most of the time this
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Avatar The film Avatar is a strongly spiritual and meaningful film that shows the importance of moral ethics. Avatar is set Pandora‚ the fifth moon of Polythemus. Pandora is a world that is very similar to our own. Pandora consists of luscious forests‚ floating mountains‚ waterfalls‚ and the giant tree that is the home of the indigenous people‚ the Na’vi. The Na’vi are bright blue humanoids with flat noses‚ wide-set eyes‚ tall slender‚ and long black hair that allows them to spiritually connect to
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Avatar Due to the recent rapid urbanization‚ and the rapid increase of consumerism that we face in our world today‚ this has led to a steep decline of epic myths been shared in the same way as they have been in the past years. Families and societies hardly have time to dedicate themselves to retain and pass on important myths that have been around for a long time. These myths were seen to teach us things on four levels; which is to feed us spiritually‚ to help explain the physical world to us
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Godbey Eng 101 March 31 2013 Avatar I want to describe the scenes in Avatar to show my readers that Avatar shows greed through the use of technology. James Cameron created this movie to provoke the society and show them many aspects that we ignore. James Cameron also created Avatar to also raise awareness and to criticize the U.S desire to expand by the use of greed. The film Avatar is a movie with vivid colors and images. The director and writer of Avatar is James Cameron won Best director
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Maddie Corwin Film Analysis Paper 12/6/12 Lou Gaul Avatar To some people Avatar may seem like just another science fiction action-adventure flick designed to show off some new special effects while raking in the money for Hollywood and giving audiences some feel-good messages in the process. Overall that is the goal in the making of this movie however there are deeper messages to be found in Avatar. There was a highly detailed process behind the film’s production history and it took a while
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Avatar synopsis- Opening scene: a camera sweeps high across the treeline of a lush‚ green world. Intercut is a sequence of images of Jake Sully‚ a crippled war veteran and former Marine. He wakes up in a giant spaceship on its way to Pandora‚ a lush Earth-like moon orbiting Polyphemus‚ a blue planet similar to Jupiter. He is one of a large number of passengers‚ all waking up after almost six years of cryosleep en route to Pandora. Drifting out of his sleeping pod in zero G he’s tended by the ship’s
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when two cultures come in contact with one another‚ though media‚ trade‚ or immigration. The film Avatar is based on cultural contact and the outcomes of this concept. Pocahontas‚ another example of a film based on cultural contact‚ both films are relatively alike‚ they show ethnocentrism to other races until two people from different cultures fall in love‚ and learn to accept each other’s culture. Avatar depicts several concepts of economic globalization by portraying‚ ethnocentrism‚ acculturation
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Avatar Archetypes Archetypes are one of the rare things in the world that speak a universal language. By using powerful archetypes in literature‚ an author can move a story forward and make it more comprehensible for the reader. The movie Avatar was written and directed by James Camryn in 2009 and is a prime example of powerful archetypes that propel a story forward. Avatar takes place in the futuristic world of 2154. Humans in Avatar are on a planet called Pandora where a strange species called
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