Sample midterm problems Question 1. Mothers Against Drunk Driving is a very visible organization whose main focus is to educate the public about the harm caused by drunk drivers. A study was recently done that emphasized the problem we all face with drinking and driving. Four hundred accidents that occurred on a Saturday night were analyzed. Two items noted were the number of vehicles involved and whether alcohol played a role in the accident. The numbers are shown below: a) What is the
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Humanoid films are frequently becoming more popular in the movie industry rather than animalistic films because of the experimentation of the human fear of something unnatural to the human life ideology. Humanoids would be considered as a half human and a half monster. For example‚ a demon possession could be considered as a humanoid since it is the body of a regular person who has been claimed by a monster. On the other hand‚ an animalistic type would be King Kong‚ a giant ape monster that terrorized
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companies and how they operate. The films shows how companies are making huge profits off of water from public waterways and how these companies are making cool‚ refreshing bottles of water not so safe or refreshing. The film begins telling about the bottle water company‚ Nestle‚ coming in‚ building a factory‚ and producing many jobs for small areas. So far nothing at all seems wrong with this process. However the story begins to shift from good to bad as the film progresses. Nestle was taking water
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Analysis (from “W. S.”) The text under analysis is an extract from the story W. S. by the well-known English novelist Leslie Poles Hartley. He wrote a number of novels and made a weighty contribution to English fiction. His best-known novels are the Eustace and Hilda trilogy (1947) and The Go-Between (1953). In the very beginning of the given extract‚ Walter Streeter‚ the main character‚ gets the postcard from Forfar. The sender‚ W.S.‚ asks whether he really thinks that he is really gets to grips
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Storytelling is more important to me than anything else‚ and I believe film is one of the most rewarding and honest forms of storytelling. Ever since I was a little kid I have been in love with movies. When I was nine I got a camcorder for Christmas‚ and I would make my friends help me remake scenes from my favorite movies‚ and when they said the lines wrong I would yell at them and make them do it over and over until they got it right or got so annoyed with me that they went home. As I got older
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it inception in the late 1800s. Although film-making varied from generation to generation‚ one thing remained constant and that was the eight major Hollywood studios. Many of these studios are around today such as Warner Brothers‚ MGM‚ and Universal Pictures. Most of the studio’s longevity was based off of their involvement during the height of the studio era commonly referred to as the “Golden Age of Hollywood.” Throughout this essay I will decipher a film from 1930 to 1952 and discuss the major
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Social Services Report – Daniel Pelka “we see things not as they are‚ but as we are” - H.M. Tomlinson Daniel Pelka Born 15th July 2007 Died 3rd March 2012 Introduction This report is based on Daniel Pelka. A four year old boy who was starved and beaten to death by his own mother and her partner. In this report I will be looking into Daniels short life and identifying what happened to him. I am going to be exploring not only what happened but how it was allowed to
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Essay question: what techniques does the director‚ Danny DeVito‚ use in the film Matilda to illustrate the character‚ Agatha Trunchbull‚ as evil and malicious (mean)? The film ‘Matilda’ directed by Danny DeVito released in 1996‚ is a film in which the principal‚ Ms Trunchbull‚ is depicted as an evil and malicious person through her intimidating appearance‚ unpleasant personality‚ the suspenseful lighting and lastly the unflattering camera angles. To begin with‚ Ms Trunchbull’s intimidating appearance
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The way Memento was edited is the thing that makes this film to a great degree unmistakable from different movies. Since the film has a section and non-straight structure‚ it is told in reverse with scenes hopping in fifteen-minute augmentations of story time. This happens until the end of the film really meets the start of the Leonard’s story. Everything in color is in an opposite request grouping plot and every scene connotes
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The El Paso Pigeon The first time I saw one of those “El Paso Pigeons” was the summer of 2012. My brother-in-law and I were standing in the backyard when he pointed up in the air and said‚ “Look‚ there is an El Paso pigeon.” In the beginning‚ I did not know what he meant by that because I was looking at the sky‚ searching for any kind of bird‚ but I could not see anything. “Right there in the tree‚” he said‚ and pointed at a plastic bag that was stuck in a tree. At that moment‚ I did not spend
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