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From the start, it's clear that Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is a film made by people who know very little about the culture it's based on. The trouble starts when Indy, Shorty, and Willie Scott end up in an impoverished Indian village in desperate need of a saviour to retrieve their sacred stone.The film uses childlike irresponsibility to mobilise its Indian characters, caricaturing both cultural and religious beliefs for cheap laughs. And, as is customary, Indians are the punchline. Later in the film, Mola Ram, the leader of the Thuggee cult, performs human sacrifice (ripping out a man's heart with his bare hands) for the Hindu god of death. This entire sequence reflects the film's aversion to Indian culture, cherry-picking myths that cultivate the most dangerous and savage image possible for the sake of furthering its muddled narrative.The general disregard for cultural accuracy is even more offensive than the racially charged aspects of Temple of Doom. It should be noted that the Indian government expressed concern about the script, calling it "offensive." Instead of resolving or even toning down the more offensive aspects of the storey, the production simply relocated to Sri Lanka. This deceptive move cost the film nothing in terms of box office revenue; Western audiences devoured it like so many Indians apparently devour monkey brains. They were simply unconcerned about the racial implications, and they most likely believed it to be true.Throughout cinema history, Indians and non-Indian South Asians have been mocked and discriminated against. Consider Peter Sellers' brownface and lampoonish antics in The Party and The Millionairess (two for the price of one!) or Shirley MacLaine as an Indian princess in Around the World in 80 Days. While Hollywood chose not to cast actual Indian actors, Indian culture was never far from the spotlight. Even after it became less fashionable for studios to cast white actors in roles of people of colour, the same negative connotations remained. Temple of Doom is merely a symptom of a much larger problem in Hollywood: South Asians are rarely given screen time, and when they are, it is usually in a negative light.The problem with Steven Spielberg's film in particular is that it is still considered a cult classic today. Some genuinely enjoy the film's aggressively campy gore, while others simply tolerate it in order to witness Indy's heroic stunts. While Spielberg has admitted that Temple of Doom is the franchise's "black sheep," it is sandwiched between two beloved classics: Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Last Crusade. As a result, it is not uncommon for the entire series to be praised while the racist middle child's wrongdoings are absolved. We can still enjoy these films, but more education is needed about the harmful tropes that have contributed significantly to Hollywood's long-standing negative image.Indians deserve to be represented on screen with the complexities that we have, not the unidimensionality that has been imposed on us. In Deadpool, it's Dopinder. Hank Azaria plays Apu in The Simpsons. I can count all of the positive televised depictions of Indians on one hand. While Hollywood is gradually becoming a more promising avenue for people of colour, genuine South Asian representation will only become a reality once we uncover the harsh prejudices embedded in the films we know and love.

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Ans1; The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is commonly referred to as a dystopian novel. Because it shines a light on a government-controlled utopian society. A society duped by the Capitol's totalitarian government in order to maintain power and prevent a Districts uprising. That authority is exercised by making people from the districts live in a dehumanised state through the use of another type of dystopia, propaganda, because they showed them the penalty for disobedience. Another feature of a dystopian society seen in the novel is the constant and all-encompassing surveillance of the players during the games.The fact that freedom is restricted by forcing families from the districts to send their children to death, also known as the Hunger Games, is the final thing that makes "The Hunger Games" a supreme example of a dystopian society. All of these elements are presented in the novel throughout Katniss Everdeen's experience in the games. Katniss Everdeen is a 16-year-old adolescent from District-12, one of the districts where families struggle to fill their empty stomachs. Her bad luck causes her to become a tribute in the Hunger Games, which is unmistakable proof that the "Hunger Games" novel is a dystopia.

Ans2;Male jabberjays and female mockingbirds mate to form the mockingjay, a bird species. In Chapter 3 of the novel, Katniss tells the storey of the jabberjay and the creation of the mockingjay. The jabber jay is a genetically modified bird created by the Capitol during the rebellion to spy on the rebels. The bird could listen in on crucial rebel conversations, memorise them, and then repeat them to Capitol officials. After a while, rebels realised the jabber jays were spreading their secrets and began to exploit them by leaking false information to the Capitol. The jabber jays were rendered ineffective by the Capitol and were released into the wild to die.The jabber jays were able to procreate with mockingbirds and pass on some of their DNA, unbeknownst to the Capitol. As a result, a completely new species known as the mockingjay was created, which shares some characteristics with the Capitol creation. It cannot imitate human speech, but it can imitate other human sounds such as laughter and melodies. The Capitol did not anticipate or plan for the jabberjay's ability to mate with the mockingbird and give birth to the mockingjay. This is somewhat surprising in the world of the Hunger Games, because the Capitol appears to be an all-knowing, all-powerful force.The Mockingjay storey is an allegory for the idea that the Capitol may not be as all-knowing or all-powerful as it believes: it should not underestimate the strength and will of the entities under its control.

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The newly formed government of Pakistan established the National Anthem Committee (NAC) in December 1948 and tasked them with composing music and lyrics for Pakistan's official national anthem. Sheikh Muhammad Ikram, the Information Secretary, presided over the NAC, which included poets, politicians, and musicians such as Ahmad Ghulam Ali Chagla, Sardar Abdur Rab Nishtar, and Hafeez JalandhariThe committee initially struggled to come up with something that was worthy of the people's struggle and sacrifices that led to the birth of the country. Then, in 1950, Indonesia's head of state, President Sukarno, paid a visit to Pakistan. Unfortunately, Pakistani officials didn't have a song to sing in honour of their country while a foreign leader was in town. This incident demanded immediate action, so when the Shah of Iran was scheduled to visit Pakistan, the government of Pakistan urged the NAC to submit the national anthem. Finally, among hundreds of submissions, Ahmad Chagla's composition was chosen and officially adopted on August 21, 1950. Pakistan's national anthem is a melodious, heartfelt tune that includes three stanzas of beautiful Persian poetry. The best part is that the composition is a one-of-a-kind blend of East and West. The music of Pakistan's national anthem is played using thirty-eight different tones and more than twenty musical instruments. This balance reflects Ahmed Ghulam Ali Chagla's musical background in both eastern and western styles.The sacred land's order, the strength of the people's unity.May the nation, the country, and the state shine brightly for all eternity! Our ambition's goal is blessed.The crescent and star flag points the way to progress and perfection. Interpreter of our past, awe-inspiring present, and hope for the future! God's Glorious and Mighty Shade.

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Conflict / Theme / Theory Group Assignment

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Conflict / Theme / Theory Group Assignment

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Group Members;

1) Ali Sher Bhatti
2)Jasmin Atukunda
3)Vincent Tan
4)Davis Vip

Part 1 – View Film / Group Discussion / Notes

Conflict

1)     Who is the central character/protagonist? Describe them in terms of their character traits: What kind of character are they? How do you know this? What factors lead to you understanding them in this way?

·      The protagonist is the lonely human. He is a romantic because he is watches romantic movies everyday after work. He is lonely because no one visits him in his life. He is monotonous because he does the same thing day in day out. He is hardworking, he has two jobs and he does them diligently.

2)     What is the central conflict they are involved with and must overcome? When you think about conflict for this question, work beyond the three types of literary conflict we studied; person vs. person, person vs. environment, person vs. self. While these types of conflict can be useful, we are going to work to be more specific to the film/source we are watching. When you discuss the central concept, try to think about our course theory and issues we have been working through to see if they apply to your discussion.

·      Person to self is the conflict and it has something to do with identity. The way he was comfortable alone but not happy and when he got a friend and girlfriend he became noticeably happier. It was as if he depended on them to give him happiness and wasn’t going to try and find happiness on his own. He was also comfortable in the life he had and wasn’t willing to change anything.

3)     When the protagonist overcomes their conflict, how do they do it? What did they learn? Do we learn anything by thinking about the way they’ve overcome (resolved) this challenge? Do any of our course theories help to better understand the film and the resolution to the central concept? Explain.

The protagonist overcame his conflict by ordering a friend. The protagonist learnt from the robot how to overcome his fear of talking and interacting with people. The protagonist learnt how to cohabit and share his space. We’ve learnt how a friend in your life can make a significant amount of change and we need friends to change our routine and help us out of experiences like maybe depression.

We also picked up on how his happiness was more with the girl compared to when he was with AI. Which could allude to the fact that our brains value human connection more than technological connection.

Theory

Here is a list of course theory you may consider in your discussion: Gender, Race, Hegemony, Orientalism, Othering, Stereotyping, The Single Story, Encoding/Decoding, Cultural Expectation, Representation, Identity, Social Constructivism, Essentialism, Cultural Appropriation, Media Convergence, Participatory Culture.

1)     Which theory do you think is most important to understand as you work through this short film? Why? Which elements of the film can you connect with this theory? What does this theory allow us to understand about the film? Is it helpful to use more than one theory to better understand? Which ones and why?

Race; This film shows us that to some extent humans and robots can live together.

Cultural expectation and stereotype; that only when you are in a relationship will you find happiness.

Representation and gender; we realized that the female robot learned things slower than the male robot.

The robot can learn all it can from a human but at the end it can never be a real person.

One of us connected to the music in this film which was combined well with the noise of the protagonists everyday life, and paired well with the emotions. There was no audible dialogue but the points were brought out greatly using the camera position and the scene orders.

Part 2 – Group Discussion / Compile notes and ideas / Create finished paragraph

As a group, you are going to collectively write and submit a paragraph that puts together your ideas about this film and its connection(s) to our course material. You will be required to discuss each question above, to create a series of discussions and notes with the goal of writing an academic paragraph that uses analysis to uncover some of the bigger ideas the film deals with.

Each group should assign someone to record discussion responses and to turn those responses into a finished paragraph. This person should not be responsible for doing all of the work for the group. Instead, you should think of them as a “recorder” of group discussion. Each student’s participation in this exercise is mandatory.

The paragraph should be double spaced, formatted to MLA or APA standards (including name(s), student ID(‘s), title of course and date). You’ll also need a title that lets your audience know the name of the film and the major issue at its heart (for example: Stereotyping and “the other” in Katherina Vermette’s “Annie of Red River”)

The paragraph should take the following prompts into consideration although I should add these prompts are not mandatory but rather to be used as a rough guideline for your work:

·      What the film is about (context)?

·      Who is involved (character(s))? Character traits.

·      What conflict did they face? How was it overcome?

·      What theory can you identify in the film and how does it help you to better understand the issues at the heart of this film?

·      What does this mean to you (message), and what factors contributed to that meaning?

A Cure for Loneliness, the film

Davis, Yip

Jasmine, Atukunda

Ali, Bhatti

Vincent, Tan

YIPYD2002

MUSJD2002

BHAA1D2101

TANHD2101

Interdisciplinary Special Topic, section 6

Instructor: Matt Nashlenas

The film is about a man who is really lonely and lives a boring cyclic life when one day he sees an ad, advertising an AI companion. He buys it and this AI follows him around everyday copying his every move in order to learn how to be a human being and companion. (Yip YIPYD2002) The AI eventually helps the man gain the courage to speak to his love interest then strikes out on its own because it realizes its lonely. It acquires its own love interest who also happens to be an AI but the AI love interest dies tragically because it didn’t have enough downloaded data to know not to step on the tracks, and the AI also dies when he jumps onto the train track in what looks like shock to inspect the broken parts.

The conflict the characters were all facing was loneliness, person to self. They all added someone, a companion or a love interest, to remedy that. (Atukunda MUSJD2002, 2021) This film shows how different life is when you’ve got a friend as a companion compared to a significant other as a companion. (Ali BHAA1D2101, 2021)

It directs us to the social construct that people have created whereby most believe to be genuinely, visibly happy you must have a significant other or a close companion keeping you company. I believe that you should learn to be happy without an addition. (Atukunda MUSJD2002, 2021) We all agreed how at the end when they showed us that the two humans may also be AIs because of the way they have a percentage on their necks too, was a way to point out how we all might not have our own ideas but instead have been brought up observing the social construct around us.

According to Vincent TANHD2101, in order to find a theory for this film we must look at the core issue. The core issue of the film is how to solve loneliness. The theory of the movie is very simple and clear: sociability. The author uses the protagonist's experience to reflect the positive effect of social contact on loneliness. But not everything is panacea. Coming out of loneliness and going back to it can cause serious emotional distress.

This film is thought provoking in a way that makes us question who we are as people.

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We are surrounded by gender mythology since we are very young. It is present in all aspects of conversation, humour, and conflict, and it is used to explain everything from driving styles to food preferences. Gender is so deeply embedded in our institutions, actions, beliefs, and desires that it appears to us to be completely natural. The world is swarming with gender ideas and these ideas are so commonplace that we take them for granted as true, accepting common adage as scientific fact. However, as scholars and researchers, it is our responsibility to look beyond what appears to be common sense in order to discover not only what truth may be hidden behind it, but also how it came to be common sense in the first place We need to take a step back and look at gender from a different angle because it appears natural and beliefs about gender appear to be obvious truths. This necessitates suspending what we are accustomed to and what feels comfortable, as well as questioning some of our most fundamental beliefs. This is difficult because gender is so central to our understanding of ourselves and the world that it is difficult to step back and look at it from new angles.  But it is precisely because gender appears self-evident that the study of gender is interesting.It poses the challenge of uncovering the process of construction that produces what we have long assumed to be natural and inexorable to study gender not as a given, but as an accomplishment not simply as a cause, but as an effect and not just as an individual, but as a social construct. Failure to recognise this challenge manifests itself not only in popular media, but also in academic work on language and gender. As a result, some gender scholarship serves to reify and reinforce existing beliefs as it does to promote more reflective and informed gender thinking.

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1)     Make a list of the language that is unfamiliar to you. Ask questions in your small groups or to your instructor. Do not use Google to try and figure the definitions. Conversation is a much greater teacher.

Automaticity, recede, twinge, and joviality.

2)     The title of the story, what does it refer to? What is “The Veldt?”

I think it refers to the open grass land or the wilderness of the wild.

3)     The parents buy a technologically advanced house: What is it called (Hint: P.9)? What does the name suggest that the Hadley’s are buying? What “dream” are they being sold when they purchase the house?

The happy life home that’s what the called there home. Its like a their dream home which has everything they dreamed off. They believe this house will bring joy and laughter to the family’s life. Dream of never to work and everything done for you. The dream is if you buy the hose you don’t have to do anything.

4)     Using your answers for question 3 as the basis for this question, explain the conflict that the Hadley’s are trying to resolve when they purchase the house? What is their reasoning for purchasing it (Find a quote to support your response)?

5)     Analyze the following two quotes and explain the kind of conflict you perceive. Be detailed and as specific as possible in your response. You might even want to read those particular scenes again to get more *context

“nothing’s too good for our children” (9).

“we’ve given the children everything they ever wanted. Is this our reward? Secrecy, Disobedience?” (18)

I think for the first quote the conflict is that they have every necessity they wanted but even then, there children are not happy with what they have. And the children feel no good what they offer them.

In the second quote they are like that we bought that room for the children and instead they have rewarded us with disobedience and they have given them everything and in reward they are getting this.

6)     What is Lydia referring to when she tells George that he has been “awfully nervous lately” (13)? Why do you think the adults feel so unsettled? Find a quote to support your answer and then also try to explain it in your own words.

‘But I thought that’s why we bought the house, so wouldn’t have to do anything’ this quote is trying to explain that they have everything they wanted in their new house but even then, she is not feeling good about having all these things in her life. They are feeling unnecessary and scared that what is happening to them by the house.

7)     Read over page 20, when the dad talks to the son. The part about the painting machine. What is happening to the children? How are they being affected by the house? What does the son want to do with his life? Describe the conflict this scene explores, in your own words.

The dad wants the son to paint my himself but son does not want to do anything and just want to listen and smell. The children are being affected by the house like they have to tie their own shoe laces, brush their teeth and bath on their own. So, think that father want the children to learn the basic things on there own but the children are so spoiled that they do not want to do anything.

8)     When David Maclean, the psychologist comes to look at the nursery, he says: “It certainly doesn’t feel good” (21). Why do you think that when Maclean suggests the parents “have the damn room torn down” (22), this causes such a problem for the children? Why are they so emotionally affected when the parents tell them the nursery is being shut down?

9)     What are the central conflicts of this story, in your opinion? Based on your responses, what do you think the author Ray Bradbury is trying to show us in this story?

So, while there is a parent/child conflict, the main conflict is the parents conflict, in which the house      replaces the parents as the ones in charge of both the house and the children. The main conflict may then be referred to as Human vs. Technology, because whoever controls the machine will have power in the house.

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Group members:

1) Ali Sher Bhatti

2) Margaret Tsui

3) Alex Contreras

4) Vincent Tan

In this assignment we will work together in groups to create written analysis of a unique advertisement provided by your instructor. Much like with the images we practiced on, this assignment will ask you to focus on the specific details of the advertisement in order to analyze its meaning and intent.

At the end of the assignment, you’ll be answering 3 key questions:

What is the message this ad is trying to present?

How does it present its message?

Who is the target audience for the ad?

You will be using the specific elements of the advertisement to help answer each of the three questions (above). Remember, when we analyze, we do not just identify the different elements of an image or piece of writing; we also work to explain how and why those elements are important; we explain how those elements connect to other pieces of the image/text: we present our conclusions about those elements.

*Additionally, please make a list of any language you had to google to understand, either in the advertisement or these instructions. This is part of the academic process and important in both understanding and increasing your vocabulary.

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The first section (below) is designed for you to articulate your observations in writing. You are encouraged to list and discuss up to 5 elements (or more!) in the ad that help you to understand its meaning and intent.

The second section is for you to complete a paragraph that uses your observations to create conclusions about your advertisement.

The practice of writing out these elements and articulating their importance to the ad will help us begin the process of analyzing text (stories), music (lyrics and video) and film. The ability to analyze media will feature prominently in your media makeover assignment as well as your final group presentation.

Be sure and ask as many questions as you need of your group members and your instructor. At this point in our class, we aren’t so worried about being right or wrong but rather in starting a process that we will later develop into critical thinking and media analysis skills.

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Each group has been given an advertisement to work with.

Try to identify at least five important elements from your advertisement.

For each element, work to explain or interpret its importance to the overall message.

Make clear how different elements work together to create meaning.

What conclusions does each element, or combination of elements help us to draw?

Element #1:

The cigarettes that are in the Marlboro packet are rolled in the crayon wrapping paper, making the cigarettes have a closer resemblance toward child crayons instead of an everyday cigarette rolled in white paper. We all agreed that the message behind this artistic design is to have the intention of making the viewer think of children, it’s simple because crayons are always identified with little kids.

Element #2:

The writing “Just like mommy” at the top of the ad is written with a red crayon in a young kid handwriting. It’s another psychological trick to get people to think of a child by seeing the handwriting and the that it was written crayon, but also the word “mommy” because mainly only smaller children use that word to call their mothers. We think it says “Just like mommy” because it is referring to the statistic that kids who grow up around parents or siblings that smoke have a higher chance of smoking due to the influence.

Element #3:

Element #4:

Element #5:

Now, we are going to attempt to put our analysis together into a single, well-written paragraph. By the end of our paragraph, we should have answered these three questions (either directly or indirectly): What is the message this ad is trying to present? How does it present its message? Who is the target audience for the ad?

The ad presented by ash.org is aiming to show awareness to viewers about the influence adults have on children when we smoke around them. They present this message in two ways, first with the fact that is typed in the middle stating that children who grow up around parents that smoke are three time more likely to get into the habit of smoking, secondly is by placing items that remind us children into the ad. The writing of “just like mommy” which is done with crayon and has a young child's handwriting combined with the cigarettes that are rolled in crayon wrappers strongly reenforce the image of a young child into an adult's mind and therefor makes the fact more meaning. We feel that this ad only targets people who have children and who are around children such as other family members that don’t include parent or siblings, the ad doesn’t aim on trying to change an average smokers habit but only the smokers that have kids.

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Talk about your favorite band/singer/musical act. 

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Imagine Dragons is a Las Vegas, Nevada-based pop rock band including lead singer Dan Reynolds, guitarist Wayne Sermon, bassist Ben McKee, and drummer Daniel Platzman. They were named "the year's biggest breakout band" by MTV, and "Breakthrough Band of 2013" and "Biggest Band of 2017" by Billboard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagine_Dragons
It was written during a particularly trying period in his life. He was sitting at  computer, having dropped out of college, when He  came up with this rhythm. And the words came to him on their own. It was in for something extraordinary.
I like the lyrics of the songs and the tone connects with so that why it became one of the favourites.In the song he they are trying to say who they are.The other song of there I like is 'Thunder' thats also a good song to listen to.

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – “The Danger of the Single Story”

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – “The Danger of the Single Story”

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1)     Write down some of the language that caught your attention in this talk. You may want to include words or ideas that are unfamiliar or that you do not understand, or, ideas that are interesting and are making you think about things in new ways.

2)     The idea of the “foreigner” – what does she say about her early impressions of the foreigner in the books she read? What affect did it have on her?

The impression she had from the books she read are that they are white with blue eyes that they drink ginger beer.

3)     For Chimimanda what was “no possibility” with regard to how her roommate thought of her as an African person?

4)     How might literature be considered a cause for the world’s “single story” about Africa?

Literature can be considered a cause for the world’s single story about Africa because her friend read a book so that’s why it can be considered. The books she read made people or her realise that single story come from the literature.

5)     How does she say we create the single story about a people?

She says that we create the single story about the people by secondly and by talking about the failure of the African state and the political fear.

6)     What does power have to do with the single story?

The power cause people to believe about the story they are told without thinking over it and it is easier for people in power to influence the people easily.

7)     What is the consequence of the single story?

The consequence is that people have an idea or thought of the other people or other culture without the true idea of what that the actual realty is.

8)     What do you think she means at the end when she says we “regain a kind of paradise”?

I think she meant by that people after listening to a single story think that they have regained a kind of all they want to know and that all.