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    C. Psychoanalysis as a political weapon in Alien i. Male action and female inaction There are two major examples of male activeness and female passiveness in Alien: the chestburster scene and the differences between Ripley and Dallas as the protagonist. In the iconic chestburster scene the crew are seated peacefully as they prepare to return to stasis, however this peace is disturbed when Kane convulses and a chestburster bursts out of him. Only the male characters are active in this scene: Parker

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    views on aliens, whether legal or illegal. Even though there are different types of aliens, people usually make the mistake to classify them all as one. Aliens are of the other names used to refer immigrants. The different types of alien’s classification are as followed: a legal alien, a nonresident alien, a resident alien, and enemy alien and an illegal alien. A legal alien is a non-citizen who is allowed to stay in the country for example researchers, business workers. A nonresident alien is a non-citizen

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    a sense challenging the patriarchal expectations of the time, films began to reflect this change. One of the genres in which this change became the most prevalent was the action film. Sarah Connors in the Terminator films and Ellen Ripley in the Alien films, serve as excellent examples. However, as female heroines become the focus of these narratives, their traditional feminine traits, such as emotional expressivity, tenderness, and passiveness, are replaced with attributes like strength and aggression

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    Verbal Visual Essay - Speak “My room belongs to an alien.” (15) This quote near the beginning of the book is in the context of Melinda describing her room. She says this because of how it is decorated very strangely. The way she words her sentence implies that she doesn’t know who she was when she was younger, that she is “alien”. Because of this and the fact she has no friends, she can’t relate to anyone, not even her past self. This causes her to be pushed deeper into her depression. 2)

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    the strongest alien on planet Jungle, had left the safety of our house in order to deal with a civilization of aliens, outside of our door steps, intent on taking him down for his authority and power, the group had a power that overshadowed all others within the race. This left me in charge for the remainder of the time, to protect those I see unfit to fight for themselves in our household, if my father was defeated. I quite honestly believed being ranked the second strongest alien; I had a horrible

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    Seems to be a super popular question in our American Society today is, “Should we deport Illegal Aliens?” If you’re a whole hearted person believing everyone deserves a great life, illegal or not, “You’re stupid, and you’re not only stupid, you’re wrong.” - Donald J. Trump. In this Paper you are going to learn 3 very strong reasons why not deporting illegal aliens is unacceptable. Reason 1; Illegal Alien Crimes. Reason 2; It isn’t fair to LEGAL immigrants. Reason 3; The more hypocritical “Illegals

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    in the film. As such, the monster is a large part of the make-up of the given film. The movie Alien, released on May 25th, 1979, is one such film that falls into this category of monster-driven plot. The ‘alien’ in the movie took years to design and months to physically create, and acted as a backbone, holding the movie together. To this day people know what you’re talking about when you refer to the ‘alien’, because of its creepily interesting allure, its ground-breaking design, and because of all

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    Alien Notes- Cyborgs Exosuit. Aliens Gender Roles: Enchaned by cyborgs . Nobody believes her. Even the other woman smoking cigarette in suit. Man recoomends her for psychiotiatric evaluation. Liutenant Gorman Colonial Marine Core LV 126. Lost contact with colony. Colonial Marines-trained to deal with situations. Soldiers. Have lots of firepower “can handle any situation.” They want Ripley as an advisor. Ripley seems to be in charge. Burke trying to convince Ripley. Has nightmares and

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    Alien is truly amazing from beginning to end as the hands on effort and imagination of Ridley Scott is stunning, even in this day and age of special effects and CGI. The designs of Giger are wildly indigenous and memorable and the editing by Terry Rawlings was the best thing I seen for a 1979 movie, making for a perfect storm of a horror flick. No one who has seen Alien will ever forget the dinner scene, one of the most dramatic even to be shown to a thoughtless viewer. Even the actors were unaware

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    In the article “Examples of Serious Crimes by Illegal Aliens” the federation for American Immigration Reform states that two illegal aliens from China, Zeng Liang Chen and Dong Biao Lin, were sentenced life in prison due to first degree murder in paragraph 12. Illegal Immigrants have a negative influence on America’s society today. Many people believe that illegal immigrants should be forced to leave, while others think they should be allowed to stay. Illegal immigrants should be forced to leave

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