During the 17 years of my life, I really get pissed off when I lose at Far Cry 3. It’s a game where a family and friends are taking a trip celebrating the main character, Jason Brody younger brother, Riley getting his pilot's licence. I know it’s just a game and not real life, but I get so intense in the video game it makes me angry. The game starts with Jason his older brother, Grant and brother Riley are skydiving with friends over the Pacific Islands. They reached Rook Island and were taken captive by pirates. Jason and his older brother attempt to escape and Grant is shot and killed. Jason was only able to escape by jumping off a high cliff landing in a river. He is rescued by a man named Dennis and applies tatau on his arm. A tatau is tattoo symbolized the mark of a warrior. As a player you are the character Jason, your goal is to rescue Riley and the rest of the group from the pirates and kill the Pirate Leader Vaas, his boss Hoyt, and as many pirates as you can.
When you play this game you feel like it is really happening. In the Outpost encampment there are a set number of enemies that you have to eliminate to acquire the Outpost. There are many ways to try to eliminate the pirates. You can shoot them, stab them, blow them up, sick wild animals on them, and use a flamethrower to barbecue them. The mistakes I made while playing Far Cry 3 was attacking outposts head on with a assault rifle. I would always be overwhelmed and killed. This was happening over and over of being killed. Each time I died, I was angry, frustrated and going insane. It made me feel like going through the 5 stages of grief. Everytime I play the game the denial starts. Thinking I’m able to go beyond getting killed. Then again I am right back to where I started getting killed and the anger takes over. So again, I keep trying to complete each level of the game. I bargain with
Bullets flying through the air right over me, my knees are shaking, and my feet are numb. I see familiar faces all around me dodging the explosives illuminating the air like lightning. Unfortunately, numerous familiar faces seem to disappear into the trenches. I try to run from the noise, but my mind keeps causing me to re-illustrate the painful memories left behind.
Petra and Dink are warning ender to always be accompanied by somebody and to never be alone. That night Ender’s only way of falling asleep is by thinking about how the teachers will protect him outside the battle room if he truly means something to them. The next day after winning two battles he falls asleep and wakes up just a little before lunch time. Carelessly he walked in to take a shower, until Bonzo and other seven boys come up on him. Bonzo is the boys in the room that truly wants to kill Ender. In order for Ender to face him one-on-one he uses Bonzo’s honor to get the other boys to back down. Before the fight Dink rushes in, but is held back by the other boys as he tries to prevent the fight from happening. Ender provokes Bonzo and when Bonzo charges at him ender quickly hits Bonzo’s head with his face. To prevent from Bonzo trying to attack again Ender hits him in the ribs and crotch, but Bonzo does not move. Dink later takes Ender away from the bathroom as the teachers that were supposed to protect him come rushing in. Ender’s later reminded of Bonzo’s face when he first hit him and Stilson’s face too and later begins to cry. Ender is given another battle with two armies at the same time, but he is completely done with battles even after winning. Ender is informed by Bean that his toon leaders had been promoted along with their assistants too. They are now commanders including Bean himself. Ender is also informed that he has graduated to Command school but before he goes to Command School he goes back to Earth. It turns out that Ender killed Bonzo and Stilson, but they never told him. Down in Earth military officers have found out who Demosthenes and Loc...
BANG, BOOM, BLAM,TAT-A-TAT, TAT. My ears are assaulted with noise, my eyes witness squirting blood a soldier is shot. I observe soldiers blown away by bombs. I see blood that saturates an infantry man. I view maimed men and observe limbs with fragmented bone. I witness militia dead on the ground. I listen to screams, grunts and gurgling blood in a man's windpipe. WHOOSH, flame throwers make a path with flames blazing burning men instantaneously. My eyes reveal the emotion that rips through my heart, tears drip down my cheek. I turn my head. I cannot watch a soldier cradle his buddy as he dies.
Halo: Ghosts of Onyx begins in the year 2531 with a raid on an Insurrectionist base by the SPARTAN-II Blue Team. Their goal was to recover stolen FERNIS nuclear warheads, but were captured by rebel general Howard Graves; a former UNSC Marine who defected to the Insurrectionists. However, Spartan Kurt-051 manages to slip away from the team before they are captured, and helps the rest of Blue team escape Insurrectionist capture. One month after the raid, Blue Team is put on a mission to investigate a ruptured Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine. Kurt is sent ahead to scout it out, but as he gets closer to the engine, his equipment begins to malfunction. Eventually, the thruster pack he’s using malfunctions and Kurt is sent spiraling out into space without coms. Kurt is then recovered by ONI and wakes up a month later to be briefed of the SPARTAN-III program by Vice Admiral Margaret Orlenda Parangosky, Rear Admiral Ned Rich, Captain Aaron G. Gibson, and Colonel James Ackerson aboard the UNSC Point of No Return. Kurt is then promoted to Lieutenant, Junior Grade and sent to Onyx to reduce 497 volunteers to 300 trainees. Kurt test’s the candidates’ want for revenge against the alien juggernaut that destroyed their homes and families by making them perform a midnight high-altitude jump out of Pelican dropships. Any child who didn’t jump would lose their chance to be Spartans, and any child who jumped kept that chance. Even with the advanced training and Semi-powered Infiltration Armor (SPI), all 300 Spartans would die in Operation: PROMETHEUS. Kurt returns to the Point of No Return to be informed of the success of Alpha Company and to begin training Beta Company. Kurt learns that all of Alpha Company was wiped out in Operation: PROMETHEUS a...
Facing hardships, problems, or obstacles shouldn’t discourage one from completing their task or job. Many of authors usually put their characters through tough complications to show the reader that no matter what happens; anyone could pull through. In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connel, the main character Mr. Rainsford gets stranded on an eerie island with a bad reputation. He meets General Zaroff and gets thrown into a huge hunting game, where his life is on the line. In the end, he wins the game and will continue to hunt animals, but not people, as the general once did. He will continue to hunt because one, hunting means everything to him. Two, he will not continue the general’s crazy ways, and resort back to the legal and non-dangerous to other humans sport. Third, he feels powerful when he becomes the hunter and not the hunted. Giving up hunting would be like giving up his life, so just because of a minor block he had to overcome, he will not give up hunting.
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Just like in every society, in every story there are conflicts. What is the line between man and beast? What separates the hunter from the hunted? Where does sport end and murder begin? In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, the protagonist, a man by the name of Sager Rainsford, is trapped on an island in the middle of the ocean. A simple adventure to the jungles of Rio de Janeiro soon becomes a story of terror, survival and escape when Rainsford realizes he is not alone on the seemingly deserted island. Soon after arriving, he meets the psychopath, General Zaroff, a Cossack aristocrat who is also an experienced hunter. Zaroff entices Rainsford by telling him there is big game on the island, the biggest there is. The Most Dangerous Game illustrates that there are men, and then there are monsters when Rainsford, unknowing of what Zarloff’s true intentions are, becomes entangled in a frightening game of where the hunter, soon becomes the hunted.
1968 the year of the TET offensive in Vietnam. The TET offensive takes place on the TET holiday and the North Vietnam planned and attack on South Vietnam. Full Metal Jacket follows Joker a new recruit that is heading into basic training. This movies touches on the ideas of what the war was like for both people that were enrolling into the marines and people who were serving in Vietnam. During the movie there is feelings of both hope and sadness that run through the body.
Gavin Hood captivated almost the opposite of what the book entitled. The story line was consistent with the book’s story line, but the actors were portrayed to be very different. I do understand that the book was unrealistic when it comes to age and size, but Bonzo was one of the characters that bewildered me, mainly because, in Orson Scott Card's, Ender's Game, he had been depicted to be masculine and intimidating, and in Ender’s Game the movie, Bonzo was unusually petite; very different from what the book expressed him to be like. Another differentiation between the movie and the novel, was the fact that Hailee Steinfeld, known as Petra, took on a major role in the movie. Petra was more of a supporting
“The Mission” is based on a true story that occurred around the borderlands of Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil in the years 1750’s according to the film and history. The Treaty of Madrid of 1750 with the Spanish and Portuguese caused both havoc and death for the people of the Guarini and the members of the Jesuits. The Jesuits, members of the church, tried to bring Christianity and civilization to the natives while keeping at peace with Spain and Portugal. The Jesuits were the teachers for the natives; Teaching them not only the Christian religion but also civilization. Father Gabriel, a Jesuit, is first introduced in the film when he is showing his respects to a former Jesuit priest killed by the natives. He walks through the South American
Avery Wells Professor Wilkenfeld English 102 02/08/14 “All Men and Women Are Created Equal” On July 4, 1776 it was said that all men are created equal. What the Declaration of Independence failed to mention was women. This seemed to be a common theme throughout the history of America and is still a problem to this day. Men are constantly being held up on a pedestal, while women are forced to assume the position of looking up to them. Zombieland (2009) tends to take these “old school” ways and sheds a new light on the fact that women too can be equal, if not better than some men.
“Shooter” is an action movie that was produced in 2007. It starts off by visually describing the military career of the protagonist, Bob Lee Swagger. His spotter and best friend gets killed by enemy fire, but Swagger survives. After this scene, the movie describes the life that he now lives in the United States. He decides to live in the woods with his dog after he retired from the military. Everything goes as Swagger wants it to until a supposed branch of the government shows up at his door and needs his expertise to aid them in preventing the assassination of the United States president (Rotten Tomatoes). From this point the movie takes a turn that Swagger cannot come back from.
The film “Furious 7” by James Wan is a successful movie that gives off thrill, tears, and entertainment all at once. The film immediately starts off with lots of action and car stunts that look awesome, on top of that, the entertainment of the film is incredible that keeps you awake throughout the whole movie. Even though the movie is action-filled, the movie sets off a memorable goodbye tribute to Paul Walker who died on a car accident while half way through the movie.
The major task of the designer of any movie poster is to make the poster visually interesting, so that it captures the attention of its viewers. When people first glance at a movie poster, what catches their eye? What draws them in and makes them want to immediately purchase a ticket? Is it the usage of bright colors (or lack thereof), certain actors or directors they like, or is it the overall design of the poster? While certain posters leave a lot to the imagination in terms of what the movie is about, the movie poster for The Expendables 2 efficiently introduces the audience to what they can expect from the film.
Call of duty provides a unique experience of playing as an American, and Soviet soldiers with each of the country’s weapons, vehicles, and fights tactics. Once you are inside the game, it’s kind of hard to stop playing. Many people stay up all night playing online with their group or clans trying to rank up while other usually play solo practicing trying to get better or just playing for fun. It’s a competitive game and sometimes, you can get frustrated a lot because you will get killed, internet connection is bad, or you probably just don’t really know how to play at all. When I first started playing, I wasn’t all that good, but now that I played for so long, it’s easy to just walk around shooting any enemy I see. Call of Duty has many different options to where you choose what you want to wear, what type of gun you would like to use and features to put on your gun, and what maps you would like to play at. It also gives you choices to back out of a game, usually because you are losing or want a different team, or becaus...