In a writer’s shoes, their expressions through writing helps to express what is in their mind and through their published piece, can spread the knowledge of their thoughts throughout the world. This can lead to many people’s minds being changed and can possibly change the world. The impact can be a mind-changing scenario. In the film, the main character, Abbott who is an agent who works for the security of the people, she makes an impact on people’s safety. Terrorism is a great threat to many nations and to help prevent it is a very impactful role. A writer’s role and a security agent who is in a top position both make an impact by influencing the people’s state of mind.
As a security agent who works for the U.S. Embassy, partakes in the prevention in terrorism and as the main character in the film, she is a big influence on making the world a better place in terms of safety. Her job holds a high ground in the status of one of the most important roles on Earth. Preventing terrorism makes a big impact on the traverse in economical safety and individual security. Depending on the job position that is held within the embassy, employees there make anywhere between an annual of around $30,000 to around $160,000. As a writer, it is very important to express the inner thoughts of yourself and convey your message to the world. A powerful enough message can spread and become a huge influence on people. One may argue that a writer’s influence cannot really compete in the influence of a top security agent’s position in security. It also can be argued that a high official in an Embassy can no way be compared to an author of a piece of writing and therefore is not relevant. This is true to an extent because these are two different kinds of positions career wise and can be seen as holding no ground to stand on when it comes to similarities in importance. Although, I do agree with that alternate position to an extent, this rebuttal only can hold so much water before it drowns in lack of nuance. In the movie, Abbott’s actions as a person of her position prevented a huge terrorist attack on U.S. soil and in a result saved millions of lives that could have been lost if it wasn’t for her. If she was on the news as a hero, thousands if not millions of people’s minds would have changed with their opinion of her role for her country. They would have appreciated the sacrifices that are made to prevent terrorism. Since there have been tens of times where terrorists almost succeeded in their plans. Writers on the other hand also change the world and have changed the world many times. For example in the mid to late nineteenth century, Charles Darwin proposed in books like “On The Origin Of Species” the theory of evolution and has changed in ways of the world’s understanding of biology and other sciences that involved life studies. The theory of evolution was first proposed by Darwin and has influenced millions and helped create the understanding of life as we do today. In conclusion, both knowledge and the physical world that we interact is interweaved in reality. Whether you are a writer or a high positioned staff member in a very important job, they are both very impactful in the sphere of influence. Both compare to being a big role in yesterday’s and today’s society. Because of the power that a person can have when it comes to writing and being in a high position, it is important to be careful when it comes to actions that are taken because the world is dependent on people like them. So both a writer’s role and a security agent who is in a top position both make an impact by influencing the people’s state of mind.
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My hiraeth. A term that can describe a yearning for a home that I can’t go back to. Or at least I never had. The word as I have learned comes from Wales which is part of the UK. The word was used by the Welsh people. A clever word that has no direct definition in the English language. As quick-witted as the word is, it is a perfect expression to describe an anecdote I can reflect and visualize my hiraeth.
Morning time. A time to get up, and breathe the crisp air of a tranquil dream that cascaded in my childhood life. I yawned and stretched as I prepared to wake from my bed. The sun was shining through my window blinders on my window in front of me. The sunlight beamed onto my tube TV and the TV stand in which a Pokémon toy ball sat on. The sunrays beamed across my room with some glistening dust floating across the air inside. I could see as I sat upright in my bed, the light casted upon my shiny toys like my game consoles, computer, and my Hot Wheels collection that I enjoyed much so. My Mac computer perched on a desk with a blue lamp that paralleled the color of my walls. As I jumped out of my bed, musings flashed across my noggin. Exhilarated to play with some of my friends in my neighborhood I quickly got dressed, sped past the front door and scampered to my closest friend’s house, Cody. He was appreciable and our time together could last an eternity. We played multiplayer videogames in a room, we explored our countryside neighborhood, rode bikes, drove go karts, and all kinds of other fun activities that kids would normally do. The instant I got to their front door, I rang the doorbell. His dad answered the door. I asked, “Is Cody home?” He replied with an up and down nod the he turned around to get him. I waited a couple minutes outside the door, leaning on a tree with a few wind pinwheels on the ground surrounding the tree and some yard decor. He came out and we headed out to our bikes while yelling at each other about what we planned to do that day. We separated then he jumped on his bike in the car driveway of his place and I jumped on mine in the car garage of my house. We met each other on the road in front of his house, next to mine. We were next-door neighbors so it didn’t take much time at all to visit each other. We decided to see who could ride a bike the fastest. We both had a little analog speedometer on our bikes. We counted down, then pushed on the bike pedals. We coasted down the road and Into a winding curve that steeped downhill around an old tree faster and faster. The road made a circle down and back up around the huge tree, then back to Cody’s house. I had won the race but still was very fun to Cody as he said. We threw down our bikes in his front yard after the race to go into his house and play video games. We jolted through his front door, past his parents and ran upstairs into his room, then crashed on the floor and turned on the Nintendo 64. We both had a controller and played Vigilante 8. It was a game that had a car-warfare theme. We played for hours on the Nintendo and then played Halo on the original Xbox. Halo was a shooting game that had aliens in it. We had so much fun shooting aliens together and playing against each other. After hours of beating aliens and shooting rockets at cars, we departed for the day and enjoyed the rest of our day at home, eating dinner and enjoying the rest of the free time we had. At home while it was dawn, I had a great dinner my Dad that he made, then watched the Digimon movie that was released the previous year of 1999. It was a really thrilling movie at my age. This wasn’t just a one-day thing. For a few years my childhood life was filled with moments like this. I had other friends I played with at the time. The yearning for those moments have crafted the perfect term that exists not in the English language. It exists in the language in which the Welsh cleverly weaved together. The word is Hiraeth. The youthful years I enjoyed, was a time I wish I could go back to, but can’t. It is a time I yearn for. My Hiraeth.
Based on the movie, “Survivor” released in 2015:
The film, “Survivor” released in 2015 in theatres and received mostly negative reviews from sites such as Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert, and IMDB. The negative reviews included ridicule of the unrealism of events that took place and a tedious script. However, the movie received mostly positive reviews on Amazon, Netflix, and Google Play Movies & TV. The positive reviews included praise for the non-action and its cinematography. Overall the movie received mixed reviews and depending on the website you go to, you will see mostly negative or mostly positive reviews. Milla Jovovich stars in the film as Kate Abbott, a secret service agent who works for the American Embassy to help prevent terrorists from coming into the country after experiencing her friends’ deaths in the 9/11 attack. New to the Embassy in London from Washington D.C., she goes about her business on the job as she normally did before but comes across a suspicious terrorist during a Visa approval process. Roger Rees who stars as the suspected terrorist, goes and reports to his boss about the incident. The boss’ hired hands set out to assassinate Kate for her high intelligence by planting an inconspicuous bomb in a restaurant that Abbott and her colleagues go to for their executive, Bill Talbot’s (actor Robert Forster) birthday. Due to a last minute decision to buy a gift for Bill at a next door gift shop, Kate escapes with little injury and is confronted by a professional hitman, The Watchmaker (actor Pierce Brosman) who fails to murder her by an exploding nearby gas canister. She later runs to a park and meets Bill who corners her then attempts to shoot her but fails by his gun being flipped on himself through being wrestled. Shot and killed by accident, she flees and is framed for the incident. Desperate to chase after the radicals who plans to fly to America, Kate looks up to friends and colleagues to assist her in her escape from pursuers and the UK. She receives intel of Emil’s (the suspected terrorist) whereabouts from breaking into her locked down workplace and flies to New York City, where Emil and the Watchmaker plan to Bomb the city to make stock market profits. When she arrives, she follows the incendiaries and succeeds in preventing the planned event from tasking place. She is later applaud for saving millions of lives. The film to me is a great film due to its non-stop action and intense score, but every movie has its faults and can’t be perfect. For example, Milla’s character seems to be indestructible. Every time she gets in a situation where she is face to face with her pursuers, she conveniently escapes with little to no harm. Even when she gets injured her wounds have fast healing abilities. Another criticism I have is that the plot doesn’t call enough attention to other main characters’ lore. Some of my favorite quotes from the movie include, “Fucking technology.” Because technology can be a pain, “Yeah, it is. Kate, there were over a million people out there tonight, and you saved them all.” because it showed Kate as a hero. |
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