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    From the movie “Minority Report”, the movie questions the existence of free will. People are not able to act freely because all of their decisions are pre-determined before they occur. The pre-crime division is responsible for preventing criminal actions before it takes place in the near future. Actions such as murder is the main cause of the pre-crime division’s watch. The movie is an example of the philosophical theory of hard determinism. Determinism approaches all behavior and its purpose behind

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    Question: compare the ways the George Orwell and Steven Spielberg explore the power of the government. Minority report and 1984 both explore the topic of an overarching police force, which have great control over the citizens and do not operate with many rules. The two texts question the ethics of law enforcement and punishment, and they both discuss the limits of crime. These are techniques that are used to represent the power of the government in a way that can be visualised. The texts also have

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    decisions that we will later regret. Human beings tend to disregard spiritual, and ethical limits to control their destiny. Oedipus, Laius, and Jocasta in the play Oedipus by sophocles, and John Anderton and the precrime company from the movie Minority Report by Steven Speilberg disregarded limits both social and ethical to escape or change their destiny and later had to face the consequences

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    The underachievement of minority students in school has been misconstrued throughout the bulk of my education as well as the education of some of my colleagues. With that in mind, I chose to interview a person who I believed would share a similar perspective with me on this issue. I called upon my friend TK. He is a 20-year-old, California native who attends UCSD as a first-generation student studying under a STEM major. He has a conservative Muslim background and comes from a working class family

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    is a theory used to describe an archetype that is found throughout history and generates a universal meaning. Water is a generator of fear and joy in many civilizations and continues to dominate society today. The presence of water in the film Minority Report is portrayed as the controller of life and is a key part in the viewer's interpretation of the film. Water is representative of purity and safety in the protagonist ‘s (John Anderton) journey throughout the film. Water as an archetype of purification

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    1984 and Minority Report 1984 is what many considered the first dystopian novel and started the trend of writing about the failure of human society. George Orwell's dark and gritty style of writing inspired numerous other writers to craft their own tales of society's failure and downward spiral. One of these writers was Steven Spielberg one of the greatest directors of the modern era, creating masterpieces such as E.T The Extraterrestrial and Jurassic Park. His dystopian tale, Minority Report, shares

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    face vast obstacles to get out of the supremacy’s technological noose and become free to make their own decisions. In the novel 1984 and the film Minority Report, George Orwell and Steven Spielberg (film based on a short story by Philip Dick), create two characters that must deal with this struggle: Winston Smith in 1984 and John Anderton in Minority Report have come to realize they are constricted on their amount of free will because of technology. Winston Smith, is the protagonist of George Orwell’s

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    “Minority Report” is a movie in which many unethical issues have been presented along with many number of dilemmas for the characters. In this movie I have seen amazing use of technology and its applications in order to reduce crime through the way which could be said unethical. The most unethical issue in the movie is how pre-crime department under the government can prosecute the public before the occurrence of the action. The identified subjects are halted before committing the action and take

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    Is it bias to arrest and torture people for crimes that a person has not committed yet? Is it harsh to kill a person that knows the truth about the past more than others? A dystopia is a place based off of terror that is extremely atrocious. Minority Report is a futuristic film by Steven Spielberg, the film is about an organization called pre-crime that control special people called precogs, these precogs predict the future murders and the organization stops the murders before it happens so that

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    Film Analysis of Minority Report Essay

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    action and another, his freedom to seek good and avoid evil. The animal has no freedom, but is determined by physical and biological laws; like a machine, the animal responds whenever the appropriate stimulus is present” (Bolles 1963, p.182). In Minority Report (2002) one of the main issues is free will versus determinism. Is there some point that people can and do change their mind while committing an act? In the movie, the police have the right to arrest and charge citizens that have been determined

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