Dan Rowley Professor Fallica Intro to Film Studies 2/29/12 Bad Education The film Bad Education, like all films, is judged in two separate facets of the filmmaking process, the films structure or its formal issues and the films real world concerns or its social issues. This intricate film’s plot and timeline make for an interesting and methodically thought out effect on these issues. Bad Education’s use of both a nonlinear storyline and its timeline in Spanish culture show a calculating execution of director Pedro Almodovar’s design for the film. The narrative used in Bad Education is nonlinear and jumps back and forth between the past, present, and alternate telling of the past through the use of a film within a film. Ignacio, With this being said, he begins to be portrayed as a man that continues to be taken advantage of in the story. The real Ignacio first blackmails him, followed by Juan seducing him into a plot to kill Ignacio, and quickly cutting ties with him forever. The viewer also finds out in the epilogue that Juan later kills him in a hit-and-run. While the character of Father Manolo and Manuel Berenguer is undoubtedly a contemptible, dreadful person, his continually being fooled and exploited in his final portrayal in the film makes him out to be more of an evil dolt or doofus than a calculated mastermind. The transitions of these characters could not be done as successfully without Almodovar’s use of the nonlinear timeline. If done chronologically we would know all the characters’ motivations as they happened instead of being continuously unsure of whether the character is acting or genuine. The film’s use of the narrative device of a film-within-a-film also works to misconstrue the characters’ true motivations. For example, when the viewer is first introduced to Zahara it is never clear that this is a different character from Ignacio/Juan. The viewer is led to believe that Zahara is an alter ego of Ignacio/Juan that he is not yet ready to show Enrique. The viewer is led to believe this up until the point that Enrique is shown filming
For example when you do bad in a class and you are playing a sport now you are ineligible until you get your grade up. Another is if you spend too much money on a tv, then you will not be able to pay a bill or your mortgage. Or you get into a fight and get suspended from school. These are just some of the many examples of how something you do in your life can change your life. Attitude changes our lives by deciding where we will go. If we have a bad attitude in life then we might end up in a bad place that we can not get out of…
Study Guide Logical Fallacy-A logical fallacy is, roughly speaking, an error of reasoning. When someone adopts a position, or tries to persuade someone else to adopt a position, based on a bad piece of reasoning, they commit a fallacy. Blanket Statements -This dangerous fallacy involves a statement that makes an overly general or absolute claim or reason and leaves the arguer vulnerable to attack. Blanket statements use the language of absoluteness. False Dilemma/either or- This…
tion. Some people are arguing that we cannot afford to put very much time,money,and labor into school safety, Which is partially true but we need to take responsibility and put security in schools so less people die and students get a better education. Would you rather have…
encouraging teachers to be lazy and perform poorly, it needs to be abolished. Introduction Attention-Getter: I am here talking to you today as a fellow student. How many of you have had a teacher who you though was just a bad or lazy teacher? I like many of you have also had bad teachers throughout all of my years of school. I remember in high school I had a teacher who was more concerned with her makeup and online shopping than teaching me Spanish. I had always wondered why are these teacher are…
Need School Education Education is the crucial component of any nation’s education system. I had been told to enter a school and to get a great grade since I was such a young kid. I have never thought that there might be something wrong with it before. Recently, more and more scholars and education critics claim that we do not need schools anymore. They blamed the current education for its failing system, and they claim that schooling is not really education, and the education is not schooling…
childhood education programs and elementary schools at the national level.” (brainy-child, “computers on your children”, May 26, 2010) b. Connecting information: many children begin to use computers at an early age, and children can use computers in negative and positive ways. c. Thesis statement: computers effect children in positive and negative manner such as, the negative effect from computer games and Internet on children, and the positive effect from computer on children's education. II…
a general idea of high school plus some education goals for the year that I hope I am able to achieve. First of all, I have a lot of good and bad personal qualities. Some good ones are that im a great learner and I always have been since I was little. I tend to catch on to things really quickly so that helps me to do really well in all of my classes. Some bad qualities that I have are that I can’t really pay attention in class to well I, im a really bad test taker and a lot of the time I don’t…
Project One Over the last couple of weeks we have discussed and seen in class the effect of unions along with the idea of education in Appalachia. They have taught me a lot about what to expect on our journey to Appalachia this Spring Break. Over the years unions have had a strong impact in the Appalachia region. They have helped to compensate for the many workers of various companies in the area. They have also helped to stabilize the minimum wage in a predominately suffering economy. More…
back and no job guarantee Main idea 2: The United State government is making a college bubble that student can borrow money so easy to pay tuition. However, make the tuition even higher. Main idea 3: Students can not pay the loan which led to bad debt and endanger all holders of U.S. dollars. Main idea 4: College is worthless. It does not provide a higher opportunity or higher quality job.…
only one male Division I soccer program in the entire state? The answer to this question is quite simple, but also controversial. When Title IX of the Education Amendments was enacted in 1972, it intended to bring an end to the exclusion of women in federally funded programs. One of the first entities to draw the ire of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, a now-defunct office that oversaw the implementation of Title IX, was the NCAA. In 1975, universities were given three years to comply…
