Academic Decathlon Symposium
Academic Decathlon Symposium
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Team collaborates on the Mathematics Practice Test
C.L Moore and the Golden Age of Science Fiction
"There's a flaw in your argument, and I resent it. I'm not a Frankenstein monster made out of dead flesh. I'm myself-alive. You didn't create my life; you only preserved it. I'm not a robot, with compulsions built into me that I have to obey. I'm free-willed and independent, and, Malzer- I'm human." (Moore, 147).
"Her motion negated time and destroyed space...so Deidre blazed in one continuous flash of golden motion across the room."
"(In that moment of intolerable suspense his complex human brain paused suddenly, annihilating time in its own way, and withdrew to a cool corner of its own to analyze in a flashing second what it was he had just seen."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXk5BOAO7rc&authuser=0
https://www.google.com/search?q=cells+and+the+anatomy+of+the+brain-+nuerons+and+cells+youtube&sca_esv=580550388&rlz=1C1GCEU_enUS969US969&ei=RMl
With any film or novel, there is always a covenant between creator and reader/or viewer. The reader agrees to suspend disbelief in the impossible as long as the dramatic situation and actions of characters are probable; if the scenario is possible, but the dramatic situation and characters' actions turn out to be highly improbable, the reader or viewer is likely to be skeptical.
Science Fiction films, however, futuristic and fantastic, often reflect the many characteristics of our society and the complex motivations of human beings and their counterparts, i.e., robots.
This Wednesday, November 15, we will dive into the evolving importance and multi dimensional functions of music on Science Fiction films, from the legendary Melies' 1902 film, Voyage dans La Lune to Fritz Lang's masterwork, Metropolis to Star Wars, ET, WALL-E and on.
ART and TECHNOLOGY
The Invention of Linear Perspective, how Filippo Brunelleschi's losing a competition led to his inventing the linear perspective, which created the illusion of spatial distance within a picture, "a geometrically based procedure" for creating three dimensions on a two dimensional surface.
The Emergence of the Vanishing Point, the horizon line, orthogonals (diagonal lines), a marriage of mathematics, science, and vision.
The ADVENT of PHOTOGRAPHY: Camera Obscura, The Daguerrotype, The daguerrotype of Frederick Douglas; the Physionotrace, Eadweard Muybridge, the Flying Horse and the zoopraxscope: the precursor to film
Examining The Lathe of Heaven and the influence of Taoist thought
" It may remain for us to learn...that out task is only beginning, and that there will never be
given to us even the ghost of any help, save the help of unutterable and unthinkable Time."
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