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American beliefs and values as reflected in the movie national treasure directed by John Turteltaub in 2004
No full textNational Treasure was one of American popular film in the end of 2004
and early of 2005 directed by John Turteltaub. It stayed for several weeks in the
first level of American box office. The original VCD of National Treasure
distributed by PT. Vision Interprima Pictures in 2005 was analyzed and became
the source of the main data. It consisted of dialogues, actions, pictures, sounds,
setting of time, setting of place, etc in a whole movie. Meanwhile, the supporting
data were from other informations from books and websites.
The thesis presents a discussion about American beliefs and values as
reflected in the movie National Treasure. It is a reflective study; thus the focus of
the thesis is directed on the beliefs and values. Concerning the focus, the
sociological approach, semiotic approach, and historical approach are used
proportionally from their own specific context. Popular culture study leads the
thesis to reveal the beliefs and values of the culture but it cannot judge whether
they are good or bad. This is not film criticism which can freely do that, but it is
the popular culture study which objectively combines the theory of popular
culture, film semiotics, sociology, and history. Here, National Treasure is not
seen as a film only from its aesthetic point of view, but also as an art which
reflects several society’s beliefs and values.
There are several beliefs and values which can be revealed in the movie
National Treasure, they are: (1) Sometimes action with a high consequence
(illegal or criminal) must be faced to continue reaching the final goal, (2) America
is a special nation with special government, people, and duty, (3) Technology is
needed as a means to do some acts, (4) Individuals have their own freedom to do
anything, (5) A belief in process or practice to prove something is more important
than the legend or theories, (6) Every individual is actually running for their
material success, (7) The happiness will be completely reached after having a
family, (8) America has a very much great treasure, (9) Romantic love can happen
to anyone in a very unique condition, (10) The success has not completed without
living in a house with certain expected condition
Cancer: Misfortune or Carelessness?
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Public debate about the cause of cancer often falls between two extremes: either there's nothing you can do about it, or it's all your fault. But the game of roulette offers a more nuanced way to think about the disease, writes Peter Treasure</jats:p
Image 67: My Treasure
No full textAn empty scrapbook page with a poem called My Treasure ; illustration of a toddler chasing giant butterflies. Text reads: Oh! Let one treasure still be mine! And let that jewel be thy Heart -- All else I gladly would resign, To gain within thy life a part: In all thy joys a place to find, With mutual love and truth entwined.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/harwood_photo/1065/thumbnail.jp
Peter P. Riesterer, Grabschatz des Tut-ench-Amun. [ The funeral Treasure of Tutankhamen — Le trésor funéraire de Toutankhamon]
No full textTefnin Roland. Peter P. Riesterer, Grabschatz des Tut-ench-Amun. [ The funeral Treasure of Tutankhamen — Le trésor funéraire de Toutankhamon]. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 35, fasc. 2, 1966. pp. 692-693
Kiwis in the collection: the New Zealand presence in the published record
No full textThis report characterizes the size and scope of the New Zealand presence in the published record, highlights some of its salient characteristics, and describes its diffusion around the world.
Introduction
Despite its small size and relatively brief national history, New Zealand boasts a distinguished presence in the published record. Authors such as Margaret Mahy and Katherine Mansfield; the renowned soprano Kiri Te Kanawa; and contemporary film icons such as the actor Russell Crowe and producer Peter Jackson are just a few of the well-known names associated with New Zealand’s creative tradition, along with internationally acclaimed works such as the Oscar-nominated film Whale Rider and the Booker Prize-winning novel The Bone People. New Zealand’s presence in the published record includes many other individuals and works — some widely known, others less so — adding up to a significant contribution to the global corpus of published materials. Indeed, just as New Zealand’s iconic kiwi birds lay the largest egg in proportion to their size of any bird species in the world 1, the New Zealand contribution to the published record too seems outsized in comparison to the nation’s small geography and population
Postcolonial Treasure
No full textConference poster for the 14th Annual International Illustration Research Symposium
Author – Laurence North
Title - Postcolonial Treasure, , history and experience of Empire and Colonialism
The Four Corners Books Familiars series revisits texts that are part of a literary heritage; the Familiars series is described by the publishers as allowing visual artists to provide a fresh look at the tradition of the illustrated novel.
Stevenson’s Treasure Island was republished in 2022 by Four Corners Books with new illustrations by Shiraz Bayjoo. Bayjoo’s illustrations reframe if not re-author Treasure Island as a Postcolonial text that gives voice to both historical and contemporary peoples previously excluded from the narrative. The Four Corners Books edition also provides us with an interesting model of authorship that provokes engagement with well-established works by Barthes and Foucault that cast Stevenson and Bayjoo as noncooperative co-scriptors in contrast to the normal expectations of the writer illustrator working relationship
Zechariah 9-14 as the substructure of 1 Peter’s eschatological program
No full textThe principal aim of this study is to discern what has shaped the author of 1 Peter to regard Christian suffering as a necessary (1.6) and to-be-expected (4.12) component of faithful allegiance to Jesus Christ. Most research regarding suffering in 1 Peter has limited the scope of inquiry to two particular aspects—its cause and nature, and the strategies that the author of 1 Peter employs in order to enable his addressees to respond in faithfulness. There remains, however, the need for a comprehensive explanation for the source that has generated 1 Peter’s theology of Christian suffering. If Jesus truly is the Christ, God’s chosen redemptive agent who has come to restore God’s people, then how can it be that Christian suffering is a necessary part of discipleship after his coming, death and resurrection? What led the author of 1 Peter to such a startling conclusion, which seems to runs against the grain of the eschatological hopes and expectations of Jewish restoration ideology?
This thesis analyzes the appropriation of shepherd and fiery trials imagery,
and argues that the author of 1 Peter is dependent upon Zechariah 9-14 for his
theology of Christian suffering. Said in another way, the eschatological program of
Zechariah 9-14, read through the lens of the Gospel, functions as the substructure
for 1 Peter’s eschatology and thus its theology of Christian suffering.
In support of this hypothesis, this study highlights the fact that Zechariah 9-
14 was available and appropriated in early Christianity, in particular in the Passion
Narrative tradition; that the shepherd imagery of 1 Pet 2.25 is best understood
within the milieu of the Passion Narrative tradition, and that it alludes to the
eschatological program of Zechariah 9-14; that the fiery trials imagery found in 1
Peter 1.6-7 and 1 Pet 4.12 is distinct from that which we find in Greco-Roman and OT
wisdom sources, and that it shares exclusive parallels with some unique features of
the eschatological program of Zechariah 9-14; that Zechariah 9-14 offers a more
satisfying explanation for the modification of Isa 11.2 in 1 Pet 4.14, the transition
from 4.12-19 to 5.1-4, why Peter has oriented his letter with the term διασπορά,
and why he has described his addresses as οἶκος τοῦ θεοῦ; and finally that 1 Peter
contains an implicit foundational narrative that shares distinct parallels with the
eschatological program of Zechariah 9-14.
We can conclude that 1 Peter offers a unique vista into the way in which at
least one early Christian witness came to understand and to communicate the fact
that Christian suffering was a necessary feature of faithful allegiance to Jesus Christ
Learning : The Treasure Within
No full textObra ressenyada: Jacques DELORS, Learning : The Treasure Within. Report to UNESCO of the International Commission on Education for the Twenty-first Century. Paris: UNESCO publishing, 1996
The Treasure Hunt
No full textThe artistic research project The Treasure Hunt is an speculative investigation into the reward-oriented logics of contemporary capitalism, where treasure refers to both the ‘cultural treasures’ of the art market and the everyday incentives of the nudge economy. Drawing on the tradition of the essay film, but attempting to expand it both spatially and conceptually, the project explores the connections between an array of seemingly disparate phenomena: the global antiquities trade, the history of metal detecting, the expansion of cognitive capitalism, and the legacies of behaviourism in everyday ‘gamification’ of contemporary globalised culture, ranging from leisure to war
Hommage à un monastère d’exception et recherches récentes : Peter van Ham, with Amy Heller et Likir Monastery, Alchi. Treasure of the Himalayas, Munich, Hirmer Verlag GmbH, 2018
No full textBazin Nathalie. Hommage à un monastère d’exception et recherches récentes : Peter van Ham, with Amy Heller et Likir Monastery, Alchi. Treasure of the Himalayas, Munich, Hirmer Verlag GmbH, 2018. In: Arts asiatiques, tome 74, 2019. pp. 161-166
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