Black Swan College Essays Samples For Students

Background

“Black Swan” is about Nina Sayers, an aspiring ballerina, who had to deal with the pressure of her career, discordant relationship with her mother, and sexual advances from her mentor. Nina wants nothing more than to play lead in the New York City ballet company’s upcoming “Swan Lake” production. Her chance came when Thomas Leroy, the director, dismissed Beth, the lead, and subsequently chose Nina to take her place. Throughout the film, Nina’s psychoses surface on account of her experiences with his sexually aggressive mentor, Thomas, who also puts the most pressure on Nina to perform better, ...

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Film Studies:

Every filmmaker has their own unique style of storytelling. Some focus on science fiction while others are known for their romantic/dramatic ventures. While the story changes, the theme, setting and character development remains the same in all their movies. Hollywood Director Darren Aronofsky, one of the most prominent movie makers in the world, is no exception to such rule. This paper analyzes the similarities and differences between four of Aronofsky’s famous works; Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain and Black Swan.
Almost all of Aronofsky’s films have a claustrophobic theme a character-centered plot. The ...

In terms of both our vocations and hobbies, we often aspire to become great. What happens, however, when this very desire consumes and overtakes us? The 2010 film "Black Swam" starring Natalie Portman as a high-profile ballet dancer, shows its viewers that unchecked ambition can be a dangerous and ultimately deadly thing. This message is achieved primarily through the film's use of detail-heavy camerawork, its character depiction, and its embrace of magical realism and distortions of reality. The main character Nina loses her identity, herself to become perfect and on this way to the culmination of her transformation she ...

In terms of both our vocations and hobbies, we often aspire to become great. What happens, however, when this very desire consumes and overtakes us? The 2010 film "Black Swam" starring Natalie Portman as a high-profile ballet dancer, shows its viewers that unchecked ambition can be a dangerous and ultimately deadly thing. This message is achieved primarily through the film's use of detail-heavy camerawork, its character depiction, and its embrace of magical realism and distortions of reality.  The film's camerawork often becomes consumed with details in a way that is strange or even unsettling for a viewer. One of ...

Executive Summary

Everyone is graving for knowledge of the future especially due to the uncertainty of the markets. People have developed predictive models some using statistical algorithms and big data. Forecasting that is a combination of experts and machines is better than using pure humans or machines. Tetlock and Gardener in the book Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction argued that its time everyone get serious about both (Tetlock & Gardener p.24). Foresight is not an inherited mysterious gift rather it is a product of updating beliefs, gathering information and ways of thinking. It, therefore, means that to accurately forecast one ...

In his famous argument about the piece of wax, Descartes argues that perception and understanding of objects is the activity of mind rather than of sense or imagination. He suggests that a piece of wax has distinct characteristics perceived by senses. It has its shape and color which are known by sight, it has its scent which is known by the sense of smell, it gives off a specific sound when knocked with a finger, it is hard and cold. However, if this piece of wax is melted all of its former sensual attributes seize to exist and in ...

1. What is the key learning you have taken from society’s effort to create meaningful environmental shifts?
Environmental shifts that have been seen in society since time immemorial can only be taken as a survival strategy. Environmental shifts that have been marked from the age of Jurassic are only meant for social survival. Human kind shifted itself from nomadic creature to domestic animal and that was only meant for survival. An organisation must put focus on the environmental factors for the survival which is “profit making”. The environmental changes may include political, technical or demographic changes. Either change ...

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Alain Badiou is a French philosopher, born in 1937 to a war-ravaged France. Throughout the years, he has written a number of important texts; the two most important of these texts were Being and Event and Logics of Worlds. As philosophical texts, they caused a great deal of noise and discussion in the philosophical community.
Badiou has addressed a number of important philosophical concepts in these texts, including the concepts of truth and being-- the latter of which became the subject of one of his most important texts, Being and Event. To discuss his views on these subjects, Badiou often ...

The black swan is a movie about a girl who discovers her other side through dancing. She is born and raised by an overprotective mother who wants to live her dream through her daughter. Nina, the main character, is a ballerina in a leading company. She is to battle with the new girl from San Francisco, Lily, for the lead role in playing as both the black and the white swan. Nina is originally the collected girl whose mother has protected from all the happenings of the world. However, the tragedy strikes when she turns evil in an effort to win the role, ...