Unobtainium Essays

In England in 1859, Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution titled “On the origin of species”, This theory was then taken one step further by a sociologist named Herbert Spencer. Spencer’s theory, titled Social Darwinism, stated that some races were superior to others based on the technology they had developed as well as the countries they had conquered. Social Darwinism further stated that the weaker races would die off as they were less sophisticated and couldn’t adapt to their surroundings

movie avatar portrays imperialism negatively because the government is trying to take this precious valuable resource from this planet that they live on but the avatar people are not going to leave. So the military use force to get what they want (unobtainium). The aspects of imperialism in this movie are Militaristic, Economic, and Assimilation.

and wants the materials, specifically the material “unobtainium”, and storms Pandora with his team, ruining an abundance of the Na’vi people’s culture. That is where Imperialism comes in, they used military power to receive what they desire, something that would increase the state of the economy that they lived in. The “sky people” want the land that is home to the Na’vi since they desire to obtain resources. They wanted the material unobtainium, which is used for energy conduction, and is very rare

Sully went to be a Avatar to find out more about him for people on Pandora. This was Sully one mission. When humans on Pandora found out that he was telling the Avatars that Pandora was coming. Pandora had to get revenge and Pandora want the unobtainium. Boom!, Pandora started to blow up Avatar which were like the slaves. Pandora did succeed for a little bit, but Sully wasn’t going to give up. Sully got all the Avatars together so Avatar could fight back and not give up. This is the scene that

people and there he gets accepted. Humans then want to take the unobtainium from under the Na’vi peoples tree. This is where the humans decide to destroy all of the land and kill most of the people. In this fight for land Grace ends up getting killed and leaves Jake to rally the Na’vi people to defend the land. A huge war breaks out between the Na’vi people and the humans, at this point the humans do not even care about the unobtainium and care more about Jake and Grace’s

James Cameron has depicted many topics we covered this year in his worldwide hit phenomenon, “Avatar”. Since the location he chose to do was the fictional planet of Pandora, his information can turn out to be completely different or irrelevant from Earth’s, however that doesn’t mean there can be some similarities. Pandora is similar to Earth when it comes to biodiversity. The planet is full of luscious trees and plant life equal or better than our planet’s forests. There indigenous “indians” called

interaction. As the movie progressed their mission became for than just learning about the Na 'vi people, later joining their forces in the avatar bodies to protect the tribe’s sacred lands and home from the soldiers trying to clear the land to mine unobtainium. This aspect of the scientists becoming invested in their work and striving to gain more knowledge through research and time in the field is an accurate portrayal of scientists and their work. Then based on their data they can make conclusions in

Many books of the dystopian genre discuss cultural, environmental, and government systems. They are shown to be undesirable, horrific, and usually in a futuristic setting which depicts themes of corruption, and convention vs rebellion. Books of this genre usually end bitterly with ‘order’ restored to society with the best case scenario ending with the survival of the protagonist. The four texts that link these connections together are Avatar directed by James Cameron, Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray

Environmentalists see the movie Avatar as a close depiction of our society's reality with the Alberta oil sands. James Cameron, the director of Avatar, created this blockbuster to bring awareness to a growing issue of Alberta’s oil sands. Undoubtedly, he has achieved this task as this movie shows numerous similarities, but also some differences regarding the current situation with the oil sands. Both show similarities when it comes to cultural and environmental sustainabilities. One environmental