FIRST ASSIGNMENT - ACADEMIC WRITING - Find a final project and summarize
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NAME : VEGA MA’ARIJIL ULA
STUDENT NUMBER : 221141026
PROGRAM : ENGLISH LITERATURE
SUBJECT : ACADEMIC WRITING
1. IDENTITY
“DEATH OF SUPERSTITION AND THE ADVENT OF POSITIVISM IN ANCIENT GREEK MYTHOLOGY IN 300 FILM “
A final project submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Sarjana Sastra in English
By : Hafidhun Annas
2250406505
English department
Faculty of language and arts
Semarang state university
2. a. Research Question
Greek people believed in something unreal in the world, which later on became a religion. They must ask to an oracle before doing something important They would do what the oracle said.
After the superstition or metaphysic was not popular anymore, the logical and rational thinking started to dominate the field of philosophy. Rational is called positivism. Auguste Comte is one of the positive philosophers. Under the Greek Empire, the positivist society suffered from defections and slow growth. Based on the explanation above, the writer intends to discuss superstition and positivism as revealed in the film entitled 300.
b. Statements of the problem
1) How is superstition revealed in the movie?
2) How does the main character show positivism in the movie?
c. Objectives of the study
The objectives of the study can be stated as follows:
1) To identify the superstition as revealed in the movie.
2) To analyze how the main character shows positivism in the movie.
3. Heading chapter 2
CHAPTER II
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
2.1 Movie
2.1.2 Definition of movie
Movie is one of literary works besides poetry, prose, and drama. Movie is also called motion picture. Movies carry some messages which have moral values based on Encyclopedia Americana ( 1986:vol, 19,p.505)
2.1.2The kinds of movie
1) Action movie
Action movies usually have some characteristic, such as high energy, battles, fights, escapes, destructive crises (floods, explosions, natural disasters, fires, etc.), and non-stop motion.
2) Adventure movie
Adventure movie are interesting films and usually consist of new experiences.
3) Comedy movie
Comedy movie are designed to amuse the audience and give laughter through the characters and their relationship, language and action. These movies are often funny.
4) Crime and gangster movie
5) Drama movie
This type is serious movie which is portraying realistic characters, settings, life situations, and stories involving intense character development and interaction. Usually, they are not focused on special-effect, comedy, or action.
6) Epics or historical movie
Epic include historical, drama and war film that often cover a large expanse of time set against a vast. Epics often take a historical event, mythic, legendary, or heroic figure, and have high production values.
7) Horror movie
Horror movie are designed to frighten while entertaining us at the same time in a cathartic experience.
8) Musicals (dance) movie
Musicals dance movies emphasize full-scale scores or song and dance routines in a significant way. In other words, these movies are the combination of music, dance and song.
9) Science fiction movie
Sci-fi movies are often quasi-scientific, visionary and imaginative – complete with heroes, aliens, distant planets, impossible quests, improbable settings, fantastic place, technology, unknown and unknowable forces, and extraordinary monsters ( thing or creatures from space), either created by mad scientists or by nuclear havoc. Science fiction often expresses the potential of technology to destroy human being.
10) War (anti-war) movie
War movies perform the horror and heartbreak of war, letting the actual combat fighting (against nations or humankind) on the certain background which is not for actions in the movie.
11) Western movie
Western are the major defining genre of the American film industry. Overtime, western have been redefined, re-invented and expanded, dismissed and re-discovered.
2.2 Mythology
2.2.1Definition
The word “mythology” we need to define the meaning of the word “mythos” which originally meant “speech” or discourse but later came to mean “fable” or legend”.
2.2.2Greek Mythology
Greek mythology is complete with supernatural beliefs and ritual observance of the ancient Greek and Greek religion.
Greek people believe in 12 highest gods and goddess placed in Olympus. They are:
a. Zeus, the supreme lord and sky father
b. Hera, Zeus wife, the marriage and fertility goddess
c. Hestia, the virgin goddess of hearth
d. Hephacstus, the god of fire and the forge
e. Hermes, the god of travelers
f. Hades, the god of the dead and underworld
g. Poseidon, the god of waters
h. Aphrodite, the goddess of love
i. Ares, the god of war
j. Athena, the virgin goddess of wisdom
k. Apollo, god of light, poetry and music
l. Artemis, goddess of wildlife and later goddess moon
2.3 Superstition
2.3.1Definition
Superstition is an irrational belief or practice resulting from ignorance or fear of the unknown.
2.3.2 Superstition: Magic Belief
Superstition is closely related to magic, to the idea that man can use supernatural forces to control the natural world (Encyclopedia Americana, 1997:35).
2.4 Positivism
2.4.1Definition
Positivism (also known as logical empiricism or logical neopositivism) was a philosophical movement risen in Austria and Germany in 1920s.
2.4.2 Development of positivism
The doctrine was first called positivism by the 19th-century French mathematician and philosopher Auguste Comte, but some of the positivist concepts may be traced to the British philosopher David Hume, the French philosopher Duc de Saint-Simon, and the German philosopher Immanuel Kant.
2.4.3 Principles of positivism
Positivists are guided by five principles, they are:
1. The unity of the scientific method.
2. The goal of inquiry is to explain and predict.
3. Scientific knowledge is testable.
4. Science does not equal common sense.
5. And, the relation of theory to practice.
4. Conclusion ( chapter V )
In this last chapter, the writer is giving conclusions and suggestions drawn from the analysis of the movie entitled 300, as follows.
Superstition exists in ancient Greek society and it is becoming religion and tradition. The Greek people in the movie will do everything based on unreasonable thinking people must obey the rule no matter he was a king or ordinary people. Superstition does not axis alone in this epoch. There is a logical thinking known as positivism in which people start using their reason to think and doing activities.
Superstition and positivism are two opposing are two opposing ways of life that apparently exist in ancient Greek society. Initially, superstition dominates Greek people. Later on, superstition does not influence them as it is replaced by positivism. Positivism has begun to take rule in guiding the Greek’s people in doing daily activities, although superstition still exists in every human being’s mind.
STUDENT NUMBER : 221141026
PROGRAM : ENGLISH LITERATURE
SUBJECT : ACADEMIC WRITING
Find a final project and summarize
“DEATH OF SUPERSTITION AND THE ADVENT OF POSITIVISM IN ANCIENT GREEK MYTHOLOGY IN 300 FILM “
A final project submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Sarjana Sastra in English
By : Hafidhun Annas
2250406505
English department
Faculty of language and arts
Semarang state university
2. a. Research Question
Greek people believed in something unreal in the world, which later on became a religion. They must ask to an oracle before doing something important They would do what the oracle said.
After the superstition or metaphysic was not popular anymore, the logical and rational thinking started to dominate the field of philosophy. Rational is called positivism. Auguste Comte is one of the positive philosophers. Under the Greek Empire, the positivist society suffered from defections and slow growth. Based on the explanation above, the writer intends to discuss superstition and positivism as revealed in the film entitled 300.
b. Statements of the problem
1) How is superstition revealed in the movie?
2) How does the main character show positivism in the movie?
c. Objectives of the study
The objectives of the study can be stated as follows:
1) To identify the superstition as revealed in the movie.
2) To analyze how the main character shows positivism in the movie.
3. Heading chapter 2
CHAPTER II
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
2.1 Movie
2.1.2 Definition of movie
Movie is one of literary works besides poetry, prose, and drama. Movie is also called motion picture. Movies carry some messages which have moral values based on Encyclopedia Americana ( 1986:vol, 19,p.505)
2.1.2The kinds of movie
1) Action movie
Action movies usually have some characteristic, such as high energy, battles, fights, escapes, destructive crises (floods, explosions, natural disasters, fires, etc.), and non-stop motion.
2) Adventure movie
Adventure movie are interesting films and usually consist of new experiences.
3) Comedy movie
Comedy movie are designed to amuse the audience and give laughter through the characters and their relationship, language and action. These movies are often funny.
4) Crime and gangster movie
5) Drama movie
This type is serious movie which is portraying realistic characters, settings, life situations, and stories involving intense character development and interaction. Usually, they are not focused on special-effect, comedy, or action.
6) Epics or historical movie
Epic include historical, drama and war film that often cover a large expanse of time set against a vast. Epics often take a historical event, mythic, legendary, or heroic figure, and have high production values.
7) Horror movie
Horror movie are designed to frighten while entertaining us at the same time in a cathartic experience.
8) Musicals (dance) movie
Musicals dance movies emphasize full-scale scores or song and dance routines in a significant way. In other words, these movies are the combination of music, dance and song.
9) Science fiction movie
Sci-fi movies are often quasi-scientific, visionary and imaginative – complete with heroes, aliens, distant planets, impossible quests, improbable settings, fantastic place, technology, unknown and unknowable forces, and extraordinary monsters ( thing or creatures from space), either created by mad scientists or by nuclear havoc. Science fiction often expresses the potential of technology to destroy human being.
10) War (anti-war) movie
War movies perform the horror and heartbreak of war, letting the actual combat fighting (against nations or humankind) on the certain background which is not for actions in the movie.
11) Western movie
Western are the major defining genre of the American film industry. Overtime, western have been redefined, re-invented and expanded, dismissed and re-discovered.
2.2 Mythology
2.2.1Definition
The word “mythology” we need to define the meaning of the word “mythos” which originally meant “speech” or discourse but later came to mean “fable” or legend”.
2.2.2Greek Mythology
Greek mythology is complete with supernatural beliefs and ritual observance of the ancient Greek and Greek religion.
Greek people believe in 12 highest gods and goddess placed in Olympus. They are:
a. Zeus, the supreme lord and sky father
b. Hera, Zeus wife, the marriage and fertility goddess
c. Hestia, the virgin goddess of hearth
d. Hephacstus, the god of fire and the forge
e. Hermes, the god of travelers
f. Hades, the god of the dead and underworld
g. Poseidon, the god of waters
h. Aphrodite, the goddess of love
i. Ares, the god of war
j. Athena, the virgin goddess of wisdom
k. Apollo, god of light, poetry and music
l. Artemis, goddess of wildlife and later goddess moon
2.3 Superstition
2.3.1Definition
Superstition is an irrational belief or practice resulting from ignorance or fear of the unknown.
2.3.2 Superstition: Magic Belief
Superstition is closely related to magic, to the idea that man can use supernatural forces to control the natural world (Encyclopedia Americana, 1997:35).
2.4 Positivism
2.4.1Definition
Positivism (also known as logical empiricism or logical neopositivism) was a philosophical movement risen in Austria and Germany in 1920s.
2.4.2 Development of positivism
The doctrine was first called positivism by the 19th-century French mathematician and philosopher Auguste Comte, but some of the positivist concepts may be traced to the British philosopher David Hume, the French philosopher Duc de Saint-Simon, and the German philosopher Immanuel Kant.
2.4.3 Principles of positivism
Positivists are guided by five principles, they are:
1. The unity of the scientific method.
2. The goal of inquiry is to explain and predict.
3. Scientific knowledge is testable.
4. Science does not equal common sense.
5. And, the relation of theory to practice.
4. Conclusion ( chapter V )
In this last chapter, the writer is giving conclusions and suggestions drawn from the analysis of the movie entitled 300, as follows.
Superstition exists in ancient Greek society and it is becoming religion and tradition. The Greek people in the movie will do everything based on unreasonable thinking people must obey the rule no matter he was a king or ordinary people. Superstition does not axis alone in this epoch. There is a logical thinking known as positivism in which people start using their reason to think and doing activities.
Superstition and positivism are two opposing are two opposing ways of life that apparently exist in ancient Greek society. Initially, superstition dominates Greek people. Later on, superstition does not influence them as it is replaced by positivism. Positivism has begun to take rule in guiding the Greek’s people in doing daily activities, although superstition still exists in every human being’s mind.
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