A essay about film "X-man"

Use 5 vocabularies from list:

Vocabulary for X-Men: First Class-

1) Genome: the full complement of genetic information that an individual organism inherits from its parents, especially the sets of chromosomes and the genes they will carry.

2) Gene: the basic unit capable of transmitting characteristics from one generation to the next.

3) DNA: a nucleic acid molecule in the form of a twisted double helix that is the major component of chromosomes and carries genetic information.

4) RNA: a nucleic acid that contains the sugar ribose, is found in all living cells, and is essential for the manufacture of proteins according to the instructions carried by genes.

5) Chromosome: a rod-shaped structure in a cell nucleus carrying the genes that determine sex and the characteristics and organism inherits from its parents.

6) Mutation: a random change in a gene or chromosome resulting in a new trait or characteristic that can be inherited.

7) Human: having the imperfections and weaknesses of a human being rather than a machine or divine being.

8) Humanity: the qualities or characteristics considered as a whole to be typical of human beings.

9) Civil Rights: rights that all citizens of a society are supposed to have, for example, the right to vote or to receive fair treatment from the law.

10) Experiment: a test, especially a scientific one, carried out in order to discover whether a theory is correct or what the results of a particular course of action would be.

11) Science: the study of the physical world and its manifestations, especially by using systematic observation and experiment.

12) Science Fiction: a form of fiction, usually set in the future, that deals with imaginary scientific and technological developments and contact with other worlds.

13) Comic Book: a book or magazine that uses sequences of drawings to tell a story or series of stories, primarily in serialized form, usually fiction.

14) Atomic Bomb: A nuclear weapon that obtains its destructive energy from nuclear fission.

15) Nuclear Fission: a nuclear reaction in which a large nucleus splits into smaller ones with the simultaneous release of energy.

16) Nuclear Fallout: material settling from a radioactive plume, and its subsequent surface deposition

17) Nuclear Winter: A predicted drop in global temperature following a nuclear war due to dust in the upper atmosphere reducing sunlight reaching the ground.

18) Nuclear Holocaust: the possibility of complete annihilation of human civilization by nuclear war.

19) Cold War: A period of hostile relations between Communist and Western superpowers where direct open warfare between them is largely undesired and avoided.

20) United States: The collection of individual states of the United States of America.

21) Soviet Union: A confederation of Communist states led by Russia from 1922 to 1991

22) Nuclear Strategy: Involves the development of doctrines and strategies for the production and use of nuclear weapons.

23) Totalitarianism: A system of government in which the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control.

24) Nazism: The ideology of Adolf Hitler’s NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers’ Party), including a Führer’s totalitarian government, racism, nationalist territorial expansion and state control of the (war) economy.

25) Concentration Camp: A camp or premises in which persons considered to be undesirable by those who control it are hidden away, mistreated, and even killed.

26) Holocaust: The mass murder of Jews and other groups by the Nazi regime during World War II.

27) Existentialism: A twentieth-century philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices.

28) Sub-Culture: A portion of a culture distinguished by its customs or other features.

29) Discrimination: The distinct treatment of an individual or group to their disadvantage.

30) Bigotry: Intolerance or prejudice, especially religious or racial.

31) Individual: A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.

32) Genocide: The systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on the basis of ethnicity, religion, political opinion, social status, or other particularity.

Answer these questions in the essay

Questions for X-Men: First Class-

1) Can a mutant that does not look human, still be human? How does this fit into Freud’s notion of the Uncanny. If you looked like Mystique, would you conceal your natural blue form into a human disguise, or take your chances as is?

2) Can normal human beings treat as equal mutants that no longer look human? What would people do if they saw Mystique in her blue form walking around a grocery store?

3) In your opinion, would Sebastian Shaw’s plan have worked? What might happen to mutants that disagreed with his decision to wipe out humanity in a nuclear holocaust?

4) What does Question #3 have to do the Nazi Holocaust visualized at the beginning of the film? After Magneto kills Sebastian Shaw, do you still think he intends to carry out his extermination of the human race? What then did he learn from his internment in Poland?

5) If you could have a mutant power outlined in the film, which one would it be and why? If you were a mutant do you still think that you would side with the human race, or might you agree with Sabastian Shaw?

6) Which mutant power outlined in the film would you not want to have and why? If you had this power, would you still side with the human race, or might you agree with Sebastian Shaw?