Recent films such as Johnny Mnemonic, the Matrix, AI, Bicentennial Man, and the X-Men all explore the various ways the theme of cyborgs and questions surrounding the effects of combining human intelligence with the new frontiers and boundaries of virtual reality and cyberspace. According to Kennedy in his 2001 publication, Introduction to the Matrix, both Blade Runner and the Matrix offer post-modernist view of the world where the distinction between the real and representations of the real, the virtual are blurred. ... The promotional movie poster for Forbidden Planet sums up the theme of th...

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Although there were over a half a dozen powerful gangs in New York, Chicago was the capital of racketeers, including Johnny Torrio, "Bugs Moran", O"Banions, and the Gennas (Behr,192).The most powerful and infamous bootlegger however, was of course Al Capone, operating out of Chicago. ... McGurn staged a delivery of alcohol to Moran at a warehouse and had his gang members pretend to be police officers and pretend to raid the transaction. Machine gun fire went off throughout the whole warehouse , McGurn killed all that were inside. Capone of course never got caught for the incident seeing that ...

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As unlikely as this plot may seem, it forms the basis for the syndicated television series, Vanishing Son (Universal Television, 1994-95), [2] starring another bi-racial performer, Russell Wong, as Jian-Wa "Johnny- Chang. ... Jian-Wa embodies the West through his impeccable command of English and his violin virtuosity and the East through his martial artistry and vague spirituality. Associated with the Democracy Movement, the fact that Jian-Wa cannot return to China is taken for granted, and his association with the haute bourgeois world of the concert violinist makes it even less likely that ...

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