13TH FLOOR GAMES

Jacking In To the Matrix Franchise: Cultural Reception and Interpretation

Few media franchises can match The Matrix for enthusiasm of reception and subsequent proliferation. Who in 1999 could have imagined that the momentum of a single film would sustain two more major theatrical releases in a single year, a collection of nine anime cartoons, a best-selling computer game, and more websites than can be counted? Jacking In To The Matrix Trilogy will be the first academic study to take an in-depth look at all of these products, a coherent overview of the franchise as a whole. The Matrix films are rich with mythological and religious references, as well as drawing upon futuristic fiction. Such richness demands a variety of decoding interpreting skills, and the array of talent in this volume will lay bare many of the strand that have given the Matrix creations such a sense of magic. The book gathers original articles that comment on the cultural and religious implications of The Matrix trilogy, its place within the cyberworlds of contemporary literature and philosophy, and its portrayal of gender and race. The volume also makes conjectures about the ethical and social consequences of taking either the red of the blue pill. Jacking In To The Matrix Trilogy wil

Gee this is taking me a long time.
Partly because there isn't a right-angle anywhere on this old house.
Bizarrely, this house was shipped from the Bahamas 30 years ago, though why anyone would have gone to the trouble for this poor old place I don't know.

Every time we work on a new part of the house we have to fix everything that's there first. For this porch we had to disconnect and rerun some dodgy electric, jack up the floor since it had sunk due to rotten joists, and replace some 2x4's in the wall that were termite damaged. Then we got started...

Bill and Jeremy jack up the floor joists to try to match the level of the new room. Worked out pretty well. Pop loves jacking up buildings. It is his SPECIALTY!!

On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners approaching the market in North America & the Caribbean face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying built-in jacking systems used in garages for raising vehicles to North America & the Caribbean? What is the dollar value of these imports? How much do the imports of built-in jacking systems used in garages for raising vehicles vary from one country to another in North America & the Caribbean? Do exporters serving the market in North America & the Caribbean have similar market shares across the importing countries? On the supply side, North America & the Caribbean also sells to the international market of built-in jacking systems used in garages for raising vehicles. Which countries in North America & the Caribbean supply the most exports of built-in jacking systems used in garages for raising vehicles? Which countries are buying their exports? What is the value of these exports and which countries are the largest buyers?

This report was created for strategic planners, international marketing executives and import/export managers who are concerned with the market for built-in jacking systems used in garages for raising vehicles in North America & the Caribbean. With the globalization of this market, managers can no longer be contented with a local view. Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics that appear several years after the fact. I have developed a methodology, based on macroeconomic and trade models, to estimate the market for built-in jacking systems used in garages for raising vehicles for those countries serving North America & the Caribbean via exports or supplying from North America & the Caribbean via imports. We do so for the current year based on a variety of key historical indicators and econometric models.

In what follows, Chapter 2 begins by summarizing where North America & the