Julie Dash had a mission statement as a filmmaker that set out to redefine how we see African American women on screen. Their wants‚ their desires‚ their needs‚ theirs joys and sorrows. Dash wanted to be able to see African American women share spaces previously only reserved for men and white people. TV tropes such as riding into the sunset successfully‚ things you just didn’t normally get to see these women do. This imbedded issue suggests that they couldn’t do these things‚ which is the fundamental
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Year‚ Class 1A Contrast the views that both Aristotle and Epicurus hold on pleasure Epicurus tried to find the key of obtaining pleasure‚ so did Aristotle. Although they both have different theories about pleasure‚ they both agreed on the idea that actions aim to obtain pleasures. Pleasure is something that can be defined differently by each individual. Every person have a different idea on how we reach our desires. For Aristotle‚ our pleasures come through fulfilling human
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who wrote a lot on how to get that to be real… Aristotle wrote about many things‚ one of the most prized literary works is his work on poetics. He talks about all the things that make a good play‚ good. How to capture the people’s attention‚ and keep them guessing. A few of the things Aristotle wrote about in his literary arraignment Poetics‚ are the importance of a protagonist‚ having a fall of the protagonist‚ and the antagonist. In Poetics by Aristotle it mentions the importance of having a protagonist
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organisation that is located in a public housing estate. You have been working with the following family for a number of months. Julie has four children‚ aged 2-10 years old‚ and lives in a public housing estate in ‘Springvale’. You became involved with Julie’s family when she moved to the estate‚ having left Bill‚ the father of her children‚ due to experiencing domestic violence. Julie was granted public housing due to her single parent status‚ and she is receiving Parenting Payment (Single) from Centrelink
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example of his proposed ideal form of prose‚ showing Socrates to be speaking from logos (logic) as opposed to the former Greek poet’s employment of catharsis as the prime vessel for literature’s performance. The poetry of his time‚ claims Plato‚ is lacking in reason and relevance. Being then an oral art‚ it reflected the mere imitation of emotion and was thus an improper educator of the people. Aristotle was Plato’s most valued pupil‚ as such‚ much if not most of his work in the Poetics draws crucial
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Aristotle’s Concept of Imitation Aristotle took the term ‘Imitation’ from Plato‚ yet Aristotle gave new dimensions and significance to the term. Aristotle’s imitation is not mere copying but a creative imitation or re-creation. It is the imitation of the ideals. Aristotle describes the medium‚ objects and manner of poetic imitation. Plato’s Idea of Imitation Plato divides arts into useful arts like medicine and agriculture and imitative arts like poetry. To Plato ‘idea’ was the truth
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the classes present within the polis. This focused more on individualism in that one must only be concerned with his/her business and not minding other’s problems. The justice that occurs in their society depends on the class to whom one belongs. However‚ Aristotle‚ his student‚ was more for all-encompassing justice aiming for the ultimate goal of the constitution. Equality‚ for Aristotle‚ depends on the constitution in which the society is built upon. For democracy‚ it promotes equality for those
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of the problem. Society’s reluctance to discuss suicide and mental illness plays a large role in the public being notoriously unaware of the pervasiveness of suicide in young people. In her essay‚ “Suicide on Campus and the Pressure of Perfection‚” Julie Scelfo‚ a frequent contributor to The New York Times‚ analyzes the demanding lifestyles of college students and the stress factors on their lives. Scelfo strives to educate parents and students on the influences of parental control and the importance
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Aristotle defines virtue in terms of a mean or median. On one end is the excess and on the other the deficiency with the median found somewhere between the two. A sizeable portion of the book is dedicated to discussing these virtues and their excess and deficiency as well as the sphere the virtue falls under. While a majority of the virtues have vices on either side and are found through trial and error somewhere between them‚ the virtue of temperance does not have this quality and is therefore more
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unjust actions are motivated by pleonexia Pleonexia can be understood as the desire to have more of some socially availablegood‚ and is usually translated as greed or acquisitiveness. Close . Second‚ Aristotle does not identify a deficient vice with respect to justice. This violates his "golden mean" doctrine with respect to virtue. Without the identification of the deficient vice with respect to justice‚ then justice must not be a virtue of character. Due to considerations of time and length
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