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    Soldiers are considered by many as heroes. I have chosen to use the theme soldiers are not treated like the heroes they should be. This theme is portrayed in the texts Hero of War‚ by Rise Against‚ This is War‚ by Thirty Seconds to Mars‚ Wrong Side of Heaven‚ by Five Finger Death Punch and‚ Rambo First Blood‚ by Ted Kotcheff. At the beginning of the film Hero of War‚ by Rise Against‚ the army recruiter is trying to persuade a potential recruit to sign up for the army. He promises him adventure and

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    again and share your thoughts on Asian American Theatre and those issues you feel are important now based on our reading this week‚ your research of Asian American Theatre and the conversion with David Henry Hwang. Has your opinion changed? Why or why not? What have you learned or discovered this week that may have changed what you feel is important to the issues of the Asian American society and culture? How can Theatre/TV and Film better serve the Asian American public and those issues that

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    #20 Professor: Guarracino English 1101-135 10 April 2012 Are Women portrayed in the media? The highlight on the latter raises a larger question about the radicalized sexual images of women today. It is most likely the society that is bombarded by the media’s usage of advertisements‚ television‚ billboards‚ magazines and internet. We are surrounded by the images that most people don’t have. Reality shows and entertainment are emulated and are the common choices for teens today. They may

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    Plagiarism As we all know‚ plagiarism is equivalent to cheating. Plagiarism is no good for us‚ we not only can’t really learn the knowledge‚ but also will lose marks. However‚ if you find out that some article’s sentence or paragraph is really good and useful‚ then‚ you want to use that on your paper to share with your teacher and classmates‚ and so at this time could you just copy down everything you want? Of course not‚ in my opinion‚ this behavior is plagiarism‚ if you don’t change any

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    video ‘Wet’ by Snoop Dogg‚ women are shown dancing together wearing little more than a bikini. The woman are usually shown either dancing sexually together or grinding against something‚ trying their best to either get the males attention or to please them. The video shows that women are not being valued for anything other than their appearance/actions. They get judged on what they’re doing rather than what their personality is. Woman in hip hop videos are portrayed as sex objects and are usually

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    Midterm Essay How are bystanders portrayed in literature and film (use two examples)? Are they judged negatively or given a pass by the authors or directors? In the several films and books that we have reviewed up to this point in the class‚ we can see that there a many people had their own opinion concerning the Holocaust and the tragic events that took during that epic period in history. Once Hitler had achieved influential level of control over the government‚ no one could have predicted that

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    Asian American Actors have experienced a series of constraints driven by what Wong (1978) describes as institutionalized racism within the movie industry. Within those constraints is the relationship between profit making priorities (therefore the need to draw mass audiences) and concepts of White American social ideals as epitomized by the big stars of Hollywood. It is not so much individual racism‚ as Wong (1978) suggests‚ as it is the institutional barriers which bar Asian actors from major roles

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    “I have the perspective on what Chinese Americans go through and what immigrants go  through‚ I can straddle those two worlds” 1980’s­ second stage ● Institutionalization‚ pragmatism and skills attainment ● screening outside the AA community ● release in theaters ● first asian americans film to receive theatrical distribution  ­national film registry: part of the american congress‚ has to be historically significant  films in US  1. Wizard of OZ 2. Star Wars 3. Zapruder films(JFK) 4. Japanese Internment film Community BAsed

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    To what extent do the front covers of Cosmopolitan use similar representations of women compared to the Lynx ‘beach’ campaign?. ‘Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at’ – John Berger‚ ‘Ways of seeing’. For my research investigation I intend to explore to what extent specific media products use similar representations of women to appeal to their target audiences. The examples I have chosen to focus on are the iconic‚ international women’s fashion

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    minorities are actually portrayed as assimilated and not integrated. Assimilation for as diverse a community as the Asian-American creates an underlying problem of trying to put asians into neat little labels and it also calls for the question: how does the social and cultural history of Asian migrants go against a deep-anchored ethnicism within the American society? To answer these questions‚ we will first give you a broad outline of the historical aspects of the Asian-Americans’ attempts at integrating

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