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    Mediation of Lady Gaga

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    STUDENT NUMBER: 33198474 Mediation of Lady Gaga Global Culture Industry CU71015A Theories of the Cultural Industry: Work‚ Creativity and Precariousness Alvina Azaria MA Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship Media and Communication Pathway 1/17/2011 Question: Do objects in the culture industry have a life of their own? Discuss the ’mediation of things ’ argument from Lash and Lury by following the life of a particular object. Test the method by evaluating it in relationship to other theoretical

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    History of English Literature

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    From the Conquest to Chaucer 1066-1400 The Norman conquest of England‚ in the 11th century‚ made a break in the natural growth of the English language and literature. The Old English or Anglo-Saxon had been a purely Germanic speech‚ with a complicated grammar and a full set of inflections. For three hundred years following the battle of Hastings this native tongue was driven from the king’s court and the courts of law‚ from Parliament‚ school‚ and university. During all this time there were two

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    History 4197 • Spring 2013 Thursday‚ January 17‚ 2013 The Many Meanings of Scandal Themes * Slander * Attacks on personal and public reputation * Take people to court for slander * Print Media * Publicity * Personal Attacks * Gossip * The engine of scandal * Doesn’t have to be true * Public figures * The most likely figures. They invite scandal because they are in the public sphere. Slander has been limited to people who stay private

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    On Teaching Medea

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    Athens and Sparta‚ inaugurating the Peloponnesian War. At the City Dionysia it was customary for three tragic playwrights to compete against each other‚ and each playwright would produce four plays—three tragedies‚ and a satyr-play (a kind of burlesque with a chorus of satyrs). According to Aristophanes the Grammarian’s hypothesis‚ in 431 BCE the three competitors were Euphorion (the son of the deceased playwright Aischylos)‚ Sophokles (who was about 65 years old at the time)‚ and Euripides (who

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     John Milton was an English poet‚ polemicist‚ a scholarly man of letters‚ and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. Wikipedia   Born: December 9‚ 1608‚ Cheapside‚ United Kingdom  Died: November 8‚ 1674‚ Chalfont St Giles‚ United Kingdom  Full name: John Milton  Parents: John Milton  Plays: Samson Agonistes THE Age of Dryden” seems an expression as appropriate as any description of a literary period by the name of a single writer can be‚ and yet

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    Essay Supplementary to Preface William Wordsworth (1815) WITH the young of both sexes‚ Poetry is‚ like love‚ a passion; but‚ for much the greater part of those who have been proud of its power over their minds‚ a necessity soon arises of breaking the pleasing bondage; or it relaxes of itself;—the thoughts being occupied in domestic cares‚ or the time engrossed by business. Poetry then becomes only an occasional recreation; while to those whose existence passes away in a course of fashionable

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    Facebook is an online social networking service‚ whose name stems from the colloquial name for the book given to students at the start of the academic year by some university administrations in the United States to help students get to know each other.[7] It was founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin‚ Andrew McCollum‚ Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.[8] The website’s membership was initially limited by the founders

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    Test #1: Study Notes Chapter 1 Cinephile: a lover of cinema Filmography: a list of films There are distinct types of explanation in film history: 1. Biographical History 2. Industrial/Economic Historybusiness procedures 3. Aesthetic Historyfilm art (form; style) 4. Technological History 5. Social/Cultural/Political Types of Explanation: 1. Chronology 2. Influence 3. Trends/Generalization 4. Periods (by positing trends‚ historians generalize) 5. Significance Methodological Individualism:

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    Nature of Abstract Art

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    Nature of Abstract Art Meyer Schapiro (1937) Before there was an art of abstract painting‚ it was already widely believed that the value of a picture was a matter of colors and shapes alone. Music and architecture were constantly held up to painters as examples of a pure art which did not have to imitate objects but derived its effects from elements peculiar to itself. But such ideas could not be readily accepted‚ since no one had yet seen a painting made up of colors and shapes‚ representing

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    Beyond Saturn

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    Beyond Saturn The Virtue of Limitation William N. Greer We know as little of a supreme being as of Matter. But there is as little doubt of the existence of a supreme being as of Matter. The world beyond is a reality‚ an experiential fact. We only don’t understand it. — C. G. Jung This essay blends astrology and archetypal psychology — a discipline formulated by James Hillman that in the late 20 th century emerged as a distinct field of inquiry from the analytical psychology of Carl

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