Outline –Dance Criticism (Step Up Revolution) Introduction: -Describe more about dancing. -Briefly talk about the movie “Step Up Revolution” Hook: Dancing is one of the art form that is the mixture of human passion and body movement to create every single move Thesis: This protesting dance mob dance to be turbulent for the business man‚ criticize the project in the middle of the conference‚ and to show the culture of Miami. Topic: Dance Criticism (Step Up Revolution) Scope: protesting
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NEW CRITICISM Introduction New Criticism The name New criticism came into popular use to describe this approach to understanding literature with the 1941 publication of John Crow Ransom’s The New Criticism. This contains Ransom’s personal analysis of several of his contemporaries among theories and critics. Here he calls for an ontological critic (one who will recognize that poem is a concrete entity) like Leonardo Da Vinci’s “”Mona Lisa”. In New Criticism‚ a poem can be analyzed to discover
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comings. It is only through habitually practicing to try to make the right decisions that we can aspire to become virtuous. It is not our response to a single situation but how we respond as a general rule. We need to be consistent in our actions. Aristotle realized that this is something that doesn’t come overnight but that it takes time to mold ourselves. How we find out what the mean is in every
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Reedie Garrett Professor Andrade English 1302 WS6 14 February 2015 The Little Things Feminist criticism is the way that literature portrays the oppression of women. Therefore‚ many women rose to fight patriarchy society‚ which gave roles to each of its members. Women were only briefly part of the social role and were mainly given the reproductive role that confined them to raising children and taking care of their households and husbands. Susan Glaspell‚ a writer in the early twentieth century‚
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In this short essay I will describe what I thought of an ideal economic system‚ in few words‚ which should bring an end to the current problems displayed in both capitalist and socialist economic systems. The Capitalist Economic System (as described by Wikipedia): Capitalism is an economic system in which wealth‚ and the means of producing wealth‚ are privately owned and controlled rather than state owned and controlled. Through capitalism‚ the land‚ labor‚ and capital are owned‚ operated‚ and
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Aristotle had a few theories of ethics. Aristotle believed that one attains happiness by living a virtuous life and through the development of reason and the faculty of theoretical wisdom. He believed that moral virtue is a relative mean between extremes of excess and deficiency and in general the moral life is one of moderation in all things except virtue. He believed that virtuous acts require conscious choice and moral purpose or motivation. Finally‚ he believed that moral virtue cannot be achieved
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also wrong. This never-ending debate would never cease‚ therefore our efforts would render useless. A common ground is required for some kind of agreement between us. In The Nicomachean Ethics‚ Aristotle provides us with a more universal meaning for virtue‚ more specifically regarding honor. Aristotle states‚ in Book IV‚ that the honorable man “does not run into trifling dangers‚ nor is he fond of danger‚ because he honors few things; but he will face great
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Notes on Poetics by Aristotle Part VI-Defining tragedy‚ it’s elements and Imitation Defines tragedy as an imitation that is serious‚ complete and with a certain magnitude. The success or failure of the tragedy aspect is dependent on action‚ and action consists of distinctive qualities through character and thought. Character is the association of virtues we give to the agent. Thought is fund everywhere‚ for everything must be justified. Therefore it is relevant for any statement or truth
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Biographical Criticism Upon reading the opening of Langston Hughes poem‚ I recognized that there was a lot going on. It can be first noticed that this is an assignment given to him by his English instructor at his college. There is evidence that Langston started his homework immediately. This fact suggests that the assignment not only motivated him to write‚ but it caused him to think. The result is a path of reflection and opinions‚ which leads to an eye-opener of truth that everyone is
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tragic hero. A hero must fall from grace and must be able to clearly comprehend the cause of his fall. The “fall” must take place due to an error in judgement that arises out of some flaw (hamartia) in the character of the hero. “According to Aristotle a tragic hero is a person of exalted position who on account of some error or flaw suffers total reversal of fortune arousing feeling of pity and fear. The calamities befalling him are exceptional and unexpected‚ and generally lead to his death.”_1
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