Kill Bill‚ Volume 1: Purging the female stereotype in films Kill Bill‚ Volume 1 was vital in the purging‚ even eradicating the female stereotype in films. “Wiggle your big toe.” The toe doesn’t move. “Wiggle your big toe.” (Tarantino) It doesn’t move. The Bride played by actress Uma Thurman is really Beatrix Kiddo‚ but is known as Black Mamba as well as Arlene Machiavelli; her real name is bleeped out during Kill Bill‚ Volume 1 as she recounts the situation which led her to being in
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Social Relationships and Identity Online and Offline – Summary In contrast to the typically panicked reception of older new media technologies‚ fearful of their ill effects on social relationships and identities‚ the internet has posed the possibility of entirely new relationships and identities‚ constituted within new media‚ and in competition with ostensibly non-mediated‚ older forms of relationship. Distinguishing Life Online To study the internet as a cultural artifact involves looking at
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Roman Nikolayevich Kim and the Strange Plot of his Mystery Novellas 1. Introduction Yulian Semyonov’s (1931-1993) Petrovka‚ 38 (1963) is the only one Russian work in Hayakawa Pocket Mystery‚ which is a representative foreign mystery series of Japan‚ at the present moment. However‚ there was his predecessor‚ whose spy and detective stories were read worldwide. Roman Nikolayevich Kim (1899-1967) “appeared as a detective and spy novel writer after the war‚” and “two million copies of this popular
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Why Study Literature? Thursday in one of my Introduction to Literature courses‚ one of my students said‚ "Ma ’am‚ I have a question. No disrespect‚ but...." We all know the feeling that comes with any question or remark that begins that way. I thought‚ "Oh boy. Here it comes." "...Why do we need to learn this? Is my commander going to send me a poem and ask me to explicate it?" This question always flummoxes me--not because I have no answer‚ but because the answers are so obvious to me
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CHEN DONG DES40A 03/10/2013 Embodied Energy in the Process of Hardwood Flooring Hardwood flooring is one of the most common flooring in our life. The processes of produce hardwood flooring are very complex. Those processes from beginning to end of produce hardwood flooring embody different energy. My research is focus on the energy that embodied in the process of hardwood flooring. From the article “Green Speak”‚ the embodied energy means “the sum of the energy necessary to make a product‚
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Postmodernism in fashion has developed over the past twenty years with designers such as‚ Comme des Garçons‚ Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood demonstrating its key elements. So how is Postmodernism still relevant in fashion today? Postmodernism has been widely used over the past two decades‚ but trying to pinpoint one definitive meaning for the term is very difficult indeed. Taken literally Postmodernism means “after the modernist movement”‚ but there is more to Postmodernism than that
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A STAND AGAINST WIKIPEDIA As Wikipedia has become more and more popular with students‚ some professors have become increasingly concerned about the online‚ reader-produced encyclopedia. While plenty of professors have complained about the lack of accuracy or completeness of entries‚ and some have discouraged or tried to bar students from using it. “As educators‚ we are in the business of reducing the dissemination of misinformation‚” said Don Wyatt‚ chair of the department. “Even though Wikipedia
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Retrieved March 18‚ 2013‚ from Matrix Masters: http://www.matrixmasters.com/pn/lectures/speakers/alexallysongrey2.html Mark. (1982). Influences of Giger. Retrieved March 18‚ 2013‚ from Macro Ceramics: http://macroceramics.blogspot.com.au/2011/06/deconstruction-influences-of-giger.html
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marriage argue that Proposition 8 was overturned because most Americans thought “though homosexuals may believe that they are merely seeking a small expansion of the definition of marriage‚ the majority of Americans perceive this change as a radical deconstruction of the institution” (Schiffren 192). They argue that with the legalization of same-gender marriage it will destroy the institution of marriage. It is believed that by recognizing civil unions among those who are gay is “a radical redefinition
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Exploring Surrealism In Fashion Essay Surrealism Surrealism in Fashion Symbolism and Metaphors -Human Form and Parts -Displacement of Objects -Nature and Fantasy Surrealism in the Fashion Industry -Case Study 1: Elsa Schiaparelli -Case Study 2: Viktor & Rolf The Lasting Impact of Surrealism on Fashion Conclusion http://www.ukessays.com/essays/fashion/exploring-surrealism-in-fashion-fashion-essay.php Read more: http://www.ukessays.com/essays/fashion/exploring-surrealism-in-fashion-fashion-essay
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