Kapur’s 1998 film Elizabeth gives evidence to how composers use language to construct and perform masculine and feminine aspects of identity‚ investigating its contextual foundations by creating voices and characters to challenge language and gender codes. Language used in Elizabeth with double entendre and metaphor‚ combined with the language constraints of the films context‚ allows for the subtle challenging of established gender roles as a part of identity. Kapur also plays with film devices in
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1) Personal Response When I read the excerpts from Dick Gregory’s book‚ nigger‚ I was surprised at some parts of the text. It was surprising when Gregory went against the movie manager when the manager didn’t allow him to sit downstairs.”’I’m sorry‚ Mister Gregory‚ but you know you can’t sit in the orchestra.’’Why not?’’Because colored seating is in the balcony.’My St.Louis dream died that night….’If you want me in the balcony‚ you’ll have to put me there.’”(Gregory 83). I was also surprising
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Personal Response to “The Shawshank Redemption” Punit Gor Foundation II DSK Supinfocom Director Frank Darabont’s 1994 debut‚ The Shawshank Redemption is a Drama film adapted from Stephen King’s novel Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption from his 1982 collections. Thomas Newman delivers the score to the film. The story is chronological and is in the same time period of the film (1994). The film stars Tim Robbins‚ who plays a young and successful banker‚ Andrew “Andy” Dufresne‚ sentenced
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Personal Response to Dear Daddy The short story Dear Daddy by Lee Maracle brought me back the tears that I‚ too‚ had as a child. I felt pitiful for the main character’s experience and deeply impressed by the thirteen-year-old girl’s courage of getting over her negative feelings for the past and going on with her life. The story‚ written in the form of a letter‚ shows the process of a thirteen-year-old girl becoming more mature as she expresses her grievances from her tragic childhood. At the beginning
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English 122 Wednesday‚ October 2‚ 2013 Personal Response- Thumbprint Each of us imprints our own mark into the world‚ and no one is quite like us. In the poem‚ "Thumbprint" by Eve Merriam‚ she discusses the theme of how each of us is unique‚ and that no one will ever be exactly like us. She uses alliteration and metaphors to demonstrate her theme. I have reached a part in my life where I accepted my uniqueness. The poem "Thumbprint" reveals the celebration of being a unique individual. Merriam
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Personal Response on Sexual Identity You go through your life making choices and decisions but not thinking of exactly why you were making the choices that you made. Before this class I just figured that I mad the decisions I made because it was what I wanted at the time. Since I have taken this class I have found that the decisions that you make are based on what is called a value system. According to Rathus‚ Nevid‚ and Fichner-Rathus (2011)‚ the value system has to do with legalism
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Personal Response to Wilfred Owen One of Wilfred Owen’s poem is Dulce et Decorum est. The title of this poem is roughly translated to: It is honorable and beautiful to die for your country‚ the poem itself basically speaks of how this is a lie. It takes you through a small story at the end of which it explains in gruel poetry the death of a soldier with effective language that helps inspire fear “And watch the white eyes writhing in his face‚ His hanging face‚ like a devil’s sick of sin;” I believe
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My Personal Response to The Call of the Wild The novel The Call of the Wild tells a story about how Buck‚ a domesdicated dog in the "sun-kissed" Santa Clara‚ managed to survive in the wilds of Klondike. Jack London conveyed many of his own ideas about living in this novel by telling readers what Buck went through to adjust to the harsh realities of life in the frosty North‚ where survival was the only imprerative. Throughout Buck’s adjustment there were several turning-points which forced him to
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the value that it holds. This poem explores Plath’s introduction to motherhood‚ and whether she will make a good mother‚ “Your nakedness shadows our safety”. The arrival of new life is juxtaposed with fear and effectively‚ the unknown. Plath’s own personal issues cloud this celebratory moment and turn the poem into a gloomy atmosphere. As they “stand around blankly”‚ unaware as to what to do it is interesting to see how they will adapt to the unfamiliar. Plath appears to look like a mother “I stumble
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Rex‚ You bring up a valid point in which I too discussed in my response. It is our responsibility now to prepare for the future and whatever future we want our children and their children to have. The other thing you said that I keyed in on was the word “abused”. I believe that is very important also. Your suggestion and article provided about using wind and solar power would be a great solution to some of the energy crisis. I believe that wind and solar power will only continue to grow in popularity
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