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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line‚ the poet describes the boy to have a face “like pallid cheese”. This simile is depicts the boy to look quite sick and weak. We immediately feel pity and realize that the boy is uncared for. The poet also describes the boy to have “burnt-out little eyes” implying that‚ with reference to fire‚ his eyes have died out showing that he has lost hope. The fire was huge‚ boiling and all-consuming‚ as implied in this quote: “As brazen fierce and huge‚ as red and gold and zany yellow.” This suggests
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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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Richard Lopez Dr. Dibakar Barua English 110 13 March 2014 Women of the Past: A Feminist Critique Patriarchal ideals and gender roles keep women from being completely free. Throughout history‚ women have been labeled and stereotyped as being less capable than men. This caused them to continuously doubt their own capabilities compared to men’s. Society has not presented them with the same opportunities‚ nor treated them as fairly. In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”‚ she portrays
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She tells a lie to her best friend‚ Rhiannon‚ that she had sex with a boy from community college. This lie quickly spread throughout the school causing classmates to treat her differently; the boys wanted to date her and the girls treated her unkindly. Olive decided her best plan of action was to play up the role of a floozy‚ instead of defending herself against the lies. She began accepting money and gift cards from male students in exchange for perpetuating the rumors that she was having sexual
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New Zealand) In the text ’Multiple Bodies ’Sportswomen‚ Soccer and Sexuality’‚ Barbara Cox and Shona Thompson address how women face the pressure of biding by the rules of the ideal female body‚ and the social exclusions women face if they digress from the ’norms’ or struggle to achieve these optimal female traits. They explore how and why sportswomen are continuously being judged and questioned on their status of sexuality and appearance‚ and how it has caused them to display alternative ways of
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Douglass’s fifth of July. In J. A. Kuypers (Ed.)‚ Rhetorical criticism‚ perspectives in action (pp. 39-59). Lanham‚ MD: Lexington. F. I. Hill wrote the article The “Traditional” Perspective in 1972; later edited in 2009. This article was meant to inform readers about how to apply traditional criticism through the use of the theory of rhetoric. It was divided into two sections; the first being an overview of traditional criticism‚ and the second being the application of this in his critical essay
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The Feminist Movement (aka The Women’s Movement‚ Women’s Liberation) brief history Source: Wikipedia OUTLINE: (complete this as you read) 1. Define FEMINISM (as bell hooks’ defines it): Feminism is a collection o movements and ideologies aimed at defining‚ establishing‚ and defending a state of equal political‚ economic‚ cultural‚ and social rights for women. 2. the 1st Wave (19th-early 20th centuries) FOCUS: The 1st Wave focused on the efforts of many fighting for gender equality‚ race equality
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10 Literary Criticism approach An Overview of Approaches The Three-fold Purpose of Criticism: To help us solve a problem in the reading. To help us sift between and resolve conflicting readings. To enable us craft interpretative‚ yet scholarly judgments about literature. 1. Historical / Biographical Approach: Historical / Biographical critics see works as the reflection of an author’s life and times (or of the characters’ life and times). H/B approach deems it necessary to know about the
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BIOGRAPHICAL CRITICISM Biographical criticism begins with the simple but central insight that literature is written by actual people and that understanding an author’s life can help readers more thoroughly comprehend the work. Anyone who reads the biography of a writer quickly sees how much an author’s experience shapes—both directly and indirectly—what he or she creates. Reading that biography will also change (and usually deepen) our response to the work. Sometimes even knowing a single important
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