states that the Greeks probably did not use a burning mirror which is often believed to have been used to defend themselves from attacks by the Roman navy about 2‚200 years ago and provides three reasons of support. The professor‚ however‚ explains that the reasons are not compelling and refutes each of the author’s reasons. First‚ the reading says that the ancient Greeks did not have technologies sophisticated enough to make a burning mirror‚ which is supposedly a large sheet of copper having a
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The sight of its own reflection in a mirror will stimulate a ritualized series of responses toward the intruder. The purpose of this experiment is to describe the ritualized agonistic display of a male Siamese fighting fish after by stimulated by its own reflection in a mirror. If two fish are placed in the same aquarium together there is typically a ritualistic display until one of the fish becomes subordinate. We conducted an experiment by placing a mirror to the Male Siamese Fighting Fish‚ creating
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Film as Mirror in Hitchcock’s Vertigo Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo is a master’s class in subtle and effective filmmaking - its noirish tale of obsession and loss is considered one of his best works. This is due in no small part to the directors’ use of the various elements of film as a mirror. Hitchcock intends to create a sense of repetition and a cyclical nature to the life of the characters in the film; following Scottie (James Stewart) through his descent and ascent into madness deals significantly
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Sylvia Plath is an American poet‚ novelist and short story writer who lived in London‚ United Kingdom. She is considered an important poet of her generation. Her work is very personal and towards the end of her life she often wrote about death. She usually used confessional genre to write her poetry. She is Best-known for her two published collections: The Colossus and Other Poetrys and Ariel. She also wrote a semi-autobiographical novel‚ The Bell Jar in 1963 published shortly before her death. The
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From Francesca Woodman and the Mirror Stage In Douglas Crimp’s article the Photographic Activity of Postmodernism there are several terms that have been brought up over and over again. Presence is one of them‚ “presence that is only through the absence that we know to be the condition of representation.” It reminds me of one of my favorite photographers --- Francesca Woodman. She once said that “I allow you to see what you couldn’t see --- the inner force of one’s body.” She recreates
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The Tempest "Claiming Caliban" Caliban in "The Tempest" was the son of Sycorax‚ and his character is a symbolic representation of indigenous or "savage" people. His character represents the stereotypes of indigenous or uncivilized people and a direct contradiction of his more "civilized" counterparts‚ most specifically Prospero who is seen as his conqueror or master‚ and how he is below that of Prospero and therefore the indigenous people of the Americas were below that of the European colonists
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Sylvia Plath vs. Sharon Olds Katherine Waldman A traditional American household has changed throughout the years to the point where ‘traditional’ isn’t even politically correct to depict anything about a family anymore. But if we look back to the standard traditional household and there was always a father‚ a mother‚ and a 2.5 children. The father has always been designated as the head of the household and something that Sylvia Plath and Sharon Olds have in common is just that‚ that they
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Jamie Davis Professor Forest English 2030- 81 12/ 02/ 2011 Hysteria and Suffering Jumping to conclusions‚ bad assumptions‚ and false information can cause much hysteria within a society. This can be surely bad if you are dealing with people who are hypochondriacs. In The Crucible‚ Arthur Miller displays how hysteria is used to cover the truth‚ but can cause suffering for many of those who are innocent. The play strongly illustrates the hysteria that brushed through Salem because of the fear
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Vale S.A. Vale reported pretty mediocre financial numbers on Thursday‚ 22nd October for its third quarter 2015 performance. Its gross operating revenues for the three months ended 30th Sep‚ 2015 were down 6.6 % to 6.6 billion from 7 billion in the second quarter. The lower realized prices of the various commodities sold by the company remained the reason behind this erosion in operating revenue. The contribution of lower prices of these commodities in depressing the revenues was $ 281 million of
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Chapter 23—“Dennis” 1) Ruth says‚ “I stayed on the black side because that was the only place I COULD stay…With whites it was no question. You weren’t accepted to be with a black man and that was that” (232). I think she felt the only place where she felt real love was with African American people and that’s why she stayed with the black man. She wanted to be different and she didn’t want to be like everybody else. She wanted to feel unique like her mother and be different. She doesn’t
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