Claire Johnson’s essay‚ Women Cinema as Counter Cinema‚ explores the ways in which female stereotypes in films came to be and how feminist filmmakers can go about subverting the damage that decades of problematic portrayals of women have caused. Johnson spends a great deal of time talking about the idea of the woman as an “icon”—merely a symbol meant to represent a separate idea or ideal. This type of iconography has turned women in films into rough caricatures that audience members are able to categorize
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Independent films‚ more commonly known as indie films‚ are films not made by mainstream production houses or movie studios. They are independent of the influences‚ authority‚ and control of the mainstream industry (Makuha‚ 2010). The emergence of new and highly-advanced cameras in the market and the advancement of technology have spawned the growth of indie films. This allowed anyone to create his or her own film in accordance to his or her own style without the influences of mainstream movies
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Mobile phones have become a necessity for life‚ and without this thin gadget‚ many people would feel incomplete. We now use mobile phones in our everyday life as a phone‚ voice recorder‚ diary‚ alarm clock‚ watch and for making and confirming appointments‚ dealing with clients etc. Mobile phones are for many‚ fundamental when organising their lives. Mobile phones are not simply an electronic gadget‚ and it is difficult to define in one way about the usage of mobile phones. With the advances of technology
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1 Kate Woodford Modernity‚ Consumerism and ‘The Women’ In the 1920s‚ ‘modernity’ swept through America‚ with a enormous economic shift that transformed the pre world war one country from a society still rooted in a predominately agricultural small town past into the worlds primary industrialized urban nation with the formation of the city. It was through corporate capitalism‚ mass production and consumerism and the process of the mass media that this was done. Where Paris
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How far has technology improved our lives‚ and is this development good? Ever since the industrial revolution in the end of the 1700s‚ people lives has changed dramatically due to the increasing use of technology. However‚ is the development of more complicated technology only for the better‚ or is it going too far? In these days we are so surrounded by the technology that living in a world without it is almost unthinkable. Technical devices have made our lives easier in so many ways. We have dishwashers
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It Has Affected Our Economy We all realize that we are currently in a recession and times are tough. Almost everyone I know has been affected by this recession in some way‚ including my family. Due to this assignment‚ I have found myself asking this question: how has the recession affected my family and the community? Everyone that I spoke with had strong and emotional answers to this question. This past year has been very hard for my family. Both my husband and I where laid off from our jobs
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Barbara Enrenreich in the passagae from “The Worst Years of Our Lives”‚ argues that television is creating couch potatoes. There is some validity to Erenreich’s assertion since the American population has become less active however it provides opportunities for those who do not have acess to the outside world‚ and has effects different kinds of people. The posibilities that television produces are endless. To begin with‚ the demonic picture box has transformed people into lazier human beings‚ According
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How has technology over the years affected society today? My essay will contain facts and answers about cell phones and if they are helping us or not and also how smart phones are actually making us stupid. It is getting bad‚ 37% of adults have admitted to being addicted to their smart phones while 60% of children and teens have admitted to being addicted to their smart phones. And Apple isn’t exactly helping with this. They have sold 33.8 million I phones‚ 14.1 million I pads and 4.6 million
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Are our lives governed by fate or free will? Our lives are governed by free will. In the books Chinese Cinderella and Twisted the main characters use their free will to make choices that have consequences on their lives. Chinese Cinderella‚ by Adeline Yen Mah Chinese Cinderella is a story of a Chinese girl growing up Shanghai and Hong Kong in the 1940’s. Adeline was made to feel that her birth was the reason her mother died. Her siblings blamed her and her father and stepmother had
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your Personal Ethics Statement. • Topic sentence: Obesity has a deep impact in the life of a child. • Informal outline: 1. Explain how obesity affects the child’s physical health. 2. Explain how obesity affects the child’s mental health. 3. Give ideas of how parents can be involved in the change of habits in the obese child. 5. Summarize why obesity has a deep impact in the life of a child. Obesity has a deep impact in the life of a child‚ physically‚ and mentally as well. An
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