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    Mohammed Alhallafi Professor Lidinsky Sept 10‚ 2012 "Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt": Advertising and Violence Jean Kilbourne in her article Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt says‚ ” Sex in advertising is pornographic because it dehumanizes and objectifies people‚ especially women‚ and because it fetishizes products‚ imbues them with an erotic charge- which dooms us to disappointment since products never can fulfill our sexual desires or meet our emotional needs" (459). Jean Kilbourne explains the

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    THE TEMPEST REVIEW (MULTIMODAL TEXT ANALYSIS) The multimodal text I have chosen is taken from the Guardian online‚ its genre and mode is a review of a production of the Tempest performed in May at the Globe Theatre in London. The online text is intended for Guardian readers because Tilden‚ the reviewer is a regular contributor to the newspaper. The prosodic feature of conversational rhythm is used and Tilden uses an easy informal tone that people enjoy to

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    In what ways is Caliban presented as hideous in The Tempest? Through the exploration if the play‚ The Tempest by William Shakespeare‚ we are introduced to the character of Caliban and almost immediately we are encouraged to view him as hideous and monstrous. Shakespeare makes us identify Caliban as some kind of sub-human freak through the horrific appearance‚ malicious background and low social status in which he is allocated. However‚ although we are encouraged by language‚ and the other characters

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    What Can You See?

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    Douglas Kleinsmith Lisa Rochford 8:00- 9:20 MW 18 March 2013 What Can You See? For many‚ you have to see something to believe it. However‚ when looking at the beliefs of a blind person‚ we discover that seeing may actually distort our beliefs. In Raymond Carver’s short story “Cathedral”‚ an unnamed narrator tells a story of meeting a blind man for the first time in his life. Before meeting Robert‚ the narrator tells us of how uncomfortable he is about him. If it had not been for his obligation

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    Pre Colonial

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    Oral Lore from Pre-Colonial Times: Before the colonizer invades the Philippines our ancestors had already developed the oral tradition which is said to be the start of the Philippine literature. Even on the precolonial period‚ studies shows that early Filipinos had grew in accordance with what surrounds them and truly dependent to nature. When the Spaniards came some of our ancestor had preserve this oral lore through living away from the center of colonization thus they able to continue

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    Life and Death of Doctor Faustus‚ or in simpler terms Dr. Faustus‚ by Christopher Marlowe is said to be based on the German legend of Faust‚ in which a man sells his soul to the devil for hierarchy and knowledge. No Elizabethan play outside the Shakespeare canon has raised more controversy than Marlowe’s tale of Dr. Faustus. Although there is no agreement concerning the nature of the text and actual date of composition‚ one thing is certainly agreed upon by the multitude of people who have studied

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    Shakespeare as Dramatist

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    William Shakespeare ABOUT HIS LIFE William Shakespeare‚ by universal consent the greatest author of England‚ if not of the world‚ occupies chronologically a central position in the Elizabethan drama. He was born in 1564 in the good-sized village of Stratford-on-Avon in Warwickshire‚ near the middle of England‚ where the level but beautiful country furnished full external stimulus for a poet’s eye and heart. His father‚ John Shakespeare‚ who was a general dealer in agricultural products and other

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    Allegory Used By Authors

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    Allegory Used by Authors Ines Palacio Mrs.Coplen English I Honors 10 December 2012 Do you ever wonder what it takes for a revolution to happen? Revolution usually takes time‚ a strong leadership‚ ideology‚ and not just one person. When writing a story‚ authors often mean for the story to interpret a second meaning behind it‚ to reveal a hidden message. They do this by using allegory. In Animal Farm and Black Boy some sort of revolution happens at different points in the book to convey this meaning

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    However‚ when rich Americans took vacations on the French Rivera it wasn’t until the 1920’s that tanned skin essentially became a fashion statement. Because of the great depression the 1930’s women got even skinner. There wasn’t much control over this although. Once the second world war passed‚ hips got larger and wider. The women of the 1960’s had a more androgynous and angular figure. In the 1970’s is when men really had to start adapting to body norms‚ so now‚ it wasn’t just the women who had

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    Colonial Expansions

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    COLONIAL EXPANSIONS AND RIVALRIES What is it? Colonialism expansion is where countries (such as Britain‚ France‚ Germany and Russia) settle on new land. They do this to expand their territories‚ and to use their resources for to benefit their empire. Rivalries between the empires are consequential. This is because many empires are involved in conflicts when attempting to regain new land. How did it contribute to the start of World War I? Imperialism was one of the causes of World War I.

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