In today’s class‚ we first talked about the final project that is with the mask we made last week. I had no idea what to do with the mask‚ but I guess I got some idea. Trina showed us the pictures of the masks her former students made. In the pictures‚ there was a student who became a male at the end of a semester‚ and Trina talked about how the situation for bisexual people was in the past. It was heartbreaking. I have some friends who are bisexual‚ and the story made me think about them. I think
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The mask depicted was made by the Baule peoples of the Côte d’Ivoire in West Africa. The mask is similar to the required work of art called the Portrait Mask (Mblo) of Moya Yanso. The mask was created in the early 20th century C.E. and was made of wood‚ brass‚ and pigment. The portrait mask of Moya Yanso was carved by Owie Kimou‚ an artist in the Côte d’Ivoire‚ West Africa. Both of the masks are the same style type‚ Mblo. Because of this‚ they share the same features that were common to the mask traditions
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poem‚ “We Wear the Mask‚” I feel the poem was meant for an educated audience since the dialect was written in Standard English. In the first line‚ “We wear the mask that grins and lies‚” the African American people are telling their side of the story through this poem. How they truly feel is contrary to their smiles‚ although‚ they suppose that things should not be any different. The author is trying to show the audience that many African-Americans are putting on a front for the world to see while‚ they
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Patrick Carruthers Neupert – Film Studies The True “Inside Man” “Inside Man” was released in 2006 and would later become the highest grossing film for the director Spike Lee. The film is a crime-drama‚ located primarily in a bank in New York City run by multi billionaire Arthur Case. Although the film is a thriller and contains bits of action and suspense‚ the movie focuses heavily
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society ’s stereotypes? Perhaps it is a tautological circle in which people usually wear the masks they are meant to wear and thus continue creating the same classifications over and over. One of the greatest modern writers‚ Angela Carter‚ deals often with stereotypes in her adaptations of classical fairy tales. Andrew Milne explains the power this practice has had in society‚ "rewriting of traditional European tales forces the reader to question himself and to think a great deal about the imaginary
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A Formal Analysis of William Shepherd’s Kuba mask The Bwoom masquerade figure’s head set is made up of hide‚ a straw like material called raffia similar in texture and colour‚ and an intricate pattern of pigments. His facial expression is showing a very comical smile going from ear to ear‚ Many types of beads and shells mask his face and an intricate pattern of beads cover the back of his head in zig zags. With what looks like hair from the deceased caps his head. The collar of his suite is made
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status is clearly seen as a divine being as he had a miraculous golden funeral mask placed on his face in his tomb. He wears a royal head cloth called the “nemes”‚ and it is patterned with stripes of blue glass and gold. The “nemes” is only worn by pharaohs. This mask of Tutankhamun is an example of the highest artistic and technical achievements of the Ancient Egyptians in the New Kingdom. The gold sheets used in this mask are joined together by heating and hammering. The exact portrayal of the king’s
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In my latest read “The Castle Behind Thorns” it starts off in the perspective of a young boy named Sand who lives in the times of kings and queens‚ he has awaken in the fireplace inside of a castle he once could only peer at from the outside. After a brutal attempt to escape he figures out that the thorns surrounding have been placed by some type of magic. Once he decides to take a creep into the crypt he realizes that everything in the castle has been broken apart from the spoons to the walls. When
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The “Boy at the Window” by Richard Wilbur is a poignant poem. Richard Wilbur “said that he wrote the “Boy at the Window” after seeing how distressed his five-year-old son was about a snowman they had built” was stuck out in a storm (Clugston‚ 2010). Poignant can be described as an awareness of both beauty and loss through powerful feelings or pain. Poetry has this beautiful gift of being able to evoke strong feelings in the reader. In the “Boy at the Window” the poet captures the innocent nature
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The Area of Study: Belonging ‘The Bra Boys’ The ‘Bra Boys’ directed by Sunny Abberton‚ sets out to explain the story of the Bra Boys and their connection to Maroubra and each other. The documentary shows the audience how they feel connected to the suburb‚ the self culture‚ the ocean and the group. The Bra Boys relate themselves to a tribe that embodies mateship‚ honour and loyalty to all members. Each member is renowned with a Bra Boys tattoo to identify him as part of the group. Their sense
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