Jacques Cartier was sailing along the coast of Cape Cod when they encounter boats with First Nations People on it. They were greeted by the First Nations with dancing and gestures that indicated they wanted to trade by showing Cartier various furs. Cartier was hesitant to approach as they only had one boat and are easily outnumbered if they were attacked. As the French ship left‚ the first Nations pursued them. Cartier felt threatened so he fired two shots at them and struck them with lances‚ which
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Theatre is not just about conveying the written text; rather that through the body‚ by trying to find a simple language of gestures and sounds‚ we can communicate at a much more powerful level; that there is a universal language for the theatre‚ regardless of cultural differences. There is a recognition that if you want ‘realistic drama’‚ television and cinema are far more effective than theatre. What is unique about theatre is its relationship to its audience: the fact that actor and audience
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Reading chapter 15‚ I learned about many writers and philosophers that influenced the ground-breaking ideas of the Neo-Classical Era. The people that intrigues me the most were Mary Wollstonecraft and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Wollstonecraft was a pioneer for women’s rights and Rousseau heavily influenced the French Revolution. These two writers stood out to me the most. Being a woman‚ I am engrossed in women’s rights. I think that‚ even to this day‚ women have always had to fight to be treated equal
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Bibliography: Norris C‚ Deconstruction‚ extract‚ in Bullock‚ Allan; Stallybrass‚O‚ The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought‚ Second Edition‚ London‚ UK‚ 1977 Caputo‚ John D.‚ (Ed and Commentator)‚ Deconstruction in a Nutshell‚ A Conversation with Jacques Derrida‚ Fordham Uni Press‚ USA‚ 1997 Corbusier L‚ Le Corbusie‚ Precision on The Present State of Architecture and City Planning‚ The MIT press‚ London‚ UK‚ 1991 Culler D‚ Deconstruction: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies‚ Volume
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implications Saussure’s statement‚ “language is a social institution”‚ has in the study of literature‚ and a study of literature with other kinds of language and communication. In order to achieve this‚ two of the theorists‚ Ferdinand de Saussure and Jacques Derrida‚ from the Norton anthology of Critical Theory are going to be examined closely. Moreover‚ a brief encounter of Bakhtin’s essay‚ “Discourse in the Novel”‚ is going to be included in terms of analyzing the study of literature‚ in this instance
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The Letter of Father Jacques Bigot‚ respecting the mission of the Abnaquis at St. Missel de Sillery The Letter of Father Jacques Bigot‚ respecting the mission of the Abnaquis at St. Missel de Sillery (June 24th‚ 1681) from The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents Vol. LXII was written to relate recent events at the mission to Bigot’s recently departed predecessor Jacques Vaultier. Bigot mentions several positive changes in the seven months after Vaultier’s departure‚ notably‚ an increase in the
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What is the role of metaphor in the development of an autonomous client? I’ve been recently reading about the importance of language in Epistemology. Particularly Wittgenstein and his ideas of language and it’s role in our shaping of the world. SLIDE 1: Wittgenstein Thus we turn to the enigmatic realms of Analytic Philosophy‚ headed up by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1922). His sentence that "We make to ourselves pictures of facts" is the summarization of the view that; "In the picture and
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau influenced many people in the eighteenth century‚ including Robespierre and Maria Montessori. With his strong say in social inequality and dysfunctional democracy‚ he not only managed to impact the life of leaders and other famous philosophes during the French Revolution‚ but also help shape the world we live in today. Rousseau believed in a Direct Democracy‚ meaning that everyone has the right to an individual vote. In other words‚ he strongly influenced the development
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Abstract 4:”Structure‚ Sign‚ and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences” “Structure‚ Sign‚ and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences” was written by Jacques Derrida‚ a French philosopher‚ as a contribution to a colloquium on structuralism in 1966. This piece was known for Derrida’s contradiction of structuralism‚ and his formation of three main ideas: complexity of meaning-making‚ meaning existence‚ and interpretation. Derrida begins his piece by talking about the center of structure
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more energetic and successful kind of defence. Here‚ the ego rejects the incompatible idea together with its affect and behaves as if the idea had never occurred to the ego at all" (1894a‚ p. 58). This describes another form of splitting‚ that which Jacques Lacan later translates as foreclosure (forclusionerwerfung)‚ which is characteristic of the psychoses and results in the foreclosed element returning in the real in the form of a hallucination. With the concept of "denial of reality‚" Freud introduces
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