Alexia Blair English August 29‚ 2013 Reading Response Bradstreet’s poem “The Author to Her Book” looks at the author’s humiliation at having her work published and exposed to the critical public. Bradstreet uses a child as a metaphor for her book. This explains when she is embarrassed when it is snatched from her and reflects on her as the mother. Regardless of the author’s attachment to her “child‚” she is still ashamed to send it out the door. Almost all the lines of the poem rhyme‚ this
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SEMIOTICS HER (Movie‚2013) COLOUR SCHEME AND COSTUME NAINIKA CHAUHAN| Roll No. 20130120041 1) 2) 3) 4) ___________________________________________________________________________________ For the purpose of this assignment‚ I will be doing a semiotic analysis of the colour scheme and costumes of “Her”‚ a science fiction comedy drama film‚ released in 2013; written‚ directed and produced by Spike Jonze. The film is set in an unspecified time in the future. It is about a soon to be divorced lonely
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I’m Not Her by Janet Gurtler Written by Jordyn Leavens The novel that I am reading is “I’m Not Her” by Janet Gurtler. It is about the struggles a young girl‚ named Tess‚ goes through when she finds out that her sister‚ Kristina‚ was diagnosed with cancer. Tess has always been looking up to her older sister‚ because her sister was always the center of the crowd‚ sporty‚ beautiful one and Tess was always the smart‚ un-popular one. It was always hard on Tess‚ so when her sister was diagnosed with
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Penelope Unraveling Her Work at Night is a beautiful piece of artwork done by Dora Wheeler‚ an American artist in 1886. As a Graphic Design major I have chosen to analyze this piece of artwork. Often as a visual person‚ I can get lost in some of the confusing passages that we read. By adding the aspect at looking at the story in a visual way‚ I am able to understand this story of Penelope in a new and beautiful way. The reason I think this tapestry is so beautiful and well done is that without knowing
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excerpt is meant to outline what is to be expected from Chaucer and his text. However‚ when Geoffrey finally arrives at the House of Fame in the opening of Book III‚ he learns less about Love’s tidings and more about one of the sisters of Love‚ Fame‚ and her followers. This redirection of intent forces the reader to question Chaucer‚ and reconsider the real purpose of Geoffrey’s journey to the House of Fame. Aside from learning of Love’s tidings‚ the eagle states that Jupiter intended “this caas thee [for]
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Trifles Vs. A Jury of Her Peers A Jury of Her Peers and Trifles by Susan Glaspell are very similar stories. The stories are about the marginalization of women in society. The roles of women as workers were downgraded a lot‚ never taking into account just how hard the work is doing all of the household chores every day‚ and preparing and planning for the future. In the stories‚ they are treated like they do not mean anything in the workforce and are only there to serve the world and the men in
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and “A Jury of Her Peers’ are two pieces of literature that tell the tale of two women at a crime scene. With the exception of one scene‚ the two works are nearly identical in terms of story. Glaspell’s decision to write the story as both a play and a short story gives us a unique opportunity‚ the chance to view the story from a multitude of viewpoints. The play gives no clear protagonist‚ yet because of the nature of short stories Mrs. Hale is thrust into the role in “A Jury of Her Peers”. Looking
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film‚ Her by Spike Jonze‚ Theodore is challenged to view change in the dynamics of how relationships can aspire to be. The event that I want to discuss is a climatic event in which Samantha wants to partake in a service that provides a sexual surrogate for an OS-human relationship. Theodore agrees to try‚ but in the end doesn’t want to have sexual relations with the surrogate claiming that it felt strange because he doesn’t know or have feelings for the surrogate women. The women locked her self in
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Directed‚ written‚ and produced by Spike Jonze and starring Joaquin Pheonix and Scarlett Johansson‚ Her is a romantic sci-fi drama about letter writer Theodore Twombly (Pheonix) who falls in love with Samantha (Johansson)‚ his artificially intelligent operating system. The film‚ released in 2013‚ marked Jonze’s screenwriting debut and was developed after he read an article about a program that allowed users to instant message with an AI program and received critical acclaim for it’s expert take on
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How to Lose her “How much of life is Yumior willing to blame his childhood on?” There is a thin line between the blame Yumior should place on himself v. the fault that is to be given to his childhood. However‚ for Yumior the line does not exist‚ or at least he is utterly oblivious to its existence. Yumior came from a home where his family just didn’t want to talk about “shit.” Please excuse the use of vulgar language‚ but Yumior’s family is a family opposed to addressing the elephant in the room
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