them eat cake‚” Marie Antoinette said….well maybe. Cake is one of the most beloved desserts in all of America‚ dating back to ancient times evolving from bland bread like mixture into sweet iced dessert‚ it continues to be used in celebration for centuries. A long history trails the ingredients back to the Vikings and Egyptians. Each culture has it’s own take on this desert but it is typically used in celebrations like birthdays‚ parties and weddings. Last queen of France Marie Antoinette was married
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Reading through Marie Mies chapter‚ “Colonization and Housewifization” from “Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale”‚ she discusses several ways in which the patriarchal division of labor was created violently to force the exploitation of not only women‚ but other classes and people. With the combination of the technologies attack on Mother Earth‚ the subordination of women‚ and the rise of the bourgeoisie‚ this lead to her example of the witch trials that took over Europe from the twelfth
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“If you want to rebel‚ rebel from inside the system. That’s much more powerful than rebelling outside the system” (Lu 245). Legend (© 2011)‚ a dystopian young adult fiction novel written by upcoming author Marie Lu. Before Lu became a full time writer‚ she was an art director for a video game company. This is a book inspired by the television show‚ Les Miserables. The show involved a highly skilled detective hunting down a notorious criminal. Legend is written from the perspective of two different
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fifty years after the introduction of television into American society‚ the medium has become so deeply ingrained in daily life that in many states the TV set has attained the rank of a legal necessity‚ which is safe from the repossession of debt. Marie Winn wants us to be aware that television obstructs the family closeness as well as the social development of children within the home. Her thesis is‚ “After the first years‚ children’s consumption of the new medium increased‚ together
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The Controversial Heart In “The Lais of Marie de France: Les Deus Amanz” Marie de France uses affections of the heart and mind to contradict one another. Two of the main characters each have fatal flaws that become the cause of their demise. The king and the noble young man acted selfishly by following their hearts instead of their heads‚ causing problems that could have been prevented. It is seen that using your mind would benefit more than going by the feelings in your heart. The king is
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A Summary of “Television: The Plug-In Drug” by Marie Winn The family time that experts once believed the television would facilitate has backfired. It has been replaced with an everyday military regiment. Wake up‚ go to school‚ watch television‚ and go to bed. Parents have allowed the television to become the primary source for their children’s home life experience. Although this medium allows for peace within the home‚ the family dynamic suffers. Winn references the conflicts that family’s had
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Although Denmark is the considered to be the happiest country in the world‚ contemporary artists and authors create works portraying the absurdities and ironies in the reality of that happiness. In 2006‚ Danish author Nina Marie Aidt released Baboon‚ a collection of short stories about life in Denmark. She often focuses on the brutal and often hidden aspects of life. Her stories pick up at a seemingly random point in a persons life and continue through the persons eyes revealing often uncomfortable
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The poem is well known for a number of reasons. The extensive judicial scene gives a degree of insight into the legal system of the period‚ which is also well documented from a technical point of view in various Anglo-Norman texts of Henry I and Henry II of England. In contrast to Marie’s other lais‚ such as Guigemar and Le Fresne‚ nothing is made of the mistress’s intellectual or spiritual qualities. Rather the description is of the opulence of her wealth and her beauty. Guigemar: "She was
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In the essay "Television: The Plug-In Drug" by Marie Winn‚ the author explains how television separates people from each other. Television‚ she claims‚ replaces the human contact by keeping the television viewers interested in the television programming instead of having a human companion. In the essay "Dearly Disconnected" by Ian Frazier‚ the author describes the cell phone as an object that will take out the payphones‚ increase human contact and decrease privacy. For example‚ televisions and
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Individual ICEing #2 (pg. 205-251) In Legend by Marie Lu‚ the author uses characterization to explain how June might believe that Thomas had murdered her brother instead of Day like she had previously believed. At this point in the story June is looking through the case file of Metias‚ her brother’s death. She looks at the poorly taken crime scene photos of his dead body and notices some marks on the knife’s hilt. Looking at the photos more in depth‚ she sees marks that are not blood. Instead
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