Teschner Mrs. Pierce English 5-6 15 December 2013 Wealth‚ Class and Privilege Flashy parties‚ wild behavior‚ and endless amounts of bootlegged alcohol; sounds like a great time‚ huh? In the glamorous era of the 1920’s this was more than just a party‚ it was a lifestyle. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ the roaring twenties is a time of carelessness for some that comes as a result of wealth‚ class‚ and privilege. Characters such as Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby use their money and
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Alice’s Conversion The feeling of not knowing who the person really is and how they feel can be hard. This emotion was described in the story “Mirror Image” by Lena Coakley. This short story had a girl named Alice who had to go through a brain transplant. This changed her whole life. Because of this brain transplant‚ she sometimes felt that she was not really herself but felt that she was Gail‚ who was the body of the person she was in. This is also an allusion to another Alice in the fantasy
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In year 8 English this term‚ we have been reading and analysing various short stories of which I have thoroughly enjoyed. These stories include ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’ by Roald Dahl‚ ‘A Daughter’s Story’ by Fatima Moradi‚ and ‘Jewelled Mirror’ by Izel Öztürk. We investigated and analysed the use of language devices such as metaphors‚ irony‚ and personification. We have worked on summarising the stories‚ the moral/purpose of the story‚ points of view and the multiple types of first and third person
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A. In this Tim Wise discusses how the so called white privilege came about in the United States and how it was a big joke. He talks about how especially back during the Civil War that the world was off balance. White people were clearly more privileged and they may not have realized it until slavery came about. He mentions that the middle class people were fooled by those of the Elite class. The Elite class made them feel as though they were more important than there servants‚ which were normally
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I first began writing about this topic‚ I was very eager to learn about it‚ but was not particularly educated about it. Even writing my first essay‚ “The Hidden Concept: Privilege”‚ helped me explore what economic inequality meant to me. Before writing that essay I was aware that I grew up in a family that had economic privilege. However‚ I did not truly understand many of its implications on my thinking and the way I contributed to society until writing that essay. It also helped me to understand
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The sight of its own reflection in a mirror will stimulate a ritualized series of responses toward the intruder. The purpose of this experiment is to describe the ritualized agonistic display of a male Siamese fighting fish after by stimulated by its own reflection in a mirror. If two fish are placed in the same aquarium together there is typically a ritualistic display until one of the fish becomes subordinate. We conducted an experiment by placing a mirror to the Male Siamese Fighting Fish‚ creating
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The artworks Girl Before a Mirror by Picasso and Reptiles by MC Escher have both simple and intricate similarities and differences. Girl Before a Mirror is an oil painting done in 1932. The painting is very surreal‚ as the girl in the painting is distorted and inaccurate. In contrast‚ Reptiles is a lithograph done in 1943 and the main focus is multiple lizards accurately portrayed and surrounded by desk items such as books and plants. The lithograph is also in black and white and three dimensional
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From Francesca Woodman and the Mirror Stage In Douglas Crimp’s article the Photographic Activity of Postmodernism there are several terms that have been brought up over and over again. Presence is one of them‚ “presence that is only through the absence that we know to be the condition of representation.” It reminds me of one of my favorite photographers --- Francesca Woodman. She once said that “I allow you to see what you couldn’t see --- the inner force of one’s body.” She recreates
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In the play Fences by August Wilson‚ power and privilege are key elements in defining the potentials and roles of the characters in their society. Set in America’s 1950s‚ Fences focuses on the poor‚ black family of Troy and Rose Maxson as they struggle to live through the hardships they are faced with during this period of segregation and racism. Accepting imperfections that are caused by power and privilege proves to be complicated for those such as the Maxsons who society has oppressed. The American
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of the very first films. There is architecture in almost every film. Consciously or not‚ architecture takes its position as an effective element in films; architectural space influences what is shot. If it is possible to argue that cinema is under the influence of architecture‚ then it should also be stated that architecture discovered cinema. Cinema became a domain of inspiration for architecture especially in the late twentieth century. Now we may hear an architect saying a film has been influential
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