HILARY JOHNSON CHUKWUMA CHUKWURAH INTRODUCTION In the universe of textbooks on Mass Communication theories‚ Stanley J. Baran’s and Dennis K. Davis’‚ Mass Communication Theory: Foundations‚ Ferment and Future stands out. A 456-page compendium on Communication theories‚ the book is down-to-earth‚ dishing and distilling various Mass Communication/media theories that were propounded by communication/media scholars and practitioners over time. The book is a communication theory Bible of a sort‚ which
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Martin Guerre Natalie Zemon Davis used some sources in her novel to describe the court case of Martin Guerre. In the last three chapters she used Jean de Coras’ Arrest Memorable to describe Coras’ point of view about the case of Martin Guerre. Davis quotes sayings from Coras’ book to show his thoughts about Martin Guerre and Arnaud de Tilh. She also writes about Coras’ background and his life after the trial of Martin Guerre in the chapter: The Storyteller. In the novel‚ after Davis had finished
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Impersonating another with the intent to defraud was seen as a serious crime in sixteenth-century France. Since the proper resources needed to find proof were scarce‚ the court’s decision depended on the accurate and truthful word of witnesses. In this case‚ the honor and life of a man was at stake. But‚ what if an individual’s identity could be confirmed without legal documentation? With the proper tests of the defendant’s memory‚ it would be possible to locate the true Martin Guerre. There was
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men and women in order to gain prosperity and property. In the novel The Return of Martin Guerre‚ Natalie Zemon Davis uses characters such as Bertrande and Martin/Arnaud to represent gender and marriage roles that were common during the sixteenth century in rural
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a historical legal study of the day-to-day occurrences of the lives of peasants in sixteenth-century France. Natalie Zemon Davis crafts her account of the famous story from a historical perspective infused with her own psychological inferences‚ legal case studies‚ and factual details. Throughout her dissertation on the case of Martin Daguerre‚ Arnauld du Tilh‚ and Bertandre de Rols‚ Davis showcases a character analysis drawn on various primary resources found within the same time period‚ yielding
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TV show. But the most important thing about the entertainment in the 50s was the actors and actresses. Through out the 50s there were hundreds of actors and actresses. To name a few Vivien Leigh‚ Audrey Hepburn‚ Marlon Brando ‚Grace Kelly‚ Bette Davis‚ Katharine Hepburn‚ Burt Lancaster‚ Bing Crosby‚ Dorothy Dandridge‚ Judy Garland‚ Elizabeth Taylor‚ and Doris Day. Each of these performers have received Oscars nods for their played roles. Audrey Hepburn was born on May 4‚ 1929 in Belgium. Hepburn
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Women on the Margins written by Natalie Zemon Davis is a book that surrounds three women. This book is concentrated on three women Glikl bas Judah Leib was a wife of a Jewish merchant‚ Marie Guyart who was the co-founder of one of the first of many Catholic school for Amerindian women in North America‚ and last but not least Maria Sibylla Merian‚ who was a German artist and a naturalist when practicing her art she would go by an alias. All three of these women have a few things in common such as
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called Arnaud du Tilh impersonated Martin Guerre‚ stole his identity and lived under Martin’s name for three years until he became accused of this act. He almost convinced the court that he was Martin Guerre until the real Martin walked into the curt. Davis‚ the author of the book illustrates why Martin Guerre left his family and inheritance‚ how the imposter came into Bertrande’s life ‚ and how economic and religion were playing a role in the sixteenth century society. The fact that impostor was able
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Angus McLaren has done two things that no other author thus far has done‚ look at masculinity and wrote a book about gender analysis. McLaren masterfully teased out the ways in which masculinity was policed‚ established‚ and valued through court trials and medical believes of the time. The way McLaren presents the information allows for two gender theorists works to be applied‚ Judith Butler and Carole Pateman. The Trials of Masculinity does gender analysis better and more constantly than any
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separate readings this semester: one in The Return of Martin Guerre and the other in The Allegory of the Cave. Using those two texts‚ I will be able to provide evidence that knowing the truth sometimes involves personal consequences or obligations. Natalie Zemon Davis’s book entitled The Return of Martin Guerre is a nuanced story of a man‚ Martin Guerre. Guerre disappeared from his family without leaving any notice. Eight years after his disappearance‚ he supposedly returned to his village. His family
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