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    reading this research paper‚ the audience will understand how the media negatively Influences the people through the information that they believe we need to do and see. The media can be a positive structure that keeps everyone up to date on events around the world but in a way it seems there is a sort of conspiracy going on throughout all of the media. Every day people watch the news and it is sure that everyone will agree that the media rarely covers anything going on that is actually a good or positive

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    thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=517242 “The Media has concentrated on the representation of black men and women. This has partly been because there is a strong African-American counter-culture which provides viable alternative role models and demands that they are represented. In recent years‚ the success of actors such as Denzel Washington‚ Whoopi Goldberg‚ Laurence Fishburne and Morgan Freeman in a diversity of roles has meant that black characters in movies and on TV are no longer ’stock’

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    RESPONSE TO LIVE PERFOMANCE: THE WOMAN IN BLACK INTRODUCTION The Woman in Black combines the power and intensity of live theatre in cinematic way. The Woman in Black is an entertaining‚ unusually literary ghost drama. It features wonderfully discomfiting sound effects‚ super-serious characters to raise the level of terror‚ and a ghost of dreadful countenance‚ with nothing the least bit friendly about it. The novel was written by Susan Hill‚ she wrote this novel because she was inspired by the

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    The Portrayal of Women in Hamlet In Western society‚ women are part of a very prosperous age‚ where they are seen as equals to men; however‚ this is not the case in Shakespeare’s time. The issues and gender roles forced upon women during England’s Elizabethan era are highlighted by Shakespeare in many of his plays. In Shakespeare’s‚ Hamlet‚ the women in the play are powerless‚ which can be seen through their lack of control over their sexuality‚ their lack of voice and their lack of independence

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    The Portrayal of Women in Twelfth Night The women in Shakespear’s play: Twelfth Night‚ are all depicted as having power‚ comedic and being very emotional. All of the female characters are given power‚ whether it be over each other‚ men or their servants. The woman with the power over the greatest number of people is Olivia‚ she has numerous servants and doesn’t hesitate to give them orders‚ which can be seen in (1.5.287) when she orders Malvolio to "run after that peevish messenger" and in

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    In The Agamemnon women are portrayed as strong and powerful. Clytaemestra rules Argos which she calls ’my city’ while her husband Agamemnon is away at Troy‚ and the Chorus of Argive Elders show her ’reverence’. She manages to persuade Agamemnon to ’give way’ and walk on the tapestry she spreads out for him showing she has power over him and in the end her ’strength of heart’ leads to her being able to ’strike’ Agamemnon down and kill him. Cassandra also is shown to be strong‚ but in a different

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    Black women’s assumed qualities contribute to negative stereotypes of Black women. Dominant ideologies use these negative portrayals to oppress and control Black women‚ ultimately elevating white male ideas and interests (Collins‚ 1989: 7). This method of suppressing Black feminist thought – what Patricia Hill Collins refers to as “controlling images” – is especially pertinent to Dorothy Roberts’ claim that naturalizing characteristics such as lasciviousness and neglectfulness onto Black women leads

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    The Harms of Prejudice in To Kill a Mockingbird Prejudice has been prevalent in culture for many centuries now. Whether it would be hatred against one’s status‚ age‚ or even the colour of one’s skin‚ people have been negatively affected. Prejudice in Maycomb is very common amongst the people. Throughout the novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee illustrates the existence of prejudice and its destructive effects on Maycomb County. Tension and hatred elevate within Maycomb as a result of prejudice

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    we are going to discuss the underrepresentation of women in media‚ what is the effect of underrepresentation and how do it affect the people. First of all‚ it appeared in when we were a child. Davis (2013) indicated that we are in effect enculturating kids from the very beginning to see women and girls as not taking up half of the space. In the section one‚ we will talk about the kids are instilled the concept of gender socialization through media. There are some children’s television programs and

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    than the stereotypes surrounding the Renaissance time for women. However‚

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