Cited: Beggs‚ Scott. "Editorial: Is the Iraq War Propelling the Superhero Film Phenomenon?" Film School Rejects. N.p.‚ 11 Sep 2008. Web. 19 Jan 2014. Bryant‚ Aidan. "Iron Man: A Study in Orientalism and Hegemony." 2012 PCA/ACA Conference. Popular Culture Association. Mass.‚ Boston. 11 Apr 2012. Address. Bryant‚ Aidan. “Effects of Superhero Media on Nationalistic Attitudes.” Newhouse School of Public Communications. Syracuse‚ NY. 09 Dec 2010
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Have Body‚ Will Guard Series is a series of gay erotica novels by the Lambda Literary award-winning novelist Neil S. Plakcy who also writes mystery and romance. The first novel in the popular series of novels was Three Wrong Turns in the Desert that was first published in 2009. With positive reviews coming in heavy and the novels flying off the book shelves Plakcy has written six more titles in the still ongoing series which have just been as well received by fans and critiques alike. The lead characters
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Simon Fraser University Krishna Krishna 301132403 Debate Question To what extent did the Empire influence domestic British culture and identity? According to (Porter‚ 2008) some historians have refuted and claimed that the empire does have the influence on British culture and national identity. Famous historian Bernard Porter has made an argument about the extent of imperial propaganda‚ which has been grossly exaggerated for the period earlier to the 1880’s‚ and after few decades
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Man Ray’s Violin D’Ingres is a perfect example of a modernist photograph. Man Ray pushes both how photography is perceived and what is possible within a photograph in this example. Man Ray himself was an American‚ born as Emmanuel Rudnitsky‚ but moved to Paris and engaged in very non-American photography. Europe lacked the American ideals about what "strait photography" should be. While American schools of photography believed that an art photograph should only be made with a large negative with
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This needs saying at the outset. In itself‚ it might seem like an unremarkable fact‚ but it actually is not: Amartya Sen is a citizen of India. While most of his countrymen who have been able to leave India for a long time try their best to become citizens of the country they might have gone to (Britain‚ America‚ Canada‚ Australia)‚ Sen‚ a man whom Cambridge and Harvard are said to have fought over for the privilege of offering an appointment‚ resolutely retains his blue Indian passport after half
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Responsibility of Citizens in "the Developed Countries" After reading Trask’s book and watching Act of War‚ my impression and view on Hawai’i has totally changed. What I believe now is that people in "the developed countries" have responsibility to know the fact that indigenous people in "the developing countries" have been suffering from the (cultural) imperialism and to use their political and economical power to change the situation that indigenous self-determination and sovereignty are ignored
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like Vikram Seth‚ Salman Rushdie‚ Arundhti Roy who changed the face of Indian novel in English with their continue practice of shattering the standard of westernized looking as ‘other’ and ‘substandard’ discussed in Edward Said’s famed treatise Orientalism as he seems to be adopting cosmopolitan standard of writing‚ eliminating all the linguistic and geographical barricade. The present novel 2 States also‚ is one of the best sellers of Chetan Bhagat‚ firstly‚ because the writer admits that this is
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On close reading of both Lane and al-Tahtawi it is revealed how very opinionated they are when it comes to describing women. The knowledge or assumptions that they make about women are not from direct interactions with women or their voice. Lane speaks of women from a received perspective‚ and Tahtawi makes judgment about women from what he sees. The way they speak about women reflects the larger picture of patriarchal society‚ their audience. These descriptions create a stereotype‚ which in effect
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A Guide to the Characters in The Buddha of Suburbia Bridget Moloney ’05‚ Brian Orloff ’06‚ Emily Weiss ’06‚ Recent Asian Diaspora Fiction‚ Northwestern University Karim Karim is The Buddha of Suburbia’s narrator and protagonist. Karim grows up in the suburbs of London and later moves with his family to London proper. As Karim grows the novel follows him from his teenage years into his early 20s his own worldview changes significantly. Much of Karim’s story is about identification‚ specifically
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cultural life and expression. Key concepts in post-colonial theory therefore include: Representation Identity History Who are the key players? Edward Said (1935-2003) A Palestinian literary critic best known for his work Orientalism pub. 1978. Said use the term Orient to refer to North African Arab and Middle Eastern peoples and cultures who are represented as the binary opposite of Western or occidental cultures. For Said representations of the orient serve to reimpose colonial
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