His essay “sons of Malinche” in the Labyrinth of Solitude‚ Paz describes macho power as one who has “the capacity for wounding‚ humiliating and annihilating”. He uses this definition to metaphor macho power as the “white privilege” that is given to men of European decent. Like the Europeans
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To start this journal‚ I would just like to say "Genre Fiction" should not be compared‚ honestly with "Literary Fiction." After reading the short story by Benjamin Percy‚ "Refresh‚ Refresh‚" I became very depressed. After reading the "Literary Revolution in the Supermarket Aisle: Genre Fiction is Disruptive Technology‚" I discovered why. "Refresh‚ Refresh" is what I would call a piece of Literary Fiction. It has merit and depth‚ and yet so does Genre Fiction. "Refresh‚ Refresh" is also "Genre Fiction
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“Pan’s Labyrinth” Film Review “Pan’s Labyrinth” is a 2006 film directed by Guillermo del Toro. It was a widely acclaimed film because of the imaginative and dark fantasy storyline. It received numerous awards and such as Academy Awards for Best Cinematography‚ Best Art Design‚ and Best Makeup. Pan’s Labyrinth is about a young girl named Ofelia who travels with her pregnant mother to live with her new husband/stepfather—Captain Vidal during the Spanish Civil War in Spain through the Francoist
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On the 13th of May‚ in 1787‚ the British Government sent a fleet of 11 ships on a mission to start up a new colony led by Captain Arthur Phillip. Captain Arthur Phillip was born on the 11th of October‚ 1738‚ in London. Phillip went to school at Greenwich and later served an apprenticeship in the merchant navy. He was then transferred to the Royal Navy during the Seven Years War but then retired to become a farmer in Hampshire. After he served his time as Captain in the Portuguese Navy‚ Phillip re-joined
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“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson‚ initially comes off as a happy and light-hearted story‚ with imagery showing kids playing in a yard and mothers gossipping with each other. An annual ritual called the lottery. Jackson keeps the reader in the dark as to what takes place in the lottery until the very end of the story. The story suddenly gains a very serious and solemn tone. The head of each household draws a slip of paper‚ and when Bill Hutchinson draws the paper with the black dot‚ his wife Tessie
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The Movie Pan’s Labyrinth was filled with symbolism. It seemed that every scene throughout the movie was trying to tell you something or tying in with something else. You could not help but notice all the different compositional modes of filmmaking. Sound for example tremendously added to the film. Although there were subtitles‚ after awhile you could almost not read them and just listen to the sounds and get a good idea about the tone it was trying to set. In fact‚ you could probably have even closed
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The Battle of Antietam at Sharpsburg on September 17‚ 1862 is considered the severest battle of the Civil War. It was General Robert Lee’s first invasion of the North which concluded as the Battle of Antietam in Maryland or Sharpsburg. This war took place just after a fortnight of the Confederate victory at Second Manassas‚ about 40 miles to the southeast in Virginia. It all started with the great victory of Robert Lee at Manassas in August which made him march his Army of Northern Virginia into
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In storytelling‚ monsters are used to express the fears and worries of humans. They allow us to discover our values by questioning our morals through imagination and illusion. In both Donnie Darko and Pan’s Labyrinth illustrating real-life monsters Captain Videl and Jim Cunningham enhances our fear of monsters. These villains symbolize the vulnerability we feel as we identify ourselves with the victims of the attack. We can relate each example of monsters to an evolution of our fears throughout
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Toro is a director that likes to portray fairy tales‚ myth and legends and science fiction stories using magic‚ fantasy‚ horror‚ darkness‚ creatures and monsters. The two films that I have selected to study and analyse are Pacific Rim and Pan’s Labyrinth. Pacfic Rim (2013) is a fantasy‚ science fiction story that tells of how aliens‚ (Kaiju) come from a disastrous‚ dying and chaotic underground oceanic world with their objective to destroy mankind. To defend their Planet‚ mankind manufacture robots
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Percy Bysshe Shelley (/ˈpɜrsi ˈbɪʃ ˈʃɛli/;[2] 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is regarded by critics as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. A radical in his poetry as well as his political and social views‚ Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime‚ but recognition for his poetry grew steadily following his death. Shelley was a key member of a close circle of visionary poets and writers that included Lord Byron; Leigh Hunt; Thomas
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