The following six questions are addressed in a critique of an article entitled: Controversial Rap Themes‚ Gender Portrayals and Skin Tone Distortion: A Content Analysis of Rap Music Videos. This article was published in the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media and written by Kate Conrad‚ Travis Dixon‚ and Yuanyuan Zhang. Kate and Yuanyuan are PhD students in the Department of Speech Communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Travis is Assistant Professor of Speech Communication
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‘Through the character of Lucien‚ Malle presents us with an ambiguous portrayal of the collaborateur’. Discuss “Despite an ever increasing amount of literature on the history of the Second World War in general and of Nazi rule in occupied Europe in particular‚ there is still no agreement on the exact meaning of the term ‘collaboration.’”[1] From this statement it is clear that the collaboration was an undeniably ambiguous time in French history‚ more so than the rest of the Second World
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Portrayal of inferiority and mediocrity of females by the usage of Marianismo in Like Water for Chocolate and Chronicles of a Death Foretold “The girls had been reared to get married”. This statement provides insight into a culturally rich society’s views about females and their position in the society. Marianismo in reality means semi-divinity‚ sexual purity and moral strength of a woman yet the wider mass of people most commonly visualize Marianismo as being something opposite to Machismo or being
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Disney and Religion: how Mulan and Aladdin differ in the portrayals of non-Western religions by Ada Tadmor Since the 1937 release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs‚ the first ever animated feature film‚ the Walt Disney Company has led the motion picture industry in the field of animation. While these films generally pivot on tales of adventure‚ love‚ friendship‚ family‚ or coming of age‚ religion and spirituality‚ oftentimes of non-Western origins‚ are omnipresent in numerous Disney narratives
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Black Hawk Down is based on the near disastrous battle in Mogadishu that took place in Somalia in October 1993. The movie specifically focuses on a group of US soldiers who go into Somalia as part of a U.N. Peacekeeping operation. The overall mission was for troops to capture leaders and the Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid. Aidid and his militia took Red Cross food shipments and pressured groups of people to cooperate leading to widespread famine‚ hunger and poverty throughout Somalia. As the
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1955 saw the start of the Western European Union and talks began at Messina about a European Economic Community‚ the EEC. Britain maintained a strong opinion when referring to Europe and the EEC. This being scepticism‚ Britain didn’t take these plans very seriously. Such feelings were clearly displayed‚ when Britain didn’t even send an Ambassador to the Messina Conference. Instead‚ in keeping with their‚ thus far sceptical approach‚ only an observer was sent on the British behalf‚ rather than Foreign
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To what extent can the Tet Offensive of 1968 be described as a key turning point in the Vietnam War in the Years 1963-73? (30 marks) The Tet Offensive could be described as a key turning point because it shook USA’s confidence in winning the war‚ both sides changed their tactics and also because it led to a decrease of support for the war in the USA. However there were many other key turning points such as the Gulf of Tonkin incident‚ the attack at Pleiku and the Battle of Ac Bac. Overall the
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Explore the portrayal of the American Dream and its failure in the Great Gatsby; Illuminate your response with reference to Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath. One of the main themes in “The Great Gatsby” centres on the corruption of the American Dream. Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby” deals with the struggles of achieving the American dream and how far one is willing to go in order to reach it. The dreams of this novel are corrupted by wealth‚ power and expenses and Fitzgerald demonstrates this
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What do the representations of Cleopatra in film and on television (as shown on the DVD Video ‘Cleopatra’) tell us about how her reputation changed over time? Discuss with reference to two or three representations Cleopatra’s changes over time are best shown in the 1917 and 1963 films and in the modern day television showings of Cleopatra. This is right from the first time Cleopatra is shown in films right through to the current times‚ thus giving a broader time to be able to evaluate how her
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Explore the three portrayals of Shylock you have seen in Act 4 scene 1. In what ways are each effective and why? The character of Shylock plays an important part in The Merchant of Venice. He is a money lender who charges interest (commonly known as usurer) and agreed to a bond with one of his customers called Antonio. Antonio agreed that if he wasn’t able to repay him‚ then Shylock could receive a pound of his flesh. Unsurprisingly Antonio couldn’t repay him‚ and so the bond was taken to court
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