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    SITA SINGS THE BLUES Sita sings the blues is an animated film directed by an American artist named nina paley basically using 2D graphics and flash animation. This movie is directed produced and written by nina paley narrated by aseem chhabra‚ bhavana nagulpally‚ manish acharya. This movie stars sanjiv jhaveri‚ nina paley‚ deepti gupta‚ debargo sanyal‚ reena shah‚ Pooja kumar‚ Aladdin ulaah. The music for this film has been given by Annette hanshaw and the movie was released on 11th of February

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    The tradesmen and the cook are not really comparable to the knight. They have different contrasting personalities‚ views and priorities. The tradesmen also known as the guildsmen appear as a unit or a group in the prologue. They are craftsmen or an organization of workers with comparable occupations joined together to enhance the bargaining power for their unions. All in the livery of one impressive guild-fraternity (371-372). The word livery suggests that the tradesmen are wearing matching clothing

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    H 6 Oct. 2014 Revolutionary Women In his novel‚ A Tale of Two Cities‚ Charles Dickens vividly articulates the chaotic strife between the extravagant aristocrats and oppressed peasants during the French Revolution. He develops the contention by entangling the two countries France and England through the notorious Evremonde family‚ resulting in the corruption of innocence and exponential bloodshed. Yet Dickens emphasizes the often overlooked‚ influential roles of women throughout the novel by their

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    “Various portrayals of Chunhyang” The Chunhyang tale‚ based on a Korean love folktale in the early 18th century‚ similar to “Romeo and Juliet”‚ is portrayed in various versions‚ a pansori‚ film‚ a novel‚ and a manga. Chunhyang‚ the beautiful‚ sharp-witted‚ talented daughter of a courtesan shows strong resistance to authoritarian powers and represents a female role model of headstrong perfectionist through her secret love‚ marriage to the son of provincial governor‚ Mongyong. Despite of Chunhyang’s

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    Although the women reflect “foolishness” on the outside‚ The Great Gatsby provides several examples in which women empower themselves despite their inferior status. Although Fitzgerald may have viewed women as a weaker sex‚ several females in the novel demonstrate an underlying power through their relationships‚ and display some admirable qualities. Although they are not able to achieve the same amounts of success as men in the society; by attaching themselves to a suitable mate allows them to share

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    Women in popular culture and cinematic representations offer what ‘Barbara Creed calls it “monstrous-feminine”’ in different guises: ‘the archaic mother‚ woman as monstrous womb‚ woman as the witch‚ for instance-while others address them matters of sexual desire-the femme castratice and the vagina dentata’. The woman and her capacity to disturb normal ontology to give birth fascinate‚ repulse and intrigue. From the psychoanalytic viewpoint‚ the monstrosity of the maternal body is ambiguous‚ a ‘man’s

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    chosen this novel to prove she could ’do men as well as women ’)‚ there is a small but important female presence. When WW1 began in 1914‚ women in Britain were still very much the oppressed gender. Campaigns for women to be allowed the vote were well established. It was only one year previously that Emily Davison had thrown herself under the King ’s horse at the Derby‚ but no votes were to be awarded until after the war‚ and even then only to women who owned their own homes or were married. By introducing

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    Introduction The General Prologue fulfils two functions: it tells the story of how the tales came to be told‚ and it introduces the tellers. There are about thirty pilgrims travelling to Canterbury to pray to the holy blissful martyr- St. Thomas of Becket. These characters can be considered the portrait of the whole Middle English society. All the pilgrims can be divided into particular hierarchic structure of classes. The simplest division of society was into three estates: those who fight‚ those

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    Takeda Shingen and His Portrayal through the Schemes of Media and Time Historical truths can come in many different shapes‚ forms‚ and sizes but may not always be apparent; the truth doesn’t always have to come from the accuracy of a depiction but sometimes can be revealed through the essence of its meaning. And while every single portrayal of an occurrence or person may or may not be one hundred percent true to the reality‚ each perspective nonetheless reveals the accuracy of at least one

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    stories are common in the art world. However‚ the portrayal of demonized women‚ such as Jezebel or Delilah‚ is rarely done from a non-Hebrew perspective or from one that shows how their actions could be interpreted as good rather than cruel. In Kirk Richards’ Delilah‚ the use of lighting‚ composition and symbolism within the painting mimic saintly portraiture to cast Delilah in a positive light as the savior of her people‚ instead of the common portrayal of her as a seductress or traitor. Through this

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