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    cold no fire ever can warm me‚ I know that is poetry;" and Dylan Thomas defined poetry this way: "Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn‚ what makes my toenails twinkle‚ what makes me want to do this or that or nothing." Poetry is a lot of things to a lot of people. Homer’s epic‚The Odyssey‚ described the wanderings of the adventurer‚ Odysseus‚ and has been called the greatest story ever told. During the English Renaissance‚ dramatic poets like John Milton‚ Christopher Marlowe‚ and of course

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    Chapter 1 Outline The Sociological Imagination * Sociology is the study of human society. * In the mid-twentieth century‚ sociologist C. Wright Mills argued that we need to use our sociological imagination to think critically about the social world around us. * The sociological imagination is the ability to connect one’s personal experiences to society at large and greater historical forces. Using our sociological imagination allows us to “make the familiar strange” or to question habits

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    Open Rubric “Postmodernism has enriched film theory and its analysis by calling attenti0n to a stylistic shift toward a media conscious cinema” (Gonarkar 2012)  Postmodenism can be characterised by various aspects including:  Pastiche  Nostalgia  Disjointed narratives  Emotional detachment  Self-referentialism  Time bending  Altered realities  ‘Quoting’ from different film genres and film     movements/periods as well as from other visual media and actual historical periods

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    and detached. This can lead to confusion or miss iteration of information. This would indicate societies can modernize without a high level of literacy. Writing creates detachment by making it possible to view a word as a thing Modernism and postmodernism focus too heavily on reading and writing‚ prompting artists to focus heavily on concepts and labels to describe aesthetic experience. Dissanayke argues that you cannot describe or purposely elicit another’s aesthetic understanding to be the same

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    Devin Gonier Professor Ivette Vargas-O’Bryan Department of Religious Studies Final Report Mellon Project 2008-09 Combining stories: Reading Tibetan Medicine as a Western Narrative of Healing This project was funded by the Carnegie Mellon Grant from Austin College in 2008-09 under the supervision of faculty-advisor Ivette Vargas-O’Bryan from the Department of Religious Studies. My faculty advisor was of critical help throughout the entire process‚ and took great care in mentoring me in

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    Transcript Analysis: Introduction: The transcript submitted is based on a recording taken while waiting for the bus on Barkers Road. It was an afternoon and the conversation was between Ruby‚ Victoria‚ Brigitte‚ Callan and myself. The conversation is reasonably straightforward in meaning but often difficult to understand. Situational Context: As stated‚ the recording took place at the Barkers Road bus bay. This is a reasonably public place‚ although it mainly consists of school students. The

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    The List By Siobhan Vivian

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    they will like you for who you are. The list is a powerful thing that symbolizes their lives. They all changed in different ways based on their reaction to being on the list. Being on the list is not an easy task for the pretty girls‚ in fact it’s a lot of pressure‚ the ugly girls try to fix themselves or live up to the expectations. Once you are on the list you never are the same‚ because you are forced to change into someone you are not. Others are going to judge you weather you are on the list of

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    of improving society. Pynchon presents hollow satire where the search for a deeper meaning is met with disappointment such as in the naming of his characters. Literary critic Alfred Macadam interprets that Oedipa Maas‚ the protagonist in The Crying of Lot 49

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    Spiegelman’s Maus II is a graphic novel and I believe Spiegelman chose this format because it is the only way to discuss the Holocaust while simultaneously conveying the impossibility of doing such a task. The Holocaust was such a horrific event that there is no way of truly representing it. Spiegelman realized that everything is a representation. He also realized that representing every aspect of the Holocaust was something that simply cannot be done. It is impossible to capture something free of

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    Montag questions what he is noticing about his society. Montag asks Faber for help because he has a lot of questions and Faber said‚ “And then the Government‚ seeing how advantageous it was to have people reading only passionate and the fist in the stomach‚ circled the situation with your fire eaters” (Bradbury 85). Montag noticed that when people stopped

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