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    Pygmalion, Pretty Woman

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    When people say they are looking at something through a feminist criticism lens‚ it means they are looking at the movie or book to try and find parts that speak on women and their position in the world. Throughout Pygmalion‚ Pretty Woman‚ and My Fair Lady‚ there are multiple messages that can be understood about women and their role in society. Pygmalion‚ an old Greek myth‚ has the least to say about women‚ but there is still something to be learned. When the story says the women are prostitutes

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    Hollywood Pretty Woman

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    The film Pretty Woman is a 1990 romantic comedy set in Los Angeles‚ California which takes place just following the 80’s era. The story of Pretty Woman centers on a Hollywood prostitute Vivian Ward who gets hired by a very wealthy businessman‚ (Edward Lewis)‚ to be at his beck and call or escort for several business and social functions. During that time‚ they gradually begin to develop a relationship over the course of Vivian’s week-long stay in his suite. Edward then takes his lawyer’s exotic

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    Pygmalion and Pretty Woman

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    "I feel just like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman except for that whole hooker thing." It’s no surprise that Laney‚ the speaker of these words and heroine of 1999’s She’s All That should feel that way. She could have just as easily said that she felt like Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady because She’s All That is the latest example of a series of movies based on the Pygmalion myth‚ an occurrence that illustrates Hollywood’s long fascination with this myth. The original Pygmalion story is found in Ovid

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    Pretty Woman Report

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    Pretty Woman Report – Myhanh Tran Vivienne and Edward shared a very similar trait in what their needs and wants were in this film. In order to survive Vivienne worked as a hooker on the streets to earn money. She did so by sleeping with men’s‚ this was her top priority in needs. Vivienne mentioned that she wanted to live a fairytale‚ which was what she wanted. As for Edward‚ he was leaning towards money and his business. He wanted a successful company to be able to become a bigger billionaire.

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    Sociological Perspectives

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    Student’s Name: Instructor’s Name: Course Code: Date of Submission: The main sociological perspectives on education fall agreeably into the functional‚ conflict theory and a symbolic interaction approaches (Ballantine .W & Hammack . M77). Functional hypothesis stresses the purpose that education serves in gratifying a community’s various wants. Conceivably the most imperative function of education is socialization. If kids need to learn the customs‚ morals‚ and skills they require to

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    Pygmalion and Pretty Woman

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    the text from the past and it’s appropriation. The intended audience of both Pygmalion‚ by George Bernard Shaw and Pretty Woman‚ directed by Garry Marshall was the mass of society at the time of composition. This is seen through the choice of the form of each text‚ Pygmalion is a play because in the early twentieth centaury this was the popular way of spreading ideas and Pretty Woman is a Hollywood film‚ a current form of mass media today. Because both texts were aimed at the majority of society they

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    Sociological Perspectives

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    Sociological perspectives explain how individuals and groups experience life and portray their behaviours within society‚ examining the norms‚ values‚ rules and institutions. There is argument over which perspective is most accurate because there are a range of perspectives with different views. However‚ they all take a similar approach and disagree with the view that an individual’s behaviour is freely chosen by them. In relation to this essay some sociologists suggest that behaviour is natured

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    There are many different perspectives in sociology. There are three main views that are used by almost all sociologists‚ though. These are the functionalist‚ conflict‚ and interactionist perspectives. The functionalist perspective emphasizes the way that parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability (Schaefer 13). Functionalism uses the macro-level approach. Macrosociology concentrates on large-scale phenomena‚ or entire civilizations (Schaefer 13). The functionalist approach

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    Sociological Perspective

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    can be defined as the study of the “origin‚ development‚ organisation‚ and functioning of human society” (Dictionary.com). Within sociology‚ there are three main theoretical perspectives that help us to understand childhood. These are the functionalist perspective‚ the conflict perspective and the interactionist perspective. Firstly‚ functionalists believe that society is viewed as a “system of interconnected parts” that works collectively in order to sustain a sense of social balance within

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    Purpose of Paradigms and Theory    Sociology has different ways of approaching the world and ideas in it  ● Each one has its own assumptions‚ and own perspective on how to explain a particular  social problem or phenomenon    Theories are explained of the relationship between two or more concepts  ● Theories provide a way for organizing facts about some phenomena   ● Theory​  : A statements of how and why particular facts are related    There are three major paradigms in sociology :   ● Structural Functionalism 

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