beginning of Resil Mojares’s essay‚ “The History in the Text”‚ it was clearly stated that “Any literary text is a point of entry into the historical world.” This statement in the essay rejected the idea of “historical literature” wherein in order to become a historical literature‚ a literature must be written by “historically-minded” writers like Jose Rizal‚ Amado Hernandez and many more. Mojares opposed the idea of ”historical literature” by stating that all text are historical since they are “unavoidably
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Analyse and evaluate how the Smithsonian National Museum of American History September 11 Website and ONE related text of your choosing represent history and memory in unique and evocative ways Good Morning teachers and students‚ my name is Lala Smith‚ and I’d like to share and address to you my own personal understanding as both a composer and responder‚ of history‚ memory and their representations. Standing here before you‚ I will elaborate further into the relationship of both factors and
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A cultural text can be anything from film to music‚ or art to books‚ such things only become a text after they have been decoded through critical interpretation. Each individual interprets text differently and it is through such things that we can experience culture. What exactly is culture though? The word culture comes from the Latin to mean ’tend and grow on land.’ Over the years it has come to mean other things‚ we can see this by looking at the dictionary which shows us there are eight different
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Women of Shakespeare’s time were regarded to be possessions of men and as such were conditioned to be submissive. This would have influenced‚ in my judgment‚ how Shakespeare created the female characters in Hamlet. Furthermore‚ in the essay “The Warrant of Womanhood‚ Shakespeare and Feminist Criticism”‚ Ann Thompson points out that male characters in Hamlet have a limited perception of the females. Shakespeare‚ according to Ann Thompson‚ goes as far as to let the audience know that he intended for
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MEMORY MEANINGFUL FRAMEWORK There are so many people who use schemata to organize current knowledge and provide a meaningful framework for future understanding. In psychology and cognitive science‚ a schema (plural schemata or schemas) describes an organized pattern of thought or behavior that organizes categories of information and the relationships among them.[1] It can also be described as a mental structure of preconceived ideas‚ a framework representing some aspect of the world‚ or a system
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Willa Cather’s My Anthonia‚ in my opinion was not only easy to read but also a thoroughly enjoyable read. It tells the vivid stories of several immigrant families who move to the rural state of Nebraska to start new lives in America. A Bohemian family‚ by the name of the Shimerdas‚ is one of the main focal points of the story. The eldest daughter of the Shimerda family is named Antonia. The book’s narrator‚ Jim Burden‚ arrives in the town of Black Hawk‚ Nebraska‚ on the same train as the Shimerdas
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Write about some of the ways characters are created in the three texts you have studied. (42 marks) Through the three texts ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’‚ ‘Lamia’ and ‘The lady of Shalott’ by John Keats and Alfred Tennyson respectively‚ we see the different representations of women; ranging from Keats’ hostile and misogynistic representation of women to Tennyson’s sympathetic yet somewhat limited representation of women. In ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’‚ as indicated by the title‚ Keats instantly casts
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The Work of Representation Stuart Hall Summarize by Jesse Tseng 1 Representation‚ meaning and language At first we have to know that： Representation is an essential part of the process by which meaning is produced and exchanged between members of a culture. It does involve the use of language‚ of signs and images which stand for or represent things. And surly it is not a simple or straightforward process. How this article exploring the concept of representation connect meaning and language to
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How stereotypical are the representations of Gender in my chosen texts? My chosen texts are ’The Inbetweeners’ ‚ ’X Factor’ and ’BBC News’. All three texts represent gender in different ways yet I wouldnt say that any of them truly represent both genders in stereotypical ways. In ’The Inbetweeners’ the main characters are portrayed in a very stereotypical way at first glance‚ they are boystrous and objectify women in the crude way in which they speak about them. Yet when you look deeper into
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brilliantly used to express history and culture and what can be achieved when history and memory are fused together to create an impression of the past and its connection with the present in a unique and evocative way. Baker takes us on a journey through the history of his parents as holocaust survivors‚ casting light on their memories hidden by pain and despair and through the process takes his own journey of self discovery. Baker’s occupation as a historian helps verify the memories and accounts of his
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