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    Andy Warhol Andrew Warhola is considered to be the “founder and a major figure of the pop art movement”. He was born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in 1928. He graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology‚ where he majored in pictorial design. He worked as an illustrator in many magazines including Vogue‚ Harpers Bazaar and the New Yorker‚ but‚ his big break was in 1949‚ when he illustrated for Glamour Magazine. Andy Warhol was born with the name Andrew Warhola‚ he dropped the “a” when his

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    Marble Female Figure

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    Marble Female Figure Cycladic Final Neolithic‚ ca. 4500-4000 BC Bequest of Walter C. Baker‚ 1971 (1972.118.104) “The figure represents a rare type known as steatopygous characterized by particularly full legs and buttocks‚ and is undoubtedly indicative of fertility. “ RACHELLE DARDEN Rachelle Darden Art History 11 Short writing Assignment 2

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    Simile : A comparison between two distinctly different things‚ objects or events. It consists in placing two different things side by side and comparing them with regard to some quality common to them. First the two objects must be different in kind. Secondly‚ the point of resemblance between the two different object or event must be clearly brought out. Such words are used for comparison : ‘like’ or ‘as’. A simple example of Robert Burns‚ “O my love’s like a red rose.” Errors like strews upon

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    Figures of Speech [ Examples ] 1. Metaphor ❖ "But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill." (William Sharp‚ "The Lonely Hunter") ❖ "Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food--and a spaniel that prefers even punishment from one hand to caresses from another." (Charles Colton‚ Lacon) 2. Simile ❖ "Good coffee is like friendship: rich and warm and strong." (slogan of Pan-American Coffee Bureau)

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    FACULTY OF MUSIC Western Art Music ( MUF106 ) LECTURER : Prof. Madya Hanizah Hj. Musib STUDENT NAME : NUMBER ID : COURSE : MUF106 - Western art music TITLE : Secular Music in the Middle Ages Secular music is non-religious music. Secular means worldly. Secular music developed in the Medieval period and was used in the Renaissance. Secular music in the Middle Ages included love songs‚ dances‚ and dramatic works. This music was not bound by the traditions of the Church

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    Opportunities Act were put in place; this leads sociologists to look at how gender is represented in the media. Within the media equality between genders are slowly changing; sociologist Abercrombie (1999) ‘soap stories are actually driven by strong female figures such as Carla Connor‚ Coronation Street and Anderson (1998) ‘argues that women now play major roles in comedies’; they look into how gender stereotypes are changing. However the media outlets have always had the majority of their broadcasters‚ journalists

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    Kaitlin Page‚ Politics 497‚ Critical Thought Paper #1 When studying representation it is necessary to understand how past political thinkers defined the concept. This paper will discuss three past thinkers that had differing opinions on how social class affected representation in government. The first of these is James Madison who wrote The Federalist Papers; especially No. 57. Next‚ the Anti-Federalist Paper #3‚ written by Brutus‚ will give an opposing opinion to that held by Madison. Finally

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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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    Media Representation 1 Objective: * To understand the mature of representations and stereotypes * Bea able to apply concepts learned to the relationship between representation and ideology as the apply to gender * Socially constructed : We construct the social Representation * Communication is achieved through shared signs and symbols e.g. language * The media communicate with their audiences through a process of representation by using familiar signs and symbols. * The

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    Figures of speech As one of the articles in this issue deals with the English Language Fair held at the Barbican Centre last autumn‚ this might be a good opportunity to concentrate on varieties of English style. Let’s start with the use of imagery.  The passage chosen for comment comes from The Guardian‚ a newspaper famous or notorious for its misprints as well as for the depth and seriousness of its new coverage. If the name of the writer‚ Roy Hattersley‚ seems familiar - yes‚ it’s the same

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