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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Ryan McMillan Mr. Ealy Block 2 February 28‚ 2008 The Faithful Representation Of Reality Realism is a writing style that depicts all of the common‚ ordinary aspects of life. While Romanticism was enormously popular and influential in the mid 19th century‚ bitterness from The Great Depression inspired authors to produce stories with characters and plots consistent with the common person’s feelings of poverty and despair. Realists felt that literature had an ethical obligation to present
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Is ‘Trainspotting’ (UK 1996) an Irresponsible Representation of a Heroin-Chic Lifestyle? Trainspotting is a 1996 Channel 4 film‚ directed by Danny Boyle‚ based on the book written by Irvine Welsh. It follows the life of Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor)‚ a Scottish heroin addict and the influence addiction has on his and his friend’s lives. The mid-1990s saw the rise of the ‘Heroin Chic’ trend amongst young people across Britain. The term originated from the appeal of looking like a Heroin addict
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Cliché Representations Give Way to True Heroes “A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” Christopher Reeve Many are not born heroes‚ but become heroes through their interactions or accomplishments. Others‚ such as in the case of Scout Finch‚ are unaware of their hero position but slowly grow into it. Scout becomes the hero of To Kill a Mockingbird by the end of the novel through her attitudes‚ accepting nature‚ and
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resistance movement throughout British America against the Tea Act‚ which had been passed by the British Parliament in 1773. Colonists objected to the Tea Act because they believed that it violated their rights as Englishmen to "No taxation without representation‚" that is‚ be taxed only by their own elected representatives and not by a British parliament in which they were not represented. Protesters had successfully prevented the unloading of taxed tea in three other colonies‚ but in Boston‚ embattled
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Explore representations of love in Much Ado About Nothing In Much Ado About Nothing‚ Shakespeare uses literary structures such as doubles and opposites in order to emphasise the plays main themes and ideas. McEachern claims “It is undoubtedly the most socially and psychologically realistic of his comedies‚ in it’s portrait of the foibles generosities of communal life.” (McEachern‚ 2006‚ 1) One main theme I want to explore is love and how Shakespeare represents this in Much Ado About Nothing. The
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English II Level - 5 30 November 2012 The Wonderful Tyrant In Animal Farm by George Orwell he uses animals to represent human hierarchy‚ with the pigs being the highest. Napoleon placing the pigs above everybody else with the use of fear tactics becomes a tyrant. With the placement of the pigs above all the other animals‚ Napoleon begins his rise to power. None of the animals knew where the milk was disappearing to. The mystery was soon solved “It was mixed everyday into the pigs’ mash” (35)
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In order to make myself up-to-date‚ I tried to read news everyday whether through internet‚ newspaper or radio but mainly on technology. Thus‚ I consider myself quite a technologically savvy person. Because of reading news‚ I don’t need to buy too many gadgets which upgrade their versions unexpectedly fast! Another way to come to know of the latest gadgets‚ I would rather be shopping in electronic stores. While shopping‚ we can try out the products. Then‚ we recognize more about them and there
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In the clip of Prime Suspect‚ gender is represented in many ways using mise en scene and camera movement. One way camera movement is used to show gender is during the scene when the Super is telling his team that their investigation is going to be led by a woman. The camera pans around the room depicting the officer’s reactions‚ all of which are men. This camera movement coupled with the unhappy reactions from all the men in the room shows us that this is a man’s world and that Helen Mirren’s character
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How does context impact on the values and attitudes present in the text? Discuss with reference to 2 versions of LRRH and support your ideas with detailed analysis. 800 – 1000 words. Context has a differing impact on the various values and attitudes present within both Roald Dahl and Charles Perrault’s versions of Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf. Both Perrault’s early adaptation of the tale and Dahl’s 1982 poetic appropriation are reflective of the immensely different societies under which
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