Media Broadcasting Donnacha Toomey Drugged up on 50 Shades By Jenny Plunkett (t00166214) Submission Date: 16/10/2012 Drugged up on 50 Shades The literary drug that sets our women off Isn’t it amazing when I type ‘5’ into the Google search bar‚ the first thing that pops up is the option for ‘50 Shades of Grey’. This already proves to us that it has become a phenomenon. However my question is what is it that makes it so popular? Why is the trilogy a “must read”? The author
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Fifty Shades of Grey has become a force in modern pop culture‚ despite its mediocrity. Sophie Godley argues that it has done so by presenting itself to the sexually uneducated as depicting taboo‚ when in fact it is composed of the same overused tropes that romance novels have been utilizing since their invention. Unfortunately‚ as Godley says‚ due to the underwhelming quality of the American sexual education system‚ a book like Fifty Shades that purports to being unconventional can and does feed
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minds gravitate to a new way of thinking; to be optimistic or pessimistic. They either think the worst is coming and have already accepted their fate‚ or they pray for the best and try to sustain hope and keep others optimistic. In the novel Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys‚ Lina Vilkas‚ a young woman living in Lithuania as Stalin‚ takes over‚ is set on a harrowing journey. Lina and family are forced to travel thousands of miles to a work camp by no fault of their own. During life‚ people experience
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In the book Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Septys the main character Lina and her family are captured by the NKVD. The NKVD is the Russian secret service. The NKVD took them to a farm where they lived for a while in relative comfort before the NKVD told them to sign some “confession papers” which state they agree they are criminals‚ agree to a sentence of 25 years hard labor‚ and will pay a fine of 200 rubles a year for every family member‚ including children. After they sign‚ there are special
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Analysis of “Shades of Prejudice” by Shankar Vedantam. Shankar Vendamant a science reporter for The Washington Post and the author of the book “The Hidden Brain”. He analyze how still individuals in the United States are judging by the skin color‚ rather than by their character or their achievements or stories in life. He added also how this issue affect or determine‚ who gets the job in everyday life situation‚ who gets sentence in a criminal case‚ and who gets elected in politics view. It’s
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Fifty Shades of Grey: A look into the relationship Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James is an erotic novel that explores a Dominant-submissive relationship between a young woman and a multimillionaire bachelor. The novel’s focus is to open the literary world and its readers to an alternative relationship dynamic‚ which until now has not been prominent in literature. Fifty Shades of Grey is a successful erotic romance novel that emphasizes the unique aspects of a Dominant-submissive relationship. James
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There was a tramp watching but it did not bother us‚ just added to the mystery. I knew then that this was love and my life would never be the same again. I made a promise to him there and then that I would buy him a plasma with the baby bonus..... 50 Shades of Mount Druitt ‚.... Chapter Two... The next time I saw him it was a dark and stormy night. I had walked in the rain along Luxford Road to the station‚ my hair dripping wet and my ugg boots a little damp. He climbed out of his mates’ Tarago van wearing
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Shades of Racism Overt Racism Since Australia’s inception in 1788‚ racism has been ever-present; the basis of modern Australia was the controlled subjugation of the original Aboriginal people. This gross marginalisation culminated in the ‘stolen generation’; a process of eugenics in order to inter-breed half-caste aboriginals‚ assimilating them into European appearance.1 We need only look to the existence of the ‘White Australia’ policy‚ which essentially denied residency to non-Europeans immigrants
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Authors that are from Michigan‚ make you have this certain connection with them. This explains my connection with‚ Ruta Sepetys. Ruta wrote‚ Between Shades of Gray. She grew up in Michigan. Something that encouraged her to write about certain topics is‚ she is the daughter of a Lithuanian refugee. That was the focus of this book. It was their journey that she told. Her family were artists‚ readers and music lovers. This related to the book because‚ the main character was an artist. For example‚ she
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Mary Seacole and Florence Nightingale were noted for their nursing care in the Victorian age. Seacole was soon forgotten while Nightingale became known as the founder of nursing. Mary Seacole was born in Kingston‚ Jamaica‚ in 1805. Her father was a white‚ Scottish-British soldier and her mother was a free Jamaican woman‚ who operated a boarding house for ill soldiers. Seacole gained the skills of care and traditional healing remedies from her mother (Mary Seacole‚ 2007). Later in her life‚ Mary Seacole
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