such as their career. When their past poor choices are revealed many people may choose to abstain from associating with current or previous addicts. The poor representation in media creates a hard obstacle for addicts to overcome in their aim to better themselves. The image of narcotics abuse is always exaggerated in media. The representation is
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Representation of the Character I am playing a character called Jean Taylor from the play Fine ME by Olwen Wymark. The play was first performed at the Richmond Fringe Theatre at the Orange Tree on October 21st 1977; this play takes place in England‚ west London. This play is set in the late 20th century; the plot of this play is based on a teenage girl called Verity Taylor‚ who has suffered from an undiagnosed mental disorder for many years before being admitted to Broadmoor mental hospital after
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Image and representation Architecture is understood and studied from drawings and images. Drawings possess a life of their own and express the intentions of the architect. In the following essay‚ I would annotate the various arguments brought forth in the two readings‚ “The Necessity for Drawing: Tangible Speculation” by Michael Grave and “Architectural Drawings and the Intent of the Architect” by James Smith Pierce. Both the readings discuss about the importance of the language of drawing in
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As a social theorist in the mid 19th century‚ John Stuart Mill maintained a Utilitarian outlook. Yet‚ his enlightened perspective discouraged forced conformity and promoted the misfit. Furthermore‚ Mill argued that individual liberty is necessary to obtain progress in society.3 This concept remains relevant to the world we see today because‚ without deviants such as Brenda Berkman and Autherine Lucy‚ society would stagnate. In the essay Of Individuality‚ published by Mill in 1869‚ the theorist
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NOTES – JOHN STUART MILL - UTILITARIANISM 1. John Stuart Mill – On Virtue and Happiness (1863)The utilitarian doctrine is‚ that happiness is desirable‚ and the only thing desirable‚ as an end; all other things being only desirable as means to that end. What ought to be required of this doctrine‚ what conditions is it requisite that the doctrine should fulfill‚ to make good its claim to be believed? The only proof capable of being given that an object is visible is that people actually see it.
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to be the lower or “working” class‚ more commonly known as the poor. The different medias that society are exposed to usually show poor people as being lazy‚ dirty‚ and often uneducated. According to Bell Hooks essay‚ Outlaw culture: Resisting Representation‚ “value was connected to integrity‚ to being honest and hardworking.” (pg 433) Although she points out that the media portrays the poor as lazy‚ and non hardworking‚ she fails to speak on the fact that the most hardworking people are actually
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Jesse Stuart was born in 1907 and once he managed to get the opportunity to attend high school and then college‚ he realized that he has a talent as a writer. He is the author of numerous short stories and some novels‚ including biography of his father‚ who was the person that fostered his love for nature and appreciation of individuality. Due to my age I tend to think about love a lot. Though my musings are not concentrated on the sweet side of this beautiful feeling. I see love as suffering in
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harshness of longing and disconnection. But amongst the many metaphorical representations‚ the imagery of the mead-hall seems most imperative to the motivation of the poem and its contemplation of earthly instability. First‚ to examine the mead-hall in its literal meaning‚ "mead" is most likely associated to the alcoholic drink made from fermenting honey and water and thus symbolizes a celebration by feasting. As such‚ the mead-hall stands for a place of rewards and honor. To the protagonist of the poem
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Using material from item A and elsewhere‚ assess sociological explanations of the ways in which the mass media represent any two of the following: gender; sexuality; disability. (33 Marks) In recent years gender equality has been looked upon heavily by the government and other institutions‚ they wanted to create greater equality between men and women thus the Equal Pay Act and the Equal Opportunities Act were put in place; this leads sociologists to look at how gender is represented in the media
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that of a second-class citizen through the use of stereotypical representations. Because‚ it is controlled predominantly by the white liberal elites- an autocratic‚ financially driven organization‚ whose main objective is to protect the integrity of white culture; mass media industry is therefore‚ forced to reject all moral conventions‚ in order to present ethnic minorities as antagonists. The ideas of Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Stuart Hall accurately represent the century-old exploitative and oppressive
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