The Mystery of the Filipinos’ Representations for the Self Culture plays a significant role in shaping our sense of self and identity (Sta. Maria‚ 1999). It can refer to all the ways of thinking‚ feeling‚ and acting that people learn from others as members of society. Filipinos‚ though diverse culturally‚ has a unique way of representing himself/herself. We have different levels of consciousness; we select‚ we have a consciousness of choice. We always feel the need to connect with others‚ to
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Historically representations of teenagers have been varied in the media but especially more within recent years teenagers have been represented more negatively. From the British television drama website (www.itvdrama.blogspot.com ) I was able to find out that in the past teenagers were represented as obedient‚ conforming young people who were un-sexualized and unsusceptible to the negatives of the world. It stated that as time progressed the representation of teenagers became more realistic. They
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If a man can fight‚ he’s a hero. If a woman can fight‚ she’s a b**ch! Representation of women in action films The film industry never seems to lack action films and there always plenty for the market to choose from however how many of those have women in a leading role? A handful. There aren’t that many films that feature women in lead roles within action films. But the question is why? Why haven’t a majority of these women been given a chance? Are actresses like Uma Thurman and Angelina Jolie
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Representation connects meaning and language to culture. Theories about how LANGUAGE is used to represent the world: * the reflective‚ Does language simply reflect a meaning which already exists out there in the world of objects‚ people and events? * the intentional Does language express only what the speaker or writer or painter wants to say‚ his or her personally intended meaning? * the constructionist Or is meaning constructed in and through language? this perspective has had
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In the movie Muriel’s Wedding‚ there are many things that had repetition throughout the movie which gave symbolization of what it meant to the characters identity and events that occurred within the movie. In my representation‚ I have decided to pick particular scenes and shots from the movie to give the viewer an idea of what the movie can be about and the symbolism it holds. I have decided to use five scenes with the images at the top of the page Muriel at the beginning of the movie struggling
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that do not make it to the track are flipped and trained into eager event horses. Eventing includes three phases; dressage‚ cross-country and show jumping. Horse and rider need to be proficient in all three disciplines. Dressage represents the understanding between horse and rider‚ the aim of the dressage test is to execute a series of movements‚ perfectly. Show jumping tests horses and riders with up-right spreads in combinations of fences‚
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The Miss Representation Trailer is produced by Jennifer Siebel Newsom in 2011. The trailer conveys a message of how women are subject to vulnerability by the media and how that affects society present day. This message is presented through testimonies‚ images‚ and videos. The images that are displayed throughout this trailer is focused mainly on the disparage of women. For example‚ in the trailer there is pictures of naked women that are holding products that a company wishes to advertise. Lindy
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Faye Explore the representation of women in Macbeth‚ taking into consideration Gothic conventions and critical theories. Shakespeare uses gender roles to drive the plot in Macbeth; Lady Macbeth uses her sexuality to convince Macbeth to killing Duncan by questioning his masculinity. “When you durst do it‚ then you were a man; And to be more than what you were‚ you would Be so much more the man.” Lady Macbeth is shown as an strong willed character willing to have “plucked my nipple from [her child’s]
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The representation of transgender and/or non-binary individuals within video games has dramatically changed over the course of the past three decades alongside with the Lesbian‚ Gay‚ Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) rights movement. In saying that‚ due to the fact that I have already discussed the topic of the representation of the sexual orientation of individuals within the media who are not heterosexual‚ this chapter will have a focus on the impacts of transgender and/or non-binary representation
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The representation of youths in ‘A Clockwork Orange’ and ‘If….’ I will be investigating how youth is represented in the films A clockwork orange (1972) and If…. (1968) and how the films affected the views of the time and how the films influenced youths. I have chosen to investigate these films because of how both films were released at the time of the relaxation of violence in cinema. I also chose these films because the similar themes in both films‚ as both films focus on youths in society and
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