for his work as a rap artist who is able to connect with his audience through humor and rhythmically dicey lyrics. Eminem’s “My Name Is” music video is able signify whiteness and rearticulate race with the use intertextual editing techniques that parody common representations of whiteness. Eminem is using his “My Name Is” video as an approach to solidify his style of rapping and thus create new political and cultural authenticities that entice questions of race representation in the 1990’s and beyond
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The Satire of Earnestness It was a play that made controversy in the lush mansions of Victorian society. Subtitled "A Trivial Comedy for Serious People‚" The Importance of Being Earnest jokingly criticized Victorian manners and morals and attacking the society of the rich and luxurious. Oscar Wilde incorporated his own beliefs and ideology into the play by alluding to Victorian society "lets duplicity led to happiness." It is this "happiness" Wilde’s play focuses on by concentrating the
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Allegory - A story illustrating an idea or a moral principle in which objects take on symbolic meanings. Anachronism - A word derived from the Greek that literally means ’misplaced in time.’ Anaphora - The repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences Ex: In the poem of Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou‚ the phrase "Phenomenal Woman" is a repetition. Antecedent - The word or phrase to which a pronoun refers. It often precedes a pronoun in prose or in poetry
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Introduction The law in Australia in relation to copyright is inadequate because there are many restrictions on fair dealing. This area of the law could be improved by removing many of the restrictions on fair dealing in Australia and adopting a system similar to the fair use system in place in America. The reason for this… Background There is a large debate surrounding fair dealing and fair use in Australia. The reason for this is that Australia’s laws around fair dealing are far more restrictive
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29. The postmodern Since this book does not attempt to introduce different critical schools or historical periods of literature‚ it may seem inappropriate to include a chapter on the postmodern. In the following pages‚ however‚ we wish to suggest that this topic provides us with an invaluable set of terms for thinking about literary and other cultural texts‚ that to a significant degree it involves ways of thinking which are unavoidable in the twenty-first century. The word ‘postmodern’ itself
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Star Trek Fan Fiction: Copyright Infringement? Introduction As I sat in during one of the many Westlaw training sessions this year‚ I heard rumors that the company instructor and research guru John Lim was a part time actor. A quick trip to IMDB confirmed that John Lim played Hikaru Sulu in a fan fiction series named Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II. With the proliferation of the Internet‚ it has become easier than ever before to have access to other fans of a certain work and as a result‚ create
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because Jane Austen ‘parodies’ and ‘satirizes’ some parts of the book. As seen on Henry’s speech: (Austen‚ J.‚ 1993‚ pp 114); it is undoubtedly a parody: “And are you prepared to encounter all the horrors that a building such as “what one reads about” may produce? – Have you a stout heart? – Nerves fit for sliding panels and tapestry? “ Jane Austen was not interested in the gothic itself‚ but instead she used it only with the purpose of parody‚ as seen above
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a tree‚ a donkey is a good climber. — Mo Yan‚ Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out (2006) 32 ı W orld Literature Today and bureaucrats alike find themselves in comic and sometimes absurd situations. Similar to other contemporary writers who parody socialist realism‚ Mo Yan has blended the bawdy and humorous modes to construct counternarratives to the grand narrative of the nation-state. In East German writer Thomas Brussig’s 1996 novel Helden wie wir (Eng. Heroes Like Us‚ 1997)‚ the first-person
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reason he wrote the play. According to several sites Miller wrote the play to be a parody of the McCarthy era‚ in which there was a witch hunt ’ for communists.(Context) Miller was actually one of the people questioned by the McCarthy committee. We now know that the McCarthy witch hunt was based on very little real‚ factual evidence‚ much like the Salem witch trials. Not only was this play supposed to parody the McCarthy era‚ chances are Miller wrote the play to be a success. Many good books
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is the most oem by Oscar Krahnvohl like environmental issues‚ humanity issues‚ cultural issues and politicwell-known‚ and by Oscar starting with this particular line‚ he exposes the brilliance of the previous poem‚ but the next few lines start as a parody from the influence of the previous poem. In this stanza there are very similar lines towards the original for e.g. ’A land of open drains ’ to the original ’A land of sweeping plains ’. Oscar talks about the urban sprawl across the country‚ with
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