Nicky Minaj has seen success and beyond the mainstream exploding into international pop stardom since signing a record label with Lil Wayne‚ Young Money entertainment in 2009. Nicky Minaj has appeared on the Billboard Hot 100 charts‚ forty-four times and she’s received seven BET awards and she’s also received four American awards. To date she’s sold five million albums worldwide. As stated in ‘The Guardian’ newspaper online Nicky Minaj’s music is appealing at young boys and girls. With the genre
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Feminism and Pop culture By: Brittany Stevers In the recent history‚ feminism and pop culture have become more closely entwined than ever before. This can be partially because of the growing interest in culture studies as an academic discipline‚ but it can also be explained by the fact that‚ there’s a whole lot more popular culture to watch. Pop culture has become our common language‚ a universal way of uniting the world. Pop culture is also a key route to making the
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A Bar at the Folies-Bergère‚ Manet’s last major work‚ depicts a cynical view of modernity where subtle suggestions of the impact of consumerism‚ the mixing of social classes and class ambiguity have crept in. The café-concert culture was born out of Hussmann’s renovations‚ and it was common for 19th century artists to depict a vibrant café scene full of spectacle and frivolity in Haussmann’s new boulevards (Gronberg 1984). A Bar at the Folies-Bergère reveals a level of isolation and uncertainty that
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In Kate Chopin’s “Story of an Hour‚” her incorporation of connotative diction conveys an optimistic tone that coincides with the main character’s gradual realization that life can still be found after death. Upon receiving news of her husband’s death‚ Mrs. Mallard closes herself in her room and notes the trees outside were “aquiver with the new spring life” and “the delicious breath of rain… in the air” (1). Unlike the typical widow who would view the world as dreary and bleak after a spouse’s death
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Power Games Surveillance and Visibility in the Harry Potter Novels The narrative of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels talks about the discourse of the origin and distribution of power through an effective use of the strategies of visibility. The Harry Potter narratives use the dynamics of visibility to show how subjects of visibility attain power and the objects of visibility become subjugated by the power induced over them. These narratives divide characters into two categories of power relation:
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In A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ William Shakespeare brilliantly uses the night as a motif which plays a valuable role in the play. He combines this motif with the related symbols of the play to demonstrate the power of night and its correlation with love and vision. He uses symbolism and imagery to develop the motif and makes extensive use of the night forest which‚ in part‚ helps the situation of the four young lovers‚ one of the main plots of the play. It might seem strange that Shakespeare would
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Power is automatized through the panopticon. Inmates in the panopticon are under the impression that they are either constantly being watched or that they could be watched at any time and therefore are constantly under the gaze of the tower. The constant figure of surveillance through the central tower forces the inmate to observe his own actions as though he were being watched. This self-surveillance where the inmate “becomes a principle of their own subjection” (Foucault‚ 1977:203) means that the
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portrayal within the narrative 2. through spectator perception of the female 3. through the controlling gaze of the camera which objectified women Mulvey used psychoanalysis to question why gaze is so powerful. To males‚ women are seen as lacking because they do not hold a penis. Men deal with this by classifying other males and objectifying females. Mulvey looked at why the male gaze is dominant. Within voyeurism women are examined. By doing this the male is reassured that he himself is not
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"I gazed-and gazed-but little thought" Alex Nelson’s Poetry Explanation on Wordsworth’s poem "I Wandered As Lonely As A Cloud" Imagine walking through a field in early summer‚ around an aqua blue lake that is in the shape of a giant egg. You discover a field of daffodils that is flowing in motion like a grand "dance" full of elegance. This area is full of sublime that can only be fully appreciated by a poet. William Wordsworth has been to this place and it was the subject of his poem
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clearly. There is a dazzling chandelier at the center of the room about 50 feet up. It blinds me as I gaze upon Capulet atop his grand double staircase. I see
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