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    Restaurant Reviews: a Genre that Rants and Raves Introduction For the past century people have turned to restaurant reviews to guide their culinary experiences. More and more we see this genre becoming apparent in our every day lives. With iPhone apps like Urbanspoon‚ Yelp‚ Forkly‚ Foodspotting‚ and the New York Times‚ reading restaurant reviews has become accessible by the touch of a button. However‚ this new generation of discussion forums and rating systems has made it difficult for the general

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    Brittany Rose Dr. Pulling ENGL 2210-012 8 March 2012 Relationship Between Fantasy and Reality in A Midsummer Night’s Dream In A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Shakespeare easily blurs the lines of reality by inviting the audience into a dream. He seamlessly toys with the boundaries between fantasy and reality. Among the patterns within the play‚ one is controlled and ordered by a series of contrasts: the conflict of the sleeping and waking

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    Unified Genre Essay In any relationship‚ sacrifices are made to maintain the united couple. In the play‚ The Taming of the Shrew‚ Shakespeare writes of the troubled couple Petruchio and Katherine. Harry Mark Petrakis introduces Marko’s tribulations to win the love of Ariadne in the short story‚ “The Wooing of Ariadne”. Shakespeare and Petrakis both show the struggle between the people in a relationship that is required for true love to exist. In The Taming of the Shrew‚ Katherine and Petruchio

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    "This book is about surviving as a spiritual orphan." "In "Lost in the Land of Oz"‚ Madonna Kolbenschlag explores the way old societal myths‚ which are created from the metaphors in our life‚ are no longer useful in today’s society. The author believes we need to embrace the ego archetype of the orphan‚ the most influential metaphor for the self‚ in order to become a whole and complete person. Madonna Kolbenschlag discusses how our society is particularly hostile towards women‚ resulting in an

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    The two movies I viewed were Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Poltergeist‚ which were both directed by Tobe Hopper. Both films displayed the general rules horror films generally follow through the use of horror film genre conventions. For instance‚ both movies follow the good verses evil story lines and in each the end does ultimately win. However‚ this is not entirely true in Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The friends represented the good and the chainsaw carrying monster and his family portrayed the evil

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    Fantasy vs. Reality Blanche is sufficiently self-aware to know that she cannot survive in the world as it is. Reality is too harsh‚ so she must somehow create illusions that will allow her to maintain her delicate‚ fragile hold on life. “A woman’s charm is fifty percent illusion” (scene 2) she acknowledges to Stanley. Later in the story line when Mitch wants to switch the light on so that he can get a realistic look at her‚ she tells him that she does not want realism‚ she wants magic. When Mitch

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    24 March 2014 Childhood Fantasies Fulfilled: Alice’s and Marlow’s Journeys into Wonder and Darkness At some point or other‚ every human being must embark upon the “journey” from a state of innocence to one of experience. The effective loss of such innocence in favor of the awareness of one’s own mortality‚ as well as the darkness and malevolence of the surrounding world‚ is an inherent aspect of the human condition. Such a transformation often occurs with the onset of adolescence‚ as one matures

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    fatale. Though Jake mistakes her for her husband’s killer at first‚ Mrs. Mulwray eventually emerges as the story’s most tragic victim. Yes‚ Chinatown for the most part conforms to the structure of film noir‚ but this film departs from the general genre‚ creating an entirely different element in which Roman Polanksi examines not only big-money corruption and its malignant obsession with money‚ but also larger‚ more human themes such as ignorance‚ authority‚ and the pervasiveness of evil. Like the

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    Year 1 Total Word Count: 518   Ideology‚ Genre‚ Auteur Robin Wood’s article ‘Ideology‚ Genre‚ Auteur’ suggests that instead of looking at movies in only one perspective‚ one should combine different approaches to assessing the film as a whole. By collectively looking at the ideologies‚ the methods‚ and the director‚ one will get a more accurate sense of the movie. He states that his concern is “to suggest something of the complex interaction of ideology‚ genre‚ and personal authorship that determines

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    The newest addition to the Marvel cinematic universe‚ Logan‚ may be the finest and most endearing ‘superhero’ film of the last 20 years. It is clearly the most violent film of its type—so violent it’s anti-violent—but like the best of the genre (Nolan’s Batman Begins and The Dark Knight are obvious examples) it is dripping with philosophy—X-23’s backstory is a textbook in bioethics‚ while Logan’s initial treatment of her‚ and Xavier’s arguments in favor of protecting her‚ gives us a resounding discourse

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