«Humans inherently focus on the face to understand other people’s emotional states. Facial expressions are used to communicate ...» Document abstract
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psychology
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SummaryHumans inherently focus on the face to understand other people’s emotional states. Facial expressions are used to communicate worldwide, making them innate and universal. This essay addresses the various ways in which the brain processes facial information. Specific evidence is given for the part-based, gestalt and configurable models. Evidence presented also analyzes the time frame for processing identification, gaze, and expression. This essay also grapples with categorical emotion perception as opposed to two dimensional emotion theories. Computational models shed light on the inner workings of our perception of emotion in categories.
Keywords: Russell, Fernández-Dols, Ellison, Massaro
Keywords: Russell, Fernández-Dols, Ellison, Massaro
« While trying to reach their destinations the characters face many obstacles including a death like experience like drowning or falling asleep with the ...» Document abstract
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literature
school essay
date published
12/12/2007
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SummaryJoseph Campbell’s Hero Cycle is an idea that anyone can relate to and be able to recognize. There are many stories throughout time that use this in their composition. Stories such as “Little Red Riding Hood” and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz format their structure around it. George Lucas’ Star Wars Trilogy also uses it as the basis of its story. The hero cycle is something that we not only read about, but we experience it in our everyday lives as well. In fiction it is expressed more unrealistically then in reality but both topics still share a common bond. We will discuss the elements of the cycle, how they appear in dozens of stories and tales, and how it finds its way into our everyday lives.
« She is the embodiment of innocence; her hair is long, most likely un-cut since birth, her fair face unadorned by make-up, and she stares at the audience with ...» Document abstract
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literature
presentation
date published
09/10/2007
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SummaryGender and sexuality are very difficult concepts to define in our post-modern age. To begin with, the term is outdated to fit the social norms of today: attraction lies anywhere and is not confined to ‘heterosexual love’ between a man and a woman. Gay, lesbian and bi-sexual are terms used to describe the previously neglected aspects of sexuality. Gender bending sexual androgyny used to be thought of as repulsive, but as Baz Luhrmann tells us, is all the more coveted in our liberalism of the present. As well, the more androgynous you are – in how you look and how you love – the more attractive you are; a signature of sexuality in the forever reviving pop-culture. As Luhrmann’s William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet uses every aspect of pop-culture, from music to fashion to actors to create a post-modern Verona, he also utilizes androgynous sexuality in various characters. Yet, not to alienate any audience member, Luhrmann elucidates all varied counterparts of gender and sexuality: from femininity to masculinity; from heterosexuality to homosexuality and homosociality. He throws everything that is pop-culture at us in the film, and as he shows in the varied characters, gender-bending sexuality is integral to our time and age.
« explains his morning routine, which is not only his validation of self but also his instructions, laws, on what it means to be fashionable: "If my face is a ...» Document abstract
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film studies
term papers
date published
18/08/2007
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SummaryJacques Lacan’s description of the Other is that which gazes on you or exerts power on you, yet does not truly exist; the Other is an imagined gaze that is constantly looking over you (Willemen, 216). In the film American Psycho (2000), screenwriter and director Mary Harron personifies the Lacanian Other with serial-killer Patrick Bateman. The Bateman character is an embodiment of the Other in that he is represented as a dead eye that continuously emits the intradiegetic Lacanian gaze (in various forms) on everyone around him.
Table of Contents- Throughout American Psycho, Bateman personifies three main qualities of the Other
- But the tone of Bateman's speech sounds indifferent, and to the viewer and Bateman's friends it is an ironic lecture
- Bateman's gaze is evident during the scene in which he has lunch with Detective Kimball
- Laura Mulvey notes that the look cast by the spectator can be in fascination with the image of like, identifying with this ideal ego, and thus, the spectator can gain control and possession of the desired object within the diegesis
- Bateman continues to let Paul Allen refer to him as Marcus Halberstrand rather than confront Paul Allen about his error
« the lesson material, like the claim that violence is exclusively a male problem versus a human problem, are responsible for the oppression women face every day ...» Document abstract
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Language : english
social sciences
school essay
date published
19/10/2007
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SummaryOn June 28, 1998, Ally McBeal graced the cover of Time magazine; not in the name of television or Hollywood or fashion, but in the name of feminism. According to The American Century Dictionary, feminism is the advocacy of women’s rights and sexual equality. So how does an upper-class woman who complains about her weight and puts dating before all else qualify as a feminist? Simple: in the misdirected world of the modern women’s movement, Ally McBeal is as much an icon of feminism as the women who shared the cover with her, women like Susan B. Anthony and Betty Friedan, two of the most celebrated founding mothers of feminism. The prior successes of the movement have been overshadowed by these new, ludicrous ideals and haphazard ventures into the mainstream media. Feminism, which at is core strives for a higher quality of life, is one of the main opponents of progress in the United States. As necessary as the feminism was in the past, its continuing presence is completely counterproductive in today’s society.
« Lanval got nothing at the King's hand" (XXX). The story takes a complete about-face when Lanval is suddenly stricken with good luck. ...» Document abstract
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Language : english
literature
school essay
date published
06/09/2007
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SummaryLife is full of obstacles – there is no doubt about it. Deciphering why people have certain obstacles and how they can overcome such obstacles is often just as burdening as the obstacles themselves. It is evident everywhere that people are struggling with their obstacles. From books, to movies, to everyday interaction, people are constantly being challenged to overcome. Marie De France’s “Lanval,” the hard life of an underprivileged child, and a CBS sitcom all relate this idea, that life is full of obstacles.
« within his culture, a constant reminder of his complacency, and Okonkwo, the epitome of stoicism, carried much the same look on his face, especially after the ...» Document abstract
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literature
school essay
date published
17/12/2007
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SummaryChinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, the definitive post-colonial, African novel, focuses on a character who is in constant struggle with his tribe and with himself. Okonkwo, a purveyor of masculinity in his society, has many reasons for his actions in the novel. The continuing cultural violence in the novel and within the culture (often started and ended by Okonkwo), some argue, is inherent in the contradictions of the Igbo culture (Hoegberg, 69-77). Okonkwo’s actions, as well as the actions of others in the novel, explain a culture very sacred to Achebe, and through Okonkwo’s various actions and thoughts throughout the novel, the culture seems both precious and brutal, cultural relativism aside. Okonkwo is a character whose chi is in constant conflict, and Okonkwo himself is in constant conflict with himself over the masculinity, overall violence demanded by his honor based Igbo culture, and his relationship with his father.
« Temptation can make you do things that you would never dream of doing, because once that dream is dangled in front of your face, you'll stop at nothing in ...» Document abstract
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literature
presentation
date published
12/10/2007
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SummaryTemptation preys upon what we wish for and what we dream for. Want a flashy car: a cherry red, nitrous infused Lamborghini with leather seats, a thumping sound system and a set of wicked hydraulics? Sure it sounds good, but how possible is that on such a measly salary? Maybe, but only after working 60 hour work weeks and cutting your budget so that you’re surviving on toast and ramen noodles. Do this for the next decade or more, working to the break point and sacrificing everything comfortable, and only then would you be able to afford your dream car. But that is why your dream car is still a dream; the plausibility of purchasing it is so far out of your reach that you can only imagine it and dream about one day owning it. You continue to dream and hope, thinking about your fantasy becoming true, but you are positive the closest you will get to owning a Lamborghini is when you ogle it at the dealership as you drive by. What would happen if a person just offered a Lamborghini to you? That mysterious new guy from accounting approaches you and tells you he can grant you anything you want…all you have to do, is wish for it. Would you do it? Of course you would! If someone could offer you your dream car for doing no work at all, automatically, your first response would be “yes!”, but after a minute, you would remember nobody offers anything for free and you would ask: “Ok, what’s the catch?”
« homoeroticism. This speech causes a profound effect upon young Dorian; his face, as Basil is painting him, becomes transfigured. ...» Document abstract
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literature
book review
date published
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Summary“What if someone wrote a novel about homosexuality and no body [sic] came?” Ed Cohen writes of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (75). Actually, at the time the book was written, the term “homosexuality” was nonexistent. Wilde, himself, became one of the leaders of the movement that defined homosexuality. Oscar Wilde, one of the most (in)famous homosexuals of the nineteenth century, portrays through the three main characters in Dorian Gray, the difficulty of coping with the life of secrecy that unavoidably went hand in hand with being a homosexual male in nineteenth century England.
Table of Contents- The Picture of Dorian Gray most likely reflects Wilde's own feelings and experiences regarding society's perception and treatment of homosexuality
- Obviously, Wilde was well aware of his society's homophobia, but perhaps he did not know exactly what he was up against
- Lord Henry Watton theorizes about indulging in one's passions but never actually does
- As the title suggests, the plot of Dorian Gray revolves around a picture that is painted of Dorian by Basil Hallward
- On the other hand, Wotton's massive influence over Dorian does lead the latter to begin to investigate his own desires
- Sensual descriptions such as the previous one, although shocking to the nineteenth century public, are quite prevalent in the novel.
- Like Oscar Wilde himself, Dorian Gray does not hold that critical distance from his passions that is so necessary to avoiding the dangerous consequences that he subsequently experiences
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