«What's Your Perspective? Most experienced readers do not have a hard time discerning authorial intent within an individual work ...» Document abstract
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SummaryMost experienced readers do not have a hard time discerning authorial intent within an individual work or analyzing themes within that piece. Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno however, provides a challenge. Melville intricately weaves this story so that no single interpretation fits, and it forces us to interpret further. As Robert Cochran asserts: “Benito Cereno is a story designed to be misunderstood, and the reader himself is a primary object of the attack” (Cochran 219). Melville utilizes elements of color and metaphor to set the mood, yet allows the theme to be discerned by the reader. The most confusing, interesting, and important element in this piece is the perspective of the narrator. The narration of the story, more than the events is what dictates our interpretation of it. We spend most of the story in the mind and path of Captain Delano, and because of this limitation the reader is forced to maker her own conclusions about the events on the ship and who truly is the hero.
« how & I say, an overdose, and then/ she shot herself, & your eyes fill In the selected poems, he takes on the perspective of his mother, an inquiring stranger ...» Document abstract
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journalism
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SummaryOpening Nick Flynn’s first published book of poetry, Some Ether, is like peering through a textured window. While the colors and images are sharp, the objects and sentiments are distorted—candidates for unique interpretations. Flynn’s fragmented poetry reflects his confusion in coping with his mother’s suicide. Many poetic devices illustrate his surging emotions—primarily his use of line/stanza breaks and voice. The enjambment and variation in points of view emphasize Flynn’s belief that there is more than one way to interpret each poem.
Table of Contents- Because his mother's death occurred during his youth, many of his poems have childhood memories and quotations interwoven throughout
- In analyzing the selected poetry, it is essential to break down the pieces in two different manners'the first, examining the form
- In addition Flynn's use of syntax further conveys feelings of confusion as long sentences followed by questions are a common occurrence
- Another quality of Flynn's poetry is the way he shifts the voice he uses so often and effortlessly
- When examined on a less superficial level, the content of the selected pieces contains an abundance of poetic devices
- In order to discover an underlying theme to Flynn's poetry, it is essential to examine the selected poems as a group, in general
- While suicide is a serious issue, it is often cliché in literature.
« Koechlin, C. & Zwaan, S. (2002 for Libraries: 25 Proven Ways to Get More Money for Your Library for a slice of the budget cake: An academic library perspective. ...» Document abstract
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fiscal law
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date published
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SummaryThe academic landscape has changed in recent years. In the modern academic environment, competition between departments and programs for scarce dollars is the order of the day. Despite the fact that the library is traditionally “the single largest budget center in any academic organization” (Schrift, 1993, p. 29), it is not exempt from this competitive atmosphere (Rubin, 2002). If anything, the library often runs the risk of being overlooked by the academic funding authority if steps are not taken to increase its visibility and vocalize its needs.
While this is certainly a challenge, it is by no means an insurmountable one. However, libraries need to take certain specific steps in order to overcome this challenge.
While this is certainly a challenge, it is by no means an insurmountable one. However, libraries need to take certain specific steps in order to overcome this challenge.
Table of Contents- Introduction.
- Evidence and the Funding Authority.
- Openness with Staff.
- Motivating the Clientele.
- Conclusion.
« true information that would have undermined your belief. be justified (6th condition) and S must believe internal to his cognitive perspective ; and externalist ...» Document abstract
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humanities/philosophy
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date published
05/04/2007
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SummaryOur whole life (attitudes, reactions, actions) is based on knowledge. Depending on our present state of knowledge, we are going to react to different situations in different ways, give different answers to different questions. To do that however, one has to know something. Even though we do not tend to question our knowledge in everyday life, it is interesting to do so in order to (ideally) find an answer to the sceptics who deny that knowledge exists, who assert that we cannot know anything for sure.
Table of Contents- Premises of the argument 'how (if at all) do you know that you are not a brain in a vat??
- Two theories of knowledge: the causal and conditional theories of knowledge
« and audience perception in a postmodern perspective << The genuinely images to your imagination and your imagination to Press, p. 187, in Broadhurst, S. 1999. ...» Document abstract
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arts and art history
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Summary« The genuinely postmodern work forces us to recognise that reality is something other than our formulations of it, and that those formulations are therefore constructs » (Jean-François Lyotard). Investigate and interrogate the urge in performance theatre to radically restructure audience perception and understanding of theatre/life. Focus your response through the analysis of at least two different practitioners or performance forms studied and work seen.
Postmodernism denies the idea of a true and unique reality. It questions it by using irony instead of metaphysics. It plays with the idea that there exists another reality, as Allan Kaprow (in Kirby ; 1965 : 67) explained in a letter sent to selected New Yorkers for the production of 18 Happenings in 6 Parts (1959), ‘In this different art, the artist takes off from life’. Thus, it forces us to question our sense of the world and reality and in placing the audience in this altered and parallel state, tries to offer new ways of seeing theatre and life.
The work of The Wooster Group, Robert Wilson, Shunt and Happenings challenge accepted intelligence and knowledge and modify our perception of reality by investigating other realities. Avant-garde performance theatre also exposes our constructed models of reality and theatre and in doing so, changes the traditional model of audience understanding and asks the questions, what is theatre? What is life? What is real? Does real exist?
Postmodernism denies the idea of a true and unique reality. It questions it by using irony instead of metaphysics. It plays with the idea that there exists another reality, as Allan Kaprow (in Kirby ; 1965 : 67) explained in a letter sent to selected New Yorkers for the production of 18 Happenings in 6 Parts (1959), ‘In this different art, the artist takes off from life’. Thus, it forces us to question our sense of the world and reality and in placing the audience in this altered and parallel state, tries to offer new ways of seeing theatre and life.
The work of The Wooster Group, Robert Wilson, Shunt and Happenings challenge accepted intelligence and knowledge and modify our perception of reality by investigating other realities. Avant-garde performance theatre also exposes our constructed models of reality and theatre and in doing so, changes the traditional model of audience understanding and asks the questions, what is theatre? What is life? What is real? Does real exist?
Table of Contents- The images shown in Wilson's work
- The stories told by the Wooster Group
- What we experience in the Shunt vaults
- The events of the Happenings
« programme nucleaire iranien Based on your reading of A sociological perspective can be adopted here, as References Shahram Chubin, Robert S. Litwak, "Debating ...» Document abstract
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international relations
worksheets
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Summary As diplomats from the 190 signatory countries gather in New York this week for the five-yearly review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Iran will surely be present in many minds. Although some warning signs had been issued by various intelligence services during the previous decade, concern over Iran’s nuclear programme became widespread in August 2002, with the discovery of the Natanz installation, destined for uranium enrichment. In October 2003, an agreement was reached in Tehran, between Iran and the foreign ministers of the three “big” members of the European Union, France, Germany and the United Kingdom. Iran agreed to suspend all enrichment-related activities, adhere to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s additional protocol requiring more intrusive inspections, and provide full information about its nuclear programme. In return, the EU-3 promised that the issue would not go before the UN Security Council and pledged to provide technology to Iran, including in the civil nuclear area. However, the IAEA later found that a report submitted by Iran omitted references to activities involving advanced centrifuges and to the production of polonium, a material used in the making of nuclear bombs.
Table of Contents- Based on your reading of the literature on nuclear proliferation, what would be an appropriate strategy toward Iran's alleged nuclear programme' Discuss with reference either to the policies of a particular state, international organization, or, more generally, the international community
Les internautes ont également acheté « Live technologies in theatrical performance in a post modern perspective How does the one of the women tells Harry, `I could write your lines and Dixon, S (2004 ...» Document abstract
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SummaryHow does the use of live technologies in theatrical performance comment on our own positioning in a post-industrial technologically based society? How does this in turn exemplify some of the concerns of the postmodernists?
Postmodern cinema is rich in intertextual references, and is often self-reflexive. However, the same can be said of theatre performances that use technology, as it enables more possibilities for communicating in other ways than through the spoken text on stage. These references therefore be perceived through mediums such as visuals and sound. As composer Philip Glass (in Powell; 1997: pg.un) observed ‘technology is a lot of things. The grand piano was a piece of technology.’ Douglas Coupland (1995) also stated that ‘Language is such a technology.’ . Indeed, ‘technology’ can mean many things and postmodernism encourages the fusion and juxtaposition of many disciplines such as film, music, and the time-based medium of video art. As Auslander (1999:24) observed, ‘live performance now often incorporates mediatization such that the live event itself is a product of media technologies’. This highlights the inevitable positioning of the performer and of ourselves as the product and object of the technology being used and as cyborgs in our post-industrial and technologically based society.
Postmodern cinema is rich in intertextual references, and is often self-reflexive. However, the same can be said of theatre performances that use technology, as it enables more possibilities for communicating in other ways than through the spoken text on stage. These references therefore be perceived through mediums such as visuals and sound. As composer Philip Glass (in Powell; 1997: pg.un) observed ‘technology is a lot of things. The grand piano was a piece of technology.’ Douglas Coupland (1995) also stated that ‘Language is such a technology.’ . Indeed, ‘technology’ can mean many things and postmodernism encourages the fusion and juxtaposition of many disciplines such as film, music, and the time-based medium of video art. As Auslander (1999:24) observed, ‘live performance now often incorporates mediatization such that the live event itself is a product of media technologies’. This highlights the inevitable positioning of the performer and of ourselves as the product and object of the technology being used and as cyborgs in our post-industrial and technologically based society.
Table of Contents- The desire to use media technology in order to achieve what is not possible on stage
- The sound
- ‘Total’ aspect is a result of the multidisciplinary quality of multi media performances
- Whether the live ‘presence’ of the characters is following the ‘absent’ projected images of themselves or the contrary
« gay sexual acts for political reasons, most have moved beyond the feminist-lesbian perspective. Survey of Lesbian Youth What is your definition of feminism? ...» Document abstract
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social sciences
school essay
date published
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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.
Table of Contents- Introduction
- Feminism as a successful philosophy
- First wave feminism and the right to vote
- Second wave feminism for equality in the work force
- Second wave feminism for equality in education
- Third wave feminism for women's choice
- Feminism as an unsuccessful philosophy
- Backfire of feminism's successes
- Reasons behind the backfire of feminism's success
- Feminism as an untruthful philosophy
- Feminism as an anti-family philosophy
- Feminism as an anti-gay philosophy
- Lesbians a threat to feminist movement
- Feminists a threat to lesbian movement
- Lesbianism assumed to be a feminist tool
- Feminism as an exploited philosophy
- Feminism in music
- Feminism in television and theater
- Feminism in pornography
- Conclusion
« "You step outside your life and passage without being present to perhaps convey a sense of objectivity with which to view Jerry's search for perspective. ...» Document abstract
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SummaryIn Wildlife, Richard Ford employs Joe, a sixteen year old boy unsocialized and unfamiliar with the world around him, to tell the story of his parent’s marriage. Having moved to Great Falls, Montana after living in four other towns, Joe is forced to navigate through a new town, as well as through the contours of his adolescence and the ostensibly childish behavior of his parents. He is, in fact, passive in how he relates to those around him: he does not ask questions, and he responds most often in accordance with what he believes others want to hear. However, during many of these moments, Joe often confesses his true feelings to the reader, admitting either what he wishes he could say or simply acknowledging his own confusion. In the first pages, he realizes, “When you are sixteen, you do not know what your parents know, or much of what they understand, and less of what’s in their hearts” (18). Joe’s insight here captures the essence of his narration; he is confused yet insightful and, somehow, strong but vulnerable.
Table of Contents- The reader has an honest relationship with Joe and a better understanding of his vulnerable sense of self .
- Days later, Jerry is fired from his job as a golf instructor.
- The power of Joe's narrative voice is perhaps most evident when his father returns.
- Similarly to Jerry, Jeanette's actions changed drastically after her husband leaves.
- Accordingly, Warren Miller figured prominently in the unraveling of both Jerry and Jeanette's life.
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