...The genre is redefining the way we interact with, understand, and socialize with our fellow Americans. It's not here for your approval and, to use a cliché commonly associated with the genre, it’s not here to make friends. Part of the reason for the resurgence in reality television is that it's the cheapest way to fill programming blocks. While we see much more of it today, reality TV is nothing new. It's been around since Candid Camera, which documented sneaky practical jokes on unsuspecting average joes, debuted in 1948. But things have changed since then. The genre hit its second stride in 2000 with Survivor, an elimination show in which “castaways” compete to win big by roughing it for the longest, and since then the genre has presented increasingly regressive caricatures of women, men, poor people, and people of color. In Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth about Guilty Pleasure TV, media critic and activist Jennifer Pozner takes on the much-maligned staple of cable and broadcast television that occupied up to 41 percent of Fox’s overall programming in 2009. From Flavor of Love host Flavor Flav to America's Next Top Model's tyrannical Tyra Banks, Reality Bites Back provides an exacting, well-organized overview of a medium that is problematic at best. Pozner eviscerates network head honchos, lambasts...
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...01. Once In A While Featuring Max B 02. Trap House Featuring Birdman & Rick Ross 03. Ain’t Worried About Nothin 04. Paranoid Featuring Young Cash 05. When I Want 06. F*** What Happens Tonight Featuring DJ Khaled, Mavado, Ace Hood, Snoop Dogg & Scarface 07. Gifted Featuring The Weeknd 08. Ballin Out Featuring Jerimih & Diddy 09. I Told Em 10. Pop That Featuring Rick Ross, Drake & Lil Wayne 11. Freaks Featuring Nicki Minaj 12. We Go Where Ever We Want Featuring Ne-Yo & Raekwon 13. Bust It Open 14. Drink Freely Featuring Rico Love 15. Throw It In The Bag Featuring Chinx Drugz 16. Marble Floors Featuring Rick Ross, Lil Wayne & 2 Chainz 17. Ocho Cinco Featuring MGK, Los, Red Cafe & Diddy BONUS TRACK: 18. 40 Featuring Trey Songz & FABOLOUS Executive Producers: Sean “Diddy” Combs And Rick Ross Co-Executive Producer: Harve Pierre and Management: Gabriel Acevedo for G. Starr Management PC2013 Bad Boy/Interscope Records. All rights reserved. Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws. 01. Once In A While Featuring Max B Written By: Karim Kharbouch, Sharif Slater, Fenrick Gibbs, Skip Prokop, Kanye West, Dwayne Carter, Dominick Lamb, Norman Landsberg, Felix Pappalardi, John Ellis Ventura, Leslie Weinstein, Charly Wingate Published By: Excuse My French Music (ASCAP), 239 Music(Ascap), Steel Matic Production/Bug Music (BMI), Ole Purple Cape Music (BMI), Please Gimme My Publishing Inc/Emi Blackwood Music Inc (BMI), Young Money Publishing, Inc/Warner Tamerlane...
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...Swift "Welcome To New York" lyrics Walking through a crowd The village is aglow Kaleidoscope of loud heartbeats Under coats Everybody here wanted something more Searching for a sound we hadn’t heard before And it said Welcome to New York It’s been waiting for you Welcome to New York Welcome to New York Welcome to New York It’s been waiting for you Welcome to New York Welcome to New York It’s a new soundtrack I could dance to this beat, beat Forevermore The lights are so bright But they never blind me, me Welcome to New York It’s been waiting for you Welcome to New York Welcome to New York When we first dropped our bags On apartment floors Took our broken hearts Put them in a drawer Everybody here was someone else before And you can want who you want Boys and boys and girls and girls Welcome to New York It’s been waiting for you Welcome to New York Welcome to New York Welcome to New York It’s been waiting for you Welcome to New York Welcome to New York Like any great love It keeps you guessing Like any real love It’s ever changing Like any true love It drives you crazy But you know you wouldn’t change Anything, anything, anything… Welcome to New York It’s been waiting for you Welcome to New York Welcome to New York Welcome to New York It’s been waiting for you Welcome to New York Welcome to New York Taylor Swift "Blank Space" lyrics [Verse 1] Nice to meet you Where you been? I could show you incredible things Magic, madness, heaven, sin Saw you there and I thought oh my god...
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...AND IT SAiD CHORUS: WELCOME TO nEW YoRK IT’S BEEN WAITING FOR YOu WELCOME TO NEW YOrK WELCOME TO NEW YORK WELCOME TO NEW YORK IT DRIVES YOU CRAZY BUT YOU kNOW YOU WOULDN’T CHANGE ANYTHING ANYTHING ANYTHING CHORUS © 2014 Sony/ATV Tree Publishing/ Taylor Swift Music (BMI), Write Me A Song Publishing (GMR) (Administered By Kobalt Songs Music Publishing, Inc.) All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission. // Produced by Ryan Tedder, Noel Zancanella & Taylor Swift / Recorded by Ryan Tedder & Smith Carlson at Conway Studios (Los Angeles, CA); Assisted by Eric Eylands, Matthew Tryba / Mixed by Serban Ghenea at MixStar Studios (Virginia Beach, VA); Engineered for mix by John Hanes / Mastered by Tom Coyne at Sterling Sound (New York, NY) // Piano - Ryan Tedder / Juno - Ryan Tedder / Drum Programming – Noel Zancanella / Synthesizer – Noel Zancanella / Background Vocals – Ryan Tedder / Ryan Tedder appears courtesy of Mosley Music/ Interscope Records OR IT’S GONNA GO DOWN IN FlAMES YOU CAN TELL ME WHEN IT’S OVER IF THE HIGH WAS WORTH THE PAIN GOT A LONG LIST OF EX LOVERS THEY’LL TELL YOU I’M INSANE ‘CAUSE YOU kNOW I LOVE THE PLAYERS AnD YOU LoVE THE GAME ‘CAUSE wE’RE YOUNG AnD WE’RE RECKLESS, WE’LL TAKE THIS WAY TOO FAR IT’LL LEAVE YOU bREATHLESS OR WITH A NASTy SCAR GOT A LONG LIST OF eX LOVERS THEY’LL TELL YOU I’M INSANE BUT I’vE GOT A BLANK SPACe, BABY... AND I’LL WRITE YOUr NAME. CHERRy LIPS, CRYSTAL SKIES I COULD SHoW YOU INCREDIBLE THINGS ...
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...used to the changes. For the most of us. However, there are those who truly cannot deal with these changes – security addicts. In the essay “My Little Bit of Country” from the anthology “Central Park” from 2012, the American writer Susan Cheever writes about her life In New – and how she loves the life there much better than the life on the country. In this essay, I am going to analyse and comment on the text with focus on the contrasts between New York and the country. I would also like to have a look at the themes that are used in the text. Contrasts, contrasts, contrasts... There is no doubt that the contrasts between the urban life and the life on the country are very thought-through by Cheever. She has created a potpourri of contrasts, which emphasizes the bond between Cheever and Central Park. For instance, “Why would I want to swim in someone’s muddy pond crawling with leeches when I could perch myself on a marble basin and cool myself with splashing clear water […]?” This is just one of many examples, where she trashes the country and praises New York, or rather Central Park. In the beginning of the text, we do not exactly know why she hates the country so bad, but what we do know, is that she loves Central Park, and that she just cannot live without it. In page 3 , Cheever mentions Andy Warhol, who had said that the reason why the city was better than the country was that in the city he could find a little bit of country, but in the country there was no signs of...
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...you on New York!” “Start spreading the news: I’m leaving today; I want to be a part of it: New York, New York!” – Frank Sinatra, “New York, New York” I don’t remember when I first heard this song, but it finally stuck with me when I heard it in Friends With Benefits, you know the scene where Jamie takes Dylan to Times Square to be a part of a flash mob while she’s trying to sell New York to him so he’d accept a job at GQ. Well, if you didn’t know that, then now you do. Aside from being one of my favourite movies ever, Friends With Benefits just completely amplified my love for New York by infinity times. Now just to clear things up before I continue, we’re friends right? I don’t want this essay to sound like a stranger shoving an annoying travel infomercial about New York down your throat. I want you to love New York as much as I do, or at least not feel forced to. It could be like we’re just having a conversation, just like Jamie says to Dylan back at her apartment after they watch that shitty romantic film: “Yeah. Two girls over drinks at Bennigan’s. Go.” 2. “It’s New York! I’ve seen Seinfeld.” “Not the bullshit tourist version!” I always knew I belonged in New York; I guess I just didn’t realize it when I was a kid. I was always saying things like, “Wow New York is so pretty I want to go there!”, “O my gosh can I go to New York puhLEASE.”, and “Wow how great would it be to live in New York?” New York always seemed like such a fabulous, far-off dreamland to me. I don’t...
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...Kathleen Talentino Professor Dr. Duff Sutherland HIST 106 December 4, 2006 Research Essay The Honest Courtesan during the Italian Renaissance The honest courtesan, also known as “cortigiana oneste” in Italy, contributed to the development of the intellectual and cultural revolution of the Italian Renaissance. This was during a time which the status of women struggled against that of their male counterparts. During this revolution, upper class women had less power politically and socially than women of the medieval era, and were confined to the opinion that their attention should be focused on domestic affairs. The honest courtesans were ambitious women who possessed all of the qualities of the male courtier, and maintained their sexual equality. The contributions of this elite group of women were in the areas of philosophical thought; historically through art and literature, and in development of the structure and function of human society. During the Renaissance, Italy experienced many revolutionary ideas, one of them known as Humanism. Humanism birthed the popularity of classical studies among the Italian elite of scholars, artists, writers and architects. This group of elite men were the forefathers of popular contemporary thought, and had the freedom to move in directions economically, socially, politically, emotionally, intellectually, and morally.[1] This idea changed life in Italy by individuals always striving to realize their human potential.[2]...
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...A TEACHER’S GUIDE TO THE SIGNET CLASSIC EDITION OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S ROMEO AND JULIET By ARTHEA J.S. REED, PH.D. S E R I E S W. GEIGER ELLIS, ED.D., E D I T O R S : UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, EMERITUS and ARTHEA J. S. REED, PH.D., UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, RETIRED A Teacher’s Guide to the Signet Classic Edition of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet 2 INTRODUCTION William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is an excellent introduction to Shakespearean drama; teenagers can relate to its plot, characters, and themes. The play’s action is easily understood, the character’s motives are clear, and many of the themes are as current today as they were in Shakespeare’s time. Therefore, it can be read on a variety of levels, allowing all students to enjoy it. Less able readers can experience the swash-buckling action and investigate the themes of parent-child conflict, sexuality, friendship, and suicide. Because of the play’s accessibility to teenagers, able readers can view the play from a more literary perspective, examining the themes of hostility ad its effect on the innocent, the use of deception and its consequences, and the effects of faulty decision making. They can study how the characters function within the drama and how Shakespeare uses language to develop plot, characters, and themes. The most able students can develop skills involved in literary criticism by delving into the play’s comic and tragic elements and its classically...
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...Symbolism “Shakespeare My Mistress Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun” On a closer reading of "My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun,” the lyricist tone appears agitated by the worlds unjust comparisons of human likenesses to Gods’, objects and abstracts. Yet, he assures readers of his love on behalf of his mistress. The poet reveals an inner peace toward love by use of concrete and abstract symbols. Focusing on Symbols leads to Shakespeares’ poem “My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun,” as he downplays love, in contrast to Elizabeth Barret Browning symbolism as she uplifts love, while Robert Burns try reassuring love. Shakespeare symbolizes his love using a form of figurative speech, paradox, in depicting his frustrations of disproven...
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...were hijacked by terrorists. Two of those planes crashed into the Twin Towers in New York. The United States was in shock and grief. No games were continued until September 17 , it was Cardinals against Brewers. Before the game started Hall of Fame announcer, Jack Buck, went to the microphone and read a powerful speech. “I don't know about you, but as for me the question has already been answered: Should we be here? Yes!” (Jack Buck,Busch Stadium,2001) Buck spoke as a patriot and sent a powerful message to the U.S. and everybody in the MLB. He wanted everyone to know that even though the United States was going through a difficult time, we can come to solidarity. This was one of Buck’s final appearances before he died of lung cancer and Parkinson's...
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...Victoria Zegler HST 326: Women in America November 14, 2011 Not To Live in Vain: Faith and Ideals of Catherine Sedgwick Love, involuntary and mysterious, holds a tight grip on the imagination. As young women, we ponder questions of marriage, careers and the ideals of love in our future. Ideals, such as these, were vital to the nineteenth century moralities. The principles of love and marriage provided models for women’s goals, as well as the opportunity to speak of their experience. Both of these ideals and the value of character represented the standards of perfection, which were essential to the sphere of life. Catharine Sedgwick, a fiction writer, subscribed to these high standards and refused to compromise. Her writings repeatedly emphasized the political and personal need for liberty and independence. The behavior of unmarried women in the nineteenth century provided an answer to their highly charged moral pursuit concerning duty, usefulness and love rather than the cultural elements concerning self-fulfillment. In order to find out who we are, we must understand where we come from. The seventeenth century Puritans first declared the importance of affection in marriage believing that to love one’s spouse was a duty. Young men and women were to choose someone they could learn to love but being in love was not necessary. It was companionship and respect, which shaped the solid foundations of a successful marriage. However, by the first decades of the nineteenth...
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...Carraway is a man around 30 years old living in West Egg, an island separated from New York City by a small bay, in 1922 in The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald. Nick was born in the Mid-West and has since gone to Yale; he moves to New York in the summer of 1922 to learn and eventually practice the bond business. While living in West Egg, Nick observes that he has a mysterious neighbor who owns a very large mansion: The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard – it was a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden (11). Massive parties are thrown in this mansion almost every weekend, and all types of people show up. Nick eventually learns that the man living in this mansion is named Gatsby, and they become friends over the course of the summer. There are many rumors about him but nobody actually knows where he comes from or how he becomes so wealthy. As Nick becomes better friends with Gatsby, he learns that Gatsby is deeply in love with Nick’s cousin, Daisy. This love, however, has taken over Gatsby’s life ever since he meets Daisy before he leaves to fight in the Great War. After he comes back from the war, he finds that Daisy has moved on with her life, and is now married to Tom Buchannan and is living in New York. Gatsby moves to New York in hopes of finding Daisy and one day being with her, however, his plans do...
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...My favorite place I am very family person. The most of my family live in New York. I try to visit New York at least once a year. I would consider New York my favorite place for several reasons. The number one reason: since I am an active duty in the military, it's so hard to take leave from my work. Before I visit to see my family, I let my brothers-in-law know that I am coming to NY. Me and my brothers-in-law get together and take out the whole family out to Bear Mountain, where we cook out, swim in the pool and spend quality time with each other. My second reason is that New York never sleeps. I love going out during the nightfall because of the lights of the buildings and city noises inspires me. After long day, me and my friends gather at one of our favorite Uzbek restaurant, which is called Naris cafe. The food over there is excellent, and they are open till late at night. After we are done eating, we go to play pool. Another reason why New York City is my favorite place because of its tall buildings, history, and where culture is intertwined with its people. I love walking in busy sidewalk, and seeing different faces from all around the world. It never gets tiring. If you have never been in New York City, you should come visit. You will have great experience, and it might become your favorite place...
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...Where will I be sleeping tonight? Never in my life have I ever had to ponder this question. I have never been at a place in life where I was unsure if I would have a warm bed and a roof to sleep under. Each night, tens of thousands of New Yorkers ask themselves this very question, and each night tens of thousands of them do not have a place to stay. In the bible, Jesus clearly tells us to care for the poor and needy. As well, in the book of Matthew, Jesus tells us of the two greatest commandments. The first is to love the Lord our God, and the second is to love our neighbors as ourselves. God did not intend for families to be on the streets each night searching for beds, therefore it is our job to care to the poor and needy and dedicate our...
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...Germanotta is a recording artist in New York, United State America (USA). She developed interest in the music industry at an early age as demonstrated by her interest and ability to play the piano while she was 4 years old of age. Later, she joined New York University where she studied music opened up her song writing skills. She composed analytical papers and essays that focused mainly on social issues, politics, religion and arts. Then, she withdrew from school to concentrate more on her career. Anyhow, there are three quotes from her that I think it is really meaningful to me. "You have to be unique, different and shine in your own way", "Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses" and "Whether life's disabilities, left you outcast, bullied or teased rejoice and love yourself." It is no wonder this lady from a good Italian New York, turned into the exhibitionist, multi-talented singer songwriter with a talent or flair for theatrics that she is today, Lady Gaga. She is openly unique, creative, does not follow stereotypes and more surprisingly she does not care what others think about her and she is doing what she loves to do. She also takes frequent political standings to support her ideals. She is a driving force in today's society and I admire her because she is easy for me to relate to. I find a deep connection to her, in the sense that she shares my personality. The major reason I admire her is the way she expresses...
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