...both sides whether we like to admit it or not. But here is the cold hard truth, these obsessive behaviors during a break up are NORMAL! So why are we still calling people we used to love crazy? Seriously, why? Stop it. You know you’ve all crept on your ex just to make sure you are doing better than they are, so don’t pretend like you are above it. But seriously, there are psychological facts that back up the “crazy” nature that comes with a breakup, and here are some of my reasons I don’t believe in the term crazy ex-girlfriend, considering pretty...
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...Adorno (Audience Theory) Passive Consumption, Hypodermic Model (Frankfurt School): "A strong argument suggests that audiences may be passively affected by the sexist, violent representations in GTAV as it is a more realist text than other shoot em' up action adventure games. Young audiences ultimately may begin to view women differently and think that the aspirational violence is acceptable as a means to an end". Andy Medhurst (Representation Theory) Stereotyping is Shorthand for Identification: "One way that texts like Waterloo Road and Skins for example allow for audience identification is through stereotyping and giving characters an extreme representation". Angela McRobbie (Gender Theory) Post Feminist Icon Theory: "Lara Croft, Lady Gaga and Madonna for example could be identified as post feminist icons as they exhibit the stereotypical characteristics of both the male and female strength, courage, control and logic but also are willing to be sexualized for the male gaze. This control element of their own representation is crucial in understanding the theory". Baudrillard Hyper Reality: "Some texts are difficult to distinguish in terms of the representation of reality from a simulation of reality e.g. Big Brother. The boundaries are blurred as codes and conventions create a set of signifiers which we understand but in fact the representation is a copy of a copy". Uses and Gratifications Theory: "Different audiences gain different pleasures from a media...
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...perspective. Collins shows how much Walter is hurting and missing Laura. ‘My heart turns faint’ which enhances the theme of romance however this theme suddenly changes to a gothic horror theme ‘My mind sinks in darkness and confusion’ the choice of language here shows different meanings of the chosen words, ‘sinks’ becoming death and the death of Laura, and his ‘confusion’ of where she is. Walter knows Laura is alive and he is confused to how he is going to catch out Fosco and Glyde. ‘Darkness’ has an effect of gothic horror and a negative sense to it and it is used to make us feel the dark place where Walter is and Collins wants the reader to feel Walter’s heart break and how his dark place is taking him in. Collins uses the theme of secrets when in the first opening line in Walters narrative ‘I advance my narrative by one week’ this makes us question where Walter has been and why does Collins want the reader to know this, Collins wants this to effect the reader and make them question themselves because it will keep the reader interested and by questioning themselves they will be inclined to read on more into the crime and sensational genre. The theme of secrets is being used in the novel and it is becoming a great twist for the reader because they...
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...Narrative: The Courageous Theodore Roosevelt waltzed into McGillin’s Olde Ale House in search of good refreshments. He takes a seat at the bar. Roosevelt: (To waiter) I wish to obtain a tall glass of your finest ale please. Grant: (Grant strolls in and takes a seat next to Theodore at the bar) Hello, President Roosevelt. I am Ulysses S. Grant. How are you on this fine day? The weather is fair for such a brutal winter we have endured, would you not agree? Roosevelt: I am doing just marvelous, President. I would surely agree that the weather is mighty fair. What will you have? I will take the charge for your refreshments, my good sir. Grant: Thank you very much. I will be having the same as you. Narrative: Both men are served their tall...
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...'Looking for Alibrandi' by Melina Marchetta is a clearly crafted narrative that explores serious ideas and themes. The ideas that have been included in the narrative have been presented cautiously, making 'Looking for Alibrandi' stand out from the rest. It has no shortage of literary techniques, is relevant to the proposed audience and explores serious ideas with sensitivity. 'Looking for Alibrandi' has all these things that classify a well-crafted narrative. The author addresses many themes such as mixed families, illegitimacy and teen relationships. These are sometimes hard to talk about and have to expressed by the author using a certain level of sensitivity, so that readers aren’t offended. For example, Josie undertakes a relationship...
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...Taylor Hutson Dr. Dennis Winston English-104 13 October 2015 Writing in My Field Radio expands far beyond the bounds of hip-hop, rhythm and blues, and pop music streamed from countless stations across the nation. It is much more than mundane news, traffic and weather updates and is not limited to sports broadcasts. Much like a painted canvas radio paints a mental masterpiece, filled with life stories, musical applications and paired with contextual reporting and analysis. For me, radio grasps my mind from the familiar confines of the world around me and places me in a world far beyond anything that I have actually experienced. Accounts of how a French scuba diver nearly drowned to death in a pursuit to save the life of another diver followed by the scary reality of death among the lives of senior citizens in hospice care are only some of the many intriguing stories that inspire me write for radio broadcasting. “How A Woman’s Plan to Kill Herself Helped Her Family Grieve” written by Alex Spiegel is another story that specifically captures the listener within the confines of its broadcast. Sandy Bem had Alzheimer’s disease—a disease that corrupts the mind’s capacity to remember important family members, read, and write. This disease left Sandy feeling helpless and depressed, later causing her to “commit” suicide—assisted suicide. As Sandy’s health began to deteriorate her feelings of helplessness grew to the point of despair. After wallowing in sadness for countless months...
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...Although Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Narrative of the Life of a Slave were written for the same purpose they differ in a few ways. For example, Incidents is a very family oriented narrative while The Narrative is based on personal perseverance. At the beginning of The Narrative, Douglass gives the reader a sense of the role family played in his life when he writes about his mother’s death as, “I received the tidings of her death with the same emotions I felt at the death of a stranger” (4). On the other hand, family plays a huge part in Incidents and this can be seen throughout the entire narrative. Towards the end of Incidents Jacobs writes what Linda’s grandmother thinks of her escaping as, “whenever you do go, it will break...
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...In this Short Story Critical Essay on “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself”, Frederick Douglass tells a story of himself as an educated African-American going through a harsh experience with his slave owner Mr.Covey. In the Critical essay, Doreen Piano argues that Douglass describe his experience of being a slave in vivid detail from an insight of a slave/master brutal relationship with one another. He support this interpretation by Douglass ability to use literary devices, little knowledge on how to protect themselves, denied basic concepts or identities of themselves by treating them as animals. First, Douglass was able to incorporate a number of literary devices such as imagery to describe...
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...Just like the way how Italian Neorealism influenced French New Wave with its on location shooting and frequent use of non-professional actors, other film movements are also able to absorb techniques and ideas from French New Wave and incorporated them to create a whole new film experience for the audience. The New Hollywood and American New Wave borrow narrative and editing techniques from French New Wave to further complicate the films. French New Wave, even though it is not technically new anymore, will continue to inspire generations of the filmmakers. Maybe one day, ironically, the New Wave will eventually become the mainstream tradition than young filmmakers try to break away...
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...Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass condemns slavery so well because of who wrote it, and there is no anger just fact. Douglass tells his story with such grace that the reader can almost picture themselves in his place. The person who wrote The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass was a slave, Frederick Douglass himself. Frederick Douglass was born in Tuckahoe, Maryland “near Hillsborough” (Douglass 1521). No one knows what year he was born even he says he has no “accurate knowledge of my age” (Douglass 1521) and he was no allowed to ask. His mother was Harriet Bailey, “darker” (Douglass 1521) than his grandmother or grandfather and his father an unnamed “white man” (Douglass 1521), although some think it was his first master. He never saw his mother more than “four or five times in his life” (Douglass 1521) as it was custom to take the infant away from the mother before its twelfth month. Frederick Douglass finally decided that “upon the third day of September” he was going to make a break for his freedom at which he succeeded as he reaches New York “without the slightest interruption of any kind” (Douglass 1571). Frederick Douglass goes about writing about horrific things in such a manner that you don’t get a sense that he is angry. One of the first of such things he talks about is what was done to an aunt of his by a Mr. Plummer where he would “tie up to a joist and whip upon her naked back till she...
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...Time is universally established as an eternal measure, however an individual can typically break his or her lifespan into the past, present, and future. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, explores the burdens and manipulations of these time segments. Through the utilization of symbolism, characterization, and figurative language, Fitzgerald cultivates the theme that life is a limbo bounded between one’s imminent past and the forever fantasy for an idealistic future. Fitzgerald demonstrates the characters longing to renovate or withdrawal from their vanished yet haunting past, through the use of symbolism. For instance, Gatsby's clumsiness during the reunion with his lost love, Daisy, demonstrates his desire yet, failure to impede time. Fitzgerald writes, "Luckily the clock took this moment to tilt dangerously at the pressure of [Gatsby's] head, whereupon he turned and caught it with trembling fingers, and set it back in place"(86). The clock symbolizes Gatsby's eagerness to regain the past, as he is living in the present. Gatsby is devoted to rekindle the fictitious charisma he left on Daisy, but also desires to camouflage his truthful destitution. Through his vigorous attempt to restore time, Gatsby breaks the clock and demonstrates not only the intractable, but also the inevitable characteristics of the past. Fitzgerald further demonstrates how the characters in the narrative evade the immoralities of their past, but fail to grasp that their action can't be concealed...
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...The Use of Narratives and Its Effect on Stories The use of narrative view are important for an author. It determines how the reader interpret the story and ultimately understanding the theme. In the work of “Hills Like White Elephant” Ernest Hemingway uses third person objective point of view to present the conflict of a young couple over the difficult decision of whether to have an abortion. In comparison to Hemingway’s work, “Great Falls” by Richard Ford, tells the story of the breakdown of the parents’ relation through the eyes of the protagonist Jackie. The authors of the two short stories use these different points of view, to allow the reader understand the overall themes of the stories; which are the essence of a good story. “Hills Like White Elephant” begins with the description of the setting. Soon the narration leads to the two characters, the American and his girlfriend, Jig. Their conversation begins at the bar beside the train station, where momentarily they will head towards Madrid. The conversation, however, is not an enjoyable one. The couple argues about an “operation” that Jig will receive when they arrive at Madrid. After an intense debate, the woman agrees to have the operation (Hemingway, 661-665). “Great Falls”, on the other hand, through first person narrative, takes the reader back to the protagonist’s childhood, to one incident which his parents are facing a break up in their relationship. After a hunting trip with his dad, Jackie realizes...
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...lack of luck with romantic relationships. His negative perception of himself implies his inner conflicts that are essential to the film’s progression. The monologue sets-up Alvy’s relationships’ failures and gives him the platform to explore the questions as per why his past relationships were unsuccessful, especially his with Annie. Alvy explains that he cannot get his mind around their break-up. He continues examining his life and reflecting back on the relationship, trying to pinpoint “where the screw-up came.” The couple was in-love a year ago, leaving Alvy striving to figure out why it failed. This narrative tactic tells viewers the film’s ending, in a sense, by informing...
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...Use Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave to examine identity. From its first page, The ‘Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas’ is set up as an exploration of Identity; The main purpose of the novel being to establish the truth of Frederick Douglass’s public identity and ‘set [himself] right before the public in the United States’ (Blassingame, 1979, p. 251). In fact, the text was described by Albert Stone as the “first native American autobiography to create a black identity in a style and form adequate to the pressures of historical black experience” (Stone, 1973, p. 213). As Kimberly Drake explains, “Slaves' (or more accurately, ex-slaves') autobiographies record the process in which the ex-slave writes his or her self into an existence recognized by dominant American society. The author portrays the way he or she overcomes the slaveholding society's continuing attempts to eradicate his or her identity; simultaneously, s/he rewrites that identity to fit the dominant culture's norms, despite the fact that these norms tend to conflict with his/her own experiences during and after slavery. These autobiographies thus provide dramatic models of the textual construction and development of "American" identity”. (Drake, 1997) In essence, Drake argues that Douglass has used his ‘Narrative’ to chronicle the death and consequent rebirth of his identity. The novel uses language, pacing and symbolism to establish Douglass’s sense of...
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...grenade and watching the scene unfold before him O’Brien recalls his instant regret. (MS 8) He explains, “It occurred to me then that he was about to die. I wanted to warn him.” Through this sentence O’Brien sets a tone of the confusion. Conflicting feelings flew within his mind, but he could only manage to stand transfixed, watching the scene unfold. (MS 3) He threw the grenade before realizing the consequences his actions would create. The physical consequences the grenade would have on the enemy soldier and the mental consequences created within his own mind. O’Brien also demonstrates tone within his narrative through recounting the moment his partner attempt's to help him understand that killing is a part of war. Recollecting, “Kiowa tried to tell me that the man would’ve died anyway. He told me that it was a good kill, that I was a soldier and this was a war, that I should shape up and stop staring and ask myself what the dead man would’ve done if things were reversed.” Through his partner’s explanation, O’Brien sets the tone of regret. However, the enemy soldier lies dead and broken on the ground and O’Brien cannot shake the fact that he is the one that put him there (MS 6). O’Brien knows this is war and that killing is a part of it, but he cannot shake the fact that he...
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