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- 2671: Performances of a Lifetime in Thelma and Louise
- Performances of a Lifetime in Thelma and Louise If the 1991 box office success of Thelma and Louise was unexpected, more surprising was the heated debate that followed its release, a debate over the film’s political status and social implications. While Joan Smith of The Guardian argued that the film’s “effect is perversely to reinforce the message that women cannot win,” Janet Maslin of the New York Times called the film “transcendent in every way.” Where Kathi Maio of Ms saw “powerful images of women ... image, Thelma and Louise problematizes such oppositional readings as well as such familiar oppositions as masculine and feminine, positive and negative images of women, reinscription and subversion of patriarchal ideologies. The tension between the film’s uses of narrative and image works to interrogate and problematize both feminist and antifeminist assumptions about gender, power, and subjectivity. In Alice Doesn’t Teresa de Lauretis claims that feminist film theory has gone ...
- 2672: Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde
- Robert Louis Stevenson s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde has evolved into one of the most acclaimed pieces of literature in modern American society. One aspect of a continual spark of interest with the novel is motion pictures. Various directors through the years have interpreted the book through their own eyes and the following is a depiction of that. One might question Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde s overwhelming success. Theme restaurants, Broadway shows and movies all have indicated a public interest in the classic. Americans especially have been fascinated with Stevenson s portrayal of the split personality Dr. Jekyll whom many can relate too. The first movie that I decided to use for this examination is the 1932 restored version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, ...
- 2673: Muscle Cars
- ... the best muscle car of all time"(Kiewicz 21). The Camaro was first built in 1967 It was built to race in the trans am and to beat the Ford Mustang. "These cars possess what’s likely the most popular musclecar body style of all time"(Kiewicz 21). In the first-generation the engines options ranged from a 235ci six cylinder to a ZL1 witch is an all aluminum block and ... from the Corvette. This combination was not only deadly, but was great fun. The Corvette is another hot car with engines ranging from a 235ci six in 1953 up to a 454 in the 70’s . But the best Corvette, in my mind, is a super-rare 1967 L88 which is a full race version with 430 advertised hp (actually the power was well over 500 hp ) fitted in to a ... hp and a whopping 510 lbs-ft of torque that pushed the car to a quarter mile time of 13 seconds at 105 mph . Some say that the paint scheme was better than the LS6’s to. Buick didn’t stop making muscle in the 70’s in 1987, they had the fastest accelerating car in the 80’s it was called the GNX . With its intercooled 231 ci V- ...
- 2674: Abercrombie and Fitch's Ads
- Abercrombie and Fitch's Ads Most ads that come from Abercrombie lately have basically been oversexed schlock, but they still seem to pull in customers to buy their $80 jeans. What is it about this store and their ad ... The first thing I noticed about this ad was the extremely dominant focus on the couple and the blurred visuals behind the twosome. The human eye naturally focuses toward the lighter, brighter fabric: the guy¹s shorts. That leads up to his blood red tee-shirt, bearing the name of... guess who: Abercrombie. So, right from the get go, the consumer knows what he¹s looking at. How do we assume that this is a boy-girl couple? The person on the right, even with a hat on, has the facial features of a woman: her face is softer ...
- 2675: Little League Coaches
- ... athletics. Normally, it is the professional athletes who are thought of as the role models for kids. Certainly, professional athletes can have a positive influence on children. But the true role models in sports aren't the superheroes of the sports world, they are the everyday people who strive to influence the lives of youth. It is safe to say that many kids will never have a relationship with a professional ... as a role model to a child, then they should have direct influence on the life of that child. According to Rick Aguilera, a pitcher with the Minnesota Twins, " As an athlete my concern isn't to be a role model too somebody else's child….as athletes our number one concern must be our performance on the field. That's what we're being paid to do."(Arenofsky) Sports are so influential in the lives of adolescents that ...
- 2676: Ban Smoking In Restaurants And The Workplace
- ... time: you have to dress up nice, make reservations, make sure you have your best manners, etc… Now, imagine you’re going out to eat an expensive restaurant for the celebration of your great-grandmother’s 88th birthday. You’re whole family is there: your great grandmother, you grand father, your parents, you and you’re nephew. You arrive at the restaurant, take your seats, and then it hits you! You ... as will have made reservations for the hospital, and maybe even the cemetery by choosing this restaurant. What could be so horrible, you’re probably asking yourself? Food poisoning? (pause) A robbery? (pause) You didn’t bring enough cash to pay for the bill? (pause) No, it’s much worse than all of these. I’m talking about the silent killer, the murderer that travels undetected, the killer that is always there, waiting for you, hidden like a thief in the night. ...
- 2677: Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X
- ... man who received little schooling and rose to greatness on his own intelligence and determination. Martin Luther King was born into a family whose name in Atlanta was well established. Despite segregation, Martin Luther King’s parents ensured that their child was secure and happy. Malcolm X was born on May 19, 1925 and was raised in a completely different atmosphere than King, an atmosphere of fear and anger where the ... great influence on black Americans. However, King had a more positive attitude than Malcolm X, believing that through peaceful demonstrations and arguments, blacks will be able to someday achieve full equality with whites. Malcolm X’s despair about life was reflected in his angry, pessimistic belief that equality is impossible because whites have no moral conscience. King basically adopted on an equality philosophy, whereby he felt that blacks and whites should ... through his speeches to rise up and protest against their white enemies. After Malcolm X broke away from Elijah Mohammed, this change is reflected in his more moderate speeches. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King’s childhoods had powerful influences on the men and their speeches. Malcolm X was brought up in an atmosphere of violence. During his childhood, Malcolm X suffered not only from abuse by whites, but also ...
- 2678: Analysis of David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- Analysis of David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding In David Hume's seminal epistemological work, Section II (in An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding), "Of the Origin of Ideas," wherein David Hume outlines, with uncommon sharpness and uncanny skill, not only what he believed to be the true ... actual sensual experience, that they are simply weak "echoes" of these impressions and no stronger, and that our mind, though seemingly far reaching, is limited by what our experiences have taught or shown us. Hume's first and basest assumption, and the foundation of his argument in Section II, is the theory that ideas, or what could loosely be called the "imagination" or "mind's eye," are simply grainy photocopies ...
- 2679: Hamlet: Moral Order
- Hamlet: Moral Order In Shakespeare's Hamlet, a very clear moral order is established as the protagonist, Hamlet, completes his journey through the phases which define a Shakespearean tragedy. The play begins with Hamlet encountering his father's ghost, at which point he learns his father had in fact been murdered by his own brother, Claudius. It is Hamlet's wish to avenge his father that causes all other moral dilemmas in the play, and this is what defines the play's particular moral order: As the play progresses, the gravity and seriousness of ...
- 2680: Popularity of Television and Magazines On Designing Individual Space
- ... architects such as Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright will be examined in chapter one. Nigel Coates' 'Oyster House' will also be discussed to highlight the change in the nature of western society from 1940's architecture to present day, and the impact of the media on architecture and lifestyle today. The current trend for cheap and chic, self-build 'designer' furniture is also on the rise with the increase of ... their views infiltrate the public view and taste on furniture, decorating and thus impose a way of life. PUT QT SOMEWHERE ELSE For example "… Terence Conran tells us what we should (and by extension shouldn't) be coveting" (Murphy, 1996, p26). As these retail outlets don't change their furniture for the public but rather change the public's taste to suit their furniture, in such a fickle way that it seems that "The fashion focus has changed from clothes to ...
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