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    How are women portrayed in The Crucible? In Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible”‚ we are faced with an interesting psychological question: What would happen if the lowest social rank attained power? After all‚ in the time of the Salem witch trials‚ women suffered because of their low rank and were expected to submit themselves to men. However‚ instead of portraying strong female figures‚ which combat outdated beliefs of a woman’s duty‚ this play casts women as weak creatures whose only access to

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    Women In Music

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    limited in their portrayals of self empowerment because of monopoly of music by males Subargument #2: Amateur female musicians are further limited by social boundaries that occur in music Jazz Article 1 (Willis) | E/DM 2 | Saturday night fever 3 | Bass article – Clawson 4 | * Women instrumentalists are deliberately avoided/removed in the hegemonic jazz discourse to preserve the construction of jazz as a masculine space. * Women can only perform aspects of identities that are naturalized‚ and

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    discusses the over-sexualization of women in rap/hip hop songs and music videos‚ and the possible social causes of this. It has become apparent nowadays that women are heavily degraded in all kinds of media in order to appeal to the male viewing audience. Scantily clad women partaking in provocative dance routines and actions has become a norm of music videos. Machismo ideals that stress the extreme superiority of men over women and encourage the representation of women almost as an item prevail among

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    Purpose of Music Videos

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    Purpose of music videos Music videos are everywhere we turn on the TV‚ the internet; social networking sites‚ even your friends are talking about newest video releases. A music video is a short film or video which lasts approximately 3 minutes‚ and it usually accompanies a song. Music videos were originally designed to promote the sale of music recordings. They did not start to become popular until the early 80’s. 1981-1991; music videos go mainstream. MTV launched ‘video killed the radio star’

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    Music in Video Games

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    Music In Video Games Throughout the history of the video game industry‚ there has been many changes concerning music in video games. Music in video games progressed greatly within the life of the industry from 1972 to the present. These progressions can be seen as improvements in quality which includes an increase in the number of output channels‚ an increase in song length‚ a great improvement in the quality of timbres‚ and also a general shift from non- programmatic music to programmatic music

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    #20 Professor: Guarracino English 1101-135 10 April 2012 Are Women portrayed in the media? The highlight on the latter raises a larger question about the radicalized sexual images of women today. It is most likely the society that is bombarded by the media’s usage of advertisements‚ television‚ billboards‚ magazines and internet. We are surrounded by the images that most people don’t have. Reality shows and entertainment are emulated and are the common choices for teens today. They may

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    Music Video Essay

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    Music videos are an important part of advertising in the music industry. It is now important for artists to do videos as they are being given the chance of impressing the public not just with their vocal talent‚ and show what they are advertising with their looks or moves. Thirty years ago‚ music video used to be less important than it is nowadays. MTV (Music Television) was the phenomenon that gave so much power and importance to the music video and took music video broadcasting to a whole new

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    Music Video Proposal

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    Music Video Proposal The track I’m going to use to make a music video has a genre of a mix between indie and very chill out music this has made me think about what video will suit the music. My idea for the music video will be a narrative based ‚ and the story will between a girl and boy in a relationship and they have split up and they cant see the love they have for each other anymore based on this the story will also involve them getting back together. Reason I have chosen this is because

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    Composition I - English 1301.06 November 14‚ 2014 How Women Are Portrayed In Hip Hop Videos For Years‚ video girls have been a major part of hip hop music and videos‚ but what is the cost? Are girls losing themselves in the glitz and glam of being a video girl? This video covers just that: what image women are giving out by being in these Hip Hop videos. These viewpoints come from a few different people who all have different roles in the Hip Hop world. The video also talks about the negative roles such

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    Music Video Analysis

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    Rihanna - ‘We Found Love’ music video This music video does follow a narrative which is realist as it shows scenes from the story of the couple’s life. All shots in this video do not show continuity they go from one scene to another completely randomly which makes it hard to find a narrative; much like any film that shows formalism. Surrealist art cinema tends to subject itself to visions of sexual desire‚ violence and bizarre humour. Rihanna’s music video shows a lot of sexual desire between

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