THE IMPORTANCE OF TELEVISION MANILA‚ MAY 25‚ 2006 (STAR) STARBYTES By Butch Francisco - With the exception of Nestor Torre and Edmund Sicam‚ reviewers who came before me looked down on television and belittled my efforts writing critiques on TV programs. As far as they were concerned‚ film was the superior medium and definitely more sophisticated. But look at local cinema now. While the Philippine movie industry is breathing its last (but I sure hope it gets resuscitated – and I’m positive it would
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I. INTRODUCTION Today‚ faith‚ doubt‚ and prayer the afterlife and other religious are topics that is truly significant. How does one find faith? Rediscovering faith after the grieving process so whether starting from background of having practiced a religion and then fallen away‚ or whether pursuing the search for faith for the first time. The question becomes why should a person take time to read and learn about God? Dante’s epic masterpiece‚ The Divine Comedy‚ was probably begun about 1307; it
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The success of Starbucks Cafes is attributed to the adept management of smart ideas instituted by Howard Shultz and played out through his leadership style. According to Kim Fellner in the book Wrestling with Starbucks: Conscience‚ Capital‚ Cappuccino‚ Howard Schultz‚ the founder and CEOof Starbucks cafes is the reason why the company had “a very good year in 2003...with a net sales of $ 4.1 billion (almost twice what it had earned in 2000 when it yielded $265 million” (16). The reason for the
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WOMEN IN CLASSICAL ATHENS IN THE SHADOW OF NORTH-WEST EUROPE OR IN THE LIGHT FROM ISTANBUL Being a woman in classical Athens cannot have been much fun‚ if one can rely on the majority of the accounts of women’s position in the Greek city-state. The Athenian democracy‚ traditionally held in high esteem in many other ways‚ was a democracy of the minority. Women‚ foreigners and slaves had no influence or true civil rights. They lived in the shadow of the Parthenon and the Acropolis. Sarah
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Comedies were performed in the Great Dionysia just like tragedies; also comedies were entered in contests in other festival‚ known as the Lesser Dionysia‚ and it was celebrated in the winter. Comedies combined poetry with coarse language. For example they featured buffoonery‚ slapstick‚ obscenity‚ and horseplay. The comedy actors dressed in weird costumes that had paddled bellies or rumps for outrageous effects. “The comic playwrights made their own plots and they focused on important matters
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Bibliography: Euripides‚ Medea and Other Plays‚ in Davie‚ J. (trans.); Rutherford‚ R. (introduction and notes)‚ (2003[1996])‚ London‚ Penguin Books. Ovid‚ Metamorphoses‚ in Raeburn D (trans)‚ (2004)‚ Metamorphoses‚ London‚ Penguin. James‚ P. And Hughes‚ J. (2011 [2010])‚ A 330
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School of Law‚ 2012. Web. 18 Nov. 2012. Gilligan‚ Carol. World of Sociology on Carol Gilligan. Bookrags. Thomson Gale‚ 2005-2006. Web. 18 Nov. 2012. Gilligan‚ Carol. Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. Jewish Woman’s Archive. Andra Medea‚ March 1 2009. Web. Nov. 18. 2012.
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rooted in our culture that the story becomes “real.” Common issues like murder‚ incest‚ rape‚ suicide‚ etc. all flood mythology. Scholars try to analyze and interpret each meaning‚ but modern cultural bias has taught us otherwise. For example‚ when Medea kills her own children‚ society has taught us to react with disgust and to shy away from her character. However‚ without cultural
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Reminiscent of Dada – found object and happenings Claes Oldenburg “The Street” & “The Store” 1961 located at the Ray Gun Theater What part is nature? What part is new? Found object A “street” and “store front” in a new venue He is not creating‚ these are things are found and are to be viewed as art because of how they are paired. Cardboard burnt and disheveled. Demonstrating a store front‚ view from street. No single focus. Similar to happening dada preformances. Probably still
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Nhu Nguyen Period 6th Mythology Project PART TWO: Stories of Love and Adventure I. Cupid and Psyche 1. “Psyche excelled her sisters so greatly that beside them she seemed a very goddess consorting with mere mortals” (121). 2. Venus wants Cupid to use his power and make Psyche fall madly in love with the vilest and most despicable creature there is in the whole world (122). 3. Cupid fell in love with Psyche the moment they first met (122). 4. The Zephyr carried Psyche from the
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