Introduction My purpose behind performing my modernized script was that in studying Shakespeare’s Macbeth in class‚ I found it difficult to understand majority of what was being said in the play. So to prevent future audiences (senior students learning Macbeth) from assuming‚ but to better understand more of the meaning under the text‚ I reinterpreted the Lady Macbeth scenes to advance the audiences understanding in the characters and the drive behind the decisions made to form the play. The
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DVD cover- Textual analysis Communication is imperative to the life of our culture. Fiske (1990:2) describes communication as “the production and exchange of meanings. It is concerned with how messages‚ or texts‚ interact with people in order to produce meanings”. All humans instinctively look for meaning amongst countless forms of texts all the time‚ whether it be in television commercials‚ friends ’ fashion sense or architectural structures. However‚ I will be providing an analysis of the signs
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A raisin in the sun (2008) Textual Analysis Task:- The film ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ (2008) is the hybridity genre of comedy and a realist drama. Its setting is a small apartment in Chicago‚ in the 1950s at times of racism segregation and also segregation towards women. The situation is that the protagonist is the film wants to be rich. The target audience for this film would be from the age of 18+ as I feel it is directed more to the older people in society although the film is a PG. Its demographic
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desire‚ or adult falseness vs. youthful idealization. It is in this way that his feelings of internal tension‚ confusion‚ etc. are really an expression of his true struggle for sexual identity. Perhaps a psychoanalytical flavour is added to this analysis by the imposition of gay and lesbian literary theory‚ but perhaps that’s
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Plot Development The spillway is set at party at Dana’s house but the spillway is a dangerous narrow path across a waterway and very important part to develop the story line. “The setting is rapidly planned which allows the action of the story to begin. The party throbbed on‚ like a living thing with an existence and momentum all its own” (Kirkwood M‚). More clues are given right through the story about other settings about the spillway such as: “there has been an open dare to walk across the
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For this assignment‚ I chose my sister to sketch a second map of the area between Alder and Kincaid street. My sister is heading into her senior year at the University of Oregon‚ and knows the area quite well. I told her that I needed her to sketch a map from Kincaid to Alder street and label all the streets and businesses/shops around the area. I then gave her a ruler and a pencil and let her go to work. When starting on my map‚ the first thing I did was draw the horizontal streets of Alder and
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Constantine Stephanie DiMaggio Introduction to film GSJ0945A Kenneth Newton December 7‚ 2009‚ Constantine An Assessment of Constantine I found the movie Constantine to be the most interesting film to analyze and discuss. From start to finish‚ there is so much meaning within every element of the film. Every time I watch this film‚ I thoroughly enjoy it. I have known this movie to be a symbolic message to the audience of‚ why religion‚ being a good person‚ and God is so important
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The film A Perfect Getaway(2009) is about a newlywed couple going on an adventure to Hawaii for their honeymoon. As the story goes on the couple is informed of news that there are killers on a near island. The couple even after hearing the news decided to move forward with their plan to have an adventure‚ what happens after is an unexpected turn of event. The eerie characters‚ the constant alarming tone‚ and spooky yet cheesy music set a mood for viewers that keeps them constantly questioning what
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Sex is one of human beings primary needs and can be categorized in the same group of other basic needs such as hunger‚ thirst‚ and avoiding pain (Langer‚ 2009). In a sense‚ we are all influenced by sexual impulses from the time we are born to the time of our death. Our sexuality is integral in the self-concept of being human (Hillman‚ 2008; Langer‚ 2009; Pangman & Seguire‚ 2000). Not only does sexuality play an important role in how we shape ourselves and view ourselves‚ but it influences how we
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The chapter 2 in the textbook “Cultural Anthropology” mentions about the reflection in culture of nonhuman primates onto human’s one. In this chapter‚ I really impress about the idea “natural selection”. “Natural selection is the process by which organism better adapt to the environment reproduce more effectively compared with less well-adapted forms”(“The evolution of humanity and culture”) The “natural selection”‚ for me‚ is the best explanation for the difference between our modern humans and
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