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    Representation of the Character I am playing a character called Jean Taylor from the play Fine ME by Olwen Wymark. The play was first performed at the Richmond Fringe Theatre at the Orange Tree on October 21st 1977; this play takes place in England‚ west London. This play is set in the late 20th century; the plot of this play is based on a teenage girl called Verity Taylor‚ who has suffered from an undiagnosed mental disorder for many years before being admitted to Broadmoor mental hospital after

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    Image and Representation

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    Image and representation Architecture is understood and studied from drawings and images. Drawings possess a life of their own and express the intentions of the architect. In the following essay‚ I would annotate the various arguments brought forth in the two readings‚ “The Necessity for Drawing: Tangible Speculation” by Michael Grave and “Architectural Drawings and the Intent of the Architect” by James Smith Pierce. Both the readings discuss about the importance of the language of drawing in

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    Representation on Poor

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    to be the lower or “working” class‚ more commonly known as the poor. The different medias that society are exposed to usually show poor people as being lazy‚ dirty‚ and often uneducated. According to Bell Hooks essay‚ Outlaw culture: Resisting Representation‚ “value was connected to integrity‚ to being honest and hardworking.” (pg 433) Although she points out that the media portrays the poor as lazy‚ and non hardworking‚ she fails to speak on the fact that the most hardworking people are actually

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    Throughout his two years of research in Figel‚ Schlegel described many Teduray cultural practices; among them include their elaborate legal system‚ gender and sexuality‚ marriage and customs as well as their beliefs. Some of the practices he did not understand‚ but throughout his book he portrays the Tedurays as being spiritual‚ tolerant‚ peaceful and noncompetitive group of people. Compared to his upbringing‚ Schlegel starts to question his own way of life and he starts to change it by being tolerant

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    Miss Representation

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    MISS REPRESENTATION RESEARCH PAPER Driving Question: How does the media shape how we see others and ourselves? Assignment: As the documentary Miss Representation explains‚ “The media is now the message and the messenger.” Every day‚ we take in countless hours of media that influence how we view others and in turn how we view ourselves. It is our responsibility to consume media in an intelligent way AND fight back against negative messages put forth by the media. Research Paper: You

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    Representation of relationships in media. Ron and Hermione. Jack and Rose. Katniss and Peeta. These characters portray healthy relationships. Bella and Edward do not. In fact they’re in a completely unhealthy and abusive relationship even though they’ve never actually physically hurt each other‚ unless you count that one time Edward hurled Bella across the room and into a glass table‚ causing her to get stitches. The way relationships are portrayed in the media is extremely important‚ because it

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    Representations of adolescents NAME: Jeremy Bell PC: DU6 CLASS: English 10F TEACHER: Fr. Gillin WORDS: 507 // Task proposal: 244 TABLE OF CONTENTS Title page.............................................. Task Proposal...........................................1 Introduction..............................................2 Newspaper article.........................................3 Satirical Writing............................................4 Cartoon Visual.......................

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    Christ Representation

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    The purpose of this essay is to discuss how two different artists’ manipulation of the formal elements and the social context during time of creation play major roles in the ‘reading’ of an artwork. I have chosen to analyse an Early Christian depiction of Christ as the Good Shepherd and Christ the Pantokrator from the Byzantine era. The Early Christian era‚ according to History. spans from 330CE when Emperor Constantine the Great moved the capital of the Roman Empire to Byzantium and declared Christianity

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    Representation Dodgeball

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    If You Can Dodge Maturity You Can Dodge Success In today’s society‚ ones potential for a successful future is based on how they carry themselves on an ordinary basis. Whether it be through the way they dress‚ or the general way in which they choose to live their life‚ it is the overall level of maturity or lack thereof that plays the greatest role in how they are viewed‚ and consequently how seriously they are taken. In the film Dodgeball‚ protagonist Peter La Fleur is struggling to make rent

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    NATIVE REPRESENTATIONS 2

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    M05_LOBO3944_01_SE_C05.qxd 9/9/09 12:25 PM Page 201 V NATIVE REPRESENTATIONS: MEDIA AND THE ARTS 201 M05_LOBO3944_01_SE_C05.qxd 202 9/9/09 12:25 PM Page 202 NATIVE REPRESENTATIONS: MEDIA AND THE ARTS I n academics‚ the term representations refers to how meaning is constructed in our minds through language; be it words (e.g.‚ writing‚ poetry)‚ music (e.g.‚ traditional‚ modern‚ or rap lyrics)‚ storytelling (e.g.‚ spoken words‚ traditional languages)‚ or visual language (all forms of art

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