Steven Skaggs’ essay on the Grateful Dead’s "Dark Star" and how it is an example of transcendental aesthetics put a new meaning to the way I listen to the Dead’s music. Skaggs goes deeply into semiotic theory‚ and how the song "Dark Star" has an underlying journey within itself. Though I had never heard of semiotics before reading Skaggs’ essay‚ I think that I now understand its basis. Semiotics is the study of signs in their capacity as "ways of knowing". This means that certain words‚ sounds‚ and
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Lincoln is a 2012 American historical drama film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg‚ starring Daniel Day-Lewis as United States President Abraham Lincoln and Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln. The film is based in part on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s biography of Lincoln‚ Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln‚ and covers the final four months of Lincoln’s life‚ focusing on the President’s efforts in January 1865 to have the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
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Women’s Rights Judith Sargent Stevens Murray writes on the equality of men and women in 1790. Murray wrote this for the public and explains the difference between men and women and how women were degraded in 1790. Murray writes about how women were not allowed to accompany their husbands to certain places because they were not qualified enough and it made the feel inferior. A woman’s place was said to be in the kitchen or sewing. Murray is not bias in her writing but may be looked down on for speaking
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‘Without obviously aiming for pathos‚ Crane achieves it. The story‚ like the seamen‚ betrays ‘no hurried words‚ no pallor‚ no plain agitation‚’ but achieves a real sense of loss at its conclusion. Explain how Crane does this. It is certain that as the reader‚ one is left feeling bereft and truly sorrowful at the close of ‘The Open Boat’. However‚ it is not with emphasising the self-pity of the seamen‚ or using particularly emotive language‚ that Crane achieves this‚ but rather by subtly manipulating
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Regan Montgomery Thaddeus Stevens Reflection. Thaddeus Stevens was not in favor of an easy re-entry into the Union for former Confederate states. He was in favor of punitive action against the South because he believed it was necessary to ensure justice and protect the rights of freed slaves. Stevens also thought that without consequences‚ the former Confederate states might revert to their old ways and continue to oppress the newly freed African Americans. Without violence involving punishment
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Basluel A. Mekonnen Professor Browne English 101 Reading Response “Watching TV Makes You Smarter” by‚ Steven Johnson. A. Comprehension: Steven Johnson argues about watching TV shows makes us smarter by developing our brain. He compares the current TV shows and earlier TV shows. B. Response: Johnson explains about how TV shows has changed over a decade. He explains how the show Hill Street considered to
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being. Such is not the case with the Wallace Stevens poem‚ The Snow Man. No warm and fuzzy feelings are recalled in a close reading of this single sentence poem. Here‚ the snowman functions as a metaphor of a metaphor‚ a device that seems to be frequently used in Romantic poetry. The snowman represents the “mind of winter”‚ which relates to the abstract concept of true nothingness. Through the use of the image of the snowman‚ Stevens crafts a poem that
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Kangbo Lu Josh Coito English 122 22 March 2016 Journal #10: “Watching TV Makes Your Smarter” In Steven Johnson’s essay Watching TV Makes You Smarter” (2005)‚ he suggests that the increasing complexity of TV shows can engage audiences’ brains‚ and help people think smarter. Citing multiple second-hand evidences‚ Johnson develops his ideas by comparing old and new TV shows‚ describing the confusion may caused by complex TV shows’ threads‚ and the positive effect of watching complex TV shows. By using
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Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research Volume 4‚ Fall 2014 Edited by Steven Kohm he University of Winnipeg Centre for Interdisciplinary Justice Studies (CIJS) ISSN 1925-2420 he Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research 2 he Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research Table of Contents Introduction Educating Justice: Postsecondary Education in the Justice Disciplines. Steven Kohm‚ Kelly Gorkof‚ Richard Jochelson‚ and Kevin Walby ....................
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Steven Jobs was one of the founders of Apple Computer. Apple Computer’s initial strategy was to target specific sub-segments of the market that the company’s management believed could be best served by the company. Apple Computer focused on these sub-segments‚ addressed the needs of these users‚ and developed a loyal following for the company’s products (Fortune‚ 2011). The senior executives at Apple Computer‚ led by Jobs‚ reinforced a customer focus within the company. This customer focus was largely
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