Laura Mulvey's take on the "male gaze" in cinema in her essay, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" relies on psychoanalytic theory to highlight the role of the patriarchal subconscious of society in films, as well as ... presence of a female character in the midst of a male-dominant storyline. Her main argument centers on the assertion of the objectification of women in Hollywood narrative films. Mulvey writes that the characterization of female characters in these films is solely based on the opportunity to provide a pleasurable object of viewing for male ... characters in film is arguably...

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... how the element of structure which comprises of the organization and cultural structure of an organization can effectively facilitate or inhibit knowledge sharing and critique of the findings LEADERSHIP STYLE Transformational leadership is regarded one of the most influential contemporary leadership theories (Bono et al 2005). According to (Bass and Avolio 1994), the foundation of transformational leadership ... which has transformed its operations till date. Virgin Trains vision involves the empowerment of staff to take responsibility and ownership of their performance, a typical compone...

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... what true beauty smells like while competing against other perfumers for the perfect smell overall and how dangerous this could put his life into. The distance from the character through narrative perspective and the disgust and hatred towards Grenouille, the protagonist, grows larger with every encounter he has with another character and another murder he has committed throughout his journey. ... at its widest distance, and the very last murder done by Grenouille couldn't have been created more dramatically than what it is because of narrative perspective and Suskind's style. Conclusio...

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... ; His work adopts a form somewhere between the previous tradition of epic and the yet non-existent novel, which has led to the understanding of it as a work of creative style, perceived as almost synonymous with fiction. In Herodotus' explanation of the past, the most ready medium through which he knew to make himself understood was that of the Homeric epic. ... our understanding of the extent to which Herodotus' text might be taken straight on. Nevertheless, the inclusion of puppet characters, to which Herodotus exports voices of dissenting judgment, is a necessary narrative device for...

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... to assess utopias- through a differentiation between form and content. To explain, whilst the typical 'utopian' content of anarchist play may be a strike-narrative, one must equally consider the degree to which it is 'utopian' in form. That is to say, to be truly, holistically utopian the ... play must consider combining an other-worldly (utopian) style of performance alongside its utopian narrative, as it is only through this form/content combination that it is possible to understand the holistic nature of representing utopias ... by Louise Michel's La Grève, performed in 1890. As wel...

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... select few as opposed to the many. This overarching theme of the downtrodden masses versus the empowered elite minority is constant throughout the narrative, thus leaving the novel openly suitable for analysis from the Marxist perspective of literary theory. There are several other key themes, ... Brother is watching you'. His face and directives also often appear on the numerous telescreens found throughout Oceania (telecreens being two-way television style devices used to inform the masses about The Party's and Big Brother's directives as well as monitor their behavior). This enduring ...

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... films. Painting allowed Kurosawa to have a strong sense of visual composition, for he filmed often in telephoto lens that had abilities of compressed depth optics, enabling the Japanese Scroll style (two-dimensional flatness). Also, Noh theatre was incorporated into his film in which he used masks to convey his characters' emotions, later on to be replaced with detailed face ... side in my mind naturally, without the least bit of conflict." Kurosawa's bold and dynamic style has been related by critics, as traditional Hollywood style when it comes to narrative movie making; his stories we...

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... meant "having existed from the first" came to mean "underived, independent, first-hand" and by time the word was used a term of praise meaning "novel or fresh in character or style". It cannot be claimed that the use of nontraditional plots either wholly invented or based in part on a contemporary incident completely achieved that interpretation of plot, character and emergent moral ... particularly in literature is itself somewhat too general to be capable of concrete demonstration: for such demonstration to be possible the relationship of realistic particularity to some specific aspect...

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It is important to understand Villanueva's writing style as it contains a mixture of theoretical ideas justified with subjective personal experiences. He engenders a new way of thinking, by doing so, connoting the necessity to transform our political, social, and ... Villanueva critique and call to attention these oppressive institutions but he also offers a medium in which to remedy the oppressive forces: through a rhetoric reform. The theoretical exposition, rather than the narrative form, of Bootstraps serves to bring our awareness to the social stratifications that tangle American societ...

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... the chilling story of Chris McCandless and give a better understanding of this self-made vagabond through extensive research and Krakauer's own personal connection with McCandless. Krakauer carries over his journalistic style from his article in Outside to the long form feature Into the Wild in the way he presents his highly thorough investigation. Rather than attempting to construct the story in ... the form of a narrative like some writers would, Krakauer takes a more straightforward approach, creating a less wordy and easy to swallow story. Throughout the book Krakauer regularly refe...

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... the drink and the acquisition of happiness. In this particular advert, the use of rhetorical appeals such as pathos and logos are used within its narrative to communicate to the encoder's preferred target audience a connection between intergenerational relationships, happiness and a healthy lifestyle, all of which are used to ... of the need for a healthier diet and an active lifestyle. This idea can be seen within the chosen advert as the encoder uses the narrative of the protagonist, identified as Grandpa, to communicate the intended message that in order to address issues such as healt...

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... 'hopeless' material. Greene uses the idea of setting, characters, dialogue and language techniques such as juxtaposition, euphemism or contrast to create the narrative interest in the reader. It is significant to comment on the development of what might be viewed as bleak, depressing and hopeless material and how ... Pinkie will only make her life full of misery, sadness and tragic. Greene uses the method juxtaposition between the characters to creative narrative interest and make the readers see the hopeless and depressing atmosphere between them and believe their relationship as w...

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... book defines genre as a category or classification of a group of movies in which the individual films share similar subject matter and similar ways of organizing the subject through narrative and stylistic patterns. Additionally it can also function as cultural rituals in which rituals are both formal and ideological practices that can become a beneficial means of responding a variety ... for developing stories in a particular genre, and Expectations describe a viewers experience and knowledge while watching a film that help anticipate the meaning of a particular convention or direction ...

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... they have developed a sense of self-control for the sake of the oppressive rule of Napoleon. The latter, at this point of the narrative, starts avoiding public appearance and designates Squealer to the role of his representative. Interestingly, this does not reduce the power of his regime; ... simply official statements but more significantly an accurate reflection of the public opinion about the actual political leadership in the farm. In fact, the narrative points out that. It had become usual to give Napoleon the credit for every successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune...

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... in reflecting the characteristics of postmodern literature, thus my independent investigation was devoted to the study of form. I find I can best communicate my concept through a fragmented narrative comprised within the contexts of modernism and postmodernism. The shifting emphasis from objective reality to subjective experience in the modernist period demonstrated in Mrs Dalloway will be mirrored through a ... third person limited narration of the experience of a young university student. Alternatively in my second narrative, I will externalize the conflict of an elderly professor's a...

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... the LGB, and why exclusion prevails because of the notions on gender orientation and biological sex. The legitimacy of Bender-Baird's arguments about these laws will lack substance without her narrative style of portraying the participant's perspectives and experiences. The themes that arise on surveys remarkably conveys a call for a more stalwart and decisive nondiscriminatory policies that will significantly uplift the day-to ... ...

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... , very elaborate clothing. Accustomed to wearing tattered, poor quality fabric that further relegated their status, bondswomen "went to great trouble to create and wear clothes of quality and, importantly, style." In addition, Bondswomen partook in highly improvised dance and musical performances. In Edward Baptist's book The Half Has Never Been Told, he describes the formation of song circles that ... significantly empowered them to reclaim their humanity. Over the course of the past forty years, American historiography has evolved from a very limited admittance of black bondswomen in t...

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Anthony Giddens defines postmodernism as "the belief that society is no longer governed by history or progress."" He sees postmodern society as "highly pluralistic with no grand narrative' guiding its development-(Giddens, 2001). But it is also important to look at postmodernity' in relation to modernity', to see it as the direct result of the latter, as a reaction ... as the Public Piazza d'Italia' recently built in New Orleans to accommodate the local Italian population: the piazza resembles the function of an Italian piazza and imitates of the regional style while using classical forms of...

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... , he was able to draw realities that are unnoticed by the imperfect human eyes. Vertov, especially, has adequately used movement and intervals of the images to bring about "rhythmical artistic" style to delineate the enlightening perspectives of lives and realities to provoke social transformation. Vertov's montages were structured at different intervals and the intervals cover movement between shots, visual correlation of ... to another. Hence, the correlations of planes, movements, light and shadow, for instance, were managed through controlling the intervals. In the movie, for example...

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... and liberty, and the East stressed collectivism and equality. But since the demise of socialist system in 1991 and then the triumph of liberal capitalism as well as the western-style democracy, the post-Cold War claimed that liberal democracy lays foundation for a new world order led by the U.S. hegemony which aligns democracy with the western emphasis on "civil and political ... 1 As considering that masculinity's view of democracy solely emphasizes civil and political right which can be defined to the form of patriarchy, among those who were excluded by the grand narrative of global l...

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... respectively, of inherited conventions of autobiography and the philosophical letter, are characteristic American "fictions" which anticipate the works of nineteenthcentury novelists. Both works address large conceptions of democratic life through narrative strategies predicated on the writers' attempts,-the first resulting in successful parable and the second in failed "myth," to invest personally vouched-for recitals of experience with larger sanctions of ... the process whereby the constituents of experience from which he fashions a highly particularized sense of personal identity bec...

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Vladimir Nabokov´s Pale Fire, first published in 1989 is considered to be one of the first Post-modern novels in the English speaking world, primarily because of its narrative structure; the novel is written as a poem with 999-lines by the fictitious writer John Shade. Shade´s next-door neighbor, Charles Kinbote, writes the foreword and extensive commentary. As the ... science flourished" (kindle edition), and even relate to the ignorant Charles Kinbote who didn't even know that the poem took its title from Timon of Athens2. I believe that Nabokov´s narrative conveys certain personalities...

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... of the up-to-the-minute technology that made rave emblematic of its era-the fragmentary, fast-forward aesthetic, the flexible production and distribution network, the avoidance of personality and narrative in favor of sensation-he comes up with a portrait of hi-tech millennium that resonates well beyond its subculture confines. There are those who might find a book to analyze music ... that resulted in a feedback loop between sounds geared to enhance the rush, and rushes that inspired producers to take sound into new spaces. The drug-tech interface gives "Generation Ecstasy" a narrative...

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... .calypso popularity went throughout the world many countries include an up tempo version of calypso music called soca and a hip hop influenced style called rap so both became popular in Trinidad and other island. Soca became the most international sales since rap so was not that ... styles of calypso and bachata throughout the Caribbean societies and music world artists and composers would listen to the beats and the rhythm style with bachata beats. With all the calypso in the world the outlook on Trinidad became so big now Trinidad have so much big ... almost be to the outsider (Maha...

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... House of the Seven Gables broods with ambiguity and fear, with this uncertainty culminating in moments of heightened suspense. In these moments, author Nathaniel Hawthorne breeds tension with a terse syntactical style, igniting imagination with suggestive language, and frustrating the reader with a limited perspective. By presenting the reader with the anxious experience of extended mental uncertainty in a mode akin to realism ... the story; throughout the novel, we feel this unease mount each time the narrator ceases to provide commentary and begins only describing events as they happen....

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