... which media representations accurately reflect the way things really are, and not as we wish them to be. There is no one criterion by which the term realism of a media text may be judged. We often measure how realistic media is by comparing it to something that has happened before in our own situated culture. What is real therefore can be ... subjective and controversial subject, where a text that one person perhaps considers to be realistic may not be considered so by someone else with another prospective. But one important thing about realism is how we involve realism ... in the medi...

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... Warsaw ghetto. Shortly after the end of the war, Schoenberg met some of these survivors who related their personal experiences to the composer. Profoundly moved, Schoenberg immediately wrote up the text, using some of the exact wording he had heard from his visitors. The work was completed in September 1947 and premiered by the Albuquerque, New Mexico Civic Symphony Orchestra in ... educate people about the dreadfulness of the holocaust. Babi Yar is located in the Ukraine, not far from Kiev. It was there that the Nazis slaughtered 70,000 Jews. The text for this symphony is a poem by the...

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... an entire "lost- generation - would lose her innocence completely. Remarque parallels this downward spiral within the actions and emotions of Paul Baumer, the novel's narrator and protagonist. Early in the text, the uniqueness of Baumer stands out. He writes poetry and is considerably gentle and kind - a representation of all things good in the world. Even he, however, cannot sustain the relentless ... the army report merely stated: "All quite on the Western Front."" Paul's face seemed calm, "as though almost glad the end had come- (Page 296). These closing moments of the text symbolize...

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What are the contrasts and similarities between the main characters of the connected text you studied this semester? The two text I studied this year are "Soldier Boy" written by Anthony Hill, along with "I had seen castles" written by Cynthia Rylant. "Soldier Boy" is a biography on the youngest known ANZAC James Martin, ... ...

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... same kind of barbed wire, was Pakistan. In between, on that piece of ground that had no name, lay Toba Tek Singh."(15). Amitav Ghosh's Shadow Lines is another glaring text dealing with partition along with many other themes. Here Thamma's uncle also refuses to join his niece in India becoming a victim of forced exile. The old man refuses to change ... ...

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... was a relatively perfect metaphor given the situation Sayuri was in. With this in mind, the author also did a great job in the paragraphing. Sometimes there would countless paragraphs of plain text before a dialogue, and his careful paragraphing made it seem as if every single line was important to what was happening at the moment and the entire story, and they were ... ...

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... Japan, but I feel as though, I would've never worked at the plant if I knew what I was helping to construct. Berger quotes many of the accounts he found powerful in the text Unforgettable Fire. The most powerful one, I believe is "A woman who looked like an expectant mother, was dead. At her side, a girl of about three years of age brought some water ... ...

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... in these women's lives. This necessity caused most of the women to look at their roles in society differently. Some of the values and norms that are questioned in the text are, nationalism, femininity, sexual morality and social standing. In the beginning of the book, we see that the women feel bonded by nationalism. This nationalism has brought them to the ... ...

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... 's deliberate indifference to the fate of the men it sent to fight in the jungles of Vietnam, and in the years since it was first published it has become a basic text on that war. However, now in the year 2002, some critics do not feel the same way. According to The Last Thursday Book Club, Ron felt the book as a journal ... ...

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... disassociated from the state. Following that, Shinto shrines were revitalized and today remain one of the sacred focuses of Japanese religious sentiment. Shinto has many things that apply as sacred text. The Common Shinto Prayer is: "Our eyes may see some uncleanliness, but let not our mind see things that are not clean. Our ears may hear some uncleanliness, but let ... ...

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... prisoners on the spot. The same happenings took place in Manchuria also. The Japanese came in and killed, burned, raped, and destroyed a great part of Manchuria. In both of the text each author describes the event that take place, though it seems both documents come from a different standpoint. Browning seems to have taken a military journal type standpoint and simply told what ... ...

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... to assassinate Hitler 1945 Britain, USA and Russia invade Germany - Hitler commits suicide ESSENTIAL SOURCES A Bullock, Hitler: A Study in Tyranny (1952) - written soon after Hitler's death but still the classic text A J P Taylor, The Origins of the Second World War (1961) - famous reinterpretation of Hitler's foreign policy J Fest, Hitler (1974) - monumental and already a classic A Bullock, Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives (1991) - useful ... ...

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... the future, unaware of what and who contributed to the now stronger than ever armed forces. Work Cited 1. Glines, C.V. Air Power Visionary, Billy Mitchell. www.thehistorynet.c ationhistory/articles/1997/0997_text.html or, Aviation History Magazine September, 1997 2. National Aviation Hall of Fame William Mitchell http://63.164.90/enshrinree/mitchell.html; 1997 3. Boyne, Walter J. The Spirit of Billy Mitchell http ... ...

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... anxiety" was more collectively felt after the Great Depression of 1929, which concluded a decade of partying in avoidance of the inability to deal with uncertainty. (I based this thought on your text on page 52 of the lecture notes, which I found to be a bit contradictory. I couldn't tell whether America made the movements to deal with uncertainty before or after the Great Depression ... ...

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... and we to retaliate in the same. Now as the missiles began to fly, the book changed over from a direct dialog of the events to follow to slightly more speculative text as we don't really know what the exact ramifications will or would be if nuclear war were really to be fall the world as we know it. Its set in ... ...

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... all at one time" (Vonnegut 88). It is as if Vonnegut has taken this template as a model for Slaughterhouse Five, down to the rows of asterisks separating short clumps of text. He attempts to create his own story in the Tralfamadorian manner by taking multiple examples of time and bundling them together in no particular order. The irony of such a strategy ... ...

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... a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, which gained the attention he desired (Rovere 6). Shortly after, February 20, 1950, he took the senate floor where he claimed to give what was the text of his Wheeling Speech. In his speech there was some general talk about communism, but he also presented a list of two hundred five suspects, compiled by a former F.B.I. agent, by the ... ...

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... United States. By declaring war on the Japan the U.S. had, in fact, just joined World War II. These facts I have just stated you can go on any web sit, any text book, or any book to find out. What you will not hear is that the United States had forced the attack. The Empire of Japan depended on the United States ... ...

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... , 1996). Kubik (1996, PG) observes: "The notion that thrift lay at the very heart of economic prosperity dominated public discourse during the interwar years. "Saving and foresight," a widely used Principles text instructed, were simply "indispensable in the capitalistic era in which we live and work" [Ely et al. 1930, 137]. Accepted as the source of both individual and national economic well ... ...

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