Representation of intimacy in digital culture through dating apps and films 1. Digital culture and dating apps The 21st century is seeing exciting changes driven by new ways of thinking informed by development in digital technology. As we are living in where the internet and the World Wide Web have, the internet has become a major part of work, social, and political life for people and also media, culture and science in advanced economic countries. Murphy describes that the impact of any technology…
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University of Southern California Final Exam Jori Richman CTCS 200: History of International Cinema I Professor Laura Serna TA: Andrew Meyers 12 December 2014 Final Exam A. Clip Analysis – “Kids United” from Zéro de conduite (1933) Through his distinctive formalistic style and vibrant temporal experimentation, Jean Vigo’s famous pillow fighting sequence from Zéro de conduite (1933) represents a culmination of his anarchist political ideology. Because the children present a microcosmic…
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2012: Generally: In better responses, candidates stated a clear conceptual thesis in their introduction, and continued to develop and sustain that thesis with detailed and judiciously selected textual analysis and evaluation. In these responses, candidates showed evidence of extensive research into the historical periods and ways of thinking, which helped communicate a deep understanding of the historical periods and how composers provided diverse perspectives on those times and paradigms…
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Research 2014 The future nior cult classic film “Blade Runner” -The Directors Cut can be interpreted through a variety of critical lenses including the Ecofeminest lens and the Marxist lens. In order to perceptively develop my own critical understanding of the film I decided to investigate the following hypothesis: “Blade Runner-DC is a film that conveys how a capitalist society negatively influences the relations of humans and nature.” To aid me in my investigation of my hypothesis I selected two…
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Quoted from Paul Valery, Aesthetics, The Conquest of Ubiquity prognostic: something that fortells. 3 the laboring class; the class of industrial workers who lack their own means of production and hence sell their labor to live. 4 superstructure: social institutions (as the law or politics) that are in Marxist theory erected upon the economic base. 5 dialectic: the Hegelian process of change in which a concept or its realization passes over into and is preserved and fulfilled by its opposite. 2…
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chances of entering into the drug abuse menace. From kindergarten to higher learning institutions, free awareness materials and services are being provided to the students. Additionally, awareness programs are being initiated in churches and other social institutions whereby the youth are brought together not only to be informed about the issue, but also being given roles and responsibilities as peer leaders. This makes the youth not to take passive participation in the awareness programs but rather…
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potentiality of being abused by her grandpa. And here, P’s dad never shows and her mom denied and covered the truth of sexual of abuse at the beginning. Based on the prospective study, the model of both the victim and perpetrator’s behaviors provide social learning “opportunity”. The observation of violence, such as father rapes kid and asks his wife to shut up, which is the punishment for his wife, and the outcome of this violence is to let mom and future’s precious’ mouth off, which will reinforce…
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qualitative studies from the perspective of the media user and his needs, done in the 40s and 50s, documented how people willingly engaged the media to advance their personal and social interests. For example, listeners used radio quiz programs and soap operas as sources of advice for their personal problems or to learn social roles (Herzog, 1944, cited in Lull, 1995). Radio was also used for companionship, entertainment and information (Mendelsohn, 1964; Suchman 1942; cited in Lull, 1995). Berelson…
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the identification and evaluation of key external forces using analytical tools e.g. PEST (Political, Economic, Social, Technological), PESTLE (Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal, Ethical), STEEPLE (Social, Technological, Economic, Environmental, Political, Legal, Ethical); the implications of different external factors for marketing planning; Porter’s five forces analysis; identifying the organisation’s competitive position and relating this to the principal opportunities and threats;…
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Increasingly, historians also work with primary sources that are material in nature: buildings, clothing, tools and other sorts of artifacts and commodities. Historians of the more recent past also utilize visual imagery in the form of photographs and film as primary sources, in addition to oral testimony of firsthand witnesses of past events. Generally, the question that a historian asks of the past determines the type of primary sources to be examined and researched, although to some extent the volume…
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