Current feminist critics have come up with a profusion of in-depth views and symbolism that have altered the way this work is read. ... In addition, setting is a strategy for the author to introduce symbols in the text, symbols that are not obvious to decipher at the first read. ... These symbols represent Gilman's view on the status of women in the patriarchal society of the nineteenth century. ... The text is very descriptive and loaded with symbols. The author takes the opportunity to relate elements of setting with symbols and meanings beyond the first reading's impressions. ...

• Word Count: 2394
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The scene begins with a close up of the helmet. ... This indicates that the armor is a symbol for the clan's honor. The camera then zooms out and the lighting changes, illuminating the set, and for the first time, we are able to see the Iyi clan's symbol on the pedestal and the opulence of the room. ... However, despite its opulence, the armor is sequestered in a secret room in a large mansion, and is thus hidden from public view, suggesting that its purpose is not to impress honor through extravagance, but to remind the Iyi retainers that they are indeed honorable samurai, and to p...

• Word Count: 1455
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Hedda Gabler being a play these objects are visible to the audience and the symbols give power to the delivery of the themes. ... All of the action as viewed by the audience takes place inside the drawing room, an indoor and private place. ... Another symbol, which serves to link Hedda to her pre-marital identity and also serves to construct her in terms of difference when compared to endorsed female figures of nineteenth century is her association with pistols. ... (Act I, p295) Here the pistols are a symbol of Hedda's attempt to delay the inevitability of her middle class life. ......

• Word Count: 2017
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He overcame the precious flaws and applied imagism and symbolism to present moral history of his contemporary times from the view of Nick. The application of symbolism made his work surpass the narrow individual world, connect the subjective with the objective, and amplify as well typify individual experiences.Symbolism, as a unique artistic technique, has two important meanings according to the definition from Webster: one is to explain invisible things by using visible symbols; the other is the connection and relation between symbols and meanings. ... However, compared with other colors, whi...

• Word Count: 1437
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Every movement, civil or otherwise, needs a symbol. ... For the abolitionist movement, John Brown was that symbol. ... He brought the figurative "elephant in the room," to the forefront of the political conversation. ... Melville provides a concrete, vivid description of his views on the John Brown raids and trial in "The Portent." He describes Brown as he hangs from the gallows, using the execution scene as a symbol for the events as a whole. ...

• Word Count: 1279
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One theory sits with the idea of a metaphorical shift of entities: the room we see is a metaphor for the human body and respectively, Dave Bowman, the main character, becomes a metaphor for the human mind. ... Instead, we are greeted with what appears to be an elaborately decorated hotel room void of doors and windows, complete with renaissance-like artwork and glowing floor tiles. ... What we are first presented with is a somewhat illogical mix of objects: a space pod sitting in the middle of a bright white room with geometric space-aged glowing floor tiling and furniture, artwork and wall de...

• Word Count: 1730
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This is what is known as the problem with other minds. ... The first human is given the task of distinguishing between which of the conversations was with a human, and which was with a computer. ... Searle then supposes that he is sitting inside the computer (the "room"), and when presented with an input of Chinese characters, Searle consults a book of rules and creates a response that follows said rules. ... The truth is that the computer, like Searle, does not in fact understand Chinese and only is a manipulator of symbols, not knowing what the output actually "says.... This ...

• Word Count: 1527
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The Swiss-born psychologist Carl Jung (1875-1961) worked closely with Freud between 1909 and 1913, but found himself distanced by Freud's views (Wad 120). ... Most "big" dreams occur during REM, or Rapid Eye Movement, sleep are filled with narratives, symbols, and detailed dream scenery. ... Archetypes are the common themes, or in Jung's words "mythological motifs", that emerge from the collective unconscious and reappear in symbolic form again and again in myths, symbol systems, and dreams. ... Every room was familiar and light, but there was no one there. He finally entered the...

• Word Count: 2340
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Billy Elliot is a movie based in the 1980's where we see a typical English family transitioning from traditional family views to modern family views. ... But with the modern change in gender roles in society, our current views allow us to "switch camera angels" and just focus on the talent. ... He is the symbol of the struggle between maintaining the appropriate balance of modern and traditional, and in which situations we should use each view. ... Billy is getting ready for ballet, hiding his ballet shoes, Jackie is in the bathroom getting ready for work, and Tony is getting re...

• Word Count: 1889
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In a painting by Maes, the maid, with a cat, is in the kitchen making love, and a couple sit decorously upstairs. ... (p.63) Maes was also experimenting with vistas and adjoining paintings of women at household tasks. ... The young woman bending over her work is poised between two contagious spaces showing oblique views, one to the outdoors and the other into a further room, where we can just discern a pitcher on a table. ... Even the two ancillary spaces - the area out the window and the room at the back - are split vertically into two sections, one with a pitcher, one without. ... The two p...

• Word Count: 1285
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Ma'at is also viewed in philosophy, perfection of knowledge, morality of truth and justice and the metaphysical. ... The universe itself, all the world around them, was sacred in the ancient view. ... Like the theory of Ma'at and her being a goddess, Marimba Ani(Ani, 1994) believes that humanity and the universe is all based on cosmonogy,she shares this view with others like Chiek Diop and they both give this reason for the lack of full understanding by the Europeans, and she believe knowledge only comes when the people and the universe are at one when the " cosmic spheres" are conne...

• Word Count: 1943
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However in nursing, body language is viewed as the way in which our bodies communicate our own or a character's attitudes- for example maintaining eye contact as you converse with a patient, lets the patient know that you are listening and interested in hearing what they have to say. Nurses view body language as a benchmark for- revealing clues to unspoken intention or feeling; reinforcement or emphasise through physical behaviour. ... For example; a client in a nursing home will refer to their bedroom as their personal space therefore the room is personalised with family pictures and it...

• Word Count: 2291
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Petty and Cacioppo (1996) – as well as other psychologists – reinforced with the traditional view, suggesting that one's views were based on how they felt about someone or something, however other psychologists such as Eiser (1986) argues that attitudes is the outcome of eternal events. ... The first is the Affective component which deals with an individual's feelings and emotions towards a particular attitude object. ... If I see a spider in the same room as me, I'll leave that room. ... They discovered that all those places except one, treat them with respect and ...

• Word Count: 1527
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In The Blot cars are used as a symbol to reinforce the main narratives of the film of poverty, wealth and class status. ... This scene is intercut with shots of Mrs Griggs (the professor's wife) on her porch watching the Olsens enviously. ... The audiences first view of Mrs Griggs is set well within the home, "Shots are constructed predominately from Mrs Griggs point of view, so that we get inside Mrs Grigg's consciousness and world view, seeing as she sees, suffering as she suffers."... Mayne captures the moment perfectly when she states " presented in a hilarious shot, in which ...

• Word Count: 2149
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These industries created the shift in our thinking from viewing children as trusting, impressionable humans that should be protected from the not so innocent adult world, to seeing children as "economic resources to be mined." (www.commercialalert.org) Alcohol promotions target youth and encourages positive affiliations with alcohol by linking drinking alcohol with attractive symbols and role models. ... When I first viewed this commercial I was intrigued by the animation and felt that kids younger than I, would find this interesting and cool, which is precisely the issue at hand....

• Word Count: 1608
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While Winton's Cloudstreet is presented from the point of view of two white' Australian families, several aboriginal values and beliefs can be found being mirrored in the text. ... It takes the black man' as a symbol of Aboriginal culture to bring Sam to realize that "you shouldn't break a place. ... Finally there is human's coexistence with the land and nature that deals with perhaps the most challenging issue in the play, the drowning of Fish Lamb. ... In view of the fact that the play is almost wholly dedicated to one social group, most if not all of the remaining...

• Word Count: 1509
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It is certainly significant that she mentions herself as being "kept in the room". ... Her behaviour is very ironical, as a person should feel most at ease with, and not the opposite, when around somebody that loves them. ... She is mentally weary at having to 'battle' with her illness and is weary of being treated like a child. ... The wallpaper might also be a symbol of the interface within Jane's mind. ... Just as she views the design of the wallpaper as "horrid" because she, perhaps unconsciously, sees it as an expression of her inner turmoil and illness, the creeping woman ...

• Word Count: 1476
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Couton," (a peasant), when he was renting a room down the hill of "Mont Sainte-Croix," described him as a pleasant company roommate usually engaged in conversation at the end of the day. ... With his unique and innovative painting style, Cézanne "confronts us with a strange 'world'" where "physical objects emerge from the paint, from 'earth'"[A. ... With his concept of the "visual to the second power,"[Danchev] Cézane reveals the primordial strangeness and inscrutability of things that exist behind their "equ...

• Word Count: 1890
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Brave New World deals with the power of science and technology as a, means of killing of individuality and replacing it with narrow compartments of fact or simulated sensation. ... Persuasion takes a more subtle form in the debate with Mond and the Savage. ... Brave New World is contrasted with our own modern society. ... Probably the most symbol and motif within the movie is the eyes which are omnipresent from the opening scenes where the fire of the city is reflected through blue eyes. ... Another symbol which is apparent in the movie is the bonsai plant which symbolizes man's dominatio...

• Word Count: 1991
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However, in order to fully recognise this element, it is necessary to be familiar with some of Lawrence's own views on sexual relations. ... Count Dionys, obviously representing the Dionysian is depicted as a bohemian, small, dark, with black beard and eyes and "fired with a keen male energy" (The Ladybird, p.159). ... In both instances, we are faced with a weaker party and a return soldier. ... The conflict between Banford and Henry is manifest in the scenes in Banford's sitting room; "She resented the big, raw, long-legged youth sticking his khaki knees out and sitting there wit...

• Word Count: 2002
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She was a commoner among royals, revolting against the societal norms of her time with her vulgar, yet ingeniously crafty works. ... At a time and place when men controlled everything, one could see the hesitancy of audiences in accepting a woman as a valid author or viewing Behn herself as a serious writer. ... She proves to readers that "people with authority are given the power to rule even when dressed like a person with no authority" [ CITATION Ken l 1033 ]. ... Most people view this novel as an anti-slavery effort, however Oroonoko ends with the vicious death of Prince Oroonoko...

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His point is made clear through the way he withholds extemporaneous information, his portrayal of the characters, and his use of symbols. ... It is because she is viewed that way by the man and that he treats her in such a way. ... Here we see that he is more concerned with himself when she is concerned with his happiness. ... To some cultures white elephants are considered sacred and valuable and in others they can be seen as a nuisance, like the practice of giving gifts that no one wants, is referred to "white elephant gifts" or the phrase "elephant in the room" that represents an obstacl...

• Word Count: 2067
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Theories provide us with systematic procedures to evaluate social phenomenon. ... We address issues based on the way we view them. ... The strain theory consists of various organizational factors, mainly those dealing with socioeconomic status (Agnew 172). ... Bigger did not want to be the servant, a job that only had room for black people, instead he wanted to be the owner, the manager, the overseer, but due to social stratification he was not allowed to participate in any events that would promote his status (Merton 232). Bigger was young, energetic, ambitious, innovative, and more i...

• Word Count: 2386
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Models are exploited to the extent where they become accessible as commodities by the mass public due to the manner they are portrayed in the mainstream media as a symbol of consumerism. ... Consumers' brains are bombarded with images of models when they browse for any physical product. ... A model's persona fades out with the usable lifetime of a product. ... This could be subjective for each separate individual prohibiting any room for further debate. ... There are multiple varying arguments to balance both sides of the issue, nonetheless, the question if models are products is onl...

• Word Count: 1784
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It is certainly significant that she mentions herself as being "kept in the room". ... Her behaviour is very ironical, as a person should feel most at ease with, and not the opposite, when around somebody that loves them. ... She is mentally weary at having to 'battle' with her illness and is weary of being treated like a child. ... The wallpaper might also be a symbol of the interface within Jane's mind. ... Just as she views the design of the wallpaper as "horrid" because she, perhaps unconsciously, sees it as an expression of her inner turmoil and illness, the creeping woman ...

• Word Count: 1540
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate