never considered that before” or “Day-um! I can’t believe she went there.” And let’s be real here. How many times has this industry demanded we “go there” in the name of originality? Over and over we hear the cries of the readers and publishers for writers to give them something unique. They want original, groundbreaking, thought provoking shit. They tell us to stretch the confines of what has been written, and they demand we create something mind-blowing and new. In short, they beg authors to knock
the area of cultural studies. It has become popular since the early 1980’s, this symbolises freedom and expression. Street art can truly be valued only if we consider its place in the lineage of fine art history and the outcome it has had on our modern society. They act as reflections of ourselves and the cities in which we live. Unconfined by form, medium, or message, the art form offers creative freedom and while artists have varied motivations behind their work, graffiti and street art tends to
middle-class bourgeois revolution as Jones suggests. Maza shifts away from economic facts and instead looks at the literature to ask if there was a “middle class.” Using French writers that range from intellectual to the ordinary citizen, Maza argues that societies did not single out middle class-conscious; therefore writers did not see a middle class as a problem or solution. Using this discourse of language in these writings, social and political understanding formulates to show the absence of a
Women that were attracted to the same sex were frightened to speak openly about their sexuality due to fears of being judged by family and friends because of the stigma surrounding being attracted to anyone other than a male. Feminist groups and writers created a new strategy to weaken male supremacy, “Political Lesbianism” (Richardson, 2000). In 1979, the Leeds Revolutionary Feminist group published a paper titled “Political Lesbianism: The case against sexuality”. This stood for the idea that women
people in India is mostly based on agriculture. Hari has a strong humanistic bond with their landed property left by his father. He tries his level best to protect those lands. He feels a heart’s content to look at the crops yielded by those lands. The writer beautifully expressed the relation between Hari and his lands, “To Hari, it had always been a matter of prestige rather than money, of family pride; his was the sort of emotional involvement that could not be reduced to terms of profit and loss” (19;
The British Colonies were founded for a variety of reasons. Some colonies were founded for profit, while others were founded in a search for religious freedom. Many people came willingly to this new land to make a fresh start. Others were brought unwillingly to America as enslaved people. From the very beginning America was a country with a diverse population. As the American colonies grew, each region developed an economy based on its own resources and environment. The English principles of limited
According to the Collins English Dictionary, a sitcom or situation comedy is “a comedy series involving the same characters in various day-to-day situations which are developed as separate stories for each episode”. Are television shows meant to be a reflection of our current society or are they meant to invite and inspire change to society? American sitcom families have changed a great deal between the 50’s and now. The pop culture of the 50’s tried to portray a perfect world filled with smiling white
lifetime’s worth of recollections as well as in the substantial influence it holds for the ageing individual. Memory is essential to the construction of one’s sense of identity, a proposition undergirding St Augustine’s Confessions and echoed by writers and philosophers alike.1 The English philosopher John Locke asserts that ‘it is plain consciousness, as far as ever it can be extended, should it be to ages past, which unites existences and actions, very remote in time, into the same person’.2 In
area of the researchers since the last few decades for its diverse writing of African phenomenon. Portrayal of the writing by its authors has been such that it fascinates the readers irrespective of its literary genre. A creation of an author is a reflection of his life and it helps the readers appreciate their life and society through his perspective that he depicts. The African literature churns through the world literature by leading in the fiction category. The African authors by and large depict
tradition(). The novel is not merely a wolf story, but an encyclopedia of Mongolia culture on many aspects, including ecology, society, nomads’ life, religion, philosophy, allusion, dialect and history etc, and a masterpiece of the national character reflection and suggestion. The film of wolf totem adapted from the novel, and takes 7 years to finish, it tells the similar stories happened in the novel, but at the same time, it also add and omit the messages in detail. The whole work evaluated as the biographical