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In Stam and Spence’s Colonialism, Racism, and Representation: An Introduction, they talk about colonialism/ racism and how it is represented in movies, and more particularly, in the movie The Battle of Algiers (1966). An interesting characteristic of the movie that they make note of in this article, is how the women play a huge role, especially in the rebellion itself. In the article, Stam and Spence explain that “…as the sequence progresses, we become increasingly close to the three women,…

Since I am an experienced factions player I know how people think and I have contact with a lot of cool people, with experienced I mean knowing most if not all the commands, knowing how to fix bugs. After me having a lot of experience in making servers I know almost every command, know how to work with WorldEdit and I am willing to learn how to screen share. My screen sharing "skills" are not godly, but I know how to work with some Screenshare tools and know how to detect some basic Hack Clients…

I had taken advantage of an educational opportunity at my high school by enrolling in the advanced placement (AP) classes. I was first introduced to the idea of AP classes during my last year of intermediate school, but despite knowing almost nothing on the subject I was interested in the idea of taking a college level class even before graduating high school. In the hope that I will be able to go further in my education, I took a couple of AP courses during my senior year of high school. By…

In Harlan Coben’s article “The Undercover Parent”(2008), Coben suggests that parents should put spyware on their children’s devices. I strongly disagree with Coben’s argument. I think parents should let their children have independence when it comes to technology. Also, children should have the trust of their parents. In his article, Coben says, “you should simply trust your kids” (paragraph 6). This shows that parents should trust their children to not do prohibited things online. Parents…

Customers have thus far proven to be loyal and insensitive to premium prices but there are several factors that could induce a shift in consumer preferences. If customers find out that the employees are trained to eavesdrop on their conversations and exploit the information to guide design decisions, some will feel they have been taken advantage of and their privacy rights were violated. Because the cost of switching from one brand to another is limited or even non-existent, perhaps Lululemon…

Confidence can breed ignorance to anyone’s character and people may be likely to repent from establishing and or maintaining any relationship with you. Moreover, you can become susceptible to the “fallacy fallacy” where you always intend to spot and exploit when the opposite person falls victim to any fallacy. In my personal observation we can all be better at making decision because we are predictably rational. Our intuition and way of deciphering things can influence our cognitive system. In…

In Chapter 7 of Ways of Seeing, Berger mainly talks about publicity images, which "never speak of the present" but "often refer to the past and always speak of the future" (p 130). In another word, publicity offers its future buyer an image of himself/herself became glamorous by the product or its related opportunities (p 132). Indeed, this kind of illusion of authority is also incorporated into lots of traditional oil paintings; and in this regard, publicity and oil paintings share tons of…

History of Hasbro Inc.: Hasbro Inc was founded by brothers Henry and Hillel Hassenfeld in 1923. It originated in Providence, RI. Hasbro started out as company that sold textile remnants but eventually moved onto pencil boxes and school supplies. About 20 years later, Henry Hessenfeld’s son, Merrill, took over the company and introduced their first set of toys, doctor and nurse kits. Later in 1952 Hasbro launched Mr. Potato Head, the first toy ever to be advertised on television. Then in the 60s…

Catch-22 stood out to me when I realized it introduced the first use of the phrase catch-22. The novel piqued my curiosity and I had to know the origin story of one of my favorite phrases. I enjoyed reading Catch-22, yet I could not get past some aspects of the novel. Joseph Heller’s uncanny ability to meander to a completely unrelated topic to the current storyline, then relate it back to a previous topic in the novel had me conflicted throughout the whole book. I greatly enjoyed the…

Classic celebrity studies focus on how the dualism between onscreen/offscreen film stars creates a paradox of ordinariness/extraordinariness that engages the audience. While classical film stars are perceived as distant and enigmatic, the television rhetoric of intimacy and familiarity and the domestic context of their reception fosters a closer identification between the ‘celebrity personae’ and their role, giving the impression that TV stars are just being ‘themselves’ (Bennett & Holmes, 2010)…