Genealogy

Roland Barthes’ Rhetoric of the image breaks down the ways in which individual signs in advertisements work. The first, linguistic message is literally what is written in the advert and is useful for bringing the advertisements overall meaning in context. The second, the uncoded iconic message is the tautological qualities of everything within the frame; the photograph itself and the objects it contains. The third, is the coded iconic message, essentially the connotative meanings of the ad that…

Jerzy Grotowski was an innovative theatre director whose practice and theories has contributed significantly to contemporary theatre practice and actor training. In order to access a broad understanding of Grotowski, this essay will examine his life and the historical context in which he developed his practices. The lineages of actor training that influenced Grotowski will be briefly analysed, and then we will discuss Grotowski’s artistic journey over the course of his life, I will then discuss…

poem "Identity Card" represents that the Palestinian identity and land are converged as one as can be followed in the accompanying: My father is from the family of the plough Not from a noble line & My grandfather was a peasant Without nobility genealogy My house is a crop-warden's…

My family has unfortunately always been a great source of negativity in my life and anyone else’s life that is a part of my genealogy. It is upsetting to say but being negatively affected by my family has become a sort of fact of life for me. It often makes me feel out of place in our class because the other students usually have a great outlook on the relationships within the…

Aristotle was a Greek philosopher, who not only made great advancements and contributions to human knowledge, but also greatly influenced human thought. Taught by the Great Philosopher Plato himself, Aristotle philosophical thinking would go on to become one of the most influential thinkers in human history, even thought of as the vassal through which medieval Christian and Islamic thinkers latched their thinking from, and is considered to be one of the foundations in Western thinking.…

Alexis Du Tocqueville and Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche are both considered to be among the most influential philosophers in their respected eras. Tocqueville the early to mid 19th century thinker is well known for his literary piece Democracy in America in which he examines the people of the United States within their young democratic government, to contrast it with the monocratic form of government that surrounded him living in Europe. Nietzsche was born in the mid 19th century and wasn’t a…

Target article: Green, R.E., Krause, J., Briggs, A.W., Maricic, T., Stenzel, U., Kircher, M. et al. (2010). A draft sequence of the Neandertal genome. Science, 328, 710-722. This study created a draft sequence of approximately 60% of the Neanderthal genome based on nucleotides from three individual Neanderthal samples (Vindija Neanderthal fossils Vi33.16, Vi33.25 and Vi33.26). The study differs from previous attempts to examine Neanderthal DNA as it examines mitochondrial DNA, Y chromosomal…

The first being that the character derives from a deity genealogy or royalty. In this instance, the young mermaid is in line with the Sea King, being his daughter. The use of some form of unnatural enhancement is also prevalent. The young mermaid is given a water than allows her mermaid tail to morph into human…

Take a moment and think about your inner voice. Yes, the same one you’re using to read the words on this very page. That familiar tone which propels the narrative of thought following you (mainly unnoticed) from the moment you wake up until the moment you fall asleep. Have you ever wondered why you think the way you do, or why your reactions to external circumstances vary from that of other people’s? The majority of your life you are told that you are different and that everyone is an…

For my selection of critiques I have chosen Talal Asad’s On Suicide Bombing (2007), Saba Mahmood’s Politics of Piety (2004), and Reza Aslan’s No God but God (2005). Written in the post September 11th world and published after the 2003 American invasion of Iraq, all three of these texts developed in a volatile political world, one that juxtaposed American foreign policy goals with identity politics, as well as a distinct American social milieu, whose sole source of education about the Middle…