Persona

concept of the school shooter. In popular media, the persona of the school shooter is culminated though a series of broad, mutual concerns about adolescent life in contemporary America. However, conversely, in "We Need to Talk About Kevin," Kevin is shown to attempt to build the persona individually. Essentially, while the shooting is situated within a larger cultural discourse, he does so on what he believes to be his own terms. This sort of persona construction can be better analyzed through…

The ramifications of particular discoveries may differ for individuals and their worlds’ because one’s own personal context influences the extent to which any type of discovery is possible. This is due to the fact that a diverse range of experiences shapes an individual’s perception which impacts on their ability to connect with the values of their worlds’. In addition, discoveries can be highly personalised, affecting the individual both positively and negatively and as such, the consequences…

and that is exactly what he did. His wife at the time, Angie Bowie, suggested that he take on a more “androgynous” persona. David would release albums such as “The Man Who Sold the World”…

cultural, historical and social contexts and values, and therefore is ascribed individual value. Texts enable an audience to understand the nature of discovery though the ramifications of emotional, physical and intellectual discoveries made by the persona, which may be transformative in a positive or negative fashion, change ones perception or have an effect on elements of the human condition. The selection of poems from the Robert Frost collection including ‘Home Burial’, ‘Fire and Ice’, ‘The…

corrupt. Many novels use the fight between barbarity and refinement to bring human nature into the stories and simplify the way people operate. In the novel Lord of the Flies, Golding uses the archetypes of the shadow, the loss of innocence, and the persona to bring a theme of civilization versus savagery to the whole work.…

1998). There seems to be need for constant division between the worlds of domestic and professional cooking, and one of the ways the division appears is through the gender of the television culinary personas. There have been many articles and studies discussing the existence of gendered culinary personas like Rebecca Swenson’s (2009) study where she discusses how men approach culinary television as a way to display culinary skills and to compete. Elizabeth Nathanson (2009) similarly discusses…

pat of approval on the head instead of properly ministering to their flock in accordance with God's wisdom." - Doreen Elizabeth Wells There exists two distinct ways of understanding the role of presider in the Liturgy: "in persona Christi" (in the person of Christ) and "in persona…

Carlos William’s “This is Just to Say” expresses the relationship of the persona with another person through the use of different figurative devices. In “Breaking Through”, we see the persona as the daughter and the “you” in the poem as her father. Meanwhile, in the poem “This is Just to Say”, the persona of the poem is the husband, while the “you” in the poem refers to his wife. These two poems present a similar conflict – the persona is remorseful because of his or her action that has made the…

that the presence of the ‘Uterus’ unites all the women in the world, and this unique organ is rather a gift to the women as it enables her to become a mother. Motherhood or the ability to become a mother, as has been depicted here according to the persona, makes the life of a woman more…

controlled Poland. He uses his gift for storytelling to inspire the hopeless of his town, while putting himself at risk of death for telling his tales. With these roles Robin sometimes uses the power of laughter to talk about deeper issues but the persona of these characters are definitely different than those of his normal over the top…