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In 1995 director Roland Joffe released the movie call “The Scarlet Letter” on October 13. “The Scarlet Letter” presented the story about a young woman named Hester who comes from England, into the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the 17th century. Hester went to Massachusetts Bay to established life while awaiting for the arrival of her husband to join her. While waiting for him she established independence, fixing up a house, befriending other Quakers and other Puritans. While she waited for…

deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different” this TS Eliot quote was our starting point for the lecture we had on the 14th of October entitled The Culture of the Copy / The Death of the Author. Roland Barthes’ essay ‘The Death of the Author’ was written in 1967. Barthes was a French philosopher and critic (b1915). He influenced 20th Century…

In his essay “Why Video Games Should be Played with Friends, Not Online Strangers”, Bo Moore, a culture and entertainer writer, claims that gaming is a way for people to connect and have fun no matter what the game is. Whereas in the essay “Toys”, Roland Barthes, a literary theorist from france, state 's that toys are simply for users and owners and that people are never creators. Although the two texts differ, there are moments in Moore’s writing that supports Barthes views on users, creators…

In the article "The Parable of the Democracy of Goods" the author Roland Marchand explains his theory. This theory is built on the idea that people from the middle class view certain advertisements and begin to think it gives them the opportunity to purchase a product that wealthier, upper class individuals utilize. Throughout the course of the article, Marchand provides examples that help the reader understand each aspect of his theory. This "parable" focused on reaching mainly the working…

In his book, Honor and Shame: Unlocking the Door, Roland Muller presents three basic worldview systems that effect every part of human life. The three systems that Muller identifies are: guilt/innocence (right/wrong); honor/shame; and fear/power. Almost every culture has a mixture of two to three of these worldview systems, however, there is always one system that primarily dominates a culture (Muller 2000, 67). Muller looks at how these worldviews effect societies, especially pertaining to the…

In the book Peak, Peak has been Selflessness in the beginning, but going to the end he was nice to everything and not selflessness care about people and wasted his money for Sun-jo.Care more about josh to his dad and mom.This book was written by Roland Smith and name is Peak.Peak in the beginning always want to climb the mountain and did not care what would happen, but at the end he did. Peak selflessness is the main topic for this summary.In the book it says that peak wasted his money for…

Reflections on Photography Roland Barthes (1915-80) was a French theorist and philosopher. Camera Lucida Reflections on Photography was his last book published in 1979. This book mainly circulates around the theme of understanding desire and nature of photography. He described that what makes it distinguished it from other arts? What are its benefits and liabilities? He did not focused on the formal aspects (composition) or social uses of the photograph but in actual his intent is on ontological…

Gunslinger. The protagonist of this story is Roland Deschain who speaks High Speech. "The gunslinger walked stolidly, not hurrying, not loafing. A hide water bag was slung around his middle like a bloated sausage. It was almost full" (King 1). Roland, the first of his time to take the "trial of manhood", and become the last gunslinger, unknown to him at the time, at the young age of fourteen (King). Before the "Trial of Manhood" has begun Roland requests his revolvers from Cort, his…

All The French epic poem, The Song of Roland, tells a highly dramatized account of the Battle of Roncevaux in 778 during the reign of King Charlemagne of the Franks. Although Roland is mentioned once in a historical account of Charlemagne’s life by Einhard, the author elevates Roland to the status of Charlemagne’s nephew and leader of the Frankish army in a bloody battle against the Spanish Muslims. This poem, however, does not stress the heroism of Roland, Charlemagne, and the Frankish army…

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…