Signifier

Why I Dislike School School has not always been something that I hate. As I’m sure is remembered, I used to not want to leave school, and looked forward to going in the morning. This is obviously not true anymore, for a multitude of reasons. School, specifically Jones and 12-14, is very different from how I grew up having school, from levels 3-6 to 9-12. I don’t feel that even after 3 years of a differently structured school-life I’m still not used to the changes. This ‘new school’ is very…

Literary theory consists of various principles, beliefs and underlying ideas that are used to understand and analyze different pieces of texts in literature. An interesting way to view literary theory is by considering theories as tools. Critics take these tool and apply it to a text in an attempt to look at it from a different perspective. It grants them the ability to examine a particular aspect of a text, which they regard of significant importance. When these theories are passed onto readers…

This essay intends to analyse the 1999 film ‘But I’m a Cheerleader’. The film explores many different themes with a focus on sexuality, gender and family. It makes use of exaggerated stereotypes, specific costuming styles and set design in order to highlight and emphasise certain aspects of characters and the issues discussed within then film. The story follows Megan who was unwillingly sent to an almost comedic version of a Conversion Therapy camp by her parents; it is from here that the meat…

Michael Robinson Professor Honisberg Ethics 6 December 2016 Jesus and Aristotle Historically there has always been a separation between philosophy and religion. While philosophy has mentioned religion multiple times there is no well-known link between the two. I grew up my entire life as a Baptist Christian but I never really had a great understanding of philosophy. The only names that I knew had anything to do with philosophy about were Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle. With my limited…

“Luke Spencer praises Harrison’s ‘uncompromising intervention in the politics of the 1980s’ and notes the poem’s ‘willingness to take risks in dramatizing a cultural crisis and imagining its solution”4 The skinheads are the result of these chaotic, faulty political and sociological failures. The skinheads are the victims of an industrial society who deprives its members of equal opportunities of an economical development. They are the representative of the working class and a failed economical…

The concept of time, and how it can be used to alter the structure and story of a film has intrigued filmmakers for years. Whereas time's rules are usually unflinching, the creation of film has allowed these rules to be bent and broken in previously unseen ways. Stories with a non-linear structure can now be told fluently and dramatically, such as Christopher Nolan's ‘Dunkirk', or instead complex story arcs can be explored, utilising time in a unique way, like in Shane Carruth's ‘Primer' in…

states that literary style of the play is many times resembling to the Checkovian way of portraying the characters, for instance as seen in Checkov's The Cherry Orchard, where similar themes are introduced (the passing of an old time and lamenting on the past). Abbotson explains that Stella is the one similar to Checkov's characters who passively takes the events (50). Then, there are many similarities with Checkov's plays, like the expressionistic way of showing elements that serve the purpose…

A man named Philando Castille lived in Saint Paul,Minnesota where he worked as a nutrition supervisor at an elementary school. The young man was 32 years old and was soon approaching his 33rd birthday. He was known for having a lively bond with the children giving them handshakes as he saw them and sneaking extra snacks to them. Along with his love for his own 4 year old daughter. Before being involved with this terrible circumstance Mr.Castille had police encounters before. He was convicted of…

Sizemore suggests that “classical Greco-Roman allusions serve as guides and signifiers as related to Nietzsche’s work on aesthetics in The Birth of Tragedy” (239). Sizemore relates the Apollonian god evident in Aschenbach’s character as a foil to the Dionysian god-like Tadzio, whom he becomes obsessed with. In this way, Aschenbach…

During my readings of various female road narratives, I noticed that murder recurred throughout the texts as a catalyst for change the protagonists use to their advantages. The protagonists in Thelma & Louise and Arya in Game of Thrones all use murder to flee existing structures which seek to wrongfully punish them. The murders they carry out also disassociate them from the typical depiction of women during their respective time periods, as well as empowers them to go on their own adventures…