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Summary for the Structuralist Theory In “Reading Lessons: An Introduction to Theory”, Scott Carpenter explains the structuralism, and what the structuralist focuses on. Structuralism is defined as “a multifaceted group of theories with varied and disparate goals” (Carpenter 27). It focuses on the structure of the message or the text which includes “big ticket themes”, repeated plot, repeated images, and binary oppositions. The “big ticket themes” is like “Man versus Society, Boys meets Girls,…

about All the President’s Men. All the President’s Men is a historical non-fiction book written collaboratively by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward in 1974, both were investigative journalists reporting about the Watergate Scandal for the Washington Post. This book chronicles the break-in at the Watergate and all the wrongdoings that followed. History.com explains this scandal and everything that went down by saying, “Early in the morning of June 17, 1972, several burglars were arrested inside…

Cohen stated that, “citizen consumers were regarded as responsible for safe-guarding the general good of the nation” (18). This is the ideal that each individual consumer purchase is in the name of the greater good. That all the purchases and money they spent made a positive difference. These types of consumers “put the market power of the consumer to work politically, not only to save a capitalist America in the midst of the Great Depression, but also to safeguard the rights individual…

tactics were more difficult than others. Architecture is the art of designing and creating buildings. Greek architecture is a very specific and influential type of design, which was based off of the post-and-lintel system. The post-and-lintel system is made up of columns, which are large upright posts, with a roof, or architrave, over the top. This type of architecture began with the Greeks, but has persisted throughout the ages to live on today. Even though it may seem simple, the Eventually…

pp.8, 9) argued that the Post-Impressionists were far more expressive of emotions than the Impressionists. Post-Impressionism is the group of painters included Gauguin, Cezanne, Seurat and Vincent Van Gogh working in France in the 1880s. Post-Impressionists intended to express beyond the impression which is the main concern of the Impressionists, while subjects of the Impressionists' painting are mainly landscapes or scenes of modern suburban life. Indeed, in the Post-Impressionist paintings,…

that is based on the 1974 book written by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward that is also named All the President’s Men (Perkins). In addition, the authors are the two journalists that handled the investigation of the Watergate scandal for The Washington Post. The film stars Robert Redford as Bob Woodward and Dustin Hoffman as Carl Bernstein. All the President’s Men has been nominated 21 times and has received 16 awards. The film won four Oscars in 1977 for the following categories: best actor in a…

In an article on The Washington Post, the author included a post on Reddit to bring attention to the side effect of playing Pokémon Go – injuries. The post said, “Pokémon Go put me in the ER last night.” In addition to this, the author also included another post on Reddit about getting hurt from playing the game. It said, “Not even 30 minutes after the release last night, I slipped and fell down a ditch” (Tsukayama 2016). In another article on New York Post, the author also mentions that playing…

Analysis of “Sunday on La Grande Jatte" This week I visited the Metropolitan Museum, but because of the limited time, I only sticked to the 19th and Early 20th Century European Painting and Sculpture gallery on the second floor. There were many famous European paintings, which made me in a daze. I was attracted by several pictures at the beginning, but finally I chose Georges Seurat’s “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte.” Some of the things that caught my eyes about the painting was the peacefulness…

provides the medium through which new hierarchal powers form, ultimately arising as a product of attempts to overthrow another regime. As the oppressed challenge their oppressor, internal ideological contradictions reify the root of injustice in the post-revolutionary governmentalities. After all, if the townspeople who derailed the destructive bulldozers maintained control of their land, then those very townspeople would become the hegemonic injustice to uproot in the eyes of the newest…

Pissarro was a talented painter of the post-impressionist style era of art. In the oil on canvas painting Peasants in the Fields, Eragny it is shown that Pissarro is a revolutionary painter in the styles and techniques he uses. This one in particularly is done in a pointillism style of painting. This painting was also done in his late career when he started branching off into new directions and broadening his fields of style and techniques. He was a master painter that would draw from real life…