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    begin my presentation one much understand what literary criticism is. Literary criticism is the description and/or evaluation of a text. The meaning of a text derives from thinking critically, analysing different aspects of the text, essentially thinking in more than one perspective. In this presentation I will be discussing the perspectives of reader response and sociological criticism, in the film Slumdog Millionaire. Reader-response criticism considers the role of the reader as essential to interpret

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    Hi Starr It was nice to read your essay and your thoughts on movies. You mentioned that the criticism described in movie “Halloween”, is feminist criticism, in 300 biographical whereas in movie frozen is psychoanalytic. I do agree with your points as it shows that women are independent, strong, and intelligent as in of suppose of being weak, helpless, and naïve. According to critic’s point of view female character in the movie was not mainstream, but instead more intelligent, independent and spunky

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    Pham 1 Mimi Pham English 12 Mrs. Soto-Gonzales, Period 1 18, April 2017 Adventure of a Lifetime “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”, Disney’s “The Princess Diaries”. Death is rather a funny thing, mostly because no one has died and come back to tell the tale. However it is the time that we live between life and death that gives us our humanity, adventure and self-worth. Roger Ebert and William Shakespeare’s Hamlet were both challenged by human trivials that led them to their

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    location it is a problem that is occurring all over in the world (2009, pg. 148). Like every other issue in the world criticism come into play by psychologists and others when someone claims that they are victims of the Battered Woman Syndrome or the Battered Woman Defense when they are taken to trial for killing their batterers (BMW) (2009, pgs. 162-163). One criticism in particularly relates to whether or not if there some legitimacy to a victim claim as a battered woman and also was

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    Critique of "Death of the Author"      The title to the story "The Death of an Author," by Roland Barthes, suggests this story may be a fictional novel about the story of an author's death. Perhaps one might pick it up, and skim the foreword in hopes that beneath the cover of this book there would be a mystery, a story of detectives, eye- witnesses, clues, and a puzzle for the reader to solve. Before I read this story, the title "The Death of an

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    Why Don’t We Complain Essay? In “Why Don't We Complain?", William F. Buckley, Jr. addresses how Americans are having the tendency to sit back and accept what comes, to purely endure what happens to them. I think that Buckley’s ideas on passive compliance and heedless insurance are precise and effective. Passive compliance refers to sitting through the problem without stepping up to correct and in this essay, Buckley reflects on his own experiences throughout the essay with complaints about society

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    1) Which criticisms leveled against Nike do you consider to be "fair"? Explain. Nike 's corporate practices are good indicators that the company is only interested in exploiting low wages in third world countries. This is indicated by investing in these countries through worker training or human resource investment but has continually shifted its operation to the country with a lower wage. Nike is in control of its subcontractors – They dictate the price of a shoe and the cost of operation to

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    say we cannot escape the inevitability (in ev i ta bility) of criticism. Aristotle once said, “Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.” But I beg to disagree because people will criticize you for saying nothing, doing nothing and being nothing. Someone once said, Criticism is the muck in which the plants of the Lord grow strong and no child of God should fear Criticism. Criticism has the potential to help believers in their spiritual growth

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    which draws a significant amount criticism toward them. Then they or someone defending them will cry freedom of speech, in a bid to defend it. And this is a bad thing for the culture of our public discourse. Now before anyone makes the mistake of misunderstanding this, I am not attacking freedom of speech, I am criticizing people who draw up claims of free speech, where it is irrelevant to the matters at hand, and use such claims as a way of trying to deflect criticism. Because those types of misused

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    The last critic that will be evaluated is Margaret B. Wilkerson. During the time that her critical study was composed, Margaret B. Wilkerson was the Director of the UC Berkeley Center for the Study, Education, and Advancement of Women. Wilkerson critical analysis is titled A Raisin in the Sun: Anniversary of an American Classic. Wilkerson’s critical analysis discusses the “various social, historical, and artistic factors that have contributed to the play’s contemporary relevance and popularity,

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