...Video Analysis Through out the course we have been wrestling with how the media is made and who influences it. A lot of time there are underlying narratives to stories produced in the media. They use everything from lighting to shot angles to make a certain impression on the viewer. In this essay I will do a video analysis on Adele’s song “Someone like you. My goal is to illustrate my understanding of the many ways media producers make meaning and how we interpret that meaning. I will use narrative and semiotic analysis to see what strategies are being used to make the video. Through a careful analysis of how the video is being made we can see what type of meaning is trying to be expressed. Theoretical Frame To be able to do a video analysis it is important to understand semiotics. Semiotics is the discipline that studies the nature of any type of communication (Grossberg p.143). Its important to understand this does not only involve language but other forms of communicating such as traffic light codes, dress codes, or rolls that men and woman play. In all these things we are communicating with each other by using a system that we all understand and can relate to. Semiotics define that system as codes and those codes are constructed signs. For example the English language is a code that we use to communicate with each other. The code consist of words or signs that arbitrarily symbolize something for us. As mentioned above the traffic light is another code of communicating...
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...really. In college you develop critical thinking skills because, many theories and ideas are presented, and you are made think about these theories and ideas, it allows are to agree or disagree with them, which shows that you are becoming a critical thinking. How being a strong critical thinker helps us, is we can link different bits of information together to get a better understanding of the topic, you are researching about. It helps you see if there is faults or inconsistencies with the information that you are reading, you can create arguments and have evidence to back it up, you...
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...Buxton, 2005 Childhood is the time when you experience a lot of new things – you play, go out and see things, experience something new and just having a good time - do whatever you want, even though your parents doesn’t always approve to go out and play and get dirty with your friends. When you are a child, you have a great imagination and a big fantasy. Some children tend to live in a fantasy world, where everything is about having fun, get dirty and just having a good time. We read about all of this, in the short story “Mount Pleasant”, that is written in the year of 2005 by Mary-Louise Buxton. The story is told by a little girl called Elizabeth, who lives with her family in their new house, called Mount Pleasant. We read about how Elizabeth likes to get dirty and play outside like the boys, even though her mother hates this. Beside this, we also read about how she thinks and sees things in their new house – so the whole story is a bit childless. In the following analysis I will take a closer look on, the theme, the main person in the short story and the narrator technique. Like I said, the short story “Mount Pleasant” is told from Elizabeth’s perspective, so it is first person narrator. Through the story we read about everything from Elizabeth’s point of view and everything we know comes from her thoughts and what she is experiencing in the house and in her life. The language in the story is childish like I said before, because it’s told by Elizabeth herself. We know that Elizabeth...
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...Analysis of Huckleberry Finn Samuel L. Clemens, also known as Mark Twain, was one of the first American writers to truly express realism in his writing. (A&E) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published in 1884 and quickly became a novel of controversy for its intense language. (A&E) The novel is about a young white boy and runaway slave who take on the Mississippi River and experience a wide variety of adventures. Along the way Huck finds himself fighting an internal battle of his morals vs. his conscience. According to Gemma Marshall not only was it a controversially themed book based on race, but a story of a young boy’s battle within himself to join society or follow his heart in the matters of black people. After reading the novel, I found myself drawn to Huck and his internal struggle. I found it to be a novel that can overwhelm you with different emotions that sneak up on you. Huckleberry Finn is about a young white boy named Huck and a runaway slave named Jim who travel on the Mississippi River seeking freedom. You can quickly see Huck’s contempt for a civil life style and his irritations with the “do as I say not as I do” environment he is in. At this point Mark Twains establishes that internal battle between Huck’s morals and his conscience. The book introduces a variety of characters, which throughout the story will affect Huck’s life and this internal struggle. As you are introduced to Jim, the runaway slave, you will quickly see how regardless of...
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...Analysis Q’s 1. What is the comparison between Boo and a Mockingbird and why hurting both considered a sin by Scout, Heck Tate, and Atticus When Jem and Scout received air rifles as presents, Atticus told them to only shoot cans. If they must shoot birds, only shoot Bluejays and never Mockingbirds as that would be a sin. It is the only time he ever said anything was a sin. “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird,” (Page 119, Chapter 11, Miss Maudie). Heck Tate, though he knew that Boo killed Bob Ewell with a kitchen knife, thought it would be a sin...
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...Pasztor Produced by: Mark Burg and Oren Koules Co-executive producer: Howard Burkons and Dale De La Torre, Executive producer: Michael De Luca, Avram 'Butch' Kaplan, and Richard Saperstein Co-producer: Mathew Hart, James Kearns and Hillary Sherman Throughout my life I have watched numerous movies and only a few of them have really caught my attention. The movie that I have chosen to critique is called John Q. This movie was released in Feburary2002 (IMDB, 1990-2012) and has a little bit of everything in it: drama, suspense, and a lot of emotion. The main actor in this movie is Denzel Washington. In the movie, “written in 1993 during the Clinton health-care-reform battle (Kluger and Bjerklie (2002)” as a nation were struggling with everything, especially health care. Denzel portrays a dad that cannot afford a heart transplant for his son and under all of the stress he snapped. In order to get what he wanted he took all of the people in the emergency room hostage. This movie is filled with emotion and it leaves me thinking, along with others, about what I would do in that situation. Would I let my child die or would I do anything to save him? John Archibald is a struggling father that is trying everything to make his families lives better. He is tired of his family having to struggle in order to live day to day. Despite the financial hardship, they are a loving and happy family. One day it all came to a hault. While watching his son play baseball, his son started...
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...Popular Girls by Karen Shepard – Text Analysis What is the result of a spoiled girl living in the city that never sleeps, absent parents and her father’s credit card? “Popular Girls” tells the story. “Popular girls”, the title really hits the spot. And what do I mean by this? Well it’s actually quite simple. The story revolves around five, or maybe six, girls living in New York City, which is the richest city in the US, doing everything in their power to be popular. And how do they do this? Well as I said everything they possibly can. Even though they only attend tenth grade, they have become so affected by the big city life that their sense of reality has completely disappeared. They have one thing in mind, and that is becoming older and until that happens, they are doing what they can to at least seem older. They go drinking, they do drugs and they throw themselves at older boys, sleeping with them. The text in itself is pretty hard to analyze because of the structure of the text. The first three pages is basically an environment description which is very confusing. An environment description of the girls lives. How they live and how they go about living. With every third of fourth word being a brand name, the reader fast gets ahold of the idea that, these girls are very aware of how they display themselves to the public. With almost all the attention being put on the girls posh lives, it is easy to miss the subtle contrasts in the text. There are a few times, where we...
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...Guides1Questions1orSubmit my paper for analysis What is your attitude towards loneliness? Do you think it is a curse, when you are isolated from the rest of the world, left face-to-face with yourself? Or do you, on the contrary, seek it, appreciating each moment of silence you can snatch from the surrounding world? These small breaks can help you replenish your energy and reorganize your thoughts, so that you can start each day as a new one—not as an extension of a previous one. As for me, I am more of the second kind of person; solitude for me is a gift, which is valued less by people than it should be accorded. In my child and teen years, I had a perfect place to go to when I felt like being on my own. In a small town in the center of America, where I lived back then, we had a steep hill on the outskirts. On its top, an old warehouse stood. No one, even older people, seemed to know who had built that warehouse in such an inconvenient place, and what for. Some said that smugglers used it during World War II for their purposes; others told stories about local slaveholders, who lived in our town a long time ago—those people were thought to have kept slaves in the old warehouse. For us children, that old wooden shack was a haunted place with a grim, bloody story of love and treason. None of the townsmen had ever visited the old warehouse. Children were scared and adults just did not feel like climbing up the steep slope for no reason. For most of a year, I was its only visitor. Sitting...
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... By Mary Katongole What the Book Says | Character Analysis / Holden | Chapter 1“If you really to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know…and what a lousy childhood was like, ………but I don’t feel like going into it, if you’ll want to know the truth.” (Salinger 1.) | I can tell this novel is going to be in first person. From what I can tell, the narrator or main character, Holden, isn’t very optimistic about his life. When I first read a couple lines of this paragraph, I thought to myself “this book is going to be terrible” because Holden didn’t really grab my attention like I thought. | Chapter 2 “ Have you yourself communicated with them? ….. And how do you think they’ll take the news? Well …. They’ll be pretty irritated about it; … This is about the fourth school I’ve gone to… “Boy?” I said. I also say “Boy? Quite a lot. Partly because I have a lousy vocabulary and partly because I act quite young for my age sometimes” (Salinger 9.) | At the beginning of this quote, Holden is talking to Mr. Old Spencer. Mr. old Spencer is asking Holden if he told his parents that he got expelled from school. Holden seems to know what his problems in school are, but he doesn’t want to do anything. He likes to make himself seem like a bad boy, but it just makes him look stupid. | Chapter 3“The whole time he roomed next to me, I never even once saw him brush his teeth. They always looked mossy and awful………Besides that;...
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...Oedipus the King: Part I Analysis The audience learns about everything in this somewhat short sequence of events and stories. The audience as well goes on to figure out that all the prophecies given by the oracles and Teiresias were completely true, from the murder of his own father under his sword to even having children and marrying his own mother. Although the audience learns most, if not all as to what his life contained, we as well realize that Oedipus is completely oblivious to all these facts and completely unaccepting of the mere concept of things such as this being remotely conceivable. In this section of Part I in Oedipus the King, Sophocles gave the audience/readers some major information towards the plot and how the rest of the play will proceed. One of the biggest revelations that occurs in this section is when the shepherd who was revealed to be the only survivor of the slaughter of the crossroads refuses to go anywhere the city or especially near Oedipus and specifically asks Jocasta if he can be sent to the fields and never see that place ever again. Jocosta stated that the shepherd, “...came home again and saw you king and Laius was dead, he came to me and touched my hand and begged that I should send him to the fields to be my shepherd and so he might see the city as far off as he might. So I sent him away. He was an honest man, as slaves go, and was worthy of far more than what he asked of me.” The shepherd knew that he was the murderer and did...
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...Creative Spark Talk Analysis: “How Schools Kill Creativity" by Ken Robinson Jeff Talley University of Phoenix PHL/458 May 20, 2015 Faculty Name: Sonya Walker Creative Spark Talk Analysis: “How Schools Kill Creativity" by Ken Robinson At the TED conference in February 2006, Ken Robinson argues that schools are only teaching education and not creativity, which the school system should be concentrating on. He feels the students of today are not taught so much in the arts and music area. There is only a strong focus in educating the students in the math, science and literacy areas. Robinson also goes on to say that the sad part about this is if a young student enjoys either or both of the arts and music area, they are told that those areas will never get them a job in their future. He feels that having creativity (music and the arts) in the educational curriculum is just as important as literacy, math and science and that educators should treat it the same as the core subjects. Students lose their creativity when they are told at a young age that they are wrong because they don’t ever want to make another mistake again. When a child is growing up they don't care that they are wrong. Now, when a child is told that they are doing something wrong they don't ever want to make another mistake ever again. This in turn will cause...
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...Task 2: Critical Analysis Ngien Sing Jier For this semester, we are analysing a novel entitled ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ written by Harper Lee. I find this novel very meaningful and interesting to read as well. After reading and analysing the novel a few times along with the teachings of my lecturer, I can differentiate the story told from different perspectives, parts when Scout was young and parts when she was an adult. It is about the life and happenings in Maycomb County. The story is told in the first person point of view whereby Scout as the narrator, is a character in the story who tells us everything she has experienced. She can reveal only personal thoughts and feelings and what she sees and is told by other characters. Harper Lee wrote this novel based on her real life experience during childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it. “Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ takes readers to the roots of human behavior namely innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humour and pathos.” Theme is the main idea or underlying meaning of a literary work. A theme may be stated or implied. Theme differs from the subject or topic of a literary work in that it involves an opinion or statement about the topic but not every literary work has a theme. Themes may be major or minor. A major theme is an idea the author returns to time and again, becomes one of the most important ideas in the story...
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...All That I Am by Josh Giles on Monday, March 12, 2012 at 2:28pm The future is bright. There is a plan for me, I know it. However, lately I have gone through the low country. It's eating me away, I said to God. It's rotting in my mind, it's like a cancer. Is there anything at all to numb the nothingness? I need a reason to breathe, it's eating me away. It nibbles at my brain, the question of my existence and this matter of pain. I shake my fist at the cosmos and my insignificance. I need a reason to breathe and it's eating me away. Save me from my rage and my humanity. I'm more nothing than being, is this my legacy? I feel it eating me away. All that I am, all that I want, all that I lack, PLEASE, come on and save me. My pal Edric Prim texted me a quote the other day that I’m trying to remind myself of, from Joel Osteen. It was, “don’t let your setbacks become your identity”. Amen to that. I don’t need to stay here in this state of mind. Nibbling at my brain, I truly think too much and I drive myself crazy. The problem is if I knew exactly how to make my brain stop eating itself away, I would do it. All that I am should be enough to overcome any insecurities that I may have. I’ve never felt like this before. My life has pretty much always been an open book so, here it is. There was a lot of pressure and things happening at once at the beginning of February and then they came crashing down when the one thing I thought I had to hold on to was gone. I never really had any...
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...Exe Interview 100 ! ! ! Interview with Jennifer Cadilline that has Topic: Public Schools. ! ! 1. How did you find out if you were eligible for special education in your public middle school when you were younger? ! My mom had asked the school to evaluate me, so she called or wrote the director of special education, even the principal of my school and had to describe the concerns that she had with the my academic performance and she even requested an evaluation under IDEA, to see if a disability was even involved in the first place just to make sure. My public school was concerned about how I was learning and developing. Since the school and my mother thought I had a the disability, they evaluated me but the best part about it for my mother was that it didn't cost me anything to check. They asked my mom for her written consent before they had evaluated me. Just because my mom had asked didn't mean they had to do it. They could have said no, but they would have had to explain to my mother why they wouldn't want to do so. ! 2. What would have happened if you were not eligible for special education in your public school , how would you have felt ? ! If the public school would have came up with the conclusion that i was not eligible for special education, the school system would have gave me that reasoning as to why I wasn't found “eligible.” At first that did happen but under IDEA, and they gave my mother the information as to what she...
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...With this analysis of “Yes, but what does it mean?” I am to explain the intention of Margaret Visser. It is an extract from her book “More than meets the eye” and is written in the style of a biography. This is clear from her consistent use of the personal pronoun “I” and the plural pronoun “we”. It begins with the date August 1964 and uses the past tense in the first two paragraphs; the action being arriving in America for the first time. So we already know that Visser has never been to America before and subsequently a foreigner in this new country. She then goes on to describe her first experience of a North American restaurant with her companion. They “ordered a hamburger” which we discover they had planned to long in advance which they “had known through movies, through television, through novels, through myth and fantasy”. This indicates that the hamburger was an iconic image to them and, quite likely, to a lot of people since it was used frequently, in a time when American influence was breaking through various multimedia as communication redeveloped greatly at the turn of the 20th century across the globe, as a fast food item. America was a foreign land where they still spoke English but was romanticised by such media. The repetition of “through” at the beginning of each clause emphasises just how much and many areas that America lent itself to. The words “myth”, fantasy”, “suspicion” and “dread” support the idea that these impressions of America were strange, foreign...
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