2010 HSC Question Analyse how the central values portrayed in King Richard III are creatively reshaped in Looking for Richard The work of Pacino is able to creatively place Shakespeare’s core ideals of humanist philosophy and the corrupting influence of power within a modern context, to reveal the perennial nature of the playwright’s central values. Shakespeare’s King Richard III (1592) identifies hereditary power as a potent force when the natural order is usurped. Al Pacino’s Looking for Richard (1996) sees power within a democratic time and thus presents it as privilege, not a God-given gift, yet the two maintain a similar view of the dangers of authority without balance. Shakespeare’s time demanded a negative portrayal of Richard’s humanist ideals, where blame is placed upon the King’s lack of Christianity for his abhorrent acts. Pacino, however, contends with a time where it is increasingly becoming the norm, but still contends with a society that can be considered moral devoid in some manners, and thus the importance of spirituality and thought is evident in both.
In 1980, he returned to New York to anchor his own program and then to join CBS as a news correspondent. In 1986, he moved to ABC News, where he received two Emmy Awards and two National Headliner Awards for excellence in reporting during his three-year tenure. O'Reilly's career took a turn in 1989 when he joined the nationally syndicated Inside Edition. For the next five years, Inside Edition was the highest rated "infotainment" program in America. After six years as anchor, O'Reilly left Inside Edition to earn his master's degree in public policy at Harvard University.
J.D Salinger’s ‘Catcher in the Rye’ and Burr Steer’s appropriation ‘Igby Goes Down’ provides a perspective and a representation of the rejection of society values. Salinger and Steers do this using various techniques, but mainly themes. The text and film explores the themes of the corruption of the American Dream, corruption of innocence and adult hypocrisy. Both Catcher in the Rye and Igby Goes Down is set in 1950’s, just after World War II. This setting by Salinger and Steers helps explore the concept and puts greater emphasis on the consumer society and the ‘American Dream’.
His audience is most likely the general American population since the book is giving information on an important piece of American history. The book goes in chronological order from before the expedition was even being thought of to the end of the journey. Ambrose accurately informs the author of this historical expedition and Lewis as he intended to do. The book begins with the telling of how Lewis’s life began. It starts at his youth, giving information about where he lived, his family, and what life was like in the Virginia of the 1800s.
hjmmigrant Chronicle is a collection of poems by Peter Skrzynecki,[3] remembering the experiences of his family as they immigrated from post-war Poland to Australia. The family, Peter Skrzynecki and his two parents, were in transit for over two years from 1949–51 (either physically travelling, or in a migrant hostel) before they were allowed to begin their new life in Australia. The book also expounds the ongoing hardships that Skrzynecki and his parents still suffer because of their journey to Australia. Immigrant Chronicle was one of the five prescribed "Physical Journeys" texts in the compulsory New South Wales HSC English syllabus, and is now a prescribed poetry text for "Area of Study: Belonging" for 2009–14. This core text is the main
Summary & Response In "Masters of Desire: The Culture of American Advertising", Jack Solomon studies and analyzes advertisements in order to show that advertisers and big companies make use of what they know about the society and culture in order to manipulate us into buying a new product or using a service. According to the text, while we may believe in equality and equal chance, we also find that we desire "rising above the crowd", in which we compete for "privilege and distinction". This is where the American paradox lies. Furthermore in the article, "The contradiction is between the simultaneous desire for social superiority (elitism) and social equality (populism) that lies at the heart of the American Dream". Simply put: the American
Her music represents the fusion of R&B and hip-hop and completes the journey that started 50 years ago with the emergence of the early soul sounds of Ray Charles and ends with black R&B artists' domination of the charts today. The extraordinary story of the unstoppable rise of urban R&B, with its diamond-dripping, darlings of the media, high profile celebrity artists - such as BeyoncÈ and Destiny's Child - is traced back to the housing projects in Yonkers in the Eighties where Mary J Blige started out. Her tempestuous career began when producer Andre Harrell signed her to Uptown Records. "She wasn't an album, she was a movie," comments Andre. On the way up, the pressure of stardom nearly destroyed her.
Antonio is definitely the protagonist in this novel. that agonist in the novel could be the two culture differences in his life. The theme of the novel is mid 1940s and the machismo in the men's culture and struggles. When Antonio Marez is six years old, the curandera (the healer) Ultima comes to stay with him and his family in their small home in Guadalupe, New Mexico. The family has taken in Ultima out of respect for her healing powers.
ISBN 9780691142623. $39.50. Reviewed by Timothy Howe, Saint Olaf College (howe@stolaf.edu) In The last pharaohs, J. G. Manning attempts to bring Ptolemaic Egypt, and the economic policies of the Ptolemaic state, out of isolation from other fields of ancient Mediterranean history. Often seen as "a place apart," especially by classicists focused on Greece and Rome, Ptolemaic Egypt has entered historical conversations tangentially, as a stage for wider Roman policy, for instance, or as a counterpoint to classical, polis civilization. Here, Manning is reacting against the scholarly tendency to assess
COMPARE and CONTRAST two critiques of ‘the American Dream’. REFER to The Great Gatsby film adaptation as well as Death of a Salesman. In each text, IDENTIFY the specific social comment made. The American Dream is strongly exemplified in Baz Luhrmann's film adaptation of The Great Gatsby and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, in which it is not so much calling into question the pursuit of the American Dream, but the dream itself. The two texts provide social commentary on matters such as looking toward the future to pursue an ambition, cheating to attain what is desired, and the result of dreams becoming obsessions.