Susan Sontag's Camp

The movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, directed by Mel Stuart, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, directed by Tim Burton, are both outstanding artwork that impressed the public. In this essay, I will examine how the Burton achieved to convert the genre of the previous movie to attract audiences from different centuries and examine how Berger’s and Lethem’s claims relate to my observations.

Historical debates about the enslavement period of America is constantly being developed and refined as new primary sources and research in academic areas progress. Stephanie Camp brings a new historical perspective that attempts to build on previous historical debates by building on underdeveloped areas of America’s Antebellum Period. It is therefore vital to understand the previous historical debates and the arguments that align and contend with Camp’s argument. The broader and earlier historical contentions of the Slave South tend to focus on the behaviour and repressive nature of slaves rather than the formation of rebellion in the South. Historian Kenneth Stampp who wrote The Peculiar Institution (1956) helped to redefine and focus on

When you scroll through a college course catalog, there are always literature classes like “19th Century British Literature by Women,” “African American Literature,” “Queer Literature”, etc. Granted, there is value to teaching courses focuses around those segments of literature; however, courses called “Books by Straight White Men” or “American Male Literature” almost never seem to pop up. That’s not to say those books aren’t taught in the college classroom; they just don’t need to be labeled a certain way or qualified as a different category––they are the standard, the baseline. In the same way, we normally don’t look at literature through a “masculine” lens unless we are comparing it with feminist literature. Why do we see men as the prototype of an author? Why do we utilize the term “female author” if we are talking about a woman, but just “author” if it’s a man?

Fanny Trollope, an English novelist and writer, travelled to America in the early 19th century for a glimpse of life outside of England. In her work, “The Domestic Manners of the Americans”, Trollope captured her experience in countless opinionated, highly critical observations that judged Americans based on their behaviors and practices. Many aspects of American life captured Trollope’s attention, but these aspects were not seen in a positive light. It was obvious through her story that Trollope did not care for the American life; however, there seemed to be much more to Trollope’s opinions besides petty distastes. Trollope found the American lifestyle repulsive because it seemed to revolve around pride in their impolite and offensive behavior, creating an environment of arrogance and superiority over outsiders like herself.

According to Domestic Manners Of The Americans, “ we had repeatedly been told, by those who knew the land, that the second summer was the great trial to the health of Europeans settled in America; but I was now doomed to feel the truth breathing fever and death around I was in bed for nine weeks” (Trollope, 134). After Fanny Trollope’s four years of experience within America enjoying much of the natural beauty and abundance of the land, the friendliness and kindness of many people she met and the dramatic material advances, her overall impression was not favorable. In Contrast, Charles Dickens and Alexis De Tocqueville enjoyed and learned many new ideas and concepts during their travels within America, while Fanny Trollope traveled to the United States to experience what America had to offer and did not enjoy some of the experiences she went through. Overall, Charles Dickens, Alexis De Tocqueville, and Fanny Trollope managed and experienced life within the newly found Americas in all new and different

In the opening chapter of The New England Mind: The Seven teenth Century, Perry Miller commits himself to an ambitious, pecul iarly creative task. He says that he seeks the "living reality of the spir it'1 beneath the shell of Puritan theology and politics. Miller says that he searches for the spiritual reality, the emotional meaning or what he calls the "inward meaning" of Puritanism. He uses the meta phor "piety" as a measure of and index for the living reality of the Pu ritan mind. He asks the same question again and again: what emotional and spiritual forces motivated this group of men called "Puritan"? In Miller's own terms, what is the "temperamental bias behind the thought?" (NEM: I7th Century, I, 6). What is the underlying emo tional

So she sat there in the cold dank cave waiting for something to happen anything to let her know how to escape from them. The masked figures appeared from the shadows even though she had tried to follow them she could never get out of here. She had punched bitten torn at the hoods covering them yet they didn't move and she ended up bruised and bleeding every time even though they never raised a hand at her. She sighs and shouts "fuckk you all! Fuck you all I will escape and kill you all so piss in your hands and bath in your shit you pricks!" Breathing heavy after all the shouting she lies down and trys to remember who she is counting the facts in her head. 1. Her name was Susan hills. 2. She is 23 years old 3. She is scared to hell of Earwig's

Analysis of the Conversation I like what William Isaacs says “Dialogue is about a shared inquiry, a way of thinking and reflecting together.” Communication is about authentic connections between people. The goal is to reach new understanding, to motivate and inspire each other, and to enrich relationships. It should be dynamic and productive. Susan Scott in her book “Fierce Conversations” defines that a fierce conversation is one in which we come out from behind ourselves into the conversation and make it real.

Phrases such as “climate change” and “global warming” are often thrown around on the news and in politics; however their meaning and significance was never clear to me. I enjoyed my reading of the Susan Solomon interview because, it was very informative and easy to understand. Solomon’s outstanding achievements as a female scientist are inspiring and remarkable. Her groundbreaking studies in Antarctica concerning the ozone hole, prove to us how important it is to take care of our planet. Human produced substances known as CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) have damaged our ozone beyond repair. It is hard to believe that humans can be so careless as to destroy their own Earth. Thankfully, “the nations of the world agreed to stop producing CFCs” in 1987.

When watching films like Rocky Horror Picture Show and Little Shop of Horror or any John Waters Movies, you can’t help but wonder, why is camp so beneficial to these movies and does it actually make it good? There were some features in these movies that fit under Sontag’s notes on “Camp”. Although it’s a difficult topic to explain, with the use of these movies some distinct qualities like the actors’ quality of performance and the movie’s plot, we can use Sontag’s notes on “Camp” to help define the use of camp in these movies and its benefit to the film.

Robert Warshow, author of The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theater and Other Aspects of Popular Culture, was at once a student and teacher of experience. He was a lover of popular culture in all forms, a “New York Intellectual”, and a disenchanted writer searching for the cultural value in everything he saw, read or experienced. (denby 2001, xiii) Through reading his collection of critical essays one can see Warshow as a Jewish man, with strong opinions about communism and its affect on society, a movie buff, and a critic enamored with experience. Experience both from the perspective of the artist, as well as the observer of the art.

Susan Sontag, a contemporary renowned American writer and critic, gained good reputation for her exquisite writing skills and incisive human thoughts in different genres contributions. In recent years, the “Sontag Research” has gradually become a hot topic in western and domestic literary studies. “Dr. Jekyll” was an important short story of Sontag, collected in her short story collection I, etcetera, which also aroused wide attention around the world. This paper aims to analyze the similarities and differences between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and “Dr. Jekyll” in the aspects of creation background, character images, narrative skills and theme presentations, in order to obtain further exploration of Sontag’s unique writing skills and profound

Susan Hill makes Edmund Hooper difficult to admire because of Edmund’s another aspect of sociopath, manipulation and evil. Manipulation has shown while Kingshaw has not been to Waring for long, Edmund was quite 'curious about Kingshaw’s mind as Hill describes, ‘Hooper wanted to know what was going on inside his head.’ He enjoys the feeling of manipulated Kingshaw as a predator. He looks for Edmund's weaknesses in his mind and put terror on him systemically, to control over Charles even his mind. His strategy of threatening works effectively on Charles such as putting a crow on his bed, locking him in the Red Room, and locking him in a shed. Hill's writing contributes in a great extent on describing Charles's reaction when he was locked in the

The words “summer camp” conjure up fond memories of campfires, s’mores, pranks, and color war for many Americans. What appeals to many campers, or prospective campers, is the keeping of tradition. Many campers can trace back their relatives who attended the very same camp, and find delight in the idea of shared experiences with their close, or distant, relatives. The long history of summer camps in America stems from an annual trip William Frederick Gunn began to take in 1861 in order to expose young boys to what life in the wilderness has to offer. Originally, the Gunn’s theory was that the experience would “strengthen not merely muscle, nerve, and self-discipline, but developed a masculine character as well.” This applied specifically for boys, but camps for girls first appeared in 1902 with the opening of Camp Kehonka, in reflection of the changing attitudes with reference to the role of women in society. Sleepaway camps become a prominent institution in America in the 1900’s that influenced the youth of this country, and continues to do so over one hundred years later, as thousands of summer camps still run every summer, many of which are the same camps that sparked this burgeoning trend. The development of this idiosyncratic principle in American life can be understood through the development of various widespread opinions during, and before, the first sleepaway camp was founded.

I chose gender criticism to analyze the text. From the text, women in “Lady Susan” has different female roles and lively personalities compare to traditional gender role. For example, lady Susan is proud of being a coquette and enjoys the pleasure of subduing men, and Mrs. Vernon has the power to affect her family member’s behavior. In the text, women are the protagonists, so, I want to figure out how women exercise power and show their personalities in Austen’s world.