Chandra Levy

The Vertical Hour, Face, and What It Is are all very different novels with very different genres. The Vertical Hour is a dramatic play written by David Hare. The play features three people, and one of whom is a professor in a university who is still trying to figure things out. Face is a compilation of poems written by Sherman Alexie. The poems are based on some times in Alexie’s life and his identity. What It Is is a graphic novel written by Lynda Barry. The novel features stories and pictures about

In Female Chauvinist Pigs, Ariel Levy attempts to reconcile her personal views of feminism with its portrayal in popular culture. In order to challenge what she sees as a co-opted version of feminism, Levy raises the question of authenticity of “sex-positive feminism” (Levy, 63) on two levels: by “selling out” in terms of the body and in terms of our patriarchal culture. In order to restore a binary relationship between feminism and non-feminism, Levy recasts this sex positive feminism as a new form

complicated world to make it simpler but have humans also created the next cycle of evolution? The AI Revolution is on by Steven Levy is about Artificial intelligence (AI). Levy writes about how the AI came around and how it affects our daily life. Levy explains impeccably how its developers strayed away from imitating human intelligence, and how it is integrated into our society. Levy has been reporting on digital technology for over twenty five years and his articles have been published in many distinguished

"A Survey on Human Mobility Modeling" The speaker of this presentation is Hugo Serrano Barbosa Filho from Florida Tech. The topic of this presentation is the importance of human mobility modeling and several human mobility modeling methods Human mobility model represents the movement of human and how they change their positions over time[1]. At the beginning of presentation Mr. Filho answered two questions. First, human mobility research is about analyze and predict human daily activities and

motivations to act like a man. Levy and Filipacchi admit that we live in a male dominated society. Both Filipacchi and women mentioned in Levy’s article want to break out of the stereotypes applied to women. Filipacchi wants to break out of this stereotype by using her author photo to make a statement about women empowerment, While Levy talks about women in her article who believe that associating with masculine qualities will help them break out these stereotypes. Levy and Filipacchi both

Free will and the ability to choose for ourselves are some of the most important natures that make us human. As a society though, we have put limits and restraints on some people for arbitrary reasons, and try to override people’s free will, especially young women. In today’s society, young women are subjected to all kinds of prejudice and double standards. From having to face the ‘slut or prude’ paradox of sex, the rules of dressing and appearance, or how to act in public, the amount of scrutiny

Home Alone and Ransom of Red Chief have the same theme, “Don’t underestimate your opponent”.In Ransom of Red Chief, the author states, “Bill and me figured that we could shake down Ebenezer was an easy for a ransom of two thousand dollars to the last cent.” This illustrates that Bill and Sam thought Ebenezer was an easy target, but what really happened was, “I should have been taking fifteen hundred dollars from the boy underneath the tree. Instead, Bill was counting out two hundred and fifty dollars

The theme of a story is the moral or lesson displayed in the story. The theme of both the short story Ransom Of Red Chief and the movie Home Alone is that looks can be deceiving. In Ransom of Red Chief two con men try to kidnap a boy and hold him for ransom money, but the boy tortures the con men. In Ransom of Red Chief it stated “ I jumped up to see what the matter was. Red Chief was sitting on Bill’s chest, with one hand wrapped around Bill’s hair. In the other he had a sharp knife we used for

The themes of power and powerlessness are clearly apparent throughout each text. There are several factors in each text we need to consider that affected the characters’ power. Firstly, I will discuss how, in George Orwell’s novel ‘Animal Farm’, Napoleon along with the other pigs who are the most dictatorial, domineering and influential of all the animals become powerful leaders and authoritarians of the farm and how the other animals are perceived as being powerless characters as they do not challenge

society, as well as the role of the media in portraying the female gender negatively. Levy Ariel, in her article “Female Chauvinist Pigs” argues that a bunch of women have embraced the women empowerment initiative to practically embarrass other women by taking part in activities that may be termed social evils. Her main concern is the raunch culture, which she blames on the change of behavior among young ladies. Levy begins her story by recounting the sad realities on the mainstream media such as the