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    Religion, whenever looked upon as a treatise within the periphery of being the society-approved construction of the mankind, compels the process of acquisition of cognizance about the popular religio-rituals of which the signifier is the religio-cultural ceremonies that can be construed as the mean of giving birth to the idea of the temporal prosperity of the state and that too definitely at the cost of obedience to the universal divine law. Creating illusory fantasies, religion is revered for presenting

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    Yanell Sanchez SYA 6018 March 25, 2014 This week’s reading of Roderick A. Ferguson’s Aberrations in Black: Towards a Queer of Color Critique offers a queer of color analysis that poses itself against Marxism, revolutionary nationalism, liberal pluralism and historical materialism, and opts instead for an “understanding of nation and capital as the outcome of manifold intersections that contradict the idea of liberal nation-state and capital as sites of resolution, perfection, progress and confirmation

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    Crusoe spontaneously through a capitalist culture which encourages the individuals to exploit any surrounding for achieving the profit by which these are smoothly implemented by the acceptance of the ideology of the dominants which is called 'interpellation'. It's obvious that both protagonists Mr. Kurtz and Robinson in the two novellas share the same characteristics of being capitalist and economic men by focusing on these similarities , both are males; that Marxists believe that the economical

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    time, while interpellating each viewer or reader into the distinct subject position desiring to be like her. Interpellation is the process by which “an individual is constructed as a subject by the institutions of modern life; the unique individual is always defined by the generalized social categories of the modern state” (Nealon & Searls Giroux 44). Furthermore, this act of interpellation in the ad directs readers to different messages and connotations into which viewers align themselves. By using

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    Take home exam   Table of Contents Question 1: List and describe the four main mass media industries, as described in the course. Why is ownership of these industries generally seen as important? 3 Question 2: Semiotic theory tells us that every sign is polysemic: ie, it has different meanings for different people, but that they acquire a denotative meaning. Define denotation and using a carefully chosen example, explain how a sign acquires a denotative meaning. 4 Question 3: It was contended

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    for it--and that man was Crake. Crake is the monstrous figure of the novel, not just because he wiped out most of humanity, but also because he used the negative societal institutions in place to accomplish this through making others subjects of interpellation and using ISAs and RSAs

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    Religion is potentially one of the single most influential concepts in our history as people. Power in religion divides social groups and those groups contain a tiny portion of a ruling elite group who make use of power and control others. In social groups, individuals who are inferior or subordinate are dealt with as subjects by the ones who exert more control and are compelled to accept societal norms free willingly while those who are superior hold power. A Pentecostal church uses powerful mechanisms

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    For this Coming of Age unit, I read Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne. It is set in a dystopian world with several students, ranging from high school to elementary being trapped, injured, in a superstore as the world around them collapses into chaos. As everything around them goes from bad to worse they realize who they can trust, what really happened, how one’s actions can have disastrous consequences, and why you should never give up. The only thing they know is that they need each other and they need

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    The novel is a constant class conflict and struggle from within oneself and the attitude of others towards the anxiety in Stossel’s life. Stossel was a proletariat as he was in need of assistance in order to live a healthy life. Many people did not understand, causing Stossel to feel alienated at times. The struggle of wanting to live care free like others seemed to do seemed nearly impossible causing the feeling of alienation to deepen. The social conflict is ignored because people pretended

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    This paper attempts to offer a Marxist reading of Conrad 's Heart of Darkness (1899) and Defoe's The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719) . Specifically , this paper highlights how the concept of commodification helps us to understand the dialectic struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat which are both considered the products of their socioeconomic and material circumstance with an emergent capitalist culture. By depicting how capitalists in the two novellas

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