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    One can notice that as the paintings of her have evolved, Mary becomes more and more seductive. Her clothes are depicted more informal and loose and she is even topless in the last two images. This shows how man has changed their point of view about women to a sexual perspective. It demonstrates how man changed the meaning of art to benefit themselves by pleasing their own sexual desires. This can also be seen in other painting techniques such as oil paintings. Since oil paintings utilizes

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    and how so many of peers act against their self intrests due to a toxic ideology given to them by the ruling class. False Consciousness supports my view that the world is filled with many deceived subgroups that act in False consciousness. This sociological concept allowed me to learn more about why False Consciousness occurs and strengthened my view of the perceived power that the ruling class has over working class but the actual untouched power the working class has over the ruling class. As I

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    ideology in which value is placed on the inherent value of an object rather than its market value.  In a late collection of notes, Fitzgerald himself proclaims that he is "essentially Marxist." [i]   Marxism is a specific branch of Socialist theory.  Fitzgerald makes Gatsby a novel that is not inherently Marxist or even Socialist, but one that is

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    (Ward, p.1). In this essay I will argue that although perhaps not inherently intentionally, both liberal and realism, in all of their forms, represent hegemonic ideology, and that this has been proven throughout history, and therefore support much of Marxist theory surrounding capitalism and the power of the bourgeoisie class, both on a domestic and global scale. Critical theorists share 4 assumptions: firstly they dispute realism in their belief that human nature is effected majorly by social changes

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    Marxist Literary Criticism Essay

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    distinction between Marx's specific socio-economic and political agenda and the body of literary theory which emerged years later. Marxist literary criticism proceeds from the fundamental philosophical assumption that "consciousness can never be anything else than conscious existence...Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life" (Marx 568-9). Marxist critics use this challenge to the notion of an innate, prefigured, individual human nature to reexamine the nature of creative or

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    endearing Petruchio, or in more recent cinema, Jules Winnfield from Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, who discovers his life as sanctimonious and false according to the greater good he wishes to contribute to. From a literary standpoint, A Room With A View by E.M. Forster is an enticing social commentary on the Edwardian society existent in England in the early 20th century, as well as being a cordial tale of love and growth. As the main focus of the novel is the journey of the protagonist from suppression

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    ‘If there is no struggle, there is no change’ To guarantee a wholesome, enriching experience of change in the individual it is vital to accept struggle. Facing the struggle can test relationships, introduce unclear perception of ones identity and produce unpredictable situations; though change must be able to transpire to truly create complete development in the individual. Director Ron Howard discovers the unique mind that takes root inside the individual, by overcoming the cruel affects schizophrenia

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    Opening a Window A Room with a View by E.D. Forster explores the struggle between the expectations of a conventional lady of the British upper class and pursuing the heart. Miss Lucy Honeychurch must choose between class concerns and personal desires. Honeychurch is a respectable young lady from a well-known family. She travels with Miss Charlotte Bartlett to Italy at the turn of the century. In Italy they meet Mr. Emerson and George Emerson. George is young man who falls in love with Lucy. Mr

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    I reasonably enjoyed reading The Loudest Duck; it was very informative and gave me very different points of view. It hit the ground running with a statistic that as of 2010 there were 13 women and 4 blacks that were CEO’s for Fortune 500 companies (Liswood 3). These proportions are drastically lower than what it would be if it followed the population of the U.S. Looking at this simply, it shows that females and blacks (along with other non-dominant groups) are disadvantaged in some way along the

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    In the paper Architectural Blueprints—The “4+1” View Model of Software Architecture by Phillipe Kruchten, he examines how developers can use multiple views to capture the software architecture and how these views are more desirable than a single viewport that tries to capture everything. Each view, should ideally, address one specific set of concerns. For Kruchten, software architecture is the deliberate assembling of various architectural elements to fulfill the requirements of the system. The intent

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