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Quincy's Blogspot: Saussure's Quote Response
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Tuesday, October 2, 2007. The bond between the signifier and the signified is radically arbitrary" (35). When Saussure states that the signifier and the signified are radically arbitrary, he means that the symbolic sign system is random. The signifier is the sound-image “tree” is only called a “tree” in English because that is what English speakers have agreed upon. The signified is the common concept, which we have of the “tree”. All the symbolic sign system is, is a matter of interpretation. I feel tha...
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Quincy's Blogspot: Response to Guest Lecture with Ken Rufo
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007. Response to Guest Lecture with Ken Rufo. In my opinion Marxism is flawed because there can never be a moment where the workers unit and everyone will get equal share of everything. See this was the Chinese government,. Claims to still be communist, where in reality their government is slowly but surly turning into a democracy. So when Baudrillard says, “the problem is that once you naturalize labor, the only thing you can focus on is production.”. As much as he was talking ab...
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Quincy's Blogspot: Essay Proposal: Cinderella Man
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007. Essay Proposal: Cinderella Man. In my essay I will be applying Marxist Criticism and my primary text will be Cinderella Man. James J. Braddock (Russell Crowe) is a boxer who has to deal with the struggles of the Great Depression. To many peoples surprise, James Braddock becomes a major icon in the history of sports. The movie starts out as James being one of the best fighters the. May 19, 2009 at 3:17 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Feminist t...
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Quincy's Blogspot: Killing off the "sciptor"
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007. Killing off the "sciptor". It is not the author which speaks to us but the language, language is the only thing that is impersonalizing. By restraining the author we are restoring the place of the reader, which enables us to see the text for what it means to the individual. We begin to look at questions like, what kind of impression do literary texts have on us? The only purpose of the “scriptor” is to produce the text, “the is thought to nourish the book,. I liked reading ab...
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Quincy's Blogspot: Response to Krouse blog
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Tuesday, December 4, 2007. Response to Krouse blog. How have you tended to define feminism in your own life, and how does thinking about feminist theoretical perspectives and approaches affect your personal definition? Before defining what a feminist is in class, I feel ashamed to admit that I thought feminist were a little extreme. Not necessarily. December 5, 2007 at 7:46 AM. Quincy - great post! My attitudes when I was younger were similar to yours: I had an extremist idea of what Feminism was. I ...
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Quincy's Blogspot: Derrida
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007. Self and other as presented through the Derrida film:. Towards the end of the Derrida film he begins to discuss, this idea of the “self” and how it relates to the “other” or our idea of the “other”. What do we mean when we say, “who am I”? We have to focus on what does the “I” mean? The influence of others inhibits our ability to make improvisations. Derrida’s comments on love:. 8221; Do we love people for who they are or do we love that person because we love something about t...
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Quincy's Blogspot: September 2007
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007. If The Communist Manifesto. Was sold during the McCarthyism era Urban Outfitters would be shut down and whoever owned Urban Outfitters would have been put in jail. And no one from the 1950s would ever have guessed that The. Would be sold in a store which targets young rebellious minds. Urban Outfitters is not trying to threaten “the American way of life”, they are just selling the rebellious image. Nor are they being treated equal in. Marxism is a great ideology and I agree t...
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Quincy's Blogspot: feminist theory through Mantissa
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007. Feminist theory through Mantissa. Mantissa takes an in-depth look into the mind of a male fiction writer, Miles Green. In Mantissa, Miles Green mind has an explicitly masculine perspective. In the being of the book he struggles with being raped which was a metaphor for writers block. Miles then removes her from his story and her response is:. She wipes her mouth angrily with the back of her wrist. He leaves a little silence. 8220;And what’s that s’posed to mean? Without women ...
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Quincy's Blogspot: December 2007
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Tuesday, December 4, 2007. Response to Krouse blog. How have you tended to define feminism in your own life, and how does thinking about feminist theoretical perspectives and approaches affect your personal definition? Before defining what a feminist is in class, I feel ashamed to admit that I thought feminist were a little extreme. Not necessarily. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Communications major. Graphic Design minor. RA at the Longwood Inn. View my complete profile. Http:/ harrietsinquest.blogspot...
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Quincy's Blogspot: October 2007
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007. Response to Guest Lecture with Ken Rufo. In my opinion Marxism is flawed because there can never be a moment where the workers unit and everyone will get equal share of everything. See this was the Chinese government,. Claims to still be communist, where in reality their government is slowly but surly turning into a democracy. So when Baudrillard says, “the problem is that once you naturalize labor, the only thing you can focus on is production.”. Wednesday, October 24, 2007.