Abstraction

particular identity, which they accept as “neutral” or “obvious”. There are no individuals in interpellation, only subjects. By this way the dominant ideology exerts power on the others and drives them to think in that particular manner. With the given abstraction that surrounds the dominant notions created through power asymmetry, it is clear that there are external influences that limit the freedom of speech and expression in cinema through the censor…

"Love is like the wind, you can't see it, but you can feel it." This quote by Nicholas Sparks demonstrates concepts in J.D. Salinger’s novel, The Catcher in the Rye, because love is an abstraction of which is difficult to comprehend and obtain. The novel itself is composed of Holden Caulfield's three-day journey to New York City after being kicked out of Pencey which is a preparatory school his parents sent him to. In this colossal city he encounters many new as well as old acquaintances, and…

Critical theorists of the early 20th century were concerned with the disjuncture between the promises of the Enlightenment, hedged upon a symbiotic relationship between freedom and rationality, and the material conditions they observed. The Enlightenment, with its emphasis on a teleological progression towards human freedom via the use of reason, science, and technology, promised emancipation from the perceived irrationality of ‘mystical’ or metaphysical understandings of the world. However, it…

- In both articles, authors were talking about how the academic and non-academic learning can be more valuable in the society, we found many facts that tell us how society can respect you if you are an educated individual. “Blue-collar Brilliance”, Professor Mike Rose address that society’s blind views on the intellectual ability of the people operating jobs related to serving or manual workers. Rose indicated that blue collar workers miss focusing on the intelligence needed in their…

Tipped from pot luck, it seems you were, possibly from pot ‘bad luck’, as falling hitherward from high, I see you are. A fleeting descent. Use its moment to look down and meet the mire that waits to greet you. Feel its momentum slam you down—slap you into the slop. A silted, muddied, water’s edge bescrawled with the swirls, curls and twists of a wet stick. One such once held by an aspirant artisan. Those scrawls are script; the inaugural writings of this maundering blog. Plonked purposely here…

reaction to the world, while experimenting with “geometric and definitive forms, unnatural, bold and simplified colours” (Stokstad, 2010) and occasional symbolic content. Although artists at the time created figurative work, they began to investigate abstraction by simplifying shapes and creating an emphasis on the artificiality of the picture. They would also experiment with cropped and flattened perspectives, similarly shown through Mont Sainte-Victoire by Paul Cézanne (Stokstad, 2010).…

and bite because they sound similar. Integration is putting information in the brain with other information that one already have stored. In integration, people with LD’s may struggle with sequencing, abstraction, and organizing. Sequencing is putting the information in the correct order, abstraction is being able to understand something outside its literal meaning, and organization is putting information into complete thoughts or concepts (Tessler…

During World War II, and the time surrounding it’s closing, many people worked to educate citizens about the dangers of fascism and propaganda. Others worked to prevent something like that from ever happening again. In a collection of lectures, C.S. Lewis one of these intellectuals, attempted to warn us of the dangers of avoiding emotion and lacking philosophical knowledge in future generations. Lewis states that it is these characteristics that allow people to be susceptible to fascist…

making sure the main character appears in the first seven or eight words. If not, look for possessive nouns or pronouns, objects of prepositions, or implied subjects (48). Williams also warns of absent characters, or implied subjects, and using abstractions as characters (49-50). In order to assist the reader in these cases, Williams says to use a “flesh-and-blood” point of view (51). Once you locate the main…

Tom Wesselman, Still Life No. 35, 1963 Erik Bulatov, Glory to the CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union), 1975 Emerging during the economic affluence of the United States post World War II, Pop Art is a movement during the late 1960s that can be characterised by the appropriation of commercial and highly recognisable images, bright colours, and the blurring of boundaries between ‘high’ and ‘low’ art. Tom Wesselman’s Still Life No. 35 may be seen as an example of Pop Art – the use of…