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An Analysis of Hegemonic Social Structures in "Friends"
"I'LL BE THERE FOR YOU" IF YOU ARE JUST LIKE ME: AN ANALYSIS OF HEGEMONIC SOCIAL STRUCTURES IN "FRIENDS" Lisa Marie Marshall A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate College of Bowling Green State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY August 2007 Committee: Katherine A. Bradshaw, Advisor Audrey E. Ellenwood Graduate Faculty Representative James C. Foust Lynda Dee Dixon © 2007 Lisa Marshall All Rights Reserved iii ABSTRACT Katherine A. Bradshaw, Advisor The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze the dominant ideologies and hegemonic social constructs the television series Friends communicates in regard to friendship practices, gender roles, racial representations, and social class in order to suggest relationships between the series and social patterns in the broader culture. This dissertation describes the importance of studying television content and its relationship to media culture and social influence. The analysis included a quantitative content analysis of friendship maintenance, and a qualitative textual analysis of alternative families, gender, race, and class representations. The analysis found the characters displayed actions of selectivity, only accepting a small group of friends in their social circle based on friendship, gender, race, and social class distinctions as the six characters formed a culture that no one else was allowed to enter. iv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This project stems from countless years of watching and appreciating television. When I was in college, a good friend told me about a series that featured six young people who discussed their lives over countless cups of coffee. Even though the series was in its seventh year at the time, I did not start to watch the show until that season. -
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
http://outsideonline.com/outside/destinations/199609/travel-pf-199609_into_thin_air_1-sidWCMDEV_049618.html Go OCT FEB MAR � ⍰ ❎ 45 captures 18 f � 29 Aug 2010 - 4 Mar 2019 2010 2011 2012 ▾ About this capture Outside Magazine September 1996 True Everest Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer Everest deals with trespassers harshly: the dead vanish beneath the snows. While the living struggle to explain what happened. And why. A survivor of the mountain's worst disaster examines the business of Mount Everest and the steep price of ambition. By Jon Krakauer Straddling the top of the world, one foot in Tibet and the other in Nepal, I cleared the ice from my oxygen mask, hunched a shoulder against the wind, and stared absently at the vast sweep of earth below. I understood on some dim, detached level that it was a spectacular sight. I'd been fantasizing about this moment, and the release of emotion that would accompany it, for many months. But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care. It was the afternoon of May 10. I hadn't slept in 57 hours. The only food I'd been able to force down over the preceding three days was a bowl of Ramen soup and a handful of peanut M&M;'s. Weeks of violent coughing had left me with two separated ribs, making it excruciatingly painful to breathe. Twenty-nine thousand twenty-eight feet up in the troposphere, there was so little oxygen reaching my brain that my mental capacity was that of a slow child. -
Romeo and Juliet PART ONE (Easy Reader Edition).Pdf
Copyright © 2013. Saddleback Educational Publishing. All rights reserved. May not be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except fair uses permitted under U.S. or applicable copyright law. EBSCO Publishing : eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) - printed on 4/6/2017 1:38 PM via OSAGE CO SCHOOL DIST R1 AN: 641677 ; Hutchison, Patricia, Shakespeare, William.; Romeo and Juliet Account: 076-081 ROMEO AND JULIET William Shakespeare – ADAPTED BY – Patricia Hutchison Copyright © 2013. Saddleback Educational Publishing. All rights reserved. May not be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except fair uses permitted under U.S. or applicable copyright law. EBSCO Publishing : eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) - printed on 4/6/2017 1:38 PM via OSAGE CO SCHOOL DIST R1 AN: 641677 ; Hutchison, Patricia, Shakespeare, William.; Romeo and Juliet Romeo & Juliet_RL1_int.inddAccount: 076-081 1 7/2/13 4:26 PM Copyright ©2013 by Saddleback Educational Publishing All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, scanning, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the written permission of the publisher. SADDLEBACK EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING and any associated logos are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Saddleback Educational Publishing. ISBN-13: 978-1-62250-712-2 ISBN-10: 1-62250-712-6 eBook: 978-1-61247-963-7 Printed in Guangzhou, China 0000/CA00000000 17 16 15 14 13 1 2 3 4 5 Copyright © 2013. Saddleback Educational Publishing. All rights reserved. May not be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except fair uses permitted under U.S. -
Alicia Jewett Master's Thesis
“Before the practice, mountains are mountains, during the practice, mountains are not mountains, and after the realization, mountains are mountains” – Zen Master Seigen University of Alberta Metaphor and Ecocriticism in Jon Krakauer’s Mountaineering Texts by Alicia Aulda Jewett A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Comparative Literature Office of Interdisciplinary Studies ©Alicia Aulda Jewett Fall 2012 Edmonton, Alberta Permission is hereby granted to the University of Alberta Libraries to reproduce single copies of this thesis and to lend or sell such copies for private, scholarly or scientific research purposes only. Where the thesis is converted to, or otherwise made available in digital form, the University of Alberta will advise potential users of the thesis of these terms. The author reserves all other publication and other rights in association with the copyright in the thesis and, except as herein before provided, neither the thesis nor any substantial portion thereof may be printed or otherwise reproduced in any material form whatsoever without the author's prior written permission. Abstract This study examines Jon Krakauer’s three mountaineering texts, Eiger Dreams, Into the Wild, and Into Thin Air, from an ecocritical perspective for the purpose of implicating literature as a catalyst of change for the current environmental crisis. Language, as a means of understanding reality, is responsible for creating and reinforcing ethical ways of understanding our relationship with nature. Krakauer’s texts demonstrate the dangers of using metaphor to conceive nature by reconstructing the events of Chris McCandless’ journey to Alaska, his own experience climbing The Devil’s Thumb, and the 1996 disaster that occurred during his summit of Mount Everest. -
Young Adult Realistic Fiction Book List
Young Adult Realistic Fiction Book List Denotes new titles recently added to the list while the severity of her older sister's injuries Abuse and the urging of her younger sister, their uncle, and a friend tempt her to testify against Anderson, Laurie Halse him, her mother and other well-meaning Speak adults persuade her to claim responsibility. A traumatic event in the (Mature) (2007) summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman Flinn, Alexandra year of high school. (2002) Breathing Underwater Sent to counseling for hitting his Avasthi, Swati girlfriend, Caitlin, and ordered to Split keep a journal, A teenaged boy thrown out of his 16-year-old Nick examines his controlling house by his abusive father goes behavior and anger and describes living with to live with his older brother, his abusive father. (2001) who ran away from home years earlier under similar circumstances. (Summary McCormick, Patricia from Follett Destiny, November 2010). Sold Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi Draper, Sharon leaves her poor mountain Forged by Fire home in Nepal thinking that Teenaged Gerald, who has she is to work in the city as a spent years protecting his maid only to find that she has fragile half-sister from their been sold into the sex slave trade in India and abusive father, faces the that there is no hope of escape. (2006) prospect of one final confrontation before the problem can be solved. McMurchy-Barber, Gina Free as a Bird Erskine, Kathryn Eight-year-old Ruby Jean Sharp, Quaking born with Down syndrome, is In a Pennsylvania town where anti- placed in Woodlands School in war sentiments are treated with New Westminster, British contempt and violence, Matt, a Columbia, after the death of her grandmother fourteen-year-old girl living with a Quaker who took care of her, and she learns to family, deals with the demons of her past as survive every kind of abuse before she is she battles bullies of the present, eventually placed in a program designed to help her live learning to trust in others as well as her. -
EVEREST – Film at CONCA VERDE on 11.01.16 – Talk by Peter Anderson (From Wikipedia)
EVEREST – Film at CONCA VERDE on 11.01.16 – Talk by Peter Anderson (from Wikipedia) Everest is a 2015 survival film directed by Baltasar Kormákur and written by William Nicholson and Simon Beaufoy. The film stars are Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Robin Wright, Michael Kelly, Sam Worthington, Keira Knightley, Emily Watson, and Jake Gyllenhaal. The film opened the 72nd Venice International Film Festival on September 2, 2015, and was released theatrically on September 18, 2015. It is based on the real events of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, and focuses on the survival attempts of two expedition groups, one led by Rob Hall (Jason Clarke) and the other by Scott Fischer (Jake Gyllenhaal). Survival films The survival film is a film genre in which one or more characters make an effort at physical survival. It often overlaps with other film genres. It is a subgenre of the adventure film, along with swashbuckler films (film di cappa e spada – like Zorro or Robin Hood), war films, and safari films. Survival films are darker than most other adventure films which usually focuses its storyline on a single character, usually the protagonist. The films tend to be "located primarily in a contemporary context" so film audiences are familiar with the setting, meaning the characters' activities are less romanticized. Thomas Sobchack compared the survival film to romance: "They both emphasize the heroic triumph over obstacles which threaten social order and the reaffirmation of predominant social values such as fair play and respect for merit and cooperation." [2] The author said survival films "identify and isolate a microcosm of society", such as the surviving group from the plane crash in The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) or those on the overturned ocean liner in The Poseidon Adventure (1972). -
Download This Volume In
Sederi 29 2019 IN MEMORIAM MARÍA LUISA DAÑOBEITIA FERNÁNDEZ EDITOR Ana Sáez-Hidalgo MANAGING EDITOR Francisco-José Borge López REVIEW EDITOR María José Mora PRODUCTION EDITORS Sara Medina Calzada Tamara Pérez Fernández Marta Revilla Rivas We are grateful to our collaborators for SEDERI 29: Leticia Álvarez Recio (U. Sevilla, SP) Adriana Bebiano (U. Coimbra, PT) Todd Butler (Washington State U., US) Rui Carvalho (U. Porto, PT) Joan Curbet (U. Autònoma de Barcelona, SP) Anne Valérie Dulac (Sorbonne U., FR) Elizabeth Evenden (U. Oxford, UK) Manuel Gómez Lara (U. Seville, SP) Andrew Hadfield (U. Sussex, UK) Peter C. Herman (San Diego State U., US) Ton Hoensalars (U. Utrecth, NL) Douglas Lanier (U. New Hampshire, US) Zenón Luis Martínez (U. Huelva, SP) Willy Maley (U. Glasgow, UK) Irena R. Makaryk (U. Ottawa, CA) Jaqueline Pearson (U. Manchester, UK) Remedios Perni (U. Alicante, SP) Ángel Luis Pujante (U. Murcia, SP) Miguel Ramalhete Gomes (U. Lisboa, PT) Katherine Romack (U. West Florida, US) Mary Beth Rose (U. Illinois at Chicago, US) Jonathan Sell (U. Alcalá de Henares, SP) Alison Shell (U. College London, UK) Erin Sullivan (Shakespeare Institute, U. Birmingham, UK) Sonia Villegas (U. Huelva, SP) Lisa Walters (Liverpool Hope U., UK) J. Christopher Warner (Le Moyne College, US) Martin Wiggins (Shakespeare Institute, U. Birmingham, UK) R. F. Yeager (U. West Florida, US) Andrew Zurcher (U. Cambridge, UK) Sederi 29 (2019) Table of contents María Luisa Dañobeitia Fernández. In memoriam By Jesús López-Peláez Casellas ....................................................................... 5–8 Articles Manel Bellmunt-Serrano Leskov’s rewriting of Lady Macbeth and the processes of adaptation and appropriation .......................................................................................................... -
The Role of Professional Child Care Providers in Preventing and Responding to Child Abuse and Neglect
CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT USER MANUAL SERIES U.S. Depanment of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families Administration on Children, Youth and Families Children's Bureau Office on Child Abuse and Neglect The Role of Professional Child Care Providers in Preventing and Responding to Child Abuse and Neglect Kathy Karageorge Rosemary Kendall 2008 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families Administration on Children, Youth and Families ChildrenÊs Bureau Office on Child Abuse and Neglect Table of Contents PREFACE ......................................................................................................................................................1 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ....................................................................................................................... 3 1. PURPOSE AND OVERVIEW....................................................................................................... 7 2. RECOGNIZING CHILD ABUSE OR NEGLECT ...................................................................... 9 Types of Maltreatment ..................................................................................................................10 Cultural Diff erences ......................................................................................................................18 3. REPORTING SUSPECTED CHILD ABUSE OR NEGLECT ................................................... 21 Legal Requirements ......................................................................................................................21 -
Into Thin Air Liberty Review.Pages
Olentangy Local School District Literature Selection Review Teacher: Freshman Literature teachers School: Liberty High School Book Title: Into Thin Air Genre: Non-Fiction Memoir Author: Jon Krakauer Pages: 333 Publisher: Anchor Books/Random House Copyright: 1997 In a brief rationale, please provide the following information relative to the book you would like added to the school’s book collection for classroom use. You may attach additional pages as needed. Book Summary and summary citation: (suggested resources include book flap summaries, review summaries from publisher, book vendors, etc.) When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top. No one had noticed that the sky had begun to fill with clouds. Six hours later and 3,000 feet lower, in 70-knot winds and blinding snow, Krakauer collapsed in his tent, freezing, hallucinating from exhaustion and hypoxia, but safe. The following morning, he learned that six of his fellow climbers hadn't made it back to their camp and were desperately struggling for their lives. When the storm finally passed, five of them would be dead, and the sixth so horribly frostbitten that his right hand would have to be amputated. Into Thin Air is the definitive account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest by the acclaimed journalist and author of the bestseller Into the Wild. -
Student Reading & Discussion Guide
Student Reading & Discussion Guide Common Reading Program 2015 Pacific Lutheran University Featuring: Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer As you read Into Thin Air this summer, we encourage you to use this reading guide to assist you in thinking deeply and critically about the book. While you will not turn in your responses, it will be an important tool to help you prepare for the small group discussion you will have with a faculty member and your peers. To be prepared and organized for the small group discussion you should make notes of items of particular interest to you, including page numbers so that you can easily locate information to support your claim/opinion during the discussion. Theme: Audience & Style of Writing Background Jon Krakauer traveled to Mt. Everest in the spring of 1996 on assignment for Outside magazine. As a journalist and author with a mountain climbing background, Krakauer seemed a natural choice for the assignment. As Krakauer notes, the events that unfolded “left me badly shaken” (XV) and compelled him to write Into Thin Air just months after tragedy, in November 1996. Questions to consider Is Krakauer clear about who he is writing his account for? Who does he say it is for? Does his writing style -- his word choice, his vocabulary, his fast-paced storytelling -- match up with his intended audience? Why might he have chosen to write the story the way he did, and how does the way he chose to present it affect you as a reader? How might the story Krakauer told have been different if he had waited longer to write it? Notes Theme: Body, Self, & Others Background Into Thin Air contains numerous references to the physical demands placed on individuals attempting to summit Mt. -
Into Thin Air
Before You from Into Thin Air Literary Focus Make the Connection Ironies and Contradictions That Quickwrite ~ Spell Real-Life Disaster Can you imagine yourself standing on the In this true story of climbers struggling on 29,035-foot top of the world? The cold has Mount Everest, Murphy's law seems to numbed your body, the altitude has dulled have taken hold: "If there's a possibility your brain, and you are exhausted beyond that something can go wrong, it will." As belief. Now you have to get down-the you read, look for examples of situa most dangerous part of the climb. tional irony-when the opposite of Jon Krakauer, the author of this maga what's expected or appropriate occurs. zine article, lived through that experience. Look also for the real-life contradic Why do you think some people, like tions and incongruities that lead to dis Krakauer, are so drawn to climbing moun aster-instances in which people don't do tains? Would you like to do it? Briefly jot what they say they will do or when things down why you would or wouldn't. don't come together as they should. For example, expedition leader Rob Hall con tradicts his own rule of an absolute cutoff Vocabulary Development time for reaching the summit. These and deteriorate (de-tir'e ·a· rat') v.: worsen. other fateful twists combine to spell innocuous (i . nak'yoo-as) adj.: harmless. tragedy for the cl imbers. notorious (no -t6r'e-as) adj.: famous, usually in an unfavorable sense. Reading Skills ~ Understanding Cause and Effect benign (bi . -
Before Reading Act I
Name: Teacher: Class: Date: - Before Reading Act I - 1. Define Family: ___________________________________________________________ 2. Check all that apply: _____ If my family had a feud (disagreement) with someone, I would be angry at them also. _____ If a family member is in danger, I would do anything to protect them, even if that means I could die. _____ I would expect a family member to do anything to protect me; including die for me. _____ My relationships with family and friends are more important to me than my relationships with boyfriends/girlfriends. - After Reading Act I - 1. Tybalt believes family is everything _________ Agree _________ Disagree On the lines provided below cite a quote from the play that proves your opinion to be correct. 2. Juliet doesn’t care that Romeo is a Montague _________ Agree _________ Disagree On the lines provided below cite a quote from the play that proves your opinion to be correct. 3. Romeo doesn’t care that Juliet is a Capulet _________ Agree _________ Disagree On the lines provided below cite a quote from the play that proves your opinion to be correct. - Reading Questions: Act I - 1. Why are Romeo and Juliet called “star-cross’d lovers”? 2. What do you think might have caused the feud between the Capulets and the Montagues? 3. Analyze the behavior of Tybalt, Mercutio, and Benvolio in Act I. Based on your analysis, predict what their roles might be in the rest of the play. 4. Why does Lord Capulet think it will be easy for Lord Montague and him to keep the peace? 5.