Leo Marx Critic on Huckleberry Finn
The objective of this paper is to provide summary and analysis of the novel titled "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (Twain, 1998 p 1). The author's story contains problematic questions of freedoms, race, and identity. Twain's opening sentence notifies the readers about Huck Finn's personality describing him as a narrator who has an ability to narrate the story in his dialect and language, however, full of misspellings and grammatical errors. Overview of Huck's spoken language reveals that he sounds uneducated, young who come from Missouri. The first chapter introduces Huck's deadpan personality. Since Huck is a young, uneducated, and uncivilized, he uses a direct manner to describe events without using an extensive commentary. The theme of the novel explores the nation identity and race revealing Huck struggle with challenges of the strenuous journey because of the 19th-century social climate. Typically, Huck personality is in moral conflict…...

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Reference

Timothy, P. (2014). Love and Judgment in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Raritan. 33.4: 57-94.

Twain, M. (1998). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Dover Publications.

ante Alighieri "Inferno," -- which is a physical description of hell that is a feast for the senses (Alighieri, 2003), Paradise Lost is also a comprehensive description of the process of creation of the Universe (Milton and Bentley, 1974). In the latter case, however, man is at the center of events. Paradise Lost is about personalities -- God's, Satan's, Sin's, eath's, Jesus Christ (Son), Adam and Eve. The epic poem has been severely criticized by scholars who aver that Satan has been given a place in prominence that is not deserved. (Hamilton, 1977) The most severe criticism comes from William Blake in prosaic sections of "Marriage of Heaven and Hell." (Blake, 1994) Blake's accusatory tone goes so far as to aver that thought there might be hints of poetic license in how Milton created the character of Satan, Milton might be operating as a vessel of Satan. The exact…...

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Disdain forbids me, and my dread of shame

Among the Spirits beneath (IV.75-83)

In a sense, Satan's malfeasance can be construed (as the narrative is developed by Milton) as rebellious because Satan was created through inequality of rank and power. The Archangel did not see the reason for that. Percy Shelley, in an essay "On the Devil, and Devils," wrote that the Devil owed a lot to Milton. (Curran, 1997) While Dante presented the Devil as the very embodiment of evil, Milton clothed him with "the sublime grandeur of a graceful but tremendous spirit." Milton made Satan a Romantic hero. There is no doubt that Milton (personally) Satan to

Although the general standard is broadly acknowledged, there is a difference about the quality and extent of the teaching. It could be said that some support a decidedly unitary official while others support a feebly unitary official. The previous aggregation contends that Congress' energy to meddle with intra-official choice making is constrained and that the President can control approach making by all official offices inside the cutoff points set for those acts by Congress (Cusset, 2008). Others concur that the Constitution requires a unitary official, but propose its annulments by established correction. In many states, state officers like lieutenant representative, lawyer general, controller, secretary of state, and others are chosen freely of the state's senator with Texas being an example. This form of executive structure is reputed to be a Plural Executive.

The Federal Government eserve System has fronted different factions since its initiation. The framework was made on December 23,…...

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References

Duffy, R.J. (2007). Nuclear politics in America: A history and theory of government regulation. Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas.

Cusset, F. (2008). French theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. transformed the intellectual life of the United States. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Howard Stern with Social Criticism
Over the last 50 years, the media has been continually evolving. Part of the reason for this, is because there have been shifting tastes in cultural attitudes. This has caused different kinds of programs to air that embrace these new ideas. Once this occurs, they create a new genre that helps to redefine certain segments of the media. In the case of Howard Stern, he had an important role in creating shock jocks. These are people who are on the radio that will often have very racy topics and vulgar content. What made Stern so unique is that he took this format to another level by: having a no holds barred discussions on a variety of topics. ("Shock Jock," 2011)

Evidence of this can be seen by looking no further than comments that Stern made surrounding the death of Latino singer Selena with him saying, "Spanish…...

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Howard Stern Under Fire from Colorado Assembly. (1999). RCFP. Retrieved from:  http://www.rcfp.org/news/1999/0503e.html 

Shock Jock. (2011). Your Dictionary. Retrieved from:  http://www.yourdictionary.com/shock-jock 

Social Criticism. (2011). Dictionary. Retrieved from:  http://dictionary.sensagent.com/social+criticism/en-en/ 

Kasindorf, J. (1992). Bad Mouth Howard. New York Magazine, 25 (46), 37-43

According to Parsons (2003), "Coincident with the growing avant-garde fascination with silent film, cinema was becoming the ultimate embodiment of modern mass culture" (90).
The "modern mass culture" that was emerging in Europe at this time was a reactionary one that became known as a bohemian lifestyle that was personified by Valle-Inclan. In this regard, his biographer emphasizes that, "His behavior at the time showed contempt for the rational world of the bourgeoisie. He changed his appearance substantially, letting his beard and hair grow. He wore large tortoiseshell- rimmed glasses and very loose clothing, like a frock coat. People would stare and sometimes make fun of him. Occasionally he lost his temper, but never his arrogant attitude" (Bohemian Lights 2). Moreover, Valle-Inclan experienced his fair share of misfortune and tragedy during these formative years that would have life-changing implications. For instance, his biographer adds that, "ith his high-pitched voice and…...

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Works Cited

Berghau, Gunter H. Italian Futurist Theatre, 1909-1944. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.

"Bohemian Lights." (2008). World Literature and Its Times. [online] available: http://www.

bookrags.com/research/bohemian-lights-wlait/.

Brockett, Oscar C. History of the Theatre. New York: Allyn & Bacon, 1968.

Tears of recognition that all of us are on a journey and none of us have arrived at a destination. it's not just me. it's all of us. Tears of relief to know that the path isn't supposed to be straight or easy or even. (Fonda 2005)
By evoking the image of a collective of teary-eyed conference-goers, Fonda immediately establishes an emotional connection with the audience, and the effect is to align the audience's interests with her own. From this point on, one may interpret Fonda's mentions of emotion as attempts to perpetuate this connection and manipulate the emotions of the audience along with her rhetoric. Thus, when Fonda recalls hiding in a foxhole with a Vietnamese girl as American planes dropped bombs all around them, and, after crawling out, crying as she says "I'm so sorry" over and over to her, the goal is to use the power of…...

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Works Cited

"About Omega." Omega Institute. Omega Institute, 2011. Web. 15 Feb 2012.

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"About V-Day." V-Day. V-Day, 2012. Web. 15 Feb 2012. .

Fonda, Jane. "The New Feminism." Women and Power . Rhinebeck. 2004. Keynote.

Some saw this German modernism as breaking down the hitherto strict barriers between art and real life. And in time, "expressionism" (previously only identified with art) came to reflect not only paintings, but also the revolutionary kinds of architectural drawings by those associated with the Arbeitsrat (a group formed by workers and dedicated to bringing art to a wider general audience).
On page 28 of his essay, Colquhoun asserts that "anarchistic utopianism," that had been embraced by some in the architectural community prior to WWI was replaced by "Neue Sachlichkeit" (post-expressionist thinking) in the early part of the 1920s. Adolf Behne was a leader in the movement to bring about architecture that was visionary rather than pragmatic. In addition, Colquhoun on page 30 asserts that the Neues Bauen (new objectivity; the use of modern architecture especially glass in creative ways) emerged ultimately to define the last few years leading up…...

ible Literary Criticism: Higher Criticism great deal of controversy currently exists regarding the idea of higher criticism related to the texts of the Old Testament. "Higher Criticism" related to the Pentateuch can be defined as the "skeptical crusade against the ible, particularly the first five books of the Old Testament" which tends to reduce the Old Testament to the lower level of a "purely human book" (Anderson, 43). Proponents of this criticism traditionally have attacked the Pentateuch for a variety of reasons; some based their criticisms on the assumption that the Mosaic Era was barbarous in nature (Anderson, 43). This assumption however has since been founded as baseless and false, due largely to the ignorance of such critics (Anderson, 44). Anderson argues that critics know nothing of the true typology of Scripture and are thus generally ignorant of the language in which Christian doctrine is taught (Anderson, 258).
Higher" is generally…...

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AllRefer. (2004). "Higher Criticism, Protestant Christianity." {Online} Available: http://referenc.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/H/highercr.html

Anderson, Robert. "The Bible and Modern Criticism." Hodder and Stoughton, London: 1902

Hague, Canon Dyson. N.d. "Chapter 1: The History of the Higher Criticism." Memorial Church, London: Ontario. {Online}. Available:  http://www.eaec.org/bookstore/fundamentals/01.htm 

Krentz, E. "The Historical-Critical Method." Old Testament Criticism in the Nineteenth Century (1985).

Feminist Criticism in Television Programming
In analyzing the impact of mass media to its audiences and cultures in today's societies, it is important to also consider the theoretical framework from which mass media analysis is based from and developed on. Television criticism is particularly a controversial field in which theories and methodologies for critical analysis are applied and contested. By itself, the idea of employing feminist criticism to analyze representation of women in television programming inevitably provides a critical view of TV programming itself in the context of gender representation and in most cases, gender equality.

As a theoretical perspective, feminist criticism cannot be specifically defined unlike other theoretical frameworks (e.g., structuralist and functionalist perspectives). Over the years, the feminist movement has evolved; thus, feminist criticism has evolved as well to recognize and consider these changes in schools of thought concerning the feminist movement and its theories. Because feminist theories are inherently…...

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Acosta-Alzuru, C. (2003). "I'm not a Feminist… I only defend women as human beings": The production, representation, and consumption of feminism in a telenovela." Critical Studies in Media Communication, Vol. 20, No. 3.

Gledhill, C. (1984). "Developments in film criticism." In Re-vision: Essays in feminist film criticism. M. Doane, P. Mellencamp, and L. Williams (Eds.). MD: University Publications of America.

Kolodny, A. (1975). "Some notes on defining a "Feminist Literary Criticism." Critical Inquiry, Vol. 2, No. 1.

Howard Stern and Social Criticisms
When most people, hear the words Howard Stern they will think of the radio shock jock that has been on the FCC's most wanted list for years. The reason why, is because his show will often involve him doing outrageous skits and it is utilizing content that is considered to be adult orientated. This has created tremendous amounts of animosity within the world of entertainment. As, many supporters of Stern will claim that his actions are protected by the First Amendment. However, there have been a host of different Supreme Court cases that are giving the government the power over how to regulate the airwaves.

What happened was the Supreme Court gave the FCC specific guidelines for determining, what is acceptable radio content through: the Federal Communications Commission vs. Pacifica Foundation decision. In this situation, a father and son filed a complaint about how a 1973 broadcast…...

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FCC vs. Pacifica Foundation. (2011). Chicago Kent College of Law. Retrieved from:  http://www.oyez.org/cases/1970-1979/1977/1977_77_528 

Qualitative Analysis. (20110. Business Dictionary. Retrieved from:  http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/qualitative-analysis.html 

Robin Quivers. (2011). Huffington Post. Retrieved from:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robin-quivers 

Stern Challenges FCC Chairman. (2004). CNN. Retrieved from:  http://edition.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/10/26/stern.fcc/

Rhetorical Criticism-Narrative and Dramatic Criticism
Forms of Criticism

Narration as a Human Communication Paradigm: The Case of Public Moral Argument

The corrective of the scientific rationalization would seem necessarily to be a rationale of art -- not, however, a performer's art, not a specialist's art for some to produce and many to observe, but an art in its widest aspects, an art of living. Kenneth Burke.

Central Claim: A narrative paradigm is one way that people reason together in certain situations, and it permits resolution of the dualisms of modernism, such as fact v. value, intellect v. imagination, and reason v. emotion. Whereas stories are the manifestation of the entire mind, narratives are moral constructs.

Central Focus or Purpose for Criticism: The narrative paradigm seems to try to cover too much territory and it doesn't really seem to give rise to a viable alternative to the rational world paradigm.

D. Arguments About the Text: Fisher asserts…...

..unhelpful...their adversarial posture becomes destructive, perhaps unpatriotic," (53). If Goldstein elected to reissue a second edition of Killing the Messenger, he would do well to include an essay by the recently deceased Hunter S. Thompson, a journalist who proudly revived the muckraker tradition by declaring that the best journalists are willfully opinionated.
By selecting Roosevelt's "The Man with the Muckrake" as part of Killing the Messenger, Goldstein presents a balanced perspective of modern journalism. He concedes to the fact that many critics of the media accuse journalists of being "muckrakers" in the Rooseveltian sense of being unnecessarily negative. The media cannot and should not fall into the role of only being a social critic, never pointing out the uplifting or positive aspects of a culture. ith too much negativity in its tone, the press risks influencing the public into being cynical and hopeless. On the other hand, a press that wears…...

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Works Cited

Goldstein, Tom. Killing the Messenger: 100 Years of Media Criticism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.

Pope asserts that faulty criticism is a vice, one that is potentially dangerous because of its powerful influence on the general public.
Good taste is as rare as true genius.

Most people are born with some degree of good taste.

Education can corrupt good taste.

Many people with good education but poor judgment become critics.

It is important to know the range and limits of one's taste.

The best determinant of good judgment is natural law.

The rules of criticism and of Art itself are akin to the laws of Nature.

The rules of meritorious work can be gleaned from the ancient (classical) poets.

The good critic studies ancient poets, especially Homer and Virgil

The ancients were not perfect, but their works are wondrous in their entirety and deserving of praise and reverence.

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It is difficult to determine whether it is harder to write well or to criticize well; skill in either is rare. Regardless, it is far…...

Thus, one must begin by noting that ideology reveals itself in rhetoric through certain words or phrases, which are frequently called "ideographs," after a term coined by Michael McGee in his 1988 essay "The Ideograph: A link between Rhetoric and Ideology" (McGee 1). Though in his essay McGee limits ideographs to single words, this study need not adhere to such a strict standard, especially because the essential function and effect of ideographs do not change whether one considers only single words or certain repeated phrases. McGee argues that ideology is expressed through rhetoric in the form of ideographs, discrete units of ideology in the form of certain words (or phrases) that work together to maintain "diachronic' and 'synchronic' patterns of political consciousness which have the capacity both to control 'power' and to influence (if not determine) the shape and texture of each individual's 'reality,'" (McGee 5).
In other words, ideographs…...

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Barclay, J.M., and L.J. Scott. "Transsexuals and Workplace Diversity." Personnel Review 35.4

(2006): 487-502.

Clement, Virgo, dir. "Losing it." The L Word. Showtime: 22 Feb 2004. Television.

Currah, Paisley. "Expecting Bodies: The Pregnant Man and Transgender Exclusion from the Employment Non-Discrimination Act." Womens Studies Quarterly 36.3 (2008): 330-6.

Rhetorical Criticism
In Search of 'The People': A Rhetorical Alternative

McGee, M. (1975). In search of 'the people': a rhetorical alternative. The Quarterly Journal

of Speech. (3:61). 235-49. Retrieved from EBSCO Publishing.

Central Claim:

Rhetorical scholars have not looked at sociological influences in examining language.

Central Focus or Purpose for Criticism:

Rhetorical analysts have confused the plurality of humanity with the individual.

Lack of understanding of rhetorical devices related to politics can lead to the control of the people by a dangerous individual.

Political mythology about the individual vs. The people is highly evident in rhetoric.

Arguments about the Text:

There are ethics related to rhetoric which few consider.

Critics point to a fallacy in an argument to dismiss an entire position.

A.F. Pollard's is inefficient in discussing the people

Research in linguistics suggests "the people" may only be a linguistic issue

"The people focus on the Leader to establish a group identity" (page 241).

"A kind of rhetoric defines 'the people' at each stage in…...

To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the most beloved books and movies of all time, making it no surprise that it has become a popular theatre production.  There are so many issues that arise in the novel, movie, and screenplay that even seemingly insignificant things, such as Atticus allowing his children to call him by his first name, take on a significance in the story.  If you were working on a narrative criticism or essay, you would highlight that significance.  However, in outlining an act from a play, you do not....

Before you can tackle any type of analysis through a specific lens, it is important to make sure that you thoroughly understand that lens.  Marxism-Feminism attempts to tackle some of the underlying weaknesses in both Marxist theory and feminist theory, because Marxism fails to address some of the gender issues that impact class and feminist theory fails to address some of the class issues that impact gender.  Because of how class and gender intersect in The Handmaid’s Tale, it is a perfect piece for analysis through this particular lens,

The sexism in The....

Schreiner provides a platform for women to support each other in Woman's Rose through various means:

1. Community Building: Schreiner creates a community where women can connect, share their stories, and seek advice from one another. The platform allows women to interact and form relationships, providing a supportive environment to uplift and inspire each other.

2. Discussion Forums: Within Woman's Rose, there are dedicated discussion forums where women can engage in conversations on diverse topics. These forums serve as a space where women can seek guidance, share their experiences, and offer support to one another.

3. Mentorship Opportunities: Schreiner offers mentorship programs where....

**Literary Analysis and Criticism**

* **Compare and contrast the literary techniques and themes employed by two or more authors in their works.**
* **Analyze the structure, language, and symbolism in a literary work to uncover its deeper meanings.**
* **Examine the historical and cultural context that influenced the creation and reception of a literary text.**
* **Explore the psychoanalytic or feminist perspectives on a literary work and discuss their implications.**
* **Evaluate the significance and lasting impact of a particular literary movement or genre.**

**Rhetorical Analysis and Argument**

* **Analyze the persuasive techniques used in a speech, essay, or other persuasive text.**
* **Evaluate the logical reasoning and....