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  Archetypal Characters and their Narrative Function: Iron Maiden, the Consciousness Raising Character

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  Deborah A Macey Saint Louis University

  June 09, 2014

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  is the least feminist aspect of the series. The child archetype is naïve, optimistic, and dim-witted, ...
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  Baseball *Is* All It’s Quacked Up To Be

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  Doug Battema Western New England University

  February 27, 2008

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  Baseball *Is* All It’s Quacked Up To Be 1950s amateurs Baseball branding discourse documentaries fandom Ken Burns Madiso Mallards marketing pro-am promos regionalism sports Curator's Note Inning Seven of Ken Burns’ “Baseball” argues that major socioe ...
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  Dressing for (Dis)Occupation: On Subject Positioning and the 'Occupy' Movement

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  Elspeth Van Veeren University of Sussex

  December 07, 2011

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  Dressing for (Dis)Occupation: On Subject Positioning and the 'Occupy' Movement Occupy dress discourse assessing the occupy movement Curator's Note  What you wear is political. Whether consciously or unconsciously, through choice or not, dre ...
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  The Kids Are Alright (And So Are the Mothers)

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  Melis Behlil Kadir Has University

  March 04, 2014

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  The Kids Are Alright (And So Are the Mothers) Gezi Park Protests Family discourse Curator's Note Gezi Park Protests brought many formerly passive citizens out on the streets, and while not all of them were young, there was certainly a feeling of the ...
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  CSI’s State of Denial

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  Chad Harriss Alfred University

  August 02, 2007

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  CSI’s State of Denial science Repressive State Apparatus power Louis Althusser Ideological State Apparatuses discourse CSI citizenship CBS Curator's Note In this scene from CSI's "A Bullet Runs Through It," Grissom makes his oft-repeat ...