This document discusses the portrayal of female empowerment on television through characters like Buffy Summers from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It explores how Buffy and other female characters both embrace and subvert traditional notions of femininity by being physically powerful while also embracing traditionally feminine attributes. The document also discusses earlier television shows featuring empowered female leads like Cagney and Lacey and how they both reflected and advanced feminist ideals of their time by showing women as competent professionals rather than just sexual objects.
Walking Action exchange 3 Sept 09 1.4 Web VersionVictoria Walks
The document summarizes a meeting of Walking Action Groups and others interested in promoting walking for transportation. The meeting covered introducing Victoria Walks, discussing how WAGs operate and their activities, sharing an example of a successful local WAG, and providing tips for working with local councils to advocate for more walkable communities. Attendees learned about auditing walking environments, identifying issues, and advocating for improvements to make areas safer and more accessible for pedestrians.
Trädgårdar och Lärande (Gardens and Learning)Dawngarden
1) The document discusses several educational theories that support the idea of using school gardens to enhance learning. Theorists like Comenius and Maria Montessori advocated for connecting schools with nature so that children can observe plants and engage hands-on.
2) It also discusses the concept of "aesthetic experience" and how experiencing science through the senses in nature is an important part of learning. One study found that children learned better about broad beans during a science lesson done in the school garden compared to a classroom.
3) Hands-on activities like examining snails, touching plants, and using all the senses help children learn that the world is three-dimensional. The document suggests school gardens can provide opportunities
This document provides an overview and analysis of soap operas and male-centered crime dramas that incorporate elements of soap operas. It discusses the origins and conventions of traditional soap operas, including their focus on domestic life, relationships and melodrama. It then outlines how later crime dramas like Hill Street Blues combined soap opera elements with police procedural plots. These male soap operas featured morally ambiguous male protagonists and dealt with themes of masculinity, violence and sexuality rather than traditional soap opera themes. The document uses The Shield as a case study to illustrate how these shows pushed boundaries in terms of graphic content and moral ambiguity.
A presentation of Redwood Translations, an innovative Professional Language Services provider. It shows Who we are, What and how we do it, Why we are different and Where to find us.
The document discusses collaboration trends over recent decades as internet access expanded and social media emerged, noting we now create and rely on online information more than physical resources. It recommends researchers use social platforms like Twitter, Reddit, and GitHub to network, share work, and find opportunities by following others in their fields, posting questions on Reddit, and open sourcing projects on GitHub. The author provides their Twitter handle and email for reaching out with any other questions.
This document discusses the portrayal of female empowerment on television through characters like Buffy Summers from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It explores how Buffy and other female characters both embrace and subvert traditional notions of femininity by being physically powerful while also embracing traditionally feminine attributes. The document also discusses earlier television shows featuring empowered female leads like Cagney and Lacey and how they both reflected and advanced feminist ideals of their time by showing women as competent professionals rather than just sexual objects.
Walking Action exchange 3 Sept 09 1.4 Web VersionVictoria Walks
The document summarizes a meeting of Walking Action Groups and others interested in promoting walking for transportation. The meeting covered introducing Victoria Walks, discussing how WAGs operate and their activities, sharing an example of a successful local WAG, and providing tips for working with local councils to advocate for more walkable communities. Attendees learned about auditing walking environments, identifying issues, and advocating for improvements to make areas safer and more accessible for pedestrians.
Trädgårdar och Lärande (Gardens and Learning)Dawngarden
1) The document discusses several educational theories that support the idea of using school gardens to enhance learning. Theorists like Comenius and Maria Montessori advocated for connecting schools with nature so that children can observe plants and engage hands-on.
2) It also discusses the concept of "aesthetic experience" and how experiencing science through the senses in nature is an important part of learning. One study found that children learned better about broad beans during a science lesson done in the school garden compared to a classroom.
3) Hands-on activities like examining snails, touching plants, and using all the senses help children learn that the world is three-dimensional. The document suggests school gardens can provide opportunities
This document provides an overview and analysis of soap operas and male-centered crime dramas that incorporate elements of soap operas. It discusses the origins and conventions of traditional soap operas, including their focus on domestic life, relationships and melodrama. It then outlines how later crime dramas like Hill Street Blues combined soap opera elements with police procedural plots. These male soap operas featured morally ambiguous male protagonists and dealt with themes of masculinity, violence and sexuality rather than traditional soap opera themes. The document uses The Shield as a case study to illustrate how these shows pushed boundaries in terms of graphic content and moral ambiguity.
A presentation of Redwood Translations, an innovative Professional Language Services provider. It shows Who we are, What and how we do it, Why we are different and Where to find us.
The document discusses collaboration trends over recent decades as internet access expanded and social media emerged, noting we now create and rely on online information more than physical resources. It recommends researchers use social platforms like Twitter, Reddit, and GitHub to network, share work, and find opportunities by following others in their fields, posting questions on Reddit, and open sourcing projects on GitHub. The author provides their Twitter handle and email for reaching out with any other questions.
The document discusses conspiracy theories and how they relate to popular TV shows. It provides examples of shows like The X-Files, Twin Peaks, and Seinfeld that cultivate paranoia and distrust among characters. This seeds the ground for conspiracy theories by making motives and relationships ambiguous. It also notes real-life people like Richard Belzer who have written about conspiracies, showing how some shows reflect real-world conspiracy thinking.
The document discusses how teenage girls are increasingly influenced by celebrity culture and the sexualized images portrayed in media. It focuses on the MTV reality show The Hills, which depicts an aspirational lifestyle of wealth, beauty, and status. The show is argued to cultivate consumerism and distorted perceptions of reality among its young female audience, promoting the idea that attaining celebrity levels of beauty, fashion, and wealth will lead to happiness. Researchers have found that heavy television viewers tend to share perceptions cultivated by what they watch frequently.
The document provides an in-depth summary of the television show Lost:
1) Lost follows plane crash survivors stranded on a mysterious island, featuring flashbacks, flash-forwards, and time travel that complicate the narrative.
2) The characters all have dark pasts and personal demons that emerged before the crash.
3) Over time, connections are revealed between the initially stranger survivors as mysteries of the island are uncovered, such as the Smoke Monster and the Dharma Initiative.
4) Lost achieved mainstream success for ABC but maintained aspects of cult television through its devoted fan base who analyze clues and speculate on online forums.
El documento habla sobre la informática básica y el uso del ratón y el teclado. Explica cómo usar los botones del ratón para seleccionar y mover elementos en la pantalla, y los diferentes tipos de teclas en el teclado como las letras, números y símbolos que permiten introducir texto e instrucciones al ordenador.
This document discusses strategies that prime-time television networks use to attract and maintain large audiences, such as placing new shows between highly rated lead-in programs ("hammocking") or scheduling shows that appeal to different demographics to counterprogram against competitors' shows. It also examines how pilots may differ from subsequent episodes and how networks try to boost ratings during sweeps periods through stunts like character deaths or guest stars. The role of the Nielsen ratings system in measuring viewership and influencing programming decisions is also outlined.
Metals are commonly found within ores, which are rocks containing minerals. Ores form over long periods of time through intense heat and pressure. While ores are not a renewable resource on a human timescale, they can be extracted through mining. Common extraction methods include smelting, which uses high temperatures to separate metals from ores, and electrolysis to extract pure metals like copper. Recycling metals provides environmental and economic benefits compared to extracting virgin materials, as it requires far less energy. Aluminum in particular is widely recycled as it only uses 5% of the energy needed for primary aluminum production.
The document discusses caching strategies for Rails applications to improve performance. It recommends caching late in the development process after optimizing code. Different caching mechanisms are described from page caching to object caching. Memcached is recommended for caching and supports features like expiration and versioning. Examples of large companies using caching and Memcached like Facebook are provided.
This document provides an overview of basic Linux commands, including man for accessing manual pages, ls for listing directory contents, mkdir for creating directories, cd for changing directories, pwd for printing the working directory, and ~ for accessing the home directory. It also covers commands for copying, moving, removing files, clearing the screen, viewing file contents, searching within files, counting words, piping commands together, using wildcards, and changing file permissions with chmod. The document encourages learning through manual pages and understanding error messages.
The document discusses conspiracy theories and how they relate to popular TV shows. It provides examples of shows like The X-Files, Twin Peaks, and Seinfeld that cultivate paranoia and distrust among characters. This seeds the ground for conspiracy theories by making motives and relationships ambiguous. It also notes real-life people like Richard Belzer who have written about conspiracies, showing how some shows reflect real-world conspiracy thinking.
The document discusses how teenage girls are increasingly influenced by celebrity culture and the sexualized images portrayed in media. It focuses on the MTV reality show The Hills, which depicts an aspirational lifestyle of wealth, beauty, and status. The show is argued to cultivate consumerism and distorted perceptions of reality among its young female audience, promoting the idea that attaining celebrity levels of beauty, fashion, and wealth will lead to happiness. Researchers have found that heavy television viewers tend to share perceptions cultivated by what they watch frequently.
The document provides an in-depth summary of the television show Lost:
1) Lost follows plane crash survivors stranded on a mysterious island, featuring flashbacks, flash-forwards, and time travel that complicate the narrative.
2) The characters all have dark pasts and personal demons that emerged before the crash.
3) Over time, connections are revealed between the initially stranger survivors as mysteries of the island are uncovered, such as the Smoke Monster and the Dharma Initiative.
4) Lost achieved mainstream success for ABC but maintained aspects of cult television through its devoted fan base who analyze clues and speculate on online forums.
El documento habla sobre la informática básica y el uso del ratón y el teclado. Explica cómo usar los botones del ratón para seleccionar y mover elementos en la pantalla, y los diferentes tipos de teclas en el teclado como las letras, números y símbolos que permiten introducir texto e instrucciones al ordenador.
This document discusses strategies that prime-time television networks use to attract and maintain large audiences, such as placing new shows between highly rated lead-in programs ("hammocking") or scheduling shows that appeal to different demographics to counterprogram against competitors' shows. It also examines how pilots may differ from subsequent episodes and how networks try to boost ratings during sweeps periods through stunts like character deaths or guest stars. The role of the Nielsen ratings system in measuring viewership and influencing programming decisions is also outlined.
Metals are commonly found within ores, which are rocks containing minerals. Ores form over long periods of time through intense heat and pressure. While ores are not a renewable resource on a human timescale, they can be extracted through mining. Common extraction methods include smelting, which uses high temperatures to separate metals from ores, and electrolysis to extract pure metals like copper. Recycling metals provides environmental and economic benefits compared to extracting virgin materials, as it requires far less energy. Aluminum in particular is widely recycled as it only uses 5% of the energy needed for primary aluminum production.
The document discusses caching strategies for Rails applications to improve performance. It recommends caching late in the development process after optimizing code. Different caching mechanisms are described from page caching to object caching. Memcached is recommended for caching and supports features like expiration and versioning. Examples of large companies using caching and Memcached like Facebook are provided.
This document provides an overview of basic Linux commands, including man for accessing manual pages, ls for listing directory contents, mkdir for creating directories, cd for changing directories, pwd for printing the working directory, and ~ for accessing the home directory. It also covers commands for copying, moving, removing files, clearing the screen, viewing file contents, searching within files, counting words, piping commands together, using wildcards, and changing file permissions with chmod. The document encourages learning through manual pages and understanding error messages.