Watch Haven Season 2, Episode 3: Love Machine
Electrocutions occur across town, and one such event kills a community leader. Also: Nathan meets a man who is skilled at keeping Haven’s secrets under wraps. The town’s docks start attacking people while the other Audrey Parker probes Audrey’s identity crisis. Will be aired: Friday July 29th, 2011. Previous Episode elia’s actions attract the attention—and anger—of a higher power; Mary and Alex back Jack into a corner. Ilene Kristen. Mary and Jack’s troubles force one of them to make a major decision; Pat gives his mother the lowdown on his situation. Kate Mulgrew. Inferior remake of the Steve McQueen caper film with Pierce Brosnan as a billionaire art fancier who orchestrates the theft of a priceless masterpiece. Clever plot twists, but it lacks the erotic spark of its predecessor. Rene Russo. Faye Dunaway, costar of the original film, appears as a psychiatrist. Directed by John McTiernan, who has helmed remakes of two Norman Jewison films: this one and 2002′s «Rollerball.» There are hundreds of strange and rather exciting things that will happen with Audrey and her adventure in the city of full of strange paranormal activities! Now in this upcoming episode of Haven Season 2 Episode 3: Love Machine, Audrey…
Craigslist Removes Adult Services Ads
The infamous section is now marked with a black bar labeled «censored.» The San Francisco-based classified ads service had faced intense public criticism for its adult services ads. Last month, 17 state attorneys general wrote an open letter to Craigslist demanding that the ads be removed right away. The attorneys general said that the growing public backlash against the ads were an indication that the Craigslist’s adult services section was being viewed as a haven for prostitution. The attorneys general explained that since Craigslist could not screen the ads, the company should stop posting them altogether. In May last year, Craigslist shut down its erotic services section after the arrest of «Craigslist Killer» Philip Markoff and charges were filed against the company for allegedly facilitating prostitution. The lawsuit was dismissed in October by an Illinois judge who ruled that the company could not be held responsible for wrongdoing committed by its customers. Since Craig Newmark began the classified service in 1995, Craigslist has gained popularity for being the service of choice for various online classified advertisements – housing, personals, jobs, community, gigs, discussion forums and others. But popularity soon became notoriety after the company got involved in…
Selling Short Stories and Novellas
There is a myth in the publishing industry that short stories & novellas don’t sell. Many writers give up great ideas and sometimes abandon writing itself because they struggle to write a full length novel. But is there a market for short stories or novellas? Flash fiction, short stories, novelettes and novellas are different terms to describe the word counts of fictional works. However a majority of these terms haunt writers, especially those who are not published. Many times in order to increase word counts writers add unnecessary ‘fluff’ and descriptive prose to reach the status of a novel. Erotic Books are a perfect example of this case. In erotica everything has to be fast paced, the story, plot, characters and the sex scenes have to keep the readers reading and involved. Every single word needs to be important, otherwise the reader will simply lose interest in the book rather quickly. Many romance and erotic writers add unnecessary elements to reach higher word count which kills the entire book. But why do authors add fluff? Because they simply don’t want to write a novella or a short story out of fear that people won’t buy them. This is a myth…
Construction of the Racial Identity by Gaze and Blindness in The Bluest Eye and Native Son
Introduction According to Michel Foucault, our identity is constructed by how we are seen. In this regard, ‘gaze’ and panopticon are the mechanics that create, propagate, establish, and gradually naturalize racial identity and prejudices, leading to the blacks’ internalization of hegemonic ideology and inferiority which sustain automatically because of the victims’ blindness to them. Therefore, to ‘look’ and ‘be looked’ through various modes of inscription like films, posters, literature, media (especially newsreels and newspaper reports), as well as commodity consumer popular culture in general, are explored and criticized by many writers and cultural critics. In this dissertation, the central/focal question is—»How the identity of the African-Americans constructed and what is its racial effect?» Here, I would try to establish my hypothesis by locating (not comparatively) how various modes of ‘gaze’ and blindness have been articulated in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Richard Wright’s Native Son, and how false myths of ‘gaze’ adversely affect individual psychology and behavior of both the blacks and whites. It is noteworthy that mostly the former novel is concerned with the ‘concept of beauty’; and the latter with the ‘black’ and ‘red’ phobia. The methodology adopted in my research consists of a textual analysis, which…
Andy Warhol
Childhood Andy Warhol was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was the fourth child of Ondrej Warhola and Ulja, whose first child was born in their homeland and died before their migration to the U.S. His parents were working-class immigrants from Mik (now called Mikov), in northeastern Slovakia, then part of Austro-Hungarian Empire. Warhol’s father immigrated to the US in 1914, and his mother joined him in 1921, after the death of Andy Warhol’s grandparents. Warhol’s father worked in a coal mine. The family lived at 55 Beelen Street and later at 3252 Dawson Street in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The family was Byzantine Catholic and attended St. John Chrysostom Byzantine Catholic Church. Andy Warhol had two older brothers, Jn and Pavol, who were born in today’s Slovakia. Pavol’s son, James Warhola, became a successful children’s book illustrator. In third grade, Warhol had chorea, a nervous system disease that causes involuntary movements of the extremities, which is believed to be a complication of scarlet fever and causes skin pigmentation blotchiness. He became a hypochondriac, developing a fear of hospitals and doctors. Often bed-ridden as a child, he became an outcast among his school-mates and bonded strongly with his mother. At…