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...show's use of the G word. For example,a similar controversy arose over portrayals of Italian-Americans with The Sopranos. But while many were assuaged because they felt HBO's award-winning series was artful, they see Jersey Shore as just ugly. Says Gina Barreca, an English professor at the University of Connecticut who edited a collection of essays called A Sitdown with The Sopranos: Watching Italian American Culture on T.V.'s Most Talked About Series: "The Sopranos is like Shakespeare and Tony Soprano is King Lear. The trouble is, a show like Jersey Shore is just a room...
Researchers for “Bright Star” used some of the same letters at Houghton to construct the scenes of dedication and love shared between Keats and Brawne in the English countryside. Even in the film, Director Jane Campion chose to let Keats’ prose take center stage. “Jane’s number one mantra throughout the pre-production process was to keep the visuals simple,” said the film’s cinematographer Greig Fraser said in an email interview. “I’m sure this was largely...
...written and edited multiple books on Keats, said the new attention to the poet has only had positive effects. “All this attention, all the reviews, all the people seeing it—it’s a great boost for Keats and the study of English poetry,” he said. “I don’t think many people outside of the undergraduate community would [otherwise] read his works...
...scanners and the development of the GED test) developed the ACT as a competitor to the SAT. Originally an acronym for American College Testing, the exam included a section that guided students toward a course of study by asking questions about their interests. In addition to math, reading and English skills, the ACT assesses students on their knowledge of scientific facts and principles; the test is scored on a scale of 0 to 36. Both the ACT and the SAT have found a niche: the ACT is more commonly accepted in the Midwest and South, while schools on the coasts...
...California-based giant has already made some concessions to publishers. Under a pending settlement reached with U.S. publishers' groups, Google has agreed to limit its archiving to works that have been registered in the U.S., or come from the U.K., Australia, and Canada - English-speaking countries whose authors are present in American libraries. That agreement would nominally exclude books from countries like France and Germany, and from China, which has also objected to the digitization project on copyright grounds. Still, the accord must be approved by a U.S. federal court review in February - not a slam-dunk affair, given...