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If using more than one negation of the negation, how should they be linked?
Aug 10, 2012 - 12:00 AM
In considering the negation of the negation, you once mentioned that the value involved in “Chinatown” is justice. In your book, you also discuss natural sanctioned sex in a negation of the negation sequence in Chinatown. Is one more dominant? If using more than one negation of the negation, how should they be linked?
I am writing a series of bio-pics about poets. How can I bring in the actual poetry without it being corny?
Aug 09, 2012 - 12:00 AM
What is the controlling idea in the film “Lust, Caution”?
Aug 06, 2012 - 12:00 AM
What is the controlling idea in the film “Lust, Caution”? At the climax, the heroine betrays her friends and tells her lover to run. This leads to her execution, costing all her friends lives, sentenced by her lover. This is an ironic ending because her lover must have been executed after the war for helping the Japanese.
If conflict differences are binary, then am I forced to say that something like unfairness is negatively charged?
Aug 03, 2012 - 12:00 AM
When discussing conflict where parts of a progression (such as positive, contrary, etc.) are treated differently than in scene annotation where they are binary (either positively or negatively charged), I run into difficulties semantically. If conflict differences are binary, then am I forced to say that something like unfairness is negatively charged?