oh no. how will bankers cope? they might not be able to pay the light bill for their mansion or afford the fuel for their Jaguar... its so tough for these guys but its alright, therell be another raise later in the year

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/oct/20/bankers-pay-cut-bank-of-england-cunliffe

a happy worker at christmas. a 1p pay rise. theyre all temporary though.... amazon are still working on those drones

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/oct/20/amazon-christmas-pay-temporary-staff

people have died so we can watch pretty pictures in the sky with our cups of tea or hot dog in a few weeks

Bonfire night.
a night originally to honor the fact that homegrown 17th century would be terrorist failed to blow up the houses of parliament.
but now we spend a fortune on pretty gunpowder and safe sparklers for kids, with the added hot dog or drink. there's no one thinking they should try again......

http://www.ibtimes.com/explosion-fireworks-factory-kills-17-workers-indias-andhra-pradesh-state-ahead-diwali-1708342

banksy: the only one questioning todays culture

Coursework extended brief: the song

http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/subjects/AQA-W-2625-CA-SONG.PDF

TOPICS
Song Lines 
The Song as a Text
Redemption Song
Wondrous Stories 
This is My Song
The Singer not the Song
Cash In. Sell Out.

One of the weirdest things Ive ever seen ... Captain Capitalism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzqSzbrtTao

JUST WOW

Marxism and Capitalism

The 1987 film Wall Street's most iconic speech by Michael Douglas playing Gordon Gekko

"Greed is Good"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF_iorX_MAw

In an post modern world; we need to find the streetview route in the Sahara Desert

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/10/09/google-street-view-camel-camera_n_5957116.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-tech&ir=UK+Tech

Apple's cryptic message hinting about a new Ipad

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/10/09/ipad-event-apple-october-_n_5957008.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-tech&ir=UK+Tech




is this some sort of joke?!

are they serious? the last launch of a product was only a month ago....
this is just pure capitalism where a multimillionaire pound company feels they need to produce another product that people feel they have to buy..

its a vicious circle of capitalism

Feminism in 21st Century - Celebrity nudes

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/jennifer-lawrence-naked-photos-spark-fear-of-mass-celebrity-hacking-9702902.html

now this isnt a new issue, celebrities have nude photos taken all the time and sometimes they're leaked by someone looking to make some quick money or news storm...

the fact it was so many celebrities and from a so called secure location is whats causing the controversy

Laura Mulvey: Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema

She argues that film especially Hollywood is a tool for maintaining patriarchal ideologies.
She also says 'the male figure cannot bear the burden of sexual objectification'

the audience identifies with the main male protagonists and therefore participates in objectifying the female characters

brilliant examples:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUcvlJmCVcI 

additional feminist material

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ4DzEJ8ax4 

Caitlin Moran talking about the small issues in your own home that needs to be addressed.

which feminism does.

she wants issues like comfort eating or man hating to be re-evaluated so it is not just associated with women or the old fashioned feminist.

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/oct/06/who-does-housework-guardian-writers-reveal

the debate over who does what in the house will always incorporate feminism and possibly men saying they are feminists when they dont do any of the cooking or cleaning

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDJutaFuVD0

Germain Greer makes an interesting discussion on offensive words and their actual meaning. but when speaking to the public, the overriding comment for me was "a lady cant say the C word, because then she's not a lady" .... how completely archaic. if the C word is slang for female genitalia why shouldn't we say it? and who decides that certain words are offensive, why isn't hobnob rude?