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  1. Apr 2017
    1. The Best Mother

      These awards don't seem to break the current mold society` has for celebrities. Awards like best mother are just as arbitrary as the what make the 'unfit" celebrities of today.

    2. We therefore shouldn’t complain about or eradicate ‘celebrity culture.’ We need to improve it,

      Is improvement possible without some sort of "complaining"? I find it difficult to believe that current celebrities will step aside on their own free will for a different type of celebrity.

    3. We should take more seriously the task of creating ‘good celebrities’,

      Is it even possible to "create" a celebrity? This article goes into detail on why people become celebrities, not how fans make them. Celebrity and by extension fame and fandom are can not be forced into creation.

  2. Mar 2017
    1. Schumann’s “Forest Scenes

      Schumann was a very famous piano player and composer of his time period, but he was also known for his marriage troubles. Is this a possible allusion to Wilde's life?

  3. Feb 2017
    1. I believe this to be the major claim of the excerpt. I believe Throsby's intentions to clarify and define a separate view behind the motives of Byron's poetry.

    1. Be it so – if I have deviated into the gloomy vanity of “drawing from self,” the pictures are probably like, since they are unfavourable; and if not, those who know me are undeceived, and those who do not, I have little interest in undeceiving. I
    2. Onedoubtfromothers’half-withheldesteem
    3. Opinionvaryingo’erhishiddenlot,Inpraiseorrailingne’erhisnameforgot;
  4. Jan 2017
    1. I don't think the Britannica article and the Biopic present Byron in the same light. I think the two "texts" more or less present the same facts about Byron, but I believe that the Biopic presents Byron in a over characterized light. Or in other words, I believe the Biopic to be too dramatized.