th the male portrayed as active/protagonist/narrator and the female as the passive creation or spectacle of his power, authority, fantasies and "gaze."8

kills God (his father/creator) and commits suicide in one and the same act.

orm and feeling

refuses to neutralize the most abhorrent tendencies of our society

unprecedented and life-threatening complexities of our technologies, the social and political definition of their deployment and development, and the incoherence of our currently stereotypical attempts to escape from the repercussions of the world we see taking shape before our eyes

imagination of disaster

Through montage (or editing), trufage (or special effects), and a host of other features inherent in the cinematicform, film is able to show the simultaneous effects of space, time, and context in ways that literally are inconceivable in other media.

Like the androids, it had no ability to appreciate the existence of another.

It was while Dave was administering the test; that's when Polokov lasered him."

Evidently the humanoid robot constituted a solitary predator. Rick liked to think of them that way; it made his job palatable. In retiring — i.e. killing — an andy he did not violate the rule of life laid down by Mercer. You shall kill only the killers, Mercer had told them the year empathy boxes first appeared on Earth.

intelligence tests

"It must have been one of those new, extra-clever andys the Rosen Association is turning out," Miss Marsten said. "Did you read over the company's brochure and the spec sheets? The Nexus-6 brain unit they're using now is capable of selecting within a field of two trillion constituents, or ten million separate neural pathways."

the custom-tailored humanoid robot designed specifically for YOUR UNIQUE NEEDS, FOR YOU AND YOU ALONE

This plague, however, had descended from above

but, he thought, the five andys first have to make their way to Earth from one of the colony planets; I can't control that, I can't make five of them come here, and even if I could there are other bounty hunters with other police agencies throughout the world. The andys would specifically have to take up residence in Northern California, and the senior bounty hunter in this area, Dave Holden, would have to die or retire.

"But," Rick interrupted, "for you to have two horses and me none, that violates the whole basic theological and moral structure of Mercerism."

Owning and maintaining a fraud had a way of gradually demoralizing one. And yet from a social standpoint it had to be done, given the absence of the real article.

There, at her console, he dialed 594: pleased acknowledgment of husband's superior wisdom in all matters.

From the bedroom Iran's voice came. "I can't stand TV before breakfast." "Dial 888," Rick said as the set warmed. "The desire to watch TV, no matter what's on it." "I don't feel like dialing anything at all now," Iran said. "Then dial 3," he said.

Her individual choices force us to accept that being a woman isn’t just one thing. Or two things. Or three things.

Enter Michelle Obama, outspoken activist, a woman who isn’t afraid to remind us she is a proud African-American woman, which is, in itself, revolutionary. A former lawyer who speaks out on behalf of gay rights and gun control,

warm impression of an excellent mother, a steady spouse and a sensible, devoted American.

without the invented categories of both race and gender.

Her dresses and workouts. Her carriage and curves. Toned arms and long slender fingers.

She had called herself mom-in-chief, and cloaked in that nonthreatening title, had done what she cared about.

She sharpened her husband’s then-hazy form, made him solid, more than just a dream.

If you look to another text for an example, you need to make it an example of what you have to say. If you take a term from another writer, you need to show what you take it to mean and how it contributes to what you are arguing

You are recirculating his writing, highlighting parts of his text for the consideration of others. And I’d argue that this is the case for most aca-demic writing—that it does not reply to the texts it cites so much as forward passages and ideas from them.

Learning a subject means acquiring a discourse, not just mastering a body of knowledge.

Human rights advocates have condemned the Thai authorities' attempts to suppress even symbolic gestures of protest

raising the salute against repression borrowed from fiction to protest reality.