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Dr. Claudia Bucciferro studies media and culture, engaging with topics related to global film, music, gender, and Latinx popular culture. Her research particularly considers issues of identity and representation. She is the editor of two books that center on global film franchises—most recently, of The X-Men Films: A Cultural Analysis (Rowman & Littlefield)--and the author of FOR-GET: Identity, Media, and Democracy in Chile (University Press of America). Her work has appeared in JOMEC: Journalism, Media, and Cultural Studies, Feminist Media Studies, the Journal of Mass Communication, the Journal of American Culture, and the Journal of Global Mass Communication, as well as in several edited collections.
Dr. Bucciferro is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Popular Culture. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado at Boulder and an MA from the University of Concepción, Chile. She has been the recipient of several academic fellowships, including one that brought her from her native Chile to study at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. She is passionate about promoting student research, media literacy, and diversity.
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Leon-Boys, Diana and Claudia Bucciferro. "The teenage Latina genius on television: Netflix's Ashley Garcia." Women's Studies in Communication. (2023): 1-21. Web.
Bucciferro, Claudia. "Representations of Gender and Race in Ryan Coogler's Film Black Panther: Disrupting Hollywood Tropes." Critical Studies in Media Communication 38. 2 (2021): 169-182. Print.
Bucciferro, Claudia. "The Many Faces of The Other in Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water." Quarterly Review of Film and Video (Advanced online publication). (2021): 1-27. Web.
Bucciferro, Claudia. "Women and Netflix: Disrupting Traditional Boundaries Between Television and Film." Feminist Media Studies 19. 7 (2019): 1053-1055. Print.
Bucciferro, Claudia. "Songs of Exile: Music, Activism, and Solidarity in the Latin American Diaspora." JOMEC: Journalism, Media, and Cultural Studies Journal. 11 (2017): 63-82. Web.
Bucciferro, Claudia. "Roger Waters and The Wall - Live in Berlin 1990: The Global Broadcast of a Historical Concert." Rock Music Icons: Musical and Cultural Impacts. Ed. Robert McParland. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022. 79-98. Print.
Bucciferro, Claudia. "Scientific Revolutions." SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Ed. James M. Mattingly. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2022. 1-20. Web.
Bucciferro, Claudia. "The Symbolic, the Real, and the Ladies of Wakanda." Why Wakanda Matters: What Black Panther Reveals about Psychology, Identity, and Communication. Ed. Sheena Howard. Dallas, TX: BenBella Books, 2021. 15-31. Print.
Bucciferro, Claudia. "Mockingjays and Silent Salutes: Introducing Semiotics Through The Hunger Games." Communication Theory and Millennial Popular Culture: Essays and Applications. Ed. Kathleen Glenister Roberts. New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2016. 85-94. Print.
Bucciferro, Claudia. "Latinas in the United States: Articulating Discourses of Identity and Difference." Critical Articulations of Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation. Ed. Sheena Howard. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014. 89-103. Print.
Bucciferro, Claudia. "Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile: A Moving Portrait." Women in Politics and Media: Perspectives from Nations in Transition. Ed. Maria Raicheva-Stover and Elza Ibroscheva. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2014. 217-231. Print.
Bucciferro, Claudia. "Chilean Women in Changing Times: Media Images and Social Understandings." The Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Media. Ed. Karen Ross. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, 2012. 20-34. Print.
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Bucciferro, Claudia. "Comic book heroes and villains." International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication. (2020). Print.
Bucciferro, Claudia. "International Film." The SAGE Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods. (2017). Print.
Published Review
Bucciferro, Claudia. Rev. of Swift Viewing: The Popular Life of Subliminal Influence, by Charles Acland. Journal of American Culture 2013: 257-258. Print.
Full Length Book
Bucciferro, Claudia. The X-Men Films: A Cultural Analysis. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. Print.
Bucciferro, Claudia. The Twilight Saga: Exploring the Global Phenomenon. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. Print.
Bucciferro, Claudia. FOR-GET: Identity, Media, and Democracy in Chile. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2012. Print.
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This course explores visual communication, the process through which individuals -- in relationships, organizations, and societies -- create and interpret visual messages. A variety of theories from the disciplines of art history, psychology, communication theory, and graphic design will be discussed to develop methods for analyzing mediated messages. Students analyze visual messages from the following media: print photography, video, film, and the internet.
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Another hint... Named after an Old English heroic epic poem (NOT old as in Shakespeare, old as in around year 1000).
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Church architecture has evolved in some amazing, strange, beautiful, and captivating ways over the last two thousand years.
The most beautiful churches in the world include the great churches of Byzantium, Romanesque abbey churches, Gothic cathedrals, and Renaissance basilicas. In recent years a modern touch had been added to newly created "super churches" to allow them to stand out and attract parishioners in a more materialistic period in time.
An examination of the world's most beautiful churches can tell us a lot about how people worshiped over the centuries and how they viewed the world from the outside.
From the Church of Our Savior on the Spilled Blood in St. Petersburg, to the entrancing Saint-Michel d'Aiguilhe – Puy-en-Velay in Paris, France, these churches offer beautiful architecture, stunning views, and their own take on modern and classical design.
Here is our picks for the 51 most beautiful churches in the world.
The Las Laras Sanctuary in Colombia is a neo-Gothic church perched on a bridge that spans a deep river gorge. The church is surrounded by stunning views that are hard to match anywhere in the world.
If you are familiar with the most inspiring and breathtaking churches in the world, you will immediately recognize the inspiration behind this masterpiece. The Notre-Dame Basilica in Montreal was inspired by the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris. This masterpiece of Gothic-revival architectural styling is a must see if you are ever visiting the city.
The La Sagrada Família is the masterpiece of architect Antoni Gaudi. This church takes a surrealist spin on classic cathedral architecture. There's just one catch. The church has been under constant construction for the last 130 years.
Beauty can be found in the most simplistic of designs. Take for example the in New Mexico. This masterpiece features traditional adobe architecture that both dates the church and gives it a rustic feeling only a building in New Mexico could pull off.
The Cadet Chapel at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs is a bold modern building that pays homage to the famous steeples of older churches, while offering a clean, crisp, and refreshing take on modern architecture. It's stunning in its own right.
The Chapel of the Holy Cross was built directly into the red rock buttes of Sedona, Arizona. The unique design of the church and its placement make it look as though it blends in with the natural areas natural surroundings.
The triple nave Borgund Stave Church is the best preserved of 28 such churches in Norway. This beautiful all-wood church dates back to 1180 when it was built in honor of the Apostle Andrew.
The Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in Washington Island, Wisconsin was fashioned directly from the Borgund Stave Church. We have included a photo that shows how beautiful the church looks as the seasons change to Autumn. Architect George "Pat" Mangan did a great job with his own take on a traditional church.
The Gothic cathedral known as the Duomo in Milan took more than five centuries to complete. It's the fourth largest church in the world. This beautiful church features 135 marble spires and well over 3000 statues lining its exterior.
The Greek island of Santorini is dotted with white-washed, blue-domed churches. Since they all feature very similar architecture, we have listed them together as a beautiful example of the islands holiest buildings.
St. Vinzenz Church in Heiligenblut sits at the foot of Austria's tallest peak. The church is beautiful on its own but the peaks and valleys of the Alps really turn this church into an idealistic place for worship.
As you walk into the main chamber of Sainte-Chapelle in Paris your jaw will drop to the floor. The stained glass in this building are some of the most beautiful in the world. Besides being home to the oldest stained glass window in the city, this Gothic building features 6,458 square feet of stained glass.
It makes sense that the Vatican would play host to one of the most beautiful structures in Rome. After all, it's the home of the Pope and the location for the churches home stay.
The golden domes of St. Michaels Cathedral in Kiev, Ukraine sparkle in the sunlight, making them very hard to miss and stop to admire. The church, built in the Ukrainian baroque style, is famous for its interior mosaics and frescoes.
Overlooking Jackson Square in the French Quarter, the Cathedral-Basilica of St. Louis King of France is the oldest continuously operating Catholic church in the United States. This church in many ways has come to represent the city of New Orleans and is a favorite among many tourists to the city.
The Church of Assumption is perched on an island in the middle of Bled Lake in Slovenia. It's location gives it an isolated yet open feel. You can only access this church by way of handmade wooden row boats.
The Church of Our Savior on the Spilled Blood in St. Petersburg gets its name from its location on the spot where Emperor Alexander II was assassinated. This Russian-style cathedral has a surprisingly whimsical façade given the history of its location.
Chapel on the Rock near Estes Park, Colorado isn't the most intricate of the most beautiful churches in the world. However, it was built with understated features so it could blend in with the harmony of its natural surroundings.
There are only 28 remaining stave churches in Norway and the Heddal Stave Church is the largest. It dates back to the 13th century.
Lake Königssee in Germany is consistently ranked as one of the most beautiful places on the planet. So it shouldn't come as a surprise that St. Bartholomä also makes the list of most beautiful churches. This is a Catholic pilgrimage church that was founded in 1134.
The Metropolitan Cathedral of Our Lady Aparecida in Brazil's capital city was designed to look like a hyperboloid with its 16 concrete columns. The inside of this church is even more breathtaking than its exterior.
Located in Moscow's Red Square, St. Basil, with its bright colored spires and onion domes have become an icon of the city and a highly-recognizable international landmark.
The riverside Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame in Dinant, Belgium, was destroyed in World War I. It was then destroyed again in World War II. Citizens in the town were determined to rebuild and its bulbous spire is now postcard perfect.
The Lutheran Church of Hallgrimur, also known as Hallgrimskirkia, is a 244 feet tall building, making it the tallest structure in Iceland. This masterpiece of expressionist architecture is made from poured concrete. It also houses a 5,275-pipe organ.
The spiral tower Chapel of Thanksgiving in Dallas doesn't look like much from the outside. Walk into the building however and you are treated to the spiral Glory Window. It's one of the largest horizontally-installed works of stained glass in the world.
Salisbury Cathedral is home to Britain's tallest spire and to the original copy of the Magna Carta. It's also one of the most beautiful building's in the entire country.
A church in Yosemite National Park? While the Yosemite Valley Chapel might not look stunning, it is the oldest public use structure in the park and has been holding services since 1879. It's also a testament to fitting in with its environment in a non-obtrusive manner.
The Nuestra Señora de Gracia in Cuenca, Spain, has a Gothic interior, dating back to when construction began in 1196 on the former site of the city's main mosque before its reconquest. This is as much a place of worship as it is a testament to the country's own resilience.
The Stowe Community Church is thought to be the most photographed churches in the state thanks to its towering white spire. It has served as a multi-denominational church since it was built in 1818.
Brazil's Santuario Dom Bosco looks boxy from the outside, but once you step through the doors, it's simply breathtaking. The walls were created with the help of 7,500 pieces of Murano glass that when illuminated by the outside sun, cast the interior in a blue glow.
The six spires of the San Diego California Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints appear to glow in the sun, that's because they were designed using marble set in stucco. Check out the church at night when it's illuminated on all sides.
The Russian Orthodox Church of Mary Magdalene resides at the base of Mount of Olives near Gethsemane in Jerusalem. It is famous and immediately recognizable thanks to its sparkling golden onion domes.
The Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes isocated in the Brazilian city of Canela. This masterpiece of the English gothic style features a 213-foot-tall tower. It was built with a dozen bronze bells imported from a foundry in Italy.
One of the greatest buildings in Vienna is Karlskirche, or St. Charles Cathedral. The 18th-century Baroque church offers 13,454 square feet of stunning frescoes by the artist, Johannes Michael Rottmayr.
Kizhi Pogos in the Russian autonomous region of Karelia dates back to the 18th century and includes two wooden churches. The first church features 22 wooden domes. The second structure houses a wooden clock tower.
The Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California was built using reflective glass. This building literally sparkles. Sunlight streams through the glass to illuminate one of the world's largest instruments, a 16,061-pipe Hazel Wright Memorial organ.
The hilltop Sacre-Coeur Basilica on the summit of Montmartre is one of the most iconic churches and building's in Paris, France. The Romano-Byzantine structure was built from travertine stone that exudes calcite when it rains, which helps keep the church looking pearly white.
Visit the island of Mykonos and you'll easily stumble upon the Church of Panagia Paraportiani. This structure is made up of multiple whitewashed chapels. The church remains one of the island's most photographed attractions and once you visit it in person, you will understand why.
The 338-foot-tall Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow is the tallest Russian Orthodox church in the world. This building of worship was built in 1839 and destroyed by the Soviets in 1931, so they could build a palace that was never constructed. The building was resurrected at a cost of $360 million in 2000.
The Basilica of the National Vow in Quito, the capital of Ecuador, can be seen from almost any vantage point in the city. The twin clock towers in this neo-Gothic basilica are also breathtaking. Look closely and you will notice that some of the building's gargoyles are shaped like Galápagos animals.
The Church of Dmitry on Blood in Uglich, Russia, stands out with its blood-red walls and sky-blue onion domes. This amazing church is placed at the confluence of the Kamenny stream and the Volga River. The church was built on the site of the death of Prince Tsarevich Dmitry.
This red colored building in Shipka, Bulgaria, is a Bulgarian Orthodox church built from 1885 to 1902. It contains a 12-ton bell in its tower.
Built by French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier, Notre-Dame-du-Haut in France is popular with fans of post-modern architecture. If you didn't see the crucifix on top of the building you would probably never realize it was a church.
Saint-Michel d'Aiguilhe near Puy-en-Velay, France, looks like it's grown directly from the spire of volcanic rock on which it sits. If you want to attend a service here you have to climb 268 steps carved into the rock.
The Jubilee by architect Richard Meier was built in 1996. This church is easily recognizable by its curved walls which look like sails and serve the engineering purpose of minimizing thermal peak loads in the interior space. The walls are constructed from a special cement, which contain titanium dioxide — which destroys air pollution. It's environmentally-friendly and functional.
This parish church in Buenos Aires is also known as "Huerto de Olivos" or "Garden of Olives" or "Church of Jesus in the Garden of Olives." The church was constructed in 1897. It's hard to tell how spectacular this church is underneath all the vines but this spectacular feature was enough to make our list.
This cathedral, located in downtown Parana, is a Roman Catholic structure that was completed in 1972 and has a cone shape. The big deal: This church can brag on two points: it is South America's tallest church, and the world 16th tallest.
This iconic cathedral located in Belgium was finished in 1521. It took 170 years to complete. The right tower was originally supposed to be as tall as the left. It has seen numerous periods of destruction, has been under multiple religious leaders, but ultimately has stood tall in one form or another since completion. The real beauty in this church may very well be its determination to remain a place of worship against all odds.
The Hagia Sophia is a unique addition to our most beautiful churches list because it has actually been more than a church. This building is a former Christian patriarchal basilica (church) which was later used an as imperial mosque, before eventually being turned into a museum. Whatever it is — it's beautiful.
The current Romanesque and Gothic form of the cathedral, seen today in the Stephansplatz, was largely initiated by Duke Rudolf IV (1339–1365) and stands on the ruins of two earlier churches, the first a parish church consecrated in 1147. St. Stephen's Cathedral has borne witness to many important events in Habsburg and Austrian history and has, with its multi-coloured tile roof, become one of the city's most recognizable symbols.


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Online tools allowing the public to monitor EU lobbying and outside activities of member of the European Parliament.
Transparency International EU has identified political corruption as one of the core problems of European democracies and the EU Institutions. A lack of transparency in decision-making, conflicts of interest and undue influence by lobbyists as some of the major challenges for our political systems.
EU Integrity Watch is a central hub of online tools that allow citizens, journalists and civil society to monitor the integrity of decisions made by politicians in the EU. For this purpose, data that is often scattered and difficult to access is collected, harmonised and made easily available. The platform allows citizens to search, rank and filter the information in an intuitive way.
The website currently contains information on the outside incomes and activities of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), revolving door cases in the EU institutions and data on meetings between the European Commission and lobby organisations.
The technology behind the platform was developed by the New York Times in order to make complex datasets accessible to a wider audience. In line with the principles of open software and open date, all datasets are also available for download.
Lobbying of the European Union (EU) needs to become more transparent and open to public scrutiny. EU policy-makers should therefore collect and disclose comprehensive information on who influences whom in the European Union EU decision-making process to ensure a level playing field for all interest representatives and thus balanced legislative outcomes.
Transparency International EU has published new analysis of lobbying in Brussels on 1 December 2015. It reveals that the overwhelming majority of lobby meetings held by European Commissioners and their closest advisors are with representatives of corporate interests.
This is our first-ever, comprehensive analysis of career changes between the EU institutions and other employers, providing a clear picture of the revolving door phenomenon across the EU institutions. We have analysed the career paths of those 485 former members of the European Parliament and 27 Commissioners who were in office during the last mandate and have since left the EU institutions. Our report finds that many of those leaving the EU institutions and specifically politics now have activities where risks of conflicts of interest cannot be ruled out.
The 38 standards set out here build on best practice from existing lobby regulations and also reference various existing international standards on the matter. However, they go beyond what is already available by addressing three critical and inter-related areas of effective regulation of lobbying: transparency, integrity and participation, and in this way go further than previous initiatives. They aim at internationally applicable standards, but with an awareness and respect for national differences.
These standards remain under ongoing review and any suggestions for their further development or refinement are welcome.
The joint letter was drafted and signed together with the major associations representing EU public affairs professionals (SEAP), consultancies (EPACA) and lawyers (CCBE) and is supported by umbrella groups, such as the European Youth Forum and Social Platform. The demands outlined in the letter were also supported by more than 67,000 citizens from across Europe that signed an online petition.
The letter calls for all EU institutions to be covered by a mandatory lobby register, including the Council. The signatories demand that all lobbyists register, file their declarations with diligence and abide by the basic rules of the Code of Conduct.


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Petter Wallenberg creates pop fusion with India's best LGBTQ talent
Updated: Jun 16, 2019, 07:34 IST | Aastha Atray Banan
In his new album, Rainbow Riots India, Swedish artiste Petter Wallenberg gets India's best LGBTQ talent together to create an unusual, pop fusion
Petter Wallenberg. Pic/Suresh Karkera
The first song of Petter Wallenberg's new album Rainbow Riots India is Love is Love, featuring Mumbai's own drag queen, Sushant Divgikar aka Rani Kohe-nur, singing her heart out. The song, Wallenberg says, has made it to the pride march in Germany this year. "I wanted to make an anthem," says the Swedish artiste, who we meet in Colaba on a rainy afternoon. Speaking about the journey of this album, Wallenberg, the founder of LGBTQ organisation Rainbow Riots, says he had just completed a similar project in South Africa, when he chanced upon the Indian hijra dance group, Dancing Queens.
"That's when I decided to come to India. Two years ago, it was a great time to do that [make an album], as it was still illegal. It was a unique story to tell, because the community here, was on the cusp of something. There was change in the air — an undercurrent, a paradox. I did some research, and found these pioneers. It started as a protest, and turned out to be revolution," says the musician, who has written and produced the album as well.
The album, which released on June 14, features Divgikar, Dancing Queens, lesbian singer Pragya Pallavi, queer rapper Tropical Marca, and gay dance group, High Heel Hotties. "I wanted it to represent diversity. But, I also wanted real talent — something that would have international impact. It was not just about having some creative fun. It had to be of good quality that could compete with international music. The LGBTQ choir, Rainbow Voices, and Dancing Queens cover the spectrum, but also have talent. This is not just music, but advocacy, and tells a story too."
But, he has a soft spot for the Dancing Queens and the song Never Look Back, which tells us the story of dancing member, Paras. The video traces her journey from the slums to becoming the first transgender in India to get a job in a bank. "For me, what's beautiful about this song is that one is shining a spotlight on something that is marginalised and through music and pop culture, we are putting it on the centre-stage, so that everyone can see it."
Talking about the music in his album, Wallenberg says the genre hasn't been invented yet. The Swede, who comes from a country with a culture of dance music, describes it as a fusion of pop music — from India and from the world — with a splash of Bollywood and classical thrown in. "I have mixed Hindi lyrics, coming from my collaborators, with English music, and added Indian percussion, rap and electronic music elements. It's a big stirring pot of Indian and Western music at a big gay disco," he laughs.
The heart of the music and the album is the message behind it, and the stories of the individual artistes. "Love is Love is a campaign for LGBTQ rights. It's an anthem. Love at First Right is a activist song. It's not about sex, it's about the right to love." The most interesting song could be Ancient Rainbow, where Wallenberg looks into Indian mythology for LGBTQ references. "Indian Gods are very androgynous, there is a history. It's only the colonial rule that clamped it all down." For now, he is spreading the word about the album, but also prepping to take all the artists to an international stage. "They will be performing in Stockholm, where they will be headlining the pride stage in August. It's never happened before."
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Q: Assignment help on arrays The Java assignment is to Prompt user for ten integers which are stored in an array, call a method passing the array and the method will display the values in both the original and reverse order.
public class  Module7 {
public static void main(String[] args) {

// prompt the user
System.out.println("Welcome to **yourNameHere**\'s 3 in 1 Programming Assignment (Arrays) for Module 7\n");

// create Scanner Object
Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);

// loop until break
while(true){

    // new lines for readability
    System.out.print("\n");

    // Prompt user for choices
    System.out.print("\nEnter 1 Random Array \nEnter 2 Reverse Numbers\nEnter 3 Identical Arrays\nAny other input will exit");
    int choice = input.nextInt();
    // Consume newline left-over
    input.nextLine();

    // first feature
    if(choice == 1){
        System.out.println("You Selected Random Array");

        // call the method of feature 1
        feature1();

    }
    else if(choice == 2){

        // Prompt user
        System.out.println("You Selected Reverse Numbers\n");

        feature2();

    }
    else if(choice == 3){

        // Prompt user
        System.out.println("You Selected Identical Arrays !");
        // call the method of feature 3 providing the message, return value is the Letters message
        feature3();

    }
    else{

        // not 1 , 2 or 3
        System.out.println("User didn't select 1,2 or 3. Exiting Program\n");

        // release object
        input.close();

        // exit while with break statement
        break;
    }
} // end of while

} // end main
// create feature1() method here no problems here, this one works
private static void feature1(){
        int[] randomArray = new int[100];
        for (int i = 0; i< randomArray.length; i++)
            randomArray[i] = (int) (Math.random()*100);

        for (int i=0; i<randomArray.length; i++) {
            double currentMin = randomArray[i];
            int currentMinIndex = i;

            //not needed for just sorting
            for (int j=i+1; j<randomArray.length;j++) {
                if (currentMin > randomArray[j]) {
                    currentMin = randomArray[j];
                    currentMinIndex = j;
                }
            }

            //swap list[i] with list[currentMinIndex] if necessary
            if (currentMinIndex !=i) {
                randomArray[currentMinIndex] = randomArray[i];
                randomArray[i] = (int) currentMin;
            }
        }

        for (int i=0; i<randomArray.length; i++) {
              // print randomArray values
              if (i % 10 == 0 && i > 0) {
                  System.out.println();

            }
              System.out.print(randomArray[i] + " ");

            }

    }

//create feature2() method here I can't seem to get it to look like the example here.  I can't get the numbers to be able to be entered one at a time with a space between, then show them reversed.  It only works if you enter all of 10 numbers consecutively with no spaces.
private static void feature2(){
        System.out.print("Please enter 10 numbers ");
        java.util.Scanner input = new java.util.Scanner(System.in);
        double[] numbers = new double[10];

        System.out.print("\nEntered: ");
        for (int i = 0; i < numbers.length; i++) {

        int number = input.nextInt();
        System.out.print("Reversed: ");
        reverse(number);
        }
    }
    public static void reverse(int number) {
        while (number !=0) {
            int remainder = number % 10;
            System.out.print(remainder + " ");
            number = number/10;
        }

    }

//create feature3() here. This is where my major problem is.  I am terrible with arrays and don't even really know where to begin
 private static void feature3()

`The Java assignment is to Prompt user for ten integers which are stored in an array, call a method passing the array and the method will display the values in both the original and reverse order.
I have tried every which way I know (from reading my class book and watching the lecture videos...) but I can not figure out how to write this code.  My output is supposed to look like below:
Output sample
(EDIT) Sorry, will post what I have as soon as I get back to my home computer...this IS homework by the way.  I am just terrible with arrays and understanding them.  Is there a site that teaches "arrays for dummies"?

A:
Try this..

class Assignment{

private Integer[] reverse(Integer[] passtheArray){

//Use Your own logic Whatever you Want to implement and return Your array.
 return null;
}
public static void main(String[] args){
Integer abc[] = new Integer[] {10, 15, 20, 25, 30};
Assignment obj = new Assignment();
obj.reverse(abc);
}
}

A: Since you have not supplied any code I will assume you have not gotten very far on the project. Take a look at looping through Arrays.
for a simple solution you can loop backwards through an array by setting an array to
ArrayUtils.reverse(int[] array)

However, I recommend you do some research on how to reverse through an array using a for loop since you don't seem to have a strong grasp of them yet.
If you post some sample code then we can give you some more direct tips.

A: This is 1 way to do it
public class swapnumber {
    public static void main(String[] args)

    {

         Scanner s = new Scanner(System.in);
         System.out.print("Enter number of elements you want in array:");
        int n = s.nextInt();
         int a[] = new int[n];
         System.out.println("Enter all the elements:");
         for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
         {
             a[i] = s.nextInt();
         }

        swapNumber(a);

    }

    private static void swapNumber(int a[]) {

        System.out.println("Original array" + Arrays.toString(a));
        for(int i = 0; i < a.length / 2; i++)
        {
            int temp = a[i];
            a[i] = a[a.length - i - 1];
            a[a.length - i - 1] = temp;
        }

        System.out.println("Reversed array" + Arrays.toString(a));
    }
}

A: Assuming you already have all of the user input values stored in the array, you would want to create two for loops; one that iterates from the beginning of the array to the end, and the other that iterates from the end of the array to the beginning.
for(int i = 0; i < array.length(); ++i) {
   System.out.print(array[i]); //or put that in a string to output later
}

for (int j = array.length() - 1; j >= 0; ++j) {
   System.out.print(array[j]); //or, again, put it in a string
}

Its key to know that arrays in Java start at index 0 and end at index equal to the length of given array minus 1, which is why the count-down loop starts and ends where it does.
Hope that clears part of the issues up!

A: Use this, how to reverse an array has been previously mentioned here.
ArrayUtils.reverse(int[] array)


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An Army of Altruists
19 February, 2007 (15:10) | Politics
In the January 2007 Issue of Harper's Magazine, David Graeber published an article entitled "An Army of Altruists" discussing the reasons for the political unrest the US currently feels. For over a month, I've waited to be able to link people to it. Now, thanks to a posting of the article in its entirety by SleepyKid I'm finally getting to do so.
An Army of Altruists: On the alienated right to do good
"Altruism" by Jessie Mollnar
You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq.
–Sen. John Kerry (D., Mass.)
Kerry owes an apology to the many thousands of Americans serving in Iraq, who answered their country's call because they are patriots and not because of any deficiencies in their education.
–Sen, John McCain (R., Ariz.)
In the lead-up to the midterm elections, the Republicans' single fleeting ray of hope was a botched joke by Senator John Kerry. The joke was obviously aimed at George W. Bush, but they took it to suggest that Kerry thought only those who flunked out of school end up in the military. It was all very disingenuous, Most knew perfectly well that Kerry's real point was to suggest that the president wasn't very bright. But the right smelled blood. The problem with "aristo-slackers" like Kerry, wrote one blogger on the website of National Review, is that they assume "the troops are in Iraq not because they are deeply committed to the mission (they need to deny that) but rather because of a system that takes advantage of their lack of social and economic opportunities…. We should clobber them with that ruthlessly until the day of the election–just like we did in '04–because it is the most basic reason they deserve to lose."
In the end, it didn't make a lot of difference, because most Americans decided they were not deeply committed to the mission either–insofar as they were even sure what the mission was. But it seems to me the question we should really be asking is: why did it take a military catastrophe (not to mention a strategy of trying to avoid any association with the sort of north-eastern elites Kerry typifies for so many Americans) to allow the Democrats to finally emerge from the political wilderness? Or, in other words: why has this Republican line proved so effective?
It strikes me that to get at the answer, one has to probe far more deeply into the nature of American society than most commentators are willing to go. We're used to reducing all such issues to an either/or: patriotism versus opportunity, "values" versus bread-and-butter issues like jobs and education. But I would argue that to frame things this way plays into the hands of the right. Certainly, many people do join the army because they are deprived of opportunities. But the real question to be asking is: opportunities to do what?
Let me offer an anthropological perspective on the question. It first came home to me a year or two ago when I was attending a lecture by Catherine Lutz, a fellow anthropologist from Brown University who has been studying U.S. military bases overseas. Many of these bases organize outreach programs, in which soldiers venture out to repair schoolrooms or to perform free dental checkups for the locals. These programs were created to improve local relations, but they were apparently at least as effective in their psychological impact on the soldiers, many of whom would wax euphoric when describing them: e.g., "This is why I joined the army," "This is what military service is really all about–not just defending your country, but helping people." The military's own statistics point in the same direction: although the surveys do not list "helping people" among the motives for enlistment, the most high-minded option available–"to do something to be proud of"–is the favorite.
Is it possible that America is actually a nation of frustrated altruists? Certainly this is not the way that we normally think about ourselves. (Our normal habits of thought, actually, tend toward a rough and ready cynicism. The world is a giant marketplace; everyone is in it for a buck; if you want to understand why something happened, first ask who stands to gain by it. The same attitudes expressed in the back rooms of bars are echoed in the highest reaches of social science. America's great contribution to the world in the latter respect has been the development of "rational choice" theories, which proceed from the assumption that all human behavior can be understood as a matter of economic calculation, of rational actors trying to get as much as possible out of any given situation with the least cost to themselves. As a result, in most fields, the very existence of altruistic behavior is considered a kind of puzzle, and everyone from economists to evolutionary biologists has become famous through attempts to "solve" it–that is, to explain the mystery of why bees sacrifice themselves for hives or human beings hold open doors and give correct street directions to total strangers. At the same time, the case of the military bases suggests the possibility that in fact Americans, particularly the less "affluent ones, are haunted by frustrated desires to do good in the world.
It would not be difficult to assemble evidence that this is the case. Studies of charitable giving, for example, have shown the poor to be the most generous: the lower one's income, the higher the proportion of it that one is likely to give away to strangers. The same pattern holds true, incidentally, when comparing the middle classes and the rich: one study of tax returns in 2003 concluded that if the most affluent families had given away as much of their assets as even the average middle-class family, overall charitable donations that year would have increased by $25 billion. (All this despite the fact that the wealthy have far more time and opportunity.) Moreover, charity represents only a tiny part of the picture. If one were to break down what typical American wage earners do with their disposable income, one would find that they give much of it away, either through spending in one way or another on their children or through sharing with others: presents, trips, parties, the six-pack of beer for the local softball game. One might object that such sharing is more a reflection of the real nature of pleasure than anything else (who would want to eat a delicious meal at an expensive restaurant all by himself?), but this is actually half the point. Even our self-indulgences tend to be dominated by the logic of the gift. Similarly, some might object that shelling out a small fortune to send one's children to an exclusive kindergarten is more about stares than altruism. Perhaps: but if you look at what happens over the course of people's actual lives, it soon becomes apparent that this kind of behavior fulfills an identical psychological need. How many youthful idealists throughout history have managed to finally come to terms with a world based on selfishness and greed the moment they start a family? If one were to assume altruism were the primary human motivation, this would make perfect sense: The only way they can convince themselves to abandon their desire to do right by the world as a whole is to substitute an even more powerful desire to do right by their children.
What all this suggests to me is that American society might well work completely differently than we tend to assume. Imagine, for a moment, that the United States as it exists today were the creation of some ingenious social engineer. What assumptions about human nature could we say this engineer must have been working with? Certainly nothing like rational choice theory. For clearly our social engineer understands that the only way to convince human beings to enter into the world of work and the marketplace (that is, of mind-numbing labor and cutthroat competition) is to dangle the prospect of thereby being able to lavish money on one's children, buy drinks for one's friends, and, if one hits the jackpot, spend the rest of one's life endowing museums and providing AIDS medications to impoverished countries in Africa. Our theorists are constantly trying to strip away the veil of appearances and show how all such apparently selfless gestures really mask mine kind of self-interested strategy, but in reality American society is better conceived as a battle over access to the right to behave altruistically. Selflessness–or, at least, the right to engage in high-minded activity–is not the strategy. It is the prize.
if nothing else, I think this helps us understand why the right has been so much better, in recent years, at playing to populist sentiments than the left. Essentially, they do it by accusing liberals of cutting ordinary Americans off from the right to do good in the world. Let me explain what I mean here by throwing out a series of propositions.
PROPOSITION I: NEITHER EGOISM NOR ALTRUISM IS A NATURAL URGE; THEY IN FACT ARISE IN RELATION TO EACH OTHER AND NEITHER WOULD BE CONCEIVABLE WITHOUT THE MARKET
First of all, I should make clear that I do not believe that either egoism or altruism is somehow inherent in human nature. Human motives are rarely that simple. Rather, egoism and altruism are ideas we have about human nature. Historically, one has tended to arise in response to the other. In the ancient world, for example, it is generally in the rimes and places that one sees the emergence of money and markets that one also sees the rise of world religions–Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam. If one sets aside a space and says, "Here you shall think only about acquiring material things for yourself," then it is hardly surprising that before long someone else will set aside a countervailing space and declare, in effect: "Yes, but here we must contemplate the fact that the self, and material things, are ultimately unimportant." It was these latter institutions, of course, that first developed our modern notions of charity.
Even today, when we operate outside the domain of the market or of religion, very few of our actions could be said to be motivated by anything so simple as untrammeled greed or utterly selfless generosity. When we are dealing not with strangers but with friends, relatives, or enemies, a much more complicated set of motivations will generally come into play: envy, solidarity, pride, self-destructive grief, loyalty, romantic obsession, resentment, spite, shame, conviviality, the anticipation of shared enjoyment, the desire to show up a rival, and so on, These are the motivations impelling the major dramas of our lives that great novelists like Tolstoy and Dostoevsky immortalize but that social theorists, for some reason, tend to ignore, if one travels to parts of the world where money and markets do not exist–say, to certain parts of New Guinea or Amazonia–such complicated webs of motivation are precisely what one still finds. In societies based around small communities, where almost everyone is either a friend, a relative, or an enemy of everyone else, the languages spoken tend even to lack words that correspond to "self-interest" or "altruism" but include very subtle vocabularies for describing envy, solidarity, pride, and the like. Their economic dealings with one another likewise tend to he based on much more subtle principles. Anthropologists have created a vast literature to try to fathom the dynamics of these apparently exotic "gift economies," but if it seems odd to us to see, for instance, important men conniving with their cousins to finagle vast wealth, which they then present as gifts to bitter enemies in order to publicly humiliate them, it is because we are so used to operating inside impersonal markets that it never occurs to us to think how we would act if we had an economic system in which we treated people based on how we actually felt about them.
Nowadays, the work of destroying such ways of life is still often done by missionaries–representatives of those very world religions that originally sprang up in reaction to the market long ago. Missionaries, of course, are out to save souls; but they rarely interpret this to mean their role is simply to teach people to accept God and be more altruistic. Almost invariably, they end up trying to convince people to be more selfish and more altruistic at the same time. On the one hand, they set out to teach the "natives" proper work discipline, and try to get them involved with buying and rolling products on the market, so as to better their material lot. At the same time, they explain to them that ultimately, material things are unimportant, and lecture on the value of the higher things, such as selfless devotion to others.
PROPOSITION II: THE POLITICAL RIGHT HAS ALWAYS TRIED TO ENHANCE THIS DIVISION AND THUS CLAIMS TO BE THE CHAMPION OF BOTH EGOISM AND ALTRUISM SIMULTANEOUSLY. THE LEFT HAS TRIED TO EFFACE IT
Might this not help to explain why the United States, the most market-driven, industrialized society on earth, is also among the most religious? Or, even more strikingly, why the country that produced Tolstoy and Dostoevsky spent much of the twentieth century trying to eradicate both the market and religion entirely?
Whereas the political left has always tried to efface this distinction–whether by trying to create economic systems that are nor driven by the profit motive or by replacing private charity with one or another form of community support–the political right has always thrived on it. In the United States, for example, the Republican Party is dominated by two ideological wings: the libertarians and the "Christian right." At one extreme, Republicans are free-market fundamentalists and advocates of individual liberties (even if they see those liberties largely as a matter of consumer choice); on the other, they are fundamentalists of a more literal variety, suspicious of most individual liberties but enthusiastic about biblical injunctions, "family values," and charitable good works. At first glance it might seem remarkable that such an alliance manages to hold together at all (and certainly they have ongoing tensions, most famously over abortion). But, in fact, right-wing coalitions almost always take some variation of this form. One might say that the right's approach is to release the dogs of the market, throwing all traditional verities into disarray; and then, in this tumult of insecurity, offer themselves tip as the last bastion of order and hierarchy, the stalwart defenders of the authority of churches and fathers against the barbarians they have themselves unleashed. A scam it may be, but it is a remarkably effective one; and one result is that the right ends up seeming to have a monopoly on value. It manages, we might say, to occupy both positions, on either side of the divide: extreme egoism and extreme altruism.
Consider, for a moment, the word "value." When economists talk about value they are really talking about money–or, more precisely, about whatever it is that money is measuring; also, whatever it is that economic actors are assumed to be pursuing. When we are working for a living, or buying and selling things, we are rewarded with money. But whenever we are not working or buying or selling, when we are motivated by pretty much anything other than the desire to get money, we suddenly find ourselves in the domain of "values." The most commonly invoked of these are, of course, "family values" (which is unsurprising, since by far the most common form of unpaid labor in most industrial societies is child-rearing and housework), but we also talk about religious values, political values, the values that attach themselves to art or patriotism–one could even, perhaps, count loyalty to one's favorite basketball team. All are seen as commitments that are, or ought to be, uncorrupted by the market. At the same time, they are also seen as utterly unique; whereas money makes all things comparable, "values" such as beauty, devotion, or integrity cannot, by definition, be compared. There is no mathematical formula that could possibly allow one to calculate just how much personal integrity it is right to sacrifice in the pursuit of art or how to balance responsibilities to your family with responsibilities to your God. (Obviously, people do make these kinds of compromises all the time. But they cannot be calculated.) One might put it this way: if value is simply what one considers important, then money allows importance to take a liquid form, by enabling us to compare precise quantities of importance and trade one off for the other. If someone does accumulate a very large amount of money, the first thing he or she is likely to do is to try to convert it into something unique, whether it be Monet's water lilies, a prizewinning racehorse, or an endowed chair at a university.
What is really at stake here in any market economy is precisely the ability to make these trades, to convert "value" into "values." All of us are striving to put ourselves in a position in which we can dedicate ourselves to something larger than ourselves. When liberals do well in America, it's because they can embody that possibility: the Kennedys, for example, are the ultimate Democratic icons not just because they started as poor Irish immigrants who made enormous amounts of money but because they are seen as having managed, ultimately, to turn all that money into nobility.
PROPOSITION III: THE REAL PROBLEM OF THE AMERICAN LEFT IS THAT ALTHOUGH IT DOES TRY IN CERTAIN WAYS TO EFFACE THE DIVISION BETWEEN EGOISM AND ALTRUISM, VALUE AND VALUES, IT LARGELY DOES SO FOR ITS OWN CHILDREN. THIS HAS ALLOWED THE RIGHT, PARADOXICALLY, TO REPRESENT ITSELF AS THE CHAMPION OF THE WORKING CLASS
This proposition might help explain why the left in America is in such a mess. Far from promoting new visions of effacing the difference between egoism and altruism, value and values, or providing a model for passing from one to the other, progressives cannot even seem to understand the problem. After the last presidential election, the big debate in progressive circles was the relative importance of economic issues versus what was called "the culture wars." Did the Democrats lose because they were not able to spell out any plausible economic alternatives, or did the Republicans win because they successfully mobilized evangelical Christians around the issue of gay marriage? The very fact that progressives frame the question this way not only shows they are trapped in the right's terms of analysis; it demonstrates that they do not understand how America really works.
Let me illustrate what i mean by considering the strange popular appeal, at least until recently, of George W. Bush. In 2004 most of the American liberal intelligentsia did not seem to be able to get their minds around it. After the election, what left so many of them reeling was their suspicion that the things they most hated about Bush were exactly what so many Bush voters liked about him. Consider the debates, for example. If statistics are to be believed, millions of Americans watched George Bush and John Kerry lock horns, concluded that Kerry won, and then went off and voted for Bush anyway. It was hard to escape the suspicion that, in the end, Kerry's articulate presentation, his skill with words and arguments, had actually counted against him.
This sent liberals into spirals of despair. They could not understand why decisive leadership was equated with acting like an idiot. Neither could they understand how a man who comes from one of the most elite families in the country, who attended Andover, Yale, and Harvard, and whose signature facial expression is a self-satisfied smirk, ever convinced anyone he was a "man of the people." I must admit I have struggled with this as well. As a child of working-class parents who won a scholarship to Andover in the 1970s and, eventually, a job at Yale, I have spent much of my life in the presence of men like Bush, every inch of them oozing self-satisfied privilege. But, in fact, stories like mine–stories of dramatic class mobility through academic accomplishment–are increasingly unusual in America.
America, of course, continues to see itself as a land of opportunity, and certainly from the perspective of an immigrant from Haiti or Bangladesh it is. But America has always been a country built on the promise of unlimited upward mobility. The working-class condition has been traditionally seen as a way station, as something one's family passes through on the road to something else. Abraham Lincoln used to stress that what made American democracy possible was the absence of a class of permanent wage laborers. In Lincoln's day, the ideal was that wage laborers would eventually save up enough money to build a better life: if nothing else, to buy some land and become a homesteader on the frontier.
The point is not how accurate this ideal was; the point is that most Americans have found the image plausible. Every time the road is perceived to be clogged, profound unrest ensues. The closing of the frontier led to bitter labor struggles, and over the course of the twentieth century, the steady and rapid expansion of the American university system could be seen as a kind of substitute. Particularly after World War II, huge resources were poured into expanding the higher education system, which grew extremely rapidly, and all this growth was promoted quite explicitly as a means of social mobility. This served during the Cold War as almost an implied social contract, not just offering a comfortable life to the working classes but holding out the chance that their children would not be working class themselves. The problem, of course, is that a higher education system cannot be expanded forever. At a certain point one ends up with a significant portion of the population unable to find work even remotely in line with their qualifications, who have every reason to be angry about their situation, and who also have access to the entire history of radical thought. By the late Sixties and early Seventies, the very point when the expansion of the university system hit a dead end, campuses were, predictably, exploding.
What followed could be seen as a kind of settlement. Campus radicals were reabsorbed into the university but set to work largely at training children of the elite. As the cost of education has skyrocketed, financial aid has been cut back, and the prospect of social mobility through education–above all liberal arts education–has been rapidly diminished. The number of working-class students in major universities, which steadily grew until the Seventies, has now been declining for decades. The matter was further complicated by the fact that this overall decline of accessibility happened at almost exactly the same time that many who had previously been excluded (the G.I. Bill of Rights, after all, had applied basically to white males) were finally being welcomed. These were the identities celebrated in the campus "identity politics" of the Eighties and Nineties–an inclusiveness that notably did not extend to, say, Baptists or "rednecks." Unsurprisingly, many focused their rage not on govern. merit or on university administrations but on minorities, queers, and feminists.
Why do working-class Bush voters tend to resent intellectuals more than they do the rich? It seems to me that the answer is simple. They can imagine a scenario in which they might become rich but cannot possibly imagine one in which they, or any of their children, would become members of the intelligentsia. If you think about it, this is not an unreasonable assessment. A mechanic from Nebraska knows it is highly unlikely that his son or daughter will ever become an Enron executive. But it is possible. There is virtually no chance, however, that his child, no matter how talented, will ever become an international human-rights lawyer or a drama critic for the New York Times. Here we need to remember not just the changes in higher education but also the role of unpaid, or effectively unpaid, internships. It has become a fact of life in the United States that if one chooses a career for any reason other than the salary, for the first year or two one will not be paid. This is certainly true if one wishes to be involved in altruistic pursuits: say, to join the world of charities, or NGOs, or to become a political activist. But it is equally true if one wants to pursue values like Beauty or Truth: to become part of the world of books, or the art world, or an investigative reporter. The custom effectively seals off such a career for any poor student who actually does attain a liberal arts education. Such structures of exclusion had always existed, of course, especially at the top, but in recent decades fences have become fortresses.
If that mechanic's daughter wishes to pursue something higher, more noble, for a career, what options does she really have? Likely just two: She can seek employment at her local church, which is hard to get. Or she can join the army.
This is, of course, the secret of nobility. To be noble is to be generous, high-minded, altruistic, to pursue higher forms of value. But it is also to be able to do so because one does not really have to think too much about money. This is precisely what our soldiers are doing when they give free dental examinations to villagers: they are being paid (modestly, but adequately) to do good in the world. Seen in this light, it is also easier to see what really happened at universities in the wake of the 1960s–the "settlement" I mentioned above. Campus radicals set out to create a new society that destroyed the distinction between egoism and altruism, value and values. It did not work out, but they were, effectively, offered a kind of compensation: the privilege to use the university system to create lives that did so, in their own little way, to be supported in one's material needs while pursuing virtue, truth, and beauty, and, above all, to pass that privilege on to their own children. One cannot blame them for accepting the offer. But neither can one blame the rest of the country for hating them for it. Not because they reject the project: as I say, this is what America is all about. As I always tell activists engaged in the peace movement and counter-recruitment campaigns: why do working-class kids join the army anyway? Because, like any teenager, they want to escape the world of tedious work and meaningless consumerism, to live a life of adventure and camaraderie in which they believe they are doing something genuinely noble. They join the army because they want to be like you.
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David Graeber is an anthropologist and activist currently living in New York City. An associate professor at Yale, he is the author of Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value and Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
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Technically I don't either, I just have a scanner cartridge for a printer.
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Super Duper Burgers will also feature a 'grab-and-go' section.
Super Duper Burgers said it is aligned with San Francisco International Airport's vision to provide good, clean, and fair food which has been responsibly sourced and well prepared. The company added that it builds its restaurants sustainably, locally, and with a commitment to quality and health. It works with local farms and suppliers, including Niman Ranch, Mary's Chicken and Straus Creamery, and local designers, sign painters, and artisans.
According to Super Duper Burgers, all packaging is compostable.
HMSHost has several other outlets at the airport, including Gordon Biersch, Max's Eatz, Max's E.V.O.O. Café, and three Starbucks.
NOTE: The Moodie Davitt Report also publishes The Foodie Report, the world's only media focused on airport (and other travel-related) food & beverage. The company co-organises the annual Airport Food & Beverage (FAB) Conference & Awards. The Foodie Report e-Newsletter is published every two weeks and The Foodie Report e-Zine every month.
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Alive and Young: Britan and Sexual Discrimination laws.
Exemption Status no longer allowed for Catholic agencies.
Despite appeals from bishops and other religious leaders in Great Britain, the prime minister says there will be no exemption from anti-discrimination laws for Catholic adoption agencies.
Last week the cardinal pointed out in a letter sent to Prime Minister Tony Blair and members of the Cabinet that proposed sexual orientation regulations would require Catholic agencies to "act against the principles of Catholic teaching." The Equality Act 2006, which will come into force in April after Parliament's approval next month, bans discrimination in the provision of goods, facilities and services on the basis of sexual orientation, and would require Catholic agencies to consider homosexual couples as potential adoptive parents.
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Paola Calvetti, book club and covers
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I wanted to remind you that our book club Les copines d'abord is currently reading Paola Calvetti's book Noi due come un romanzo. It will only be published in English in January 2012 but it is available in French (L'amour est à la lettre A) and in German (Und immer wieder Liebe: Roman). Join us if you're interested. I'll post the review on October 27.
After reading Litlove's post NOT chick-lit about how books are marketed for women and sometimes make look good novels like Harlequins – Sorry Litlove for summarizing so harshly your thoughtful post – Paola Calvetti's novel came to my mind. Before reviewing the novel, I thought her book was a perfect illustration of how books are marketed differently according to the country and according to the supposed gender of their readership. The novel is the story of Emma, 50, who lives in Milan and quits her former life to open a bookstore. She also starts a correspondence with her former high school sweetheart Federico. If you only read the pitch I've just written, it can be anything from the stupidest romance to a most subtle description of fragile feelings and love of literature. (You'll have to wait for the review to know where it stands between the two.)
Here is the original Italian cover. The title means "The two of us like a novel". I think it's good, not too cheesy and puts forward the most important thing in the book: the letters. The colors are mostly black and white, nothing supposedly feminine. Nothing screams "I'm a novel for women only"
The French title is L'amour est à la lettre A. (Love is at the A letter), not at all the translation of the original title, which always bothers me. However, it refers to the letters and the bookstore, which is good. The French cover of the hardcover edition looks like the Italian cover. The paperback version shows Emma, but not her face. Is it because she's 50? A picture of a young woman would be lying. Does that mean that an elegant fifty-year-old woman isn't good for sales? I have another problem with this cover, it forgets Federico, who does have a voice in the story.
The German title is Und immer wieder Liebe: Roman, something like "And love forever: a novel". The two German covers are quite opposite. I absolutely loathe the one with the bouquet in pastel tones. It looks like a Victorian novel. I don't understand where the country setting comes from, most of the book is in Milan or New York. When I see a cover like this, I expect the stupidest romance. The other cover is better, but the red and black colors look sexy and somehow recall the Twilight covers. Where is my urban fifty-year-old Emma? Where's the bookstore? Where is reading?
The English cover could be good without that rose. At least, there are books and letters. There's nothing with a rose in that book. But look at all this pink!! An overdose of pink: pink background, pink rose, pink books, pink ribbon. It tastes like a stupid romance too. Seeing this cover, do you imagine a divorced active bookseller in Milan? I see a stay-at-home woman in the country in the 19thC.
If I'm in a positive state of mind, I'll think that it will mislead romance readers and help them discover something else. If I'm in a ranting mind, I'm sorry for Paola Calvetti… This summer, I read Cinderella Ate My Daughter by Peggy Orenstein. This is the adult version of Princesses and pink toys. A book for women? Pink. Cheesy. Corny. Flowers. Homes. Country. Long skirts. These covers forster the idea of women as romantic, interested in "girly" books and also tells men that these books aren't for them. Honestly, can you imagine a man in a train carriage with a book with that cheesy book-letter-rose cover? He'd want to put a brown bag on it.
I don't fit the description of the female reader these publishers imagine. I bought Paola Calvetti's book because of her publisher, 10:18. I know that most of the time, I enjoy their books. If it had been published by J'ai Lu, with a cover like that and such a title, it would have stayed in the bookstore.
Categories: 2000, 21st Century, About reading, Book Club, Calvetti Paola, Epistolary Fiction, Italian Literature, Novel Tags: Italian Literature, Paola Calvetti
I'm in love with your analysis!
Hoping that you'll love the novel, thanks for your attention
Paola Calvetti
Do you have your word in the choice of covers and of titles?
The marketing of female writers in the UK is dismal. Everything is sold as romance, and light fizzy romance at that. Everything is a Helen Fielding clone.
Except it isn't. It's just sold that way. I think it's deeply questionable. It's a form of dishonesty. Misleading potential readers because you don't believe you can sell a work on its own merits.
I've no issue with Helen Fielding (not my thing but I have read some and I think she has talent). I've no issue with chicklit though I don't read it, but I do have an issue with books being marketed as chicklit just because of the gender of the author.
It's reductive. I do like the Italian cover by the way. It shows some imagination.
My particular pet hate in the UK is covers that make the book look like a romance set during the 1940s. There may be a man, in fog, wearing a heavy overcoat. There may be a woman in what might be (but can't be pinned down as) a period dress. There'll be some bright colours and possibly a little boy in shorts. Open the book and it's a novel about a woman having a nervous breakdown in a sink estate in Hull.
The Italian cover is definitely the best one.
When you think that Bridget Jones is based on Pride and Prejudice…I like her books, in their category, they're good ones, like Cadfael in their own category.
I know what you mean about the 1940 covers.
Something similar happened in the 1980s in SF by the way. Every book had pictures of spaceship battles on the cover. That included books set in the present day, books set solely on Earth, a host of books without a single spaceship in them.
The concept was the same. An assumption (possibly a correct one) that SF fans like spaceship battles so the best way to market an SF book was to put a spaceship battle on the cover. It meant though that a lot of books got profoundly misleading covers.
Yes. That's how people like me avoid the SF section of bookstore and never read the good ones.
litlove
This is fascinating and beautifully analysed by you. That German cover with the window is just revolting, and oh the pinkness of the UK version. Why, oh why? I have several hundred French novels that prove that normally, they do much better with their neutral covers, sometimes with parts of modern paintings (you can imagine I'm thinking gallimard here) or black and white photos, but I don't like the fact they've chosen yet another headless woman for the paperback. I completely agree with you and Max, that this is misleading and wrong and often an insult to the book concerned (although I had to laugh at Max's comment about the 1940s setting – so true!). It's all dumbing down and you have to wonder why that should be so important to publishers and their marketing departments these days, when more readers than ever have university degrees.
It's interesting that each publisher has its own style for covers.
Gallimard never abandoned the neutral cover and I'm proud of them for that. It's also a way to put the publisher up front: I believe in this book, I don't need pictures to sell it. I'm Gallimard, I'm a famous publisher that makes you discover good writers.
Usually, I like covers by Actes Sud too. 10:18 covers aren't bad either.
PS: Do you want to join us for the readalong?
I didn't want to be seen as criticising Fielding. My issue isn't with commercial fiction, it's with mismarketing.
There's an assumption that fiction by women is for women, which is wrong, and another assumption that fiction for women is ultimately comforting fiction, which is also wrong.
I suspect women are sometimes headless, or looking away, so the reader can place her own head there. There's yet another assumption – that women like to identify with the central female character (and, of course, that there'll be a central female character).
I know you didn't mean too and that you think every one should be free to read what they want, be it computer-written crap. I share that view too and I'm always optimistic, I think some of these readers move forward to more challenging works.
After reading your other comment about the 1940 covers, I've been online to look at the cover of Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk. (it fits the Open the book and it's a novel about a woman having a nervous breakdown in a sink estate in Hull. description.
There's hope, the cover isn't cheesy. See
Do you really think that the corny covers are for women writers only?
I think the German is by far the worst.
Th hardback was ok (from the point of view of someone who hasn't read the novel).
I think the worst is that the book looks exchanable. When I go to a German bookshop I see many books with almost the same cover but – theyare all chick lit or romance – so either Paola's book does fall under that category or this time the editor seriously messed up.
She can be compared to Anna Gavalda or Katherine Pancol, to give you an idea.
So I think the publisher "seriously messed up"
Oh yes, in that case, he did, I agree.
I'm looking forward to your review and will certainly read it.
What surprises me is that I saw some self-published books recently with equally abysmal covers. Chosen by the authors. Maybe some authors start to think that readers want these covers. We should start doing a top 10 of best book covers at the end of the year.
Ha…. there's a thought.
Good idea. After the Top 10 books, the Top 10 covers.
And you know what will be most amazing — they will be different. I'm just thinking of that horrible Beryl Bainbridge cover. Exactly the ytpe Max mentions, foggy, 40s and people in coats. Kissing.
Yes, I remember that one.
Great post and good point about the marketing and the covers. I vote for the French one with the headless body.
I prefer the Italian one, it's less designed for women.
Typo: the OTHER French one–the one WITHOUT the headless body.
Ah, typo mistake. I was surprised that you liked the one with the dress and the feet.
I like this one too, close to the original.
Looked at Amazon Us and they have the cover with the rose on the top. Just looking at it puts me off so I'll be interested to see what you think of the book.
It's quite a put off, I know. See you on October 27 for the review!
The day when men do not care anymore whether they are seen with a book with a pink cover is the day when editors will change their strategy.
Honestly, I wouldn't want to be seen in a train carriage with a book with that mawkish pink cover. It's not the pink, it's the mawkish. It's an insult to my intelligence.
Look at the Dutch version. Not too bad
http://www.bol.com/nl/p/nederlandse-boeken/voor-liefde-zie-de-letter-l/1001004006831324/index.html
Yes, not too bad. The title "Voor liefde zie de letter L" means "For love, see at letter L"? It sounds like the French one.
Yes, that' s what it means.
I also checked the Spanish one which is in line with the Italian, same title, same cover.
Thanks. Is Southern Europe less syrupy than Northern Europe, France being in the middle ?
Look at what I found…
http://leeswammes.wordpress.com/2011/10/13/ugly-covers-competition-the-finals/
It's fantastic.
Excellent!! There are some winners-to-be in the selection. It's not mawkish it's genuinely ugly.
It makes me think of Philippe Meyer who has a music radio show on France Inter. He always starts with the "chanson *on" and the public sends him ideas of corny songs with stupid lyrics or terrible adaptations well-known songs. It's so funny.
Leeswammes
So many different covers for the same book! I think the German ones are the worst, especially the one with the flowers. I think the French one (left) and the English one, I might buy when in the shop, but the Dutch one is too simple for me (I'm Dutch so I should be attracted by it, but I'm not).
Isn't it interesting to see the difference in Western Europe?
I'm tempted to do it again with another book, to see if we have the same tendencies.
What about a "COMPARE THE COVERS DAY" each of us chooses one book and finds the covers in 5-10 countries.
It could be interesting.
Shock, I didn't even see that the pages of the book in the Dutch version form a heart. Shame, shame on me… No, it's awful as well.
When I started blogging I reviewed a book that would be called romantic suspense. I liked it a lot but the covers were so horrible. Writer later wrote to me and I told her I live in Switzerland and that the German cover was much better and she agreed. she had a fight with her editor but he insisted, saying it had to be marketed that way in the US. You will see, the UK and the US covers are often very different.
A while back the designer of the UK editor of Love Virtually contacted me saying that they realised they had messed up the covers and could I please have a look at some new ones and tell her what I thought. … Now, the Love Virtually cover isn't genius but the new one will have "soppy romance" written all over it.
Sure, it's good to have this one :
But still, they kept the silly title which has nothing to do with the original (Good against North Wind, for the record) and they HAD to put some pink for Emmi. Grr!! Why can't she have some green or orange or whatever?
When you think that the German cover was this…
The one she showed me – obviously a work in progress – looked very different…. This one is better.
Emma, I think that the issue of mismarketing books is faced more by women writers than men. Men's commercial fiction has a very narrow range of covers too, but serious fiction by men is marketed as serious fiction by men. Serious fiction by women is often marketed as commercial fiction and marketed as if only women would want to read it.
Interesting you chose Arlington Park. I've read it (and largely liked it). The cover is much better than usual, but it's far from the norm sadly.
I guess you're right. I've just looked at the UK covers of books by Marguerite Duras, it's appalling. Penguin covers are better usually.
I liked Arlington Park too, thought it was well written. I found it depressing though. It reminded me why I don't want to be a stay-at-home mother, not that I needed a reminder but sometimes you can't help an attack of guilt.
Anne Milano Appel
In regard to the English cover, you say "There's nothing with a rose in that book." Leaving aside the merits of the covers (in which the author often doesn't have a choice), I'd just like to point out that there is indeed a rose (many roses!) in Paola's book. In fact, at one point (p. 267 in the Italian edition) we learn that Emma, ever resourceful, has decided to sell roses along with her books: "Come Elisa Doolittle ho deciso di vendere rose…" Anne Milano Appel, http://www.annemilanoappel.com, Translator of P.O. Box Love.
Thanks for pointing it. Sorry,my mistake I didn't remember that part with the roses.
I had guessed she didn't have her word in the covers or they wouldn't be so different.
Any chance that you'd give me your translation of the wonderful passage where Emma describes the comfort she finds in books? It ends with reading the first line of the first page of a book. I will translate it from the French but your version would be far superior and coming from the Italian.
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