When Sofia and Mia's photos are printed in a fashion magazine, Sofia is upset to see that Mia's photo is more prominent than hers, so she challenges Mia to see who the prettiest girl in school is. Later, Sofia meets the handsome Richard ans starts coming to school in outrageous outfits to get his attention, making everyone feel uncomfortable. Will Sofia wake up from her delusions?
Even though Emilia avoids strenuous exercise in P.E., she somehow manages to remain slim and trim! Joni and Mia find this so unfair! However, when a new transfer student joins their class, Emilia's reaction reveals that there's more to her that meets the eye... Can Joni and Mia help Emilia come to terms with her secret past?
Joni skips tuitionwith her big brother Julian to attend her favourite pop idol's autograph session with Mia. This makes Julian furious, and he forbids Joni from chasing her idols. However, Mia and Emilia say that being a fan is not necessarily bad, as it can encourage people to strive harder in their studies. Also, despite being discouraged by Mia and Emilia, their class mate Janie dresses like Joni, and even copies her every move! This all makes the Candy JEN members very uncomfortable... How will they clean up this mess?
Miss Miyuki decides to rearrange the students in her class according to their class rankings. With their top marks, Mia and Emilia get to sit together, buy Joni is seated among the students with the lowest marks in the class. Their classmate Jane grabs the chance to take Joni's place in Candy JEM. Determined to sit with her friends again, Joni starts tuition lessons from her older brother Julian to improve her results. Will Joni succeed? Will Jane succeed in her sneaky plan to replace Joni?
Mia's attempts to be less introverted are warmly encouraged by her classmates. A fashion design college student is impressed by Mia's natural flair for fashion, and invites her to join a fashion show as a costume design assistant. However, the jealous Sofia forces with her cousin to compete against Mia! Whose Fashion sense will prevail?
Walter Benjamin's magnum opus was a book he did not live to write. In The Dialectics of Seeing, Susan Buck-Morss offers an inventive reconstruction of the Passagen Werk, or Arcades Project, as it might have taken form. Working with Benjamin's vast files of citations and commentary which contain a myriad of historical details from the dawn of consumer culture, Buck-Morss makes visible the conceptual structure that gives these fragments philosophical coherence. She uses images throughout the book to demonstrate that Benjamin took the debris of mass culture seriously as the source of philosophical truth. The Paris Arcades that so fascinated Benjamin (as they did the Surrealists whose "materialist metaphysics" he admired) were the prototype, the 19th century "ur-form" of the modern shopping mall. Benjamin's dialectics of seeing demonstrate how to read these consumer dream houses and so many other material objects of the time—from air balloons to women's fashions, from Baudelaire's poetry to Grandville's cartoons—as anticipations of social utopia and, simultaneously, as clues for a radical political critique. Buck-Morss plots Benjamin's intellectual orientation on axes running east and west, north and south—Moscow Paris, Berlin-Naples—and shows how such thinking in coordinates can explain his understanding of "dialectics at a standstill." She argues for the continuing relevance of Benjamin's insights but then allows a set of "afterimages" to have the last word.
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Focusing on the arcades of 19th-century Paris--glass-roofed rows of shops that were early centers of consumerism--Benjamin presents a montage of quotations from, and reflections on, hundreds of published sources. 46 illustrations.
In any consideration of S. J. Perelman-and S. J. Perelman certainly deserves the same consideration one accords old ladies on street cars, babies traveling unescorted on planes, and the feeble-minded generally-it is important to remember the crushing, the well-nigh intolerable odds under which the man has struggled to produce what may well be, in the verdict of history, the most picayune prose ever produced in America. Denied every advantage, beset and plagued by ill fortune and a disposition so crabbed as to make Alexander Pope and Dr. Johnson seem sunny by contrast, he has nevertheless managed to belt out a series of books each less distinguished than its predecessor, each a milestone of bombast, conceit, pedantry, and strutting pomposity. In his pages proliferate all the weird grammatical flora tabulated by H. W. Fowler in his Modem English Usage-the Elegant Variation, the Facetious Zeugma, the Cast-iron Idiom, the Battered Ornament, the BowerVBird Phrase, the Sturdy Indefensible, the Side-Slip, and the Unequal Yokefellow. His work is a museum of mediocrity, a monument to the truly banal. What Flaubert did to the French bourgeois in Bouvard and Pecuchet, what Pizarro did to the Incas, what Jack Dempsey did to Paolino Uzcudun, S. J. Perelman has done to American belles-lettres.
