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Modern Art Essays and Term Papers
Consumption and UtopiaThroughout Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the concepts of consumerism and utopia have constantly juxtaposed and compared to determine whether or not consumption and "COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY" (3) are genuinely compatible. Although state citizens in "Brave New World" are always genuinely ...
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The Role of Masculinity, Honor, and Chastity in “Rape if Lucrece”Lucrece's catastrophic downfall in Shakespeare's Rape of Lucrece can be essentially blamed on virile rivalry. Her unfortunate story began with a challenge to determine which man possesses the most virtuous wife. After Lucrece was decreed the most dutiful, Sextus Tarquinius, a Tarquin prince and ...
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Erasmus' Influence on More's Utopia. To be or not to be a humanist.More was born on February 7, 1478, in London, which, if not yet the chief city of the world, was at least one of the most important commercial centres of Europe, in which the tendencies of the new mode of production were sharply and clearly defined.
He came of an “honest but by no means eminent” ...
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Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAnna Siracusa
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Lincoln College Online
One of my favorite movies of all time is Moulin Rouge. I have seen it a million times! The vast array of colorful characters is so intriguing and it is simply a good story. What I did not realize is that the setting is based on ...
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Poetry as Criticism of LifePoetry as Criticism of Life - Matthew Arnold
In his essay, ‘The Study of Poetry’ Matthew Arnold has presented poetry as a criticism of life. In the beginning of his essay he states: “In poetry as criticism of life, under conditions fixed for such criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic ...
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Fall Of RomeFall Of Rome
Rajat Patel
Professor Otlowski
History -121
February 20, 2014
The Roman Empire stretched from Hadrian's Wall to northern Iraq and from the mouth of the Rhine to the Atlas Mountains of North Africa. It was the largest state that western Eurasia has ever seen. It was also ...
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Visual Arts Essay on Xu Bing, Cai Quo-Qiang & Wenda GuContemporary Chinese artists Xu Bing, Cai Quo-Qiang and Wenda Gu have integrated the audience into their installation artworks. The audience can be defined as museum patrons, volunteers working on the project, translators and the wider public as seen in the artwork installation by these three ...
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The Yi (Choson) DynastyYi (Choson) Dynasty
Introduction
The Yi (Choson) Dynasty was the final and longest of Korea's dynasties. Chinese cultural influences were extremely strong during this period, when Neo-Confucianism was adopted as the ideology of the state and society (Duncan, 2000). In the late 16th and early ...
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Critical Analysis on Fleur Schell's Braille AbacusCritical Analysis on Fleur Schell's Braille Abacus
By Oscar McMath
Braille Abacus by Fleur Schell
Fleur Schell's "Braille Abacus" art installation is made out of 12 white porcelain bottles slip-casted from a two-piece mould and hanging on a weathered Jarrah frame and metal polls. ...
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Hawaiian QuiltingGena Edgar
Professor Gowen
English 508
May 2018
Hawaii, the land of sunsets, volcanos is rich with history both of the people and their way of life. Hawaiian quilting is a unique and interesting form of quilting that tells a story. It dates back to pre-contact times and is easily ...
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A Comparison between Wuthering Heights and Arnold’s Film AdaptationA Comparison between Wuthering Heights and Arnold’s Film Adaptation
Abstract
This thesis focuses on comparing Emily Brontë’s masterpiece and her only novel Wuthering Heights with the film adaptation in 2011 directed by Andrea Arnold. It concentrates mainly on the different portraits of ...
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Mona LisaMona Lisa is a 16th century painting made from oil and popular wood. Due to the painting’s mystique and technical mystery, it is one of the world’s most famous paintings. Mona Lisa also known as La Joconde or La Giocondo was made by a “Renaissance Man”, an Italian artist known as Leonardo ...
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Orwell's Politics And The English LanguageLou Pauly was a guest lecturer in my global politics class recently.
Pauly pointed to the decay of our language as a cause of the degeneration
of our understanding of each other and our own political systems. One
example he gave was the overuse and misuse of the term 'globalization' to
the point ...
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J.P. MorganJohn Pierpont Morgan is considered one of the founding fathers of the modern United States economy. He was an industrial genius that is accredited with the founding of many companies including General Electric and AT&T. However, Pierpont is looked upon as a saint and demon the same. He ...
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Florence Nightingalewas born on May 12, 1820 in Florence, Italy. She came from a wealthy family. As a child she had a vivid imagination, was considered a dreamer and often dreamed of helping others. Nightingale was well educated, a benefit of her family’s wealth and her fathers belief in education, even for ...
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Frankenstein Biography, SettinMost people know of Mary Shelley as the writer of Frankenstein and the wife of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. However, she was far more than that, and parts of her life were just as dramatic and tragic, if not more so, than her famous gothic novel. Mary's parents were themselves well-known in ...
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Egyptians"Did the early have help in building the pyramids?" All over the
world remain fantastic objects, vestiges of people or forces which the theories
of archaeology, history, and religion cannot explain. There is something
inconsistent about our archaeology. They have found electric batteries ...
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J.p. MorganJohn Pierpont Morgan is considered one of the founding fathers of the modern United States economy. He was an industrial genius that is accredited with the founding of many companies including General Electric and AT&T. However, Pierpont is looked upon as a saint and demon the same. He received a ...
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