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  • Lina Lingard; Modern Woman

    Lina Lingard; Modern Woman

    Modern Women A modern woman is a woman who is not afraid to break away from traditional views. Women should be considered equal to men. It is the modern women of the early 1900s that have made it possible for girls today to have the jobs and privileges available today. It was not an easy mission, and many women chose not to stray from the traditional path. It took courage and a great deal of

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    Essay Length: 651 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 16, 2010 By: July
  • Arts for Arts Sake

    Arts for Arts Sake

    Art for Arts’ Sake Dear Friends, When I was asked to write to you about my views of the role of the Arts in society, I did not hesitate to embrace the task. Over the past three years, I have been working on a PhD in Music Education. I have finished all of my coursework, and have “only” my dissertation remaining. In this program of study, I recall many discussions in our seminar classes that

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    Essay Length: 795 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 16, 2010 By: Janna
  • Modernism and the Holocaust

    Modernism and the Holocaust

    The emergence of the Holocaust and the Nazi party views can largely be determined as a result of modernity, as a reaction against the times. Yet, at the same time it can be argued that the National Socialist party can be characterized as a modern development. Modris Eksteins, George Mosse, and Zygmundt Bauman offer an in-depth look into both the anti-modern and modern aspects of the Nazi movement and the resulting Holocaust. Ekstein's work proves

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    Essay Length: 260 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 16, 2010 By: July
  • 19th Century Art

    19th Century Art

    19th Century architecture is a wide subject only because there were so many beautiful and magnificent buildings built. The Houses of Parliament were built between 1840 to 1865. It was built by Sir Charles Barry in a Gothic Revival style. The buildings cover an area of more than 8 acres and contain 1100 apartments, 100 staircases, and 11 courts. The exterior, in it’s Revived Gothic style, s impressive with its three large towers: Victoria

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    Essay Length: 625 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 17, 2010 By: July
  • Save the Arts

    Save the Arts

    Within the past few years, the government has been taking major strides to improve the education system by increasing the funding for our school systems and programs. They are increasing the school?s funding by taking away the funds from the art, dance, and theatre classes, among other programs. As a student raised in the atmosphere of the arts and a student now majoring in theatre, I feel very strongly that the government is making a

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    Essay Length: 441 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 17, 2010 By: Edward
  • Minimal Art Is Sometimes Said to Have Initiated a Turn Towards Installation Practices. Discuss What Defines Installation Art, and How Minimalism Contributed to Its Emergence.

    Minimal Art Is Sometimes Said to Have Initiated a Turn Towards Installation Practices. Discuss What Defines Installation Art, and How Minimalism Contributed to Its Emergence.

    In the 1950s and late 1960s, Minimal Art shattered traditional notions of art making by redefining the form, material, and production of the object and its relationship to physical and temporal space and the spectator. Because of this, Minimalism was able to draw attention to the space in which the work is shown; this emphasized the direct engagement with the space and environment as a work in itself. Since then, Minimal Art has helped initiate

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    Essay Length: 458 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 19, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Philosophy of Art

    Philosophy of Art

    Philosophy of Art: Art. It is not just one particular thing to one particular person. It comes in various forms, shapes, and sizes. Forms such as, drawing, painting, sculpting, writing, fine arts, music, photography, and the list could go on. Art is a way to express ones feelings without the artist actually stating how they feel. Everyone does not need to have a specific “talent” in art, because it is a form that flows through

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    Essay Length: 306 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 20, 2010 By: Mike
  • What Does It Take to Be a Successful Manager in Modern Business?

    What Does It Take to Be a Successful Manager in Modern Business?

    What does it take to be a successful manager in modern business? Management in the 21st Century As the world moves through the 21st Century, business is becoming more dependent upon professional managers, who can bring success to an organization. Issues such as globalization and decentralization adds to the need for organization's to hire flexible managers capable of leading. A 21st century manager should possess three traits and utilize them to lead organizations: the ability

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    Essay Length: 3,014 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: March 20, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Modern Philosophy

    Modern Philosophy

    Philosophy is a study that includes various diverse subfields such as aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, and metaphysics. Various philosophical traditions use different methods and include different topics in their study. Some, for example, include politics, physics, or religion. The fundamental method of philosophy involves the systematic use of critical reasoning to evaluate arguments in defence of assertions of belief or opinion. The term philosophy comes from the Greek word "Φιλοσοφία" (philo-sophia), which means "love of

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    Essay Length: 321 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 20, 2010 By: Victor
  • Modernity in Jacques Tati’s-Mon oncle

    Modernity in Jacques Tati’s-Mon oncle

    Anne Friedberg in Ch.2 of Window Shopping: Cinema and the Postmodern (U of California P, 1993) discusses the relationship between the city, modernism, film and architecture. Throughout this essay, I will relate her ideas of modernity particularly in the ‘mobilized gaze’ and ‘commodity-experience’ to Jacques Tati’s film Mon Oncle (1958). Anne Friedberg’s ideas of modernity in the ‘mobilized gaze’ and ‘commodity experience’ as well as the reversal of public and private spaces can be inexorably

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    Essay Length: 807 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 21, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Japanese Martial Arts

    Japanese Martial Arts

    The Martial Arts of Japan The martial arts have influenced Japan in many ways. Many of these arts have been passed down from ancient times and are still even practiced today. In my report, I will examine the major Japanese arts and tell how they have influenced Japan. First, however, I will give a little background for these arts. The original word for Japanese martial arts was bujutsu, or art of the military. This had

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    Submitted: March 21, 2010 By: Artur
  • The Art of Grilling

    The Art of Grilling

    The Art of Grilling After coming home from a long day of going to classes and studying there is one thing that I especially look forward to. Some people may want to go grab a beer or turn on the T.V and lounge around, but my vision of a perfect evening is one spent in front of a grill, cooking whatever it is I’ve chosen for dinner. I’m not sure why I like to

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    Essay Length: 1,143 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 21, 2010 By: Mike
  • "one Art" Essay

    "one Art" Essay

    Every person loses sometimes. In Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “One Art,” Bishop displays her accepting attitude to losing. Using verse form and language, Bishop is able to express her different feelings about losing. Because of her experiences with loss, the poet is able to express her attitude towards loss. Throughout the poem, verse form plays an important role in Elizabeth Bishop’s description of losing. Every tercet from lines 1 to 15 helps to describe that the

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    Essay Length: 418 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 21, 2010 By: Edward
  • Religiosity in Modern America: Growing or Declining?

    Religiosity in Modern America: Growing or Declining?

    Religiosity in Modern America: Growing or Declining? Religion is an incredibly broad and vague social issue all over the world. In fact, religion in the United States can be even more so. In America religion carries many dimensions from frequency of worship to role of faith in important life choices. Examining religion as a social institution who contribute self-conception of one’s own religious piety is one of the least complicated ways to measure religiosity. The

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    Essay Length: 1,052 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 22, 2010 By: Yan
  • Basil’s Changes as Related to Wilde’s Opinion on Art

    Basil’s Changes as Related to Wilde’s Opinion on Art

    Oscar Wilde, author of The Picture of Dorian Gray, makes Basil's life change drastically by having him paint a portrait of Dorian Gray and express too much of himself in it, which, in Wilde's mind, is a troublesome obstacle to circumvent. Wilde believes that the artist should not portray any of himself in his work, so when Basil does this, it is he who creates his own downfall, not Dorian. Wilde introduces Basil to Dorian

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    Essay Length: 835 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 22, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Art History

    Art History

    Art History | Web Museum | Web Gallery of Art | The Artchive | I. Religious and Mythological Up until the Renaissance, most art had to do with religion. Architecture, sculpture, music and painting all centered around the scenes from the Bible, the lives of the saints, and portraits of Madonna and the Christ Child. But this changed as the Renaissance progressed. Greek and Roman gods reappeared everywhere. Sculptures imitated those of ancient Greece. ROMEO

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    Essay Length: 3,563 Words / 15 Pages
    Submitted: March 22, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Art and Technology - Schwartz & Moffat

    Art and Technology - Schwartz & Moffat

    Many modern artists use high technology equipment in their works. Whereas traditionally artists used a pencil or brush to make beautiful works of art, artists in the early twenty-first century are now using sound, video or computer generated images. Digital art developed from simple patterns and shapes made using computer programs to finished works of art which can look as realistic as a watercolour or oil painting. Modern art exhibitions often include more videos and

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    Essay Length: 3,146 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: March 23, 2010 By: Victor
  • Self Control in the Odyssey and O Brother Where Art Thou

    Self Control in the Odyssey and O Brother Where Art Thou

    Self Control, a Problem of the Ages A lack of self control is very evident in O Brother Where Art Thou? as well as in The Odyssey, these stories portray how engrained this problem is, and are evidence to how long lack of control has been pervasive in society. These two sources parallel an idea, however the actual events that take place are much different. The numerous events that show lack of self control occur

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    Submitted: March 23, 2010 By: Mike
  • Pop Art-Andy Warhol

    Pop Art-Andy Warhol

    I believe Pop art is still around in some ways today. They see it as what is popular and what is going on during that certain time. Things change popularity very often so the Pop art changes with the different things that come and go into style and fashionable at that time. “The artist of pop found a gold mine of visual material in the mundane, mass-produced objects and images of America’s popular culture-comic books,

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    Essay Length: 714 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 23, 2010 By: Mike
  • Modern Robotics

    Modern Robotics

    The design challenge is to navigate a robot through a preset course using the knowledge from previous labs and additional research of any kind. Solutions are free from restraint except for the requirement that the voltage source may not exceed 9 volts (standard layout would dictate a 7.2 voltage source). The course layout, dubbed a maze, is a simple square enclosure with 2 barriers protruding from the near and far rails. Black and white tape

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    Submitted: March 24, 2010 By: Top
  • The Art of Jazz

    The Art of Jazz

    In contemporary culture music is found in various forms produced by a variety of instruments, new and old. Instruments found in the jazz performance by the band “LMT” consist of basic instruments (in a newer form): electric bass guitar, electric guitar, drums, and of course vocals. The group is made up of three members, each to an instrument, except for the bassist who is the vocalist as well. It appeared as if each member

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    Submitted: March 24, 2010 By: Victor
  • Radar in the Modern World

    Radar in the Modern World

    Scott Martin D. Hyland English 192 Research Paper Radar in the Modern World Radar is usually taken for granted in these days of modern technology. Many people do not know how radar is really used, how it works, or why we need it. People are familiar with several uses of radar like police enforcement radar guns and radar that measures how fast a baseball is pitched in a major league game. These are only a

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    Submitted: March 24, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Dallas Museum of Art Project

    Dallas Museum of Art Project

    Dallas Museum of Art Project Example (pg. 504 in your book) 1. Andre Derain, View of Collioure, 1905, Fauvism. 2. Landscape, oil on canvas 3. FORM: a. Color: the use of color is a predominant visual element. The very warm color Derain uses creates an emotional effect of playfulness and warmth. b. Rhythm: rhythm, a principle of design, is based on repetition, and the repetition of the bright colored brushstrokes in the bottom half of

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    Submitted: March 24, 2010 By: Edward
  • Art Analysis of the Luncheon of the Boating Party and a Sunday on La Grande Janette

    Art Analysis of the Luncheon of the Boating Party and a Sunday on La Grande Janette

    The Luncheon of the Boating Party by Pierre-Auguste Renoir is a piece full of rich colours that reflect both the time period and the artist's impressionist style. This composition not only conveys a leisurely gathering of people, but also expresses the changing French social structure of the time due to the industrial revolution. To portray these themes Renoir uses, shape, space, colour and texture. Shape is seen in the modeled figures and bottles, and space

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    Submitted: March 26, 2010 By: Top
  • Review of Stearns’ Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West

    Review of Stearns’ Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West

    Review of Stearns' Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West Wow, I mean, your sister, she's so fat that when she wears a yellow raincoat, people shout out, "Taxi!" Your brother, gosh, he's so fat that his driver's license says, "Picture continued on the other side!" About your mother, well, she's so fat that when she walks in front of the television, you miss out on three commercials! I'm tellin' ya! Fat! Those

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    Submitted: March 26, 2010 By: Vika