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It often has been said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If someone were to look up beauty in the dictionary, they would read this: beauty is a characteristic of a person, animal, place, object, or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure, meaning, or satisfaction. In other words, beauty is anything that is pleasing to the eye. Today’s society teaches that the way to beauty is to become rich and successful, only worrying about oneself, but is that true beauty? Is true beauty not giving oneself up for another? True beauty comes when someone cares about others that cannot return that care. Jean Vanier embodies true beauty because he gave up a rich, easy lifestyle to invest himself into and live with people who could not offer him anything in return.…
When he went to the Soviet Union with President Ronald Reagan a decade ago, and they did not ask for a blue dog, but a painting of a Reagan on a white horse, and Gorbachev on the ground, holding his hand out in friendship. The soviet officials were unhappy with it. Most people can say whatever they want about the witty Blue dogs, Mr. Rodrigue’s paintings of what seems to be the same dog stamped on various landscapes, portraits and situations. Some people and critics say that it isn’t really art at all. What started off as a fantasy for his long dead companion has become a lasting impression, with 1,200 or more Blue Dog paintings and artwork since 1984. There are even paintings in the White House, Whoopi Goldberg’s house, Tom Brokaw’s house, and to the houses of admires. Even the vodka brand, Absolut, has ads with the Blue Dog. His artwork can range from a few thousand dollars to $250,000. Rodrigues was awarded a Gold Medal for the arts, and was honored by the Salon des Artistes of Paris. “I’m surprised by people’s reactions,” he said. It is not unusual, he said, to have people stare at the Blue Dog paintings and cry. ''The yellow eyes are really the soul of the dog,'' he said. ''He has this piercing stare. People say the dog keeps talking to them with the eyes, always saying something different.'' ''People who have seen a Blue Dog painting always remember it,'' he said. ''They are really about life, about mankind…
The Duke portrays his former wife as a having a “spot of joy” (21) that appears in her cheek, an unintentional indication of the Duchess’s delight, in other people and nature. The Duke considers her blushing as a form of corrupted nature. Browning uses a collection of images that…
Laughter can free a man’s soul. Even when he has been beaten over and over again, laughter can lift his spirits. This is also seen in books such as the Bible. Apostles Paul and Silas were disempowered by their enemies, yet they laughed and praised and were eventually let out of jail-- literally attaining their freedom. In Ken Kesey’s renowned novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and movie directed by Milos Forman (1975), a prevalent motif that occurs is the disempowerment of controlling and restrictive people and things like the Big Nurse and the combine and empowerment by the patients when they laugh. In order to ensure that the patients do what they are told to…
In this essay, I will discuss the elements involved and my interpretation of the poem The Raven, by Edgar Allen Poe. Many poems, including this particular one, are made up of a number of elements which are combined to give the reader a certain thought or feeling. I will also discuss the poet's philosophy on poetry and how this plays a role in The Raven.…
As a result of mechanization and industrialization in factories, where most men in 1930s earned their living, maintaining a stable job was made that much more difficult. Being sick or injured, whether it happened on or off site of the work place, could mean termination from the job to that individual. The development of the assembly line in factories made each worker expendable; because in an assembly line each person is assigned with different, single task that can be easily taught in a matter of minutes, even to someone who has no experience on the job. These kinds of problems faced by the “working poor” of America were greatly portrayed by Charlie Chaplin as “the tramp” and by Paulette Goddard as “the gamin” in their silent film, Modern…
Hello Giggles, an online community for women writers and artists to create and share their work, is now a part of Time Inc.…
Though Amusing Ourselves to Death was published in 1985 and The Shallows was published in 2010, both authors tried to inform its readers of the alarming signs. We are blind and not even aware of it. The invention of technology has transformed it users to become flat out lazy. Carr once said, “ Once I was a scuba diver in a sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy of a Jet Ski.” We no longer can enjoy the adventure of scuba diving because it takes too long. We now prefer Jet Ski’s so that we can go accelerating speeds and feel the adrenaline rush. At one time, we possessed a linear mind. We were focused and enjoyed reading without distractions. It’s harder now to sit down and read a book, write an essay, or even focus. The Internet has changed our minds and us. In spending just 5 hours on the Internet, our brain can rewire itself. The human brain contains many things that shape the way we think. Our brains contain 100 billion neurons that have different shapes and sizes. The normal size neuron produces 1,000 synapses, which help us understand what to think, who we are, and how to feel. Neurologists once thought that…
The world of politics is represented as a marketed and strategically planned product, which causes the audience to question the negative aspects of human nature which are revealed. The media's ability to manipulate public perception in order to achieve a certain outcome is clearly depicted in Barry Levinson's 1997 satirical film, 'Wag the Dog'. This film depicts characteristics such as manipulation and concealment, and portrays the political system as a platform for revealing the worst of human nature. The Newsroom is a 2012 TV series created by Aaron Sorkin, which focuses on the reform of a news reporter who has experienced the failures of human nature. These failures occur when his ethical agenda is linked so closely with politics and media.…
Kitty Burns Florey in her essay Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dog, reminds herself of the days of her childhood education when she made something called diagram sentences. Florey enjoyed the diagraming sentences and she perceives that her skill doesn’t benefit people and it has no application. Florey uses images of roads, maps and signs, and transportation to show the importance of the journey of diagraming sentences over the finished product an d that means to show the importance of the journey regardless of the place.…
Footloose shows that the only way for young people to become trustworthy is for adults to trust them. The movie is set during the 80’s in a small town called Beaumont, where dancing is outlawed. Beaumont is under the tight grasp of the Reverend Moore, who is the loudest advocate against dancing. This does not sit well with Ren McCormac. Just moved from Chicago, Ren finds himself clashing with the conservative culture of Beaumont, and seems to make a stir wherever he goes. While this doesn’t endear him to the adults, Ren’s big city charm attracts a group of teens who want to break out of the confines of their small town, especially the reverend’s daughter Ariel. Despite her father’s overly firm hand, Ariel is reckless; in one scene, she stands…
In this paper, I will evaluate two artworks that share the theme of “everyday life”, and I will…
The poems written by Huang E and Qiu Jin showcase a changing of views for women in China. Huang E lived during the Ming dynasty, which was controlled by the Mongols. While the Mongols controlled China foot binding as a practice flourished and was encouraged. Foot binding during the Ming dynasty was “essentially grounded in eroticism. Bound feet were central to a woman's identity as an aspect of her beauty that she could control.” (Chinese Beauty through the Changes of Time). During the Ming dynasty foot binding was “associated with an expression of sexuality,” this may have influenced Huang E while writing “To the tune “The Fall of a Little Wild Goose”’ because femininity was stressed, and sexuality was encouraged in women. However, Qiu…
People have been defining art as “good” or “bad”, “proper” or “improper” , or simply worthy or not since the first art was sketched on a cave wall. In the novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, Stephen Dedulas continues the trend of passing judgment on art and beauty. However, art is merely an expression and beyond that it cannot be judged. Yet many people still look for formulas that can explain art in clean cut, single way. And although there may be art that is timeless and magnificent, art is anything that brings joy to the artist. And anyone who limits themselves to only the art that fits with their specific formula is missing out on so much other art that the world has to offer.…
1st Paragraph in ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’, the poet writes about the idea of death, and what dying men should do in their last moments. He does this through the frequent usage of imagery, illustrating to the readers the final moments of various people’s lives, and what they should do in these moments.…