MEDITATIONS OF A PISS ARTIST by Menchu Aquino Sarmiento [pic] ©2002 by Copper Sturgeon JOJO was idly tracing arcs and swirls on the rooftop of the Faculty Center. He was alone and his urine fizzled slightly on the pleasantly warm concrete with the hiss of rain. As in the unforeseen workings of mimetic magic‚ there did then arise from the heat-swollen earth‚ the vapors of a slight precipitation to come. Jojo felt triumphant‚ a personal sense of accomplishment. Maybe he was some kind of shaman
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The Italian Renaissance was a momentous time period for all things to do with the arts and culture. Art was branching into other avenues far from just being expressionism. It became a “statement” whether it be political‚ social‚ or economical‚ there was a message to be conveyed to a particular party. In a sense “Italian Renaissance” is to broad of a term in a historically and culturally. Each region and city-state within Italy experienced the Renaissance is different ways. Moreover‚ the
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the authorities (Bordwell and Thompson‚ 1980 p.316)‚ they showed life in Italy in a completely different light to the reality of the time. They showed an Italian society that was happy contented and well structured. There was no real meaning to these melodramas‚ they just ambled along showing the supposedly easygoing contented life of the Italian people living at the time‚ often depicting melodramatic conversations of affluent characters talking on the telephone. Which ultimately gave them the label
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University of Glasgow Department of Film and Television Studies Beyond “Brutality”: Understanding the Italian Filone’s Violent Excesses by Robert J. Edmonstone Matriculation #: 9703623 Supervisors: Dr. Ian Garwood / Dr. Karen Boyle 2 Contents Abstract Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Introducing the Filone: Industry‚ Cycles and Censorship 2. Investigating Violence and Spectacle in the Filone 3. Theorising Excess and Violence in the Filone 4. Narrative versus Excess in the Filone
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www.pwc.com/it The Italian NPL market Why investing in Italy? April 2011 PwC Foreword & Content Foreword Given the recent increase in activity on loan portfolios in a number of key banking jurisdictions across Europe‚ including Italy‚ and the complexity of the Italian NPL market‚ we thought useful sharing the main features of the current market and the reasons on why this market might be interesting from an investor perspective. As per our extensive experience in advising both buyers
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1896 Italian troops had tried to invade Abyssinia but had been defeated by the African tribesmen. This had hurt the Italians pride and Mussolini wanted revenge. Mussolini also had his eye on the fertile lands and mineral wealth of Abyssinia. Mussolini believed that to be a great leader he needed military victories and lots of glory and conquest. He wanted to expand his empire and he thought that Abyssinia was the perfect place. What happened?In December 1934 there was a dispute between Italian and
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“A Hunger Artist” by Franz Kafka is a short story that has a lot more to it than meets the eye. At first glance‚ this story seems to just be about a man obsessed with fasting‚ but this story has more to it; it has character parallels and symbolism. First‚ the hunger that the hunger artist willfully suffers has a double meaning: it refers to his urge of fasting as well as his unquenchable desire to defy human imagination by fasting indefinitely. Driven to relinquish the nourishment that the rest
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What was the representation of women back in the Italian Renaissance era? It is preposterous as to how little to no freedom a woman was given compared to now. Women in this era were looked at as inferior to males and had many restricted rights. Their role in society back then was mainly to be in charge of taking care of the house‚ and bearing a lot of children. The term renaissance means “rebirth”‚ it has been questioned by the historian Joan Kelly as to whether women even had a renaissance like
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Mike Rayhawk There are artists of many kinds. Artists that paint and draw. Others create physical art. Some even make graphic art. This artist is known for all these and more. This artist is Mike Rayhawk. Mike doesn’t just create art for himself or just for display‚ he creates things for the world to enjoy‚ even if he is not recognized. So what does he create as an artist‚ and what is his story on his artist career. Mike Rayhawk was a computer programmer studying mathematics and software engineering
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Italy Culture and culture of the Italian Peninsula… . A Project by: Miodrag Jankovic Intercultural Communication EPHEC A Project by: Miodrag Jankovic Intercultural Communication EPHEC Summary Italian ID Card 3 The History 4 Geography 5 Environment - current issues 6 Environment - international agreements 6 Natural hazards 6 Italian Society & Culture 7 The Italian Language 7 Italian Family Values 7 Architecture 7
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