What defines a work as “pop culture?” And conversely‚ what defines a work as “art?” What magical quality distinguishes the seemingly unremarkable projects of Bay‚ Warhol‚ and Collins from the prestigious masterpieces of Welles‚ Rembrandt‚ and Tolstoy? Popular culture is the ocean in which the arts swim‚ and when one contemplates and examines “the arts” it is done in a world defined by popular culture. (Or‚ in cultural theory terms‚ popular culture is the Other‚ for the arts — the thing the arts supposedly
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Tuesdays With Morrie Tuesdays With Morrie is a true novel based upon an older dying man ’s outlook on life. Throughout the story‚ the older man teaches his past student about life as his body is slowly withering away from the " Lou Gehrig ’s Disease." CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT: Morrie Schwartz (the older man) teaches his student‚ Mitch Albom‚ what really matters in life. The only way that I can begin to describe Morrie ’s character‚ is to quote an excerpt from pg. 10 regarding his reaction after being
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Christ and Culture‚ authored by H. Richard Niebuhr in 1951‚ is a book which discusses how a Church or a Christian is to interact with ones culture. Niebuhr systematically answers this question by placing the church into the following five categories they have utilized through history to answer this question: "Christ against culture‚" "the Christ of culture‚" "Christ above culture (Christ synthesizing with culture)‚" "Christ and culture in paradox‚" and "Christ the transformer of culture." Reading
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Plessy v. Ferguson U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld segregation; centered around a multi- racial man that was arrested for sitting in the “White Only” railroad car. 14. Racial Events such as race riots‚ lynchings‚ the Leo Frank case‚ and terrorist acts by the Ku Klux Klan were results of what type of violence? 15. Booker T. Washington Founder and President of Tuskegee University; believed education for African Americans was the key to obtaining
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milieu in which the meals take place. Since eating is often seen as a social event‚ the ambience of a meal and the manners of the diners contribute much to character revelation. More abstractly‚ in addition to giving insights into character‚ both Tolstoy and Flaubert use food to symbolise significant events or developments in the plot. Therefore‚ by analysing the representations of food we can gain insights into many of the ideas that the writers are trying to convey. This paper will compare the
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The Meaning of Lives In her article The Meaning of Lives‚ Susan Wolf‚ a moral philosopher and philosopher of action‚ investigates whether meaning can exist in lives without postulating the existance of God. Wolf establishes her position on this philosophical question from an agnostic perspective and rationally argues that such a question can in fact “fit within a negative or agnostic view about the meaning of life” (Wolf 63). With this paper‚ I will first summarize the prominent points of Wolf’s
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only an average boy. He was always regular and punctual in his class. After passing his matriculation Examination he first studied at college and then went to England to study Law. In London he made acquaintance with Mrs. Besant and read to work of Tolstoy. Tolstoy’s teachings had deep influence on his mind. In 1891 he was called to bar. After completing his studies he returned to India. He started his practice at Bombay. But he did not do well there. Then he went to Rajkot. He was not a successful
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Free India’ was a dream of all Indians under the British rule. Everyone during that rule fought in some way or the other with a common aim of ending British and other colonial authorities in India. After a century of revolutions‚ struggle‚ blood shedding‚ battles and sacrifices‚ India finally achieved independence on August 15‚ 1947. India was free in 1947 from the British Empire but the country lost many men and women who were filled with undaunted courage and spirit of patriotism. Today‚ they
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pages. Sometimes this narrow of the concept is enhanced creating a strong stereotype of history. However‚ there are books that demolish this veil of abstraction around history and suggest a new and altered idea of it. For example‚ War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy or 11.22.63 by Stephen King had a massive effect on literature and people’s perception of history. Though there is one special book blowing one’s mind and suggesting a new interpretation of
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References: De Botton‚ A. (2000). The Consolations of Philosophy. New York: Pantheon Books. Graaf‚ J.‚ Naylor‚ T.‚ & Wann‚ D. (2001). Affluenza. San Francisco: Brerrett-Koehler Publishers‚ Inc. Tolstoy‚ L. (1993). Confession. Translated by David Patterson. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.
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