A RECONSTRUCTED PORTRAIT OF JUAN DE LA CRUZ By Roger Don S.J. Cerda How do we describe today’s Filipino? What are the qualities or physical attributes that make us stand out among all the races in the world? What distinguishing marks do we have? Is it our nose that is as big and wide as the gorilla’s? Is it our fair skin? Is it our round brown eyes? Is it our moderate height? Is it our unique black hair? Is it our proficiency in the Filipino language? Is it our conservative way of dressing or
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Jan van Eyck was able to create a naturalism and religious feeling in his oil painting‚ which made him one of the most famous painters in fifteenth-century. The “Arnolfini Portrait” was painted in 1434 by van Eyck in the style of oil on panel. This piece has various interpretations because of the different objects and layout in the painting. In this painting there are two main figures of a man and women. “Images represent a man and woman standing in a richly furnished room‚ equipped with a brass
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beacon While reviewing a woman‚ an extraordinarily brilliant and uncompromising thinker‚ a leftist feminist considered it as the order of the big doctor and an often underestimated and aloof “irrepressible crank”-as she puts her in describing herself; Judith Levine’s choice in her “Boston Review” forty years celebrating article was more than obvious. As a radical cultural critic who never really sounded dogmatic and a journalist Allen Willies was one of the great public intellectuals of her generation
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Wealthy. Powerful. White. Men. All of these things are something the power elite have in common with each other. In addition‚ they presumably went to the same Ivy League institutions‚ and were a part of the same gentleman’s organizations. C. Wright Mills interpreted the world through a perspective which was influenced by Max Weber. In this perspective‚ he envisions the United States having a power elite who commands the 3 major resources of modern society‚ the economy‚ government‚ and the military
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Matthew Tan TA: Ben Sheredos Section: A06 Prof. G. Doppelt PART A The debate on abortion is primarily made up of two sides: prolife and prochoice. The prolife side’s main argument is that the fetus is a person and therefore has a right to life. Judith Thomson addresses this argument in her paper‚ “A Defense of Abortion‚” by giving a hypothetical sick violinist example. In this example‚ kidnappers abduct a healthy stranger and‚ after rendering him unconscious‚ performs a surgery to “connect” the
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Gee! What did your teacher mean by asking you to write a portrait essay? Is it possible to write a portrait? What portrait should you write? Well‚ first‚ stop panicking because of your portrait essay. Second‚ your teacher wants you to prepare a normal essay‚ where you should describe someone or something just like an artist would do it. Sure‚ if you have never prepared a portrait essay before‚ you have a lot of questions. Yet‚ we are ready to answer some of them and provide a couple of ideas
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C. Wright Mills described sociological imagination as the vivid awareness of the relationship between experience and the wider society." and Used it " to portray the sort of knowledge offered by the train of society. Plants characterized sociological creative energy as " This awareness enables every one of us to appreciate the connections between our immediate‚ individual social settings and the remote‚ unoriginal social world that encompasses us and shapes us. The important thing in the sociological
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Human beings are by nature social‚ for it is indispensable for them to have relationship with the society. Sociology is the attempt to understand how society works. However‚ who is responsible for the problems surrounding our society? Sociologist C. Wright Mills though that sociology is responsible of many of our problems. In 1959‚ he introduced the sociological imagination‚ remarking in his own words as “ the capacity to shift from one perspective to another”‚ establishing a relationship between experience
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similarities is the meaning or primary focus of these paintings. These figures seem to both be portraits‚ most likely with the intent of showing off wealth or status. The reason as to why I think that these portraits where both made for the reason is because they both seem to be trying to “show off” to the viewer‚ showing the figures in expensive and opulent clothing‚ in image number two the sitter for the portrait is wearing what looks to be a expensive and fine brocade‚ while in image one the wearer is
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some kind of trouble. The adult who was trying to help us understand our problem made a statement that I will never forget‚ he said‚ "You don’t like anyone who is not exactly like you". This is a world wide problem for people of all ages. What C. Wright MIlls is getting across in sociological imagination‚ is to give people the benefit of the doubt. This world is made up of a lot of individuals. No two of us are alike‚ and it’s really not all about me. We need to be accepting of the different shapes
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