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    throughout their poems. These literary devices can serve to represent marginalised groups in ways that challenge their reader’ original perceptions. Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Judith Wright are two poets who have applied this strategy. Although Noonuccal and Wright both share a passion for writing‚ they came from vastly different contexts. Judith Wright was born a white woman in Armidale‚ New South Wales‚ in 1915 – the eldest child of Phillip and Ethel Wright. She began writing poetry to please her mother‚ who

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    John Ruskin said‚ “I always said that no woman could paint.” This quote from John Ruskin is nonsense. If women can give birth and raise their children to live their own lives‚ women could do everything anyone else can. In this era‚ some of the most powerful positions in governments are being held by women. Maybe I have an untrained eye‚ but if no description for a work of an artist is provided‚ I would not be able to tell if a piece of art was created by a man or a woman. Art or all entertainment

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    be recognized through their writing. This insight allows readers to gain a wider perspective on the views the poet bears on the many themes and issues raised throughout their poetry. In the poems‚ Wedding Photograph‚ 1913 and The Old Prison‚ poet Judith Wright uses strong imagery to comment on the themes and issues present in society‚ from the devastation of war which is relayed through the use of personification and alliteration‚ to the impracticality of altering the past showed by the inclusion

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    Judith Jarvis Thomson: A Defense of Abortion – CRITICAL EXPOSITION The goal of Judith Jarvis Thomson in her defense of abortion is to sway the ideas of those who are against abortion by challenging the arguments they give for thinking so. She begins by stating a premise. “For the sake of the argument” a human embryo is a person. This premise is one of the arguments most opponents of abortion use‚ but as she points out‚ isn’t much of an argument at all. These people spend a lot of their time dwelling

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    Judith Wright’s poems ‘Train Journey’ and ‘Flame tree in a Quarry’ both achieve a balance between language and the imagination of concepts with her use of themes and techniques. In both poems‚ Wright creates a sense of life in the landscapes and adds beauty to it‚ which heightens its importance. The poems also highlight the power and destruction of the environment. In the poem ‘Train Journey’‚ the themes of Australian landscape and environment are portrayed with the use of personification and

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    display of power and dramatic intensity‚ and the appealing to the spirit through the senses. The subject matter of the Baroque Era was often of religious scenes. The term Baroque originally meant overdone – too many notes in music‚ too much color in painting‚ and too grand in architecture. Eventually‚ Baroque has come to become characterized by elaborate ornamentation‚ the aim to create a dramatic effect‚ the appealing of the spirit through the senses‚ enlarged space‚ heightened sensuality and spirituality

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    Siegman 1Prompt: Casta paintings‚ produced for elite criollo audiences (i.e.‚ those of Spanish ancestry born in the Americas)‚ bolstered economic and social inequality and legitimized a racial hierarchy that kept criollos at the top. The development of a highly complex and somewhat variable Casta system in the Spanish colonies and at home is a way of encoding economic hierarchy onto the body of colonial subjects produced through population contact in Spanish colonies. These paintings were produced for

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    Exhibition review Title of Assignment: Painting at the Court of Milan by Leonardo Da Vinci We recognize what Renaissance is‚ as a cultural movement‚ economic‚ and social development‚ furthermore‚ there are number of expression of it. However much it could say‚ it is likely to be defined as only 1 word‚ “Leonardo Da Vinci” (“April 15‚ 1452 – May 2‚ 1519”)‚ who worked out diversely many ways in the Renaissance period. This great exhibition (“Painter at the

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    The Absolut Vodka painting was done in Stockholm‚ Sweden (Wrenn‚ and Abraham). This painting turned out to be the painting that allowed Wenner to be known by a wider audience. Another painting he was hired for was for Disney in Glendale‚ California (“Kurt Werren”). This job grew into a relationship between Wenner and Disney; he trained some of the top engineers at Disney Imagineering as well as theme park designers to use unusual uses of perspective (“Kurt Wenner”). The National Gallery of Art in

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    demonstrate the effects on art of the secularization of humanity through time. In temporal order from earliest to the most resent. Three paintings will be used to illustrate the progression from more to less pious forms of expression until the final expression of self-worship or what is commonly called humanism. The earliest work that will be discussed is a painting called Ghent Alarpiece. This oil on panel from ca. 1425-32 AD. by van Eyck consists of twelve panels‚ eight of them being hinged shutters

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