Harmony Capstone March 14‚ 2013 Footprints in the Snow (Des pas sur la neige) is one of Claude Debussy’s‚ a French Impressionist composer‚ many piano preludes. This particular prelude is number six out of twelve in his first book of preludes‚ written between December 1909 and February 1910. Footprints in the Snow is considered the saddest and most moving of all of Debussy’s preludes. Although the key signature suggests F major or D minor‚ the piece is modal‚ switching between various modes
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Understanding of Running Fence After watching the great project-Running Fence‚ I have changed my appreciation of art. Christo and Jeanne-Claude are outstanding installation artists‚ and they enlarge people sight of traditional artwork. In this project‚ a twenty four and a half mile long white silk fence hung up across the hills and extended to sea shore are in California’s Bodega Bay. With Christo and Jeanne’s precise calculation‚ workers installed staffs within certain distances‚ and used strings
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interesting to me and there wasn’t much else I was interested in taking. Furthermore‚ I learned a little bit about some of the more famous names in social anthropology‚ such as Franz Boas‚ Ruth Benedict‚ Zora Neale Hurston‚ Lewis Henry Morgan‚ and Claude Levi-Strauss. They all contributed to the science in their own ways‚ influenced by some and
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How does Detective Mills subvert the binary opposition good and bad in the film Se7en? Introduction In this essay‚ I am going to be analysing a character from the thriller film ‘Se7en’ (directed by David Fincher). The character of my choice is one of the lead roles of this film‚ Detective Mills. This character is portrayed as a homicide detective‚ taking the place of experienced retiring detective Somerset. The theoretical analysis I have chosen to use is the use of binary oppositions‚ particularly
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are used and seen every day in life by people. The reasons for why people use stereotypes is an endless list. The book Whistling Vivaldi by Claude M. Steele talks about how identity threat affects different type of people through experiments. Some experiments Steele talked about in his book was “Brown eyes‚ Blue Eyes” and an intelligent test done by Jean Claude and Theresa Claire. Throughout the book most of the experiments show how identity threat affects people negatively through making them more
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post-modern spirit - finding new ways to view ideas which are constantly moving around. Derrida ’s essay can be broken down into a number of discrete yet well connected sections‚ with the main body of the paper surrounding exploration the work of Claude Levi-Strauss. The essay begins with a focal point - speculation surrounding changes in structuralism - ’perhaps something has occurred in the history of the concept of structure that could be called an event ’. Derrida is suggesting that despite
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fabric that was hung from steel cables by the methods of 350‚000 hooks. 2‚050 steel poles were stuck into the ground and braced by steel wires anchored to the earth supported the cables. Despite being up for only 2 weeks creators Christo and Jeanne-Claude went through a long and grueling process of actually getting the work approved having to face the many concerns and protests of the community many of them
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The movie THE BIG SHORT (TBS) directed by Adam McKay is based on a group of people who experienced the housing and economic bubble era of the early 2000’s. The director seeks to help his audience grasp the material used in the movie‚ through an in-depth break down of scenarios off-screen. His display of critical thinking to help you understand his screenplay is rather unchallenging after taking in his examples. Explaining such things as CDOs and subprime loans‚ to show the impact each one carries
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of Blondel‚ who designed the most famous rationalist building. Work: The Panthéon MARIE- JOSEPH PEYRE- an architect‚ was a student of Blondel’s‚ and in 1751 he won the Rome Prize. Work/ with Charles de Wailly: Façade of the Théâtre Français CLAUDE-NICOLAS LEDOUX- architect also a student of Blondel. Ledoux was heavily influenced by Peyre s Architectural Works‚ Piranesi s publications‚ and Neufforge s Basic Collection of Architecture. Work: Main entrance‚ saltworks‚ Arc-et-Senans‚ House of
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Both Claude Monet’s‚ Water lilies‚ Morning: Willows3 (132) and Grainstack (Sunset)4 (116) are oil panting on canvas. They both depict a natural scene‚ in a peaceful setting. In the painting Water Lilies‚ we see the use of a restricted palette. Blues‚ being the
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