The sublime in visual arts and music Pintura The raft of the medusa Théodore Géricault . Contemporary and political relevance. They are hanging between life and death . Drama in the wild ocean and the hope of salvation. Murder and cannibalism. There is a certain realism in the painting which at the time was an innovation yet is isn’t completely realistic‚ there is not realism in an absolute sense because there is certain idealization of the human figures‚ they are shown in very heroic poses when
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Brave New World: Comparing Life In the World State With Life In the US Today By Aldous Huxley Prompt: Compare life as Huxley described it in the World State with life in the United States today. For more than half a century‚ science fiction writers have thrilled and challenged readers with visions of the future and future worlds. These authors offered an insight into what they expected man‚ society‚ and life to be like at some future time. A society can achieve stability only when everyone
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Quickdraw and Hour by Carol Ann Duffy Task – To write an essay exploring Duffy’s presentation of two contrasting sides of love in the poems‚ ‘Quickdraw’ and ‘Hour’. Love is the main theme in Duffy’s poems Hour and Quickdraw‚ the similarities end there‚ as these two poems show two very different sides of romantic love. Just from the name‚ Quickdraw‚ the reader already forms an idea of the violence and hurt that will be presented to them in this poem. What we do not expect however is the way Duffy
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The Meaning of a Beautiful Thing The term performing arts is defined as the process of an individual using particular talents and or learned abilities to perform and entertain other people. Traveling deeper into explanation on the subject of performing arts‚ terms such as theater and music come to mind. By taking a close look at the subject of performing arts‚ particularly the topics of theater and music‚ the reader will leave with a better understanding of the important’s of theater and music
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My featured painting today entitled The Night was painted by Max Beckmann during 1918 and 1919. It is housed at the Kunstammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen‚ Dusseldorf. This is an early example of Beckmann’s grotesque and appalling visionary paintings with its misshapen figures. Before us we have an overcrowded room in a modern city. Beckman himself said he wanted this work to be looked upon as a large modern history painting tinged with a sense of evil. Three men have invaded the room and are terrorising
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Tina Melton Mrs. Risher History II 4/19/2013 The book Night is a horrifying flashback of Elie’s life during a terrible event‚ the Holocaust. Eli was a young Jew during World War Two. Reading the book about Elie’s survival of the Holocaust can educate individuals about the terrible things that happened‚ and how they survived. Eli lived off of nothing but the hope that him and his father would make it out alive. He had no food‚ no water‚ and barely any shelter. The Holocaust was a heart-breaking
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Athens and Sparta were superpowers in Ancient Greece. In some ways the two city-states were similar‚ and in some ways they were different. However‚ in terms of society and government‚ Athens was superior. Athens gave it’s citizens greater freedoms‚ had a more modern form of government‚ and influenced western civilization far more than the Spartans ever did. The people of Athens enjoyed more freedoms than the people of Sparta did. Spartan culture was centred around it’s military. According to The
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Comparing and Contrasting the Old and the Young 1. There are many similarities as well as differences between the elderly and young adults. The most common factor in both of these groups it seems is the overwhelming ability for being narrow-minded 2. Young adults as well as the elderly both think they know everything A. If you listen to the elderly many do become wise but many others seem to get stuck in their past B. On the other hand young adults readily accept changes in
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along with him but in the end all of his men perished; Odysseus can be classified as a leader and a hero along with a man named Ernest Shackleton. Shackleton is a real life man who went on an expedition to reach Antarctica in the years 1914 to 1916. He also had a whole crew with him for the journey and he saved all of them. When comparing leadership of these two men the three most important traits to take into consideration are confidence‚ balance between tasks and interpersonal relationships‚ and the
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"My Beautiful Laundrette" Hanif Kureishi’s screenplay is a coming of age portrayal of British life in the 1980s‚ from the point of view of a first generation Pakistani. Omar’s story is a representation of the cultural shift away from traditional values. This cultural divide is compounded by sexual‚ ethnic and class differences as revealed through the character of Omar‚ whose own identity lacks consistent identification. In the film‚ Omar is referred to as an "in between" by his uncle’s Pakistani
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