34 FROM THE MODERN TO THE POST MODERN AND BEYOND ART OF THE LATER 20TH CENTURY TEXT PAGES 1030–1091 THE ART WORLD’S FOCUS SHIFTS WEST 1. List two characteristics of so-called “Greenbergian formalism”: An emphasis on an artwork’s visual elements rather than its subject. Rejection of illusionism and a focus on exploring the properties of each artistic medium. 2. Why is it difficult to give a precise definition of the term “Postmodernism”? It is a widespread cultural
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GEORGE ORWELL’S NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR: MODERNIST FABLE If thought corrupts language‚ language can also corrupt thought.[1] The world that Orwell presents in Nineteen Eighty-four has often been called a nightmare vision of the future. Writing sixteen years into that future‚ we can see that not all of Orwell’s predictions have been fulfilled in their entirety! Yet‚ “1984 expresses man’s fears of isolation and disintegration‚ cruelty and dehumanisation…Orwell’s repetition of obsessive
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A Modernist Examination of The Good Anna and The Great Gatsby Modernism is a movement characterized by the re-examination of literary styles‚ structures‚ content‚ and even human existence thought to be standard prior to 1900. The movement was all about looking at things in a new light‚ and trying to break the mold so long held by society as the norm. This movement took place in art‚ music‚ architecture‚ and as I will further discuss in this paper‚ literature. In this paper‚ I will discuss the modernist
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The Huffington Post Abstract This paper discusses the growing success of The Huffington Post. The online publisher has become a prominent online news source over the years and this paper examines the success‚ while relating The Huffington Post’s strategy to common marketing analysis tools such as the Porter Five Force Analysis‚ as well as discussing four different revenue models for online publishers.
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Science and Mysticism: Are They Compatible? .Pat Duffy Hutcheon‚ Humanist in Canada (Winter 1996/97)‚ p.20-24. KEY TERMS: mysticism -- transcendentalism -- indeterminacy -- Chaos Theory -- systems emergence -- the anthropic principle -- explanations -- world view -- Cosmological Proof -- postmodernism -- scientific attitude -- contingent causality Much has been written in recent years to the effect that science‚ in its upper reaches‚ merges into mysticism. It is often said‚ by certain New Age
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Post-Colonialism Colonialism versus imperialism Difference between imperialism and colonialism Though both the words underline suppression of the other‚ Colonialism is where one nation assumes control over the other and Imperialism refers to political or economic control‚ either formally or informally. In simple words‚ colonialism can be thought to be a practice and imperialism as the idea driving the practice. Colonialism is a term where a country conquers and rules over other regions. It
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Film Studies: Adapting Shakespeare The commentary in lesson 2 on Hamlet says “the movie attempts to address the “seems” and “is” that troubles hamlet throughout the play” (commentary lesson 2‚ Hamlet). This is a great way to explain what hamlet is trying to understand in the play‚ and in the movie. Hamlet questions everyone and everything‚ which is why he creates the “play” and the “movie”. He is able to get his message across by using actors for the play within the play‚ and creating
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Whatever power relations manifested in different aspects of the development paradigm are perceived by post-developments. Basically‚ the Post-development also has two distinct and entwined concepts: knowledge and power (Jakimow‚ 2008). Post-developmentists argue that the power of this world is in the hands of developed countries. Because power is crucially dominant factor‚ the aim of the post-development is successfully to transfer power from the hands of outside ‘expertized’ paradigm that has been
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reading strategies to teach middle school science is a skill that I would like to make a conscious effort to improve. Working in an administrative capacity for the last six year‚ and now teaching at the middle school level‚ I am concerned that my knowledge of reading strategies‚ especially at the middle school level‚ may not be current. My schedule requires that I teach 7th and 8th grade science‚ and 6th and 7th grade math enrichment‚ in three different room assignments‚ so I need strategies that
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choices of ontology and epistemology. Ontology is concerned with how you choose to define what is real whereas epistemology is concerned with how you form knowledge and establish criteria for evaluating it. (Hatch & Cunliffe 2006) Modernism Modernist ontology is objectivism where it belief in objective‚ external reality whose existence is independent of our knowledge of it whereas for epistemology‚ it is positivism where truth is discovered through conceptualisation and reliable measurement that
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