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    Realism In the visual art world Realism has evolved from its opposite over the years and blossomed into something truly credible. Realism is a part of everyone’s life even though one may have not been able to recognize it. After reading this paper one should see realism everywhere. Because it is our lives and everything we see. Realism artwork comes from average people’s lives. It is what an artist chooses to show and what people sometimes choose to ignore. In order to understand this form of

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    SYNOPSIS OF THE RESEARCH PROGRAMME FOR Ph. D DEGREE IN ENGLISH Research Topic: “Realism in Tagore’s Poetry” Research Scholar : (Sumer Prasad) S/o Late Mahendra Prasad Vill. Semari‚ P. O. Gothain Dist. Ballia‚ U. P. Supervisor : Dr.( Ravi Shankar Singh) P. G. College‚ Ghazipur U. P. Co-Supervisor : Dr. (A. K. Mishra) Reader‚ Dept. of English D. C. S. K. (P. G.) College‚ Mau‚ U. P. Research Centre : D. C. S. Khandelwal (P

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    In the story Phaethon as retold by Edith Hamilton‚ a man makes a mistake and faces the consequences. The story starts when Phaethon visits the palace of the Sun God. The palace is never dark‚ and shines with gold and gleams with jewels. Then Phaethon enters the palace and is greeted by the Sun God. He has a conversation with the god‚ saying he has come to find out if the god is his father or not. Next the Sun God says that yes he is his father‚ and says he can prove it. He promises on the River Styx

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    Realism and Minimalism comparing “Cathedral” and Summer Interior Both Raymond Carver and Edward Hopper show qualities of realism and minimalism in the short story “Cathedral” by Carver and in the painting Summer Interior‚ 1909 by Hopper. The moods and characters relate to both the short story and the painting. Dirty-realism was shown in the short story by Carver he shows disappointment and truths that the character’s face. Realism is different in art Hopper showed accurate‚ detailed‚ unembellished

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    Bierce created a story that is truthful and emphasizes the real details of life‚ no softening. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is a story that explains the traumatic experience of a soldier‚ seeing his life flash before his eyes‚ while being hung. Realism is a careful description of mundane

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    Realism & Naturalism in the American literature I. The Realistic period: (1865-1900). During this period modern America was born and the American dream has been intellectually lost. After the civil War a strong critical movement toward realism appeared. Realism has been defined by one of its most vigorous advocates‚ W.D.Howells‚ as “the truthful treatment of materials” (i.e. realism= verisimilitude “the appearance of being true or real”). * What is realism: Realistic fiction is often

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    The Kenyan Shifta War (1963 – 1968) and its Realism base and Power Pursuit. In this essay I am going to discuss the Kenyan war that has emerged in 1963 due to long-lasting grievances about bad treatment from British colonial isolation and ethnic Somali in Kenya irredentism drive to unite all other five Somali lands with Kenya into a greater Somalia. The issue of British colony had otherwise been much less to do with this war‚ the main reason to war was that of irredentism by Somalis. This conflict

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    The Effects and Modernity of the Crimean War The Crimean War is frequently called “the first modern war”; the rationale for this claim includes an increased role of the media in the conflict‚ substantial technological advances in military ordnance‚ and a greater scale of international alliances. Advancements in military organization and medicine would follow the war‚ due to British mismanagements. The Crimean war foreshadowed the nature of global conflict in the centuries to follow it. The War began

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    In the most general sense‚ realism is the view that there are entities in this world that exist that are mind-independent. In essence‚ scientific realism offers a certain portrayal of what a scientific theory is and what constitutes its acceptance based on truth. A scientific realist holds 2 fundamental principles: science aims to give us a literally true account of what the world is like through theories‚ and that accepting a scientific theory involves the belief that it is true. In stark contrast

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    Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart‚ a young and beautiful New York socialite‚ who is struggling with the negative pressures of upper-class New York society. The novel follows her two-year struggle to remain in upper-class New York society due to their lack of morals and responsibility. Upper-class New York society is polluted by selfishness‚ greed‚ infidelity‚ and lies. Lily tries to maintain and follow the rules of upper-class New York society. However‚ she is unable

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