Issue131 The arts (painting‚ music‚ literature‚ etc.) reveal the otherwise hidden ideas and impulses of a society." Do the arts always express the otherwise hidden ideas and impulses of society? I fundamentally agree with what the speakers has asserted. However‚ besides showing otherwise hidden thoughts and stimulus of society‚ they are also used to express the author’s personal feelings and emotions‚ or mirror the beauty of nature. In this respect‚ the arts are regarded as something for their
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Ron Gutman: The Hidden Power Of Smiling Ron Gutman‚ the founder and CEO of HealthTap‚ a personalized health-info site‚ gave the speech about the power of smiling. As everyone knows that smile is good for our health; he gave the supporting data and facts about that statement. For instance‚ there was a study about the relation between student face’s photo in the yearbook of UC Berkeley and the student’s success and well-being throughout their lives. Another study showed that the
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Francheska Sanchez Professor Charles French ENG255 Literature and Film August 4‚ 2010 A Sequence Analysis: “The Bamboo Forest Fighting Sequence” in Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger‚ Hidden Dragon Perhaps‚ the powerful storyline of the Crouching Tiger‚ Hidden Dragon was what encouraged one of the greatest cinematic martial arts directors Ang Lee‚ to make a film out of the Chinese novel. In this film‚ Lee’s primary function is not only to portray skillfully choreographed fighting scenes‚ but also
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Liz Jansen From Dryden to Blake British English 10-01-2013 1415 words Hidden Messages of the Dressing Room Satires On Jonathan Swift and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Jonathan Swift is one of the most famous poets from the eighteenth century. He has written many satires including “The Lady’s Dressing Room”. This poem is about a man named Strephon and a woman named Celia. In the poem‚ Celia tries to make herself presentable to society while Strephon sneaks in her dressing room and there discovers
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"The Bystander" - Rosemary Dobson "The Bystander" describes the significance of the insignificant characters in paintings. The speaker in the poem is that figure painted behind/beside the subjects of artworks‚ where he/it speaks out of its existence to us: in the form of a wing‚ a squire‚ a distant figure or part of a crowd. This insignificant character reflects upon several scenes he/it has stood in‚ such as the two slaughter of Innocents (i.e. the murder of infants from both Old and New Testament
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Introduction Originating in the study of languages‚ structuralism has exerted a vast amount of influence in the social sciences especially in the work of Saussure‚ Levi-Strauss and Roland Barthes. Although these theorists may disagree with the exact view of structuralism‚ there is‚ on the other hand‚ a broad consensus that a structuralist approach to the study of human society and culture involves the notion of wholes. The purpose of this essay will be to develop the points of structuralism and
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misconceptions about the hidden skills people have and majors that people choose. In the first essay “The New Liberal Arts” by Sanford J Ungar‚ argues that a liberal education is not what students should look for. He found seven misconceptions and then argued against them. The next essay “Hidden Intellectualism” by Gerald Graff‚ states the misconceptions of people that are called “nerds” or “smart” are the ones who strive for intellectualism. These misconceptions of education and intellectualism affects the society
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Umair Zia Houghton English June 30th‚ 2013 Book Smart vs. Street Smart In the article‚ “Hidden Intellectualism‚” Gerald Graff discusses the topic of book smart versus street smart. Being street smart means having interest in other activities more than in school work‚ while being book smart is the complete opposite of that. Graff believes that having the personality of a street smart person can benefit society if one knows how to channel their potential correctly. He persuades his views
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Street Smart versus Book Smart In his article "Hidden Intellectualism‚" Gerald Graff criticizes those that do not put value into "street smarts." Graff says that knowledge goes far beyond academic learning and continues into our everyday living. He states‚ "The need to prove I was smart and the fear of a beating if I proved it too well." Meaning that if the subjects he enjoyed the most became his main interest he would soon have to face ridicule for wanting to be himself (Graff). Graff’s theory
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How television is making people smarted. People all over the world turn on their television each night and watch a few moments to a few hours of television and it is hard to miss a reality show which on almost any channel. If they were to pause on one of these shows they might not know it but they would bettering themselves on a personal level. Based on the ideas of Steven Johnson the average person could learn a thing or two from reality TV. In his article called‚ “Watching TV Makes You Smarter”
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