To start off‚ the Declaration of Independence mentioned many issues that were addressed by both Thomas Aquinas and Jean Jacques Rousseau‚ and especially by John Locke. The Declaration of Independence text begins as: “We hold these truths to be self-evident‚ that all men are created equal‚ that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights‚ that among these are Life‚ Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”. (Archives.gov‚ 2015) The Declaration of Independence and the Constitutions
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Structuralism of Disgrace The dictionary definition of structuralism says: an approach that explores the relationships between fundamental elements of some kind. Coetzee’s stylish writing is rather post-structural in its’ views than structural‚ it is David the protagonist of the novel who is set in his structural ways. Coetzee prefers to write his story with more interest in the gaps‚ silences and absences of his texts. One can see this through his choice of a distant narrator‚ a narrator who
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Post-Structuralism Post-structuralism is a continuation and simultaneous rejection of structuralism – not only literary structuralism but even more so the anthropological structuralism of Levi-Strauss (Bertens‚ 2008: 93). * Post-structuralist thought has discovered the essentially unstable nature of signification. The sign is not so much a unit with two sides as a momentary ‘fix’ between two moving layers. Saussure had recognized that signifier and signified are two separate systems‚ but he
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Can the Subaltern Speak? – Summary Gayatri Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is an unsettling voice in literary theory and especially‚ postcolonial studies. She has describes herself as a “practical deconstructionist feminist Marxist” and as a “gadfly”. She uses deconstruction to examine "how truth is constructed" and to deploy the assertions of one intellectual and political position (such as Marxism) to "interrupt" or "bring into crisis" another (feminism‚ for example). In her work‚ she combines
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had to find a way to transmit a convincing message. And paintings were the perfect medium to convey a message. We’re going to see how the Revolution affected the paintings made during this time. To do so‚ we can look at the Oath of the Horatii from Jacques-Louis David‚ during the Neoclassical period‚ and Liberty Leading the People from Eugène Delacroix‚ during the Romantic period. First let’s look at the Neoclassic period. When the Revolution was close to hit France‚ Dr. Beth says “the Neoclassicists
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The Sabine Women While imprisoned for his support of Robespierre during the French Revolution (#2) Jacques-Louis David began planning his next painting. After a visit from his estranged wife he began painting what would be called (#1) The Intervention of the Sabine Women. He completed the painting in 1799. 1 (Stanska) My interoperation is that his wife’s visit brought him a great sense of joy and hope. He wanted to portray that feeling of the power of love in his next work. (#3) The story of the
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Jacques-Louis David created Oath of the Horatii on canvas using oil. This piece was first exhibited in 1785 at the Louvre‚ Paris‚ France. This painting was commissioned by Louis XVI as it was then part of his program to aim at moral improvements of France. Neoclassical style was a reaction against Rococo levity and French Baroque. During this time‚ the neoclassical style was mostly associated with revolutionary movements. The style developed into a heroic subject matter‚ formal clarity‚ and impression
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In “The Problem of Cell 13”‚ Jacques Futrelle tells how a scientist‚ Professor Van Dusen (also known as The Thinking Machine) takes on an experiment challenged by his friends‚ Dr. Charles Ransom and Alfred Fielding. The challenge he accepts is to escape a death-cell in Chisholm Prison within 7 days. He requests three harmful things: tooth powder‚ his boots polished‚ and $25. (Two 10s and a 5) The purpose of proving this experiment is because Dusen believes “Nothing is impossible. The mind is master
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Discussions brought up by thinkers such as John Locke‚ Voltaire‚ and Jean-Jacques Rousseau encouraged the political revolutionaries in the development of the birth of the rights of a man‚ beliefs of equality‚ freedoms‚ and liberalism. Along with it came the arrival of the “self-made” man‚ referring to the embracing of liberty of
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to heart to paint works of art that would either create a sense of maturity in the people or give remembrance to a bloody time. During the Neoclassical period‚ one painting that really tries to draw out a sense of duty among the people was Jacques-Louis David’s Oath of the Horatii. The painting portrays several people in Roman garments‚ these people are the three Horatii Brothers‚ who are reaching for weapons‚ their Father who holding weapons for them‚ and several women‚ who happen to be family
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