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anything such as icons‚ images‚ tokens‚ and etc. The use of symbols can have two sides to it‚ depending on how a person interprets it. In the book “Seeing Ourselves” by John Macionis‚ a Professor of Sociology and Prentice Hall Distinguished Scholar‚ Peter L. Berger makes a statement that meaning is socially constructed by a society. According to Berger‚ people act accordingly to the meaning they assign to objects‚ symbols‚ or events. Basing off of Berger’s theory‚ symbols are only valuable when they
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THE WHITE BIRD John Berger From time to time I have been invited by institutions--mostly American--to speak about aesthetics. On one occasion I considered accepting and I thought of taking with me a bird made of white wood. But I didn’t go. The problem is that you can’t talk about aesthetics without talking about the principle of hope and the existence of evil. During the long winters the peasants in certain parts of the Haute Savoie used to make wooden birds to hang in their kitchens and perhaps
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In this essay‚ I will discuss chapter’s five and seven of John Berger’s book “Ways Of Seeing”. Section one will look at what Berger means when he talks about power in chapter five of the book. In section two‚ we will discuss his ideas on imagination and envy‚ as outlined in chapter seven. In chapter five‚ Berger talks about oil painting being more of an art form than a technique. While he concedes that the technique has been with us for centuries‚ his argument is that it came into prominence when
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In Chapter 3 of his book‚ “Ways of Seeing”‚ John Berger argues that in western nude art and present day media‚ that women are largely shown and treated as objects upon whom power is asserted by men either as figures in the canvas or as spectators. Berger’s purpose is to make readers aware of how the perception of women in the art so that they will recognize the evolution of western cultured art. Berger begins by claiming that in nude art the “presence” of a man is that of an actor who asserts
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a man named John Berger who sat in front of a naked man‚ drawing frantically on a piece of paper that later would become/will become (jag vet inte vad du tycker ar bast?) the groundwork of his essay “Drawing.” As Berger‚ writing his essay from the perspective of an authentic artist‚ starts to examine the process of drawing from beginning to end‚ his work in Selected Essays will convey an author with divergent voices that will help us relate to the very abstract and complex ideas Berger expresses around
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M A R K T WA I N Two Ways of Seeing a River (1883) This passage is excerpted from Mark Twain’s 1883 book Life on the Mississippi‚ in which he shares his experiences as a river steamboat pilot and explores the many facets of the great river. As you read‚ consider his masterful use of language as he reflects on his changing relationship with the river. Now when I had mastered the language of this water and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I
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Analysis on Two ways of seeing a river by Mark twain Now when I had mastered the language of this water and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet‚ I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had lost something‚ too. I had lost something which could never be restored to me while I lived. All the grace‚ the beauty‚ the poetry had gone out of the majestic river! I still keep in mind a certain wonderful sunset which
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In the poem John Oxenham brilliantly illustrated the meanings of life through stanza two “A way‚ and Ways‚ and a Way”. It describes many circumstances that we face in our lifetime‚ therefore I think the best suited descriptions are shown above. First‚ time could be described as one of the most costly item‚ we can’t live without it. Thus the author continues with “High Soul climbs the High Way‚ And the Low Soul gropes the Low‚” Through repetition of “the Way”‚ the author is stressing the short amount
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Bryan Washington Professor H. Alvarez English 1A 17 March 2013 Essay #2 “Both John Berger in “Ways of Seeing” and Michel Foucault in “Panopticism” discuss what Foucault calls “power relations.” Berger claims that “the entire art of the past has now become a political issue‚” and he makes a case for the evolution of “ new language of images” which could “confer a new kind of power” if people were to understand history in art. Foucault argues that the Panopticon signals an “inspired” change in
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