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    NATURALIST‚ POSTMODERNIST AND THEISTIC WORLDVIEWS Tracy Evans Regent University Abstract The basic tenants and worldviews of naturalism‚ postmodernism and Christian theism are explored and how these worldviews have had an effect on the American culture. The philosophical implications and the tensions manifested out of beliefs established from these worldviews and philosophies. What is a Worldview? Everyone has an outlook on life‚ a particular way they view the world around them‚ a

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    Coscolluela & Associates of Manila is the main architect. Zuellig building is considered a prime office space because of its state-of-the-art infrastructure‚ efficient building system and top-notch amenities. Zuellig Building is considered a modernist architecture because of its all-glass facade paved with ceramic frit pattern of curtain walls. The distinctive all-glass facade which was inspired by bamboo and flowing water lends reference to vernacular and organic motifs and serves to supplement

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    Modernist Poetry: Effectiveness When it comes to opinions everyone has one. Saying that Modernist poetry has no specific structure or form and therefore means it is not as ‘effective’‚ is like myself saying curry is spicy‚ sweet and doesn’t fit in with my taste buds and therefore curry is the worst seasoning. Poetry is far too complex to reduce to a simple “effective” or “not effective” dichotomy. To object to an opinion maybe you need to understand where they are coming from. Taking a look

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    E. E. Cummings: Modernist Painter and Poet Author(s): Milton A. Cohen Source: Smithsonian Studies in American Art‚ Vol. 4‚ No. 2 (Spring‚ 1990)‚ pp. 54-74 Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Smithsonian American Art Museum Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3108985 . Accessed: 05/04/2011 17:57 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR’s

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    The Modernist movement was more than just an architectural style‚ it represents wider social changes which influenced the designers of the time and remains an ephemeral historical snapshot of what is modern. Roy Grounds was a pioneer within Australian Modern architecture‚ and worked with the changes of the world to urban environments and construction to create progressive designs and does this while still maintaining the same geometric language across a wide scale of work. Often using residential

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    Paul Rand‚ more than any other American designer‚ is credited with bringing the modernist design movement to America. Over a career that spanned more than six decades‚ he produced a body of work that included editorial and poster design‚ illustration‚ and most famously‚ logo designs for corporations like ABC‚ IBM‚ UPS and Westinghouse. Rand was born in Brooklyn‚ New York and attended various New York art schools before beginning his design career as an editorial designer for magazines like Apparel

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    modern poet because the poetry that he wrote was well endowed with the many problems that men who lived in the modern world faced with Science and Technology. He was a contemporary and great friend to such modernist greats as Ezra Pound and Wallace Stevens. Although he resembled these modernist poets‚ Frost was quite different from the rest of the modern poets of his time. The modern elements of his poetry are those of capitalism‚ the self-centeredness of the mordent man‚ the bored existence‚ isolation

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    for material items and desire to gain wealth was another aspect of the story that made it very modernist. At a young age‚ he thought he was too young to work as a caddy and strived to obtain greater wealth. This was one of the main qualities of characters in the Modernism time. Dexter was also a main character that desperately wanted love. His unrelenting quest for love can also be seen as modernist. Judy Jones‚ the object of his affections‚ was the woman whom he met at the club that he caddies

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    Midterm Paper The 1920s was a period of transition between the nineteenth century traditional ways and the twentieth century modern ways. The ongoing struggle lied between traditionalist and modernist who had separate opinions of where the country should be going and what was acceptable. Traditional values manifested in the idea of isolationism of America‚ individualism of it’s people‚ Jeffersonianism‚ providence‚ and a homosocial realm of leisure. The modern values manifested in the idea of internationalism

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    Clement Greenberg‚ “Modernist Painting” In his text entitled “Modernist Painting”‚ Greenberg focuses on the development of painting between the 14th and 19th century and emphasizes on what distinguishes Modernist painting from previous forms of painting‚ particularly those of the Old Masters. Greenberg begins by relating Modernist art to Kantian philosophy claiming that‚ the same way Kant used reason in order to examine the limits of reason‚ Modernist art is when art became self critical because

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