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    order to find a boyfriend‚ they think that they are defined by whether or not boys find them attractive. Women should never be made to feel that their identities are dependent on the men in their lives‚ and it’s sad they still do. In the movie Mona Lisa Smile (2003) the intricacies of being a woman in the 1950’s are showcased in Wellesley College‚ a prestigious all girls school. This movie brings to attention many of the pressures women faced in society at that time‚ and continue to face today. There

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    Mona Lisa’s Smile An Analysis of Popular Culture’s Depiction of Gender Roles [pic] Julia Roberts’s movies in general‚ seem to hate men. In a real way‚ her pictures are as objectionable as these movies are regularly pilloried for the objectification of women‚ functioning as something reactionary version of feminism‚ which tends to denigrate the opposite sex as the only means of achieving gender equality. The big secret of such films as Mona Lisa Smile is that they are no

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    Tolerance Museum I visited Tolerance Museum last summer with my friend. It is located in Los Angeles‚ California. First‚ I just went there because my friend asked me to come there with them for fun. But when I came there‚ I really was attracted because of the unordinary museum. The first impression of the museum is that at the entrance we were divided into two groups and we must make a decision to entrance two different places inside the museum. It looked like a game and visitors were so excited

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    We can identify functionalist and feminist approaches in movie ‘Mona Lisa Smile.’ To begin with‚ functionalism defends that gender differences‚ which are biologically inherited‚ between male and female contribute to social harmony and maintenance of family in terms of division of labour. Men and women must carry out such tasks which are corresponded to their sexuality. According to this‚ women should concentrate on home and family relationships while men perform outside as a “breadwinner”. In movie

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    Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa Mona Lisa or La Giaconda it is probably one of the most well known works of art in the world. It is one of the most copied‚ photographed‚ and reprinted works of art. I myself have her as a screensaver in my laptop. Throughout the years‚ there have been all types of theories about her in the Mona Lisa painting. It seems that most of these theorizers not only have a hypothesis about her smile or name‚ but believe that no one else’s hypothesis is right except for theirs

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    studying works of ancient scholars; it influenced sculpture‚ architecture and painting. In Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa‚ the mysterious smile reflects the newly emerging Renaissance values of Humanism and The Renaissance man. (Encyclopedia Britannica‚ 11th ed.‚ s.v. “Renaissance.”) (Encyclopedia Britannica‚ 11th ed.‚ s.v. “Leonardo da Vinci.”) (Encyclopedia Britannica‚ 11th ed.‚ s.v. “Mona Lisa”) Humanism was a new philosophical outlook that rejects religious beliefs and centers on humans and their

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    Carol Peabody Speechly Humanities I 13 September 2010 Mona Lisa The Mona Lisa is one of the most famous and intriguing painting of all time. This painting was created by Leonardo da Vinci in 1503 to 1504. This painting is oil on panel and is 77 X 53 cm (Phaidon‚ 1994). This is a very naturalistic painting and is the greatest painting created in the renaissance era. The Mona Lisa has been one of the most debated paintings of all time. The look on the face of the women in this painting

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    of his most famous works known as the Mona Lisa‚ was created in a time referred to as the High Renaissance. At this time education was valued‚ and art was advancing with mathematical‚ and liberal techniques that incorporated reality with the complementary‚ or "ideal"(pg.633). Another leading artist of Florence was Raphael‚ who found himself doing newlywed portraits of Agnolo Doni and Maddalena Strozzi. Divinci‚ the first to complete the portrait of Mona Lisa inspired an identical yet different portrait

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    com/advertising-inspired-by-famous-painters-19619 In terms of design elements and principles alone‚ the Mona lisa is known as a compositional whole‚ whether she appears as Duncham’s L.H. O.O.Q. with mustache or as part of an adbertisement for Prince spaghetti sauce. The visual language changes subtly as an imange moves from its original context – in this case oil on canvas – to the alrenatre context: for example‚ scale and surface texture changes when the Mona Lisa appears in a magazine advertisement. Nonetheless‚ the image I this

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    it is the most talked about painting in the world which makes it the most popular painting of all. What makes the painting so famous when the drawing just consist of a woman sitting with her hands folded and showing a half smile. Thesis Statement The reason why Mona Lisa is very famous is because of its painter‚ the speculation of the who was the woman in the painting and the news about the stolen painting. Body Paragraph 1 One of the reasons why the painting famous is because of the painter

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