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    poverty-stricken areas plant a garden and educate them about the skills required to maintain a healthy garden‚ it will provide the less industrialized country with a developmental response to the chronic issue of malnourishment and poverty. For this grant proposal‚ GOI is requesting financial support in order to help the ongoing issue of poverty in Maharashtra‚ India. I.B. Program Justifications India is the top country for malnourishment‚ at an appalling 214 million malnourished people. Although

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    The Value of Art: A study of John Ruskin and Oscar Wilde’s Views on Art In the late nineteenth century a movement known as “Art for Art’s Sake” occurred‚ which consists of the appreciation of art for what it truly is; just art. At that time many critics tried to find moral and intellectual meanings within works of art. Many artists united to defend art‚ two authors who defend the concept of art are John Ruskin and Oscar Wilde. In his work From The Stones of Venice‚ John Ruskin

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    The Picture of Dorian Gray – Victorian Era Gray swaps his soul for the painting through an indirect Faustian Bargain. Quote: ’Yes‚ there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that! ’ Social Values/Context: Aestheticism was exposed to Dorian Gray by Lord Henry who was an aesthetic himself‚ which ultimately leads to the Faustian Bargain. Quote: "Oh‚ she is better than good – she is beautiful‚" murmured Lord Henry‚ sipping a glass of vermouth and orange-bitters

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    A Narcissistic study of The Picture of Dorian Grey General Overview Oscar Wilde’s The picture of Dorian Grey’s novel is about a young man named Dorian Gray‚ the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorian’s beauty and believes his beauty should not be wasted and it is responsible for a new mode in his art. Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton‚ a friend of Basil’s‚ and becomes enslaved by Lord Henry’s world view. He shows him a new hedonism‚ and suggests the only things

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    - Martha Washington Ekaterina Paul 10/11/2012 | Oscar Wild presents two conflicts between the stories of "The Selfish Giant" and "The Happy Prince". The two main points is the giant being selfish and the happy prince being a helping hand to the poor society. These stories teach us realistic lessons in life‚ that selfishness and charity do not collide with each other. Oscar Wilde shows that consequences of the selfish giant and that you will get nowhere in life

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    melodrama and mystique‚ a muse’s traits are often idealized with their circumstantial virtues hyperbolized by their artist‚ while conversely‚ their critical character flaws are neglected or even omitted (Craft). Dorian Gray‚ the titular protagonist of Oscar Wilde’s novella The Picture of Dorian Gray‚ exemplifies all aspects of the muse archetype with his stunning looks and grace that inspired his friend the Artist Basil Hallward to capture Dorian’s picturesque figure in art. Although Basil originally

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    True Purpose of Art Oscar Wilde was a very shrewd intellectual who through the teachings of Walter Pater and John Ruskin became a strong supporter of the aesthetics movement. This movement was one which wanted to shy society away from the fact that art had a purpose. They wanted simply to have art for art’s sake. In essence what this means is that art’s only true purpose is beauty and there are no underlying symbols‚ meanings‚ or derivations of art it is simply art. Oscar Wilde attempts to promote

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    “The picture of Dorian Gray” I want to tell you about the famous novel “The picture of Dorian Gray” which was written by Oscar Wilde. “The picture of Dorian Gray” is the only published novel of this writer. Some words about Oscar Wilde. He was born on the 16 of October in 1854 in Dublin‚ Ireland and died on the 30 of November in 1900 in Paris. He was the second of 3 children. He was an Irish writer and poet. He became one of London’s most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered

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    Book Report - The Picture of Dorian Gray You have to suffer for beauty. That is the saying. But does this suffering have a limit? Oscar wild touches this subjects in The Picture of Dorian gray. The book was first published in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine on 20 June 1890. The magazine’s editors feared that the it was too indecent to submit‚ so they roughly censured 500 words. The book covers many genres; Gothic fiction‚ comedy of manner‚ philosophical fiction‚ comedy of manners

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    the time."  "You won’t be able to disappear to London quite so frequently as your wicked custom was." "I think some preliminary enquiry on my part would not be out of place."  In the importance of being Earnest written by Oscar wilde‚ he gives us two characters Jack and Algernon these two characters live double lives to get out of situations that they do not desire to be in‚ In Victorian society men and woman would have to uphold there respect and duties at all time. The

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