Mateo Falcone Prosper Mérimée’s "Mateo Falcone" (1829)‚ originally subtitled "Les moeurs de Corse" ("The Ways of Corsica")‚ chronicles the killing of a ten-year-old boy by his father. Such contemporaries as Stendhal (Henri Beyle)‚ Henry James‚ and Walter Pater admired Mérimée and praised him for his craft. Pater called "Mateo Falcone" "the cruellest story in the world." "Mateo Falcone" is a brief‚ but complex story. It features at least five points of view and at least four "ways of life" (the "moeurs"
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Is Bauhaus’s influence still felt today? In 1919‚ architect Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus in Weimar‚ Germany‚ a school of craft and fine arts. The aim of Gropius was to reimagine the material world and reflect the unity of all arts (Bergdoll‚ 2009). Only active for a mere 14 years‚ this essay will consider whether the Bauhaus’s influence is still felt today by looking at the links between Ikea and Bauhaus. This essay will also look at the influence in teaching within art courses today with
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Christaller’s Central Place Theory Introduction Central Place Theory (CPT) is an attempt to explain the spatial arrangement‚ size‚ and number of settlements. The theory was originally published in 1933 by a German geographer Walter Christaller who studied the settlement patterns in southern Germany. In the flat landscape of southern Germany Christaller noticed that towns of a certain size were roughly equidistant. By examining and defining the functions of the settlement structure and the size of
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The Social Gospel Movement The Social Gospel Introduction In the early days of the Reformation‚ the quest to discover new land was really the beginning of the Social Gospel era. This was the early stages of the concept of territorialism. According to Koester (2015‚ p. 2)‚ territorialism was a strategy for dealing with the religious differences set loose by the Protestant Reformation. Another name that is associated with Reformation was freedom of conscience to “obey God rather than man” (Acts 5:29)
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The reason behind Sir Walter Raleigh’s “A Farewell to False Love” is evident in the title‚ the first few lines‚ and throughout the entire poem. It repeats over and over the theme of love being false and untrue. The poet portrays love as being a horrible thing‚ a liar and a deceiver. The poem is structured in the ababcc format‚ which was a common simple style of the time. The poem portrays love as being warm and fuzzy on the outside‚ but really just a "poisoned serpent covered all with flowers." This
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The concept of “Other” was introduced into social sciences in by. The terms the Other and Otherness refer to something divergent from norm‚ identity‚ and self. The opposite to the Other is the Same. One of the first who introduced the idea of Other as the element of self-consciousness was Hegel ( and the Lithuanian-French philosopher Emmanuel Lévinas were instrumental in coining contemporary usage of "the Other‚" as radically other. Lacan associated the Other with the symbolic order and language
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Walter Elias‚ who you probably know as Walt Disney‚ was an American entrepreneur‚ animator‚ voice actor and film producer. Walt introduced new developments in the production of cartoons. As a film producer‚ Walt holds the record for most Academy Awards earned by an individual‚ he had won twenty-two Oscars and got nominated fifty nine times. He was presented with two Golden Globe Special Achievement Awards and an Emmy Award‚ and also many other awards. Most of his films are included in the National
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http://www.filmsite.org/animatedfilms.html Animated Films are ones in which individual drawings‚ paintings‚ or illustrations are photographed frame by frame (stop-frame cinematography). Usually‚ each frame differs slightly from the one preceding it‚ giving the illusion of movement when frames are projected in rapid succession at 24 frames per second. The earliest cinema animation was composed of frame-by-frame‚ hand-drawn images. When combined with movement‚ the illustrator’s two-dimensional static
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Spanish. Relations with Spain and England were so strained that the two nations were near war‚ and Spain had already found wealth in South and Central America (McCarty‚ 1993). The first attempted English settlement came under the charge of Sir Walter Raleigh‚ a close friend of the Queen. Elizabeth granted him permission to found a colony‚ and he placed himself in charge of finding money‚ hiring the ships‚ and choosing a location for the venture. Raleigh hired Philip Amadas and Aruthur Barlowe
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historical timeline‚ with connections to the Bauhaus movement and its impacts on the pedagogy of the advertising industry. The German word Bauhaus essentially means “House of Building”‚ and was given birth in 1919 in the city of Weimar‚ by architect Walter Gropius. The institution curriculum was established to compliment aesthetics of fine art theory with the empirical knowledge of practical applied arts (Eskilson‚ 229). These methods and ideologies placed by the school are often overlooked‚ but
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