Two Truths and a Lie: An analysis of the Scaffold as a symbol in The Scarlet Letter Two truths and a lie have been a common team-building exercise used for various types of collaborative groups. The purpose of the activity is for people to get to know each other in a fun way, by deciphering what is truthful and what...
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Personal Identity. We all have it, but we donât all know what this actually is. Identity is the qualities, beliefs, personalities, and attitudes that make a person or group. Weâve all heard of âthe Dreamingâ, but what does this term actually refer to? The Dreaming is the Aboriginal World's central and deepest reality. For Aboriginals, Dreaming plays a significant role...
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Since the mid-late twentieth century, Postmodernism is more commonly referred to as the most controversial of all the art and design movements of that era, exhausting all concepts of innovation, individualism, and style. The definition according to the Oxford Dictionaries for Postmodernism is a late-twentieth-century style and concept in the arts, architecture, and criticism, which represents a departure from modernism...
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Sixteenth-century Venice viewed and treated women with restrictive and symbolic societal expectations, and this is a theme prevalent through the art and architecture of the period. Through the Casa delle Zitelle, Veronese's Apotheosis of Venice, and Andrea Vicentino's Disembarkation of the Dogaressa Morosini Morosini Grimani from the Bucintoro and Her Progress Toward the Triumphal Arch, the Venetian social expectations of...
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âFor they do not look through to the soul, nor have a keen eye for virtue, but they stop at the outward excellencies of the body and admire daring, and strength, speed in running, and size, and consider these as fit qualifications for the purple robe and diademâ (Goodreads). In this quote, Anna Coleman portrays how society views others and...
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Research the life of Frida Kahlo explaining how this impacted her artmaking Frida Kahlo was born in 1097 in CoyoacĂĄn, Mexico, and had seven siblings. She was extremely close with her father and grew up during the Mexican revolution, also contracting polio at the young age of six. After sustaining severe injuries at age 18 when the wooden bus Kahlo...
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Over the past century, muralism, the art of social and political engagement, has become a staple of Mexicoâs identity. Analyzing the visual, cultural, symbolic, social, and historical work of the three most famous Mexican muralists such as Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Jose Clemente Orozco is an obligation when trying to understand the history of Mexico. Murals, to start...
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Renaissance was a great era of innovation and ideas that followed the Medieval period or the Dark Ages of ignorance and uncivilization. Renaissance can be defined as âRebirthâ in French because it was the rebirth and rediscovery of great ancient art styles, Greek and Roman, which can be seen in many art pieces from this period, for instance, David sculpture...
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This painting shows a bearded man running along a path in front of two houses, a cross, and a bloodied sword. One cannot distinguish his identity or whereabouts, because his facial features have been removed, the natural landscape has been transformed into an unearthly series of colorful stripes, and there are no other symbols or markers. However, there is a...
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Essence of Realism Realism in drama is an artistic movement that started around the 1870s and continued up to the 20th century. The theatre of Realism simply examines the real and common problems of people. In addition, it centers on human manners__ what individuals do and why in certain social contexts. The theatre of Realism in England, during the late...
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Introduction Postmodernism is a design movement that rejects many of the tenets of modernism such as its philosophy of structure and form following function, postmodernism rejects much of this in favour of a more expressive ornate style of design with the use of humour and wit. Postmodernism also had a very experimental approach to aesthetics and often used techniques such...
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Introduction It is disappointing that it has become a norm for a lot of students to use other people's work and, thereafter give recognition to the original author(reference). Students are not usually advised that they can actually bring their ideas to the public, they tend to believe everything thatâs printed on paper is true. This essay will give definition of...
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Introduction Understanding consumer behavior is important for any organization before launching a product. If the organization failed to analyse how a customer will respond to a particular product, the company will face losses. Consumer behavior is very complex because each consumer has different mind and attitude towards purchase, consumption and disposal of product (Solomon, 2009). Understanding theĂ theories and concepts...
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Modernity comes in as many variations as there are thinkers or journalists, yet all its definitions point, in one way or another, to the passage of time. (Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern, 1994). For this project, I will be examining how modernism responds to modernity - specifically concerning visual material such as Picasso's Avant-garde art. In this essay...
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This essay intends to discuss my understanding of modernism in theatre in relation to Henrik Ibsenâs A Dollâs House and Samuel Beckettâs Waiting for Godot. The modernism movement began in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Developments in society particularly western, and the growth of industrial societies along with city growth sparked the onset of modernism. The events...
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With the growing interest in Urbanism and Industrialization as well as a pursuit of an ever-changing world bred the urge for Modernism (Kuiper, 2019). To put it another way, modernism in literature stemmed from flourishing globalization and industrialization. Literary modernism had been prevalent and well-known in writing, fiction, especially from the 1910s to 1960s. Authors such as Joseph Conrad and...
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Introduction Edward Said's seminal work, Orientalism, published in 1978, revolutionized the discourse on the representation of the East within Western scholarship. By introducing the concept of "Orientalism," Said argued that the Western portrayal of the East was not merely a reflection of cultural difference but a systematic construction rooted in power dynamics. This academic critique highlighted how Western depictions of...
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The relationship between art and politics has been re-discussed in recent years in connection with the change in perception brought about by the debate of modernism/postmodernism. The discourse that pure modernism is an autonomous nature of art and therefore should not mediate politics (as well as morality, religion, and tradition) in ânon-artâ spheres has lost its old power; modern methods...
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In this post-colonial world, we live in, an old philosophy such as Individualism can still be used by scholars of philosophy and social sciences to interpret the world. The ideology of individualism denotes that the individual life has a place with him and that he has a basic idea to live it as he sees fit, to follow up on...
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Evolution from Post Impressionism to Cubism. Post Impressionism is considered to be one of the earliest avant-garde movements of the 19th century. It lasted from approximately 1885 to 1910. Artists of this time focused on the emotional, symbolic, and spiritual elements that were not found in works from Impressionism. There was the use of light, shadows, and colors from Impressionism....
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Despite its emergence as a scholarly practice almost three centuries ago, Edward Saidâs insights into the relationship between knowledge, power and practises of domination in his 1978 publication of Orientalism remain relevant in understanding contemporary relations of development. While the explicitness and expression of orientalism has changed since Saidâs understanding forty years ago, the indissoluble knowledge-power relationship which provides the...
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Introduction âThe primary purpose of a narrative is to search for meaning,â notes literary scholar Katherine Hayles. The need for meaning and interpretation is at the foundation of narrative in modern literature. She calls narratives a technology, which we employ in our search for meaning. Narratives allow us to make sense of the complexities of life, and as human beings,...
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European film in the 1920s was at a standstill with its focus being narrative based objective cinema. Objective films were often an âomniscient point of view with no real emotional emphasis on characterâs perspectiveâ (Ratcliff). It was then questioned, is there any other way to do this? Any other way to tap into the audience emotions by travelling past imagery....
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âSo we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.â This is the final quote from F. Scott Fitzgeraldâs The Great Gatsby. The quote fits perfectly with the book as Gatsby tried to recreate his past by getting with his past lover Daisy. Nothing could stop this man from letting his past go. It is the...
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Introduction I chose The House of the Deaf Woman and the Belfry at Eragny by Camille Pissarro, which I viewed at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. This museum is filled with a lot of history and culture by different artwork done by diverse artists touching on a wide range of themes in the society. from the entrance, I had this...
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âFor my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream,â Vincent Van Gogh. Vincent Van Gogh was an artist who shaped the way of art in the late 1800âs. He used his art to give things with little meaning a story. Even if one is unfamiliar with art and artists, Van Gogh...
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Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was an American writer who burst onto the modernist literary scene in Paris during the 1920s and subsequently became one of the most famous authors of the twentieth century. Ernest Hemingway coined this theory when he determined that by omitting parts of a story, details that the writer and reader both inherently know, the story's prose will...
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Modernist literature employed a number of different experimental writing elements that broke the conventional rules of storytelling. Some of those elements include blended imagery and themes, absurdism, nonlinear narratives, and stream of consciousness â which is a free-flowing inner monologue. How does having events played chronologically out of order affect the narrative of a story in film and television? âA...
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Edward Said is one of the most prominent literary critics of the 20th century. He was born in Jerusalem in 1935 to a Christian family. His family never took a certain place as a permanent resident. They were moving from place to place (between Jerusalem, Lebanon, Cairo and United states), therefore, he was a multicultural person. As a teenager, he...
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Introduction Postmodernism, a multifaceted movement that emerged in the mid-20th century, challenges conventional notions of art, literature, and philosophy. Characterized by a skepticism towards grand narratives and ideologies, it emphasizes the role of language, power dynamics, and societal constructs in shaping human experience. As a reaction against the perceived certainty and objectivity of modernism, postmodernism embraces ambiguity, contradiction, and pluralism....
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