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Department of Canadian Heritage's Cultural Affairs Sector

are the strongest reflection of the diversity of multicultural issues and ideologies that underpin Canadian life. As a consequenc...

Ancient Art

Both are clearly made of very different materials. The Head of a Roman Patrician is carved from marble and is thus a three dimensi...

Maya Art

person," which linked Maya society to the world of its ancestors (Carrasco, 1990, p. 40). The Maya lived in a cosmopolitan world o...

'A Clean Well Lighted Place' by Ernest Hemingway

This paper consisting of six pages argues that in this story art reflects life as the common denominator linking Hemingway to his ...

Erich Fromm's The Art of Loving

to what love really is because they approach it from the wrong perspective. They believe that love is something to be found house...

Art Spiegelman on the Holocaust

the beast that was the Holocaust. It is presented as cold and unemotional in many ways, through these very depictions, and also su...

Mythic Image by Joseph Campbell

In five pages this paper discusses how Campbell's text distinguishes myth through art and also considers such topics as dreaming, ...

2 Meanings of Humanities

In three pages this essay considers the general and liberal arts meanings of the humanities concept....

Art of Tennis

In five pages this paper examines the expressiveness of tennis which qualifies it as an art form....

The Differences Between Art for Life's Sake and for Art's Sake

In seven pages this essay considers differences between art simply for the sake of art and as a representation of life and discuss...

Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Madina Islamic Art Collection

Greater Iran. This cup is "Silver, gilded, chased and punched" and measures "3 7/8 x 4 5/8 in. (9.84 x 11.75 cm)" (Los Angeles Cou...

Rise of Modern Art

(Modern Art Movements, 2008). Impressionist painters, such as Manet, Claude Monet and Edgar Degas, preferred to paint outside, w...

The Spanish Decimation of the Aztec

Tezcatlipoca. The gold which is given of course only whets the Spanish appetite for even greater riches. Never-the-less the Span...

Aztec Poetry

in the way the political world was playing out in the conquest. And clearly he argues that the poetry was never simple. This seems...

Women in Toltec and Aztec History

is also an element to the culture that believes in the forces that are both feminine and masculine, studying both in order to bett...

Aztec Influence: Mexican and Mexican-American Artists

joined with an interest in surrealism. Surrealism emphasized the role of dreams and the unconscious in the creative process. To th...

Conquest of Mexico

of possible later interpretations of the "historical record after the conquest" (Schwartz 129). Also, other scholars assert that t...

Conquest: Three Examples from History

around the belief that landowners would defend their property and country more conscientiously than those who had no vested intere...

Suffering and Conflict in Cultures

not necessarily better than the other. Death was perceived as a place, a further step in life that would offer more security and s...

Latin America's Native Civilizations

In four pages preColumbian Latin American history is examines in a consideration of Mayan and Aztec, tribes including Toltec and O...

Overview of the Aztec Empire

This paper consists of six pages and examines the Aztec Empire in an historical overview. Five sources are cited in the bibliogra...

European Settlers and the Impact of Indian Culture

In six pages this paper discusses the colonial cultural impact of the Aztec and Mayan Indians. Fifteen sources are cited in the b...

Myths on Creation

In ten pages the various stories on creation such as Western, Aztec and Mayan, Greco Roman, China, Mesopotamia, and Egypt civiliza...

Mythology of Native Americans

cites that as many as several hundred thousand must exist collectively (Gill & Sullivan, 1992). Each myth that I came across was...

Broken Spears by Miguel Leon Portilla and the Mexican Conquest

In 6 pages this text is examined from an historical perspective and considers how its accounts differ between the Spanish colonist...

Aztec Calendar or 'Sun Stone'

of the Aztecs (Nahuatl), it is called the tonalpohualli simply meaning the "day-count." The tonalpohualli and the xiuhpohualli c...

An Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico

This 6 page essay examines author Miguel Leon Portilla's "The Broken Spears : The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico&quo...

Mexico's Psychological Theory and Practice

This paper examines how psychological theory and practice evolved in Mexico with the Spanish influence upon the culture of the Azt...

GM and the Pontiac Aztec Failure

In twelve pages this paper discusses how the subsidiary of General Motors failed in its SUV Pontiac Aztec development and launchin...

Aztec Emperor, Montezuma

This research paper discusses features that characterized the rule of Montezuma and how these personality traits influenced the Sp...