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Why Choose to be a Methodist?

and purpose When Oral Roberts was interviewed by a conference committee prior to his ordination as a Methodist minister, he was a...

"Leadership: The Warrior's Art" - A Review

an interesting text on leadership in that it attempts to achieve a synthesis of classical leadership ideals with modern contempora...

Artists' Books

artists book, that is, with no apostrophe, due to this initial usage of the term. As of 1998, there have been over 300 exhibitions...

The Development of the British Film Industry: Cultural Influences

here is that the film industry, even in its earliest days was driven by economic concerns and considerations. Throughout the 192...

Art of James Magee

accompanying poem begins, "Juans ax aches/His tracks lead backwards." The alliteration, assonance and consonance of his word choic...

Aesthetics and Ethics - The Eternal Disparity

affair rather than the politics. As such, Riefenstahl was chosen for two reasons - the first being that she had no particularly in...

Assyrian Reliefs

Being that it is an article about ancient art it is not necessarily important that the article be incredibly new. The author is an...

Aesthetics, Beauty and the Sublime

difficult because art is completely subjective. One persons masterpiece is anothers garbage. This paper uses phenomenology and epi...

Burning Women - Art or Not?

time one person exclaims "That is a masterpiece!" someone else looks at him like hes got broccoli growing to of his ears. With tha...

The Value of Visual and Performing Arts

a play or film really reaches it audience, the audience members come together in a communal experience that celebrates the efforts...

Influence on Art and Society in Hellenistic Greek Culture

succession of Macedonian Greeks who ruled Egypt from 323 B.C. to 30 B.C. The subject of this piece is Arsino? II. Smith...

Religion and Change from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Century

properly! Religion is, and always has been, a driving force in society. This was...

Moral Relativism Versus Universalism

in recent years that attention to the battered woman has been given. Economically, women continue to be paid less for the same wor...

Christian Art n the Middle Ages

most trusted advisers and he penned the Opus Caroli, which stated the position of the Carolingian court on the issue of whether or...

Evaluation of Health Brochure

using a variety of strategies that are designed to create "richer, more sensory experiences" by using "missed paper stocks, emboss...

Storm Paintings by Watteau and Delacroix

workers who are hurrying to finish their work and/or reach their destinations before the storm arrives are on the left-hand side o...

Figurines of Ancient Mycenae

This research paper discusses the figurines produced in ancient Mycenaean civilization and their possible uses, including the inte...

New York and its Influence on Art

the least. Certeau (93) observes that while Rome learned to grow old by "playing on all its parts, New York never learned that le...

Wide Sargasso Sea and Don Juan

himself, the increasing dissatisfaction of his amorous affairs, the chaos of his increasingly fevered pursuit of women, and his ev...

"MONUMENTS MEN" AND UNDERSTANDING CULTURE

artists from 13 nations to "save as much of the culture of Europe as they could during combat" (Edesel, 2009, 50). Basically, the ...

Recommendations for Change at a Retail Firm

and his force field model (Buchanan and Huczynski, 2010), other theorists include Kotter and Senge. A common trait in the differen...

Concert Report, a Choral Performance

Colleges Performing Arts Center prior to attending the concert held there on Sunday, October 14, which was entitled "Just the Chor...

Mayan Art and Architecture

This research paper discusses art and architecture in the ancient Mayan civilization. Three pages in length, two sources are cited...

Images of Ophelia

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Hamlet's Ophelia. Fine art depictions of the character from history are used to exp...

"Lady Lazarus", Performance Art, and Suicide

Suicide and self-negation as performance art are examined in a critical analysis of Sylvia Plath's 1962 poem, "Lady Lazarus" in a ...

The Art of Essay Writing - A Review of Progress

Writing essays is both an art and a science. The writer looks at the progress of a students essay writing skills over a set of th...

The Individual and Societal Value of the Arts and Music

The arts are an incredibly important component of American society and culture. Indeed, art...

Analytical Analysis of Renaissance Art

obtained the quality he called "grazia," which he used to describe a "kind of perfect divine beauty" (Witcombe). A work of art cam...

The Renaissance Through Impressionism

The so-called Early Renaissance is among the more interesting of these periods. So too, however, are the Late Renaissance and the...

The Variety of Personal Influence

so than my other friends my age. Perhaps part of the reason that I was able to get along so well with my extended family instead...