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Chicago's Greek Community

In eight pages this paper discusses Chicago's Greek culture and community in an historical overview that includes such topics as t...

Art of Tennis

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

2 Meanings of Humanities

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

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, ...

'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 ...

Tragedy That is Not Tragic in 'Night Mother'

forty and has epilepsy. However, the source of Jessies psychic pain is not her condition, but rather the fact that she has never ...

The Kouros

the relationship in Greek thought of the symbolization of the state through the perfection of the individual - or at least the phy...

Painter Lee Krasner

works than the colossal The Eye is the First Circle (about 93" x 191" or about eight by sixteen feet), for example. Here her art...

Rembrandt's Self Portrait, William Shakespeare's King Lear and Their Portrayals of Old Age

In five pages this paper discusses how two different art forms depict the same topic - old age....

Artistic Expressiveness

ability to move on, or to move forward. I am suggesting that his preoccupation with death and decay, clouded or immobilized his ...

Greece and Its Influence Upon Lord Byron

In six pages this paper examines how Greece influenced and inspired Lord Byron in a consideration of his Greek poems and his parti...

Art Questions

page. The use of negative space to enhance the darkness of the central image is important to creating a tone for the site, and th...

Jean-Paul Sartre/The Flies

plagued by both flies and a sense of overwhelming guilt. The stage is dominated by a statue of Zeus, "god of flies and death," whi...

Greek Literature as Reflective of Greek Culture

to the outside, the cave becomes a type of conduit, or birth canal which brings him into the life of actual knowledge. What one ca...

Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis and the Depiction of Greek Culture

In eight pages this paper discusses how in the plot and characterizations featured in Zorba the Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis dep...

'Big Questions The Greeks' as Part of the For the Love of Wisdom PBS Series

yet differentiated between having a form and embodying that form. Aristotle, on the other hand, proposed that a form, with the exc...

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...

Egyptian Object/Catalogue Entry

Nespeqashuty died prior to its completion. At this time, some of the reliefs were finished, but many consisted of just an outline ...

Hesiod's Fable and Other Similar Works

Four political works in ancient history are examined. Athenian democracy is part of the inquiry but many issues pertinent to polit...

Judaism and Ancient Egyptian Religion

the soul: the Egyptians thought that the there were several "psychical elements" comprising existence, including the ka (Dyson). T...

Livy's History of Rome/Heroes & Villains

king also ordered killed. They were subsequently left to die of exposure and were discovered by a she-wolf. Discovered by the king...

Creative Dialogue on Cultural Discourse

In five pages a dialogue between an ancient Roman character and one from ancient Greece is developed with and exchange of cultural...

Museums and How Ancient Artifacts Are Uncovered

been able to gather enough information so as to understand the complexities surrounding a collection of semi-preserved writing imp...

The Cultural Heritage of the West and Its Ancient Roots

in the article "Key Iraqi weapons official held" in relation to topics studied in the roots of Western Culture deal primarily with...

Ethiopian Romance by Heliodorus

in Charicleia, who is a long-lost princess of an Ethiopian queen, even though she appears to be white. Heliodorus relates that her...

Comparing the Empire of Ancient Rome with Ancient Greece

to Egypt would also pay homage to some Egyptian Gods such as Isis and Horus. In Britain and Gaul there is evidence of the Romans m...

Contemporary Egyptian Art in a Global Context

been contemporary Egyptian art. 2. Contemporary Egyptian Art and its Historical Western Influence Egypt has been influenced by w...

Silent v. Sound/Art in Film

"at heart, I was always a silent movie man" (Twatio 14). One reason why early silent films appear odd or stilted to modern audie...