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Black and Outsider Culture

sexual orientation, and consequently these different facets may take on different degrees of priority at different times in their ...

The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather

come through art and through living the life of an artist. In the beginning we do not necessarily see that Thea herself is sure...

Artist, Scientist, and Engineer Leonardo da Vinci

better than his master and having seen that Verrocchio swore never to pick up a paint brush again (Hellmich, 1997). In 1481, Leon...

U.S. Economy During the 1970s

utilization of monetary policy as implicit (1999). Authors suggest that monetary policy is in fact most responsible for what has ...

Greco Roman Literary Works and Heroism

slave, and ironically enough, he is enslaved by the prophesy. "People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the fam...

Absolute Monarchy of the Early Modern Era, Style of Baroque, and the Scientific Revolution

1996). The world map, as one example, offered substantial relevancy to Europes existence; prior to the maps invention, poli...

Domesticity in Chapters 87 and 88 of Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Chapter 87 One of the most powerful things we note in this particular chapter is the focus on issues of warfare and battle, issu...

Postmodernism Defined

of another direction, only to be broken apart and redeveloped by way of postmodernistic composition. Technology, as such, represe...

Old, Middle, and New Kingdom Egyptian Architecture

of Egypt during the second dynasty, the third dynasty of the Egyptian kings was quite powerful and the second king of that dynasty...

Timing and Disguise in 'The Odyssey' Stories

his household. The suitors have taken it upon themselves to essentially use Odysseus home as though it was their own, killing live...

Henry Clay Frick's Art Collection

In five pages this paper examines the publicly donated art collection of Henry Clay Frick after his death in terms of how the vari...

Similarities and Differences Between the 17th Century Scientific Revolution and 18th Century Enlightenment

matter, "organic and inorganic alike," could be defined in terms of extension and motion (Burns, 1969, p. 567). Therefore, Descart...

Graphic Arts and its History

But in terms of its more commercial use as understood by modern people, it is a relatively new art form and should be thought of a...

Scientific Revolution and How It Evolved

place (Meeks PG). With the advent of the Copernican theory that the sun, not the Earth, was the center of the universe people wer...

The Urban Evolution of Paris

the Right Bank, this traditional barrier had to be extended by another structural wall in the fourteenth century (Diefendorf, 1991...

Ideal Museum and Old and New World Systems

are opposed by the church. In comparing this time period--the old world system of the early Italian Renaissance--with a new world ...

A Comparison of Greek Sculptures

in the afterlife. The two figures do not appear to be sculpted, but are rather painted on to the marble column. The figures look ...

Human Experience, Art, and Evolutionary Theory

within a theory of natural selection as it worked on primates and early hominids. Dissanayake sees a distinct connection between...

19th and 20th Century Development of Russia

the wealthy. Many were secretly considering an end to Tsarist rule. A small attempt at revolution by the Decemberists sought to de...

1868 to 1938 Civil Rights in America

the bonds of slavery but it did nothing toward meeting their basic needs. The former slaves had no money and no where to live (Mc...

Aesthetics and Marxism

understood. He goes on to call it a queer thing that abounds in metaphysical subtleties as well as theological niceties (1887). A...

Cherokee Indians and Religion

the Cherokee from their homelands, the establishment of a government reservation for the people, and the ultimate separation of th...

Art and the Male Gaze

renderings, she was portrayed as "clothed and formal" (Anonymous, 1997a); however, in later years this image was significantly alt...

Company Expansion and the Importance of Timing

to express concern over rising energy costs. To date, however, there is no evidence that significant pressures on either wages or...

Arts and Socrates

much that it has immeasurably been altered. Who was Socrates and why was he so influential? Socrates was a Greek philosopher who ...

Art and Beauty in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

for their own sake and not for moral edification, as was the stance popular in the Victorian era. There has been considerable de...

First Half of the 19th Century and the Phrenology Controversy

this was seen as indicative that the brain shape would reflect the development of the different cerebral organs, meaning the devel...

2001 to 2002 UCLA Healthcare's Annual Report

quite enviable among university-attached medical centers. ROA declined in 2002, but it is still quite positive in this environmen...

United Kingdom's 1978 Graphic Design and its Cultural Impact

sought to remind people of better times and to inspire them for the future but it also commonly held a political or cultural messa...

South Carolina and North Carolina Politics

political and social development elsewhere in the South (Bass and DeVries, 1976, p. 219). As this suggests, the picture of North...