SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :European Modernists and African Arts Influences

Essays 361 - 390

New York and the Presence of African Americans

Railroad Station (Soul of America, 2002). The Abyssinian Baptist Church was founded in 1808 as a result of segregation in a white...

Modernist and Postmodernist Architectural Theories of Le Corbusier and Robert Venturi

generator" which "holds in itself the essence of sensation" (Le Corbusier, 1924, p. 8). For Le Corbusier, the idea that the plan "...

Modernity, Postmodernity, and the Moral Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

reason (Kants Ethics, 2003). In his famous, Critique of Pure Reason, Kant "sought to answer the skepticism of empiricists like Hu...

Civil Rights' Struggles of African American Women

Rights Movement would emerge. From a sociological standpoint, Robnett recognized that dangers inherent in applying feminist stan...

The Legacy of Billie Holiday

music, which she may have initially embraced as a kind of personal salvation.3 While male lovers would betray her, seductive jazz...

Post World War II Modernism and Postmodernism Architecture

and its aftermath. In Europe, architecture was characterized as the desire to get buildings rebuild as quickly as possible in as e...

Fantasy Space of Michel Foucault, Walt Disney and MGM Studios

at least the observance of it. At MGM Studios and Walt Disney World, human submission to discipline and punishment is complete, th...

T.S. Eliot and William Carlos William: Modernists

slips/ Among velleities and carefully caught regrets/ Through attenuated tones of violins/ Mingled with remote cornets/ And begins...

Critical Assessment of the Article "African American University Students"

Steward and Neil, p. 88). They continue: "... findings suggest that todays African American students are somewhat consistent in be...

Elephants, Rhinos, Kobs, Leopards And Buffalo: Communication In African Culture

of every family. For the most part the only way to relate this history from one generation to the next was through storytelling; ...

Modernist and Confessional Poets and the Place of "Personality" in Poetry

of dealing with this new and frightening situation (Modernism, 2002). The modernist poets had a much more disillusioned worldview ...

Economic Self Sufficiency and the Role of the African American Church

This author notes that, "The church fought against the social injustices that African Americans faced in America," which is clearl...

American Medical Policies and Black Americans

rapid rate in the African-American community. Even with the growing number of new cases of HIV, some African Americans are still r...

England and African Immigration

even two decades ago and London has changed completely. It is a challenge for both immigrants and natives to accommodate each othe...

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

of the reading event" (Serafini, 2003). Further, each text has one main idea that "only competent readers have access to" and the...

European Perspectie on Trade Disputes Between the United States and the European Union

and does not like being at a disadvantages. Whilst it is understandable and even laudable for a government to support its own co...

European's Socioeconomic and Political Structures and How They Have Evolved

In eight pages this paper discusses Europe's political and socioeconomic structures since the ancient period in terms of how they ...

Comparative Analysis of Modernist Literary Characters in D.H. Lawrence's 'The Horse Dealer's Daughter' and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

In five pages modernist literature is examined in a contrasting and comparison of the characters Mabel featured in 'The Horse Deal...

The Constant Discord Between African Americans and Arabs

In five pages the reasons behind the discord between African Americans and Arabs is linked to the Islam religion that has been emb...

African American Women and Body Image

In five pages this research paper compares perceptions of African American women regarding their body size with the perceptions of...

Modernist Literature and Definitive Characteristics

In nine pages this paper examines the definitive characteristics of modernist literature in a consideration of works by Virginia W...

Movies and African American Males Bad Guys and Buddies

Fifteen films are discussed in this report of fifteen pages to consider how African American males are depicted and how they are t...

'The Waves' by Virginia Woolf and Its Modernist and Gender Implications

In six pages this paper examines the gender and modernist implications of this work by Virginia Woolf. Three sources are cited in...

Design and Comparison Between Modernism and Postmodernism

Modern Design Famed architect Phillip Johnson tells students that modernism has debts to past styles, but architecture is changin...

African Slave Trade and its Impact

that that seen in the Americas and the different reactions and interactions that were seen....

Modernism and 'The Garden Party' by Katherine Mansfield

In six pages this essay presents a modernist interpretation of this short story by Katherine Mansfield. Three sources are cited i...

Literary Modernism in the Works of Virginia Woolf and James Joyce

the most important elements of modernist literature is that which involves perspective. With modernist literature this involves "t...

Modernist Literature and Virginia Woolf

narrative practice. Woolfs essay "Modern Fiction" remains one of the main stays when describing writing using the modernist approa...

Pan Africanism and 2 Visions

the Caribbean thought of themselves as members of a single "Negro" race, of which W.E.B. DuBois wrote about (Appiah, 2002). During...

Maria Izquierdo, Mexican Painter

children (Farris 149). However, maintaining home and hearth did not provide sufficient stimulus for a passionate woman like Maria...