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Essays 1771 - 1800

Fulfillment of Predictions Aldous Huxley Made in Brave New World Revisited

Huxley considers how the survival of a democracy depends upon frequent information exchanges, which is what made the medium of tel...

Transformations of Hagia Sophia

second fire, it was reconstructed yet again by Justinian I (Justinian the Great) during the sixth century. Due in large part to J...

Proper Nutrition And Good Health: Culinary Cause And Effect

being; changing the way people eat by introducing them to more bioavailable food sources is but one of many aspects inherent to cu...

Analyzing Poet Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art”

practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaste...

Duchamp's Fountain

death of the Great War. As art historian Leah Dickerman of the National Gallery explains, "Dada wished to replace the logical no...

Teaching : Art Or Science

what this person means by control. Teachers are never going to have complete control over their classrooms. There are just too man...

Digital Art and Animation

are seen in environments "that could not physically exist in the real world, a world where terrains and vehicles are created by co...

St. Bernard And Abbot Suger And Art

adorned with art, sculpture and other adornments. He even included the Pope in his negative comments (Encyclopedia of World Biogra...

David Bailey, Photographer

as one of the principal influences and inspirations on him as an artist ("David Bailey, Biography"). According to Bailey, "The fir...

Understanding the World Through Art:

a media fixation after she assists her boyfriend accused of robbery to escape the police. Her family and friends face a similar b...

Hamlet and the Function of Art

soliloquies: "O what a rogue and peasant slave am I," (II.ii.550) in which Hamlet discourses on the art of the theater, and compar...

Article Analysis: Substance Abuse and Mental Illness

inability to regulate decision-making behavior at such times is critical if relapses are to be avoided (Matto, 2007). In addition,...

Exploitation of Children in the Art World: Is it Art or Pornography?

nude children as art continued to be deemed socially inappropriate, which is why several photographers of note were the subjects o...

A Short History of Franco-Flemish and Venetian Schools of Art and Music

of Flemish techniques with established French style became the Franco-French school, with the earliest known innovators being the ...

Graffiti as Art

an expressive message to the reader, whether it is a political, social or personal view" (South). Whether it is vandalism or not m...

Mondrian and Martin

Mondrians. "Red Bird" is part of the collection at New Yorks Museum of Modern Art, and it is on display on their website. Accordin...

The Meaning of Tattoos and Body Piercing

The most interesting question is really why people get tattoos or piercings in the first place. Despite claims to the contrary, bo...

China and Women's Art History

what is present. It can be said that this theme of absence, of something not completely right, which is featured in most of their ...

Working Relationship Between Arts and Business

life..." (Tait PG). It is important for the student to emphasis the individuality of artistic endeavor with regard to arguing the...

Consideration of Aztec Codices

people of Mexico have a very complex and elegant non-linear writing style. We call their ancient documents codices (hieroglyphic p...

Visual Arts and Religion

life that one would want to aspire toward. And, typically, as in a religious painting, the consequences of not choosing the faith ...

Are the Aztec Codices Art or Language?

elements in their temples and homes, would also lend credibility to the fact that the codices were a form of written language, rat...

America's Civil War, Literature, and Art

North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...

Philosophy, Art and Literature During the Time of the Civil War

the post-Civil War period, which was one of unprecedented patronage for the arts from government and private sources, produced wor...

Egyptian and Chinese and Art

similarity in the reigning powers influence over art. In addition, art was commonly used to glorify those in control at the time, ...

Jack Weatherford's Native Roots

the first tasks undertaken by Weatherford is to define the term "Native American" itself. Indeed, the term Native American is a c...

Egyptian and Chinese Art Compared

in the reigning powers influence over art. In addition, art was commonly used to glorify those in control at the time, a reality n...

Harmony and Balance in Chinese Art Works

opposites."1 Art is perhaps the most obvious place that one can envision the true nature of this balance as presented by the Chine...

Art and Religion of Ancient Egypt

point that there was a strongly ritualistic and shamanic element to funeral rites: pictorial representations of funeral ceremonies...

The Bauhaus and Joost Schmidt's Contributions

desire of Gropius to make "modern artists familiar with science and economics," which he felt would "unite creative imagination wi...