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The Sociology and Social Work Perspectives of Black American Pioneers

a greater effect on African Americans than practically any other book published up until that time. William H. Ferris writes in 1...

ICT Learning Program Design

Social constructivism is a part of the larger school of cognitive constructivism, developed by the Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsk...

The UK's Social Exclusion Unit and Child Poverty

within flourishing communities. As Toynbee (2004) notes, without including all the indicators of social inclusion in the broader p...

Graphic Design and Social Conscience

In seven pages the social relevance of graphic design and the increasing social role of graphic designers are explored. Six sourc...

Political and Social Changes in Great Britain from 1900 to 1914

In five pages early 20th century social and political changes in Great Britain are considered in terms of the origin of the modern...

A look at Gandhi

Gandhi is discussed from a social work perspective. Various aspects of his achievements are explored. The micro, macro and mezzo l...

Social Welfare Policy in Canada

failure of the government to understand that many families are actually better off in the welfare system since it is often nearly ...

The family in Great Expectations

existence of alcohol. To him, the rotting barrels that once housed unlimited supplies of beer were symbolic of how he viewed Miss...

Comparing the Rococo and Sensibilte Genres of Art

The author discusses how works of arts from these different eras are indeed different genres. Greuz's "Broken Eggs" can ...

The Issue of Censorship as it is Applied to Art

5 pages and 5 sources. This paper provides an overview of the general issue of censoring artistry and the reason why this topic i...

Scott Joplin & George Gershwin

time," then shortened to "ragtime" (Porter, 1973, p. 2). The innovations that Joplin brought to ragtime were remarkable and uniqu...

Art Criticism and Pollock

I am more at ease...I feel nearer, more a part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and ...

Erik Erikson: Biography and Theory

on the processes of becoming" (Grinker, 2001, p. 105). II. EIGHT STAGES THEORY People are not merely empty vessels waiting...

How is "Good" Art Determined?

by art historians and critics. However, it is also true that a works intrinsic economic value, that is, how much it will sell for...

Art and Visual Culture

or are from cultures different from that of the viewer, nuances in meaning may not be readily apparent. For example, consider the ...

Desalination in Kuwait

area than the state of New Jersey, Kuwait is located on the Western coast of the Persian Gulf. It is bounded by Saudi Arabia to t...

Elephants, Rhinos, Kob Antelope, Leopards And Buffalo: Meaning In African Art

presence or a leopards sleek passage. One pertinent example of their dual power as animals in African art is the Cameroon elephan...

Was Couture Clothing As Popular In The 19th Century As It Is Today?

also known as haute couture - plays an historical role in the manner by which fashion has come to reflect an individuals social, p...

Sun Tzu's "The Art Of War"

those few but powerful pages described how to achieve holism within the esoteric nature of battle. Firing a weapon to kill the en...

Primary School Strategic Plan - Draft

not necessarily easy. It is simple in its design because it is very clear what the elements are in plan language. It is not simply...

Medieval Sculpture

were a period of tremendous changes in western Europe, particularly in population, demography, economics, politics, and military s...

Reliquaries: Metropolitan Museum of Art

and is also French. It is made up of "Copper: engraved, chiseled, stippled, and gilt; champlev? enamel: dark, medium, and light bl...

Art: Definition and Interpretation

In many ways these three artists were reacting to the world around them, the changes around them, and the conditions or events tha...

African American Artists: Alma Thomas and Romare Bearden

those years, Thomas drew upon all her sensory, childhood memories of rich vegetation, her own garden, the formal plantings of the ...

Cherokee Art

pottery is, in fact, one of the most simplistic Cherokee art forms but yet it is one of the most utilitarian. Cherokee craftsmans...

Mussolini, Sarfatti and the Role of the State in the Arts

with the State ...Fascism reasserts the rights of the State as expressing the real essence of the individual" (DiLorenzo, 1994). M...

Barrett/Interpreting Art/Chapters 2, 7 & 8

7 : In this chapter, the author broadens the topic of discussion, i.e., artistic interpretation, so that the reader is exposed to ...

Barrett/Interpreting Art

assessment of some viewers as being "resistant to abstraction" because see "no skill in it" (Barrett 87). In breaking down this ob...

Marcel Duchamp: Readymades

cherished assumptions that art is a special kind of activity, properly set apart from the rest of life, and that artworks are expr...

Minimalist Architecture

styles as well (Salingaros, 2001). It is important to note that what divides the two types is the fact that whether or not there i...