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Art Music Composers and Jazz's Influence

the realm of art music during the course of his career, George Gershwin. While Stravinskys work shows the influence of jazz, it wa...

Ancient Civilizations, Art, and Propaganda

that of his fathers and yet, he knew how to take advantage of the elevations and his engineers made the walls steeper, so that ove...

Freud, Cooley, Mead, Friendship, and Brooklyn, New York's Crown Heights Community

people and their farming and small area within a larger place within a town. My neighborhood in Brooklyns community is a five-bloc...

Comparing and Contrasting Two Ancient Greek Vases

This 6 page paper compares and contrasts two Greek vases, one from the Archaic period and the other from the Late Geometric period...

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...

Art and the Male Gaze

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

Mass Production According to John Berger and Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin was "was positive about new technologies, emphasizing their liberating, democratizing influences. This put him at ...

Artists Egon Schiele and Edvard Munch on Sexuality

seems to have earned a portion of his income by supplying pornography to Viennese collectors (Lucie-Smith). Both Schiele and Mun...

Love in the Poetry of Katherine Philips and John Donne

context changes and it seems more logical given the tone of the rest of the poem. Thus, the word as is reflective of the way that ...

Art History and Orientalism

Egypt in the late eighteenth century. French rule of Egypt ensued, but was soon supplanted by the British. This was the beginning ...

Life is Worth Living Through a Study of Humanities

In this paper consisting of five pages life's beauty is demonstrated in a core curriculum of art, music, and literature. There ar...

Hopi People and Culture

the groups grabbed the largest ear of corn for themselves, but one leader remained until all the rest had chosen. He moved forward...

Sun Tzu's The Art of War

first shot is fired. Finding the enemys vulnerability has always been a strategy, but in this book one is also urged to look for o...

Ancient Art and Pattern

of pattern and design. Just as modernity favors certain fabric, colors and patterns, the people of an earlier era wanted to beauti...

Comfort Theory and Kolcaba

MEANING AND CONCEPTS Jones & Krysa (1998) describe the three essential comfort interventions as listening (to...

James Abbott McNeill Whistler's Influences

In four pages this paper examines what influenced Whistler's life and art and also considers how society was influenced by Whistle...

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 ...

Science and Art of Nursing

process that requires "interpretation, sensitivity, imagination and active participation" (Jenner, 1997). Scientific knowledge, o...

Influence and Influential Bruce Lee Film Enter the Dragon

the Bond films (Antulov, 2004). They all seem to come together on some lonely little island, in the middle of nowhere, where th...

U.S. Brands' Global Marketing Plan and Dominance

may or may not indicate that the US firms are best at branding. The commercial environment is increasingly competitive. There is...

Humanity and Science in The Two Cultures by C.P. Snow

was Frank Raymond Leavis, one of Snows contemporaries. Leavis viewed Snows suggestions as crassly materialistic. He suggested in...

The Modern Museum and the Significance in Defining African American Art

works signed by a famous artist. Rather, the visitor is exposed to the artifacts that suggest what life was and is like to African...

Greek and Egyptian Art

Greek mythology were yet another dominant artistic theme (Ancient Greek Art, 2004). This idealization of man and recognit...

Nursing as an Art

In twelve pages this paper presents the argument that nursing should be regarded not as a science but as an art. Ten sources are ...

2004 Visual Arts Carnival

it is used in art and applied to art works. Basically, the carnival was broken into four different areas of exploration fo...

Renaissance Art and Philosophy Integration

In three pages this paper examines how art and philosophy were integrated during the Renaissance. Two sources are cited in the bi...

Renaissance and the Art of Venice

time of specific change. Morris (1997), for example, observes even subtle changes in the dress of the Pope between the Renaissanc...

Aesthetics Definition and Modernism

such as slavery, racism, imperialism and World War I (Lavender, 2000). Modernists, in contrast to the Victorians, focused on human...

Civilizations of MesoAmerica, Egypt, and Greece

Mexico and other areas of central America, demonstrates a number of similarities with Egyptian culture: the main architectural for...

Rasa in Indian Performing Arts

is regarded as the fifth Veda" (Indian Dance, 2004). This particular work offers "great detail of the different kinds of postures,...