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Marketing

Of far greater interest to the consumer are the costs, the utility, and the popularity of any given item . . . and not necessarily...

Sensitivity and Social Awareness in Modern Video Art, Photography, and Paintings Examples

the 19th century but his work had been censured and placed away for much of that time due to the fact that he focused mainly on li...

Appropriation, Simulation and David Carson

new. One artist who does this is Yasumasa Morimura; his work is "often understood as part of that international tendency of the la...

B.T. Washington & W.E.B. Du Bois

from high school early, received an undergraduate degree from Fisk University, accepted a scholarship to attend the University of ...

The Humanities

is all very fine, but why bother to study him when we could be learning computers? Because studying the humanities gives us insigh...

Banksy and Picasso's Representations of Postmodern and Modern Art

those who do not understand it - That is to say, those who are artists and those who are not. The new art is an artistic art."2 ...

Syncretism, History and Art

with religion and the general worldview of that of society, it also became more complex, as it began to reflect the philosophical ...

Artists' Books

artists book, that is, with no apostrophe, due to this initial usage of the term. As of 1998, there have been over 300 exhibitions...

The Art of War: Reflections on Modern Applications of Classic Strategy

significant military strategists who have written about various dimensions of warfare and speculated about its importance to socie...

Definitions in Art

Ages to the beginning of the Renaissance (roughly from the fifth to the sixteenth centuries) (Artcyclopedia). Generally religious ...

Art, the Human Experience and the Mona Lisa Painting

we are. In this way, we have all evolved from happy and sad experiences, and have hopefully arrived at a place where wisdom and a...

Marisol Escobar and Modern Art

Marisols father moved the entire family to safer climes. These tumultuous times had to have made an impact on the impressionable t...

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...

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...

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...

Toni Cade Bambara's Community of African American Women’s Identity in ’s Gorilla, My Love Short Stories

a political fundraiser with a blind man named Bovanne. She shocks her daughters by behavior they regard as unbefitting for a woma...

Traci West/Wounds of the Spirit

71). This seems to be particularly true for black women, who get caught between the double bind of being female in a male dominate...

A Visit to the San Diego Zoo

winters are rarely colder than the mid-40s and summers almost never top the 80s. Some interesting facts about the city are that ...

The Post Civil War South

citizenship rights to former slaves" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 438). African Americans "used their new political power to press fo...

Comparative Analysis of August Wilson's Play Fences and Lorraine Hansberry's Play A Raisin in the Sun

While some claim this is a story of "An African American family pursuing the American dream of owning a home" it is really about o...

American Economy and Racism

Shawki argues that the slave system resulted in the accumulation of wealth and the parallel development of capitalism in both Amer...

Madam C.J. Walker and Her Entrepreneurial Spirit

the controversies as well as her successes. Finally, a web site deemed the official website for Madam Walker is used to glean basi...

"Colored People": The History of the Term

create a category encompassing all non-Whites" (Cr?mieux). The term "colored" in America referred to blacks, Native Americans, Mex...

HIV/AIDS & African American Women

"African American womens rights and underscores their physical, emotional and sociocultural vulnerability to HIV/AIDS" (Williams, ...

African American Children, AIDS, and HIV

student should, therefore, intermix their own journal findings with the information presented. The first article to be examined...

African American Teenagers and Incidence of HIV

affects specific individuals, but the future of society as a whole. As HIV infection has affected African American youth in greate...

Hansberry Family and the Impact of Racism

In ten pages this paper discusses the effects of racism on African American activist Carl Hansberry and his daughter Lorraine, awa...

Portrayal of Men in Seven Guitars and Jitney by August Wilson

going, but "if that dont work, I guess Ill just run the bus line until something else happens" (Quoted in Shannon 62). Doub is a ...

Capitalism Fuels Colonial Expansion

the scene may seem sublime, it can be interpreted as a depiction of contrast between cultures. In the foreground stands the Europ...

Chinese Americans and Discrimination

that time, Chinese workers were brought in to help with the U.S. war effort (OConnor, 2004). Those that werent hired for plants or...