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Essays 271 - 300

Aboriginality

Our societal construct of "aboriginality" most often goes hand-in-hand with our construct of "indigenous". There are no hard and ...

First World War and its Aftermath

World War I resulted from a variety of causes, the most prominent of these was the rise of nationalism. People of common geograph...

Political System of Saudi Arabia

must be handed down through the sons and grandsons of the founders family. King Abd-al-Aziz died in 1953 and power has been held b...

'The Tragedy of the Commons' like Garrett Hardin How The "Tragedy Of The Commons" Applies To Using Forests As Wood For Fuel And Housing

an influential metaphor in the environmental movement" (Vandermeer, 1996, p. 290) - supports the fact that rainforests do not exis...

Models of the Church by Avery Dulles

order" (Dulles PG). The reincarnation of the sacramental model, according to Dulles, is traced back some sixty years ago when th...

Overview of Death Valley National Park

in the early decades of the 20th century and was officially proclaimed as a national park by President Herbert Hoover (Internet so...

Poetic Portrayals of Icarus's Fall

the tale of Icarus. We do know that Auden visited the sixteenth century painting by Peter Breughel when it was displayed in the M...

Advertising Changes Since the Fifties

items (such as a car) "on time" (i.e., on credit) was a growing trend; department stores and some other retailers offered credit t...

A Hawaiian Dream Vacation

dreaming, why not dream big? For around $1200 a night, you can stay in a private villa that features Pacific Rim style architectu...

Japan's Commercial Environment

have fallen and the general performance of the economy. In 2001 the GDP was $4,146.30 billion, in 1997 this was $4,200.00 billion,...

'Picturesque' Landscape as an Evolving Concept

of "picturesque", that these contradictions deviate from the more static and formal view of nature, that:...

Kandinsky and Pollock

move diagonally into the painting that is comprised of many soft round figures such as trees, hills, and clouds. All of the colors...

Changes in Employment Relationships

associaited with an increased level of women returning to work and participating in the work place. However, a more in-depth exami...

Peremptory Judicial Challenge and Racial Minorities

exclusively white legal society (Scherer 655). Political scientist Samuel Krislov agrees, adding that minority jurists reflect mi...

Chaucer/Merchant's & Franklin's Tales

French fabliaux, which provide the source material on which many of the tales are based. Essentially, Chaucer use of gardens sugge...

California Bungalows and Landscaping

bungalow was incredibly important to the house and the home owners as they wanted a clear relationship with the nature that surrou...

2000 Years of Kent, England's Romney Marsh Area

area was underwater about 40 foot lower than the present level, bordered by hills which are now inland. The gravel barrier was in ...

Nationalism and the Importance of the Landscape

This 7 page paper examines a variety of perspectives. the importance of landscape in a national culture is emphasized. Bibliograph...

Point of View: Atwood and Ford

her youth she experienced the suicide of a friend in the woods while camping. The body was never found and this woman, Lois, was n...

Ecocriticism and Post-Colonialism

2002). However, taking the postcolonial perspective means that ecocritics need to rephrase their questions in order to "broaden th...

20th Century Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

both sides of the border throughout the Southwest. Here, the boxcar is a solid black shape that fills almost the entire area of th...

Art's Importance to the Educational System

core values of a culture" (Kreiter 66). For example, Roman painters depicted orators, philosophers and athletes in their art, and ...

Renaissance Art's Changing Aspects

structures, art, sculpture, glass works, decorative pieces and illuminated composition from the twelfth through the sixteenth cent...

Bauhaus, Art Nouveau, and Arts and Crafts

As Ruskin stated, all cast from the machine is bad, as work it is dishonest" (The Arts and Crafts Movement in the American Midwest...

Master of Liberal Arts' Program Letter of Educational Intent

no study of economics can be complete without including a focus on the issues of globalization. Whereas companies sought to enter...

Boston Museum of Fine Arts' Oceania

present themselves from this type of construction is to realize that any type of artwork may be perceived differently from the tim...

Art's Golden Mean and the Development of the Fibonacci Sequence

In six pages this paper examines The Annunciation of Leonardo da Vinci in a consideration of the Fibonacci mathematical sequence, ...

Brooklyn Museum of Art's Lee Krasner

In five pages this paper considers painter Lee Krasner within the context of her observation 'The key is what is within the artist...

Medieval Art, Ancient Art, and Divine Nature

In five pages the depiction of divine nature in the Greek marble Girl with Doves and the German stained glass Six Scenes from a Tr...

Nina Zaragoza's 'Rethinking Language Arts'

strengths and power of all children, rather than the weaknesses (Zaragoza, 1997) Perfectionism is an issue because it distances th...