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Disney Misogyny
In Disney films, there is a lot of misogyny amongst female main characters. Many people in our society have noticed a significant difference in the
speaking roles between male and female characters that Disney created, as men had way more lines than the women. Because these movies were
mostly created in the mid–late 1900's, this was the time that there was plenty of prejudice against females. Now, in the year 2017, females are
getting a little more equality than before to the point where many females now have jobs that were only for males in the 1900's. Most Disney movies
for that matter involve some sort of misogyny, even the ones that recently came out such as 'Brave' and 'Frozen'. Examples of various levels of
misogyny can be noticed in Disney films such as Ariel in 'The Little Mermaid' (1989), directed by Ron Clements and John Musker. The movie is about
a 16–year–old mermaid who wants to live on land with a human Prince named Eric but is only able to after making a dangerous wish with 'Ursula
the Sea Witch' to be a human for three days. In this movie 'Ariel The Mermaid', prejudice can be seen in Ursula, by a female having too much authority,
Ariel cannot speak, and Ariel uses her appearance to attract others.
Firstly, 'Ursula the Sea Witch' can be seen with a ton of power. The power turns Ursula evil and manipulative, which shows that females that have too
much power should be removed from society, just like Ursula. "...And now, look at me– wasted away to practically
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A Woman Governing Over Texas
No one would had imagined a woman governing over Texas, a state ruled by conservative white cowboys. Ann Richards was the second woman to
become the Lieutenant Governor of Texas in 1990. She became the hero of minorities, woman, gay men, and lesbians, and worked for a "New Texas"
where opportunities and power would be given to those groups. Ann Richards is known as the most efficient person in a line of long Texas
progressives who fought for control over Texas when the state was a "Democratic Stronghold". Her loss against Gorge W. Bush after her first term as
governor, was a strong indication that the generations of Democrats ruling Texas had ended.
Before Ann Richards made a career in politics, she had a career as a mother and wife. Ann was born inWaco, Texas on September 1 of 1933. Waco
back then was segregated, had strong religious ideas, and its people where known as being strict conservatives. Ann met her future husband in 1949
when Ann and David where on their senior year in Waco High. Once they graduated high school in 1950, Ann wanted to leave Waco and follow
David to Austin where David was studying to become a lawyer at the University of Texas. Ann's mother, Eleanor, didn't seem that it was a good idea
for her baby girl leave her hometown. Ann was enrolled at Baylor University with a scholarship that payed for her education. They got married in
1953 and four years later, Ann was pregnant with her first daughter, Cecile. David had a job in Austin and Ann stayed in
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The Four Senses Of Scripture In Origen Homily 1 Summary
The Four Senses of Scripture in Origen Homily I Origen was one of the most pivotal and important teacher and interpreter of the Catholic faith of all
time. His interpretations of Genesis I and many other homilies are still looked to today for guidance, even though he lived in the third century. Origen
has had a difficult history with the church, from being excommunicated and pronounced a heretic, though today the church an scholars recognize him
as a very important mind in church history. If one heard about Origen's early life alone, they may not predict what he would eventually become. He
was presumably born into an Christian home in Egypt, and at an early age his father was killed in a purge of Christians in 200 AD. Origen's education
was spotty, as he was not completely taught in school during his formative years but he came into contact with Gnostics of the Valentinian school,
Neoplatonist worshipers, and teachings from Philo of Alexandria. Overall Origen's formative years and early life were a rough time period for him,
and the time period in which he was raised was difficult for Christians everywhere. When Origen turned 18–years–old he became the principle of a
catechetical school in Alexandria. This is when Origen started working on First Principles, his attempt to make a presentation of what Christians
believe. In First Principles, Origen talked about the holy Trinity, the human fall into sin, human free will, and redemption. Because of his Gnostic
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Avant-Galsch Art Expressionism
During the nineteen forties and fifties, the art economy in America exploded after several of the artists that previously lived in Europe flooded into
New York because of the immense damage in Europe from the second world war.
The most influential Art Critic of the 20th century, Clement Greenburg argued that art with any sort of illusionistic representation or reference was
regressive art because it gives an audience the answers right away and lacks authenticity. Any work that had a connection to popular culture, that
everyone understood, and was inherently enjoyed was called "kitsch". Kistchy art was also a threat to Greenburg and other critics because it could
easily be used to control the masses. Any government or authority is able to pluck out any iconography that a society is fond of, and use it to control
the them with slanted political messages.
Avant–Garde art asks questions that people can't answer right away, and Greensburg states that an if audience has to think about the meaning then art is
kept alive. In his essay Avant–Garde and Kitsch (1939), Greenburg states that painting should be a sensuous experience about paint on canvas, color
relationships and texture. Abstract Expressionism would be the first Avant–Guarde movement to emerge out of North America. This movement was
about gestural paint strokes, and artists realizing physic depth of the unconscious mind. Greensburg was a huge advocate for this movement, but as art
bleed into everyday life
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Comparing Bottlerack, Barnett Newman's Eve And Ana Mendieta
The three works that will be compared are Marcel Duchamp's Bottlerack, Barnett Newman's Eve and Ana Mendieta's Silueta. Placed together the
pieces show us three varying genres, each from different periods in the twentieth century. Between the artists we also see obvious connections in
how they have challenged the spectator, and the art world alike, in viewing their art. All artists removed 'something', be it a body in Silueta or the
'purpose' of the Bottlerack and Eve's figurative form or vanishing point. All were met with a critique of the processes in which their work were
produced and likewise they also received admiration for their forward thinking, progressive art. There is a noticeable difference in the creative
processes that have taken place to produce these works. Duchamp, it could be argued, has taken the least time in 'producing' or 'creating' his
Bottlerack. After all, Duchamp was the inventor "...of the readymade..." (Gaiger, 2003. p.63). Also call an 'unassisted readymade' where the artist has
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We see the challenges they have faced in pushing the art world beyond the accepted and experimenting with something new. The artists have offered us
a new experience, one which asks us to reflect upon their works. One that seeks us to return to our most basic thoughts, to being that "Man's hand
tracing a stick through the mud to make a line..." (Newman, 2002. p.574). To see art as a means of communication through expressive forms that
contradict, and challenge, our reactions to what we see and hold as real in everyday life. To summarise, these artists have shown us the innovative
journey their art has taken through the twentieth century, giving us an opportunity to establish new skills in interpreting
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Influence Of Patronage On Jackson Pollock
The Influence of Patronage on Jackson Pollock Art History Scott Mathew Jan. 21st, 2018 Introduction Jackson Pollock, a famous artist representing the
summit era of abstractionism, witnessed that America took place of Paris in art world. However, his artworks were utilized as an American political
weapon during the Cold War to justify the impression on Western polities. This essay focuses on the influence some personal or governmental
patronage on Pollock's art. Some conspiracy theories even believed that it was the government that deliberately promoted the mainstream of
abstractionism. Pollock's Early Life Pollock experienced his childhood without much exceptional occurrences. He was ambitious to become an great
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The thing worthy noticing was that in the year Pollock started his drip paintings, even though people liked them, but no one really considered them,
let along buying them. Surprisingly, just in next year, forty his paintings were purchased, of course, in very high prices, and fifty two were bought
in the year after that year. Therefore, some attribute this phenomena to the governmental propaganda. With this, America not only attacked arts and
polities in the USSR, but also gained the reputations in art world that there would be the new art movement leading by the US. As a result, Pollock
earned a lot of money and prestige, and pressure too. For entire four years, Pollock had drip painted again and again. At last, he realized that he could
not create anything new. Because he did not have great sketching skills, he could not draw something else. The only thing he could do was drip
paintings. He had tried some new inventions, but, like paintings he draw before, no one was willing to spend any for those. After the four year, he
stopped painting and hated it. The aura shackled him to be a drip paintings–ist, and he did not have the ability to struggle it off. As a man full of
emotional strength, absolutely he could not stand such position. And, to the end, he
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The Welfare State Essay
HISTORY OF THE WELFARE STATE: The role and significance of the Beveridge Report in establishing the Welfare State in Britain.
The purpose of this essay is to look at the long history of the Welfare State in Britain and the evolving social, economic and political changes in society
today, as well as the birth of the Welfare State after the Second World War which was the turning point (watershed) in British History. The freshly
appointed Labour government by then took on the job of setting up a 'welfare state' that would systematically deal with the 'five giant evils' proposed by
William Beveridge in a report, which later became known as the Beveridge report. The British welfare state, if it is to be defined, it is generally
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As much as the 'five giant' differs from each other, there is a connection between the five of them, for example, unemployment in society causes
people to lack financially and this can lead to lack of good medical care, want, poor housing and etc. The Five giant evils; Want, essentially this
refers to poverty or lack, during the post war a lot of the British people were in need, they had no basic financial support and health care to keep
them alive as well as keeping them above the poverty line by which income does not cover necessities. Due to lack of financial support people
could not afford education and this resulted in lack of knowledge which is referred to as Ignorance, this was due to poor education. To make matter
worst there was no national health care because, this had to be paid for, but there was no money and medical care was not free and this led to the
outbreak of many diseases such as cholera, this was also linked to want, no money no medical care. Nevertheless, there were hospitals and only the
rich in society could afford medical treatment, however, today the welfare state had made medical treatment available for all regardless of
employment status. People were living in slums because there was poor housing and this was referred to as squalors, there is no
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Winston Churchill's Speech Outline
Bryce .W. Shelden.
Mr. Carlquest
World history.
1/20/17
Thesis
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." – Winston Churchill. Churchill was a man who lived by wize words.
He stood for Great Britain in her time of inner turmoil and fear. Winston S. Churchill stood against the Nazi oppression keeping his country safe from
the socialist movement of Germany he lead Britain out of the fear and into courage by being a great man who wasn't afraid to speak his mind. In
Winston Churchill's lifetime he he was a successful businessman and a great leader. In his speech " The Threat of Nazi Germany." Churchill said"
There are those who say, "Let us ignore the continent of Europe. Let us leave it with
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Why Did the Conservatives Loose the General Election of 1945?
Why did the Conservatives loose the general election of 1945?
The conservatives lost the general election in 1945 for a number of reasons some of which were the attitudes of many of the British after the war and
the way the country had been run in the time leading up to the election. The labour party had gone from a party which people feared as being socialist
to a party which during the war had shown was very much a balanced party which would not ruin the middle and upper classes and yet provide
services that would help the poor and also be available to the other classes. The conservatives had put little effort into running the country whilst the
war was going on and had assumed that winning the war would be enough to be re–elected. The ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
This was not as bad as it seemed though because the cost of living had been reduced by 13%. Britain emerged from depression largely from outside
factors other than the government but the government did have an effect. Chamberlain even introduced the Unemployment Act of 1934 which meant
insurance benefits could apply for a maximum of 26 weeks. Although the Conservatives did help and make some changes, it was not enough and they
did not look to the future as much as the Labour party.
The Labour party during the war had put in a huge effort to keep Britain going on the home front and proved to the people of Britain that they were
trustworthy and cared about the problems faced during the war that were not involved with the fighting. During the war, Churchill had 5 main members
in the cabinet with power; Arthur Greenwood (labour), Clement Attlee (Labour), Earnest Bevin (Labour), Herbert Morrison (Labour) and Sir Stafford
Cripps (Labour). Attlee had made himself known during the war period through his serious speeches which were very different from Churchill's
rhetoric speeches. Attlee became more respected by the British, he was a middle–class man who was quiet but could be a tough politician when he
needed to be. Earnest Bevin had been Minister of Labour during the war period and had resolved many of the problems faced with labour jobs
available during the difficult time, unlike many of the conservatives, he looked ahead to the future and began planning ahead
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How successful were the Labour reforms of 1945
How successful were the Labour Government reforms of 1945–51 in improving social and economic conditions? From 1945 to 1951, Clement Attlee
was prime minister of the Labour Government. He aimed to improve the Social and Economic Conditions. The main aims to improve the social
conditions were: to create a fairer society and improve the lives of ordinary people, build on the recommendations of the Beveridge Report, and slay
the five giants (Want, Disease, Squalor, Ignorance, and Idleness). The main aims to improve the economic conditions were: fulfilling the
Nationalisation programme and reducing unemployment. Labour had to recover from being identified with the failures of the 1930s. The Beveridge
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Housing was quite successful in a way (Squalor was another giant); many houses were built. 1.5 million Council houses were built and quarter of a
million pre–fabricated houses were built. Although, with the amount of houses being destroyed by bombs, not enough houses were built. It was
successful because many people were able to move into one of these homes. Ignorance and Idleness were two of the five giants; ignorance was
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How You Demonstrate The Character Traits Traid In The Letter
1. Explain how you demonstrate the character traits mentioned in the letter. Honesty– I dislike lying. People whom are good liars frighten me. I don't
admire them and I would even go as far as to say they're dangerous. Their lack of morals shocks and worries me. I am the opposite. I watch my
words and make sure they are transparent and true. I do my best to prove as often as possible that I am completely trustworthy. I fear lies because I
do not like the idea of someone lying to me. Lying is certainly not a positive thing. Leader– I am an honorable leader because I always make the best of
others so they can reach their goals, as well as being honest to them at the same time. I strive to reach my goals the most effective way for my peers
and I. I will make sure my peers do not give up, as well as I will make sure my peers do not give up, as well as myself not giving up either. I will not
stay satisfied if I know that we, ladies of distinction, can do even better. I will keep us going and help everyone so we can work as a team.
Trustworthy– I want to be the type of friend someone can come to and be able to tell me their worries without worrying I'll tell anyone else. If a
secret needs to be kept, then kept it will be. I would not want to ruin my friendship or anyone else's friendship because of a secret I told. The only
exception would be if it's something that could hurt that person or others. I would convince them to stop whatever they're doing and if that wouldn't
work
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NHS Social Changes
The National Health Service has seen many political and financial changes since it began. The advance in medicine since the 19th century impacted the
Britain significantly. The health of the nation has improved dramatically since the NHS formed. The timeline of events leading up to its formation are
crucial. The health services in the 19th century consisted of self–employed doctors who were for the rich and charitable volunteers for the poor. Local
authority hospitals catered for specific illnesses and health issues only, these included maternity and mental illness. The lack of control over housing
allowed slums to be built, the poverty in these conditions led to malnutrition. Cholera and Typhoid epidemics bred quickly in the slums and it... Show
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In 2012 The British Medical Association (BMA) made the decision to strike over major changes to the NHS pension scheme and the re–formation of
the NHS structure without any discussion with the BMA first. Also in 2012 The Health and Social Care Act 2012 was introduced by the coalition
government. It brought substantial changes to the way the NHS is organised, while work is also underway to improve the quality of social care and
reform its funding. Robert Francis, chair of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry presented his final report to the Secretary of
State for Health. It pointed out the errors with the current NHS and the falling standards of nursing and healthcare. From 2005 to 2009 Francis
collected evidence about a large amount of preventable deaths of patients while waiting for treatment in Staffordshire hospital. He published his final
report in February 2013. The Government published their response later on in the year. The full reaction focused powerfully on new legislation and
direction to hospital trusts and their employees, planning to make the NHS more open, accountable and focused on safety and
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Anne Frank Conflict
What is the best way to respond to conflict? Is utilizing violence really the way to settle dispute? Because of violence, numerous people did not survive
brutal and persistent disagreements, but their stories of courage still arouse millions today. One case of a motivation is Anne Frank's story, Anne Frank:
The Diary of a Young Girl, which depicts a firsthand account of her and her Jewish family's life both some time before and after being forced into
hiding. Another story that inspires millions, is Dear Miss Breed, by Joanne Oppenheim. This book is compiled with real–life letters from children in
the Japanese internment camps, such as Poston Relocation Center. Finally, the speech "Blood,Toil, Tears, and Sweat," given byWinston Churchill,
Prime Minister, proposes his positivity in winning the war against Germany. As proven by the sources, the best way to respond to conflict is through
having a positive viewpoint on the situation. One approach to respond to conflict is shown in the thoughts and actions of Anne Frank. In the story,
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne's solution to make the better of her situation was demonstrated. For instance, her diary entry, dated
Saturday, July 11, 1942, describing her living space at the Secret Annex, noticed, "Up to now our bedroom, with its blank walls, was very bare [...] I
was able to plaster the wall with pictures. It looks much more cheerful" (Frank 19). This represents a particular action in which Anne made to
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Manet's Atlantia
In Briony Fer's discussion of the formation of modern art, she invites us to view the "problematic character of the modern art" as a form of difference
or incoherence (21,27). In this paper, I will delineate her argument within the framework of Manet's Olympia and then add more dimensions to the
controversies involved in understanding Olympia by drawing upon T.J. Clark's criticism and Manet's own voice. We will see that while Fer locates the
painting within a dynamic current engaged in dialogues with both the past and the future, Clark cares less about the time flow than about the system of
meaning determinant within its contemporary social political context. Manet himself, however, is rather oblivious to the historically critical position...
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As she defines the modern as a difference "cultivated in the practice of art" (21), in order to maker her point, her analysis of Olympia dwells upon the
conflicts between the painting and the artistic conventions. She makes it clear that the incoherence occurs at two closely related levels, namely the
level of technique and the level of subject matter (27). With regard to the former, it seems that Manet invokes the tradition of nude just so he can
discard it. There is a "lack of compliance...with a tradition of painting of the nude, in which the nude female body was offered for contemplation in an
idealized form", and such departure from the technical convention of art–making further enables the construction of conflicts at the narrative level (Fer,
24): Olympia exhibits sharp control over her own sexuality in an almost shameless way, yet the disgraceful defiance is diluted by the rich material
embellishment, the classicized title and the allegorical poem. She is a classless prostitute (for any reference to class dissolves into the shadowy
classical traditions invoked), but is a mysterious goddess at the same time. The disregard of artistic practice combined with the ambiguous iconography
leads to a further level of incoherence of meaning or representation, which Fer seems to think, illustrates the "difference" that proclaims modern art as a
new phenomenon in its own
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Illustration and Color in Margaret Wise Brown’s...
The Importance of Illustration and Color in Margaret Wise Brown's Children's Books
Margaret Wise Brown's The Runaway Bunny is probably one of the most popular children's books of the last two generations. Readers love the gentle
magic of the words, and loving pictures. The illustrations of Brown's children's books fulfill the concerns and emotions of the child reader. Clement
Hurd was the illustrator of The Runaway Bunny, Goodnight Moon, and many of his own books. The Dream Book is another children's book written by
Brown and illustrated by Richard Floethe. Floethe has a very different style of illustration than Hurd. Floethe has illustrated many of Brown's books and
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There are also a lot of cool colors in this book such as blue and green which help to create more of a dream like vision.
Clement Hurd's style of illustrations looks like they were painted and also have very warm colors such as yellow and orange. The bright colors and
activity of the pictures look like images that you may see in a Saturday morning cartoon. There is an illustration in this book which has the mother
carrying a basket and a gardening tool. She is wearing bright blue overalls with a bright red hat. The flowers are bright yellow, red, pink, and white.
These bright colors are present throughout the book. This story is about an adventure that the little bunny takes showing pictures of him on a stormy
sea and in a circus show.
By looking at the pictures in each of these books it is easy to see that the authors adapt the colors to help convey the storyline. In The Runaway
Bunny the colors are very lively and rich in their tones. These types of colors help with the adventurous and exciting storyline. There are not many
dark colors in this story which I also think is saying that this is not supposed to be a scary adventure story. In The Dream Book, the colors are very
dark and bold. There are many dark night skies and I think that this helps to convey a story of dreams and bedtime. Children hear this story and feel
relaxed and ready to close their eyes after a long day of fun.
In conclusion,
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The Success of the First Two Labour Governments was...
Do you agree with the view that, in the years 1945–51, the achievements of the Labour government far outweighed its failures? Explain your answer,
using Sources 4, 5 and 6 and your own knowledge. (40 marks)
The Labour government in 1945–1951 achieved a high degree of activity and success, despite working within 'the aftermath of war' which inevitably
'brings enormous difficulties'. The Labour government devoted their power to reconstructing a better nation, one that would be a 'better place in
which to be born, to grow up, and to live and even die'. On the other hand it is possible to criticise Labour due to their 'irresponsible' spending.
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Source 4 states that Britain 'experienced a progressive phase' which embodies the age of austerity which the Marshall plan (1948) began, where
Britain received $200 million US Dollars, this marks one of the greatest achievement of Bevin as he convinced US of the necessity of such a plan for
shoring up Europe against the threat of communism in USSR. It spurred significant economic recovery. Stafford Cripps was to adopt a policy of
austerity which the basic aim was to use rationing and tight economic controls to prevent 'inflation'. Such measures, it was hoped would keep
employment high and allow the government to continue its welfare programme.
Source 4 uses the word 'kinder' which epitomises the 1948 Olympics which brought happiness and togetherness into the society, this was crucial due to
the war which they had experienced prior to this. The event came to be known as the Austerity Games because of the economic climate and post–war
rationing. This highlights the impact in which this had upon the country as the team spirit nature of this sporting event transmitted to the people
enabling a more friendly atmosphere of which encapsulates the idea of a social revolution had occurred.
Attlee's government inherited crushing financial difficulties in 1945. Source 6 remains impartial due to the fact that this political document is written
by the opposition party, therefore the Conservatives comment that the Labour government encountered various economic failures which
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Can Education be Classical and Christian? Essay
Can an education be both classical and Christian? Many parents ask this question every year, unknowingly echoing an age–old question. Tertullian, an
early church father, was perhaps the first to consider whether these two ideas are compatible when he asked, "What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?"
The church fathers continued to wrestle with the question for centuries, most concluding that all ideas that are taken captive for Christ may be used
profitably by Christians. Examining this ongoing conversation about classical, Christian education will serve to answer many of our own questions
today. Then, we will be able to consider that our understanding of classical, Christian education today depends more on the medieval church schools ...
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He culls whatever is useful from mathematics, the fine arts, literary studies, and, of course, philosophy, and protects the faith from all attacks" (171 ).
For Clement, the study of the liberal arts prepared the individual to possess a solid faith and to share that hope with others. Origen (c. 185–250)
became head of the catechetical school in Alexandria at the age of seventeen or eighteen. Educated in both the Scriptures and Greek literature himself,
Origen urged others to continue this practice. He compared this classical, Christian education to the Israelites plundering Egypt before the Exodus, a
comparison which continued to be repeated by future generations as they pondered a classical, Christian education. In his analogy, he demonstrated
that the gold and silver of the pagan Egyptians was used to make the holiest vessels in the tabernacle (178). Similarly, he urges students to use the
treasures of the Greek philosophers and poets to build up the sacred faith of Christianity. Basil the Great (c.329–379), bishop of Caesarea, considered
the study of the ancient writers, poets, and orators to be preparatory exercises for the deep study of Scriptures: "So we must consider that a contest,
the greatest of all contests, lies before us, for which we must do all things, and, in preparation for it, must strive to the best of our power, and must
associate with poets and writers of prose and orators and with all men from whom
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Manet And The Object Of Painting By Michel Foucault
Edouard Manet, an artist most commonly known in relation to the advent of modernist art, is credited with introducing such painterly techniques as
producing flatness in painting, and, a layering down of hues (alla prima). He is regarded as the father of modernitГ©, having many written works have
been produced as supplements, responses or studies of his paintings and influences in art–three of which I present as subjects of scrutiny in this paper:
the Painter of Modern Life by French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire, who produced several essays in relation to the phenomenon of modernity
(as both modulator and interpreter) Manet and the Object of Painting by Michel Foucault, a French philosopher and critic, and Modernist Painting by
Clement Greenberg, a mid–20th century art critic. In each of these respective pieces, I will be analyzing closely the ... Show more content on
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They differ in terms of length, structure, style and method of evocation. Baudelaire resorts to sub–heading sectioning, dividing his thoughts under
twelve primary pillars, starting with I. Beauty, Fashion and Happiness. Using such large, overbearing words and then breaking them down into
observational, almost ethnographical paragraphs where he describes behaviors, views and examples in relation to his larger claims. In Foucault's
Manet and the Object of Painting, the structural form differs, as the text was originally a 1971 lecture given in Tunisia alongside a series of other
lectures he delivered in Milan, Tokyo, and Florence. Thus, what we find is a slightly tweaked, translated transcription of the talk. Greenberg's
Modernist Painting, however slightly shorter than the two texts, reads clearly and is structured starting from a broad articulation of modernism that is
then rationed into specific claims or takes, enveloped in critical reflections upon artistic practice as well as philosophy of the phenomenon–similar to
Baudelaire's
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Essay about Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning is considered one of the best American painters to ever live. He is compared to one of the Greek Sea Gods, Proteus, and is
called "a master of a liquid realm who is gifted with prophecy" (Kertess).De Kooning is a highly intellectual, analytical artist with the courage to
reject all assumptions and to take up an issue at its "most difficult formation" (Hess 16). One of de Kooning's good friends was the poet, art critic, and
MOMA Curator, Frank O'Hara. O'Hara considered de Kooning one of the three or four greatest painters of the twentieth century. He idolized de
Kooning and was deeply influenced by de Kooning over their relationship. (Stevens 484) One of O'Hara's great poems about de Kooning's work was
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O'Hara used the lyricism, emotional effects, and metaphorical potentials of poetry to convey a painting's contents, a painting's appearance and and
array of some of the painting's potential effects upon a viewer. O'Hara's writings about visual art are simultaneously art objects and art criticism. They
are art objects themselves made of words responding to paintings. Because this activity––criticism as ekphrasis––rather than a formalized description
advocated by Greenberg, O'Hara was able to draw on the strengths of both poetic and prosaic expression to write hybrid pieces of critical text.
Again, O'Hara's art writings, unlike those of formalist critics like Greenberg, are a hybrid of aesthetic and critical modes of knowing (Shaw 179).
Greenberg is wrong in his belief that ekphrastic poetry cannot fully capture the essence of a painting. Lytle Shaw and Charles Bernstein, two critics
who supported ekphrastic poetry as a way to capture the essence of a painting, saw O'Hara's art writing as a powerful and necessary counter to the
rigidity that descends from Clement Greenberg's belief in formal art criticism (Bernstein). Bernstein adds that the significance of O'Hara is his ability
to avoid simple descriptions of visual art in pursuit of the complexity found in the pieces they are addressing (Bernstein). Shaw and Bernstein both
argue that O'Hara's poetry is a better way to capture visual art than a
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The Little Mermaid Society Essay
Woman of the Society
In the film The Little Mermaid by John Musker and Ron Clements, a theme that continually portrays itself is how woman are seen in society. In this
film, women are defined by their appearance instead of their inner–self or personality by men and women. It also displays that woman are not treated
fair. This is expressed in the film through multiple song lyrics and scenes. Ariel,the little mermaid, experiences many occasions where woman in a
society are seen differently than men. In the film, Ariel was given an option to live under the sea and live life under the rule of her father, or be on
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The line in this song says, "There is one way to ask her. It don 't take a word. Not a single word. Go on and kiss the girl." (Clements, Musker). This
piece takes place when animals around them is asking Eric to kiss Ariel, but the lyrics state it doesn't take a single word, so it can reveal an idea that
if both the characters are in love than Eric should kiss Ariel without consent. Acting without consent is not acceptable because what if Ariel was not on
the same page as Eric. This exact scenario can occur in real life where a male can do something that a female didn't provide consent to.
Another part of the movie that provides sufficient evidence that a woman's appearance is all that matters is also stated in the song "Poor Unfortunate
Souls" and the concept of what makes a "good" or "bad" woman. For instance, when Ursula begins singing "Poor Unfortunate Souls", it says, "You
'll have your looks, your pretty face. And don 't underestimate the importance of body language. The men up there don 't like a lot of blabber. They
think a girl who gossips is a bore!" (Clements, Musker). The lyrics state that men in the society are not a fond of women who talk but appreciate
looks and that if Ariel were to lose her voice it won't matter. This is important because a woman's value should not rely on their looks. When the
character Ursula is introduced there is a clear distinction of what makes a woman "good" or "bad". In this case, a "good" woman
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Labour 'Changed the Face of Britain' Between the Years of...
Between 1945 and 1951 the Labour Government changed the face of Britain. Discuss.
Between the years 1945 and 1951 the entire shape of Britain's economy, society and government changed. After World War 2, Britain was left in
economic and financial depression. Countries such as Japan and Germany, left in utter ruin from the war, ironically, were able to rebuild their
economies faster, and better than we could improve ours. It was felt that a great change was required in Britain, and perhaps it was that feeling that led
to the fall of the conservatives and the beginning of one of the greatest governments in England's history.
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Atlee's Government, as well as creating change, also focused on other aspects of society he felt the labour party could improve. Acts such as the
Education Act of 1944 and the Family Allowance Act of 1945, were only truly implemented under Atlee's Government despite being introduced during
the war. These two laws focused on the fairness of Children's lives, compulsory and free education and payments to Mothers who could not afford to
support all of their children– better known now as 'Benefits'.
These reforms were perhaps not a social revolution, as they did not seem to change things specifically, rather, improve and build on what was
already in existence. People of the time, although all the more happy for it, seemed to agree that it was not a revolution. In regards to Labour
'changing the face of Britain', I think, concerning 'The Welfare State' the very fact it is still the basis , essence of our Country's policies today, and that
no party has abolished nor disputed the need for it, is testament to its significance.
Labour brought about change in other areas too, such as the rather urgent and dyer issue of the economy. The key issues Labour were to introduce
were Nationalisation and Keynesian economics. Labour felt is was any government's, and so their right to direct and control key aspects of Britain's
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Charles James Simmons
Simmons, Charles James (1893–1875), politician and evangelical preacher, was born on 9 April 1893 at 30 Brighton Road, Mosley, Birmingham. His
father, James Henry Simmons (1867–1941), was a master painter and his mother, Mary Jane (1872–1958), a schoolteacher. They were Primitive
Methodists, temperance advocates, and Liberals. His maternal grandfather, Charles Henry Russell (1846–1918), a Liberal, Primitive Methodist lay
preacher and friend of Joseph Arch (leader of the Agricultural Labourers' Union and MP), shared the family home. Simmons described him as 'the
greatest influence during my formative years', the well–spring of the religious and political activism that was to characterize his career (Simmons, 6).
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During the inter–war period, Simmons worked as a Daily Herald organizer and an inspector in a car factory but also experienced spells of
unemployment. He was elected to Birmingham City Council in 1921 as a member of the minority Labour Group. Simmons was considered a firebrand
by political opponents and allies alike for his uncompromising position on issues such as unemployment, homelessness and temperance. Intermittently,
between 1921 and 1945, he served on the council for over fifteen years. First elected to Parliament in 1929 for Birmingham Erdington, he remained
loyal to the Labour Party when two of his political patrons, Oswald Mosley and Ramsey Macdonald, did not. Generally supportive of Mosley until the
latter formed the New Party, Simmons was anguished by Macdonald's decision to form the National Government in 1931. As an MP, the rights of
ex–servicemen of all ranks remained one of his priorities; a disabled private soldier himself, he utilized his experience to campaign for others. He also
spoke in favour of disarmament, limitations on military expenditure and support for the League of Nations. The strength of his convictions on these
issues led him to defy the Labour Whip on occasion; in March 1930 he spoke in favour and voted for an amendment to the Air estimates that would
have virtually abolished the Air Force.
In the period leading up to 1939 he was critical of the Chamberlain government
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A Summary OfFrindle By Andrew Clements
"Frindle" by Andrew Clements illustrated by Brian Selznick
Nick Allen is a child full of ideas who decides to replace the word "pen" with the word "frindle" after his teacher has told him that words are formed
by the people making them, therefore he must try it out for himself and gets six of his friends to commit to using the word "frindle" instead of pen.
Nick and his friends made a big show about using the new word every time they needed to say pen, however Mrs. Granger, the fifth grade, language
arts teacher was not in favor of the use of the word and asked them not to use it. That was not going to stop the group. So, the punishment for using the
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The white envelope included the note that was from way back in the beginning of the conflict when he put his name on it. It said she knew or was
rooting for it to become a word, moreover congratulating him for making it in the dictionary. She also apologized for trying to hold him back and
now could see the benefit of the event happening in her classroom. Inside the white envelope also came a box with Mrs. Granger's favorite fountain
pen, it had a small note attached saying "frindle" on it. Then he did something special, he gave Mrs. Granger a gold pen with this inscription "This
object belongs to Mrs. Lorelei Granger, and she may call it any name she chooses–With love from Nicholas Allen" The event of the story is factual in
that it could happen and it is also social in the way that Nick was able to get the word started. Getting his friends together and agree to use the word
"frindle" instead of pen continually. The author permits freedom by giving the children something to act on that doesn't harm anyone. It also allows
for an older person or one in authority to have the freedom to express the need for respect, yet still show support for the act of progress. The author
has demonstrated the dynamics of the classroom between child and teacher showing the struggles of a student who enjoys trying out new ideas. The
only thing controversial is Nick's use of his new word in class which led to his teacher feeling disrespected after
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Snow Pines : A Critique Of Helen Frankenthaler Snow Pines
I chose to critique Helen Frankenthaler Snow Pines at in the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art from 2004 in Garland Hall at the University of Alabama.
Description
Acclaimed artist Helen Frankenthaler created a work of art that was influenced by abstract expressionism. His, Snow Pines (2004), predominately
utilizes woodblock printing technique . This artwork is considered a Woodblock prints––a block of wood on whose surface a design for printing is
engraved along the grain. Frankenthaler doesn't utilizes any form of shapes in her artwork however, she does uses pigments mixed with water that are
then lightly brushed onto a piece of wood. While observing this up close (seen in the smaller picture), you notice scratches of wood lines in the
background of the artwork. This was achieved by the technique of woodcutting–– make a woodcut without a press by placing the inked block against a
sheet of paper and applying pressure by hand.These lines help illustrates the wood texture of the artwork. From glimpsing for the first time, I noticed
the translucence of the color illustrating the light, vibrant tone .The colors used in Frankenthaler's art are mostly comprised of warm colors––yellow,
red, orange and pink–– and cool colors: green and blue.The artwork flows from warm colors to cool colors.The color scheme is analogous as the
piece include variations in color between hues adjacent to one another on the color wheel, such as yellow–green, green, and blue–green. Due to the
bright
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Van Der Poll's Do Hit Chair
In relation to the above question, I have selected Van Der Poll's 'Do Hit Chair' (2000– present) as a contemporary work that manifests rebellion in the
contemporary landscape. Physically and visually, I am deprived of any realistic or actual representation of the artwork, as I can only analyse the 2D,
virtual image I have found on the internet. However, 'Do Hit Chair' heavily involves internet engagement, and this is the exact experience the audience
has themselves when purchasing the work. Thus, I have chosen to analyse the web page on which 'Do Hit Chair' is advertised. Demonstrated in the
'Description' part on the web page, the consumer becomes the co–designer by creating their own, edited version of the art work. This is further typified
by the 'online sharing options' at the top right hand corner of the designers web page. The internet is significant to the artworks interpretation, as the
consumer/audience's usage of the internet allows them to purchase the piece and enable them to publicise and even resell their own creations.
Accordingly, the artwork (or piece of furniture) becomes a cycle of consumerism. The work ideally functions as a chair, which is presumed by the
title, however the artist is able to change/alter the object into whatever they please. The spatial dimensions (100 x 70 x 75 cm) also indicate the
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It satirically comments on consumerism and its relation to 'art', as the consumer is paying 79300 euros to physically create the object themselves. This
is influenced by the the 'do it yourself' crafts style products as the consumer becomes the co–designer by recreating the
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Critique Of Leo Steinberg's Other Criteria Steinberg
Kyle Hevey | Leo Steinberg Other Criteria Leo Steinberg's Other Criteria focuses on how America's view on art differs from that of other
Countries and many of the problems that ensue when artists create art in America. Also, how critics and viewers of art should perceive different
pieces and how to cope with differing views. Steinberg later goes on to discuss the problems with how certain groups of people can perceive an art
piece negatively, when it might not be a negative piece. Steinberg's style of writing was very difficult to comprehend, I found myself rereading most
things, and only occasionally understanding the concepts he was trying to convey. He began his piece by addressing two writing pieces published by
Fortune, a magazine about the business side of art. He compared the two pieces, the first one was written in September 1946 and the second one in
December 1955, he began with the earlier one. The earlier piece was written using a travelogue as the stylistic model and it talks about, "[the] many
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Eakins learned to accept that America wasn't very interested in art and behand treating painting as work. Steinberg compared two of their pictures
as an example. One picture showed Gerome chiseling a woman out of marble and the top half of her body turned to flesh due to his passion for
painting. Eakin's version just showed the completed woman still as marble and he had already moved on to another piece. Eakin's piece was adapted
to the puritanism of the society in which he worked. Steinberg explained how some cultures were different than that of America's. Work is much more
respected and understood here. A perfect example of this is a quote by Claes Oldenburg that he used, "John Marin used to feel put down by taxi–cabs,
he said to himself: what is my painting worth next to a taxi–cab? A taxi–cab is so much more powerful and
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Great Britain After Ww2
Britain was a major force in the First and Second World Wars. It's strong political and military presence in the world was one to be envied by other
countries. During the war, Britain used its resources and resources from other countries to fight against Hitler's Nazi regime. With a lot of aid from the
United States, Hitler was defeated. It was a short–lived victory for Britain and other countries because due to the brutality of World War 2, Britain's
economy was badly hurt and so was their morale. Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister at the time, was very good at leading Britain through the war.
However, the aftermath of the war was unable to be solved by Churchill. After WW2, Great Britain changed in numerous ways. Politically, Britain
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Christianity, which was Britain's primary religion, experienced a sharp decline with fewer people attending church on a regular basis compared to
other countries, "However, Uganda also has its own history of ethnic and religious sectarianism, of violence and conflict, and this has produced
movements of Ugandans out of their own country in search of security and a new life" (Ward). Though the Anglican Church was strong in Britain, its
decline is clearly shown when Ugandan migrants who are Anglican Christians try to find a church in Britain. However, the churches at times fail to
live up to the Ugandan's expectations of an Anglican Church. This decline in Christianity was partly due to the social changes that were going on in
Britain such as the burst of minorities entering the country. However, many still claimed to be Christian with a lot claiming Atheism. This is due to an
increasing number of religions entering Britain after World War 2. Though Parliament may have been used to catering to the needs of the Christian
community, due to the diverse religions in Britain, Parliament had to consider a wide variety of factors now. For example, Islam is a religion that has
caused world–wide controversy in recent years but is also one of the fastest growing religions in the world and in Britain. The flourishment of Islam in
Britain is a direct result of the Muslim communities that immigrated to Britain during
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Essay The Avant-Garde Die First
The Avant–Garde Die First
In the 19th century, under the suffocating weight of a centuries long tradition in academic art, artists began to break free. Tired of meaningless
imitation and decoration, the avant–garde artists pushed for drastic revolutions in aesthetic and social taste. This experimentation rapidly grew less and
less controlled, and new technique and new style, which shocked and enraged the critics and public, stopped being experimental and started desiring the
side effects of shock and disgust. There is an error in believing the artist is always ahead of his time, will always be understood in the future, and is a
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Their ideas may have been the first of a radical new tradition, but they weren't the most ostentatious. Later movements like Dada, Surrealism, and art
post–World War II, would more clearly demonstrate the extreme separation the term "
avant–garde" implies.
It is important to reflect on the detachment of art from its former religious manifestations, where the painting was a moving piece of "symbolic
meaning" (Barzun 32). According to Jacques Barzun, a painting connected with the viewer because it reflected some manner of spiritual recognition;
it was the attachment to God or spiritual symbolism that satisfied the patron and provoked emotion, not the piece of art itself. "The Renaissance
glorification of man, the scattering and weakening of the creeds of Protestant Reformation, and the general unbelief caused by the progress of
science" caused art to become an idea into itself (Barzun 33). These modern issues Barzun blames for the rise of art as a religion, with the avant–garde
artists acting as "seer, and prophet bearing revelation" (33).
As Barzun stated, progress in science and technology became gradually more and more important as both were seemingly helping humankind advance
itself (Arnason 46). Artists, no
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Listening Style Analysis
Listening styles. Not something most people think about on a daily basis; well at least I never had. Undoubtedly, listening is one of the most
important links in communication, but who knew there were different types of listening styles? I did not; at least not until completing this assignment.
This was the main reason I was enthused about completing the listening style assessment. The listening assessment showed me that I have two
listener preferences: people oriented and action oriented. I scored a four in both of these categories. I was initially surprised by my low score in the
time oriented listening category, but upon further investigation I realized why I scored so low. I do not allocate time for listening and I do not feel
comfortable cutting people off mid–conversation; even if I am feeling pressed for time. These traits are not consistent with time oriented listeners.
Completing a listener profile allows one to purposefully use their strengths and weaknesses to work towards becoming a more efficient and effective
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One of these ways is to practice being an active listener. Rephrasing and summarizing what the speaker is saying and repeating key points while
writing them down will help me listen the entire time someone is speaking. I am privileged to have plenty of opportunities to attend lectures that are
given at my work place. I chose to attend a lecture this week for the sole purpose of practicing my listening skills. During the lecture I practiced being
an active listener. I made mental note of key words and phrases and wrote down main points that were not clear so that I could resort and do further
research after the lecture. I also focused my attention to the speaker's mannerism to help me identify which messages were most important to
understand. This practice session taught me the most effective way to absorb information given through an oral
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Texas Governors Are Not As Powerful As Many People Think
Texas governors are not as powerful as some people think. Their personality and appearance matter the most when being considered for a vote. The
governor is seen the most rather the other officials, which is why their personality and appearance is so important. Governors used to be able to serve
a 2 year term but that changed in 1974. The service term increased by 2 years. Rick Perry was elected in 2000 and is Texas' longest serving governor. To
be an eligible candidate the aspiring governor should be at least 30 years of age. Usually, the governor is a white, mid–age, male. Over time things
changed when Miriam Ferguson and Ann Richards were elected. To be a candidate you must also be a U.S. citizen and at least lived in the state 5...
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Miriam Ferguson was the first female governor of Texas. She served two terms in 1927 and 1935. She decided to run after her husband's
impeachment and conviction. Her slogan for the first election's campaign was "Me for Ma, and I Ain 't Got a Durned Thing Against Pa." She beat
her opponent with 58.9 percent of votes. In the second election she won with 61.6 percent of the votes. Houstonians may know her for her signature
on the Texas House Bill 194. This particular law was important for the University of Houston. In 1933, the University was established as a four year
institute. During Miriam's second an amendment was passed to disable the governor to issue pardons. Within the two terms that Miriam served, she
issued about 4000 pardons to the violators of the prohibition law.
Ann Richards was the second female Texas governor. Unlike Miriam Ferguson she didn't serve two terms. Although, she ran for a second term she lost
to George W. Bush. During Ann's governorship she introduced lottery tickets to Texas. She bought the first lottery in May of 1992 near Austin. The
lottery revenue was supposed to enhance the finances for schools. Ann Richards was also known for her anti–homosexual mentality. She signed a law
that made homosexuality illegal. Ann Richards is also recognized for appointing the first non–white commission head. Hispanic, Lena Guerrero was
appointed as the head of the Texas Railroad Commission.
The
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The Word Gematria
Merriam–Webster defines the word gematria as, "a cryptograph in the form of a word whose letters have the numerical values of a word taken as a
hidden meaning" and as "the cabalistic method of explaining the Hebrew Scriptures by means of the cryptographic significance of the words". Simply
put – gematria is one technique used for understanding sacred texts. This technique was derived from Greek influences and created by the practitioners
of Jewish mysticism. As an essential piece to the Kabbalistic cosmological system, the belief is that God created the universe through the power of the
numerical values of the Hebrew letters. Although gematria is not central to rabbinic literature, the symbolic values of numbers are used periodically in
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Essay on Which Comes First: The Art or the Artist?
Which Comes First: The Art or the Artist?
A Historical Perspective
The approach of the year 2000 seems a good time to think about the way the role of art and the artist has changed through history, and how modern
art is interpreted by a modern audience. Writing about modern art gives me the creeps. In other types of art, clear facts can be asserted with security,
public reactions are clearly documented, skills can be appreciated, and art is clearly recognized as such. Modern art defys all of these conventions.
Writing about modern art bothers me because after I've said everything that I feel about a piece, I'm not sure I could defend myself if someone walked
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Cave paintings show images of hunting expeditions, Egyptian hieroglyphics show Pharoes recieving crowns from gods, and the Aztecs have large
pillars that record entire military campaigns. This trend runs through the entire history of art.
Can the modern artist hope to be a historian? I don't think it's completely impossible, but that function of the artist has mostly been taken over by other
professions. Journalists and photographers record modern events. Since those records are relatively secure, it seems unlikely that future people will be
pawing through the rubble of a museam to find out who won the 1988 Presidental election. While an artist can interpret the events, the role of the artist
as a keeper of history has passed on to other hands.
The artist as a Scientist?
The most notable of artistic scientists is Leonardo Da Vinci. His genius led him to explore the most intimate aspects of human anatomy, engineering,
and the beginings of engineering. The 1400s aren't the only time when artists are the forerunners in the scientific world. Artists are architects, designers,
and inventors.
Can the new role of artists be scientists? I believe scientific fields are wide open to artists. Consistantly, artists have been giants whose shoulders current
professionals would hesitate to acknowledge even as they stand upon them.
Many fields which artists opened are now closed to them. Few would trust an artist to remove a appendix no matter
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Analysis Of ' Blue Poles '
Russian painter and pioneer of abstract modern art, Kandinsky's art and ideas impacted and inspired many generations of artists, from his students at
Bauhaus, to the Abstract Expressionists post World War 2. Kandinsky contested the boundaries of conventional art making practice through his rare
artistic style that departs from the strict conventions of realism and naturalism formed by the Academie, and seeks to convey inner spiritual experience
by challenging intentions and emotive capacities. He sought to convey a universal, visual and spiritual language of abstract forms and colours, along
with interpreting his synesthetic experience of music, to create artworks that transcended cultural and physical boundaries.
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Performed on canvas laid flat on the floor, Pollock makes no physical contact with the canvas whilst painting. The canvas seems to convey a telling of
Pollock's vigorous working methods and turbulent life to the audience, as the work consists of glass shards and footprints embedded into the canvas.
Pollock's boundary breaking manipulation of surface ultimately encourages artists to imitate his new and non–traditional methodologies within art
making.
Modernist critic, Clement Greenberg coined the term of Abstract Expressionism, and was largely responsible for the growing reputation of Pollock
within the art world. Greenberg assisted in determining the reaction to Blue Poles by the audience. In The Nation, 20/1/1945, Greenberg supports
Pollock through advocating his artwork in a public expanse, "American painting is much in need of all three qualities (that is, 'boldness, breadth, and
the monumental'), and it is significant that Pollock, who manifests all three, has already begun to exert an influence, though he has been before the
public hardly more than a year." Greenberg upholds Pollock's name with high importance, displaying his significance to the Abstract Expressionist
movement. Pollock's heavily influential style was rather radical in its extremity in his time, through his unconventional material practices and drip
techniques, redefining the conventions of traditional painting, in order to
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Artwork is Not Art Because of Theory
Whether it be writers, painters, sculptors, musicians, or photographers, artists all over the world have striven to show people their views of the world,
of people, and even of the universe itself. Throughout history the creative urge of man to present to fellow men a different perspective or
representation of life–or even the afterlife–has surfaced time and time again in the form of artwork. Sometimes it comes through genius and complexity,
full of meaning and symbolism. Others, it is simple and void of any clear meaning at all other than that it is art. Soon, however, there became a point
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Essentially, Modern Art allowed the "culturati" to move even further apart from the rest of society–they could be even more unique than
before because they actually liked this stuff that was strange and pointless to try to understand if you didn't know the theories it was being painted
behind.
As Wolfe explains, however, it isn't just the "culturati" that cause this great influence on art theory. Artcritics all over the United States
want, as always, to fit in with the chic of the chic and to be able to control what fashions are the craze. It is, after all, their critiques which usually
control the flow of the fashion. Modern Art's foremost critical influences in the United States, as Wolfe presents in The Painted Word, are Greenberg,
Rosenberg, and later, Steinberg.
Greenberg believed that art was heading into a final destination of "purity", and that the final destination of all that is truly art is what he
called "Flatness" (Wolfe 49). Essentially what this meant was that because the painting is indeed a flat surface made to appear like a three
dimensional plane by the painter, most painting was illusion. They began to conclude that the two–dimensionality of the canvas plane was what was
important, not the illusion they could create on it. Greenberg seemed intense on the point of flatness–as Wolfe puts it, it became "an obsession,
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The Differences Of Modernism: Clement Greenberg And Ronald...
Modernism has found new expressions in art which in turn have changed how people critic and understand art, in this essay I am going to focus more
on abstract expressionism. Debates in this movement have gone as far as influencing many artists and the two well–known critics who have made this
movement more remarkable and have changed the art world completely are Clement Greenberg and Ronald Rosenberg. On the writings of these two
gentlemen about art I will try to draw out the differences in the idea of what abstract expressionism is and what it is supposed to be, compare and outline
the similarities and the differences between the two critics.
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For Rosenberg Abstract Expressionism is not a continuation or explanation on what was in the past or re–defining it as Greenberg had proposed, he
says it was losing it. Whereas Greenberg wrote that action painting was a total drift away from art. On the basis where the two critics where trying to
convince each other of what is and what art should be they came with a defining type of style of painting in abstract expressionism, well Greenberg's
idea was a response to Rosenberg's idea of American Action Painting , but its aim was accurate. American Type Painting "is an empirical, sustained, and
unrelenting attempt to refute the claim that abstract expressionism painting constitutes a break with the past" (O'Riordan, 1957:5). Greenberg states
that art should be a self–justified meaning, art should be able to defend its reality through the means of its features and gives nothing similar to any
other, and he then states that if that type of art is seen as similar it should be eliminated, for example "a representation of objects – trees, people, fruits,
tables, buildings, horses, etc. they can be produced not only in painting , but just as well, if not better, in sculpture, photography, and film, thus they are
not essential to painting and must be discarded in art that aspires to be modern" (O'Riordan, 1957: 6). In Greenberg's American type painting an artist
would be acquired to
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Andrew Clements Frindle: The Etymology Of Words
In Andrew Clements' 1998 children's book, Frindle, Nick Allen, a troublemaking fifth–grader, spent a great deal of effort changing the word pen to the
word frindle, exasperating his teacher and gaining national notoriety for his invented word, which, in the story, stuck and was introduced into the
English dictionary. In Clements' book, he questions who it is that decides that words mean what words mean. His teacher, Mrs. Granger, responds,
"You do, Nicholas. You and I and everyone in this class and thisschool and this town and this state and this country. We all agree" (Frindle 197).
Unfortunately, deriving the etymology of words is not as simple as Mrs. Granger made it sound. Change in words – their meanings, spellings, and
pronunciations – takes place over the divides of continents, ages, and languages. So, the analysis of words is more than a quest for definition; it is an
exploration of history. The word "drum" is a fitting example of one suddenly appearing in the English language without strong, direct, reliable linkage
to previous tongues. The Oxford English Dictionary informs readers that "drum" first appeared as dromme and suggests that it appears as a reduction
of a longer phonetically–similar word, drumslade, or as a result of a misunderstanding of a another language's word ("drum, n.1" etymology). At its
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The musical instrument, and directly related senses). Each of the spellings appears in Middle English without, it seems, an Old English forerunner,
leading one to conclude that it is a closely–borrowed derivative of its Indo–European (perhaps Latin)
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Clement Hurd Research Paper
The Life of Clement Hurd: How it Produced Effective Children's Book Illustrations
Children's books go far deeper than surface value. The books that are successful and considered classics have careful thought put into them. A lot of the
powerful value of these books lie in what reaches children the easiest– the illustrations. Clement Hurd was the illustrator of many noteworthy children's
publications. To best understand his success, one must know about his relation to and understanding of his youthful audience, the people that he
worked with and was influenced by, and the time period in which he was creating and being influenced by. These various aspects of his life created the
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Following the First World War, much of society rejected the ideas of machinery and war, as were often suggested in futuristic, avant
–garde art up until
then. Artists such as Leger worked with this situation by embracing classicism and realistic, figurative works. This approach worked, and their art was
successful amongst society. "LГ©ger and his colleagues rejoiced in the new publicity of the postwar years and the energy of mass media"
(O'Donovan, 2013). Hurd took this European art movement and used it in his illustration of the book "Runaway Bunny". The pictures in this book are
done in a realistic manner, with smoothly–blended colors and no cartoon–like outlines. Part of this art movement included frontal compositions and
strong contours, which are also seen in this series of illustration. In the style of "return to order" art, animals live in unity in a landscape that flows
easily to the viewer. Gradually, the ideas of classical and modern combined. In the art world, organic and abstract, irregular shapes began to have
increasing importance and illustrators such as Hurd adapted to this as well. "Goodnight Moon", written five years after "Runaway Bunny", and "My
World", written seven years after, have very different styles and adapt to the more abstract forms that the art world responded to. In these works, the
reader observes flat shapes that stand in stark
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Examples Of Femininity In The Little Mermaid
The Little Mermaid: Hegemonic Femininity The transition from a girl to a woman is created by the socially implemented ideals of femininity
depicted in commercials, books, and mainly films. One of the famous animated princess Disney films, The Little Mermaid can be easily added to yet
another Disney film portraying hegemonic femininity. In the 1989 film The Little Mermaid (Ron Clements, John Musker), a beautiful, young mermaid
is willing to make a risky deal with an evil sea–witch because she yearns to walk on land and fall in love with a prince, while secretly the sea–witch
wishes for the mermaid to lose the deal. Ultimately, mermaid ends up achieving her dream of marrying the prince although the evil sea–witch tries to
destroy the plan. Throughout the fantasy/ melodrama film, the main protagonist Ariel reinscribes the hegemonic... Show more content on
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"Wandering free, wish I could be part of your world," is what Ariel sings as she daydreams of prince Eric. She strongly believes she needs him to be
happy and that without him she is incapable of doing so. That is why Ariel takes Ursula's deal, changes her body and sacrifices her voice while
leaving her family behind. This validates the hegemonic code of femininity because women are seen as individuals who cannot take care of themselves
and are only complete with a man.
After the climax, when the deal has been made with Ursula, Ariel finds herself in a difficult situation. With only having three days to get a kiss of
true love from prince Eric, she undoubtedly needs Eric's kiss to save her. Getting close to the end of the film, there is a scene where Ariel and Eric
are taking a boat ride. All the sea creatures try to set the mood so Eric can kiss Ariel. Without that kiss Ariel will lose her voice forever and her "true
love." This scene proves once again how women are incomplete without men, that they need a hero and prince charming to save
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Modernist Painting By Clement Greenberg
In his essay, "Modernist Painting" (1960), Clement Greenberg seeks to lay principles for evaluating the progression of art to modern painting.
Greenberg makes a lot of evaluations and assessments about modern paintings that are credible and can be held to a high standard. Despite his best
efforts, some of his assertions are shrouded in generalizations and lack the necessary premises to be established as entirely objective and affirmative.
Greenberg claims that the Old Masters created space one could imagine walking into and experience, but modern painters, on the other hand, create
space only accessible to the visual senses, eye. His observations regarding these "Old Masters" is undeniable for the most part, but his assertions on
modern paintings brings up a lot of controversy.
To question Greenberg, one must first understand how the representation of depth of space evolved over time. The full range of this evolution cannot
be mapped in this essay, thus only relevant and specific ones will be discussed. Dating back to the 16th century, the Renaissance painters saw a
heightening of perspective painting. By imitating how distant and close objects appear to the eye, the optical illusion of space is created by a
geometric representation of unfolding space. Rafael's Marriage of the Virgin, 1504 (fig.1) is a prominent paragon to reflect on regarding this
technique. With defined lines and patterns leading to the doorway of the background building, Rafael gives the audience a sense
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Disney Misogyny

  • 1. Disney Misogyny In Disney films, there is a lot of misogyny amongst female main characters. Many people in our society have noticed a significant difference in the speaking roles between male and female characters that Disney created, as men had way more lines than the women. Because these movies were mostly created in the mid–late 1900's, this was the time that there was plenty of prejudice against females. Now, in the year 2017, females are getting a little more equality than before to the point where many females now have jobs that were only for males in the 1900's. Most Disney movies for that matter involve some sort of misogyny, even the ones that recently came out such as 'Brave' and 'Frozen'. Examples of various levels of misogyny can be noticed in Disney films such as Ariel in 'The Little Mermaid' (1989), directed by Ron Clements and John Musker. The movie is about a 16–year–old mermaid who wants to live on land with a human Prince named Eric but is only able to after making a dangerous wish with 'Ursula the Sea Witch' to be a human for three days. In this movie 'Ariel The Mermaid', prejudice can be seen in Ursula, by a female having too much authority, Ariel cannot speak, and Ariel uses her appearance to attract others. Firstly, 'Ursula the Sea Witch' can be seen with a ton of power. The power turns Ursula evil and manipulative, which shows that females that have too much power should be removed from society, just like Ursula. "...And now, look at me– wasted away to practically ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 2. A Woman Governing Over Texas No one would had imagined a woman governing over Texas, a state ruled by conservative white cowboys. Ann Richards was the second woman to become the Lieutenant Governor of Texas in 1990. She became the hero of minorities, woman, gay men, and lesbians, and worked for a "New Texas" where opportunities and power would be given to those groups. Ann Richards is known as the most efficient person in a line of long Texas progressives who fought for control over Texas when the state was a "Democratic Stronghold". Her loss against Gorge W. Bush after her first term as governor, was a strong indication that the generations of Democrats ruling Texas had ended. Before Ann Richards made a career in politics, she had a career as a mother and wife. Ann was born inWaco, Texas on September 1 of 1933. Waco back then was segregated, had strong religious ideas, and its people where known as being strict conservatives. Ann met her future husband in 1949 when Ann and David where on their senior year in Waco High. Once they graduated high school in 1950, Ann wanted to leave Waco and follow David to Austin where David was studying to become a lawyer at the University of Texas. Ann's mother, Eleanor, didn't seem that it was a good idea for her baby girl leave her hometown. Ann was enrolled at Baylor University with a scholarship that payed for her education. They got married in 1953 and four years later, Ann was pregnant with her first daughter, Cecile. David had a job in Austin and Ann stayed in ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 3. The Four Senses Of Scripture In Origen Homily 1 Summary The Four Senses of Scripture in Origen Homily I Origen was one of the most pivotal and important teacher and interpreter of the Catholic faith of all time. His interpretations of Genesis I and many other homilies are still looked to today for guidance, even though he lived in the third century. Origen has had a difficult history with the church, from being excommunicated and pronounced a heretic, though today the church an scholars recognize him as a very important mind in church history. If one heard about Origen's early life alone, they may not predict what he would eventually become. He was presumably born into an Christian home in Egypt, and at an early age his father was killed in a purge of Christians in 200 AD. Origen's education was spotty, as he was not completely taught in school during his formative years but he came into contact with Gnostics of the Valentinian school, Neoplatonist worshipers, and teachings from Philo of Alexandria. Overall Origen's formative years and early life were a rough time period for him, and the time period in which he was raised was difficult for Christians everywhere. When Origen turned 18–years–old he became the principle of a catechetical school in Alexandria. This is when Origen started working on First Principles, his attempt to make a presentation of what Christians believe. In First Principles, Origen talked about the holy Trinity, the human fall into sin, human free will, and redemption. Because of his Gnostic background ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 4. Avant-Galsch Art Expressionism During the nineteen forties and fifties, the art economy in America exploded after several of the artists that previously lived in Europe flooded into New York because of the immense damage in Europe from the second world war. The most influential Art Critic of the 20th century, Clement Greenburg argued that art with any sort of illusionistic representation or reference was regressive art because it gives an audience the answers right away and lacks authenticity. Any work that had a connection to popular culture, that everyone understood, and was inherently enjoyed was called "kitsch". Kistchy art was also a threat to Greenburg and other critics because it could easily be used to control the masses. Any government or authority is able to pluck out any iconography that a society is fond of, and use it to control the them with slanted political messages. Avant–Garde art asks questions that people can't answer right away, and Greensburg states that an if audience has to think about the meaning then art is kept alive. In his essay Avant–Garde and Kitsch (1939), Greenburg states that painting should be a sensuous experience about paint on canvas, color relationships and texture. Abstract Expressionism would be the first Avant–Guarde movement to emerge out of North America. This movement was about gestural paint strokes, and artists realizing physic depth of the unconscious mind. Greensburg was a huge advocate for this movement, but as art bleed into everyday life ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 5. Comparing Bottlerack, Barnett Newman's Eve And Ana Mendieta The three works that will be compared are Marcel Duchamp's Bottlerack, Barnett Newman's Eve and Ana Mendieta's Silueta. Placed together the pieces show us three varying genres, each from different periods in the twentieth century. Between the artists we also see obvious connections in how they have challenged the spectator, and the art world alike, in viewing their art. All artists removed 'something', be it a body in Silueta or the 'purpose' of the Bottlerack and Eve's figurative form or vanishing point. All were met with a critique of the processes in which their work were produced and likewise they also received admiration for their forward thinking, progressive art. There is a noticeable difference in the creative processes that have taken place to produce these works. Duchamp, it could be argued, has taken the least time in 'producing' or 'creating' his Bottlerack. After all, Duchamp was the inventor "...of the readymade..." (Gaiger, 2003. p.63). Also call an 'unassisted readymade' where the artist has not interfered with or altered the object and we are asked to appreciate the object, as it stands before us.... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... We see the challenges they have faced in pushing the art world beyond the accepted and experimenting with something new. The artists have offered us a new experience, one which asks us to reflect upon their works. One that seeks us to return to our most basic thoughts, to being that "Man's hand tracing a stick through the mud to make a line..." (Newman, 2002. p.574). To see art as a means of communication through expressive forms that contradict, and challenge, our reactions to what we see and hold as real in everyday life. To summarise, these artists have shown us the innovative journey their art has taken through the twentieth century, giving us an opportunity to establish new skills in interpreting ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 6. Influence Of Patronage On Jackson Pollock The Influence of Patronage on Jackson Pollock Art History Scott Mathew Jan. 21st, 2018 Introduction Jackson Pollock, a famous artist representing the summit era of abstractionism, witnessed that America took place of Paris in art world. However, his artworks were utilized as an American political weapon during the Cold War to justify the impression on Western polities. This essay focuses on the influence some personal or governmental patronage on Pollock's art. Some conspiracy theories even believed that it was the government that deliberately promoted the mainstream of abstractionism. Pollock's Early Life Pollock experienced his childhood without much exceptional occurrences. He was ambitious to become an great artist, and fortunately,... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... The thing worthy noticing was that in the year Pollock started his drip paintings, even though people liked them, but no one really considered them, let along buying them. Surprisingly, just in next year, forty his paintings were purchased, of course, in very high prices, and fifty two were bought in the year after that year. Therefore, some attribute this phenomena to the governmental propaganda. With this, America not only attacked arts and polities in the USSR, but also gained the reputations in art world that there would be the new art movement leading by the US. As a result, Pollock earned a lot of money and prestige, and pressure too. For entire four years, Pollock had drip painted again and again. At last, he realized that he could not create anything new. Because he did not have great sketching skills, he could not draw something else. The only thing he could do was drip paintings. He had tried some new inventions, but, like paintings he draw before, no one was willing to spend any for those. After the four year, he stopped painting and hated it. The aura shackled him to be a drip paintings–ist, and he did not have the ability to struggle it off. As a man full of emotional strength, absolutely he could not stand such position. And, to the end, he ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 7. The Welfare State Essay HISTORY OF THE WELFARE STATE: The role and significance of the Beveridge Report in establishing the Welfare State in Britain. The purpose of this essay is to look at the long history of the Welfare State in Britain and the evolving social, economic and political changes in society today, as well as the birth of the Welfare State after the Second World War which was the turning point (watershed) in British History. The freshly appointed Labour government by then took on the job of setting up a 'welfare state' that would systematically deal with the 'five giant evils' proposed by William Beveridge in a report, which later became known as the Beveridge report. The British welfare state, if it is to be defined, it is generally incorporated ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... As much as the 'five giant' differs from each other, there is a connection between the five of them, for example, unemployment in society causes people to lack financially and this can lead to lack of good medical care, want, poor housing and etc. The Five giant evils; Want, essentially this refers to poverty or lack, during the post war a lot of the British people were in need, they had no basic financial support and health care to keep them alive as well as keeping them above the poverty line by which income does not cover necessities. Due to lack of financial support people could not afford education and this resulted in lack of knowledge which is referred to as Ignorance, this was due to poor education. To make matter worst there was no national health care because, this had to be paid for, but there was no money and medical care was not free and this led to the outbreak of many diseases such as cholera, this was also linked to want, no money no medical care. Nevertheless, there were hospitals and only the rich in society could afford medical treatment, however, today the welfare state had made medical treatment available for all regardless of employment status. People were living in slums because there was poor housing and this was referred to as squalors, there is no ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 8. Winston Churchill's Speech Outline Bryce .W. Shelden. Mr. Carlquest World history. 1/20/17 Thesis "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." – Winston Churchill. Churchill was a man who lived by wize words. He stood for Great Britain in her time of inner turmoil and fear. Winston S. Churchill stood against the Nazi oppression keeping his country safe from the socialist movement of Germany he lead Britain out of the fear and into courage by being a great man who wasn't afraid to speak his mind. In Winston Churchill's lifetime he he was a successful businessman and a great leader. In his speech " The Threat of Nazi Germany." Churchill said" There are those who say, "Let us ignore the continent of Europe. Let us leave it with ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 9. Why Did the Conservatives Loose the General Election of 1945? Why did the Conservatives loose the general election of 1945? The conservatives lost the general election in 1945 for a number of reasons some of which were the attitudes of many of the British after the war and the way the country had been run in the time leading up to the election. The labour party had gone from a party which people feared as being socialist to a party which during the war had shown was very much a balanced party which would not ruin the middle and upper classes and yet provide services that would help the poor and also be available to the other classes. The conservatives had put little effort into running the country whilst the war was going on and had assumed that winning the war would be enough to be re–elected. The ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... This was not as bad as it seemed though because the cost of living had been reduced by 13%. Britain emerged from depression largely from outside factors other than the government but the government did have an effect. Chamberlain even introduced the Unemployment Act of 1934 which meant insurance benefits could apply for a maximum of 26 weeks. Although the Conservatives did help and make some changes, it was not enough and they did not look to the future as much as the Labour party. The Labour party during the war had put in a huge effort to keep Britain going on the home front and proved to the people of Britain that they were trustworthy and cared about the problems faced during the war that were not involved with the fighting. During the war, Churchill had 5 main members in the cabinet with power; Arthur Greenwood (labour), Clement Attlee (Labour), Earnest Bevin (Labour), Herbert Morrison (Labour) and Sir Stafford Cripps (Labour). Attlee had made himself known during the war period through his serious speeches which were very different from Churchill's rhetoric speeches. Attlee became more respected by the British, he was a middle–class man who was quiet but could be a tough politician when he needed to be. Earnest Bevin had been Minister of Labour during the war period and had resolved many of the problems faced with labour jobs available during the difficult time, unlike many of the conservatives, he looked ahead to the future and began planning ahead ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 10. How successful were the Labour reforms of 1945 How successful were the Labour Government reforms of 1945–51 in improving social and economic conditions? From 1945 to 1951, Clement Attlee was prime minister of the Labour Government. He aimed to improve the Social and Economic Conditions. The main aims to improve the social conditions were: to create a fairer society and improve the lives of ordinary people, build on the recommendations of the Beveridge Report, and slay the five giants (Want, Disease, Squalor, Ignorance, and Idleness). The main aims to improve the economic conditions were: fulfilling the Nationalisation programme and reducing unemployment. Labour had to recover from being identified with the failures of the 1930s. The Beveridge Report of 1942, written by William... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Housing was quite successful in a way (Squalor was another giant); many houses were built. 1.5 million Council houses were built and quarter of a million pre–fabricated houses were built. Although, with the amount of houses being destroyed by bombs, not enough houses were built. It was successful because many people were able to move into one of these homes. Ignorance and Idleness were two of the five giants; ignorance was ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 11. How You Demonstrate The Character Traits Traid In The Letter 1. Explain how you demonstrate the character traits mentioned in the letter. Honesty– I dislike lying. People whom are good liars frighten me. I don't admire them and I would even go as far as to say they're dangerous. Their lack of morals shocks and worries me. I am the opposite. I watch my words and make sure they are transparent and true. I do my best to prove as often as possible that I am completely trustworthy. I fear lies because I do not like the idea of someone lying to me. Lying is certainly not a positive thing. Leader– I am an honorable leader because I always make the best of others so they can reach their goals, as well as being honest to them at the same time. I strive to reach my goals the most effective way for my peers and I. I will make sure my peers do not give up, as well as I will make sure my peers do not give up, as well as myself not giving up either. I will not stay satisfied if I know that we, ladies of distinction, can do even better. I will keep us going and help everyone so we can work as a team. Trustworthy– I want to be the type of friend someone can come to and be able to tell me their worries without worrying I'll tell anyone else. If a secret needs to be kept, then kept it will be. I would not want to ruin my friendship or anyone else's friendship because of a secret I told. The only exception would be if it's something that could hurt that person or others. I would convince them to stop whatever they're doing and if that wouldn't work ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 12. NHS Social Changes The National Health Service has seen many political and financial changes since it began. The advance in medicine since the 19th century impacted the Britain significantly. The health of the nation has improved dramatically since the NHS formed. The timeline of events leading up to its formation are crucial. The health services in the 19th century consisted of self–employed doctors who were for the rich and charitable volunteers for the poor. Local authority hospitals catered for specific illnesses and health issues only, these included maternity and mental illness. The lack of control over housing allowed slums to be built, the poverty in these conditions led to malnutrition. Cholera and Typhoid epidemics bred quickly in the slums and it... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... In 2012 The British Medical Association (BMA) made the decision to strike over major changes to the NHS pension scheme and the re–formation of the NHS structure without any discussion with the BMA first. Also in 2012 The Health and Social Care Act 2012 was introduced by the coalition government. It brought substantial changes to the way the NHS is organised, while work is also underway to improve the quality of social care and reform its funding. Robert Francis, chair of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry presented his final report to the Secretary of State for Health. It pointed out the errors with the current NHS and the falling standards of nursing and healthcare. From 2005 to 2009 Francis collected evidence about a large amount of preventable deaths of patients while waiting for treatment in Staffordshire hospital. He published his final report in February 2013. The Government published their response later on in the year. The full reaction focused powerfully on new legislation and direction to hospital trusts and their employees, planning to make the NHS more open, accountable and focused on safety and ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 13. Anne Frank Conflict What is the best way to respond to conflict? Is utilizing violence really the way to settle dispute? Because of violence, numerous people did not survive brutal and persistent disagreements, but their stories of courage still arouse millions today. One case of a motivation is Anne Frank's story, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, which depicts a firsthand account of her and her Jewish family's life both some time before and after being forced into hiding. Another story that inspires millions, is Dear Miss Breed, by Joanne Oppenheim. This book is compiled with real–life letters from children in the Japanese internment camps, such as Poston Relocation Center. Finally, the speech "Blood,Toil, Tears, and Sweat," given byWinston Churchill, Prime Minister, proposes his positivity in winning the war against Germany. As proven by the sources, the best way to respond to conflict is through having a positive viewpoint on the situation. One approach to respond to conflict is shown in the thoughts and actions of Anne Frank. In the story, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne's solution to make the better of her situation was demonstrated. For instance, her diary entry, dated Saturday, July 11, 1942, describing her living space at the Secret Annex, noticed, "Up to now our bedroom, with its blank walls, was very bare [...] I was able to plaster the wall with pictures. It looks much more cheerful" (Frank 19). This represents a particular action in which Anne made to ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 14. Manet's Atlantia In Briony Fer's discussion of the formation of modern art, she invites us to view the "problematic character of the modern art" as a form of difference or incoherence (21,27). In this paper, I will delineate her argument within the framework of Manet's Olympia and then add more dimensions to the controversies involved in understanding Olympia by drawing upon T.J. Clark's criticism and Manet's own voice. We will see that while Fer locates the painting within a dynamic current engaged in dialogues with both the past and the future, Clark cares less about the time flow than about the system of meaning determinant within its contemporary social political context. Manet himself, however, is rather oblivious to the historically critical position... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... As she defines the modern as a difference "cultivated in the practice of art" (21), in order to maker her point, her analysis of Olympia dwells upon the conflicts between the painting and the artistic conventions. She makes it clear that the incoherence occurs at two closely related levels, namely the level of technique and the level of subject matter (27). With regard to the former, it seems that Manet invokes the tradition of nude just so he can discard it. There is a "lack of compliance...with a tradition of painting of the nude, in which the nude female body was offered for contemplation in an idealized form", and such departure from the technical convention of art–making further enables the construction of conflicts at the narrative level (Fer, 24): Olympia exhibits sharp control over her own sexuality in an almost shameless way, yet the disgraceful defiance is diluted by the rich material embellishment, the classicized title and the allegorical poem. She is a classless prostitute (for any reference to class dissolves into the shadowy classical traditions invoked), but is a mysterious goddess at the same time. The disregard of artistic practice combined with the ambiguous iconography leads to a further level of incoherence of meaning or representation, which Fer seems to think, illustrates the "difference" that proclaims modern art as a new phenomenon in its own ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 15. Illustration and Color in Margaret Wise Brown’s... The Importance of Illustration and Color in Margaret Wise Brown's Children's Books Margaret Wise Brown's The Runaway Bunny is probably one of the most popular children's books of the last two generations. Readers love the gentle magic of the words, and loving pictures. The illustrations of Brown's children's books fulfill the concerns and emotions of the child reader. Clement Hurd was the illustrator of The Runaway Bunny, Goodnight Moon, and many of his own books. The Dream Book is another children's book written by Brown and illustrated by Richard Floethe. Floethe has a very different style of illustration than Hurd. Floethe has illustrated many of Brown's books and has won many awards. Although done by different illustrators they ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... There are also a lot of cool colors in this book such as blue and green which help to create more of a dream like vision. Clement Hurd's style of illustrations looks like they were painted and also have very warm colors such as yellow and orange. The bright colors and activity of the pictures look like images that you may see in a Saturday morning cartoon. There is an illustration in this book which has the mother carrying a basket and a gardening tool. She is wearing bright blue overalls with a bright red hat. The flowers are bright yellow, red, pink, and white. These bright colors are present throughout the book. This story is about an adventure that the little bunny takes showing pictures of him on a stormy sea and in a circus show. By looking at the pictures in each of these books it is easy to see that the authors adapt the colors to help convey the storyline. In The Runaway Bunny the colors are very lively and rich in their tones. These types of colors help with the adventurous and exciting storyline. There are not many dark colors in this story which I also think is saying that this is not supposed to be a scary adventure story. In The Dream Book, the colors are very dark and bold. There are many dark night skies and I think that this helps to convey a story of dreams and bedtime. Children hear this story and feel relaxed and ready to close their eyes after a long day of fun. In conclusion, ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 16. The Success of the First Two Labour Governments was... Do you agree with the view that, in the years 1945–51, the achievements of the Labour government far outweighed its failures? Explain your answer, using Sources 4, 5 and 6 and your own knowledge. (40 marks) The Labour government in 1945–1951 achieved a high degree of activity and success, despite working within 'the aftermath of war' which inevitably 'brings enormous difficulties'. The Labour government devoted their power to reconstructing a better nation, one that would be a 'better place in which to be born, to grow up, and to live and even die'. On the other hand it is possible to criticise Labour due to their 'irresponsible' spending. In source 4 Hennessy states that Britain is a 'better place in which to be born' as the ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Source 4 states that Britain 'experienced a progressive phase' which embodies the age of austerity which the Marshall plan (1948) began, where Britain received $200 million US Dollars, this marks one of the greatest achievement of Bevin as he convinced US of the necessity of such a plan for shoring up Europe against the threat of communism in USSR. It spurred significant economic recovery. Stafford Cripps was to adopt a policy of austerity which the basic aim was to use rationing and tight economic controls to prevent 'inflation'. Such measures, it was hoped would keep employment high and allow the government to continue its welfare programme. Source 4 uses the word 'kinder' which epitomises the 1948 Olympics which brought happiness and togetherness into the society, this was crucial due to the war which they had experienced prior to this. The event came to be known as the Austerity Games because of the economic climate and post–war rationing. This highlights the impact in which this had upon the country as the team spirit nature of this sporting event transmitted to the people enabling a more friendly atmosphere of which encapsulates the idea of a social revolution had occurred. Attlee's government inherited crushing financial difficulties in 1945. Source 6 remains impartial due to the fact that this political document is written by the opposition party, therefore the Conservatives comment that the Labour government encountered various economic failures which ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 17. Can Education be Classical and Christian? Essay Can an education be both classical and Christian? Many parents ask this question every year, unknowingly echoing an age–old question. Tertullian, an early church father, was perhaps the first to consider whether these two ideas are compatible when he asked, "What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?" The church fathers continued to wrestle with the question for centuries, most concluding that all ideas that are taken captive for Christ may be used profitably by Christians. Examining this ongoing conversation about classical, Christian education will serve to answer many of our own questions today. Then, we will be able to consider that our understanding of classical, Christian education today depends more on the medieval church schools ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... He culls whatever is useful from mathematics, the fine arts, literary studies, and, of course, philosophy, and protects the faith from all attacks" (171 ). For Clement, the study of the liberal arts prepared the individual to possess a solid faith and to share that hope with others. Origen (c. 185–250) became head of the catechetical school in Alexandria at the age of seventeen or eighteen. Educated in both the Scriptures and Greek literature himself, Origen urged others to continue this practice. He compared this classical, Christian education to the Israelites plundering Egypt before the Exodus, a comparison which continued to be repeated by future generations as they pondered a classical, Christian education. In his analogy, he demonstrated that the gold and silver of the pagan Egyptians was used to make the holiest vessels in the tabernacle (178). Similarly, he urges students to use the treasures of the Greek philosophers and poets to build up the sacred faith of Christianity. Basil the Great (c.329–379), bishop of Caesarea, considered the study of the ancient writers, poets, and orators to be preparatory exercises for the deep study of Scriptures: "So we must consider that a contest, the greatest of all contests, lies before us, for which we must do all things, and, in preparation for it, must strive to the best of our power, and must associate with poets and writers of prose and orators and with all men from whom ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 18. Manet And The Object Of Painting By Michel Foucault Edouard Manet, an artist most commonly known in relation to the advent of modernist art, is credited with introducing such painterly techniques as producing flatness in painting, and, a layering down of hues (alla prima). He is regarded as the father of modernitГ©, having many written works have been produced as supplements, responses or studies of his paintings and influences in art–three of which I present as subjects of scrutiny in this paper: the Painter of Modern Life by French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire, who produced several essays in relation to the phenomenon of modernity (as both modulator and interpreter) Manet and the Object of Painting by Michel Foucault, a French philosopher and critic, and Modernist Painting by Clement Greenberg, a mid–20th century art critic. In each of these respective pieces, I will be analyzing closely the ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... They differ in terms of length, structure, style and method of evocation. Baudelaire resorts to sub–heading sectioning, dividing his thoughts under twelve primary pillars, starting with I. Beauty, Fashion and Happiness. Using such large, overbearing words and then breaking them down into observational, almost ethnographical paragraphs where he describes behaviors, views and examples in relation to his larger claims. In Foucault's Manet and the Object of Painting, the structural form differs, as the text was originally a 1971 lecture given in Tunisia alongside a series of other lectures he delivered in Milan, Tokyo, and Florence. Thus, what we find is a slightly tweaked, translated transcription of the talk. Greenberg's Modernist Painting, however slightly shorter than the two texts, reads clearly and is structured starting from a broad articulation of modernism that is then rationed into specific claims or takes, enveloped in critical reflections upon artistic practice as well as philosophy of the phenomenon–similar to Baudelaire's ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 19. Essay about Willem de Kooning Willem de Kooning is considered one of the best American painters to ever live. He is compared to one of the Greek Sea Gods, Proteus, and is called "a master of a liquid realm who is gifted with prophecy" (Kertess).De Kooning is a highly intellectual, analytical artist with the courage to reject all assumptions and to take up an issue at its "most difficult formation" (Hess 16). One of de Kooning's good friends was the poet, art critic, and MOMA Curator, Frank O'Hara. O'Hara considered de Kooning one of the three or four greatest painters of the twentieth century. He idolized de Kooning and was deeply influenced by de Kooning over their relationship. (Stevens 484) One of O'Hara's great poems about de Kooning's work was "Ode to Willem de ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... O'Hara used the lyricism, emotional effects, and metaphorical potentials of poetry to convey a painting's contents, a painting's appearance and and array of some of the painting's potential effects upon a viewer. O'Hara's writings about visual art are simultaneously art objects and art criticism. They are art objects themselves made of words responding to paintings. Because this activity––criticism as ekphrasis––rather than a formalized description advocated by Greenberg, O'Hara was able to draw on the strengths of both poetic and prosaic expression to write hybrid pieces of critical text. Again, O'Hara's art writings, unlike those of formalist critics like Greenberg, are a hybrid of aesthetic and critical modes of knowing (Shaw 179). Greenberg is wrong in his belief that ekphrastic poetry cannot fully capture the essence of a painting. Lytle Shaw and Charles Bernstein, two critics who supported ekphrastic poetry as a way to capture the essence of a painting, saw O'Hara's art writing as a powerful and necessary counter to the rigidity that descends from Clement Greenberg's belief in formal art criticism (Bernstein). Bernstein adds that the significance of O'Hara is his ability to avoid simple descriptions of visual art in pursuit of the complexity found in the pieces they are addressing (Bernstein). Shaw and Bernstein both argue that O'Hara's poetry is a better way to capture visual art than a ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 20. The Little Mermaid Society Essay Woman of the Society In the film The Little Mermaid by John Musker and Ron Clements, a theme that continually portrays itself is how woman are seen in society. In this film, women are defined by their appearance instead of their inner–self or personality by men and women. It also displays that woman are not treated fair. This is expressed in the film through multiple song lyrics and scenes. Ariel,the little mermaid, experiences many occasions where woman in a society are seen differently than men. In the film, Ariel was given an option to live under the sea and live life under the rule of her father, or be on land with her Prince Eric. Although this is clearly not laid out, a man figure is always above Ariel and could convey an idea that... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... The line in this song says, "There is one way to ask her. It don 't take a word. Not a single word. Go on and kiss the girl." (Clements, Musker). This piece takes place when animals around them is asking Eric to kiss Ariel, but the lyrics state it doesn't take a single word, so it can reveal an idea that if both the characters are in love than Eric should kiss Ariel without consent. Acting without consent is not acceptable because what if Ariel was not on the same page as Eric. This exact scenario can occur in real life where a male can do something that a female didn't provide consent to. Another part of the movie that provides sufficient evidence that a woman's appearance is all that matters is also stated in the song "Poor Unfortunate Souls" and the concept of what makes a "good" or "bad" woman. For instance, when Ursula begins singing "Poor Unfortunate Souls", it says, "You 'll have your looks, your pretty face. And don 't underestimate the importance of body language. The men up there don 't like a lot of blabber. They think a girl who gossips is a bore!" (Clements, Musker). The lyrics state that men in the society are not a fond of women who talk but appreciate looks and that if Ariel were to lose her voice it won't matter. This is important because a woman's value should not rely on their looks. When the character Ursula is introduced there is a clear distinction of what makes a woman "good" or "bad". In this case, a "good" woman ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 21. Labour 'Changed the Face of Britain' Between the Years of... Between 1945 and 1951 the Labour Government changed the face of Britain. Discuss. Between the years 1945 and 1951 the entire shape of Britain's economy, society and government changed. After World War 2, Britain was left in economic and financial depression. Countries such as Japan and Germany, left in utter ruin from the war, ironically, were able to rebuild their economies faster, and better than we could improve ours. It was felt that a great change was required in Britain, and perhaps it was that feeling that led to the fall of the conservatives and the beginning of one of the greatest governments in England's history. The Atlee government of 45–51 has perhaps been slightly overlooked due to comparisons to the war time leader– ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Atlee's Government, as well as creating change, also focused on other aspects of society he felt the labour party could improve. Acts such as the Education Act of 1944 and the Family Allowance Act of 1945, were only truly implemented under Atlee's Government despite being introduced during the war. These two laws focused on the fairness of Children's lives, compulsory and free education and payments to Mothers who could not afford to support all of their children– better known now as 'Benefits'. These reforms were perhaps not a social revolution, as they did not seem to change things specifically, rather, improve and build on what was already in existence. People of the time, although all the more happy for it, seemed to agree that it was not a revolution. In regards to Labour 'changing the face of Britain', I think, concerning 'The Welfare State' the very fact it is still the basis , essence of our Country's policies today, and that no party has abolished nor disputed the need for it, is testament to its significance. Labour brought about change in other areas too, such as the rather urgent and dyer issue of the economy. The key issues Labour were to introduce were Nationalisation and Keynesian economics. Labour felt is was any government's, and so their right to direct and control key aspects of Britain's ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 22. Charles James Simmons Simmons, Charles James (1893–1875), politician and evangelical preacher, was born on 9 April 1893 at 30 Brighton Road, Mosley, Birmingham. His father, James Henry Simmons (1867–1941), was a master painter and his mother, Mary Jane (1872–1958), a schoolteacher. They were Primitive Methodists, temperance advocates, and Liberals. His maternal grandfather, Charles Henry Russell (1846–1918), a Liberal, Primitive Methodist lay preacher and friend of Joseph Arch (leader of the Agricultural Labourers' Union and MP), shared the family home. Simmons described him as 'the greatest influence during my formative years', the well–spring of the religious and political activism that was to characterize his career (Simmons, 6). Educated at Board... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... During the inter–war period, Simmons worked as a Daily Herald organizer and an inspector in a car factory but also experienced spells of unemployment. He was elected to Birmingham City Council in 1921 as a member of the minority Labour Group. Simmons was considered a firebrand by political opponents and allies alike for his uncompromising position on issues such as unemployment, homelessness and temperance. Intermittently, between 1921 and 1945, he served on the council for over fifteen years. First elected to Parliament in 1929 for Birmingham Erdington, he remained loyal to the Labour Party when two of his political patrons, Oswald Mosley and Ramsey Macdonald, did not. Generally supportive of Mosley until the latter formed the New Party, Simmons was anguished by Macdonald's decision to form the National Government in 1931. As an MP, the rights of ex–servicemen of all ranks remained one of his priorities; a disabled private soldier himself, he utilized his experience to campaign for others. He also spoke in favour of disarmament, limitations on military expenditure and support for the League of Nations. The strength of his convictions on these issues led him to defy the Labour Whip on occasion; in March 1930 he spoke in favour and voted for an amendment to the Air estimates that would have virtually abolished the Air Force. In the period leading up to 1939 he was critical of the Chamberlain government ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 23. A Summary OfFrindle By Andrew Clements "Frindle" by Andrew Clements illustrated by Brian Selznick Nick Allen is a child full of ideas who decides to replace the word "pen" with the word "frindle" after his teacher has told him that words are formed by the people making them, therefore he must try it out for himself and gets six of his friends to commit to using the word "frindle" instead of pen. Nick and his friends made a big show about using the new word every time they needed to say pen, however Mrs. Granger, the fifth grade, language arts teacher was not in favor of the use of the word and asked them not to use it. That was not going to stop the group. So, the punishment for using the word was writing sentences in afterschool detention. The word caught on all over school ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... The white envelope included the note that was from way back in the beginning of the conflict when he put his name on it. It said she knew or was rooting for it to become a word, moreover congratulating him for making it in the dictionary. She also apologized for trying to hold him back and now could see the benefit of the event happening in her classroom. Inside the white envelope also came a box with Mrs. Granger's favorite fountain pen, it had a small note attached saying "frindle" on it. Then he did something special, he gave Mrs. Granger a gold pen with this inscription "This object belongs to Mrs. Lorelei Granger, and she may call it any name she chooses–With love from Nicholas Allen" The event of the story is factual in that it could happen and it is also social in the way that Nick was able to get the word started. Getting his friends together and agree to use the word "frindle" instead of pen continually. The author permits freedom by giving the children something to act on that doesn't harm anyone. It also allows for an older person or one in authority to have the freedom to express the need for respect, yet still show support for the act of progress. The author has demonstrated the dynamics of the classroom between child and teacher showing the struggles of a student who enjoys trying out new ideas. The only thing controversial is Nick's use of his new word in class which led to his teacher feeling disrespected after ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 24. Snow Pines : A Critique Of Helen Frankenthaler Snow Pines I chose to critique Helen Frankenthaler Snow Pines at in the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art from 2004 in Garland Hall at the University of Alabama. Description Acclaimed artist Helen Frankenthaler created a work of art that was influenced by abstract expressionism. His, Snow Pines (2004), predominately utilizes woodblock printing technique . This artwork is considered a Woodblock prints––a block of wood on whose surface a design for printing is engraved along the grain. Frankenthaler doesn't utilizes any form of shapes in her artwork however, she does uses pigments mixed with water that are then lightly brushed onto a piece of wood. While observing this up close (seen in the smaller picture), you notice scratches of wood lines in the background of the artwork. This was achieved by the technique of woodcutting–– make a woodcut without a press by placing the inked block against a sheet of paper and applying pressure by hand.These lines help illustrates the wood texture of the artwork. From glimpsing for the first time, I noticed the translucence of the color illustrating the light, vibrant tone .The colors used in Frankenthaler's art are mostly comprised of warm colors––yellow, red, orange and pink–– and cool colors: green and blue.The artwork flows from warm colors to cool colors.The color scheme is analogous as the piece include variations in color between hues adjacent to one another on the color wheel, such as yellow–green, green, and blue–green. Due to the bright ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 25. Van Der Poll's Do Hit Chair In relation to the above question, I have selected Van Der Poll's 'Do Hit Chair' (2000– present) as a contemporary work that manifests rebellion in the contemporary landscape. Physically and visually, I am deprived of any realistic or actual representation of the artwork, as I can only analyse the 2D, virtual image I have found on the internet. However, 'Do Hit Chair' heavily involves internet engagement, and this is the exact experience the audience has themselves when purchasing the work. Thus, I have chosen to analyse the web page on which 'Do Hit Chair' is advertised. Demonstrated in the 'Description' part on the web page, the consumer becomes the co–designer by creating their own, edited version of the art work. This is further typified by the 'online sharing options' at the top right hand corner of the designers web page. The internet is significant to the artworks interpretation, as the consumer/audience's usage of the internet allows them to purchase the piece and enable them to publicise and even resell their own creations. Accordingly, the artwork (or piece of furniture) becomes a cycle of consumerism. The work ideally functions as a chair, which is presumed by the title, however the artist is able to change/alter the object into whatever they please. The spatial dimensions (100 x 70 x 75 cm) also indicate the objects purpose as the size is generally similar to the standard sized chair dimensions.... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... It satirically comments on consumerism and its relation to 'art', as the consumer is paying 79300 euros to physically create the object themselves. This is influenced by the the 'do it yourself' crafts style products as the consumer becomes the co–designer by recreating the ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 26. Critique Of Leo Steinberg's Other Criteria Steinberg Kyle Hevey | Leo Steinberg Other Criteria Leo Steinberg's Other Criteria focuses on how America's view on art differs from that of other Countries and many of the problems that ensue when artists create art in America. Also, how critics and viewers of art should perceive different pieces and how to cope with differing views. Steinberg later goes on to discuss the problems with how certain groups of people can perceive an art piece negatively, when it might not be a negative piece. Steinberg's style of writing was very difficult to comprehend, I found myself rereading most things, and only occasionally understanding the concepts he was trying to convey. He began his piece by addressing two writing pieces published by Fortune, a magazine about the business side of art. He compared the two pieces, the first one was written in September 1946 and the second one in December 1955, he began with the earlier one. The earlier piece was written using a travelogue as the stylistic model and it talks about, "[the] many curious customs to be observed among the... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Eakins learned to accept that America wasn't very interested in art and behand treating painting as work. Steinberg compared two of their pictures as an example. One picture showed Gerome chiseling a woman out of marble and the top half of her body turned to flesh due to his passion for painting. Eakin's version just showed the completed woman still as marble and he had already moved on to another piece. Eakin's piece was adapted to the puritanism of the society in which he worked. Steinberg explained how some cultures were different than that of America's. Work is much more respected and understood here. A perfect example of this is a quote by Claes Oldenburg that he used, "John Marin used to feel put down by taxi–cabs, he said to himself: what is my painting worth next to a taxi–cab? A taxi–cab is so much more powerful and ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 27. Great Britain After Ww2 Britain was a major force in the First and Second World Wars. It's strong political and military presence in the world was one to be envied by other countries. During the war, Britain used its resources and resources from other countries to fight against Hitler's Nazi regime. With a lot of aid from the United States, Hitler was defeated. It was a short–lived victory for Britain and other countries because due to the brutality of World War 2, Britain's economy was badly hurt and so was their morale. Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister at the time, was very good at leading Britain through the war. However, the aftermath of the war was unable to be solved by Churchill. After WW2, Great Britain changed in numerous ways. Politically, Britain underwent ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Christianity, which was Britain's primary religion, experienced a sharp decline with fewer people attending church on a regular basis compared to other countries, "However, Uganda also has its own history of ethnic and religious sectarianism, of violence and conflict, and this has produced movements of Ugandans out of their own country in search of security and a new life" (Ward). Though the Anglican Church was strong in Britain, its decline is clearly shown when Ugandan migrants who are Anglican Christians try to find a church in Britain. However, the churches at times fail to live up to the Ugandan's expectations of an Anglican Church. This decline in Christianity was partly due to the social changes that were going on in Britain such as the burst of minorities entering the country. However, many still claimed to be Christian with a lot claiming Atheism. This is due to an increasing number of religions entering Britain after World War 2. Though Parliament may have been used to catering to the needs of the Christian community, due to the diverse religions in Britain, Parliament had to consider a wide variety of factors now. For example, Islam is a religion that has caused world–wide controversy in recent years but is also one of the fastest growing religions in the world and in Britain. The flourishment of Islam in Britain is a direct result of the Muslim communities that immigrated to Britain during ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 28. Essay The Avant-Garde Die First The Avant–Garde Die First In the 19th century, under the suffocating weight of a centuries long tradition in academic art, artists began to break free. Tired of meaningless imitation and decoration, the avant–garde artists pushed for drastic revolutions in aesthetic and social taste. This experimentation rapidly grew less and less controlled, and new technique and new style, which shocked and enraged the critics and public, stopped being experimental and started desiring the side effects of shock and disgust. There is an error in believing the artist is always ahead of his time, will always be understood in the future, and is a well–intentioned progressive, because it ignores the present actions and consequences of modern ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Their ideas may have been the first of a radical new tradition, but they weren't the most ostentatious. Later movements like Dada, Surrealism, and art post–World War II, would more clearly demonstrate the extreme separation the term " avant–garde" implies. It is important to reflect on the detachment of art from its former religious manifestations, where the painting was a moving piece of "symbolic meaning" (Barzun 32). According to Jacques Barzun, a painting connected with the viewer because it reflected some manner of spiritual recognition; it was the attachment to God or spiritual symbolism that satisfied the patron and provoked emotion, not the piece of art itself. "The Renaissance glorification of man, the scattering and weakening of the creeds of Protestant Reformation, and the general unbelief caused by the progress of science" caused art to become an idea into itself (Barzun 33). These modern issues Barzun blames for the rise of art as a religion, with the avant–garde artists acting as "seer, and prophet bearing revelation" (33). As Barzun stated, progress in science and technology became gradually more and more important as both were seemingly helping humankind advance itself (Arnason 46). Artists, no ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 29. Listening Style Analysis Listening styles. Not something most people think about on a daily basis; well at least I never had. Undoubtedly, listening is one of the most important links in communication, but who knew there were different types of listening styles? I did not; at least not until completing this assignment. This was the main reason I was enthused about completing the listening style assessment. The listening assessment showed me that I have two listener preferences: people oriented and action oriented. I scored a four in both of these categories. I was initially surprised by my low score in the time oriented listening category, but upon further investigation I realized why I scored so low. I do not allocate time for listening and I do not feel comfortable cutting people off mid–conversation; even if I am feeling pressed for time. These traits are not consistent with time oriented listeners. Completing a listener profile allows one to purposefully use their strengths and weaknesses to work towards becoming a more efficient and effective listener. The office I ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... One of these ways is to practice being an active listener. Rephrasing and summarizing what the speaker is saying and repeating key points while writing them down will help me listen the entire time someone is speaking. I am privileged to have plenty of opportunities to attend lectures that are given at my work place. I chose to attend a lecture this week for the sole purpose of practicing my listening skills. During the lecture I practiced being an active listener. I made mental note of key words and phrases and wrote down main points that were not clear so that I could resort and do further research after the lecture. I also focused my attention to the speaker's mannerism to help me identify which messages were most important to understand. This practice session taught me the most effective way to absorb information given through an oral ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 30. Texas Governors Are Not As Powerful As Many People Think Texas governors are not as powerful as some people think. Their personality and appearance matter the most when being considered for a vote. The governor is seen the most rather the other officials, which is why their personality and appearance is so important. Governors used to be able to serve a 2 year term but that changed in 1974. The service term increased by 2 years. Rick Perry was elected in 2000 and is Texas' longest serving governor. To be an eligible candidate the aspiring governor should be at least 30 years of age. Usually, the governor is a white, mid–age, male. Over time things changed when Miriam Ferguson and Ann Richards were elected. To be a candidate you must also be a U.S. citizen and at least lived in the state 5... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Miriam Ferguson was the first female governor of Texas. She served two terms in 1927 and 1935. She decided to run after her husband's impeachment and conviction. Her slogan for the first election's campaign was "Me for Ma, and I Ain 't Got a Durned Thing Against Pa." She beat her opponent with 58.9 percent of votes. In the second election she won with 61.6 percent of the votes. Houstonians may know her for her signature on the Texas House Bill 194. This particular law was important for the University of Houston. In 1933, the University was established as a four year institute. During Miriam's second an amendment was passed to disable the governor to issue pardons. Within the two terms that Miriam served, she issued about 4000 pardons to the violators of the prohibition law. Ann Richards was the second female Texas governor. Unlike Miriam Ferguson she didn't serve two terms. Although, she ran for a second term she lost to George W. Bush. During Ann's governorship she introduced lottery tickets to Texas. She bought the first lottery in May of 1992 near Austin. The lottery revenue was supposed to enhance the finances for schools. Ann Richards was also known for her anti–homosexual mentality. She signed a law that made homosexuality illegal. Ann Richards is also recognized for appointing the first non–white commission head. Hispanic, Lena Guerrero was appointed as the head of the Texas Railroad Commission. The ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 31. The Word Gematria Merriam–Webster defines the word gematria as, "a cryptograph in the form of a word whose letters have the numerical values of a word taken as a hidden meaning" and as "the cabalistic method of explaining the Hebrew Scriptures by means of the cryptographic significance of the words". Simply put – gematria is one technique used for understanding sacred texts. This technique was derived from Greek influences and created by the practitioners of Jewish mysticism. As an essential piece to the Kabbalistic cosmological system, the belief is that God created the universe through the power of the numerical values of the Hebrew letters. Although gematria is not central to rabbinic literature, the symbolic values of numbers are used periodically in ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 32. Essay on Which Comes First: The Art or the Artist? Which Comes First: The Art or the Artist? A Historical Perspective The approach of the year 2000 seems a good time to think about the way the role of art and the artist has changed through history, and how modern art is interpreted by a modern audience. Writing about modern art gives me the creeps. In other types of art, clear facts can be asserted with security, public reactions are clearly documented, skills can be appreciated, and art is clearly recognized as such. Modern art defys all of these conventions. Writing about modern art bothers me because after I've said everything that I feel about a piece, I'm not sure I could defend myself if someone walked up and told me I was an idiot who missed the artist's point altogether. Am ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Cave paintings show images of hunting expeditions, Egyptian hieroglyphics show Pharoes recieving crowns from gods, and the Aztecs have large pillars that record entire military campaigns. This trend runs through the entire history of art. Can the modern artist hope to be a historian? I don't think it's completely impossible, but that function of the artist has mostly been taken over by other professions. Journalists and photographers record modern events. Since those records are relatively secure, it seems unlikely that future people will be pawing through the rubble of a museam to find out who won the 1988 Presidental election. While an artist can interpret the events, the role of the artist as a keeper of history has passed on to other hands. The artist as a Scientist? The most notable of artistic scientists is Leonardo Da Vinci. His genius led him to explore the most intimate aspects of human anatomy, engineering, and the beginings of engineering. The 1400s aren't the only time when artists are the forerunners in the scientific world. Artists are architects, designers, and inventors. Can the new role of artists be scientists? I believe scientific fields are wide open to artists. Consistantly, artists have been giants whose shoulders current professionals would hesitate to acknowledge even as they stand upon them. Many fields which artists opened are now closed to them. Few would trust an artist to remove a appendix no matter
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  • 34. Analysis Of ' Blue Poles ' Russian painter and pioneer of abstract modern art, Kandinsky's art and ideas impacted and inspired many generations of artists, from his students at Bauhaus, to the Abstract Expressionists post World War 2. Kandinsky contested the boundaries of conventional art making practice through his rare artistic style that departs from the strict conventions of realism and naturalism formed by the Academie, and seeks to convey inner spiritual experience by challenging intentions and emotive capacities. He sought to convey a universal, visual and spiritual language of abstract forms and colours, along with interpreting his synesthetic experience of music, to create artworks that transcended cultural and physical boundaries. Abstract and Modernist ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Performed on canvas laid flat on the floor, Pollock makes no physical contact with the canvas whilst painting. The canvas seems to convey a telling of Pollock's vigorous working methods and turbulent life to the audience, as the work consists of glass shards and footprints embedded into the canvas. Pollock's boundary breaking manipulation of surface ultimately encourages artists to imitate his new and non–traditional methodologies within art making. Modernist critic, Clement Greenberg coined the term of Abstract Expressionism, and was largely responsible for the growing reputation of Pollock within the art world. Greenberg assisted in determining the reaction to Blue Poles by the audience. In The Nation, 20/1/1945, Greenberg supports Pollock through advocating his artwork in a public expanse, "American painting is much in need of all three qualities (that is, 'boldness, breadth, and the monumental'), and it is significant that Pollock, who manifests all three, has already begun to exert an influence, though he has been before the public hardly more than a year." Greenberg upholds Pollock's name with high importance, displaying his significance to the Abstract Expressionist movement. Pollock's heavily influential style was rather radical in its extremity in his time, through his unconventional material practices and drip techniques, redefining the conventions of traditional painting, in order to ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 35. Artwork is Not Art Because of Theory Whether it be writers, painters, sculptors, musicians, or photographers, artists all over the world have striven to show people their views of the world, of people, and even of the universe itself. Throughout history the creative urge of man to present to fellow men a different perspective or representation of life–or even the afterlife–has surfaced time and time again in the form of artwork. Sometimes it comes through genius and complexity, full of meaning and symbolism. Others, it is simple and void of any clear meaning at all other than that it is art. Soon, however, there became a point when the work of art was no longer something one could just look at and understand; the principle of the matter had ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Essentially, Modern Art allowed the "culturati" to move even further apart from the rest of society–they could be even more unique than before because they actually liked this stuff that was strange and pointless to try to understand if you didn't know the theories it was being painted behind. As Wolfe explains, however, it isn't just the "culturati" that cause this great influence on art theory. Artcritics all over the United States want, as always, to fit in with the chic of the chic and to be able to control what fashions are the craze. It is, after all, their critiques which usually control the flow of the fashion. Modern Art's foremost critical influences in the United States, as Wolfe presents in The Painted Word, are Greenberg, Rosenberg, and later, Steinberg. Greenberg believed that art was heading into a final destination of "purity", and that the final destination of all that is truly art is what he called "Flatness" (Wolfe 49). Essentially what this meant was that because the painting is indeed a flat surface made to appear like a three dimensional plane by the painter, most painting was illusion. They began to conclude that the two–dimensionality of the canvas plane was what was important, not the illusion they could create on it. Greenberg seemed intense on the point of flatness–as Wolfe puts it, it became "an obsession, ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 36. The Differences Of Modernism: Clement Greenberg And Ronald... Modernism has found new expressions in art which in turn have changed how people critic and understand art, in this essay I am going to focus more on abstract expressionism. Debates in this movement have gone as far as influencing many artists and the two well–known critics who have made this movement more remarkable and have changed the art world completely are Clement Greenberg and Ronald Rosenberg. On the writings of these two gentlemen about art I will try to draw out the differences in the idea of what abstract expressionism is and what it is supposed to be, compare and outline the similarities and the differences between the two critics. Modernism as a profound historical base of art that intimidates past known traditions, questioning ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... For Rosenberg Abstract Expressionism is not a continuation or explanation on what was in the past or re–defining it as Greenberg had proposed, he says it was losing it. Whereas Greenberg wrote that action painting was a total drift away from art. On the basis where the two critics where trying to convince each other of what is and what art should be they came with a defining type of style of painting in abstract expressionism, well Greenberg's idea was a response to Rosenberg's idea of American Action Painting , but its aim was accurate. American Type Painting "is an empirical, sustained, and unrelenting attempt to refute the claim that abstract expressionism painting constitutes a break with the past" (O'Riordan, 1957:5). Greenberg states that art should be a self–justified meaning, art should be able to defend its reality through the means of its features and gives nothing similar to any other, and he then states that if that type of art is seen as similar it should be eliminated, for example "a representation of objects – trees, people, fruits, tables, buildings, horses, etc. they can be produced not only in painting , but just as well, if not better, in sculpture, photography, and film, thus they are not essential to painting and must be discarded in art that aspires to be modern" (O'Riordan, 1957: 6). In Greenberg's American type painting an artist would be acquired to ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 37. Andrew Clements Frindle: The Etymology Of Words In Andrew Clements' 1998 children's book, Frindle, Nick Allen, a troublemaking fifth–grader, spent a great deal of effort changing the word pen to the word frindle, exasperating his teacher and gaining national notoriety for his invented word, which, in the story, stuck and was introduced into the English dictionary. In Clements' book, he questions who it is that decides that words mean what words mean. His teacher, Mrs. Granger, responds, "You do, Nicholas. You and I and everyone in this class and thisschool and this town and this state and this country. We all agree" (Frindle 197). Unfortunately, deriving the etymology of words is not as simple as Mrs. Granger made it sound. Change in words – their meanings, spellings, and pronunciations – takes place over the divides of continents, ages, and languages. So, the analysis of words is more than a quest for definition; it is an exploration of history. The word "drum" is a fitting example of one suddenly appearing in the English language without strong, direct, reliable linkage to previous tongues. The Oxford English Dictionary informs readers that "drum" first appeared as dromme and suggests that it appears as a reduction of a longer phonetically–similar word, drumslade, or as a result of a misunderstanding of a another language's word ("drum, n.1" etymology). At its earliest ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... The musical instrument, and directly related senses). Each of the spellings appears in Middle English without, it seems, an Old English forerunner, leading one to conclude that it is a closely–borrowed derivative of its Indo–European (perhaps Latin) ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 38. Clement Hurd Research Paper The Life of Clement Hurd: How it Produced Effective Children's Book Illustrations Children's books go far deeper than surface value. The books that are successful and considered classics have careful thought put into them. A lot of the powerful value of these books lie in what reaches children the easiest– the illustrations. Clement Hurd was the illustrator of many noteworthy children's publications. To best understand his success, one must know about his relation to and understanding of his youthful audience, the people that he worked with and was influenced by, and the time period in which he was creating and being influenced by. These various aspects of his life created the effective literature that readers enjoy to this day. One strong... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Following the First World War, much of society rejected the ideas of machinery and war, as were often suggested in futuristic, avant –garde art up until then. Artists such as Leger worked with this situation by embracing classicism and realistic, figurative works. This approach worked, and their art was successful amongst society. "LГ©ger and his colleagues rejoiced in the new publicity of the postwar years and the energy of mass media" (O'Donovan, 2013). Hurd took this European art movement and used it in his illustration of the book "Runaway Bunny". The pictures in this book are done in a realistic manner, with smoothly–blended colors and no cartoon–like outlines. Part of this art movement included frontal compositions and strong contours, which are also seen in this series of illustration. In the style of "return to order" art, animals live in unity in a landscape that flows easily to the viewer. Gradually, the ideas of classical and modern combined. In the art world, organic and abstract, irregular shapes began to have increasing importance and illustrators such as Hurd adapted to this as well. "Goodnight Moon", written five years after "Runaway Bunny", and "My World", written seven years after, have very different styles and adapt to the more abstract forms that the art world responded to. In these works, the reader observes flat shapes that stand in stark ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 39. Examples Of Femininity In The Little Mermaid The Little Mermaid: Hegemonic Femininity The transition from a girl to a woman is created by the socially implemented ideals of femininity depicted in commercials, books, and mainly films. One of the famous animated princess Disney films, The Little Mermaid can be easily added to yet another Disney film portraying hegemonic femininity. In the 1989 film The Little Mermaid (Ron Clements, John Musker), a beautiful, young mermaid is willing to make a risky deal with an evil sea–witch because she yearns to walk on land and fall in love with a prince, while secretly the sea–witch wishes for the mermaid to lose the deal. Ultimately, mermaid ends up achieving her dream of marrying the prince although the evil sea–witch tries to destroy the plan. Throughout the fantasy/ melodrama film, the main protagonist Ariel reinscribes the hegemonic... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... "Wandering free, wish I could be part of your world," is what Ariel sings as she daydreams of prince Eric. She strongly believes she needs him to be happy and that without him she is incapable of doing so. That is why Ariel takes Ursula's deal, changes her body and sacrifices her voice while leaving her family behind. This validates the hegemonic code of femininity because women are seen as individuals who cannot take care of themselves and are only complete with a man. After the climax, when the deal has been made with Ursula, Ariel finds herself in a difficult situation. With only having three days to get a kiss of true love from prince Eric, she undoubtedly needs Eric's kiss to save her. Getting close to the end of the film, there is a scene where Ariel and Eric are taking a boat ride. All the sea creatures try to set the mood so Eric can kiss Ariel. Without that kiss Ariel will lose her voice forever and her "true love." This scene proves once again how women are incomplete without men, that they need a hero and prince charming to save ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 40. Modernist Painting By Clement Greenberg In his essay, "Modernist Painting" (1960), Clement Greenberg seeks to lay principles for evaluating the progression of art to modern painting. Greenberg makes a lot of evaluations and assessments about modern paintings that are credible and can be held to a high standard. Despite his best efforts, some of his assertions are shrouded in generalizations and lack the necessary premises to be established as entirely objective and affirmative. Greenberg claims that the Old Masters created space one could imagine walking into and experience, but modern painters, on the other hand, create space only accessible to the visual senses, eye. His observations regarding these "Old Masters" is undeniable for the most part, but his assertions on modern paintings brings up a lot of controversy. To question Greenberg, one must first understand how the representation of depth of space evolved over time. The full range of this evolution cannot be mapped in this essay, thus only relevant and specific ones will be discussed. Dating back to the 16th century, the Renaissance painters saw a heightening of perspective painting. By imitating how distant and close objects appear to the eye, the optical illusion of space is created by a geometric representation of unfolding space. Rafael's Marriage of the Virgin, 1504 (fig.1) is a prominent paragon to reflect on regarding this technique. With defined lines and patterns leading to the doorway of the background building, Rafael gives the audience a sense ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...