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Andy Warhol Campbell Soup
1,371 wordsThe life and work of Andy Warhol has inspired many writers to tell of the artist's secrets in published writings. However, Carter Ratcliff accomplishes this feat in a unique fashion, profiling Warhol's work in Andy Warhol. A must-read for anybody interested in the origins of American Pop art, Ratcliff's book touches on all aspects of Warhol's work. Segmented chronologically, Ratcliff explains the influence and significance of select paintings, as well as sections devoted to Warhol's sketches, ph...
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3,012 wordster> Fear and Loathing in a Clockwork Age Ah! The noble search for identity. That intangible achievement that all artists lust after and lay in torment over. And during the post war era that struggle reached incredible magnitudes. The world cried out for legions of anti-heroes, who were only virtuous in their unapologetic and brutally honest lack of virtue. And the art world provided as many counter culture messiahs as was needed to "Damn the Man." The Beats, hippies, and punks are evi...
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The Individual Goal In Buddhism And Hinduism
1,866 wordsI have always been intrigued by Chinese philosophy. As a little boy growing up on the island of Luzon in the Philippines, I would try to read my uncles college books on philosophy and try to understand what is going on. I had no idea what was going on. Maybe it was because I was young, but I did not understand anything I was reading. Let us now go to the present. I am now in college and I am studying Asian Philosophy. At this time I am studying the ways of Confucius, who speaks of humaneness, fi...
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Nabkvs Llita Vs Caddy
1,960 wordsNabkv's Llita vs. Faulkner's Caddy Nabkv's Llita and Faulkner's Caddy are tw very controversial characters that represent wmen's development during mid 20 th Century. Vladimir Nabkv's inspiration fr writing Llita came frm hearing abut an ape that was taught t draw after being like up in a cage, while given treats t encourage certain behavior. After many months f confinement, the ape finally drew a picture f the bars f his cell. Consequently this is what Nabkv's narrating character Humbert practi...
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Easy To Read Feeling Of Guilt
1,251 wordsFrank Huyler's essays from THE BLOOD OF STRANGERS Frank Huylers is a physician from New Mexico. One critic wrote about him: Dr. Huyler's short, intense book treats of only the most important matters: life and death. His prose is nearly invisible, and therefore it allows us to see what he is talking about. And once we see it, we are not likely to forget it. This is a young writer with a big mind - and an even bigger heart. Frank Huyler's essays are easy to read and bring the reader understanding ...
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Members Of The Community Sexual Satisfaction
2,009 wordsContemporary Worldviews The relation between person and society has always been a topic of philosophical exploits of great many authors. The realization humankind is highly social species has even led to referring to man as homo social by many contemporary psychologists. In this respect it interesting to compare the ideas of Sigmund Freud and George Simmel, whose views on the issue of mens interaction with society, used to be very popular at the beginning of twentieth century. Back than people f...
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Path To Enlightenment Cause And Effect
2,755 wordsI. INDIA BEFORE BUDDHISM 1. Caucasian Migration into India In prehistoric times when great migrations were taking place over the face of the earth, successive waves of Caucasian nomads migrated into several areas of the world: Indo-Iranian and Eastern Europe. Those that pushed into the continent of India subdued the native race which had attained a high level of civilization as early as 3000 B. C. Blessed by the rich and fertile river valleys of the Punjab, the conquering Aryans established the ...
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End Of The World Cats Cradle
1,406 wordsAnalysis of Cats Cradle Kurt Vonnegut's Cats Cradle, one of the century's greatest anthropological works, deals with religion, science, and the end of the world; its major theme involves the symbolic nature of the title of the book. The theme of the cats cradle is used throughout the book to represent many of the truths, as viewed by Vonnegut, that are found in society. A cats cradle is essentially a game played by all ages and almost all nationalities; Even the Eskimos know it (Cats Cradle 114)...
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Part Of His Life Darkness And Light
1,176 wordsDeath Of A Traveling Salesman In the short story, Death Of A Traveling Salesman, R. J. Bowman is a successful salesman with the intention to get home after being sick and in the hospital. He faces many obstacles along the way. Even though R. J. Bowman knows that there is something missing in his life he has no desire to try and bring it into his life. He realizes he is only a salesman and that is all he will ever be. There are symbols in the story that show a shadow over Bowman s life. Darkness ...
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1,826 wordsPhilosophers of Eastern Religions Does anybody have any answers to the question of what is our purpose? Is there life after death? What do we need to accomplish while we are alive? What is real or moral? Is there a God? These are main philosophical questions that the human race has been trying to answer. Religion is an explained philosophy and be it divine or a practice, it is a way of life. It is not surprising to see that religion of the Eastern World had a few people stand out as important in...
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Beauty Of Nature Doesn T
661 wordsA. P. English The Japanese Quince In The Japanese Quince written by John Galsworthy, the actions of Mr. Nilson, a well-known and wealthy businessman, comprise the plot. The story fundamentally describes Mr. Nilson s stroll through Square Gardens, which leads to a realization that he lacks spontaneity, which in turn has prevented him from appreciating nature, so when he does see the beauty in nature, he gets fascinated by it. Developments in the plot are Mr. Nilson s feeling of emptiness, his inf...
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Borderline Personality Disorder Interpersonal Relationships
1,541 wordsGirl, Interrupted: A Study Of Borderline Girl, Interrupted: A Study Of Borderline Personality Disorder Girl, Interrupted: A Study of Borderline Personality Disorder It s 1967, and 18 year old Susanna Kaysen is like a lot of American teenagers her age confused, insecure, and lost within a rapidly changing world. After a half-hearted suicide attempt, she goes to a psychiatrist who quickly diagnoses her with Borderline Personality Disorder, and whisks her away to McLean Hospital. The next year and ...
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F Scott Fitzgerald Pursuit Of The American Dream
2,055 wordsTo understand modern literature, one must develop a sense of the structured and ordered lifestyle prior to modern culture. Before the era of modernism, lifestyles were systematically organized through standard traditions. When World War I started, Americans felt the impact of modernism at its strongest with men going off to battle and women working in factories. Lifestyles were beginning to divert from family traditions. People started to abandon their traditional values and adapt to the challen...
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Quot Quot Nursery Rhyme
4,907 wordsGrover Smith Although " The Hollow Men" is not a mere appendage to The Waste Land, it may most profitably be read as an extension of the same design of quest and failure. The quest has already failed once when the poem opens. The history of Kurtz in " Heart of Darkness" conforms to the general pattern. Conrad may often be understood best through the study of primitive rituals of succession, initiation, and fertility. That Kurtz has been initiated into the tribe, becoming its ...
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Anne Bradstreet Christian Faith
1,398 wordsTelevangelists like Jimmy Swagger and Jim and Tammy Fay Bakker promise the Christian faith to millions everyday. For the right price, anybody can have something- a. k. a. Christianity, God, and faith- in their lives. On these shows, there is no need to have believed in religion before, as long as there is a need for it now. Religious telecasts asking for money in exchange for faith attract nearly five million people each year. Fifty-five percent of these people are elderly woman; Thirty-five per...
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Great Aunt Social Bonds
1,817 wordsThe fight raged on. Brawling like fishwives! Like proverbial niggers on a Saturday night! With the fur stole like her hard-won life of the past thirty years being trampled into the dirt underfoot (45). Avey Johnson, the main character in Paule Marshalls novel Praise song for the Widow, is haunted by this dream of her Great Aunt County. This nightmare awakens in her an emptiness and longing for something that she can not initially explain. Her life up to that point had seemed successful, especial...
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Norma Jean Strong Character
740 wordsCharacter sketch for Shiloh Character Sketch In Bobbie Ann Mason s story Shiloh she presents the character of Norma Jean as having a strong personality but an emptiness deep within. Norma Jean is presented as a strong character on the outside in the opening of the story. She lifts three-pound dumbbells to warm-up, the progresses to a twenty-pound barbell. (Mason p. 46). However as the story progresses she exhibits the emptiness which she feels. One day Leroy arrives home from a drive and finds N...
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