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Culture Shock Police Officer
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Deliberate Alienation Surrealism And Magical Realism
1,425 words... f reality. He needs to show them just how extraordinary their ordinary world is. The collection's first story, "Tln, Urban, Orbis Tertius, " accomplishes this expertly. Borges spends most of the story establishing an elaborate fantasy world whose commonly held philosophical truths are incongruent with our own. "The nations of that planet [Tln] are congenitally idealist. Their language, with its derivatives -- religion, literature, and metaphysics -- presupposes idealism. For them, the world ...
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Buddhist Teaching Southeast Asian
1,133 wordsIn keeping with their emphasis on the oldest and most fundamental teachings, Theravada Buddhists produce only a narrow range of Buddhist imagery. Nearly every Southeast Asian Buddha image is made in one of these postures (mudras) that can easily be identified by the position of the hands: Dispelling Fear: Hand raised with palm facing outwards and fingers extended in a universal gesture of protection, benevolence, and peace. Teaching: Hand raised with palm facing outwards and index finger forming...
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Full Of Life Moulin Rouge
992 wordsPaul Czanne, Still life I really liked Czanne's still life because; it is full of life, like the fruits are just taken from the tree. It is very different from the Holland's still lives. There everything is like a picture, no life just an image. In Czanne's painting fruits look like every one of them has a soul. When I look at this picture it always make me happy and put smile on my face is so full of life and joy. Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin-Rouge This picture is one of my favorites, becaus...
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Rain Washes Away The Past Fredric And Catherine Rainwater
1,548 wordsIn "A Farewell to Arms, " Ernest Hemingway juxtaposes strong weather symbolism with the emotions and events of the characters in the story. The book has a theme of constant internal struggle between the protagonist and his perception of his reality world versus his fictitious one. This theme is expanded upon and clarified by the author, by the use of weather, particularly rain. Rain is the bringer of misfortune and destruction. Everyone who dies dies during a rainstorm or in some way the caused ...
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Symbolic Interaction Contemporary Society
1,249 wordsSociology Over the last four decades Jurgen Habermas has revealed an innovative and much-discussed theory of contemporary capitalist society. He built his theory on Max Weber's thesis that the dynamic growth of capitalism destroyed individual freedom and the meaningfulness of social life. Habermas considered contemporary social conflict as resistance to this dynamic by a variety of social groups. In his theory of 'communicative action' he tried to show the possibilities in contemporary society f...
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Generation To Generation Heart And Soul
1,884 wordsGender across societies Let me start my speach from asking you all guys what is culture? And let me give my answer to this question. Well, the definition of culture can be the development by special training or care the skills, arts, Ect. of a given people in a given period. But what is ti indeed? I belive that though it is not a physical thing that you can touch, smell or feel, people do indeed adopt it from others through years, from generation to generation. Due to huge technological progress...
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Dramatic Irony John Updike
2,277 wordsJohn Updike's A&P John Updike's best known, most anthologized and most frequently taught short story, "A & P, " first appeared in The New Yorker (22 July 1961: 22 - 24), a publication that assumes a reader with considerable literary and cultural knowledge. Updike, for whom literature and art have been intertwined since youth, first uses allusions to art and to art criticism to give the informed reader of "A & P" the experience of dramatic irony as a means toward constructing significance for the...
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Read This Book Walking Down The Street
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Type Of Message Important Role
846 wordsEssay # 1 Gesture has played a very crucial role in the development of modern art. The gestures alone can tell us which time period a painting is from. In such paintings like, The Night Cafe and The Scream, gesture shows us what kind of message we should be getting when observing the paintings. The gesture shows us how we are supposed to be feeling, agitated and having a sense of isolation and fear. In many other works of art gesture has played a very important role. It tells us what the artist ...
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Martin Heidegger Harvard University
1,263 wordsWe turn clay to make a vessel; But it is on the space where there is nothing That the utility of the vessel depends. Lao-Tz When we fill the jug, the pouring that fills it flows into the empty jug. The emptiness, the void, is what does the vessels holding. The empty space, this nothing of the jug, is what the jug is as the holding vessel... From start to finish the potter takes hold of the impalpable void and brings it forth as the container in the shape of the containing vessel. Martin Heidegge...
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Piece Of Art Piece Of Work
2,219 wordsLeonardo's Last Supper is a priceless piece of art with much hidden meaning and obvious talents bestowed upon a wall. Under the study of Verrocchio as a painter and a sculptor, he was able to use his skills in creating a very detailed and a very naturalistic piece of work that would be remembered for hundreds of years. He was also able to create characters with amazing individuality. Not only was his portrayal of the characters magnificent, but the symbolism he used which emphasized the story be...
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Quot Quot Poem Quot
7,301 wordsMutlu Kong Blazing " One Art" not only effects such poetic reversals but exposes them as affected. Bishops choice of a villanelle, a traditional form of repetition that promises to make " art" out of " losing, " seems to support the opening assertion, but the negatives cast doubt on the project at the outset: The art of losing isnt hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Yet the title tells us that the ar...
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4,685 wordsMark Scroggins " To my wash-stand" begins with a close physical examination of the poets bathroom sink, in which the poet acknowledges that the " song / of water" he hears " is a song / entirely in my head, " and he moves from there into an imaginative re-creation of the morning ablutions of the poor, carefully attentive to what they have and to what they do not have The " flow of water" from the stands two faucets " occasions invertible counterpoints...
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Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale Hester Prynne
2,964 wordsHawthorne's novel describes the life of an adulteress, Hester Prynne, who is shunned by her judgmental community. She gave birth to her daughter Pearl out of wedlock, while her partner of iniquity, (Hawthorne 59) a minister named Arthur Dimmesdale, never revealed his black secret of their affair. Although Hester suffered public ridicule, the minister suffered no immediate consequence. However, guilt has a way of killing a person silently. In the end, Dimmesdale's black secret had a greater negat...
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Economic Terms 038 P Narrator
560 wordsSammy s Sacrifice John Updike s often-anthologized story, A&# 038; P shows us the heroic choice of a young adult who decides to follow principle rather than his own self-interest. The nineteen year old narrator works at the local A&# 038; P (Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company) in a middle class neighborhood, and he is led to quit his job as a pretest against a perceived insult to a young woman he admires. This dramatic gesture is largely a result of what economists would call signaling. In walks t...
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