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19 Th Century Sierra Nevada
1,000 wordsAlbert Bierstadt's Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California is a scenic canvas oil painting on display at the National Museum of American Art in Washington, DC. Created in 1868, this enormous painting is approximately six by ten feet in size (Honour and Fleming, 2000). The subject matter of this piece is typical of Bierstadt, who is known for his detailed landscapes, especially those of the Rockies and Sierras of the American West. Collectively, Alberts works are manipulated and slightly ...
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Thousand Years Ago High Middle Ages
2,200 words... it hout straying too far from the traditional legend. The deeper interpretations of the characters and events in the story provide for a truth and authenticity not to be found in similar works, and the sense of humor gives White's novel an individual touch. T. H. White's The Once and Future King is one of the best retelling's of the Arthurian legend, and his additions to the tale create an invigorating and entertaining combination, ranking it among the most popular and best read of all. Nath...
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Frankenstein Shelley Use Of And Feminine Roles
1,013 wordsShelley began writing Frankenstein in the company of what has been called her male coterie, including her lover Percy Shelley, Lord Byron and his physician John Polidori. It has been suggested that the influence of this group, and particularly that of Shelley and Byron, affected her portrayal of male characters in the novel. As Ann Campbell writes: [The] characters and plot of Frankenstein reflect... Shelleys conflicted feelings about the masculine circle which surrounded her. Certainly the male...
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Theories On Qualities Of Leaders And Followers
1,313 words... op unquestioning acceptance of and commitment to the leader. The followers trust fully in the correctness of the leaders beliefs and are willing to obey the leader. The next constituent involves specific leadership traits and behaviors that give rise to charismatic leadership. The traits that distinguish charismatic leaders from non-charismatic leaders are self-confidence, need to influence, dominance, and strong conviction in the moral night ness of their beliefs. When those traits are comb...
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Women And Girls Eating Disorders
2,184 wordsWhat affect does advertising of models and supermodels have on women of my generation? I should start by saying that advertisers often emphasize sexuality and the importance of physical attractiveness in an attempt to sell products, but researchers are concerned that this places undue pressure on women and men to focus on their appearance. In recent survey by Teen People magazine, 27 % of the girls felt that the media pressures them to have a perfect body, and a poll conducted in 1996 by the int...
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Romantic Poetry William Blake
1,629 wordsAnalysis of The Lamb and The Tyger by William Blake There is no much written on Romanticism, and about all the various experts totally agree upon is that these poems fit into the Romantic genre. It is often called the romantic period, but people are still writing this kind of poetry and song, so I think it is more a type or genre. Romantic poetry used images of nature, idealistic ideas and very high spiritualistic emotions. It was very symbolic, much more so than modern poetry, which can actuall...
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Piece Of Art Early In The Morning
2,628 wordsIn 1841 an American artist John Rand invented collapsible metal tubes for oil paints. For impressionists, who often painted out-of-doors, this new convenience was indispensable. Before the invention of tubes, painters would have carried bladders (see image below left) to store the paint that they would have made in their studio. The bladders would have been made from pig membrane and tied at the top with strong twine to exclude air. About the same time, railway expansion was making the countrysi...
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Male Figures Vanishing Point
1,329 words" Chance Meeting" By Martin Lewis Essay, Research" Chance Meeting" By Martin Lewis Chance Meeting is a dry point etching print by Martin Lewis and was created in the early 1930 s. The subjects are two figures, male and female, who have happened upon each other in the setting of a public sidewalk at the entrance of a storefront. It may be a dichotomy in terms to call the piece, " Idealized Urban Realism, " though Lewis work does harmonize well with the Urban Realist ...
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Hellenistic Period Classical Period
2,095 wordsGreek art has gone through many stages through out the coarse of its history. Over the years the Greeks strived to perfect the faces, bodies as well as the human form in their sculptures. They experimented with many types of techniques, many of which I will touch on in this paper. This paper will mainly discuss Greek sculptures that range from the Geometric Period all the way up to the Hellenistic Period. We will discover that the Greeks were quite talented and always strived for a better depict...
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Native Americans Moral Principles
915 wordsThe opposing views of idealization and demonization of the Native Americans by early nineteenth century writers intensified the two polar views of Native Americans in society. With his written idealization of the Native Americans, a loose group of people embraced the spirituality of the Indian as a relief from the over barring society. Because the Indians political and societal structure was foreign to the same individuals, they assumed that the Indian did not possess these structures, and there...
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Object Relations School Pathological Narcissism
9,879 wordsSam Vaknins Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites A. The Loved Enemies an Introduction An oft-overlooked fact is that the child is not sure that it exists. It avidly absorbs cues from its human environment. ? Am I present? ? , ? Am I separate? ? , ? Can I be noticed? ? ? these are the questions that compete in his mind with his need to merge, to become a part of his caregivers. Granted, the infant (ages 0 to 2) does not engage in a verbal formulation of these? thoughts?...
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Sir Thomas Malory T H White
4,337 wordsTHE ONCE AND FUTURE KING By T. H. White (1958) The Once and Future King is the collective volume of works, loose based on Sir Thomas Malory s Morte d Arthur (c. 1469), which includes The Sword in the Stone, The Queen of Air and Darkness (formerly The Witch in the Wood), The Ill-Made Knight, and The Candle in the Wind. It is probably the most famous and popular of T. H. Whites books. A brief synopsis by Tia Nevitt The Sword in the Stone, is about Arthurs childhood. He is not called Arthur at this...
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