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Thoughts And Feelings Group Of People
1,176 words
Here we are in 1999 in a world that is booming
with technological advances. One would have to
ask, "How did we come so far in such a short
amount of time?" It seems as though it was only
yesterday that we were traveling by horse and
buggy. Now we travel by bullet trains, airplanes,
and rockets. Seeing the arts and humanities in
everything we did years ago was much easier,
because technology didn't seem to advance at the
rapid pace it does today. Is that why so many
people fail to realize the imp...
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Greek And Latin Renaissance Courtier Today's
780 words
The Renaissance Courtier was the ideal man. He was
very knowledgeable in everything he did. He was
muscular and athletic and knowledgeable of all
sports, yet he had an appreciation for the arts.
He was familiar with all exercises and forms of
martial arts. He knew how to use all types of
weapons while standing or on horseback, and knew
what type of weapon to fight with in different
situations. He was well schooled and knew how to
read Greek and Latin and read technical language.
He was musically...
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Is There A Best Martial Arts Style
1,109 words
... master a style means to know every little
detail about every move in that particular style,
and to know every variation to those moves. To
master a style the student also must know all the
training techniques by heart (River 55). Kung Fu
is a style that can take years and years to master
(Chin, Goh). Sometimes a person will spend their
whole life trying to master this style and not
even succeed in mastering kung fu (Gutman 33). One
of the main reasons that it takes years to learn
kung fu is ...
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Roman Empire Ancient Greeks
836 words
Perhaps one of the greatest aspects of the Arts
today is the Performing Arts. Yet, without
previous cultures such as the ancient Greeks, the
Romans, and the Europeans, we would not have the
entertaining, history enriched performing arts
that we do The history of the Ancient Greek
Theater begins with a man known as Thespis. A
figure of whom we know very little, he won the
play competition in honor of the Greek god
Dionysus, in 534 B. C. While it is uncertain
whether Thespis was a playwright, an a...
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R Faustus And Seven Sins
1,781 words
Dr Faustus is a short play written by Christopher
Marlowe. The play is a masterful insight into the
paradoxical soul of mankind and its ironically
self inflicted corruption. The play could be
classification as a theological allegory. It can
be assumed that the play specifically speaks to
the religious motivations of the time, but can be
adapted to the present as well. Marlowe portrays
Faustus ambition as dangerous; it was the cause of
his demise. Perhaps Marlowe used the theme of
over-ambition a...
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Meaning Of Life Body And Soul
1,594 words
Socrates believes that the everyday world is an
illusion compared to the world of knowledge.
People are often too distracted by money and
materialistic things to appreciate truth and
reality. Socrates says, the capacity for knowledge
is innate in each mans mind. This exemplifies the
point that man has the ability to look into the
world of truth, but when one is caught up in
superficiality then truth does not receive the
attention and glory that it should. This is why
Socrates feels that the arts...
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19 Th Century Anti Semitism
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ter> "Mythenbildung ist wie kristallisation in der
gesattigten salzlosung: es wird dann im
entscheidenden augen blick alles mythic" Arthur
Schnitzler (Buch der Freunde) (1)
Viennese Jews proportionally did have more
representatives in the cultural sphere. This can
be because they had the means, ways and
opportunity to exploit their situation to pursue
the arts. Steven Beller states quite unequivocally
"Whether it be Freud, Schoenberg, Schnitzler or
Wittgenstein, the number of individua...
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Star Trek Ha Ha
1,407 words
... entry did a musical album entitled "Old Yellow
Eyes Is Back. " The title parodies Frank Sinatra
("Old Blue Eyes") and the character Spider plays;
he dons yellow contact lenses as part of his
android costume. One of the songs on the album
features his fellow co-stars as backup singers. A
final note belongs to Wil Wheaton, who plays
Ensign Wesley Crusher (and son to Dr. Crusher, the
ship's doctor) on The Next Generation. He had
already acquired some semblance of fame as the
lead in the flick S...
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Blair Witch Short Story
2,051 words
... so 6 - Conclusion Culminating Activity
Overview - Students will read "The Lottery" and
respond to the themes of the story through small
group discussion, and personal questions. Outcomes
- -- Students will have practise in responding to
themes in a short story. -- Students will be able
to use prior knowledge of elements of short
stories to discuss the use of suspense and drama
in writing. Procedures - 1. As a class read
Jackson's "The Lottery." 2. At the end of the
story ask students to writ...
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Multiculturalism In Canadas Language Arts Classrooms
1,546 words
Respect, equality, and diversity are three words
that represent how multiculturalism describes
Canada. When respect, equality and diversity exist
together as a balanced trio, all Canadian students
will benefit from the positive society that
continues to emerge. Multiculturalism speaks of
Canadas many cultural influences and different
ways of living. Canada has always been
multicultural, beginning with the cultural
diversity of the First Nations, and then accepting
peoples of English, French, Iri...
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Van Gogh One Kind
1,396 words
In Ion, Plato presents a dialogue between his
influential teacher Socrates and a distinguished
rhapsody, Ion. While Socrates considers himself a
common man who only speak the truth (47), Ion is
proud and boastful, regarding himself as a
rhapsody who can speak about Homer better than any
man (47). The primary issues between these two
contradictory characters are the difference
between gift of speech and knowledge of speech, as
well as the attending of oneself to moral by
understanding an idea as ...
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Washington D C Black And White
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Robert Mapplethorpe began taking photographs in
1970 with a Polaroid camera given to him by a
friend. Nearly twenty years later, when
Mapplethorpe died at the age of forty-two, he was
considered one of the most important photographers
of his time. His elegant and sometimes shocking
nudes, the black-and-white portraits, flower still
lifes, and images of sexual sadomasochism had been
exhibited widely and were the subject of serious
critical attention in Europe and America. A few
months after his d...
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Freedom Of Expression Forms Of Art
596 words
It is my opinion that the role of the arts in our
country is that they are part of our educational
system. The arts and art education teach us
design, organization, cooperation, creativity,
risk-taking, and most of all that we need to be
active participants in our society. I believe that
education is a main priority and therefore art
should be as well. Since 1965 the most prominent
source of government support for the arts has been
from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). In
the Declarati...
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Washington D C Museum Of Fine Arts
1,464 words
Recognized as the leading portraitist in England
and the United States at the turn of the century,
John Singer Sargent was acclaimed for his elegant
and very stylish depictions of high society. Known
for his technical ability, he shunned traditional
academic precepts in favor of a modern approach
towards technique, color and form, thereby making
his own special contribution to the history of
grand manner portraiture. A true cosmopolite, he
was also a painter of plain air landscapes and
genre sce...
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Performing Arts Film Festival
1,157 words
China, Korea, and Japan have been historically
close for centuries, thus accounting for their
numerous common artistic traditions. From
pre-Christian times until the 8 th and 9 th
century AD, the great trade routes crossed from
the Middle East through Central Asia into China.
Hinduism, Buddhism, some knowledge of ancient
Greek, and much knowledge of Indian arts entered
into China, and thence in time into Korea and
Japan. Perhaps before Christ, the Central Asian
art of manipulating hand puppets w...
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University Of Paris Thirteenth Century
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Higher education plays a major part in todays
society. Expected to continue their education
beyond high school, many students attend four-year
universities and colleges. The emergence of such
higher education was first recorded in Europe
during the Middle Ages. The origins and
characteristics of these medieval universities as
well as details of the students and their masters
(professors) will be thoroughly discussed in the
following paragraphs. These universities became
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Lorenzo De Medici Peters Basilica
883 words
The Medici Family During the Renaissance a lot of
changes occurred in fields, such as humanism,
politics, and economy. One of the most influential
families of the Renaissance was the Medici family.
They reflected the Renaissance in a way where
almost every aspect of the Renaissance, could be
found as one of their traits. The Medici family
made numerous contributions to humanism. Cosimo de
Medici was one of the first from his family to
encourage humanism. He patronized artists,
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Traditional Japanese Late 1970
540 words
Described as a century old professional
entertainer the geisha is an important part of
traditional Japanese social life. Usually
circulating their services in the higher classes
exclusively, these woman are extensively trained
in many of the traditional Japanese arts. Her
grace is exceptional, her charm, exquisite. These
woman are professional hostesses in an exotic
variation. Geisha Geisha The earliest geisha's
were men, but by the 18 th century women dominated
the trade. Young girls may start ...
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Sistine Chapel Scientific Discoveries
887 words
The 14 th, 15 th and part of 16 th century was a
glorious time for Europe, it was the reformation
of many old ideas and the formation of many new,
this was called the Renaissance. The Renaissance
brought many changes to Europe, the economy was
greatly boosted by of all the new explorations.
The flourishing economy helped to inspire new
developments in art and literature. And from that
many new beliefs were formed. The European economy
flourished during the Renaissance due to many
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Academy Of Fine Arts Salvador Dali
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SalvadorSalvadore Dali Salvador Dali Salvador Dali
was born on May 11 th, 1904, at 8: 45 AM at 20
Montreal in Figures, Spain. His Mother loved
birds. You may see some of them in his paintings.
Nine months before Salvador was born, his brother,
Salvador died. Salvador? s parents named him after
his brother. This confused Salvador. He always
thought he was his brother, Salvador. But he knew
he was himself. Three years later his sister, Ana
was born. He always wanted to get attention. Once
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