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Jazz Age Lost Generation
814 wordsIn spite of social and economic upheaval, the 1900 s prospered as a whole. The 1920 s were marked by technological, historical, literary, and political, phenomena. Society was experiencing a new way of life, characterized by new technology that enabled Americans to kick back and enjoy all life had to offer. During the 1920 s, the United States started off on a joyride in an era of wonderful nonsense (World Book Encyclopedia p. 114). Americans felt lighthearted and optimistic after WWI. New advan...
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Analysis Of The Human Cultural Identity
931 wordsAnalysis of the Human Cultural Identity This paper is intended to contain the analysis of the human cultural identity, as seen in the following five historical cultural periods: Enlightenment Culture; Greco-Roman Culture; Judeo-Christian Culture; Renaissance-Reformation Culture; and Industrialization-Modernism Culture. It also embodies examples of each era that are clearly stated, and how they relate The cultural identity of the Enlightenment can be described as emphasizing the possibilities of ...
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Art Deco Gothic Architecture
1,424 wordsIn this essay information will be given in order to compare and contrast data about three different styles of architecture. The three styles are Art Deco, Art Nouveau, and Neo Gothic. In order to fully give a clear explanation of these styles, information about architecture will be given first then the three styles will follow with comparing and contrasting points in between. First, to inform about architecture, one must explain what it is. Architecture, referring to building is defined as The p...
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Hip Hop Gang Violence
1,734 wordsol> In searching for a properly post-modern style of music, it may be better to look at the electronic music scene, which began with house music in the early to middle 80 s, rather than at hip-hop. It is true that the hip-hop artist generally disappears into the narrative of the music to the extent that many of their lives are a direct reflection of what they sing about: gang violence, drugs, racism, alienation in the US, etc. but here already we encounter two problems. One is the existential ch...
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The Hollow Men Ts Eliot And Society
1,039 wordsThe poem is one of the most powerful literary methods used to convey ideas or opinions. Through vivid imagery and compelling metaphors, the poem conveys to the reader the thoughts and emotions of the author. Modern poets, however, manipulated traditional forms of poetry and sought to greatly influence the ideas of their readers. T. S. Eliot is a prime example of a modern poet who wrote controversial and thought-provoking works, particularly The Hollow Men. Modernism is the time period between 18...
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Literary Work Modernist Faith
334 wordsModernism as a theory refers to love to whatever is modern. It has to do with a literary writing. It aims at a deep-seated alteration from outer issues to more philosophical ones. When we have a cocktail of literary genres such as realism, humanism, naturalism, etc, this means that we are working as modernist writers or critics. According to Modernist upholders, God is responsible for nature. They believe also that the world around them is losing meaning and altering to garbage; consequently the...
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People In Western Sociological Theories
1,643 words... people are going to consider other members of society as their enemies. Bauman suggests that it is the individualism, on the part of Europeans, which allowed them to create a civilization, but at the same time, it is the hyper-individualism, as the final stage of post-modernity, which will bring about Western civilizations ultimate demise. It is very remarkable that, while suggesting the peoples post-modernist egoistic drives are essentially harmful, Bauman does not include a perverse sexual...
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The Sound And Fury By William Faulkner
1,271 wordsThe Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner It is a common knowledge that we live in 2208 and there is a world government under a governor who orders that all literature should be destroyed. However, despite the necessity to obey this strict regulation, there is an obvious truth that not all literature should be destroyed. There are some books that should be rescued and stay put into our secret compartment. The Sound and the Fury written by William Faulkner is one of such books. The present paper...
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Social And Cultural Ernest Hemingway
628 wordsParagraphs & Essay Question 1 Realism is the way of writing in which the authors reflect the real, actual way of life. In contrast to realism, postmodernism is mostly a reaction against Enlightenment ideas and reaction to modernism, rejecting the boundaries between high and low forms of art, rejecting rigid genre distinctions, and focusing on irony, parody, pastiche, and bricolage. The Crying Lot of 49 by Pynchon, Kurt Vonneguts novel, Breakfast of Champions are examples of postmodernism; while ...
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Western Societies Space Exploration
728 wordsSpace Art Museum When we talk of different art concepts and styles, we need to keep in mind that they dont just appear spontaneously in peoples minds but are rather intuitive responses to the realities of nowadays. We cannot talk of concept of baroque, for example, without mentioning that it came as a direct consequence of the fact that intellectual elite became disappointed with the Christian doctrine, since it was effectively proven that Earth revolves around the Sun and not the other way arou...
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Science And Technology Frankenstein
1,379 wordsDangers Of Science And Technology As Observed Dangers Of Science And Technology As Observed In Frankenstein Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, recounts the tragic story of Victor Frankenstein, a scientist who dared to defy nature and as a result, lost all those dear to him, as well as his mind. However, upon closer examination of the novel, it is relatively simple to see that there is a strong message regarding the morality of science. In order to analyze the early Modernists understanding of scient...
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Mother Post Modern
1,435 wordsPost Modern Indigo Amber Hutchison Post Modern Fiction Indigo February 23, 2000 People are born with passion. The irony is that most people spend all their lives searching for that passion without looking inside that soul to the heart of the passion. The trick to discovering that passion is to find what makes us happy. For Indigo the main character of Sassafras, Cypress and Indigo by her passion lies in the music she creates from her soul while using her violin as her tool. From a modern literar...
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Death Of Her Husband Abstract Concepts
1,201 wordsMy room has two doors and one window. One door is red and the other is gray. I cannot open the red door; the grey door does not interest me. Having no choice, I shall lock them both and look out of the window. -Kay Sage The work of Kay Sage (1898 - 1963) is known to be some of the most abstract art produced during the Surrealism movement. (Chadwick, 1997) Although it does not appear at first glance to be anywhere near as abstract as other Modernist artists such as Sonia Delaunay or Liubov Popova...
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Frank Lloyd Wright Avant Garde
1,113 wordsFrank Lloyd Wright is a name that is spoken synonymously with the advancement of American architecture in the early 20 th century. For 70 years he worked to push the architectural profession in America to new limits. Wright sought to create an architecture that reconciles mans relationship with Nature and Wrights quest resulted in a style so successful and so innovative that, for once, instead of America looking to Europe for new ideas, Europe's avant-garde looked to Americas Prairie style for i...
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Stoddard Came Back Optimistic And Pessimistic Liberty
557 wordsThe Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is both optimistic and pessimistic. It is unsatisfactory to call the film plain optimistic, which it was in the middle of the movie, as the beginning but more so the end was pessimistic. The middle of the film was optimistic because it showed the joyous personalities of the people and about ten minutes from the end of Ransom Stoddard s flashback, film reached it s climax when Liberty Valance was killed. On the pessimistic side of the film however, is what has bec...
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Freedom Of Choice Stanley Kubrick
1,846 wordsA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, published in 1962, technically falls after the period deemed as Modernism, yet it embodies all of the features that were characteristic of that literary era. Burgess s novel is a futuristic look at a Totalitarian government. The main character (or anti-hero) is Alex, who is an ultra-violent thief who has no qualms about using force to get the in-out-in-out. The beginning of the story takes us through a night in the life of Alex and his Drugs, and details th...
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Quot And Quot Nineteenth Century
910 wordsBy Rhonda Pettit Recent editions of Introduction to Poetry textbooks have included " One Perfect Rose" in their discussions of voice, rhythm, and symbol, suggesting that contemporary anthologists and scholars are finally appreciating the art of Parkers " accessible" poetry. " One Perfect Rose" is one of many poems by Parker worthy of this appreciation. The three quatrains of this 1923 poem employ a variation of the " bait-and-switch" strategy, highly appro...
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Quot And Quot Quot Quot
892 wordsRhonda On " Unfortunate Coincidence" Rhonda Pettit Many of Dorothy Parkers poems are remembered for their cynical assessment of modern romance, and " Unfortunate Coincidence" is no exception. This six-line poem offers a poetic syllogism in which the first two lines state one condition (a womans passionate declaration of love), the next two lines state a second condition (a mans passionate declaration of love), and the last two lines offer what, for Parker, is the only possibl...
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San Francisco Open Field
1,580 wordsLets begin with the thought that Duncan, in his poetics, embodies a series of paradoxes that at once reflect and reflect upon the antecedent poetics of what he called his " modernist masters. " Such paradoxes were what struck me when I first encountered Duncan at the Vancouver Poetry Conference, staged at the University of British Columbia in 1963. I had come to know Duncan's work initially through Donald Allens pathbreaking anthology, The New American Poetry, then through The Opening ...
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O Acute Observer Review
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