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Two Periods Of Buddhist Art In India
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Cosmetic Surgery Plastic Surgery
1,267 wordsPlastic Surgery, What Does it Say About Society? For many, the bikini season means one thing: anxiety over what can be done about a body that has surreptitiously expanded under a winter wardrobe of thick sweaters and black tights. This is also a season for fashion magazines to publish all the new plastic surgery developments for those unsatisfied with their bodies. Diets and rigorous exercise are the mainstream options. But for those with several thousand dollars to spend, plastic surgery can me...
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Change The World Aesthetic Value
1,555 wordsOut of Light cometh Darkness, dark ambient music and the impulse towards deconstruction 2000 Daniel du Prie 1. These recordings may be seen as a notation of our dead minded society, but not as a reaction against it, we will all become ambient dead heads, if not... (Archon Satani, In Shelter, liner note, 1994) If not, then ellipsis. The conditional clause of fact, followed by an open-ended ellipsis, where not only the conjunction between a conditional present and an effected future (then... ), bu...
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Aesthetic Value Asia Pacific
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Decides What Is Good Religious Faith The Ethical God
500 wordsHigher immediacy or religious faith is the most important achievement made by a person because only faith offers an individual to have a chance to become a "true self." Self is what is done throughout life which God judges for infinity. Consequently, humans have a huge responsibility because those decided choices in life constitute the eternal salvation or damnation. With the religious faith, the ethical and aesthetic are needed to form it, that is why they can not be the same. "Faith itself can...
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Greek And Roman Italian Renaissance
1,528 wordsMichelangelo's The Pieta (1) Michelangelo's sculpture The Pieta stands out as one of the finest examples of spirit of Renaissance, embodied in marble. Therefore, it is quite impossible to discuss this great work of art, without understanding the metaphysical essence of Renaissance, as peoples subconscious longing towards the ancient Greek and Roman ideals of physical beauty and intellectual excellence, as opposed to Christian concept of destruction of flesh, which used to represent an aesthetic ...
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2,512 wordsCan morality provide us with a form of self-transcendence? Within the scope of this research, we will elaborate on various philosophers opinions in order to find out whether morality can provide us with a form of self transcendence. Self-transcendence, according to Nietzsche, is the common essence of all moral codes. "Man, " he says, "is something that should be transcended. " (Cohen 126) Self-transcendence is, for him, not only the essence of morality, but most emphatically the essence of man h...
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Pity And Fear Work Of Art
1,673 wordsPhilosophy of Aesthetic 1) Aristotle's main concern in the Poetics is to redeem the arts from Plato's criticism of their value in human society. Aristotle succeeds in his concern to some extent because his justification for the concern may be questioned if to look at the issue from some other prospective. This work by Aristotle is considered to be the first example of criticism in literary tradition. Firstly Aristotle defines tragedy in his masterpiece and gives some basic insight into it. Accor...
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Human Beings World Society
2,124 wordsIn his essay 'On perpetual peace' Kant makes an interesting remark about the role of the differences between religions in the course of world history. According to Kant world history is moving towards a growing community of nations. But this process, however positive for excluding the possibility of war in the future, has a dangerous side. A universal monolithic al political system could arise which, according to Kant, can only mean that despotism will rule the world. The call for unity should b...
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Tea Ceremony Zen Buddhism
1,711 wordsJapanese Aesthetics, Wabi-Sabi, And The Tea Ceremony Japanese Aesthetics, Wabi-Sabi, And The Tea Ceremony Aesthetics: In the Western world, aesthetics is considered the branch of philosophy that is concerned with concepts of value and beauty as they relate to the arts. Philosophers from Plato until the present time have had rigid ideas about what artists should create and what people should like, but in todays world, a estheticians represent a variety of approaches to the philosophy of art. Aest...
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One Of The Most Important Zen Buddhism
2,509 wordsThe Japanese Gardens Japanese Gardens The role of gardens play a much more important role in Japan than here in the United States. This is due primarily to the fact the Japanese garden embodies native values, cultural beliefs and religious principles. Perhaps this is why there is no one prototype for the Japanese garden, just as there is no one native philosophy or aesthetic. In this way, similar to other forms of Japanese art, landscape design is constantly evolving due to exposure to outside i...
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Carrying Capacity Tourist Destination
3,315 wordsKenya: A Paradigm for Sustainable Development Introduction: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the historical development of Kenya? s nature based tourist industry in order to develop a better understanding of the concepts relating to sustainable tourism in the developing world. I will show how past resource management practices has affected tourism? s carrying capacity. Because of the complicated ness of this paper I will break it down into five sections. In the first section I will define...
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African American Experience Langston Hughes
2,151 wordsWhat was the dream that brought our ancestors to America? It was rebirth, the craving for men to be born again, the yearning for a second chance. With all of these ideas comes the true American dream Freedom. This is the condition in which a man feels like a human being. It is the purpose and consequence of rebirth. Throughout the life of Langston Hughes he presented ideas in his writings that help to define his perception of the American dream. In beginning, Langston Hughes was born on February...
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African American Experience Weary Blues
1,610 wordsOne distinctive mark of the great writing of the Harlem Renaissance includes the development of a creative voice that both explains Black history and pain and transforms this explanation into High art, despite its association with Low people. Some writers, such as Langston Hughes, attempt this transformation by seeking to elevate the sense of crudeness associated with blackness. In many ways, Hughes sets the standard for this distinctive mark: his writing consistently exhibits a voice that embra...
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5,216 wordsMillay's Poetry In A Greenwich Village ContextbyMillays Poetry In A Greenwich Village Context Nina Miller In the 1920 s, Edna St. Vincent Millay was Americas most read, most beloved poet. Critical biographer Elizabeth Atkins gives some indication of Millay's nationally " intoxicating effect on people" in describing the reception of her second collection, A Few Figs from Thistles: To say it became popular conveys but a faint idea of the truth. Edna St. Vincent Millay became, in effect, ...
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Twentieth Century Modern Art
2,030 wordsTHE MYTH OF THE OTHER: FAUVIST, GERMAN EXPRESSIONIST AND SURREALIST INTERPRETATIONS OF THE PRIMITIVE With European exploration and colonization of the new world nearing its end at the turn of the twentieth century, a collection and cataloguing of primitive objects became paramount, not only to researchers interested in other cultures but to governments wishing to strengthen public opinion regarding their colonial territories. To this end, museums displaying primitive objects became ubiquitous in...
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3,237 wordsDavid Kalstone " An Urban Convalescence" is designed to act out a false start and implicitly to suggest a search for more revealing and durable images. What he appears to be learning to do is to disentangle his own needs and style from the clich? s of the world of fashionable destruction a clarification of feeling signalled in the crisp rhymed quatrains [at the end of the poem: Kalstone cites the last stanzas]. Much of the poems feeling is gathered in the now charged associations of ho...
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Quot Quot Gas Chambers
5,875 wordsWhile On Holocaust Marie Syrkin While he was still obdurately producing more Testimony I urged him to use the technique of law cases for another project the Nazi extermination of European Jewry. Available were the records of the Nuremberg trials and other accounts. Remembering his moving " Kaddish, " written in the thirties, and various later poems I hoped for a lyrical threnody. But Charles was committed to his system. He refused to use any material from numerous first-hand witness re...
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2,550 wordsPenelope Laurens A well-modulated lyric like " The Armadillo" demonstrates how the formal qualities of Bishops poetry help to hold the readers emotional response in check. " The Armadillo" meditates on the Brazilian custom of floating celebratory fire balloons on saints days and festival days. It depicts the almost unearthly beauty of these fragile, dangerous objects which rise in the night sky, seeming to imitate stars and planets, but which also sometimes fall flaming to ea...
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Seven Deadly Sins Hedda Gabler
10,446 wordsThe established view of Hedda Gabler sees the play as a study of the frustration and despair engendered in the exceptional individual by a conventionalized society. In this paper I present a psychoanalytic re-interpretation of the play which in certain respects inverts this received reading. Insofar as it does so, however, my interpretation is intended not to cancel the received view but to play against it. The first section of the paper is predominantly Freudian in approach. The second section ...
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