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- 2621: Hercules His 12 Quests
- ... Hercules was required to perform the miracu-lous. But instead of having to bring only one mission to a successful close, Hercules was ordered to complete twelve great tasks, which are often referred to in literature as "the labors of Hercules." This is how the challenge came about. Hercules was the son of Jupiter and Alcmene, daughter of the king of Mycenae. When Hercules was born, Juno in a jealous anger ...
- 2622: Harlem Renaissance
- ... meant he felt that Negro people would have to develop self-sufficiency and no longer rely on seemingly altruistic efforts of other people. Langston Hughes was one of the poets who published many works of literature during this time. He acquired a medal give by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People known as the Spingarn Medal in 1960. With this medal, he joined the ranks of famous African ...
- 2623: Japanese Animation
- ... form of entertainment limited in audience and expression. Anime is included in a group from which the United States has traditionally banned animation; specifically, anime is considered a form of creative expression, much as are literature, modern art, live-action films, and other arts. A man by the name of Osamu Tezuka first envisioned animations possibilities in Japan in the 1960s (Ledoux, 1). Tezuka realized the power animation could lend ...
- 2624: Greek Theater 2
- ... Arnott, Peter. The Ancient Greek and Roman Theatre. New York: Random House, 1971. Butler, James H. The Theatre and Drama of Greece and Rome. San Francisco: Chandler, 1972. Kennedy, X.J., and Dama Gidia, eds. Literature: An Introduction To Fiction, Poetry and Drama. New York: Harper Collins, 1995. 1102-1105. Spreloosel, Jackson J. Western Civilization Volume I. St. Paul Mn: West,1994. 86-88. Taylor, David. Acting and the Stage. London ...
- 2625: Faustus
- ... eventually, paying the ultimate penalty, he could be considered a Renaissance martyr. These two points of view have their obvious differences, and depending on from what time period one chooses to place this piece of literature varies the way that the play is viewed. However, the idea of considering him a martyr has many flaws, several of which are evident when considering who Faustus was before he turned to necromancy and ...
- 2626: Existentialism In Film
- ... Force of Evil one of his favorite films, naming it as his most important influence. Even so, we have yet to encounter a film that explicitly expresses existential thinking itself. A debt to certain existential literature has by the mid-century been acknowledged, as in Orson Welles' production of Kafka's The Trial. Yet for an artistic treatment of formal existentialist philosophies we must turn to Europe. I can think of ...
- 2627: Comparing Casablanca To 1984
- How can a hero survive in a world gone mad? Both Casablanca, the classic 1940s film, and hailed as the greatest movie ever by some, and 1984, a piece of classic literature by George Orwell, also seen as being one of the most important novels of the 20th century, revolve around a world in chaos, where no one trusts anybody else, and a war wages on within ...
- 2628: Baroque Style
- ... ornately decorated. These works of art created history and altered the progress of Western Civilization. The progress has been an uneven one. Regression and progress often alternated, and shifts in direction often occurred. Art, architecture, literature, and historical events shaped the ideas of the era we know today. Architecture such as the palace of Versailles, and artists like Caravaggio, Rembrandt, and Goya symbolize these ideas. The palace of Versailles is a ...
- 2629: Archetypes In Raising Arizona
- Raising Arizona In the movie Raising Arizona a lot of Archetypes (a pattern consisting on literary elements found in all literature regards) are used throughout. Ethan and Joel Coen turned a serious subject like kidnapping, into a hysterical comedy. The use of archetypes are strong, the movie is basically one big archetype. The uses are archetypes ...
- 2630: Analysis Of Casablanca
- ... to make a film artistic it means knowing what makes a film good. To Have or Have Not doesn't have an artistic frame in it's reel. There are no allusions to art or literature - just to sex. There are no deep and meaningful symbolic representations. It's pure Hollywood, and although many will hate to admit it pure Hollywood can be good. To Have and Have Not may not ...
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