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- 421: Rousseau And The Artists Of Th
- ... It was not uncommon for eighteenth century writers and artists to use subjects from the ancient world as indirect criticism (or comment) of their own society . The ‘Oath Of The Horatii’ (Oil on canvas, 330 x 425cm, 1784. Signed: L. David faciebat Romae Anno MDCCLXXXIV, Musée du Louvre, Paris) is one of David’s most renowned paintings and occupies an extremely important place the history of French painting . The classical story ... realistic rather than neo-classical painting style in order to record scenes of the French Revolution. One of his three paintings of `martyrs of the Revolution' was ‘The Death Of Marat’ (Oil on canvas, 160 x 125 cm, 1793. Signed: A Marat, David. L'an Deux, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels). In 1793, France was in danger and the Revolution was in peril. The Committee of Public Safety had just ...
- 422: Chuck Close
- ... self-portrait done with oil on canvas; the entire thing is done on a grid with different shapes and shades of gray. Each box on the grid looked at closely is a circle or an X or oval but step back and it is a picture of a middle age Chuck Close. The use of lines is mainly in the grid. The color is black and white, with different shades of ... of value, each block blends to make a big picture. The tone is dark and the contrast is low. There are highlights used on the face. The texture is smooth. The shapes are lots of X's and O's on a grid to make a portrait. He uses positive space every block is accounted for even the background. Shape is the strongest element because the whole thing is made with ...
- 423: Ernest Hemingway
- ... to use people only for his own pleasure, and maybe he wanted to think that he was like Henry who was a nicer person. In the book, Twentieth Century Interpretations of A Farewell to Arms, Malcolm Cowley focuses on the symbolism of rain. He sees rain, a frequent occurrence in the book, as symbolizing disaster. He points out that, at the beginning of A Farewell to Arms, Henry talks about how ... Buckley, p.127 . Peter Buckley, p.129 . Peter Buckley, p.135 . Peter Buckley, p.138 . Peter Buckley, p.144 . Peter Buckley, p.152 . Peter Buckley, p.152 . Peter Buckley, p.154 . Peter Buckley, p.160 . Malcolm Cowley, "Rain as Disaster", Twentieth Century Interpretations of A Farewell to Arms, Jay Gellens, Prentice-Hall, Inc.:1970, pp.54-55 . Wyndham Lewis, "The Dumb Ox in Love and War", Twentieth Century Interpretations of A ...
- 424: Themes In Macbeth 2
- ... Macbeth wouldn't be a man if he didn't agree to the killing. Probably the most direct example of manhood being a theme in Macbeth is Macduff at the end of Act IV. While Malcolm implores him to "dispute it like a man," Macduff says that he must also "feel it as a man," which changes the image of a man given above by Lady Macbeth. While she portrays men ... If thou best slain and with no stroke of mine, my wife and children's ghosts will haunt me still." Macduff can't rest until he gets revenge on the killer of his family, something Malcolm and Fleance whose family was also killed by Macbeth didn't say. Macduff is the light that will soon come to a final climactic battle with the dark (Macbeth). There is also religious meaning to ...
- 425: Themes In Macbeth
- ... Macduff, that he should fear no man of woman born, and that he would not be defeated until until Birnam Wood came upon Dunsinane. Meanwhile, Macduff was planning a revolt with King Duncan's son, Malcolm, to overthrow the wicked Macbeth. When they attack Macbeth's castle, they carry with them branches from Birnam Wood to use as camaflouge. Macduff meets with Macbeth and Macbeth learns that Macduff was "untimely ripped" from his mother's womb. Macbeth realizes that this is the end and Macduff slays Macbeth. Malcolm gains the rightful heir to the throne of Scotland and order is restored. One of the major themes of Macbeth is the significance of evil. There is a strong sense of evil in almost every ...
- 426: Silence Of The Lambs
- ... soon as possible so that no other lives are lost and the country can get back to normal without living with the fear of a serial killer on the loose. Along with the FBI, an X-psychiatrist named Dr. Hannibal Lecter and, Clarice Starling they try to stop the murders and regain order to society, this is not an easy task and there are many obstacles along the way. The first obstacle is that the whereabouts of Gumb are unknown and his identity has alluded the FBI since the murders first begun. The only link that they have to the murder is Jame Gumb s X- psychiatrist named Dr Hannibal Lecter. Lecter gives Clarice Starling a few hints with every visit she makes she makes to him about the murder. While revealing hints about the murders is, at the same time ...
- 427: Shampoo Planets - Book Report
- Shampoo Planets - book Report The book I chose is Shampoo Planet, writen by Douglas Coupland. I chose to read this particular book because it was written by an author of my generation; generation X. Most books that were on the list were book written by people that were either dead or very old. They wrote about topics or themes that I could not personally relate to, so I chose ... has won many awards through out his life, but the two Canadian National Awards for Excellence in Industrial Design stand out from the rest. Mr. Coupland has written five novels. He started out with Generation X, and then came Life After God and then came Microserfs. His last book was Poaroids From the Dead, but before that was Shampoo Planet. Life After God and Polaroid From the Dead are not really ...
- 428: Pragmatics Deixis And Conversa
- ... interpretation. His line of thought (as well as the speaker´s ‘codification process’ shortly before uttering his sentence) might work like this: 1. B has expressed pleasure at being disturbed early in the morning (utterance X) 2. But normally people in our society do not like this. 3. So why is B uttering X? 4. I cannot assume that B is violating the cooperative principle, namely he tries to deceive me. 5. I also do not think that B´s sentence is entirely pointless. 6. As 3 and 4 ...
- 429: Filial Piety
- ... have the same reference; the former expresses honor, the latter affection. 3. This paragraph is a mosaic of passages from the Zuo Zhuan. 4. Shi, I, xiv, ode 3, stanza 3, p. 223. Mao 152. X An Orderly Description of the Acts of Filial Piety The Master said, "The service which a filial son does to his parents is as follows: In his general conduct to them, he manifests the utmost ... Hence, since remonstrance is required in the case of unrighteous conduct, how can (simple) obedience to the orders of a father be accounted filial piety?"1 Notes 1. Cf. Analects 4.18 and Li Ji, X, i, 15. XVI The Influence of Filial Piety and the Response to It The Master said, "Anciently, the intelligent kings served their fathers with filial piety, and therefore they served Heaven with intelligence. They served ...
- 430: Ernest Hemingway
- ... to use people only for his own pleasure, and maybe he wanted to think that he was like Henry who was a nicer person. In the book, Twentieth Century Interpretations of A Farewell to Arms, Malcolm Cowley focuses on the symbolism of rain. He sees rain, a frequent occurrence in the book, as symbolizing disaster. He points out that, at the beginning of A Farewell to Arms, Henry talks about how ... Buckley, p.127. Peter Buckley, p.129. Peter Buckley, p.135. Peter Buckley, p.138. Peter Buckley, p.144. Peter Buckley, p.152. Peter Buckley, p.152. Peter Buckley, p.154. Peter Buckley, p.160. Malcolm Cowley, "Rain as Disaster", Twentieth Century Interpretations of A Farewell to Arms, Jay Gellens, Prentice-Hall, Inc.:1970, pp.54-55. Wyndham Lewis, "The Dumb Ox in Love and War", Twentieth Century Interpretations of A ...
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