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- 4221: Candide: Voltaire's View of Human Condition
- ... as laughter. Although, he instructs the reader to be in serious attention of the story’s point of view. This philosophical tale is based on the art of black comedy. Voltaire’s primary purpose in writing Candide was to demolish the theory of optimism in which he used exaggeration. For instance, the carnage of the Bulgar-Abar conflict, the tempest and earthquake, the apparent death of Cunegonde and the actual death ...
- 4222: Utopia...Model Or Reality
- ... famous work Utopia, Sir Thomas More describes the society and culture of an imaginary island on which all social ills have been cured. As in Plato's Republic, a work from which More drew while writing Utopia, More's work presents his ideas through a dialogue between two characters, Raphael Hythloday and More himself. Hythloday is a fictional character who describes his recent voyage to the island of Utopia. Throughout the ...
- 4223: Change Within Western Society From Roman Times To The Time O
- ... period amidst all the denaturing tendencies that followed (Gardner, 330). The image of Saint Matthew from the Coronation Gospels, Descends from ancient depictions in sculpture and painting of an inspired philosopher and poet seated and writing. Its technique is of the same antiquity-deft, illusionistic brushwork that easily and accurately defines the masses of the drapery as they wrap and enfold the body beneath. The acanthus of the frame of the ...
- 4224: Stanely Kubrick
- ... view of humans as tools to further the cause of the machine (political, military, or other) is not found in the films of David Lynch. Lynch approaches his world view from a much more intensely personal and human approach. For Lynch, it is the discovery of the self in an amoral world that often drives the narrative of his films. Take for example one of Lynch's finest films The Elephant ...
- 4225: Socrates 2
- ... war with Sparta he served as an infantryman with conspicuous bravery at the battles of potidaea in 432-430 bc, Delium in 424 bc, and amphipolis in 422 bc. Socrates believed superiority of argument over writing and therefore spent the greater part of his mature life in the marketplace and public resorts of Athens in dialogue and argument with anyone who would listen or who submit to interrogation. He wrote no ...
- 4226: Sociology Of Movie
- ... the poverty-stricken farmers, derelicts, and noblemen through a war against the English. He took charge and won their freedom despite the unfavorable odds. Aside from this major social conflict I discovered a smaller, more personal battle among Henry and Wallace. As the plot unfolded, I noticed the hatred between the two men fester. Henry did everything in his power, including betrayal, to stop Wallace from obtaining freedom. This in turn ...
- 4227: Schindler’s List 2
- ... plays a very fast pace, classical piece from either Mozart or Bach. Meanwhile the other guards fire at any survivor they can find in the Ghetto. There is a scene where all the suitcases and personal belongings from the Jewish from the Ghetto, are being pile up in a storage room, the belongings included shoes, clothes, photographs, watches, and a lot of jewelry which was being kept by the guards. One ...
- 4228: Schindler’s List
- ... he can. He is so generous that people ask him to let people work in the factory so they will live. He does so. He has a heart but he also does it for his personal gain. At first, he just opens the factory to gain money. In the end, we see him spending all of his money to save the Jews. The courageous man makes up a list containing thousands ...
- 4229: Rock And Roll
- ... metal with the raw garage band sound. Many punk songs were reactions to the glitter and glam rock bands of the seventies. The fact that groups were spending months, weeks, or hours in a studio, writing 15- minute songs, and playing elaborate shows with spectacular stage performances in front of thousands of people in large arenas really angered punk bands. Punk songs were generally simple and rather short. The lyrics told ...
- 4230: Rennaisance Art
- ... general desire developed to examine all aspects of nature and the world. Art, during this period, became valued -- not merely as a vehicle for religious and social identity, but even more as a mode of personal, aesthetic expression. The term early renaissance characterizes virtually all the art of the 15th century. Early renaissance artist sought to create art forms consistent with the appearance of the natural world and with their experience ...
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