English painting from 1260 to debut late XVIIIth
Essay - 10 pages - Art history
In many countries, arts schools met with a block. Instead it is the freedom of individual talent that is the specificity of English painting. We see it fully realized, with Hogarth, and strive to reflect all of society. With Gainsborough, it expresses the heart of his poetic sensibility....
The complexity and meaning behind the structure of the Colosseum
Thesis - 6 pages - Architecture
The Colosseum in Rome is a piece of architecture that has captured the imagination of humanity for generations. Although marble was taken from the Colosseum by popes and other similar figures in the years after it had fallen into disuse in order to build other buildings, the outward look of the...
Avedon and Evans - Portraits of the Country
Essay - 3 pages - Arts and art history
Walker Evans (1903-1975) is often said to the best American documentary photographer of the century. His most important and famous work was his depiction of American rural life during the Great Depression. Commissioned by the Farm Security Administration (FSA) in 1935, he meticulously documented...
Crash, Paul Haggis, 2005
Worksheets - 1 pages - Film studies
"We crash into each other so we can feel something?: is one of the first sentences of the movie Crash, released in 2005. This film has been directed by Paul Haggis, and deals with racial interactions, which are depicted as negative in Los Angeles post 9/11. Most of the scenes are shocking (and...
Rap Music
Essay - 10 pages - Music and dance
The legend said that the origin of the word Hip-Hop is due to Keith Cowboy, a rapper who invented it to tease a friend doing the rhythmic cadence of the soldier's march. At that time the Hip-Hop was known as rap disco. Born in the late 70's, in the Bronx, in New York City, the well known...
Does cyber-bullying affect the wellbeing of teenagers?
Dissertation - 21 pages - Design and digital creation
I chose the topic, "Does cyber-bullying affect the well being of teenagers?, because it was a topic that I was both interested in and wanted to learn more about. I researched the topic through the internet, various libraries and by undertaking various research methods which included surveys, a...
Chinese contemporary art and art market in London
Dissertation - 16 pages - Arts and art history
This research study will apprehend the place of Contemporary art of China in the London art market. It is an opportunity to lead further research on Contemporary art as well as understanding the strong ties linking it to London. The sources are not scarce on the subject, nevertheless their...
Tim O'Brien's 'If I die in a combat zone' and Dorothy Allison's 'Two or three Things I know for sure'
Thesis - 4 pages - Journalism
In the article by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson, a theorist about gender and autobiography, Estelle C. Jelinek, argues that, “Differences between the sexes are manifest in both the content and the style of autobiography.” (9) These differences in gender can be seen when comparing two...
A comprehensive review of creative commons
Tutorials/exercises - 9 pages - Journalism
Creative Commons (CC), represents a movement towards “balance, compromise, and moderation” within copyright. Described by its proponents as a ‘some rights reserved' copyright, CC introduces a number of licenses that allow creators to selectively use private rights to create public...
Are the media subject to a corporate bias?
Essay - 4 pages - Medias
Independent media are a sine qua non to a functioning and healthy democracy, in the sense that they basically are the principal vector of information for citizens to evaluate governments, public policies and socioeconomic situations. Admittedly, objectivity is a pipe dream: journalists are human...
Sexual minority film analysis
Thesis - 6 pages - Film studies
The traditional culture of China is one of the world's oldest and most complex cultures. Its intricate system of moral, social, and political philosophy derives from two social values: Confucianism and Taoism. Both worldviews emphasize government rule and social order. Rituals and customs, set as...
China National Petroleum Corporation and the Iraqi government: A Marxist view
Thesis - 4 pages - Journalism
The China National Petroleum Corporation signed a deal with the Iraqi government, allowing the large oil company to drill for oil in a poor, rural area of Iraq. While the relationship between the oil company and the Iraqi government has gone well, the deal has sparked a great deal of controversy...
Observing cultural use of language at a club
Thesis - 4 pages - Journalism
For my observation I went to an 18 year old and up night club in East St. Louis, IL during the hours from about 2am to 5am. The club is located in an area of the city known for its violence and corruption. The area of the club consists of predominantly poor and lower middle class people. And...
Thomas Olesen's "Globalizing the Zapatistas: From 3rd world solidarity to global solidarity" from the third world quarterly, volume 25, no. 1 (255-267)
Thesis - 3 pages - Journalism
Thomas Olesen's work is a highly thought-provoking piece centered on the issue of how the Zapatistas' uprising and subsequent struggle has generated a new era of transnational solidarity efforts. Olesen goes to great pains to stress how this new ear is markedly different from solidarity...
Media and violence
Thesis - 2 pages - Journalism
Today's media is without question the single most powerful collective group in the entire world. The media shapes how individuals think, view the world, learn, feel, and behave. And this is not in a small controlled environment; the media is a global force. The debate in our country for the...
Realism and anti-realism
Thesis - 2 pages - Journalism
Both Realism and Anti-Realism are movements in modern theater. Both have characters and plot lines. Both have the basic parts of plays. However that is about the extent of their similarities. Realism is a theatrical movement where the writer tries to make the script and play reflect real life....
The interactive world
Case study - 16 pages - Design and digital creation
Le Monde Interactif is the subsidiary dedicated to the numeric editorial content of La Vie/ Le Monde group. Established in 1995, it aims to develop Lemonde.fr, the website of the daily newspaper Le Monde. Lemonde.fr is the first National information website, far ahead of the national competition....
Living in infamy: Views towards the Japanese after Pearl Harbor
Thesis - 3 pages - Journalism
In most situations, life can be difficult for foreigners immigrating to a new country. With everything from language barriers, to animosity from some native born citizens of that country, to competition for jobs, it isn't easy. And if this is added to by a catastrophic event, caused by people of...
Teenage mutant ninja turtles (1990): Highest independent grossing film of all time (Before 1999)
Thesis - 9 pages - Film studies
During the late 1980s and early 1990s, independent films were often disregarded by moviegoers, but with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, that sure wasn't the case. Many fans did not realize that the first live action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movie was actually an independent film. That may...
Motivation and courage in the fight to conquer cancer, the legacy of Terry Fox
Thesis - 2 pages - Journalism
Voted the second greatest Canadian of all time, Terry Fox and his legacy remains a highly emotional inspiration for cancer research. Terry Fox's ‘Marathon of Hope' began in April of 1980 as Terry Fox set out to run across Canada, passing through the country's most populous cities. Fox began...
An American woman's journey in Brazil: Gender in inequality in education
Thesis - 3 pages - Journalism
Historians are given a unique task; to gather information from a plethora of sources with a discernable eye, assess the credibility, corroborate and establish an accurate relay of events at any given period throughout the world. Here, the documentation and accounts of a woman traveler will be...
Forest Interior, Paul Cézanne
Case study - 3 pages - Art history
Paul Cézanne painted the landscape Forest Interior between 1898 and 1899. This small painting depicts the interior of a forest, at a nameless location. Cézanne regularly painted landscapes in Aix en Provence, like the Mont Sainte Victoire which he painted over and over again in an effort to...
The treatment of child sexuality in films
Essay - 4 pages - Film studies
Childhood is traditionally associated with the idea of innocence and purity. Since it is the age before the development of sexuality, children are seldom portrayed as involved in sexual relationships. The current issue of pedophilia is particularly important and censorship can limit the films...
St Luke portraying the Virgin, Roger Van der Weyden
Case study - 2 pages - Art history
Roger Van der Weyden's painting represents the Virgin Mary and Baby Christ on the left and St Luke in the foreground of the painting on their right. She sits in front of a bench whose armrest is a carving of Adam and Eve with the serpent. She holds the Christ Baby in her arms, offering him...
Legend of the True Cross: Annunciation, Piero della Francesca
Case study - 1 pages - Arts and art history
Piero della Francesca's fresco is an overall vertical composition. It is organized in four roughly equal parts: the white vertical column divides the space in the middle while the two stories building and the dark lines that follow the top of the first story divides it on a horizontal axis....
"Mother, do you think she's good enough?" Women in 'The Wall'
Thesis - 4 pages - Film studies
The representation of women in media, from music to movies, has been a source of controversy and debate for as long as anyone can remember, and Rock n' Roll, whether it's Chuck Berry or Rob Thomas, has been no different. But for this paper, the virtuoso rock band Pink Floyd, specifically their...
Physical manifestation of stress
Thesis - 3 pages - Journalism
In many areas of life people often have a reluctance to seek help from others. People tend to try to solve their challenges on their own and only resort to the help from others as a last resort. Of course this isn't the case with everyone and isn't true in all areas of life. People often seek...
The evolution of black films (movies)
Thesis - 4 pages - Film studies
Stereotypical and demeaning roles were originally created for Blacks in film, since the emergence of the first full length feature film, Birth of a Nation (1913). Blacks did not have power in the motion picture industry when it was originally formed. Films by Black writers, producers, and...
Conflicts abound in Slumdog Millionaire: A film analysis
Thesis - 2 pages - Film studies
The text, Intercultural Communication in Contexts by Judith M. Martin and Thomas K. Nakayama defines culture as “learned patterns of behavior and attitudes shaped by a group of people” (Martin, Nakayama 81).They also stress that culture has held many acceptable definitions due to its...
Black roles in film: Then and now
Thesis - 4 pages - Journalism
Black roles in film have expanded and transcended within American pop culture to include genres of vast variety. Today, the roles of Black actors are more diverse with actors such as Morgan Freeman playing God in Evan Almighty (2007), and Jamie Foxx playing an FBI special agent in The Kingdom...
