Fractals In African and Indian Architecture
Essay - 2 pages - Architecture
In 1977, a mathematical pattern received its name as Benoit Mandelbrot proclaimed that he "coined [the term] fractal from the Latin adjective fractus. The corresponding Latin verb frangere means to break to create irregular fragments. It is therefore sensible and how appropriate for our needs! -...
An Outlet For The Internal: Photographs Reflecting The Desires of Clementina Hawarden and Julia Margaret Cameron
Essay - 2 pages - Arts and art history
Two Victorian women in the isolation of their own homes created portraits and tableaux. From 1857- 1864, Clementina Viscountess Hawarden made so-called “Studies from Life,” which have far more significance than their general title would imply. A more widely recognized contemporary...
Media and terrorism: new challenges for freedom of expression?
Essay - 5 pages - Medias
Benjamin Cardozo, an American jurist of the 20th century, used to say that "Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom?. As such, freedom of expression was recognised, as early as at the end of the 18th century, as a fundamental right...
Threats and opportunities for public relations in online communities - publié le 07/05/2008
Essay - 5 pages - Medias
In 1982, the Chicago senior public relations (PR) consultant Philip Lesly wrote: "You won't be able to practice public relations effectively in the last half of the 1980's with just a local phone, a mimeograph machine and postage stamps, as the pioneers of this field did? (Reilly, 1987)....
Research methodologies: from a phenomenological approach to positivism to triangulation
Essay - 5 pages - Medias
Naslund (2002) explains that « People view the world differently »; as true as this statement is in general terms, it takes an interesting dimension when related to research. In order to understand the real implications of the research, it is essential to understand the theories behind the...
The Dance of Death
Essay - 3 pages - Arts and art history
The robed, skeletal figure of Death interacting with the living has become an iconic image in contemporary culture, adorning Tarot cards, album covers and T-shirts; appearing in film, books and artistic prints. Our fascination with and fear of mortality has existed since humans first walked upon...
When Hollywood Goes to War
Essay - 2 pages - Film studies
In 2003, when Paul Haggis started thinking about the script of ?In the Valley of Elah', President Bush had an eighty percent approval rating and the war in Iraq was supported by most of the country. Four years later, this was no longer the case and the war has become the new topic in...
Is YouTube a viable medium?
Essay - 2 pages - Medias
In February 2005, YouTube was created by Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, two young PayPal employees who were trying to figure out a good solution to share video clips with their friends. Since then, YouTube has become the leading video-sharing website. Google bought the enterprise for $1.65 billion...
The respect of copyright on the Internet
Essay - 15 pages - Design and digital creation
In this work, I have chosen to talk about the respect of the law in e-business. More specifically, I'm interested in the problem that artists and music producing companies are facing, namely the non-conformance to of copyright acts through peer to peer and free download. We have all heard...
E-Business: Market entry strategy for Skype in Morocco
Case study - 18 pages - Design and digital creation
E-Business : Market entry strategy for Skype in Morocco (titre original) Since the integration of internet and new technologies of information and telecommunication in the every day life of companies, huge opportunities had appeared. These opportunities are even more important since the new...
Michelangelo's Last Judgement
Essay - 3 pages - Arts and art history
Michelangelo Buonarroti was born on March 6, 1475, to the wife of a podesta in the diocese of Arezzo. As podesta, his father held an executive and judicial office of the Republican city-states. When his term in office ended, Michelangelo's father moved the family to their villa right outside of...
"Kids" and Adolescent Sexuality Love Sex and Relationships
Essay - 3 pages - Film studies
The film “kids” is a raw account of an urban adolescence focusing on experimentation with sex, drugs, liquor, and violence. The account examines these issues at their absolute worst. One of the issues that the film focuses on is adolescent sexuality. The opening scene depicts a thirteen...
San Vitale's Beauty as Seen Through the Eyes of Plotinus
Essay - 3 pages - Arts and art history
Architectural beauty is a concept that is continually changing and entirely subjective. It is dependent upon who is doing the evaluating and the criteria with which they are basing their evaluation. Usually, the structure's ultimate function weighs in heavily in the determination of its...
Erwin Piscator: Father Of Political Theater
Essay - 4 pages - Film studies
Throughout history, both theatrical and otherwise, there are figures that stand out prominently in the collective memory. There are the giants, those triumphant individuals whose work has made an indelible impression on society. And then there are those who stand behind the giants, their...
The Beatles and the Creative Process
Book review - 3 pages - Arts and art history
From the moment the news of their overnight stardom dawned on John and Paul, both boys were acutely intent on broadening and sharpening their already clever writing styles. Rising from this foundation the two erected a model of working, formed by the seat of their pants as they held on for dear...
Compare/Contrast Analysis Literary Works of D. Haraway and D. Chandler
Essay - 3 pages - Journalism
Writing is the most powerful tool that was given to humans. However, verbal communication is easier. Many people can articulate and verbally relate information they seek to pass on to their peers. Writing is a way of making sure that the message stays with the masses for a longer period of time....
See the light - New K-6 homework software program will keep parents informed
Essay - 4 pages - Journalism
The changing face of today's classroom has been linked to the direct correlation to a child's achievement. Since the late 1980's, nearly $5 billion more was spent annual on classroom technology (Foltos). This rise in funding positively displays the effect these new methods of teaching have on...
Media's use of representation of genders and races leads to a distorted view of reality
Essay - 3 pages - Journalism
A filmmaker's ultimate role is to properly present images in sequence that tell a story and/or conveys a message or several of them therefore. With various imagery tools, movies present a message in a way that makes them seem natural and fitting for the context that it is presented in. Whether...
Forms and colours : Malevitch, Mondrian and Kandinsky
Essay - 7 pages - Arts and art history
“The representation of an object, in itself, is something that has nothing to do with art,” claims Malevitch. In abstract art, there is no more representation of an object and also there is not even the conception, like there was in cubism. The object completely disappears. The...
Ibsen's A Doll House An Analysis
Essay - 9 pages - Film studies
Henrik Ibsen's A Doll House is a play about a woman who comes to understand that she doesn't necessarily understand anything at all. Or, more specific to Ibsen's plot, it is a play about a woman who is forced to reveal a very precious secret and in doing so discovers that the life she is leading...
Roman Aqueducts & Water Supply: With a case study of Ilion
Essay - 8 pages - Architecture
Modern day water supplies in the United States are supported by ground water, aquifers, lakes, and rivers. Water from these sources is then distributed through a collection of pipes into almost all American homes and apartments. Although water distribution is still a very complex system, it is...
Spiders or Virgins: Portrayals of Women in the Noir Films Laura, Out of the Past, and Double Indemnity
Essay - 7 pages - Film studies
In her article “Women in Film Noir” Janey Place states that women characters in noir films are divided into two archetypes: “the spider woman, the evil seductress who tempts man and brings about his destruction” and “the virgin, the mother, the innocent, the...
Everyone says I love you - Woody Allen (1997)
Essay - 4 pages - Film studies
The essence of life is undoubtedly ?Love'. This eccentric family tale illustrates love and its uphill and downhill effects followed by family feasts. The story relates to DJ who is the daughter of Joe Berlin (Woody Allen) and Steffi Dandridge (Goldie Hawn). Steffi is now married to Bob...
Who's the Fairest One of All?
Tutorials/exercises - 5 pages - Journalism
The mirror is quite an interesting and useful tool; they allow people to see themselves in great detail and in ways one would never imagine possible. This greater perspective of oneself is very important for various reasons that run the gamut from physical aesthetics to inspecting oneself for...
The story of how Greek Nationalism followed the Greek Immigrants to the United States
Tutorials/exercises - 14 pages - Arts and art history
By the eve of the Greco-Turkish War of 1922, every Greek in the world understood and felt what the ‘Megali Idea' meant. Under the leadership of Eleftherios Venizelos, Greece was on the verge of fulfilling Megali Idea in recreating a modern Byzantine Empire. But what exactly does Megali Idea...
Advertising and Communication : Google, fraud prevention
Essay - 15 pages - Medias
Google inc. accomplished in a short amount of time something which nobody was able to forecast during the dot-com bubble era. They successfully maintained a huge and exponential growth. In the past few years, this little startup from Mountainview, CA, has become the standard in internet data...
Scientific, Political, Artistic, and Controversial Aspects of the Statue of Liberty
Tutorials/exercises - 6 pages - Arts and art history
The Statue of Liberty holds great significance in the United States because of its symbolic and patriotic nature. It also represents hope; the statue bears the words “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” (Cable 3). Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi...
Fight club / American beauty
Essay - 3 pages - Film studies
At a first glance, such movies as American Beauty and Fight Club have few things in common, both from the point of view of style and the scenario they offer. They present different images of late twentieth century America, though the core of both movies, released the same year, 1999, is quite...
Representations of women: Hitchcock's Psycho and Mary Rogers
Essay - 3 pages - Film studies
Alfred Hitchcock's ?Psycho' is known for being emblematic of the suspense genre inasmuch as a crime is at the core of the scenario. However it is perfectly arguable that the movie is about women and maybe about two women that embody Hitchcock's view about the opposite gender. It is...
What makes a popular soap opera?
Essay - 8 pages - Music and dance
A soap opera is a work of fiction taking the form of a serial, generally televised or radio phonic. They made their appearance with the radio in the Thirties. When the large networks started to develop, naturally these series followed .This designation comes from the fact that the first American...
