Assigning sex: The ethics of performing surgery on inter-sex infants
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Hermaphrodites have throughout history been in the center of mythology, scandal, and the perverse fascination of the public eye. They have been misunderstood and persecuted for centuries by those who are confused by their ambiguous genitalia. Today, such people possessing to some degree...
Casts and politics
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
India has always been a great mystery to the foreign mind. Indian society has, its own mythology, customs and traditions, such as the very peculiar division of society, which is quite different from the common segmentation into economic classes. The Hindu social organization divides...
Matthew Barney or the Gesamtkunstwerk of the 21st century
Essay - 6 pages - Arts and art history
When talking or writing about the American artist Matthew Barney, critics and historians of art always start with the traditional biographic descriptions which in the case of Barney are quite pleasant and are justified by the fact that the artist himself uses autobiographic references in his own...
An examination of the company De Chazal and Du Mee
Thesis - 44 pages - Management
DCDM & Co. Ltd is a value-based organization. The management claims that it is the organization's commitment to strong values that has enabled it to sustain the test of time. Its strong values are embedded in the firm and constitute the very ‘genetic code' of the organization. Its founders...
William Blake's "Wall of words" on circular reasoning
Essay - 10 pages - Literature
“And the salt ocean rolled englob'd.” (Blake Pl. 28.23) The previous line comes from one of Blake's prophetic works, “The First Book of Urizen,” and is very typical of a Blake ending. More than a century before Stanley Kunitz was born, Blake had mastered the technique...
Reinventing Myth, Recasting gender: Myth in Morrison
Thesis - 12 pages - Literature
As an African American woman writer, Toni Morrison's relationship with myth is complex and multilayered. In an interview with Charles Ruas, Morrison calls myths the “nourishing stories”(115) that we are raised on. Myth educates future generations about values and strategies for...
A visit to the "Modern Images of Ancient Clay figures" museum
Essay - 2 pages - Arts and art history
"Modern Images of Ancient Clay figures" is a very entertaining exhibition that is located in the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. It focuses on the ancient artifacts of Haniwa and Dogu, which are earth figurines excavated from graves and strata.
Reflections and remediation of the past: A survey of literary and philosophical Greece, and its similarities to the electronic age
Essay - 12 pages - Psychology
The topic that I plan to explore in this essay involves looking at the past and present in order to have a better understanding of the future. There are essentially three parts to my research. First, I want to explore what happens to the brain biologically when it must learn something new. In...
"No artist tolerates reality" - Nietzsche. To what extend is this true in the work of Yeats and Eliot? - publié le 13/01/2009
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
"No artist tolerates reality", as far as this quotation of Nietzsche is concerned, it is true that artists - and therefore writers - cannot tolerate reality, and that is the reason why they often aim at changing this reality through their art, and in the case of writers, through their written...
The role of Eros, madness and desire, and physical sexuality in Plato's philosophy
Thesis - 7 pages - Philosophy
The philosophy of Plato had a strong impact on the development of Western thought and the evolution of Western culture. His ideas were influential with Christian thinkers in the third and fourth centuries and with European philosophers in the Renaissance and after.This paper will examine Plato's...
The goddess and Mary the mother of Jesus
Thesis - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Syncretism means the merging of different forms of belief or practice. The word comes from the description of the fusion of Cretan cities, and is often used in the religious context to describe how new religious and spiritual ideas moving into a culture merge with the ideas that already exist in...
The mythological supports of Beckett's Waiting for Godot
Thesis - 3 pages - Literature
In Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, existence made up of binary oppositions, replacing one another in a never-ending cycle. The most prominent--and the most basic-- of these oppositions is that of life and death. Through an exploration of various mythological allusions made in the play, the...
Freud's theoretical imagination
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
When we discuss Freud's 'psychoanalysis as a human science', it is very tempting to rush for a definition as to what human science is, that is, a definition that could encompass the different ways of doing history, the various ways of doing sociology, psychology, etc. You understand...
The Chinese dragon and its influence on Christianity in China
Case study - 2 pages - Management
Generally, dragons have held positive connotations in culture of the Chinese since the time of the Song dynasty, in AD 960-1279. The Chinese made prayers to the dragon for rain. In Chinese culture, the dragon has been used as a symbol of imperial power; in fact, the emperor wore a dragon robe,...
Celtic imaginary: the birth of desire
Essay - 12 pages - Literature
Comparative study of Ellys et Thanatos of André Suarès, The Shadowy Waters and The Land of Heart's Desire of William Butler Yeats. "Le rêve ondule sur la mer. Qu?est-ce que tout cela ? La pensée d?un mort, qui médite la vie ? Ou la vie qui s?adore elle-même, dans la langueur ? Ou? On...
The place of wine in society in the face of climate change
Thesis - 38 pages - Green marketing
Don't worry, you're not the only one who drinks wine. Millions of us drink wine. And not just one glass! In fact, there are about a thousand bottles tasted every second in the world. France is known for its gastronomy, and its luxury, but also for its wine. Wine is a drink that brings...
Magic and enchantment as a tool of love in Shakespeare's A midsummer night's dream
Thesis - 3 pages - Literature
“The course of true love never did run smooth. ” This, one of the most famous lines from Shakespeare's romantic comedy, A Mid Summer Night's Dream, no truer words have been spoken as Shakespeare leads the audience through a story of fantasies and misunderstandings. The story follows...
"No artist tolerates reality" - Nietzsche. To what extend is this true in the work of Yeats and Eliot?
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
"No artist tolerates reality", as far as this quotation of Nietzsche is concerned, it is true that artists - and therefore writers - cannot tolerate reality, and that is the reason why they often aim at changing this reality through their art, and in the case of writers, through their written...
Acoustic Mythologies of The Natyasastra: Text of Celestial Music
Essay - 5 pages - Arts and art history
Concerning the use of musical rhythm as a sadhana, a path to liberation, one preliminary distinction to make is between the tantric means of rasa and the yogic means of bhakti; The mythological tradition inherited by Hindustani music distinguishes between gana (music for pleasure) and gandharva...
Joseph Beuys's 'I Like America and America Likes Me'
Thesis - 10 pages - Arts and art history
Joseph Beuys's “I Like America and America Likes Me" was performed in May 1974. The location of the action is commonly referred to as the Rene Block Gallery in New York. The gallery opened with this performance at 409 West Broadway. Beuys performed this action as a 53-year- old and with...
The Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood - publié le 13/01/2009
Essay - 11 pages - Arts and art history
A considerable number of women were active in every phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Some, as was the case for Elizabeth Siddal and Lucy Madox Brown, incorporated the ideas of their husbands and fathers into their own art. Others were deeply influenced by the freshness of the Pre-Raphaelite...
Neoclassicism, Benjamin West, and Cupid
Thesis - 3 pages - Arts and art history
The Neoclassical art movement began in Europe in the late 1700s and lasted into the early 1800s. The movement was inspired in part by the public interest in ancient artifacts found in the ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum - a sensational discovery at the time, which galvanized the art world of...
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides: Book Review
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
'Middlesex' is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written by Jeffrey Eugenides and published in 2002. By 2007, 1.3 million copies of the book had been sold. Jeffrey Eugenides is a half American, half Greek writer, born and raised in Detroit. He also wrote the best seller “Virgin...
Shakespeare's plays illustrated by Blake and Fuseli: The artists as critics - publié le 29/02/2008
Essay - 11 pages - Literature
It has judiciously been pointed out that “pictures from Shakespeare account[ed] for about one fifth -some 2 300!- of the total number of literary paintings recorded between 1760 and 1900” (R. Altick). As a matter of fact, the renewed interest in nineteenth century British art in the...
Study of India
Essay - 5 pages - World geography
India is an extremely large country; therefore Indian nationality is divided into many different ethnic groups and religions. Indian culture is composed of three main ethnic groups, in addition to countless smaller groups. The three more prominent groups are as follows: Indo-Aryan representing...
The Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood
Essay - 10 pages - Arts and art history
A considerable number of women were active in every phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Some, as was the case for Elizabeth Siddal and Lucy Madox Brown, incorporated the ideas of their husbands and fathers into their own art. Others were deeply influenced by the freshness of the Pre-Raphaelite...
The status of Caspian 15 years after the fall of the USSR
Thesis - 27 pages - International relations
Until 1991, when the Soviet Union ended, the Caspian was controlled by two States, the USSR and, to a more limited extent, Iran. The dissolution of the USSR and the emergence of three new coastal states have changed this balance. The Caspian Sea is now acquiring an international dimension....
Study of Chanel No. 5 and its positioning, history, ranges and competition
Case study - 24 pages - Services marketing
Gabrielle ‘Coco' Chanel's iconic brand needs no introduction. Six letters in black or white that possess the magical power to transport us to the land of femininity, elegance, luxury and sophistication with the inevitable French touch. In this case, it becomes impossible to separate the...
Titian: The Pastoral Concert
Essay - 9 pages - Business strategy
The Renaissance in Venice is said to have come later than in the rest of Italy. This could be mainly due to the geography of the city making it seem to be cut off from the rest of the Italian peninsula. However, this did not hinder the flourishing of art in Venice as it produced geniuses such as...
Shakespeare's plays illustrated by Blake and Fuseli: The artists as critics
Essay - 17 pages - Literature
It has judiciously been pointed out that "pictures from Shakespeare account[ed] for about one fifth -some 2 300- of the total number of literary paintings recorded between 1760 and 1900" (R. Altick). As a matter of fact, the renewed interest in nineteenth century British art in the last few...
