The America's: In women's hands
Thesis - 2 pages - Film studies
The film The America's: In Women's Hands provides a look into Chilean politics and the role women played in political transitions and regimes. In Chile, tradition and the Catholic Church defined women's role in society and the home; thus, Chilean women's politics have been motivated by...
Women's voices, women's power
Thesis - 2 pages - Journalism
Women's Voices, Women's Power provides insight into the life of Logoli women of Western Kenya. In the book, Abwunza clarifies the lifestyle of the tribe and its traditions, the role women play, and the intricacies of gender relations. Logoli women belong to a patriarchal society; however, they...
In the land of God and Man
Thesis - 2 pages - Journalism
In the Land of God and Man, juxtaposes the lifestyle of privileged uppers class Latin American women with that of the poor women of the region. While class differences affect the resources women have to cope with female hardships, all Latin American women seem to share in their struggle with...
Interactive journalism, "Journalism without journalists"?
Essay - 3 pages - Design and digital creation
Commentators, including journalists themselves, regularly talk about the crisis that journalism, especially the printed press, has been facing for a few years. Newspapers seem to be 'an endangered species', as plenty of local ones have shut since the beginning of 2008. Yet the plight of...
Distinctive pleasures offered by independent features
Thesis - 8 pages - Film studies
The definition of what makes a film “independent” has been difficult to clarify with polarized opinion on whether independent status depends on finance or alternatively Andy Warhol's nihilistic perception of “independent” as meaning opposition to the dominant media on several...
No country for old men and evil
Thesis - 6 pages - Film studies
Evil is a term widely used, but rarely definitively defined. It is by definition, bad, and undesirable. But beyond this, every person has a somewhat different perspective about what evil is and to how to define it. It is possible that some evil is inescapable and is simply a part of life. But...
Carlo Goldoni and the Italian theatre reformation
Thesis - 2 pages - Arts and art history
When Carlo Goldoni began writing for the theatre in the 1740's, his Venetian audiences were still in the throes of commedia dell'arte, which had been popular for over two hundred years. However, Goldoni was ready to bring realism to the stage. He thought that the theatre should be bound up with...
In what way does Romanticism challenge the aesthetic values of Neoclassicism?
Essay - 4 pages - Art history
"For us, existence is feeling, and our capacity to feel inarguably precedes our reason." At a time when the ideal of enlightenment dominated in European cultural life, Rousseau was the only philosopher to enhance the significance of individual experiment and the need for nature in the education...
What image of the ' native ' population does Delacroix's 1834 Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement present, and how did Picasso revisit this painting in 1954?
Artwork commentary - 5 pages - Art history
Delacroix painted Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement in 1834 after he was back from his journey in Morocco and Algeria which had profoundly influenced him,. In 1954, after having revisited many painters such as Velasquez or Monet, Picasso decided to revisit Delacroix's Femmes...
American Beauty: Evaluation
Thesis - 2 pages - Film studies
If you're like me, you really enjoy a good movie. A good movie captivates us, makes us hold our breath and helps us forget the world around us. A bad movie has the audience itching for it to end, or to somehow improve. At the very worst, a bad movie will make us angry that we spent money on...
A report on classical concert
Thesis - 2 pages - Journalism
For my concert report, I ventured to Benaroya Hall to see the Seattle Symphony's performance of Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony. This performance featured two additional performances before the “main event.” First, two parts (Overture and Royal Hunt and Tempest) from Hector Berlioz's opera...
Presentation: Bill O'Reilly
Essay - 2 pages - Television
Bill O'Reilly was a correspondent for ABC from 1986 to 1989. He is known for being one of the first American journalists to cover the dismantling of the Berlin wall in 1989. He also had experience as a war journalist since he covered the wars in El Salvador and in the Falkland islands. This...
Film analysis - The dreamers
Thesis - 2 pages - Film studies
Once the protagonists of “The Dreamers,” Matthew, Isabelle, and Theo lose access to the “Cinematheque Francaise,” they become even further cut off from the reality beyond the apartment. In fact, nearly the whole film is shot within the magical rooms and tight corridors of the...
The many views of funk music
Thesis - 2 pages - Arts and art history
The music genre, Funk, is a style of music that is approached in many ways in an attempt to explain, create, or recreate it. Many different types of people shed insight onto this music, giving many unique perspectives. Anyone from musicians to journalists has attempted to articulate exactly what...
A review of Schindler's List
Thesis - 1 pages - Film studies
The little girl in the red coat was in color because she was made to stand out from the rest of the crowd so that the viewer of the movie would be able to easily recognize her. Having one particular person stand out that was not a main character, gave the viewer a person to follow all the way...
Drunken deconstruction
Thesis - 4 pages - Film studies
Drunken Master (Woo-ping Yuen, 1978) stars legendary martial arts film actor and kung fu master Jackie Chan. Even though it is a comedy and contains nonstop action, and fight scenes, the film does contain some very serious political and historical undertones and has a wide influence culturally on...
Forgetting Demeurisse René, artist of the lost generation
Essay - 7 pages - Art history
René Demeurisse (1895-1961) was an artist of the generation that fought the fire. In 1930 he exhibited a huge canvas titled "The Forgotten", at the Salon d'Automne. This masterpiece, which depicts the skeleton of a dead soldier in the humid forest of Retz, represents a sublime poetic death....
The American Presidents: one of the principal targets of cinematographic censorship
Essay - 8 pages - Film studies
With the prominence of the U.S. president and the presidency, the executive office and its occupant have naturally found their way into numerous film expressions. Since 1903, presidents have been featured in no less than 400 commercial films. Ranging from respectful, biographical presentations to...
How would a Restoration comedy production stage female gender in a production of The Country Wife?
Thesis - 12 pages - Arts and art history
This paper is a theatre research paper documenting the appropriate approach to staging the female gender in a restoration comedy production of William Wycherley's “The Country Wife”. The paper considers dialogue, staging, sound and costumes in addition to the historical context of...
The history of ancient Palestine
Thesis - 4 pages - Arts and art history
For about 2000 years the name Palestine has been used internationally for the lands on both sides of the Jordan river. Cisjordan and Transjordan. The Greek historian Herodotus called Cisjordan the Palestinian Syria or sometimes only Palaestina. [The name] is derived from the Akkadian Palastu,...
Theater and social marginality : the life of Raffaele Viviani
Worksheets - 2 pages - Arts and art history
Raffaele Viviani, was an artist who with his dramaturgy was able to extrapolate the most secluded and most overlooked aspects of the society, offering characters who lived on the margins of society, a disadvantaged class of persons that the author chose to talk about.
The art of Colonial Peru
Thesis - 5 pages - Arts and art history
In more familiar terms, a gremio was essentially a professional guild while a cofradia was akin to a fraternal society. Gremios were artists' guilds/workshops and were often extremely trade-specific. There were gremios specializing in almost every minute aspect of artisanal production, from...
The new television and its genres: the talk show
Essay - 3 pages - Television
Another child of the television genre neo-television is the talk show that shares the 'living room TV' love to talk or debate, for the pleasure of mixing entertainment with the balance of speech, the pleasure with which everyday life becomes extraordinary. The talk show is a television...
The agenda setting: what role does it play?
Essay - 4 pages - Medias
The English word 'agenda setting' denotes a sociological theory according to which 'exposure to certain priority in the distribution of news by the media frame, and the view of their priorities in the public view'. The agenda setting falls, therefore, in this line of studies i.e,...
Immigration and television: the image of immigrants in the media
Essay - 4 pages - Medias
Despite the wide spectrum of theories on the subject, we can say with certainty that the media play a crucial role in contemporary society and its social processes. They do not merely play the role of informing the audiences. Besides the denotative function, they play a connotative role with...
The logic of the media
Essay - 3 pages - Medias
The cultural production of the media constitutes several factors that are involved to "encourage" a standardization of products. This branch of sociology which has studied the communication has identified many of these elements: the relationship between institutional and economic context (the...
Women with the Hat, Henri Matisse, 1905
Artwork commentary - 3 pages - Arts and art history
This paper analyzes the extent to which the artwork, by virtue of the painting technique used, has an impact on the reaction of its audience, and the artistic context in which it was created. Imagine a woman looking at someone. She is seated, with her face turned towards the audience. She seems...
Integrated design and Sustainability
Essay - 3 pages - Architecture
This report aims to investigate the possibility of achieving the targets set in order to obtain a more sustainable design of my project which is a future factory. The mission is to reduce the environmental impact from buildings. Besides addressing the building's basic functional requirements,...
How to use a laser engraver
Practical guide - 18 pages - Architecture
This document explains, with many pictures and screenshots, the techniques involved to use a laser engraver. It presents how to use the engraver with the softwares such as Rhinoceros, AutoCAD and Corel Draw. The document covers the following salient features: the use of Control Point Curve to...
The female portrait mask
Thesis - 4 pages - Arts and art history
Completed in the second century Common Era, The Female Portrait Mask was constructed under the longstanding tradition of funerary wax portrait masks used to commemorate the upper classes and their distinguished ancestry. The seventeen inch tall and eleven inch wide mask presents the portrait of...
