Art and globalization
Thesis - 21 pages - Arts and art history
"Art always has been and always will be important to humans", says Cynthia Freeland, professor of philosophy at the Houston University. This sentence, announced as a universal truth, shows that art remains strongly essential for human beings. It is also assured that everybody knows the importance...
Art and globalization - published: 12/05/2011
Thesis - 21 pages - Arts and art history
"Art always has been and always will be important to humans", says Cynthia Freeland, professor of philosophy at the Houston University. This sentence, announced as a universal truth, shows that art remains strongly essential for human beings. It is also assured that everybody knows the importance...
Are You Randy? Double Entendres as Fictional Names
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
From the Bond girls called Pussy Galore and Xenia Onatopp, to Master Bates of Dickens' Oliver Twist, there is no lack of double entendres in modern or classic fiction, and analysis shows that they fall into two distinct categories: overtly erotic and didactic. How and why each author, playwright,...
Victorian Gothic literature
Thesis - 5 pages - Literature
All was dark and silent, the black shadows thrown by the moonlight seeming full of a silent mystery of their own. Not a thing seemed to be stirring, but all to be grim and fixed as death or fate; so that a thin streak of white mist, that crept with almost imperceptible slowness across the grass...
Claude Cahun : l'exotisme intérieur - LEPERLIER François
Book review - 4 pages - Literature
Claude Cahun was born Lucy Schwob in Nantes the 25th of October 1894, in an upper-class intellectual family. She is the daughter of Maurice Schwob, a republican, patriot, progressive and anticlerical man, who directed the newspaper Le Phare de la Loire, and of Marie Antoinette Courbebaisse. She...
Decadence and Modernity
Essay - 10 pages - Arts and art history
The Decadent movement, located in France and in England during the late 19th century, can most basically be described as a stylistic transition in literature between the pervasive Romanticism of the 1800s, the Naturalism that followed it, and Modernism. As art moved away from the romantic and...
The Irish literature
Thesis - 9 pages - Literature
Who is Irish, who are the Irish, what makes an Irish writer Irish? Why does he/she have to be Irish, follow and become part of some tradition, this question of who/what is Irish runs parallel to whom and what is ‘I'? I can stand for identity in that it is I the writer (a writer, not this...
London city - publié le 06/07/2015
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
London, central and dynamic city becomes throughout the century the place of a strong political activism, in its most modern form. The UK is considered the land of individual freedom that welcomes exiles continent such as Zola or Marx and Engels. They organize their 1847 international communist...
Commentary upon Mary Shelley's statement: "What terrified me will terrify others" - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 5 pages - Literature
In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the Creature in itself is not what is the most terrifying. Indeed, in her dream and in the novel afterwards, if Doctor Frankenstein is afraid at the sight of his creature, it is also its coming to life which creates fear: how can an amount of bones, skin,...
Commentary upon Mary Shelley's statement: "What terrified me will terrify others"
Essay - 5 pages - Literature
In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the Creature in itself is not what is the most terrifying. Indeed, in her dream and in the novel afterwards, if Doctor Frankenstein is afraid at the sight of his creature, it is also its coming to life which creates fear: how can an amount of bones, skin,...
All is fair in Love and War
Essay - 3 pages - Philosophy
House of Cards is not a show about several different characters that simply live and work in a semi-connected world; it is about Frank Underwood, the House Majority Whip, and how everything and everyone exists to serve his ambitions. Everyone in the series is defined by their relationship to...
Excess in Blake's poetry
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
The usage of excess is a seducing and appealing concept, and therefore has to be studied cautiously. Essentially, the term ?excess' is used to describe amounts that are greater than needed, allowed or usual. It can also be associated with a behavior that is unacceptable because it is...
Should art be taught in schools?
Case study - 2 pages - Arts and art history
The role played by art in public education has been discussed and analyzed by a numerous commentators through the years. Despite the obvious ways in which art and receiving an art education can provide to an individual, it is possible to argue that art education is not indispensable, as there...
Was the assumption of German musical supremacy merely a constituent part of an emergent German nationalism between 1870 and 1918? - publié le 13/01/2009
Thesis - 5 pages - Arts and art history
What the German nation is and what its boundaries are have always puzzled historians of the early construction of the German nation-state. Indeed the further back into history one searches, the more elusive the very notion of a German national identity becomes. According to Herder, nationalism...
Essay on Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
William Shakespeare is among the most notable playwrights of all time. Some of his works have been so popular that they have been turned into modern movies, aimed at attracting a new generation to this author's works. While Shakespeare has been able to provide audiences with theatrical...
Medieval Renewal: The Pre-Raphaelites' Quest for the Holy Grail and Arthurian Legends - publié le 15/01/2009
Essay - 6 pages - Philosophy
The Holy Grail is usually considered to be the cup from which Christ drank at the Last Supper and the one used by Joseph of Arimathea to catch his blood as he hung on the cross. This significance was introduced into the Arthurian legends. In earlier sources and in some later ones, the Grail is...
As You Like It - William Shakespeare (1623)
Essay - 10 pages - Literature
Northrop Frye, in A Natural Perspective, explains that there is often in Shakespearian comedies what he calls "a displacement from a world of chaos to a forest". The world of chaos is in As You Like It the Court, the spatial framework which used to prevail in the first Act of the play. Normally...
The Fantasy in 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' by Robert Louis Stevenson - publié le 15/01/2009
Book review - 4 pages - Literature
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, written by Robert Louis Stevenson, was an immediate success and had been revisited a number of times since its first publication in 1886. It can be considered as the Gothic tale par excellence. The Gothic genre started in the middle of the Eighteenth...
Women in Victorian era
Essay - 9 pages - Modern history
On June 20, 1837, young Victoria was crowned Queen of the United Kingdom. The years of this queen's reign played an essential role in the constitution of England today. This era is a time of changes, progress and renewal, both at the industrial and technical level, as well as in the political...
A look at the consumer response to creativity in advertising
Dissertation - 56 pages - Services marketing
This chapter will provide an outline of the topics that will be covered in this proposal. It will briefly give an overview of the proposed research topic and acknowledge the importance of this study. Next, the literature review and the methodology chapters will be summarized. This will give a...
The story of Dublin
Case study - 4 pages - Geography
Today we're going to talk to you about the city of Dublin. Indeed, we will soon visit the city. So, it will be interesting to know it so that once you get there you can make the link between what you see and what we talked about. Dublin is the capital of Ireland (more precisely that of the...
The Hunger Artists
Thesis - 4 pages - Arts and art history
As many authors have spent novels analyzing, we are not alone in constructing ourselves. In his essay "Postscripts on Societal Control," Deleuze aptly states "control is not a closed system." In this world of ever-growing commodities and technological advances, it is becoming increasingly...
Pam Gems feminist vision in "Stanley". Exploring queer aesthetics through historical reflection
Thesis - 6 pages - Philosophy
Stanley Spencer, one of England's most lauded post-war visual artists, is also among the most obscure outside of the context of his reception in England, which included his being Knighted near the end of his life.(Hauser, 2001) In a “Self-Portrait” from 1914 the artist paints himself in...
The history of freemasonry in Europe and America - published: 22/06/2009
Thesis - 7 pages - Medieval history
Organizational rules, called Old Charges, from groups or guilds of European stonemasons date back to the thirteenth or fourteenth centuries according to some historians, while others date these guilds as far back as 1057 in Scotland and 1220 in England. The first records of the speculative...
The politics of race and female empowerment in wide Sargasso Sea
Thesis - 2 pages - Literature
Miscegenation, an act that was illegal in America until the 1967 ruling of Loving vs. Virginia, is not uncommon in literature and not limited to the human species. We know of Moses marriage to an Ethiopian woman (King James Bible, Numbers12:1); in the Arabian Nights we know of King Shahryar's...
The history of freemasonry in Europe and America
Thesis - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Organizational rules, called Old Charges, from groups or guilds of European stonemasons date back to the thirteenth or fourteenth centuries according to some historians, while others date these guilds as far back as 1057 in Scotland and 1220 in England. The first records of the speculative...
The Victorian Period (1837-1901) - published: 29/09/2010
Worksheets - 3 pages - Modern history
The adjective ‘Victorian', often appended to words to describe a way of life, thought, culture and politics, sprang from the reign of Queen Victoria, who ruled over Great Britain from 1837 to 1901. She was the longest reigning monarch in British History. The Victorian period was a prosperous...
Ireland: Culture, Religion and Identity - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 9 pages - Political science
In this essay, we are going to see the relationship between culture, religion and the identity in Ireland. The first part of the essay focuses on the Irish culture. We are going to answer questions like: Does Ireland have a distinctive and homogeneous culture? What does it mean to be Irish...
Homosexuality in History
Essay - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In pre-Christian societies (from 600 before J-C to 300 after J-c) and more particularly in ancient Greece, and the Roman Empire, relationships between people of the same sex were accepted or even valorized, but within certain rules. The fact that homosexuality was accepted so well comes from a...
English - Talking about... - Speaking exercises
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Linguistics & languages
In this document, you will find some exercises to improve your speaking skills.
