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Department of Canadian Heritage's Cultural Affairs Sector

are the strongest reflection of the diversity of multicultural issues and ideologies that underpin Canadian life. As a consequenc...

Ancient Art

Both are clearly made of very different materials. The Head of a Roman Patrician is carved from marble and is thus a three dimensi...

Maya Art

person," which linked Maya society to the world of its ancestors (Carrasco, 1990, p. 40). The Maya lived in a cosmopolitan world o...

Artistic Expressiveness

ability to move on, or to move forward. I am suggesting that his preoccupation with death and decay, clouded or immobilized his ...

The Kouros

the relationship in Greek thought of the symbolization of the state through the perfection of the individual - or at least the phy...

Painter Lee Krasner

works than the colossal The Eye is the First Circle (about 93" x 191" or about eight by sixteen feet), for example. Here her art...

Rembrandt's Self Portrait, William Shakespeare's King Lear and Their Portrayals of Old Age

In five pages this paper discusses how two different art forms depict the same topic - old age....

Classical Greek Art

a great deal of art, was incredibly reflective of what was considered the good life. There was a change in the society at that tim...

Spanish Art and Artists

(SpanishArts, 2006). In Baroque paintings there was more depth, more shadowing, and perhaps more of a sense of realism in comparis...

Ancient Art: Egypt and Greece

animals as these jars were possessed of lids which were in the form of "human, baboon, falcon, and jackal -- representing the four...

Rise of Modern Art

(Modern Art Movements, 2008). Impressionist painters, such as Manet, Claude Monet and Edgar Degas, preferred to paint outside, w...

FIDES ET RATIO

understanding of truth and communicating the truth of the Gospel to those who do not yet know it" (Pope John Paul II, Introduction...

Nature Versus Industrialization

their lives and they were willing to offer such gifts to others, symbolic of their natural existence and nature as giving people....

Documentary History of the Contemporary World Jew

In five pages this paper discusses the contemporary era and the quest for Jewish Identity in an assessment of the text portrayals ...

The Importance of Ancestry in 3 Canadian Poets' Works

The Jewish Canadian heritage which figures prominently in the poetic works of A.M. Klein, Miriam Waddington and Irving Layton is t...

The Differences Between Art for Life's Sake and for Art's Sake

In seven pages this essay considers differences between art simply for the sake of art and as a representation of life and discuss...

Refuting Rene Descartes' Argument 'I Think Therefore I Am'

off in the matter of modern political philosophies, it is still important to question what is meant by "think" or what defines the...

Richard Matheson's and H.G. Wells' Use of Science Fiction to Portray Alienation

In a paper consisting of 5 pages alienation as a theme are explored in Matheon's I Am Legend and in Wells' The Time Machine and Th...

Crash of Pan Am Flight 103 and its Implication on Aviation Regulations and Safety

In six pages this paper discusses aviation safety before and after the Lockerbie, Scotland crash of Pan Am Flight 103. Four sourc...

Four Poems by A.R. Ammons

In this essay containing five pages the symbolism and imagery similarities in Ammons' poems The Damned, Anxiety's Prosody, Kind, a...

Cogito Argument of Rene Descartes

"by posing the question in terms of relation between thinking subject, deity, and external world, Descartes made a purely epistemo...

Skepticism and Descartes' Cogito

questions that are not answered by the phrase "I think. Therefore I am." What if one does not think? Does that prove that he or sh...

Five Case Studies of Various Organizations

and measures may have been taken sooner without the need to apply to the government to restrict trade with the use of trade tariff...

NYC Skyscrapers' Controversy

population grew and the need for office space expanded. The growth of the city almost demanded that the tiny strip of island grow ...

Answering the Question of 'Who Am I?'

putting up a front or in other words "that part of the individuals performance which regularly functions in a general fashion to d...

Child's Point of View in Susan Hill's I Am the King of the Castle

so that when he dies, it is all the more a shock to the reader. The point of view, though it is told by an omniscient narrator is ...

Second Meditation of Rene Descartes

In five pages Rene Descartes' Meditation II is examined in terms of the moral complexities of the philosopher's assertion 'I am, I...

Contemporary Families in Jonathan Kozol's Amazing Grace and Stephanie Coontz's The Way We Really Are

"The Woman Who Walked Into Walls" by Roddy Doyle. The Complexity of Families Today In Coontzs book many different families ar...

Existence and Rene Descartes

In six pages this research paper examines Descartes' 'I think therefore I am' argument regarding existence. Six sources are cited...

Self, Legitimacy, and Democracy in Habermas and Connolly

I. HABERMAS The social, political, economical and religious activities experienced in everyday life represent the very esse...