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Magazine Pictures Compared

In five pages two different photographs featured in a fashion and beauty magazine for women are compared in terms of association, ...

'Claudette Colvin Goes to Work' by Rita Dove

Her 1999 volume of poetry, "On the Bus with Rosa Parks" exemplifies the ways in which Dove captures a moment, sees it for what it ...

Human Condition as Described by Andrew Marvell and William Blake

In other words, if aging and death were not part of the human condition, that is, if there was time, her "coyness" (i.e. her modes...

Poetic Analysis of John Keats' 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'

The urn it seems, inanimate or not, is alive in some peculiar sense. In...

China's Health and Beauty Market Assessed

thousands lost their loves. However, there was also wide scale support as many in the country believed in Mao and the idea that al...

Imaginary Dialogue Between Socrates and Sen. Jesse Helms

an imaginary podium, and is steadily building volume when Socrates interrupts.) Socrates: Oh, I see. Then the nude statuary that s...

Friendship in Three Poems by Sappho

was such time as it was appropriate to say goodbye and release them to adult life as defined by that society. In this poem, Sapp...

Beauty and Friendship in 3 of Sappho's Poems

seemed inseparable. A true friend, in other words, wishes for another person the highest possible good. This sort of friendship i...

How Harmony and Beauty appears in Taoism and works by Wordsworth

How do the subjects of harmony and beauty enter Taoism and the works of Wordsworth? The writer notes that Wordsworth was not a Tao...

Art v. Science

scientific images art (Beauty in Art and Science, 2005)? Both the scientist and the artist...

'Blackberry Sweet' by Dudley Randall

devices not only within the line in which it occurs, but also between lines. Also in regards to these lines, while the poet refe...

Comparison of the Philosophical Concepts of Plato and Martin Heidegger

can one know what is beautiful or what is ugly? There must be some sort of shared experience. Plato uses a cave allegory--somethi...

Notre Dame's Cathedral

a city, separate from the world yet protected by it, removed yet in its center. Certainly, the Archbishop will appreciate the maj...

Photography and Art

In a paper that consists of six pages the writer asserts that photography captures the same depth in the age of technological real...

Beauty Pageants

contributing to the betterment of the world in which she lives. For example, "Miss National Pre-Teen" was created in 1980 a...

'To Penhurst' Poem by Ben Jonson

Penshurst is an example of hospitality and warmth regardless of ones rank in society. At Penshurst, there is none of the social d...

Venus, Mars, and Cupid in Roman Mythology

This paper consists of three pages and examines the Roman mythological gods and goddesses Mars, the war god, Cupid, the love god, ...

Artistic Imagination and the Poetry of William Butler Yeats

Artistic imagination is the focus of this paper consisting of five pages in which W.B. Yeats' poems 'He Tells of the Perfect Beaut...

How Beauty Pageants are Related to the Image of Women

This essay that contains no outside sources examines the beauty pageant and its meaning in the world today. The idea that they dem...

'The Anagram' by John Donne

a good face." His voice is directly personal as he enumerates the many faults of "thy Flavia." He reminds the man who would marry...

Beauty and the Beast

At this point the student could bring in talking animals. For example, perhaps she began to get very hungry, for it was autumn and...

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre Fairytale

any fairy tale. Yet, despite it all, she ends up living "happily ever after." She gives the plain, abused, disregarded young girls...

Nature as Poetically Envisioned by Gerard Manley Hopkins

clear the writers intent: to demonstrate the manner by which poetry and ones life experiences are infinitely intertwined. Nature ...

The Ohio Canals A Pictorial Survey Of The Ohio Canals Using The Drawings And Paintings Of The Late Frank Wilcox

effectively opening up a trading industry that otherwise could not flourish without its passable waters. The Ohio Canals: A Pictor...

Geographical Wonder of Niagara Falls

to transcend, at least temporarily, the boundaries of the routine world" (McGreevy PG). Indeed, the nineteenth-century visitors w...

Pieta by Michelangelo (Reaction Paper)

into the marble but his arms resemble someone who is of significant strength. For a thin man, the sculpture depicts a very muscula...

The Cultural Messages of "Beauty and the Beast"

to "active" and "aggressive" pursuits. This is not the model we find in Beauty and the beast. In the fairy tale itself (this expl...

Gwendolyn Brooks/Old Black Woman, Homeless & Indistinct

as if she did not exist. They tune her out, just as they do other unsightly aspects of urban living. No one sees the cigarette but...

A Woman’s Beauty

unattractive, but a woman must never be unattractive. As such beauty is sought out, or desired by, all women to some degree becaus...

Rome & Greece: Good, Dutiful Citizens Versus Athletic Ability, Philosophical Issues And Physical Beauty

fully clothed to completely nude was a symbol in and of itself: Aphrodite had begun a journey exemplifying female physical beauty,...