Yeats poetry has the unique ability to unify the dichotomous aspects of human existence in a lyrical manifestation of the realm of art, our memories fraught with contradiction, our current struggle with meaning and the processes of time and decay. ... The element of art is not served as a solution for the tensions and arguments within Yeats heart, but instead offers him the possibility of some form of transcendent solace for the dualities of his heart. ... The poem is in the form of the Ottava Rima - 8 stanzas with 8 lines in regular rhythm of 'abababcc', as it was traditionally us...

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With some delay also art historians started to shift their attention from the retualized celebration of the artist towards the role of spectators and buyers in defining the status and value of art. ... This rather capricious approach somewhat obscures the unifying - and certainly unsettling - theme of the work: instead of examining what art does to us it asks about what we - as spectators, critics, patrons, owners and buyers - are doing to art. It is about the ways in which art serves to legitimize, sustain and conceal social inequality. ... To set the stage for his study, that tellingly is co...

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Oyelade regularly explored Art Museums all across his newly settled home, in the National Heritage Memorial Fund's exhibition of Renaissance Artwork he saw Sir Joshua Reynold's Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney: The Archers (ca. 1769) during a visit to Archbishop Tenison's. "That trip formed my beliefs of the importance to change the perspective of the young before they've had their minds set a certain way," Oyelade recalls, adding that his view of his own community developed and was altered through the interpretation of Sir Joshua Reynold's piece of Art. ... ...

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Aaron Quinn discusses how use of technology affects the art of photography. ... Photography has developed from an unbiased technological standard to personalized art that has changed the professionalism of photojournalism. The author then moves onto the ethical issues aroused because of that: journalism is a part of media and it communicates information in a way that whatever is shown via print media or television is actual and true, therefore it can lead to form a strong basis for viewpoint and perception about the world of the audience. ...

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For centuries there has been a struggle between men and woman in the literary community and this struggle has manifested itself in the fact that prior to the twentieth century women did not have much of a tradition in the literary arts so as to form and articulate their ideas in writing. ... These are only but a few of the first woman writers who, through their strong will and courageous stands against the male oriented culture of the day, eventually formed the tradition of women writers that exists today. In addition to the fortitude of women in the eighteen hundreds came the strength of ...

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"The original field of aesthetics is not art but reality – corporeal, material nature. ... It is a form of cognition, achieved through taste, touch, hearing, seeing, smell – the whole corporeal sensorium" (Buck-Morss 6). In the 21st century, the development and proliferation of video games has shown the world how pixelated, simulative art can be made into a reality, a phantasmagoria of sorts, by invoking reactions from all the senses in the human body. ... Thus, by turning art into a reality that can be technically manipulated in order to elicit reactions from senses in t...

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Genres have been used to classify various art forms well before the creation of films. ... Ultimately these genres were linked to the stage, and the most popular genre of the 19th century melodrama was formed. Through the creation of these different forms, three function began to tae shape: to provide models for producing other works, to direct audience expectations, to create categories for judging or evaluating a work. ...

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In creating these layers in both content and form, both Delacroix and Baudelaire construct works of art which become worlds unto themselves, with their own truths and limits, worlds where oppositions are blurred and recreated on the artist's own terms. ... For these artists the Orient is both a European dream and a historical reality, as evidenced by the form and content of their works. ... Yet Delacroix also subtly references the exterior in both content and form. ... This viewer/speaker/artist is both intimate with and distant from the woman he is viewing, forming an uneasy relation...

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He maintains control of his subjects by ramifying its ideology throughout a variety of political and social institutions, including religion, education and art. ... "Comrade Napoleon" seems to be a duplication of the "Beasts of England" both in form and influence. ... Indeed, this extract illustrates a shift in Comrade Napoleon's authoritarian strategy from imposing his power through physical force and direct interaction with the animals to instilling it in their minds as status quo through unconventional forms of repression while remaining invisible. ...

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There are many suggested reasons why this is the case, the fact that he died while in presidency and the world famous footage of the assassination, the fact that his presidency was seen as "The Camelot" period, and the American people were genuinely happy with the presidency of the time, it could also be his charismatic character and good looks that has kept him in such high opinion with the American citizens, in my essay I will examine these issues and more, looking at pop art recreations of JFK, Photojournalism used at the time of the presidency, I will also look at JFK the film, and Oliver ...

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And if and when several forms of terrorism emerge in the same territory, should we adopt different approaches according to the specific nature of the terrorism we wish to combat? ... The comparison between anti-terrorist systems of the Republic of Ireland and France is a good illustration of this: the former aims to fight an essentially separatist terrorism finding its expression in the activities of the Irish Republican Army (since, contrary to received ideas, the IRA is not only a terrorist organization specific to Northern Ireland) and the country is forced to combat all the forms of terr...

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China is now the Sinology education, although in kindergarten and university level has been quietly rising, but very weak system of primary and secondary education leading to the Chinese culture in primary and secondary education there has been a serious gap in the various disciplines, politics can teach students sages advanced concepts; enable students to understand the history of the motherland long history to understand the past lessons Police today; art can guide students to appreciate the wonderful Chinese painting; music can guide students into the country music hall of unique; sports ca...

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This technique can help to dissolve the fear and panic around the pain and can help us to 'make friends' with it by bringing loving attention and awareness to the situation, which ultimately causes some form of change. ... The more we practice the art, the deep...

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Parallel to that phenomenon European States, during their colonial expansion over all continents, authorized two other forms of similar violence by non state actors: the corsairs and the colonial merchant companies, such as the East India Company or the Hudson Bay Company. ... It is interesting to note that in the resolution8 creating the the Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries, the UN Commission on Human Rights is "convinced that notwithstanding the way in which mercenaries or mercenary-related activities are used or the form they take to acquire some semblance of legitimacy, they ar...

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