Aboriginal Culture actually has Music, Dance, Art and many other spiritual beliefs. The area of art, which I have chosen to talk about, has depth and purpose. Aboriginal art is usually traditional and has some meaning. ... Aboriginal people have been producing visual art for many thousands of years. It takes many forms, ancient engravings and rock art, designs in sand or on the body, exquisite fibre craft and wooden sculptures, bark paintings and more recently an explosion of brilliant contemporary painting. ...

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Trevor, on the other hand, was exposed to art and aesthetic things while growing up so this gives him even more reason to destroy the house. Graham Greene continues to show how Old Misery's house symbolizes art, when Trevor tells the rest of the Wormsley Common Gang that the house is "beautiful" (page51 ln 31). ... These statements make it clear that the house symbolizes an object of beauty and art. The second form of symbolism in The Destructors is the effect of the war on younger generations. ... With the sight of destruction everywhere one turns, it is only normal for something like ...

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Plato believes in a universal concept that art is an imitation of an ideal form. Plato disregards art as a form of literature due to the lack of authenticity. ... The arts are a form of literature, and like all literature, they evoke emotions. ... My point is that all literature evokes these emotions, meaning that no form of art is more harmful than another. ... Although he openly opposed art, he seemed to talk about it constantly. ...

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Cave paintings of flutes, and bull roarers dating back 30,000 years have been found in Southern France, the Pyrenees and Russia indicating the importance of art in the life of early man.3 No human culture appears to be without music. ... Music forms a part of all major occasions and celebrations, including weddings, funerals, pageants, rites of passage and festivals. ... The pursuit of art in society has enhanced technology. For instance, the first kilns were developed not to make pottery but to create figures used as art objects or in some early ritual. ... Music forms part of the social fabr...

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"Communication remains God's great gift to humanity without which we cannot be truly human, reflecting God's image."" (Cañaberal, 1993,44) The Bill of Rights has given us freedom of speech, therefore; we as individuals have expressed our thoughts, desires, and goals through the mass media. Media ha...

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Andy Warhol Andy Warhol was one of the founding members of the new art movement that began in the mid to late fifties, which was most commonly referred to as "Pop Art," which was short for "Popular Culture." ... Warhol's art didn"t lack in meaning, but is, rather, full with it. ... After her tragic death in 1962, Marilyn became one of the principal focuses of Warhol's art. ... Warhol, thus, played upon this superficial personality of American culture and, in turn, incorporated it within his art. ... Kennedy would have tremendous impact on the world, for all the other forms of me...

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As quoted by Terry Eagleton in "Marxism and Literary Criticism:" "superstructure" are certain forms of law and politics, a certain kind of state, whose essential function is to legitimate the power of the social class which owns the means of economic production, it also consists of certain "definite forms of social consciousness" which is what Marxism designates as ideology. ... It is a form of the domination that is set for men over women. ... Terry Eagleton writes of the reflection of the experience, "art does more than just passively reflect that experience. ...

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Dancehall music, which has its roots in the reggae of the 1970s, has now become entrenched in American culture. Dancehall has brought social borders down, in a way, bringing those who inhabit an uptown world together with the downtown scene. But not always in a positive way. Dancehall, like mos...

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Customs and habits, likes and dislikes, dress, art, thoughtsa look at these give one an insight as to how a people differ from another. ... Their values most often reflect those of their elders whom they take as the guiding light and form their opinions. ...

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Art and the Modernist Museum Précis-Tony Bennett, "The Political Rationality of the Museum- In The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics Tony Bennett discusses the roles the museum plays in regard to the organization of objects and history, the establishment of acceptable public behavior and the display of power. ... The museum also establishes a "norm- in public conduct through behavior imitation, thus serving as a form of social education. ...

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Thus the creation of art, including literature must always be understood in relation to capitalist productivity and consumerism and additionally always in a historical context. ... Marx made a distinction between the means and way of production and the underlying social and economic forces and relations which he called the "base"; and the cultural forms and social institutions such as religion, education, politics, family and art-literature, which he called the "superstructure". ...

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This "phenomena- could be further facilitated through the media, advertising, art, film, or in the everyday world. ... When you view a person to be less than human it allows room for a special kind of treatment to take place; one form of treatment being abuse on every level. ... Allow the movies such as Marches in Uniform, to be seen as a work of art as a way to pervert women and their sexuality. ... But never did advertising artist distort and reshape men's bodies as they did when they transformed women into Art Deco Figurines."" (377) This point shows how women were viewed as ob...

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Explain Bourdieu's notions of habitus and cultural capital and how you believe they might influence the art education of young people. ... Moreover these children are rewarded form performing well throughout schooling with academic achievement awards such as certificates, bursaries and eventually even degrees, further perpetuating the cycle. ... Effects on the Art Education of Young people But what does this mean for art eduction? ...

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Hybridity as defined by Aschroft et al (1998) is the creation of new transcultural forms within the contact zone produced by colonialization. ... Hybrid identity emerges therefrom multiple forms of hybridity. Smith (2008) divided multiple forms of hybridity as identities that exist across borders, duality, gender (a false dichotomy), new identities, the diaspora (borderless), and the internal colony hybrid (formed within boundaries). ... Moreover, her mother said that she has perfected art of hurting them. ... Hybrid identity emerges therefrom multiple forms of hybridity. ...

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Postmodernism is hard to define because it is a concept that appears in a wide variety of areas of study such as art, architecture, music, film, literature, sociology, communications, technology, and politics. ... A grand narrative in American culture might be the story that democracy is the most enlightened form of government, and that democracy can and will lead to universal human happiness. ... I believe that anything which is unable to be translated into a form recognizable and storable by a computer will cease to be knowledge. ... In fact, one of the consequences of postmodernism seems...

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Technology all over campus is state-of-the-art, especially in the science center. ... With the exception of a few renovated areas, (not to mention an in-progress $35 million fine art center renovation) the architecture looks relatively aged, giving the place a sense of history. ... There are also representatives that live in each house who are responsible for gathering information and encouraging participation in school and community activities in health, art, and science. ... Individual identities are formed; the focus is on you, the woman, the student, and the individual. ...

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In Halisham, art and creativity are significant. ... It is where a mysterious character, Madame, comes to find the best art to take. ... Her and Tommy lives almost their whole lives together, forming hypothesis, hunting answers to questions and believing. ...

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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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Societies of later centuries were not welcoming to the idea of interracial couples, same sex marriages, or even the simple art of tattooing. ... According to symbolic interactionism, the meaning of objects, events, and behaviors comes form the interpretation people give them, and interpretations vary from one group to another. ... The different parts of the society, primarily the institutions of society, are organized to fulfill different needs of society, each of which has particular consequences for the form and shape of society. ...

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Around 1500 BC, the Hebrew people formed a culture along the Eastern Mediterranean. ... I believe that the since the Greeks were not spending all of their time with religion, they contributed the most of any culture in art, literature, science, theatre, and philosophy. ... Macedonia, which was a form of Greek people around 320-240 BC, did not have such a tolerant approach to religion and culture. ... Rome's earliest contributions include forming the most organized political system ever. ...

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For instance, most of the artifacts, "traditions," or past events we see in the typical art, culture, or history museums represent the vision or interpretation of the curators who have their own sets of ideology and preference; their selection is determined by a privileged class of people. ... For example, Raymond Williams defined culture in his 1965 book, The Long Revolution, as "a particular way of life which expresses certain meanings and values not only in art and learning, but also in institutions and ordinary behavior. ... To study communication from this perspective, Carey explained, "i...

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All the members of the Kahn family have some form of issue that is relative to the dictatorial way the family is ruled, and the fact that the dictator will not tolerate intermarriage between Pakistanis and anyone else. ... One such example is when Salim pretends to be learning to be an engineer, when he really goes to art school, or when Taraq sneaks out of the house to attend parties and go to clubs. ...

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Now that's not saying we haven't come a long way from the most brutal form of racism, which was slavery, but we are far from equal rights. ... From birth I was exposed to literature, art and other cultural activities. ...

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While Simmel did in fact have great influence on the field of sociology, he also produced major works that may be classified as philosophy of history, ethics, general philosophy, philosophy of art, philosophy of contemporary civilization and metaphysics.# Even within the field of sociology, he cannot really be placed into any particular school of thought; however, he was very interested in the relativism of all items in many of these fields of study. ... Simmel's main goal in sociology was "to describe the forms of human communal existence and to find the rules according to which he or ...

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Comedy becomes purely social in that best known and perhaps best liked of all its higher forms-The Comedy of Manners. ... The virtuosity of his art is that of a juggling act; he created a scathing satire of a hypocritical society without offending the very people on whose hospitality and money he had come to depend. ...

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