Auden seemed to try to uphold the idea that works of art can and should provide unity, coherence, and meaning. ... While other writers of the era conveyed modern ideas in form and style, such as William Faulkner's multiple narrators and stream-of-consciousness format displayed in The Sound and Fury, Thomas and Auden radiated modern thought through their ideas and subject matter. ... Indeed, nighttime, even though it functions as a lull in the hunchback's otherwise continual war with society and allows him temporary escape, represents an even worse form of suffering for the hunchbac...

• Word Count: 1641
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Art Spiegelman, an author, born in 1948 in Stockholm, Sweden, shortly after the end of the World War II. ... It took Art many visits with his father to get the complete story. ... When "Maus" hit the book stores, many people had mixed feelings about a book that told the story of one man's life through the Holocaust in the form of a comic. ... The Boston Globe said, "A brutally moving work of art." ... "Maus" is just an indescribable work of art. ...

• Word Count: 2087
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The whole idea and feeling of uncertainty provoked a revolution in the world of art and literature as well. ... It wasn't only the art of writing that evolved, but also painting, drawing, sculpture and other more visual art. The traditional realistic forms of art gave way to Cubism, Dadaism and other forms of the Abstract, or non-representational forms of art. Anything from abstractions of reality to completely non-objective works were accepted as art. ...

• Word Count: 1354
• Approx Pages: 5

There are 48 paintings, each formed by 6 panels. The paintings are arranged together to form the large Diaspora. ... It also proves how crucial it was for Tillers to find himself, and incapable of expressing his feelings and thoughts, Tillers expressed himself in a paradoxical form using McCahon's "voice". ... It is his way to reframe the traditional history art and modernism, in the way of deconstructing by altering and combining the images that he finds in art magazines and catalogues, then incorporating his own emotions and opinions. ... I assume to Tillers, it is irrelevant to the who...

• Word Count: 1554
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A new disposition towards form over function led to fluctuating trends in the market, including drastic yearly changes in items ranging from clothing to automobiles to home appliances. ... mitated art "as seen on TV" (6). ... Ridiculed by intellectuals, paint-by-number was widely accepted by the American public, as was the growing popularity of folk art. ... Food preparation also took the tone of creativity and art. ... Creating a dish became equated with creating a colorful work of art, such as a bright Jell-O mold or a beautiful Chiffon Cake. ...

• Word Count: 2184
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He anticipated the far in advance the dishonesty and shock of World War I as well as the change in art and society brought by the chaos of 1918. ... Indeed, during the 1920s most critics regarded Beckmann's art as anti-Expressionist, as a emotional and stylistic excesses. ... Which he feels is the work of art that becomes a symbol and source of power for the partly still silent power in the responsible human being. ... She declined the use of color, letting her vigorously clear and smooth line express necessity and social purpose, and her simplification of form and the absence of irrel...

• Word Count: 1585
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

When he came of the age of career choosing, Adolf wanted to pursue art. ... While living in Vienna, Hitler applied to the school of his dreams; The Vienna Academy of Art. ... Eventually, Adolf is discharged from the army and takes on more responsibility in the German Workers' Party in the form of propaganda. ... A different form of propaganda aimed to serve the same purpose, appeal to the public in a manipulative way. ... The Nazis had infiltrated literature, music, newspapers, art, film, and more. ...

• Word Count: 1514
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Realist writers would strive to create a truthful depiction of the society around them, in this way they believed that their work was moral since "truth is the highest form of morality." ... Realism, people decided, would never raise the level of art. It would only drag art down into the muck of the ordinary. ... There they formed an intellectual revolt. The prevailing attitude was to reject logic in all forms. ...

• Word Count: 1652
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Before the Project was terminated during World War II, it left permanent monuments on the landscape in the form of buildings, bridges, dams, hard-surfaced roads, airports, and schools. ... The WPA also employed a wide range of talents in the Federal Theatre Project, Federal Art Project, and the Federal Writers' Project. ...

• Word Count: 1498
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

After several family problems and his rejection from art school he decided to take a different path in life. ... Hitler had first set off to Vienna to study art; by the time he had left he had learned the ideas of racial hatred, specifically against the Jews, personal neurosis, and saw the flaws in the German government because of the presence of Jews and Slavs. ... Hitler learned to master this art of propaganda from the pamphlets that America and Great Britain used during World War I. ... Soon after the first concentration camps were started to form outside of Berlin. ...

• Word Count: 2246
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

So towards the end of 1928, Francis returned to London with one goal set to mind: to disrupt all notices of what art was and what it could express. ... This is what he did with painting known as the Three Studies for Figures and the Base of a Crucifixion which put Francis Bacon on the art scene after having painted for fifteen years. After having painted for fifteen years it was the Three Studies for Figures and the Base of a Crucifixion that brought Francis Bacon into the art scene. ... Its one of the greatest paintings of the Crucifixion, with the body studded with thorns like nails, but ...

• Word Count: 1595
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Thus it came as no surprise when, in mid-1961, CIA sources gained intelligence of the arrival of Soviet combat and transport aircraft, including the light bomber IL-28 and the state of the art MIG-15s, 17s and 19s. ... On the other hand, the blockade could be perceived as a form of attack, or an "offensive-defense", by the Soviets and Cubans and they could retaliate. ... Alternative 3 The final option for the US would be military action, in the form of air strikes, targeting Cuba (in specific the missiles). ... The Soviets would perceive the move as more defensive and strategic and would b...

• Word Count: 1261
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Hitler used it "to control the press as well as all other means of expression-radio, film, art, and literature"(Rhodes 11). ... The Nazi Party filtered their ideals into the people's brains in every form possible. "By the outbreak of the Second World War, Goebbels" Propaganda Ministry had complete control of the press, radio, theater, cinema, the creative arts, music, writing, and art exhibitions"(Rhodes 18). ...

• Word Count: 2387
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

In the early morning hours of 2 March 1969, Soviet border security personnel spotted a platoon-sized element of Chinese soldiers crossing the frozen Ussuri River, which forms a natural boundary between China and the USSR. ... In Sun Tzu's Art of War first chapter, entitled Laying Plans, the eighteenth rule is as follows: all warfare is based on deception (Cantrell, 2003). ... The head of the PLA, General Biao, reportedly formed a confidential pact with the Soviet military leadership in order to perpetrate a staged conflict (Nyquist, 1999). ...

• Word Count: 1275
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The different forms of imagery in Slaughterhouse Five are one of Vonnegut's primary tools for bringing this nonlinear story together. ... Perhaps one of the most hidden, yet most ironic forms of imagery in this book is the emphasis of sight. ... Vonnegut uses this form of personification to illustrate that during a war, there are no individuals. ... From the top of the Frauenkirchen's dome, I saw the sorry tremors planted in the beautiful townly order; there I was as the sacristan was praising the art of the architect, which had constructed the church bombproof for such an uncalled f...

• Word Count: 1466
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The decade brought new forms of art such as the Art Deco movement, the blossoming of the jazz movement; in addition women's suffrage, mass industrialization, and accelerated technological advancements. ...

• Word Count: 2233
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Air Force had not been formed yet) used the M2 almost to the exclusion of all other machine gun. ... Technologically, the artillery in WWII were primarily updated forms of previous cannons. ... Mortar operation became almost an art form. ... Designed primarily for bomber escort, it was later discovered that the Mustang was ideally suited to all forms of combat. ...

• Word Count: 1913
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Robert in 1962 defined it as the art and practice of government of human societies'. ... The victory of democracies over rival political forms would seem to stand as confirmation that democracy is the form of government, which most closely reflects human aspirations. ... According to first term, democracy has obvious signs of success compare with rival political forms. ... Political form that searched for ideal society collapsed such as communism. ... Politics tends to be practical for profit in any form rather than pursuit ideology firstly. ...

• Word Count: 2405
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Literary Analysis of Ernest Hemingway's "Soldier's Home" 'Soldier's Home': Of Broken Hearts and Souls In the works of Ernest Hemingway, that which is excluded is often as significant as that which is included; a hint is often as important and thought-provoking as an explicit statement. This is...

• Word Count: 1785
• Approx Pages: 7

During the ensuing civil war Zhukov through self-determination and self-education showed he was a competent leader and rose quickly through the ranks of the newly formed Soviet military forces. ... Before August 1939 he had acquired 550 front line aircraft, 500 state-of-the-art T34 tanks, twenty cavalry squadrons and thirty-five infantry battalions. ...

• Word Count: 1851
• Approx Pages: 7

He set many rigid standards upon the people of Germany, especially for art, music, medicine, and poetry. ... He formed the theory that they were attacked by the Devil, a personification of the Jewish people. ... After six marriages, five of the women died at their own hands, all of which a form of suicide. ...

• Word Count: 2192
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Hitler formed and organized the SA (Street Army) police, and the SS, a select group of bodyguards dressed in black, that helped to carry out his coercion practices on a national scale. ... Hitler would not have wanted to be the recipient of his own form of "persuasion." ...

• Word Count: 2463
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

It was clear that Germany needed some type of motivation to get itself back on its feet and this came in the form of a charismatic man, Adolf Hitler. ... A common misconception is that Hitler's propaganda "implies nothing less that the art a persuasion, which serves only to change attitudes and ideas" (Welch 5). ... The Germans, as a result of the lack of efficacy and trust, had already formed these ideas. ...

• Word Count: 1926
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography

He goes on to verbally trash everything which Jews have accomplished, saying that "there has never been a Jewish art and accordingly there is none today either; that[]architecture and music, owe nothing original to the Jews" (Hitler 303). ... "Was there any form of filth or profligacy, particularly in cultural life, without at least one Jew involved in it? ...

• Word Count: 2487
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Sun Tzu puts it quite nicely in his famous text "The Art of War " by stating that "All warfare is based on deception". What he also stressed was that sometimes, victory does not necessarily come about in the form of a decisive victory and that investing deceptive warfare should not be seen as a cowardly option."...

• Word Count: 2037
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography