The artworks included in this exhibition portray various artists' beliefs on human identity and what makes up their own personal and cultural identity, with human mutation being the key symbol and theme within the artworks. ... Painting 1977 portrays what makes up Booth's personal and cultural identity: his childhood involving him growing up in a war torn country made him realise how destructive humans can be when consumed by greed and how ignorant society can be. ... Suzuki utilizes photography as her medium and focuses on visual manipulation where she alters photos and adds her ow...

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• Approx Pages: 13
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

While Cummings fought in World War I, he experienced first-hand the chaotic destruction during battle, and later carried his personal beliefs of freedom to protest against the glorified view of war that Americans embrace. ... Also, the "old sith avenue el" refers to an old elevated subway train that ran through New York City, and was torn up to trade to Japan. 3 Now, to put the ideas together, the "nipponized bit of the old sixth avenue," is the metal Japan acquired from the U.S. to make into bullets for Japanese soldiers during World War II. ... Although these protests against war seem typi...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the late eighteen hundreds, Japan surveyed the islands as "terra nullius," which translates in Latin as "belonging to no one" ("Narrative," 2012). ... The treaty stated that all of the islands around Taiwan belonged to Japan and though the document did not address specific geographical distances, the Senkaku islands were thought to be included ("Narrative," 2012). ... What started as a simple territory dispute turned into a personal confrontation between two historical enemies. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Before 1914, English literature and ideas were in many ways still harking back to the nineteenth century: after 1918, Modern begins to define the twentieth century. ... What went out was narrative, description, rational exposition; what emerged focused on stream of consciousness, images in poetry (rather than description or narration), a new use of universal myth, and a sense of fragmentation both of individuality and of such concepts as space and time. ... Narratives gave way to lyrics, above all to 'impressions', capturing the sensation of an immediate scene or moment; a developme...

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