that American art was imported to America from Europe. Other writers differed and fought to construct a sense of homegrown tradition to visual arts. John McCoubrey’s American Tradition in Painting (1963), for example, brought arguments in scholarly circles. Wanda M. Corn’s The Great American Thing catches the readers’ attention when it addresses some methodological issues of the modern American art and the relationship emerging between the national identity and the American culture. The book review
THE ENDGAME OR A WAKE FOR ELECTRONIC LITERATURE? Diogo Marques (CLP-FLUC-UC) "A way a lone a last a love a long the” Finnegans Wake “The end is in the beginning and yet you go on” Endgame Discussions around electronic literature as being the end of literature or even the idea that electronic literature can be the beginning of something new seem to be a good starting point. A debate that, according to Sandy Baldwin and Rui Torres are the reflex of eschatological views that “imply too much teleology
explain a way of people’s daily life. What Marshall McLuhan want to say form this gospel is that information itself is not the most important thing. Medium is more important and useful than information. In this essay, I will try to show what I learn and think about this gospel. The essay will have three parts, which include the introduce for Marshall McLuhan, what I think about “the medium is the message”, and some examples to show the connection between “the medium is the message” and patronage
should also be well educated in order to have the ability to prepare their children for their responsibilities. The late seventeenth-century essays of Benjamin Rush, one of the leaders of Revolutionary movement, and Judith Sargent Murray, an early
I, he returned to lower Burma as part of the British Imperial Police to follow in his father’s civil-service footsteps. Through the eyes of this young and inexpeienced Orwell, “Shooting an Elephant” takes a multifaceted view of imperialism. In the essay, he presents a revelation: it is not only the oppressed Burmese people who lose their identity at the hands of the occupying British imperialists, it is also the imperialists themselves who are stripped of their free will and conscience in order to
Art Nouveau was an international style of modern art and promulgated the idea of art and design as part of everyday life, which I will explain in this essay. The aim is to understand and locate an object within a historical context by identifying the characteristics of the style and by writing a formal and contextual analysis of the object, to not only get a beter understanding of the object but the art movement as well. The Industrial Revolution brought about significant economic developments
On Walking: A Personal Essay There’s a quote almost every writer knows, because it’s one of the most common pieces of advice given to new writers: “Write what you know.” I understood it to mean “do your research”, but when I actually did my research I learned that what it really means is exactly what it says. Write what you know; write what you’re interested in, what you’re passionate about, what you’ve felt, what matters to you. Even when writing sci-fi or fantasy or fiction, you can
Decision making is influenced by numerous aspects that fog the scholar’s view of underlying causalities. Moreover, making different decisions might influence the human welfare differently. In this essay, there are different theories and experiments which analyze data that have been set to better understand individual’s decision making and group decision making (Ashtiani, A. Z., 2017). Under the process of decision making, firstly taking into consideration the individual
must have gained this knowledge sometimes before birth. That proves that the soul must be immortal. He attempts to prove this theory in Meno where he uses the method of elenchus, which by asking and answering questions illuminates ideas. In this essay I will point out where his arguments fail to support his theory and I will use the ideas of some other philosophers to compare them with those of Plato and offer some other arguments he could have used instead and theories that directly follow. My
This essay will look at two different types of social problems which are education and population growth. In many LEDCs the lack of education is a main problem which refrains the development of the country. A lack or a bad education reduces the opportunities