The Metropolis And Mental Life By Georg Simmel

In “Walking and the Suburbanized Psyche,” Rebecca Solnit argues that as technology in transportation continues to evolves; we are in danger of losing our imagination unless we “fight for free space” (Solnit page 264). I agree with her because we are not being deprived walking, are deprived of our creativity. In other words in modern day society we are told to believe everything we are told room authoritative figures and follow societal norms rightfully or wrongfully.

Future society is an extremely unpredictable subject, because people all have different views on life. Charles G. Waugh author of the short story, “Long Way Home” tells a story about a caring father losing his son, due to the world's advanced technology. On the other hand in the short story, “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradley, individuals are completely addicted to technology, allowing technology to over rule the world and take over people's minds. Although both stories show a possible outcome of the future, the more realistic future will most likely be “The Pedestrian”.

While the painters after the Impressionism period were collectively called the “Post-Impressionists,” the label is quite reductive. Each artist had their own unique style, from Seurat’s pointillism to Signac’s mosaic-like divisionism, Cezanne, Émile Bernard, and others. These artists were all connected in that they were reacting to the aesthetics of Impressionism. Two of the more influential painters from this movement were Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, who aimed to connect with viewers on a deeper level by access Nature’s mystery and meaning beyond its superficial, observable level. However, each artist’s approach to achieving this goal was different. In close examination of Vincent van Gogh’s Self-Portrait (Dedicated to Paul Gauguin) and Paul Gauguin’s Self-Portrait with Portrait of Émile Bernard (Les misérables), one may clearly see the two artists’ contrasting styles on display.

In this essay, I will be comparing and contrasting artists Pablo Picasso and Van Gogh, considering their intentions with their artwork. Van Gogh and Picasso two of the most famous artists out there and still are to this day. Uncountable books have been published and dedicated to them and their lives and careers of being true artist. Their art has changed the way people view things and the world around them.

type of artist to hesitate the reality of showing what goes on in his land. From paintings of drug use to

In the anecdote, “Walking and the Suburbanized Psyche”, by Rebecca Solnit, she implies, if walking continues to devalue, our society 's relationship between body, world, and imagination will be lost. I personally do not find walking to be a cultural activity or pleasure of getting around. Instead, walking is a hassle when the “American suburbs are built with a diffuseness that the unenhanced human body is inadequate to cope with”. Furthermore, instead of making us feel guilty or attempting to persuade us to travel on foot; we should acknowledge that we now perceive: value, time, space and our own bodies in a drastically different way than older times.

Each of these aspects would influence his unsentimental outlook of the social, political, and governance issues that he would later inform people of in his most famous works (28). This viewpoint of his can clearly be seen in all his works.

From watching Lehrer talk to Longwood students and answer questions, he actually did answer a couple of good questions. Considering how he dodged a couple of questions and went off topic at times. During this event a student asked, why did he write the book. He responded with, he was blessed to have the opportunity to moderate debates for such important people that would have the chance to run the country. But the main reason of writing the book was from the fact he interviewed most of the candidates for a television documentary about their debate experience. So upon having so much information and having such an effect on him he wrote the book Tension City.

Discuss, using examples from this essay, whether or not he successfully achieves his thesis through this piece.

Gustav Stresemann was born May 10th 1878. as the son of a wealthy restaurant owner and tavern. In his early years he helped in the family business and, since he was a lonely boy, he studiously pursued his studies. After attending the Andreas Real Gymnasium in Berlin, Stresemann studied literature, philosophy, and political economy at Berlin and Leipzig. During his studies he found he had leadership powers as well as the ability to remember and memorise literature.

The Sociological imagination, a concept brought by C. Wright Mills basically states that a person lives out a biography and lives it out with some historical

“Yet Men do not usually define the troubles they endure in terms of historical change and institution contradiction.” Stated from chapter one of “The Classic Readings in Sociology” which was based on “The Sociology Imagination” by C. Wright Mills. As our Sociology 131 class study the works of C. Wright Mills, we learn and examine his views. We learn how he view other things such as marriage, war, and the limitations of men.

Geniuses are made, not bred. They are created with the power of culture and the environment around them. Geniuses are not found through genes from your parents. The connection between setting and the changes made in the person established plays a role in a genius. The author highlights the use of attributes, and relates this to the idea that people try to come up with formulas for places of genius. He does not agree with these people though, it says “These almost always miss the mark. Too often they confuse the fruits of a creative place with the causes of one” (Weiner 324). He disagrees with the Three T’s of creative cities: technology, talent, and tolerance, because it does not tell the full story. Instead, he created “the Three D’s: disorder,

Everyone has been created unique and there is no other that is the like anyone else. People think different, dress different and like and dislike certain things. This is similar to the artists of the nineteenth century including Pierre Etienne Theodore Rousseau and Joseph Mallord William Turner. They are both artists during the nineteenth century and were painted at the same time; however, there is a difference between their styles, their point of view, and the scenery. However there are similarities between the two paintings. The paintings that will be compared and contrasted are “Under the Birches, Evening” and “The Campo Santo, Venice.”

Georg Simmel was born on March 1, 1858 in Berlin, Germany and died on September 28, 1918 in Strassburg, Germany. Simmel’s was raised in a Jewish home but later his family converted over to Protestantism. Simmel trained as a philosopher, he also belonged to the first generation of German sociologists. Once receiving a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Berlin in 1881, Simmel became a lecturer at that university in sociology, philosophy, ethics, art, and psychology. Simmel later was known for the amazing lectures he gave, he attracted the intellectual elite of Berlin as well of people from across the world. Simmel was a founding member of the German Sociological Society, along with German sociologists such as Max Weber and Ferdinand Tönnies. By 1900 Simmel 's work was well known throughout Europe, Russia, and the Americas and his goal was to formally attain a position at the university, which he was unsuccessful. In 1901 he was granted an honorary position that placed him above the rank of lecturer but left him out of the mainstream affairs of the university. Many believed that Simmel did not achieve a formal position at the university because of his Jewish heritage and his popularity outside of academia, which made him appear unreliable to many of his colleagues causing him not to get the position early on in his career. Later though in 1914, four years before his death, he became a full professor at the University of Strassburg.