Waste Land Essay

Waste land is a very powerful documentary, where Vik Muniz takes us to a different world, but during the time he’s presenting this place one can relate with the humans living there. They live from others trash, some are ashamed of what they do, others are proud of what they do, but most of them if not all believe that is a dignifying job, their way of leaving. Vik Muniz utilizes many materials and means to create art. In Waste Land, he focused on trash as a mean to create art. The people working

n 2010, the documentary Wasteland was made by Modern artist Vik Muniz.  Vik Muniz travels back to his original home, Rio de Janeiro, Jardim Gramacho, Brazil to photograph the people of the wasteland and learn their stories.  The documentary focuses on 6 of the catadores (wasteland workers) he photographed: Tiaõ, Zumbi, Suelem, Isis, Valter, and Magna.  Vik first took the photographs portrait style, then later recreated them big scale out of recyclings on the ground and photographed the image from

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton and The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot has similar recurring imagery. Both literary works portray two women in a way and compare these two women characters. Wharton’s portrayal of gender in the society of Old New York illustrates the “perfect” woman through May Welland along with the “imperfect” woman through Ellen Olenska, whereas in the poem The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot, the role and sexuality of women is shown through the juxtaposition of two women in the section

2017 Progressivism as a Project of Humanity: Roosevelt, Wilson, the Great War These fragments I have shored against my ruins Why then Ile fit you. Hireronymo’s mad againe. Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata. Shantih shantih shantih --T.s. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922)[1] I. THE AFTERMATH of the Industrial Revolution revealed new realities born of the marriage between technology and capitalism. Central to the Progressive motivation was the human relationship with Capital, an invisible entity whose uncanny

Lucy Walker, director of the film Waste Land, opens up the narrow views of those who live in first world countries to the harsh realities of poverty by traveling to the most extensive landfill in Brazil called Jardim Gramacho. Released in 2010, the viewers follow renowned artist Vik Muniz to his hometown where the Catadores pick through trash to retrieve recyclables for a living. Walker`s purpose of exposing the picker's seemingly undignified work and showing the real power of art is fulfilled using

There are many comparisons that could be made between A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot. They both have common themes surrounding the condition of humanity and the way in which people interact with one another. Aldous Huxley’s novel takes place many years in the future, it is a world filled with genetically engineered humans that are conditioned to act certain ways and fulfill certain tasks. Eliot’s writing is similar in the sense that people become creatures of

The Waste Land, written by T.S. Eliot, is poem portraying the lack and/or the corruption of culture in England during the post WWI period. Eliot uses a form of symbolism, in which he uses small pieces from popular literary works, to deliver his message. He begins by saying that culture during the post WWI period is a “barren wasteland.” Eliot goes on to support this claim by saying that people in England are in a sort of shock from the violence of World War I. Eliot believes that the lack of culture

T.S. Eliot was one of many award winning book writers. T.S. Eliot was known as a ‘’hard working writer.’’ He published his first book in 1915, starting off his career as a writer/poet. T.S. Eliot was born September 26, 1888 in St. Louis. He was the youngest of seven born to Henry Ware Eliot and Charlotte Eliot. In 1906–10, undergraduate at Harvard. He discovered the Symbolists and Lafarge. He was in editor of the Harvard Advocate, a literary magazine. In 1911-14 he was in graduate student in philosophy

In this paper, I will explain the overuse of plastics, and how plastic is affecting marine life, and increasing plastic waste on land. I will also be explaining how social media’s are affecting the lives of teenages and adults all over the world, because of how much we depend on them. More than 80% of the litter in the ocean originates on land. Most of the litter is plastics. In an interview, Richard Thompson stated, “Plastics are very long-lived products that could potentially have service over

An Analysis of the Symbolic Journey in Weir's Way Back and Eliot's "Waste Land" Aside from the obvious symbols of water and fire, birth and purification, in T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land," there is the overall symbol of journey first implied in the opening stanza: "Marie, hold on tight. And down we went." Peter Weir's film The Way Back may also be described as a work at the center of which is a symbolic journey. While Weir's film recounts the survival of a group of escapees from the Soviet Gulag