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    Gibson Girl versus Flapper Girl During the roaring twenty’s a new type of women arose, a women who rebelled against society’s standards for women, the Flapper Girl. The new Flapper Girl shocked society by setting a new type of women beauty that expressed their independence just like men. Meanwhile the Gibson Girl was the ideal figurehead for female beauty, they were often shown as fragile and vulnerable. Flapper Girls astonished the world by pushing the limits of the average Gibson Girl setting

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    observe the in-depth content of human nature within a society, analyze it from all aspects, and perform cross-cultural comparisons. The essay "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight" is written by a well respected anthropologist by the name of Clifford Geertz, who details his observations of the Balinese culture. Geertz was a professor at Princeton and received his Ph.D. from Harvard, as well as publishing several successful books in the field of anthropology. Geertz's essay presents a study

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    I think that anyone who is interested in old computers and how they work or people who like to read mystery novels would like to read this book. People who don’t really care about the programming on their computer, or don’t really like mysteries shouldn’t read the book The Cuckoo’s Egg. First, a summary. In the Non - fiction novel, The Cuckoo’s Egg, Cliff Stoll, an astronomer living off of grant money, is transferred down to the computing lab when his grant money runs out. His task: to keep the

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    Camille Paglia's Rape and the Modern Sex War Camille Paglia writes the article, Rape and the Modern Sex War, which is about young women being vulnerable in today’s society against rape and how feminism has mistakenly led women to believe that they aren’t in any danger. Paglia states her opinion to women because she believes “that women are vulnerable and should be aware of the pervasiveness of rape” (83) all the time. Rape has been around for hundreds of years and the effects it has on women

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    Art Works Of Claude Monet

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    Monday morning, at 6:30 A.M, I can hear the sound of the wind blowing away the leaves on the tree and rain pitter-patter outside my window that made me feel relaxed. Suddenly I heard my mother, Elizabeth, yelling, “Elijah wake up! It’s time for you to get out of bed and get ready for school!” This is the perfect weather to stay in and sleep but unfortunately, I had to get out of bed and go to school. I am currently attending an art school Le Havre, located in Le Havre, Normandy, where I hope to develop

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    Auguste Rodin has a number of awe-inspiring pieces, ranging in medium, size, and location. Outside the massive cluster in Paris, they pop up in the most unusual places, such as Philadelphia, Seoul, Tokyo, and Raleigh. What is even more interesting is that many of Rodin’s pieces were designed to be part of a single great piece, a massive pair of doors, intended for an art museum that grew into something much more. This piece is Rodin’s Gates of Hell. The gates are particularly significant to the world

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    Apple Harvest in Europe Introduction Apple Harvest is a painting created by a French artist named Camille Pissarro in 1888. The artwork is derived from the European culture focusing on the style of neo-impressionism or pointillism. The painting is made with the use of oil on canvas and currently located inside the Dallas Museum of Art in second floor in the section of European art. It depicts a lively image of farmers engaging in their daily activities where they are picking apples on a sunny day

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    One of the most well-known sculptures in the world, A French Sculptor, Auguste-Rene Rodin created The Thinker (Also known as the thinking man) and was first seen completed of the year 1904. In France, the thinker was originally named The Poet, respectively Le Poète in French. Auguste started creating the artwork for a doorway, named “The Gates of Hell”. Rodin created the piece based off of “The Inferno”, a section of the Divine Comedy. Dante Alighieri wrote his first section of the Epic to describe

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    Cameron Howard Hum Midterm Essay In Paul Gaugin’s painting Day of the God (Mahana No Atua) it depicts a fictional presentation of an indigenous praise ritual being carried out by the Tahitian women the setting is on an island of Tahiti. Gaugin’s painting is oil on canvas and uses a variety of colors to comply with his post-impressionistic style depicting real objects and expressing flat curving shapes pink, magenta, blues and reds for the shadows of the water it gives it a mystical look

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    I do not wish to address the pain of living with and among human beings. Instead, I 'd like to respond to Nietzsche by posing a couple of questions that I find far more interesting: do we develop an archival memory of theory and the arts because of the pain they inflict on us? What relation does this have to the development of our being? In order to answer such a question, one would need to modify a couple of understandings: curiosity is now the act of making oneself open to the possibility of pain;

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