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    romanticized to be pure and perfect works of god, only to be corrupted by man’s influence. Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia exemplifies the modern nature-purity concept, while Charles Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities exemplifies the modern feminine-purity concept. These texts provide working definitions which can use to explore relationships between nature and the feminine in other modern works. Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and Arundhati Roy’s God of Small Things both address the concept of purity through two feminine

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    Venus Of The Rags Essay

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    Venus of the Rags is a larger than life sized classical statue of the Roman goddess of love with a large pile of colored clothes that are simply piled up on each other on the floor. The viewer can see the back of the Venus statue. The statue’s face and body somehow touch the pile of clothes that accumulate in front of it, hence the front of the statue is not shown, but only the back. This statue is not an original statue from Rome but Pistoleto has purchased this cement Venus from a garden center

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    by Isadora Duncan. Isadora was one of the creators of modern dance. She has affected dance in so many ways, and has helped create a style of dance that many people know and love. Isadora persisted through criticism and critique. Isadora Duncan created modern dance, used persistence to innovate ways to overcome obstacles, and illuminated the world by showing it a new style of dance. Isadora Duncan was also known as one of the mothers of modern dance. Duncan was raised in a family where the arts were

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    Since modern dance has been founded, it has been constantly developing. As modern and contemporary dance has been running its course through history, it has changed and developed from its origin. Compared to traditional modern dance companies like that of Taylor, modern dance of today has seen various differences from its origin, while it is also still similar in other aspects. Throughout the years, the technique and artistry of the contemporary format of modern dance today has evolved

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    most 9th graders to read. Shakespeare uses language that is not modern and students most likely did not learn. As said by Powell, the director of Salisbury Playhouse, “Shakespeare had made them feel stupid rather than empowered.” (Powell). Most 9th graders do not get the language and don’t

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    changes that have happened recently. I will utilize three types of relationships, love ,marriage and homosexual relationship that T.S.Eliot mobilized in the poem The Waste land .It is through the sections of the poem each particular episode delineates one fact about the trivial and unsuccessful relationship .The representation of these relationships is unproductive and unfruitful. Keywords: The Meaningless Relationships, Love relationship, Marriage relationship, and homosexual relationship.

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    situation. Dancers express themselves in different dance forms. In modern dance the dancer allows his/her emotions to express their feelings about a situation. In the 1900’s, modern dance began to develop as a rebellion against classical ballet, mainly in the United States, central Europe and Germany. How did Isadora Duncan and Rudulf Laban as the most influential modern dancers affect the development of modern dance? The main inventors of modern dance were Isadora Duncan in the United States and Rudolf Laban

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    Josephine Baker Biography

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    dominance in the choreography and storytelling, and idolized the ballerina as being unattainable, exotic, and dependent on others. When modernity arose, the practice of individualism, community, and independency took place in artist and choreographers in modern dance. Artists like Ruth St Denis and Josephine Baker challenged the norms of the Post-Romantic Era by creating a name for themselves through their unique style, personal stories, and rebelling against the norms of society; heterosexual relationships

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    Alps in Europe had affected so much of landscape painting and its influence to the people around the area. In Modern Painters V, Ruskin discusses the composition of art and that it is, “the creation of an organic interrelationship between the formal elements of a work of art.” Ruskin also returns back to Turner to reanalyze and praises him for his composition in art. Ruskin’s first Modern Painters was a major breakthrough in the world of art. His sequential volumes heavily influenced and astounded

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    What it means to be modern The word “modern” has changed a lot through time and still continues to change to this day as humanity continues to become better. In this semester we read a lot of different books with a lot of different societies each one of them unique in their own way. We had societies ranging from chasing the american dream to being repressed by your peers to everyone being equal. In this essay i'm going to show you how much we changed over time as a society. First off we have to

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