Vanitas

In the play ‘Othello’ written by William Shakespeare, we see not only the main male character leads. But we also see the female characters, Desdemona, Emilia, and Bianca. These three women were portrayed in ways that showed them being inferior to the other male roles as well as society during the Elizabethan Era. But Shakespeare made each of these individual ladies characteristics quite unique to one another having the traits of a feminist. Even though in the play we read how the male characters

(#1) Robert Spear Dunning Artist of Still Life Paintings Field Trip to Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD Presented by Darren Mohamed, Wilson College. (#2) Hello everyone. In this presentation, I shall spotlight still life art by exploring the life and works of Robert Spear Dunning and his contemporaries, who distinguished themselves by their use of this style. (#3) Still Life Art has been around since ancient times. This is a Still Life painting by ancient Egyptians ‘Offerings

He then eloped with a woman named Deepa after three years. He and Deepa then proceeded to convert to Islam. In the third and final case, G.C Ghosh married a woman named Sushmita in 1984. He then decided to marry a woman named Vanita after eight years. In order to escape the charge of Bigamy, as seen in previous cases, he too announced his conversion to Islam. The Sarla Mudgal vs. Union of India6 was thus a petition of three women who had approached the Courts for relief from

Women in Othello The role of women and gender representation in Othello challenged the male dominated society in that time period. Women in Shakespeare’s time were seen as being loyal and submissive to their husbands and not going against their husband’s judgment. Shakespeare developed complex and varied female characters in his plays, especially the women portrayed in Othello. In the play, Shakespeare introduces three female characters: Desdemona, Othello 's wife, Emilia, Iago’s wife and mistress

Monroe Craver Mrs. Gallos English 3 Honors 30 March 2017 Mass Incarceration in the United States There are too many people in prison in our country and any people in prison today are non-violent drug offenders. The American war on drugs has targeted people in poverty and minorities, who are more likely to be involved in drug use. This has created a pattern of crime and incarceration and “...[a] connection between increased prison rates and lower crime is tenuous and small.” (Wyler). The prison

At first glance, Pieter Claesz’s oil on wood panel composition appears to be an elegant table scene that leaves the viewer with a desire for lightly salted crab served with a squeeze of lemon, a crusty roll and a quaff of Rhenish wine. To an extent, this painting is indeed a feast for the senses and a contemplation of fine food, temptingly presented amongst handsome dinnerware. Yet, by looking deeper into this beautifully rendered still life, it becomes apparent that a greater moral and religious

During former U.S president, Barack Obamas presidency, he administrated the Affordable Care Act. Under the Affordable Care Act, women could receive free birth control. Employers were required to cover all forms of birth control. On October 6th, Donald Trump issued a ruling that would allow employers and corporations to drop the coverage of birth control if they had religious or moral reasons to do so. This ruling has sparked a variety of responses. Many liberals are calling it an attack on women

There are bonds in society that stem from a multitude of traits that one would share with another, such as race, age, religious beliefs, wealth, social standing, and most especially, gender. Male and female tend to be generalized as the main combination of the genders in relation to intimacy and marital stigma in correlation to the Bible’s Adam and Eve; however, that combination is not true when the situation is societal bonds. As seen in works of literature from centuries back and even up until

Memento mori motif in Baroque art Tianyao Wang Introduction： ‘Memento mori’ in Latin means "remember that you have to die".[1] It’s the medieval Latin Christian theory and practice of reflection on mortality, especially as a means of considering the vanity of earthly life and the transient nature of all earthly goods and pursuits. [2] In art, memento mori are artistic or symbolic reminders of mortality.[3] For example, the ‘Danse Macabre’, also known as the Dance of Death is as artist genre in

The painting, In Ictu Oculi (Fig. 1), by Juan de Valdés Leal is one of a set of two paintings and are each referred to as a Vanitas, or vanity painting, which is a still-life painting genre containing symbols of death to remind people of their eventual demise. The two paintings are also referred to as allegory scenes because of the hidden meanings behind the symbolism of the art. This paper will show that In Ictu Oculi is a dramatic change from the artist’s style previous to and after painting the