...Experience Paper A visit to the Cloisters Museum The Creative Voice Experience. Practical contact. Observation of facts. We live in a “soft” world where the greater percentage of the arts are viewed through some type of electronic device with a screen and usually muddled with banners of advertisements or endorsements. We view static images on screens where texture and brush strokes could never be appreciated. We watch videos of classic Shakespearian plays devoid of the elements and senses of a live performance. True experience cannot be had remotely. Experience MUST be experienced! I decided to visit the Cloisters Museum and Gardens to reach outside my comfort zone and visit a place that I not only have never been to, but had also never heard of. The Cloisters is a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art that focuses on the art and architecture of medieval Europe. The museum is located in northern Manhattan and overlooks the Hudson River. That particular day was fairly warm with light rain. Upon entry into the museum my initial reaction was how cold and damp it was in comparison to the day. Because I had not been there before, I was initially most impressed with the structure more than the art itself. It is clear that people have gone to great lengths to recreate a structure that incorporates all of the elements of medieval times. I am by no means a historian and as a result I am usually stricken by something that appeals to me visually over its historical relevance...
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...Create-a-Culture Assignment Instructions Objective: In this course, we have discussed numerous aspects of culture that anthropologists study. As we have seen, these aspects of culture are related, and anthropologists often study multiple cultural elements simultaneously to gain a true holistic perspective. In this assignment, you will apply what you have learned about the aspects of culture (and their relationships to one another) to create your own hypothetical culture. Directions: Your paper should be between five and six pages, double-spaced (around 1000 – 1250 words total). You must use either Arial or Times New Roman font in size 12. Your margins should be 1 inch on all sides. If you have questions about how to set these settings, please ask your instructor. The Paper is due via Moodle to me by 11:55 PM on May 2, 2016. It is worth 10% of your course grade. You will submit your paper, to Moodle, prior to or by the stated deadline. The attachment should be one of the following formats: .doc, .docx, .pdf or .pages No other file types will be accepted. Papers submitted after the deadline will be penalized according to the policy outlined in the course syllabus. For this assignment, you will create your own culture. You will design the culture’s history, environment, subsistence approach, political system, and other aspects of social life. The aim of the project is to enable you to think creatively while demonstrating your knowledge of anthropological concepts...
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...Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Date Crocodile in Nepali Art What is the thesis statement of the essay? From the time of the existence of the mythical beings, animals and birds in birds have always been common in most of the ancient medieval and ancient arts (Nepali art 71). For instance, the flying dragons, unicorns, phoenix, genies, monsters continued to remain regular features in several architectures and arts in both west and east. However, in most cases, the artifacts has been derived from the native animals and birds that are found around the place where they were created implying that the artist creates some forms of objects on the creatures that they are familiar with and those that are strange were never used. How the thesis statement is supported by the arguments and major points (Bring some evidence and examples) In the Nepali art, the presence of the Graaha or the Makars has a rich content of the mythical creatures. Some of these arts are still available today such as the famous hybrid man where an upper half is a man while the lower half is the serpent which is described as the Nagaraja. This was only found in the selected places. In addition to this, there is also a mythical lion in the hybrid creature. The crocodile is in the upper part while it is repleted by the two bird-like legs having decorative wings. The upper half that is the head of the crocodile retains the character of the aquatic animals. This describes The Makar and Graaha in...
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...Renaissance. And the portraits of the Renaissance Era. Most of our portraits are made my Leonardo Da Vinci, and one is made by Raphael. He inspired many people by his beautiful works of art, paintings and portraits, of people in this Era of time. This time is around the 1920’s. Jazz music from this Era became very popular. One of the portraits we chose in this power point was Mona Lisa. We chose her because she was one of the major works of art in this Era. It is Located in an Art museum in Paris, France. There was a tragedy where the portrait of Mona Lisa was STOLEN from the Museum then people went to search for it and found it, now it is back in the Museum. There are myths about how Leonardo Da Vinci has a hidden portrait of himself. Behind it all the texture of the paints. This portrait was made from oils. Another painting we chose was a portrait of A lady with a baby Unicorn. This portrait was inspired by the Mona Lisa, a previous painting by Raphael. It took Raphael 3 years to paint his work of Art. This symbolizes Purity. This painting is located in a Museum in Paris, France. The third one is a portrait named Ginevra De’ Benci. This portrait was located in Florence. The oil’s and wood’s it was made with made it look different. This painting was acquired by National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. It is worth over 5 Million dollars! This portrait is the only painting by Leonardo Da Vinci’s left in America. This last portrait is called Cecilia Gallerina. She was...
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...fictional character should be accepted as art and no longer will qualify for a truth-value. Strawson makes a clear distinction about fictional names like “Hamlet” and names that refer to objects in ordinary language. To explain this, Strawson compares the use of fictional names to any other referring name for an object that exists. He says that just like ordinary referring names, fictional names do not function as a description of an object. Therefore, speaking about fictional names like “Hamlet” is not logically equivalent to statements that speak of objects in nature. This holds the term “Hamlet” to just a name and not a definite description of an object. To Strawson, it what is important is the use of the name. He says, “I will add that it will be used to make a true or false assertion only if the person using it is talking about something. If, when he utters it, he is not talking about anything, then his use is not a genuine one…he is not making either a true or false assertion”(220). According to this description, if the speaker means to refer to a specific character through the use of the name “Hamlet”, it is okay to do so. Russell’s view is a little different than Frege and Strawson’s. According to Russell, fictional names can be seen as abbreviated definite descriptions that do not refer to anything. All sentences that have fictional names should be treated like non-referring expressions. When talking about the sentence “I met a unicorn”, Russell says that the four words together...
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...is best renowned as a painter. Some of his notable art works are: the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. Thanks to his famous art pieces, he can best be described as the archetype of the “Renaissance Man”. His curiosity was able to match his power of inventions. As an engineer, he formed the concepts of a helicopter, tank, calculator, and solar powered machines, even though all of these were ahead of his time. His wisdom was marked as an essential piece in the wake of the Italian Renaissance. The word Renaissance in Italian means “rebirth” and that...
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...Totally Crazy Hairstyles: 35 Zany Cuts and Vivid Colors What’s a crazy hairstyle? Well, it’s relative – what’s crazy for one person may not be so wild for another. Crazy hairstyles are basically unconventional styles, ones that aren’t suited for mainstream work or school looks. If you are looking for something different and unique, think of trying vivid colors, razor patterns, man ponies, braids, and vintage styles – and if you’re feeling really bold why not combine them! Here are some of our favorite outrageous looks: # 1 Silver Art For a one of a kind look, you could try combining the gray hair fashion with the hair art trend just like this model did. He’s wearing a fashionable fade with spiky hair in the center colored a silvery gray and geometric patterns expertly shaved on the side. # 2 Unicorn...
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...The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams is a vision of lonely human beings who fail to make contact, are isolated from each other and society, and ultimately feel abandoned by the universe. Tom, a writer who has left his mother and sister in order to pursue freedom and adventure, narrates a memory of his abandoned family. The memory is of St. Louis in 1937. Tom, his mother Amanda and his sister Laura are trying to make ends meet in a small tenement apartment. Tom’s father, a telephone repairman who fell in love with long distance, has long since abandoned them leaving nothing behind but his picture. Tom supports the family by working in a shoe warehouse. Since his responsibilities curtail his desire to be a writer, Tom escapes the mundane reality of life at the warehouse through literature, movies and dreams of joining the Merchant Marine. His sister Laura lives in a world of her own and spends all her time polishing her little glass animals and listening to old records. Amanda can’t understand Tom’s resentment or Laura’s lack of interest in her own future. After Amanda discovers that Laura has dropped out of Business College without telling her, she decides that she must find a husband for her daughter. When asked if she ever liked a boy Laura tells her mother she only ever liked one boy in high school, the popular boy who sang the lead in the school operetta and called her by the nickname Blue Roses. Amanda badgers Tom to bring home a nice man from the warehouse for Laura...
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...Horses and Birds M . C. Escher 1949 Horses and birds is a woodcut print by M. C. Escher done in 1949. Mr Escher was born in 1898 in Leeuwarden in the Netherlands. He did not consider himself an artist but a graphic designer. Woodcut is a technique where an image is carved onto a block of wood. The raised surfaces are the printing areas. The surface area is covered with ink using a special roller, so that no ink goes into the recessed sections. This piece of art as the name suggests is about horses and birds. The black birds interlock with the white horses in a symmetrical pattern involving four horses and four birds. The horse at the top of the print, along with the bird at the bottom almost disappear into the background and depending on your focus as to whether your eyesight picks them up, although the top white horse and the bottom black bird have the background showing through them and are the only ones to do so. The line of the print mostly point in an upwards direction, especially on the black birds wings which along with the textural effect give the notion of flight. There are also textured areas up the top of the print shaped to give the impression of a setting or rising sun in the background. The tone of the image is contrasting between black and white. The darker toned areas fall predominantly towards the bottom of the print with the lighter areas up the top. This effect helps create the sky and the ground. The black and white speckling effect in the centre of...
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...Anh Le COM 100 Dr. Bill Withers 12/08/15 Am I inside the Movie? Many legacy-media forms, which cannot follow the evolution of the society trend and culture, start to fail claiming the audience attention. However, film is a reflection of society for both the present and the past. I believe film and its innovation have to catch up to society but sometimes it leads the society and culture too. That why in the future, “the theaters of the future will be bigger and more beautiful than ever before. They will employ expensive presentation formats that cannot be accessed or reproduced in the home (such as, ironically, film prints). And they will still enjoy exclusivity, as studios relearn the tremendous economic value of the staggered release of their products”, said Christopher Nolan, the director of the "Dark Knight" trilogy, "Inception," and "Interstellar.”(Nolan) In the past, the disadvantage of technology make the film industry cost a lot of money to produce film. In 1981, Thomas Edison, an inventor, created a device called the Kinetoscope which change the course of media history; this invention started a new era of Film industry. However, it took nine years to make the first film called “A Trip to the Moon” was made by a French filmmaker named Georges Mésliès. Also in 1915, another major motion picture was produced by a writer, actor, and camera operator, D.W. Griffith and an Edison Company camera operator Edwin S. Porter; this film was called “The Birth of a Nation”. This...
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...Running Head: FOUNDATIONS OF MYTHOLOGY Foundations of Mythology Short Answers Keith Stevens University of Phoenix Foundations of Mythology How is the word myth used popularly? For example, what does the statement, “It’s a myth” mean? In contrast, how is the word myth used in the academic context? After considering the definition in your textbooks and course materials, write a definition in your own words. According to Leonard (2004), "Official myths like the Illiad and Odyssey, The Theogony- or the Bhagavad Gita or the Bible- are inevitably reconstructions from snatches of folklore and legend, artistically put together with an eye for drama and meaning. But real myths are, like one's own dreams, so fresh they are not yet recognized as myth or scripture and are fragmentary, imagistic rather than verbal, emergent, capable of forming many different stories at one" Dictionary.com defines myth as a traditional or legendary story. Myth is used in an academic context to address what is real and what is not real. Myth is used throughout society through stories and legends. These stories become part of our everyday lives through watching science fiction movies, reading science fiction books, and other books with mystical characters. Some legendary and traditional stories are St. Nick, Santa Claus, a stork, the Easter bunny, and the tooth fairy. Myths such as these are created for young children. The stork is easier to use to explain to a young child where babies come...
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...Foundations of Mythology Laura Wunder HUM/105 October 8, 2013 Angelia Young Foundations of Mythology How is the word myth used popularly? For example, what does the statement, “It’s a myth” mean? In contrast, how is the word myth used in the academic context? After considering the definition in your textbooks and course materials, write a definition in your own words. According to Leonard (2004), "Official myths like the Iliad, Odyssey, the Theogony, or the Bhagavad Gita and even the Bible- are inevitably reconstructions from parts of folklore and legend, artistically put together with an eye for drama and meaning. However genuine sagas are, like an individual’s imaginings, so fresh, that they are not recognizable, as a myth or scripture and tend to be fragmentary, somewhat imagistic rather than oral, up-and-coming, proficient of developing various stories at one," (Leonard & McClure, "Chapter One / Robert Ellwood “Real Myths," 2004). Dictionary.com defines myth as a traditional or legendary story ("Myth," 2012). Such legends are used in a theoretical perspective to address that which is real and that which is not. Myths are used throughout all societies through stories and legends, which teach life-lessons. Such stories are a part of the everyday lives of all, through science fiction books and movies, including books about other mystical characters. A number of legendary and traditional examples include St. Nick, Santa Claus, storks...
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...What is Harry Potter? Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by the British author J. K. Rowling. The books chronicle the adventures of a wizard, Harry Potter, and his friends Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The main story arc concerns Harry's quest to overcome the Dark wizard Lord Voldemort, whose aims are to become immortal, conquer the wizarding world, subjugate non-magical people, and destroy all those who stand in his way, especially Harry Potter. A series of many genres, including fantasy and coming of age (with elements of mystery, thriller, adventure, and romance), it has many cultural meanings and references. According to Rowling, the main theme is death. There are also many other themes in the series, such as prejudice and corruption. Who is Harry Potter? Harry James Potter was a half-blood wizard, the only child and song of James and Lily Potter. He was one of the most famous wizards of modern times. Voldemort attempted to murder him when he was a year and three months old, shortly after murdering Harry’s parents as they tried to protect him. This early, unsuccessful attempt to vanquish harry led to Voldemort’s first defeat and the end of the First Wizarding War. One consequence of Lily’s protection is that her orphaned son had to be raised by her only remaining blood relative, Petunia Dursley, where he was neither welcomed nor nurtured, but would stay alive, at least...
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...MODULE 1 MODERN REALIA OF THE UNITED KINGDOM (UK) GEOGRAPHY OF THE UK UK is an abbreviation of “the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland” (which is the political name of the country). The country is made up of four constituent parts – England, Scotland, Wales (Cymru in Welsh) and Northern Ireland (sometimes known as Ulster)∗. 1. Geographical position of the UK The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is situated on the British Isles – a large group of islands lying off the north-western coast of Europe and separated from the continent by the English Channel and the Strait of Dover in the south and the North Sea in the east. The British Isles consist of two large islands – Great Britain and Ireland – separated by the Irish Sea, and a lot of small islands, the main of which are the Isle of Wight in the English Channel, Anglesea and the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea, the Hebrides – a group of islands off the north-western coast of Scotland, and two groups of islands lying to the north of Scotland: the Orkney Islands and the Shetland Islands**. The total area of the United Kingdom is 244 square kilometres. 2. State symbols of the UK 2.1. The flag of the UK The flag of the United Kingdom, known as the Union Jack*** is made up of three crosses. The upright red cross is the cross of St George, the patron saint of England. ...
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...Left Brain vs. Right Brain “According to the theory of left-brain or right-brain dominance, each side of the brain controls different types of thinking.” (Cherry 2012) From books to television programs, you've probably heard the phrase mentioned that people are either right brained or left brained thinkers or perhaps you have gone online to take a test to see which one you are. Psychologist have been researching the brain to try and understand learning capability’s that can help with such things as epilepsy, dyslexia and other seizure and learning problems. The right brain-left brain theory came from the work of Roger W. Sperry, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1981. While studying the effects of epilepsy, Sperry discovered that cutting the corpus collosum (the structure that connects the two hemispheres of the brain) could reduce or eliminate seizures. However, Sperry also discovered that after the two parts were no longer connected, the patients could no longer name objects that were processed by the right side of the brain, but were able to name objects that were processed by the left-side of the brain. Based on this information, Sperry suggested that the left side of the brain is used to process certain information such as language. When researching the different sides of the brain, it has been noted that each side is capable of leaning the same things just in a different way. The right side of the brain is best at expressive and creative tasks. The right side...
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