Essays on Backdrop

Introduction

Genetic counselling is defined as the information, guidance, and support provided by a genetic counsellor or medical geneticist to an individual, a couple, or a family about a genetic condition. The information may help the client (affected individual or family) understand how a gene variant underlies an observed phenotype, disease prognosis, and the probability of transmission to progeny. Apart from information to help the client make informed decisions about lifestyle, treatment, and reproduction, a counsellor provides psychosocial support to minimize the adverse psychological, intrafamilial, and social consequences of genetic testing. Therefore, genetic counselling has an educational as well as ...

The theme of a ‘utopia’ – a place which is normally defined as the ideal state or place to live, is something which has captured the minds of writers and philosophers for centuries. The word ‘utopia’ itself is something of a word-play – in Greek, the word as sounded could mean either ευ-τοπος (good-place) or ου-τοπος (no-place), and the debate over which interpretation is correct is something which has lasted for almost as long as the concept of utopia itself! Plato’s Republic is a book which delineates in fine detail the republic that Plato has envisaged for his countrymen, detailing ...

"A Gun in Each Hand" is a film directed by Cesc Gay, who is one of the sharpest chroniclers of the urban middle class of the Catalan. He was born in 1967 in Barcelona and studied in New York and Barcelona. He produced the film "A Gun in Each Hand” in 2012 in Barcelona using the Spanish language. Gay portrays women and eight modern men in their messy lives. Bipolar J. is turned into the perfect psychoanalytic subject. E is living with his mother because he prefers his cat over his wife. In addition, S who is an adulterer ...

Introduction

Advertising is form of communication that is directly invoked in passing critical messages to the target audience. It is also termed as a promotional mode that has persuasive instincts of swaying buyers to a given direction. Therefore, advertisements for sales promotion are destined to orient the thinking and perception of buyers to a given product. While there are different forms of advertising, the main message expressed by these ads is always the same, and it holds one precept of persuasion to the target audience. It is the backdrop for competitive edge that most advertisers come up with different messages, ...

Aurthor

Set in the backdrop of the freedom marches that used to recur in Birmingham, Alabama, against racial segregation, the poem “Ballad of Birmingham” is a simple and direct account of the 1963 bombing at 16th street baptist church that killed 4 young girls and injured many others (history, 2016). Instead of seeking the support of refined poetic words to make this portrayal exquisite, Dudley Randall had opted simplicity over complexity to reach out to as many readers as possible. Using the rhythmic flow of a ballad (generally referred to as Ballad meter) the poet has made the poem worthy ...

Martin Luther King Jr.’s historical speech “I Have a Dream” has been a pivotal moment in history for black America. As a leader of the Civil Rights movement, MLK had a great vision of justice and equality for black men, women, and children that had not been honored by white America. Despite the signing of the Proclamation of Emancipation a hundred years prior to MLK’s speech, black people still lived segregated and in oppression. It was MLK’s brave and courageous stance that empowered black people throughout America to begin the non-violent fight for what should have ...

As the spring commencement season winds down, many recent graduates feel trepidation about leaving the academic and purposeful comfort zone. Exiting the high school or college environment implies facing relentless pressure from parents, educators and society to remain on a linear path that leads to a university degree, graduate school, or the workforce. For this reason, young adults feel obligated to conform to a system in which they express having no active voice or personal control. Often, they feel more flummoxed and adrift than when they started academia with such promise. Therefore, it is not surprising that defiance between ...

Bicycle Thieves, also referred to as The Bicycle Thief is a film that tells the story of a father seeking to find a bike that has been stolen throughout Rome. The film has often been considered to be one of the most well-respected in the neorealism genre. Specifically, because of its depiction of harsh realities of life post World War II, and its effects on the conditions and psyche of individuals. A horror thriller masterpiece, Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho is noted for its distinctive subject matter and for spawning what is considered to be an extremely successful subgenre of the ...

A Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) is an investment vehicle in which resources are pulled from small and large-scale investors and consequently invested in the real estate sector. The REIT is then traded on an open market exchange. The attractiveness of REITs to investors is because of the special tax incentives and high dividends that they usually receive. The basic structure of a REIT is that it must at least have 75% of its assets in the real estate sector and must not have less than one hundred investors at any period. REITs are legally mandated to remit at ...

The CIA has been used to initiate numerous coups in South America including Venezuela whose intent has over time been shown to be to advance the interests of the United States by overthrowing leaders that do not tow its line and replacing them with less reactionary leaders that it can easily manipulate. The involvement of the United States of America in South America has by all means been open, especially following the Cold War. These relations range from diplomatic, trade, security to political engagements as evidenced by the Organization of American States (OAS). However, deeply tacked in the historical ...

Review on the article “Sexual Exploitation: Prostitution and Organized Crime”

Full reference of the work: Fondation Scelles Group. (2012). Sexual Exploitation: Prostitution and Organized Crime. Retrieved from http://www.fondationscelles.org/en/prostitution/prostitution-by-countryhttp://www.fondationscelles.org/pdf/rapport_mondial/sexual_exploitation_prostitution_Fondation_Scelles.pdf

The article of the Fondation Scelles Group (2012) is against prostitution, and considers prostituion as sexual exploitation in whichever cultural, economic or political contexts. The article gave overview of the prostitution globalization, commoditization and trivialization. Global prostitution is possible because it surpasses borders since human go from one country to another so as to perchance sex or practice prostitution. Some people leave their country with the hope of a better opportunity but were caught by traffickers who exploit them around the ...

The growth of material culture research has occurred simultaneously with a mounting interest in the physical and represented aspect of social life within the field of anthropology. Material culture perspective is founded on the clear, apparent reality that the presence of human-made objects or artefacts is actual proof of the existence of human intelligence (Prown 1982: 1). The fundamental principle is that objects created or changed by humans reveal the beliefs of people who created, bought, used, or consumed them, and thereby the value and belief system of the society at large. Visual anthropology and landscape are vivid representations ...

Background to the Falkland Islands War

The Falkland Islands are an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. They lie three hundred miles to the east coast of Argentina and about eight thousand miles to Britain. Stanley is the capital of the islands. The two nations have laid claim to the Islands since the British seized them in 1833. It was later made a crown colony in 1841. The Falkland Islands War broke out on the 2nd of April 1982. Most of the inhabitants at the time were of British descent. However, it is claimed that the British drove out the Argentine populations that had hitherto been ...

Introduction

Denim jeans could very well be the most prevalent type of clothing on the planet. Odds are you effectively own (no less than) one sets of them. The development of the denim business is noteworthy in the realm of design. Contemporary design is quite often finish group on the off chance that you simply include pants. Pants are worn with tunics and sweaters to go with the sharp looking contemporary design from work to dinner and the night life. Athletic wear and pants for outside work have most likely been supplanted by engineered substitutes the spot for denim in ...

The materials that are utilized to develop that story of past occasions are called "recorded materials". Authentic archives composed on paper soon ring a bell; however, there are really numerous different types of verifiable materials, including oral transmissions, stone engravings, works of art, recorded sounds, pictures (photos, films), et cetera. Indeed, even old relics and remains, comprehensively talking, are chronicled materials. In verifiable exploration, each chronicled material varies with regards to the degree of its legitimacy and unwavering quality (realness), and the undertaking of finding out that distinction is called "authentic judgment". Chronicled records that were composed by persons ...

That which exists in our imagination often times originates from our experiences with a film. In our imagination, we are able to dream, fantasize, and project. Montage is a process or technique of selecting, editing, and piecing together separate sections of film to form a continuous whole.  This process is designed to elicit feelings and strong emotions from the filmgoer. examine the way in which montage is used in film. A review of the film Drive, along with the works of Sergei Eisenstein, theorist Andre Bazin, and German author Rudolph Arnheim, an ideal example of montage is revealed. The ...

Does inquiry based learning increase academic student performance for high school Latino/Latin ESOL students?

Introduction Effective content delivery by teachers often requires that they research, adopt and implement the most suited techniques that will be easily understood by most students. Among the most common teaching and methodology techniques is the inquiry based learning which has been found to have tremendous positive impact on students performance regardless of the subject taught. Inquiry based learning is thus defined as a teaching and learning approach in which the learners begin by having a set of questions or scenarios and develop on the same, thereby intuitively establishing findings rather than situations where the instructor presents established facts ...

After the American Civil War, the South lay prostrate before the specter of the Lost Cause. There was a general poverty, both economic and personal. The war had had such a devastating effect that the intellectual capacity of a whole region shuddered, moaned. There could not be a more devastating occurrence to Southern pride than the ignoble defeat of the entire culture. The extent to which the South declined is documented in its literature. An examination of Southern literature during and after the Civil War provides a perspective on how far down the South had been driven before it ...

Sanctuary cities have been a divisive, political and social issue for a long time. They have been at the heart of the immigration debate. They refer to cities and municipalities within states that have intentionally chosen not to enact federal laws on immigration (Salvi, 2016). Sanctuary policies require municipal and city employees as well as police not to inquire the immigration status of individuals. In 1996, Congress enacted the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) in a bid to force cities and local governments to cooperate with federal agencies concerning reporting the immigration status of aliens as ...

Comparing “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles” by John Keats and “Ozymandias” by Perce Bysshe Shelley

Cushioned amidst the 1789 fall of the Bastille and 1815s the fall of Napoleon, the allegorical backdrop of British Romantic poetry is often besieged with relics and remnants. In Romantic poetry, the symbolism expressed and interpreted with the use of ruins is quite diverse and varied. While in on instance, ruin is a metaphor or the actual monument, it is elsewhere seen as a symbolic ruin of the poet or the narrator, and another instance can be seen as the formalistic relic of the Romantic poem, with its completely disconcerted connotation. The poet of Romantic poetry who uses ruin ...

Wu Zetian

Wu Zetian was a ruling empress, one of the concubines of Emperor Taizong and even a nun in the temple at different times of her life. The essay looks at the different facets of Wu Zetian personality and how she ruled as an emperor for a long time and managed to rule China successfully. She was doing a man’s job as the only empress in Chinese history, her contribution to the development of China is significant. This paper examines how Wu Zetian maintained the image of a ruler and a woman. The life of Empress Wu Zetian illustrates ...

When the film Titanic was released, it was released to an audience that was unsure about the potential success of the film. James Cameron, the director, had approached the film with such fastidiousness that caused the release of the film to be delayed significantly, and caused it to become one of the most expensive movies ever made up to that point (Maslin). There is no doubt that Titanic was a landmark piece for James Cameron, and Cameron’s ability and willingness to broach the hard subjects of death and class during the film made it even more powerful. While ...

Corporal punishment is considered inflicting of physical pain upon a prisoner as a punishment for violation of a prison rule or regulation. Such forms of conduct include, but are not limited to whipping, cold shower, electrical shocking devices and suspension from cell bars by handcuffs. The use of solitary imprisonment as a system of punishing violations of prison discipline is not included within corporal punishment definition. Most states have no statutes that specifically forbid the use of corporal punishment. Other states, however, prohibit corporal punishment in detention facilities by the statue. The use of corporal punishment to reinforce prison ...

The poems of the Kokin wakashu that deals with the progression of the four seasons do so in six books. The first book covers the dawn of spring, where it first gets warm from winter and the flowers are blooming. The perceptions of these poems are happy and excited at the coming of spring. The second book covers the passing of spring, where there is mourning for the loss of spring. The third book covers summer, where there are mentions of different flowers blooming and the sound of birds. The fourth book covers the start of autumn, and like ...

Summary of the Book Tejanos&Texas under the Mexican Flag 1821-1836 by Andres Tijerina

Introduction The publication of the book Tejanos& Texas came in the backdrop of the lack historical data regarding the invasion of the Anglo-American’s military, their political and economic espionage of the during Mexican flag. After 1836, the Anglo-American invaded the Mexican lands. Therefore, this book gives credible details of the lives of Americans after they had exerted their dominion over the Mexicans beyond 1836. Principally, this book gives historically rich information regarding the social cultural and political exchanges that occurred during these critical years of the war, and invasion of the Anglo-America into Mexico. Andres Tijerina, in this ...

Introduction:

Anne Collier puts across still photography with such precision and thought that it makes viewers interpret the intention in several layers. Her techniques are not just unique but also employ such intelligence that it can connect with every observer at a different level. Her black and white photography creatively portray her strong sense of feminism and her keen interest in the mass media. She has photographed everyday objects, nude women against a white or black backdrop or arranged on a black floor with a white wall making every shot arise curiosity in the viewer. Born in Los Angeles in ...

CONTENTS

Introduction3

Greenwich Peninsula: Background3 Progress..4

Owners, Experiences, New Masterplan, Costs & Timescales5

Concerns..6 Most 15 Useful Resources..8

References10

Greenwich Peninsula Development INTRODUCTION Mega construction projects last longer, consume budgets and are controversial. This applies to greenfield and brownfield projects. In opting for a completely new development or a regeneration project, multiple stakeholders are involved and, as project progress unfolds, conflicting interest further overlap and evolve. The Greenwich Peninsula development is an ideal example of a long-range mega regeneration project. Conceived as New London, Starting started off as an entertainment venue – against a backdrop of a successful Millennial Dome – Greenwich Peninsula development has evolved into a multi-phased, increasingly ...

Proposed the presence of a steady clash between proprietors of the method for creation and those men and ladies who were subordinate upon the specific first class for wages and advantages, Karl Marx and Frederick Engles were the ones who are responsible for contributing that perspective in our world history. Different scholars have different opinions and ideas about the proper evaluation of world history before or after the change in the production process because of the Industrial Revolution. At issue in this is a rundown of the perspectives given by Marx and Engels, an examination of that view to ...

The idea that slavery poisons socioeconomic development and, therefore, prosperity of enslaved nations has been cited and repeated in academic quarters so often that it has become a platitude, assuming the aura of conventional wisdom. Indeed, whereas slavery augmented the riches of the slave-trading states and supported the labor force of the states on the receiving end of this phenomenon, it had debilitating and far-reaching consequences for the enslaved states. Projecting these simple empirically-grounded assumptions onto the case of Ghana and other West African states, it appears that slavery deprived these societies of their most productive members, leaving a trail of ...

Iliad is a Greek epic poem that has been attributed to Homer. The development of this epic poem dates back to the period of Classical antiquity. There are debates on the exact time when Homer composed the Greek epic poem Iliad. However, this 15,693 lines epic poem had a profound influence on the poets and writers of the successive generation. The backdrop of Iliad is the Trojan War. The story depicts that the war continues for ten years and ends with the siege of the city of Troy by the Greek army Achaean. Chrysies and Briseis, the two daughters ...

Introduction

In the conduct of the various roles as a school-counseling teacher, various factors apply about perceptions, roles and their effectiveness towards achieving those roles. Counseling personnel have a difficult time in the execution of their tasks owing to the intimate nature that they relate with their subjects. Occasions, demands of a changing society and the change in demographics over time are some of the factors that counselors have to consider in modifying their approach in handling different scenarios.

This thesis paper concentrates on the challenges faced by a school counselor, with a specific interest with the comfort levels enjoyed with the various respondents by ...

Parkroyal Hotel

The centrality of asset management in the success of the hotel industry cannot be gainsaid. This paper explores renovation efforts at Parkroyal Darling Harbour Hotel in Sydney, Australia. In addition to monitoring things of value, asset management involves maintenance of physical assets. Renovation at the hotel involved upgrading the physical assets at the hotel to boost customer experience. Parkroyal Darling Harbour is a hotel built in the central business district of Sydney. The hotel borders Sydney’s major attractions and sites that make it ideal for customer experience. The attractions include Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Pitt Street Mall, ...

Film Studies Questions

There are three basic categories of sound in a movie: dialogue, special effects and music (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2011, ch.6.4). In the film When Harry Met Sally, the film relies heavily upon the dialogue between Harry and Sally; they are two witty, intelligent characters whose friendship develops into romance and it is through their dialogue that we witness this happening. In Jaws, the film relies upon its music to engage the viewer in the fear that the various scenes exude. For instance, as the shark begins to enter the scene and is leading up to its attack, the music plays ...

Investment Strategy

Being at the young age of my career and with the capacity to bear the risk, my investment strategy will be that of a moderately aggressive investor. As part of this investment strategy, I will be seeking long-term capital appreciation through mix of equity investments, few fixed income instruments and cash reserves, where the target return will be 10-12% on annual basis, while I do not have specific preference for dividend payment. Most important, despite of my preference for high return from my portfolio, I will refrain from investing in any penny stock. However, amid bullish run of the US ...

Increasing Trafficking of Men and Boys to USA

Introduction This paper is an analysis of facts and statistics that present evidence of the increasing numbers of male trafficking victims of all ages into the United States for laboring purposes through fraudulent means or against their will (HHS 1). According to the Department of Health and Human Services the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 defines a victim of trafficking as either involved in; “A Sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained the age of 18 years ...

The production I watched on YouTube was a modern interpretation of the classic Swan Lake ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky written circa 1875–1876. I searched in the site for more information regarding where this particular production took place, the name of the city or theater but I could not find it. There was no mention of the name of the ballet company or the names of the principal dancers. As would be expected, this dearth of information extended to the orchestra and its conductor. No credit was given to lighting, sound or set design as well. In this production, ...

‘Instructor’s Name’

Book: The count of Monte Cristo The Count of Monte Cristo is a novel written by Alexandre Dumas and was first published in the year 1844. The plot of the story was expanded by Dumas in collaboration with ghostwriter Auguste Maquet. Along with the ‘Three Musketeers’, this novel is one of the most anthologized works of Dumas, and as critics opine the novel has become a permanent fixture of Western literature. Dumas was a French novelist and dramatist, and during his lifetime he produced a number of literary outputs like dramas, novels, memoirs, travelogues and historical studies. Mostly self-educated, Dumas actively ...

Issue Analysis: Has the China -Saudi Oil Relations Impacted on the Economy of both Countries?

Summary

China has an exceedingly high population, standing at over 1.3 billion people, and this has led to a huge demand of oil for energy production in the country to serve this exceedingly high population. The huge size of the Chinese economy, the second economy in the world in terms of size at the moment, requires billions of barrels of oil to fire it (Al-Tamimi, 2012). The IMF, in 2012 projected that China will become the largest economy in the world by the year 2017, at the earliest opportunity. Saudi Arabia has extensive oil wells harboring billions of barrels of ...

In The Iliad, the author sets warfare as the most important aspects of the society. It is necessary to note that the current war in the poem is not at the action and plot in the text, but war is one of the detectable social forces in the poem. Men in the poem who fail to respect the warrior character of the society or fail to take part in the ongoing wars are ostracized and criticized. Declining to engage in battles or war or being labeled a coward are the worst ways that a man can be defined, since the man ...

Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

Osonye Tess Onwueme’s “Tell It to Women” acts as a time capsule, taking the reader back in time to postcolonial Africa and a time or erratic feminist behavior. The book’s primary purpose appears to show the separation between traditionalism and modernism, as different cultures interacted and blended. However, this is not entirely clear until the end, when a concise meaning for culture is given. Tess Onwueme believed culture was derived from the passion that ignited the very culture’s desire to stay together, it appears. The familiarity of their arts, traditions, customs, and manners were all a part of the culture. ...

Introduction

Part 1: A Summary about the Movie, Pans Labyrinth Pans Labyrinth is a Mexican-Spanish dark fantasy movie that is attributed to Guillermo Del Toro as the author and director. The movie was released in 2006 before being distributed and produced by Esperanto Films. The plotline is written against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War or during the early Francoist period. The story revolves around an intertwining of the real and the mythical world in which the protagonist, Ofelia interacts with a faun creature in a huge abandoned labyrinth. In the story, Princess Moanna, daughter of the king of the ...

Part One: Area of Philosophy

The philosophical area in which this problem falls is the metaphysics because it raises the fundamental question of reality. The person who is existing after the accident has two personalities of a man and woman. They have mixed hormones and cannot be assumed to be male or female, me or my friend. It is against this backdrop that the question posed falls in the realms of metaphysics as it explains the nature of being, now that the personality is both male and female.

Part Two: Argument Analysis

According to Descartes, the mind and body are two separate identities. They do not need each other ...

I. Thesis Statement Given the space limitations in the Shelton Theater, their production of Noises Off! Represents consummate skill in the conversion of one environment to suit the needs of a challenging play. II. Overview 1. The name of the play is Noises Off!. 2. The author of the play is Michael Frayn. 3. The Shelton Theater assembled the company that performed the play. 4. I saw the play at the Shelton Theater. 5. I saw the play on Friday, January 3, at 8:00 PM. 6. The ticket cost $10 plus online ...

Towards the end of cold, Europe was divided into East and West, with each affiliated to Soviet Union and United States respectively. With the collapse of the Warsaw Pact in 1991, there was great enthusiasm on the part of its former members to join the Western alliance lead by NATO. Moreover, as the European Union went ahead with absorbing new members from East and South, its geographic center moved toward Germany. In the process, adding to Germany’s already increased political and economic weight on the continent (Mayhew 1998). The expansion of became the new meaning for the ...

Introduction

The special theory of relativity is a theory proposed by Albert Einstein in 1905 that illustrates light and matter propagation at high speeds.

Einstein’s theory is based on two main ideas:

The principle of relativity: stipulates that the law of physics is invariable for anything that is in constant motion. The principle of speed of light: stipulates that the speed of light is also constant for any object in any point from which it is being referred. This means that it the same for various observers regardless of their movement in relation to the source of light. Einstein established this principle after noticing a rational flaw in the ...

The Formation of the U.S. Federal Government

ABSTRACT Review of the movie "The Patriot" provides a vastly entertaining supposition of the efforts of the South Carolina colony's Continental Army actions in fighting the British Empire's army on the road to creating the federal government. Admittedly, loosely based on important characters in this vital area of American history as well as combinations of important battles making up dynamic and visually exciting scenes, "The Patriot" serves more as a springboard for academic investigation of the facts depicted fictionally in the movie specifically connected to the main character of Benjamin Martin based on ...

The Detroit riots influenced the writings of Joyce Carol Oates. Violence is a frequent theme in her novels and her masterful depiction of how her characters experience the negative conditions in life often leave most of her readers sad but satisfied. The succeeding sections shall describe the Detroit riots and discuss the works where these are most evident. The essay begins with a brief biography of Oates and concludes by reiterating the role that the social conditions in Detroit play in her works.

Biography of Joyce Carol Oates

According to the Academy of Achievement, Joyce Carole Oates has already written at least “56 novels, over 30 ...

Margaret Mitchell’s sweeping epic about the Civil War has been called many things since its publication. Admirers have classified Gone With the Wind as an elegy for a lost and noble civilization, others as nothing more than cheap melodrama. Ultimately, it stands as a remarkable literary achievement in American myth-making, an idealized saga about a way of life that relied on the enslavement and exploitation of human beings. As a Southern writer, Mitchell can hardly be classified among the likes of William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor. Rather, Gone With the Wind exists in its own territory, partly by virtue of its ...

Abstract

We have seen changes in the way management theory and leadership strategies are looked upon in the last 100 years. Conjured under the backdrop of numerous and varied events such as the industrial revolution in the early 1900s, the equalization of the treatment of races and gender, through the various economic depressions and worldwide political changes, the management aspect of business and life in general, has evolved at a sharper and more meaningful rate. This paper examines the evolution of management, from its early beginnings, to the scientific method espoused by Taylor, the findings of Henri Fayol, the summation of ...

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Introduction 4 Causes 5 Psychological and Sociological Aspects 6 Preventive Methods 10 Intervention Methods 11 Conclusion 14

References 16

Abstract Before young children are glimpsed as, a continuation of their parents and without their own rights (Haapasalo, 2001). There was couple of regulations to defend young children and double-check their safety. Children who have pledged misdeeds are administered with in mature individual enclosures and penalized in the identical way. Formation of the juvenile court for offenders and re-offenders and there enact regulations to defend young children from misuse, long hours, progeny neglect and the establishment of ...

Introduction:

I have selected a few works from the baroque period which show this epoch in all its glory. These range from sculpture to art portraits to start off with. The first one is Bernini’s David, a sculpture of incredible beauty with various aesthetic aspects that are original and very direct. The second is The Conversion of St John by Caravaggio, probably one of the finest examples of painting in the chiaroscuro theme and which reveals incredible and intrinsic beauty. Finally I chose Rembrandt’s ‘David and Bathsheba’, probably another of the finest representations of Renaissance art which demonstrates the ...

Introduction:

I selected three works from the Google Arts Project which are known to be classics of their genre as my exhibits for the museum. One is a famous sculpture and the other two are equally famous paintings. The first one is Bernini’s David, a sculpture of incredible beauty with various aesthetic aspects that are original and very direct. The second is The Conversion of St John by Caravaggio, probably one of the finest examples of painting in the chiaroscuro theme and which reveals incredible and intrinsic beauty. Finally I chose Rembrandt’s ‘David and Bathsheba’, probably another of the finest ...

Answer to the question from Learning Task #2

Zara is a company which deals in the manufacture and retail of textiles in markets in Europe and other parts of the Globe. The company is a fast growing enterprise with a record estimated opening of a Zara store every day across the globe. The company uses a business model which is focused on making a connection between the needs of customers and manufacturing in fashion and ensuring that manufacturing meets the needs of the customers within the shortest period of time. The company’s uptake of information technology in its operations has been restricted to the use of applications which serve very limited needs ...

Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ is an affluent, paradoxical, vivid and layered novella, which combines autobiography with travelogue, adventure story, political satire, black comedy and spiritual melodrama. The novel was written in the latter half of the 19th century and is regarded as one of the pioneer’s of the imperial art. . The plot deals with a journey into darkest Africa, a region recognized as the ‘Congo-free State’ by the Berlin Conference of 1885, the private possession of King Leopold II of Belgium. Conrad depicts in ‘Heart of Darkness’, the ways in which men in Africa served, and died ruthlessly ...

Bathsheba by Rembrandt

Finally we have one of Rembrandt’s most famous paintings which is Bathsheba where the feminine form is most certainly idealized in more ways than one. Again the aesthetic qualities of the subject are clearly idealized here with emphasis on the nudity of the woman and her plump beauty in this respect which comes to the fore especially with the dark background and intrinsic subject matter. One of his famous paintings is Bathsheba at her bath that was completed in 1654. The painting captures a moment from the Old Testament narrative in which King David sights Bathsheba having a bath. ...

Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” is one of the most famous short stories written in the last century. It is a classic piece of literature, with one of the quintessential elements of an excellent piece-- a truly shocking surprise ending. “The Lottery” explores a number of different thematic ideas, but does a particularly excellent job in presenting the themes of violence and inhumanity, especially as they are expressed against a backdrop of normality. Jackson utilizes a number of rhetorical devices to examine the humanity and inhumanity of the people in the village, and uses the microcosm of the village to represent the state of the ...

Introduction:

I selected three works from the Google Arts Project which are known to be classics of their genre. The first one is Bernini’s David, a sculpture of incredible beauty with various aesthetic aspects that are original and very direct. The second is The Conversion of St John by Caravaggio, probably one of the finest examples of painting in the chiaroscuro theme and which reveals incredible and intrinsic beauty. Finally I chose Rembrandt’s ‘David and Bathsheba’, probably another of the finest representations of Renaissance art which demonstrates the lust between a man and a woman. All three exhibits are in museums ...

Smartphone: Samsung Galaxy S III

Introduction

Advertising has virtually shaped the way mobile technologies are promoted and commercialized to targeted consumers. Advertising is dominantly used to shape the perceptions and thoughts of individuals in relation to a given product (Lacey 1998, p. 56). This is the platform that written, audio and visual adverts of Samsung Galaxy S III have adopted. Samsung Galaxy S III adverts have adopted certain distinguished features of media literacy that help them in attracting the current generation of consumers who are opting for digital and business-centric smart phones. The distinguished features of media literacy adopted by the smart phone are framed ...

Analysis of Colour Application

This paper studies the design concepts in color application of the cover of Foo Fighter’s ‘Wasting Light’. The colors used in the image will first be identified using the RGB standards, after which the categories and attributes, i.e.: a) hue, b) Saturation, and c) tone, will be discussed in detail. Further, the applicability of the laws of the Gestalt theories to the image with be analyzed, followed by an in-depth evaluation of the contrast of the colors. Finally, perceptual effects present in the image will be discussed.

Analysis of Colour Application

The CD cover of Foo Fighter’s 2011 release ‘Wasting Light’ features the ...

Emergency is set in the emergency department of a hospital. In this interesting and unique tale, readers are introduced to an unreliable narrator and his equally questionable friend. Both in reality and as a result of drug induced hallucination, Johnson exploits the use of place in both setting up and accentuating the themes of the story.

The narrator has been working in the hospital as a clerk for the last few weeks. He had his friend, Georgie, abuse drugs, and Georgie takes them illegally from the medical supplies in the hospital. The nature of the story lends itself to being set in a ...