Arts And Humanities Essays Examples For College & High School Students in PDF

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A Comparison in the Usage of Peripeteia and Anagnorisis (652 words, 1 pages)

Peripeteia and anagnorisis are fancy Greek words, but we are all quite familiar with the concepts. Anyone who has watched the eighties television show The A-Team is quite familiar with peripeteia. Every episode, the A-Team thinks they have the bad guys stumped, but then the tables are turned (the first ... Read More

Stereotypes and Misrepresentation of Native Americans in Disney’s Pocahontas (1258 words, 2 pages)

Pocahontas fact or fiction? In Disneys Animated film Pocahontas, Native Americans are stereotyped, and misrepresented. In doing this, regardless of if Disney tries to or not, it gives a false representation of history. In an interview with The New York Times, Eric Goldberg, the film's co director said, "We've gone ... Read More

The past and Present Contributes to the Future in the Conspiracy Theory by Brian Helgeland (467 words, 1 pages)

The Conspiracy Theory is a movie that can wake you up to a very likely and harsh reality. Main character Jerry, author and sole producer of a monthly tabloid about theories on conspiracies soon begins to remember a hidden and forgotten past. The most captivating part of Conspiracy Theory is ... Read More

A Comparison of Setting in the Book and in the Movie Planet of the Apes (750 words, 1 pages)

The setting of the movie compared to the setting in the book makes Planet of the Apes one of the greatest satires. In the movie, the setting takes place on earth in the future where apes deny and are afraid of the past, whereas the setting in the book is ... Read More

A Short Biography of Harold Pinter, an English Playwright (227 words, 1 pages)

Pinter, Harold Pinter, Harold (1930- ), English playwright, known for his so-called comedies of menace, which humorously and cynically depict people attempting to communicate as they react to an invasion or threat of an invasion of their lives. He is also noted for his unique use of dialogue, which exposes ... Read More

A Biography of Piero Della Francesca, an Early Italian Renaissance Artist (363 words, 1 pages)

Piero Della Francesca was an early Italian renaissance artist with an individual style and perspective that linked geometry and art together to create works of intense religious value. He believed that forms should have the purity of geometry, and was dubbed the "monarch of painting" by Luca Pacioli. His theories ... Read More

Pablo Picasso: Redefining and Breaking the Rules of Art (1424 words, 2 pages)

Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon Though the backbone of art was formed by academies that graduated classical artists, some of the most influential artists broke away from such academies to change the rules. Impressionists, led by Claude Monet, formed a group of artists originally rejected from the academies to paint in their ... Read More

The Developing and Printing Process of Photography (2245 words, 4 pages)

INTRODUCTION WHAT IS PHOTOGRAPHY? Photography is the technique of producing permanent images on sensitized surfaces by means of the photochemical action of light or other forms of radiant energy. So basically, when you click the shutter, you have frozen a moment in time by recording the visible light reflected from ... Read More

Biography of the American Photographer Margaret Bourke-White (567 words, 1 pages)

Margaret Bourke- White Kelly Van Sickle Margaret Bourke- White never thought she would be a famous photographer. In 1921, when Margaret was 17, she went to college to study herpetology, or the study of snakes and reptiles. That same year her father died leaving her family with little money. To ... Read More

Abandoned at Birth Perseus Becomes a Symbol of Ethical Values (918 words, 2 pages)

Perseus Symbol of Ethical Values When I think of what a hero represents to me, I think of an individual who fights for family values and the ethics of a good human being. Greek mythological heroes have many attributes that can be related to positive traits in society today. One ... Read More

The Myth of a Goddess:Evolution of an Image (1290 words, 2 pages)

?Women may appear as dangerous and evil in the myth of Pandora, but this is simply an extension of the roles of Gaia and Rhea, whose maternal allegiances regularly turn them against their husbands.? This quote possesses a spectrum of interpretations, yet in my opinion contains both precision and falsity. ... Read More

A Comparison of Mont Saint Victoire by Paul Cezanne and Electric Prisms by Sonia Delaunays (234 words, 1 pages)

Paul Cezannes Mont Saint Victoire and Sonia Delaunays Electric Prisms seem to be quite different. Electric Prisms is a painting of shape and color. These shapes are abstract. Mont Sainte Victoire is a painting of a mountain, a sky and a valley. Mont Saint Victoire and Electric Prisms are really ... Read More

A Biography of Pablo Picasso a Painter (675 words, 1 pages)

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso Pablo Picasso, born in a poor family in southern Spain in 1881, started as a child prodigy and ended as the acknowledged greatest painter of his century. After some early training with his father, a provincial drawing teacher, Picasso showed that he had thoroughly grasped naturalistic ... Read More

A Description of Moviemaking Process (522 words, 1 pages)

Filmmaking When I was 14 years of age I used to see many films. Of those films I liked technical films made by Steven Spielberg and Ramgopal varma the best. Their films inspired me very much, and then I decided to become a filmmaker. I had known about film making ... Read More

A Comparison of Paleolithic and Neolithic Art (418 words, 1 pages)

PALEOLITHIC VS. NEOLITIC ART The following is a comparison of art from the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods in history. Paleolithic Art is art that was produced about 32,000 to 11,000 years ago. The art of the Paleolithic period falls into two main categories portable pieces, such as small figurines or ... Read More

The Origin and Growth of Jazz Music in the United States (1061 words, 2 pages)

Title The origin and growth of Jazz music The Jazz music of the twenties, comparable to the rock of the sixties and the disco of the seventies, was the sound of a new revolution. It was something that America had never heard before. The time came to be known the ... Read More

A Comparison of Orestes and Oedipus as Tragic Heroes (1416 words, 2 pages)

What are the similarities and differences between Orestes and Oedipus as tragic heroes? In the following paragraphs I am going to compare Orestes and Oedipus as tragic heroes. There are a number of characteristics that identify a tragic hero. Although a tragic hero causes his own downfall, his fate is ... Read More

An Analysis of Henrik Helmerss’ Play A Doll House (1200 words, 2 pages)

English 1020 April 1, 2000 On the Other Side of the Slammed Door in A Doll House Nora Helmers decision to leave her family in Henrik Helmerss 1879 play A Doll House reflects the dilemma faced by many nineteenth-century women who were forced either to conform to highly restrictive gender ... Read More

An Analysis of the Events in Oedipus the King by Sophocles (1513 words, 2 pages)

English Comp 2 Saturday, August 2,2003 The Events That Make "Oedipus the King" A Tragedy A tragedy is a drama that presents a hero with a powerful force that he must overcome. The tragic hero must be someone of importance, who in the beginning is happy and utterly miserable by ... Read More

A Comparison of Oedipus and Creon in Oedipus the King by Sophocless (1114 words, 2 pages)

Oedipus Versus Creon At first glance, Oedipus and Creon are two very different people. But as time progresses their personalities and even their fates grow more and more similar. In Sophocless play Oedipus the King, Oedipus and Creon are two completely opposite people. Oedipus is brash and thoughtless, whilst Creon ... Read More

An Analysis of Free Will versus Fate in Sophocle’s Oedipus the King (833 words, 1 pages)

The free will versus fate debate dates back to before 500BC. Some people believe that fate dominates a person's entire life, that all events are inevitable. Others feel that we are free to make choices in life and that nothing is certain. In the play Oedipus the King, the writer ... Read More

A Discussion of a Tragic Hero in Sophocle’s Oedipus Rex (918 words, 2 pages)

In the play Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, Oedipus is a classic tragic hero. According to Aristotle's definition, Oedipus is a tragic hero because he is a king whose life falls apart when he finds out his life story. There are a number of characteristics described by Aristotle that identify a ... Read More

An Analysis of the Ironic Elements in Oedipus the King by Sophocles (1262 words, 2 pages)

Oedipus the Irony In Sophocles's Oedipus The King, Oedipus's life was set for him. He learned through the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi, that during the span of his lifetime that he would kill his father and marry his mother. He was obviously concerned by this. Laius also received the ... Read More

An Analysis of the Innocence of Oedipus in Sophocles Play (1433 words, 2 pages)

Because Oedipus knows nothing about the past of Thebes, he is not an assassin. Oedipus committed murder but unknowingly of who King Laius was.Oedipus honor was his claim against the murder. Had it been the other way around and Oedipus had lost the battle, King Laius alibi would have also ... Read More

A Comparison of the Ironic Elements in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House and Sophocle’s Oedipus the King (995 words, 1 pages)

Dramatic irony depends on the audiences knowing something that a character has not yet realized, or on one characters knowing something that other characters do not know. It is a crucial literary tool used by authors, poets, and playwrights in some of the most famous stories ever told. Dramatic irony ... Read More

An Analysis of a Tragic Hero in Sophocle’s Oedipus the King (943 words, 2 pages)

Oedipus' Ruin Sophocles is perhaps one of the greatest tragedians ever. Sophocles said that a man should never consider himself fortunate unless he can look back on his life and remember that life without pain. For Oedipus Rex, looking back is impossible to do without pain. This pain stems from ... Read More

An Analysis of the Character of Oedipus in Sophocle’s Play (955 words, 3 pages)

"There is no man blessed amongst us. All the works of man are known and every soul is tried," sings the chorus at the beginning of Oedipus Rex. After answering the riddle of man, Oedipus becomes the foremost of living men and takes his turn on the top of the ... Read More

An Analysis of Oedipus the King by Sophocles (1020 words, 2 pages)

This was only a creative writing piece for homework. Please comment so that i know how i can improve my writing. Thank you for taking the time to read this. ) Oedipus' Diary That "shameless and brainless, sightless and senseless sot!" To think that he was a wise prophet? He ... Read More

An Analysis of Oedipus as a Victim in Sophocle’s Play (723 words, 1 pages)

Oedipus was a victime of fate, his futur was foretold by an Oracle, he had no way of knowing that his wife was his mother nor that the stranger he killed was his father. Oedipus could not prevent his own downfall. Oedipus was the king of Thebes, he became king ... Read More

An Analysis of Oedipus in Sophocle’s Play (436 words, 1 pages)

In the play Oedipus the King, by Sophocles, Oedipus' self-destruction and fall from power leaves him as the villain and not the hero in this play. The very thing he fights so hard to discover, is what leads to his self-destruction. Oedipus is the only one to blame for this ... Read More

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