Humanness is defined in the Oxford Dictionary as “a characteristic of people...especially in being susceptible to weakness.” The book The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien highlights humanness through the portrayal of the Vietnam war through the experiences of separate soldiers. The excerpt this paper begins with a description of a man who had been killed by a hand grenade in eerie detail. O’Brien’s use of adjectives and nouns makes the story seem poetic and personal, making the passage deeply moving for the reader. The imagery used to describe the body forces the reader to visualize the dead man and internalize the weight of human life.…
Commonly recognized milestones in human life are birth, growth, reproduction, and death. In reality, life is much more incredibly complex than this. There are so many minute nuances that make the human experience what it is. Each individual’s life is a delicate combination of many experiences: accomplishments along with failures, friends turning to enemies, and love ending with heartbreak. Since the beginning of civilization, using art as a medium, people constantly seek to express their perspective on this phenomena while trying to understand it.…
Painting and music evoked emotions within herself. The crescendo that climaxed within her brain, pleasured her and brought tears to her eyes. She had found herself being happy and triumphant. She came to the realization after Robert left her when she went to see the birth of Adele's children, that she had once again lost herself to the wit of men. They did as…
Art, Action & Revival by David S. Fetcho is definitely one of the most thought out and thoughtful articles that I have read on the church and theatre in a long time. Fetcho begins his article with stating that “in many ways, the world of art and the Christian church are parallel universes. Both are concerned with the goal of becoming the point of social, psychological and spiritual integration for individuals and for society as a whole.” He’s quite right of course, and goes onto how the church and theatre ought to be married in the dramatic arts. He argues for the idea that the Christian artist, though a hundred years ago would have been crucified in the Church, is valiantly attempting to “reclaim lost ground--reclaiming territory that has…
Art is like a window to the mind, representing how one thinks or what one feels. In some cases, it may contain elements from one’s unconscious; elements that even they are not aware of themselves. Art has zero qualifications, allowing it to be crafted by anyone and everyone, while still containing components of its creator and provoking feelings in its spectators. (Rustin, 2008) Of the pieces involved in the Best of the Season exhibit at the Webber Gallery, Lunch With Einstein by David D’Alessandris is one of the more “unusual” pieces. It contains four figures, whose heads seem to be taken from elsewhere and pasted onto their bodies.…
I can truly remember a lot of school events and encounters that assisted and helped me to achieve and or what helped me to develop my education goals and what helped produce who I am today as a person. The teachers attitude towards me and the materials presented. Also the love that the teachers showed in making sure that I understood and applied the material that I supposed to gain are elements that influence my education and my life today. The superlative significance lesson that I learned is to never give up on a student and my children and for me to do all that I know and can do for my students and children. Our textbook states that “ Clearly, the types of nonparental experiences that children have with other adults influence not only…
“One art” by Elizabeth Bishop is a form of a villanelle, a repetitive poem that consists of nineteen lines that usual consists of two repeating rhymes and two refrains. In the poem the speaker is ranting in a letter to a loved one about how losing is easy and compares it as a skillful art. It is not apparent that the conversation is going on but at the end of the poem it is obvious that there is some sort of communication happening. The speaker of the poem repeats:” the art of losing isn’t hard to master” () and” disaster” () in the poem, to explain how losing can be tough but also something that can easily happen . Throughout the poem, the speaker shares things he loses, from everyday items to the spending of time badly.…
The traditional view of art has changed over time just as most things have. Naturally, the act of perception has differed opinions on what society considers as art. Dance, paintings, photography, drawings, music, literature, and sculpting, are what comes to mind when contemplating the aspects of art. The limitation to defining a word so opinionated leaves out room for self-expression. The traditional ideas of what is considered art should be broadened; granted, although not tangible, art can be seen through ambitions, emotions, and expression through appearances when not limited to the customary definition.…
To live in a static state of mind is to restrict the joy one may find in life. Oliver Sacks, Maggie Nelson, and Robert Thurman all suggest that one’s perception of the world, as well as the flexibility of their state of mind, directly correlates with how they exist within it. Specifically, Thurman’s work “Wisdom” claims that it is necessary for one to abandon the idea of having a fixed and strict self but rather open up one’s mind to become a flexible thinker, allowing one to create human connection. In her essay “Great to watch” Nelson argues that one must break away from the banal life society accepts as normal and reject a fixed mental state that we are trapped in. Throughout his interactions with those who were born blind or became blind…
Furthermore, I fell into the realization, freedom to our own self-expression does not exist. Before, I was young and naïve, oblivious to life’s social expectations. The realization of humanistic ideals never crossed my mind. Never would I have fathomed that humanity could degrade and label me as if I was just some object.…
Today, many like Karen Armstrong, acknowledge the significant role art plays in a community. Throughout her essay, Homo Religiosus, she argues that art, much like religion, has the capability to allow one to temporarily forget and transcend their daily struggles, and rather focus on an ideal future. Maggie Nelson’s essay, Great to Watch, questions how society relates to the world and through what can we do so. Nelson opens her text with a discussion of Sister Helen Prejean, who proposes in her memoir, Dead Man Walking, ignorance was a major obstacle that paused social and moral progress. Prejean was convinced that exposure to a world crisis will inspire others to help make change.…
This highlights the theme of the nature of humanity and its tendancy to be or become…
Inadvertently I stumbled upon something that I would take for granted as a refuge. A refuge in which I could express myself, my emotions and transfer them into a visual reality. For once I did not acknowledge the presence of the crutches beside me. Hesitant at first then gradually getting more bold with each sweep of the hand, my depressed state faded away as color expanded across the canvas and replaced itself with one of hunger and awe. This was the day art pulled me by the arm me and forced me to expand its importance in my life.…
The big buildings surrounding us, giving no colour but just greyness, doing the same activities everyday, not noticing that beyond those walls there is beauty to be seen. In Secret Life of Walter Mitty the main message states by Stiller is “to see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life”. We hide ourselves in the dark, hoping that no one 's notices us, living our extraordinary selves in our minds. As individuals we don 't bother to stop and admire the beautiful life that we live in because “beautiful things don 't ask for attention”.…
Taking a stylistic approach breeching on a film within a film, The Truman Show explores human life from the perspective of life as art and entertainment. The Truman Show revolves around a man, Truman Burbank, whose life is broadcast worldwide twenty-four hours a day. He has been the star of his own show since he was born but has absolutely no idea that his life is staged and televised. Truman comes to the realization that his life is a lie and leaves his false reality to join the real world (Weir). When human life becomes something to be observed as entertainment, it develops an aura.…