Physiognomy

Before reading the book I knew nothing about the author. I thought the book was going to be so boring, but it turned out to be interesting. I didn’t agree with everything he mentions in the book, but overall it was a good book. He is very intelligent by the ways he uses words to express himself and how he feels. He name the title of this book Between the World in me after a poem by Richard Wright. This book really inspired me because Mr. Coates had a hard life growing up from Baltimore. He grew…

In effectively managing an empire and ensuring power stability, the clever manipulation and control of public imagery in order to effectively disseminate and support desired messages is necessary to secure a stabilised dynastic power scheme. Emperor Septimius Severus, patriarch of the Severan dynasty, understood the versatility and power of subversive propaganda and skilful public representation. The public image of the Severan family was constructed throughout Septimius’ reign in three primary…

Composers reflect and challenge the values and attitudes of their context, and so, through a comparative study, responders gain an enhanced understanding of human society from two periods of time. Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice (1813), written during the patriarchal Regency Era, emphasises the importance of marriage to her society whereas Weldon’s epistolary novel Letters to Alice (1984) suggests how the importance of marriage, especially for women, has decreased over time. However, both…

Knowledge: The Key Change to Theories Over Time Ashleigh Gottschalt University of Houston-Victoria A common trait of being human is that we are always seeking out an explanation for how things work, and why it works that way; there is hardly any satisfaction in not knowing the details. When individuals create their own explanations they are called theories, and there are no right or wrong theories because theories are abstract explanations of reality. An interesting feature regarding theories…

to great communal and papal fanfare in Rome, features the Trojan priest Laocoön and his two young sons being devoured by sea serpents; with their anguished facial expressions and their desperately contorted limbs, the figures, whose anatomy and physiognomy are both startling in their realism, serve, in essence, as a study on the presentation of tension through movement. It is perhaps for this very reason that Michelangelo is believed to have once deemed the Laocoön a testament to the triumphs of…

In this essay I will be discussing the extent to which Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko is a royalist novella and the ways in which its domestic British politics influence its depiction of slavery. From reading this novel I would agree that the texts ideology is distinctly royalist. There is no doubt that Oroonoko influenced the development of antislavery literature in the eighteenth Century based on Aphra Behn’s depiction of noble African slaves. Throughout this novel it is seen that Behn’s portrait of…

Throughout American history, evolution as a scientific and cultural idea of human improvement played an important role in the United States between the years 1880 and 1930. This essay will explore and analyze the ways in which evolution coincided with different ideas of human progress in the U.S. throughout this time period and how it affected the way people understood border-crossing and boundary marking in regards to race, class, and gender. Early ideas of evolution essentially paved the way…

Rattling Earrings and Incoherent Nuns: Examining Control in “Nuns at Luncheon” At the start of Aldous Huxley’s short story, “Nuns at Luncheon”, we find our narrator obsessed with his lunch-mate’s pendant earrings, referring to them both admiringly and mockingly, as “corpses hanging in chains” (250), and then congratulating himself on producing a brilliant literary simile. As we become acquainted with Miss Penny’s flamboyant and intimidating character, we understand that these earrings are not…

are the basis of the facial appearance and crucial for the perception and recognition of faces (Andrews, Davies-Thompson, Kingstone, & Young, 2010). The distinct analysis of facial features played a significant role in the flowering periods of physiognomy. With detection of a holistic processing of faces, modern research investigates more complex whole face stimuli (Andrews et al., 2010; Tanaka & Farah, 1993). For this reason, the focus lies thereafter on holistic components of facial appearance…

“The key to creating better plots rests in a deeper understanding of character.” Author Kristen Lamb believes that using literary techniques to present meaningful, dynamic characters remains crucial to making a relatable plot that grabs readers’ attention. In order for an author to keep a reader interested, it proves important for the characters to be interesting. Authors use direct and indirect presentation to bring characters to life in order to make the reader feel emotion. Direct…