23rd century

Tragedy of the Commons: An Interminable Paradox Essayist Garrett Hardin, in his paper, “Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor”, argues that human beings are involved in a slowly increasing state of world devastation as they continue to misuse the world’s resources and, consequently, refuse to provide the adequate resources in return for their plundering. Hardin’s purpose is to educate the intellectual public of this matter so that measures might be taken and unreasonable solutions…

Performing arts for Educators: Assessment 2 Drama Responding. Drama elements or “the elements”(Dinham,2011) how it’s referred to in delivering in authentic arts education, is building blocks of drama employed in shaping the dramatic action to create meaning in a film, book and song. These elements are important in dramatic performances because it shows you the “tools” you can work with to shape the dramatic presentation of ideas. By having the elements in your performance it enhances the…

End of Life Care can be a hard decision to make whether you’re the patient who wants makes decision on how you want your own care done or a love one who has to make the ultimate decision. This type of care is provided to patients during their final stages of life. Whether its palliative care that can help relieve some of their symptoms that arise from diseases or disorders that are curable or incurable to hospice that provides care to patients including children who are diagnosed with incurable…

Inspired by Breughel 's artwork, W.H. Auden emphasizes the significance of suffering through a 15th century masterpiece “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus.” Written in 1938, Auden’s “Musee des Beaux Arts” is a representation of man’s indifference to suffering. A literary expression created from different times, both artists effectively conveyed its message through the gift of poetry and visual imagination. To analyze both works from a literary and personal perspective is the goal of this essay.…

Did Darwinism prove that some races were inferior to others? Darwinism had a huge impact on America in the 20th century. It gave people a whole new world view, a way of looking at the world and how everything began. Charles Darwin, originally born a Christian, rejected the religion because as a boy he felt God let him down and that He must not actually be real. This lead Charles to come up with his own theory of how humans came into the world. This world view was heavily based on the concept of…

The twentieth century was an exciting period in European architectural history, it was a period of Modernism development. The early part of the period was focused on an approach by a group of architects who desired to reflect historical precedents and develop something completely new during their time. Instead of focusing on the traditional architecture such as ornaments, the architects during that time created a new aesthetic look using new materials and new structural approaches. This time of…

Modernism began in the late 19th century and spanned to the early-mid 20th century. It most likely originated in the industrial revolution, rapidly gaining momentum after the First World War, until a swift disillusionment stifled it during the Second World War (Kuiper; Deggan). As a genre, Modernism is generally defined by a self-conscious and radical reform of traditional forms of expression (Kuiper). T.S Eliot wrote and published his poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" in the early…

his chapter on Railroads and Patent Furniture, a much different scale is addressed, that of the train interiors, their spatial arrangement, and their mechanics . Not only is the train made available to the public in North America in the mid-19th century as a vehicle to get from point A to point B, but they are made comfortable of all riders, regardless of what social class they are in, the design of the train cars themselves aspire to be comfortable to everyone for the duration of their trip.…

Jane Austin uses her book Pride and Prejudice to make a statement about how unfairly women were treated during the 19th century. She explores the ideas of feminism and equality in the context of society and social classes through the daughters of the Bennet family. During the time that the protagonist Elizabeth Bennet grew up, society viewed women as weak, passive, and inferior to men. Nevertheless, Elizabeth refused to submit to the social norm and the idea that women are solely useful for…

Anagha Bandaru 12/14/17 Pd. 5 Things Fall Apart and Gilgamesh Comparison Essay: Gender Roles Women always have been undermined in society. Though now, in the 21st century, they have more rights and freedom, it wasn’t always like that. They were always the lesser sex, including in today’s society, always coming after men. However, some civilizations/countries had slightly different views on men. For example, in Gilgamesh, even though women are still depicted as lustful and house wives, women…