A Modern Instance

The Modern Language Association of America, MLA, informs us that more students are studying languages than ever before. Director of MLA, Rosemary G. Feal said, “Students are clearly recognizing the importance of learning other languages...” A surveyed funded…

are not writing for publication. The charge of plagiarism is serious because it calls into question everything about the writer’s work: if this piece of writing is misrepresented as being original, how can a reader trust any work by the writer? One instance of plagiarism can cast a shadow across an entire career. Schools consider plagiarism…

The most well-known Post-Impressionist painter, Vincent van Gogh, paints most of his paintings when he is in an asylum. As absurd as it seems, van Gogh paints his most known painting, Starry Night, in a mental hospital (Harmon). From the fact that he lives in a mental hospital, people deduce that van Gogh does not have the happiest life. He is often depressed and does not know how to express himself. However, he finds freedom in painting. He paints many different subjects during his life time…

For instance, Claesz, in trying to push his moral rather than the pure sentiment of art for art’s sake, sticks to local color and a realistic depiction of all the elements in his Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill. Like using simple words to tell various…

also one of the most important genres to consider when talking about gender representation. We can recognize several patterns of gender representation also in Monteverdi’s operas and connect them with the society on the turn from Renaissance to early modern era, when patriarchal conventions slowly started to lose their impact. According to McClary, in L’Orfeo we can distinguish two different rhetorics, that of seduction and that of lament, which indicate the binaries between male and female…

artists began experimenting with African art. Beginning in the 1870s African sculptures were introduced to Europe after the colonial subjugation and during expeditions to West Africa (Murrell 2008). An interest of non-Western broke out among many modern day artists and their followers, that interest became known as Primitivism, which is a term that describes the standpoint of artists on non-Western art (Murrell 2008). As a final point, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso along with their School of…

consider as the bridge between Medieval and modern times. During this time period, many subjects including science, math, art, music, and theology exploded, and allowed for new ideas and innovations to come about. Many famous people, who are known for their renowned accomplishments from the past, come from the Renaissance time period like Da Vinci, Shakespeare, and Michaelangelo. This started the revolution which allows modern science and many other modern technologies to be used today.…

What is science? Science is a process that we use to discover new things about our world. It is, to quote The Merriam-Webster dictionary science is “knowledge about or study of the natural world based on facts learned through experiments and observation.” Science is realization through observation and experimentation. Science can never truly “prove” anything. All science can do is give us, as humanity, more of an idea as to what goes on in our physical world; however, everything science can…

In this eerie ghost like painting, the subway becomes a place of alienation, of homelessness. This painting minimizes the influence of people and eliminates details in order to map out the space as an abstract structure of empty rectangle planes. Modern city dwellers on the move, these faceless people go about their business with silent indifference, held within an elaborate grid of vertical and horizontal rectangle entrance/exit ways (Baal-Teshuva 30). The green door on the left, cream and…

causes of the ever-growing costs of upholding different technologies, is simply that they are not being disposed when they are stop being relevant. A number of these applications provide obsolete functionality or are redundant when compared to more modern systems. The amount of IT tools is continually growing and none or significantly few are being discarded. While on the other hand, the allocated budget remains constant. The causes for not discarding obsolete applications are not the same for…