Abstraction

Modernism was introduced to western society as a new way to visualize the world in a simple and innovative way. According to Nigel Wheale, “modernity is defined as the social condition brought about by the development of the Western world’s characteristic economic formation” (Wheale 10). This development occurred after the end of the first World War when people were ready for change as poverty was rapidly increasing and new cost effective ways to design were needed. Modernism was the solution to…

Joan Miró was a Spanish painter and sculptor. He was born in 1893 in Spain into a family of craftsmen (“Joan Miró Biography”). At a young age he started to draw instead of doing his homework and later dropped out of business school in order to pursue his art career. Although he wasn’t in the best economic situation, Miró was still able to make ends meet. When the Spanish Civil War broke out, the chaos brought up many challenges for his family. These challenges also presented a lot of inspiration…

All Quiet on the Western Front as an Antiwar Novel Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel that dispels beliefs about the glory of the soldier. Remarque vividly describes the dehumanization of trench warfare and war in general. He exposes the incredible toll that combat takes on soldiers—all for the purpose of fighting other people’s battles, against other soldiers who have nothing personally against each other. The novel went past the obvious physical damage that…

In the poem, “The Battle of Maldon,” an anonymous poet describes a fearsome battle between the Vikings and the Anglo-Saxons. Told entirely from the English perspective, the poem sings countless praises of the Anglo-Saxons, depicting them as heroes commanding their souls to God and sacrificing themselves to advance a greater cause. The speaker depicts war as a heroic endeavor, begetting camaraderie, bravery, loyalty, and perseverance. Soldiers are passionate about the cause, fighting for romantic…

reconfigured to define the morality of society and protect the natural rights of citizens. Moral code, however, cannot be entirely defined by written legislature. A lawfully wrong action by an unethical law in vindicated by moral intentions. The abstraction of morality in binding laws conclusively creates an atmosphere in society where some unethical circumstances…

interested me because for once it wasn’t just about the most in power. Another thing that stood out to me was that these artworks were created on woodblocks and each were carved by hand followed by block of color. This print shows the effect of abstraction in Western Art. Many artworks during the 18th-19th centuries displayed themes of landscape along with people. Hiroshige paintings were often more stick like, but showed the common theme of having people with landscape. A lot of the attributes…

4. Various Responses to Miliband-Poulantzas Debate 4.1. Ernesto Laclau: Methodological and Epistemological Problem Robin Blackburn (2014) described Ernesto Laclau as “the outstanding Argentinean political philosopher ... the author of landmark studies of Marxist theory and of populism as a political category and social movement. ... Used the work of Antonio Gramsci to reject what they saw as the reductionism and teleology of much Marxist theory... a ‘post-Marxist’ and an advocate of ‘radical…

skeleton of the program. Then behavior of the program will be described by the combination of UML activity and sequence diagram. From activity and sequence diagram overall flow of the program is generated. Each diagram will produce the code depend on abstraction level of diagram. The overall code from behavior diagrams will be placed in structural code generated from class…

The Girl Who Identified Literary Techniques in Dr. Sacks’ Work In order to be an effective science writer, one must clarify their writing and ideas and captivate and convince his or her readers in their articles. Dr. Oliver Sacks’ article “The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat” successfully clarifies, captivates and convinces readers using various literary techniques that are common to both Science writers and English literary writers. Throughout the passage Sacks utilizes simile as a way to…

Based on the data represented in figure 11.22, the system is under control. This is because variations appear to come from sources that are common to the process. In addition, the system shows a lot of stability and no need for corrections or changes. Important to note from the figure is that the process data can be used to predict the process future performance. For Systems not under control sources of variations are obtained by analyzing the chart since it results to a degraded process…