Arts and Crafts Movement

of their respective eras. Most notably of these, the Dark Ages (Middle Ages, Early-Middle Ages), aptly named for its description of the time after the fall of the Roman Empire and the growth of Christianity in the form of Catholicism. Many forms of art were censored, theatre being at the top of the list. But what if Lysistrata were somehow presented…

F. Scott Fitzgerald is widely regarded as one of the greatest American novelists of the twentieth century, with works under his name such as The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night. His debut novel, This Side of Paradise, demonstrated the most significant recurring theme throughout his works—Modernism. Following the lead of other poets and artists in the aftermath of World War One, Fitzgerald experimented with a new type of literature that rejected the sentimentality of nineteenth-century works…

People made a living in music that were supported by church musicians, organists, choir master, and singers. The most popular vocal genre is a cappella. Word paining is music and words combine to form representation of images. Composers tired to craft the music to express their feelings. A composer Josquin wrote a song called “Ave Maria Virgo Serena,” and there were men and women singing with no instruments. In the Rennesance, the motet is sacred and in the Middle Ages, the motet is secular. The…

change after Dorothea Dix, a teacher and nurse in the Civil War, began visiting asylums and reporting it to the public what she had witnessed. Dorothea Dix studied these patients and the treatments used on them for nearly her whole life, then helped a movement along to help asylums be better. Her criticisms of the asylum system would begin to change public opinion which was leading to laws being enacted to reform the…

Tennyson was the advocate for poetry during his time, which suggests the gravity of his death in 1892. Poetry needed a representative, someone to defend the place of the poet: “‘Poetry’ as an abstract ideal, the highest of the arts, depended on Tennyson to represent a traditional ‘august’ authority that had in reality already lapsed. His death does not create but reveals a pre-existing crisis, a loss of faith in poetry as a morally elevated yet popular medium” (Matthews 317)…

The aftermath of the Vietnam War left a lasting affect on American culture. This was the the longest and most debilitating war for the United States and changed the U.S. forever. There was overwhelming protest and debate on the war and it divided the country and its leaders on the uncertainty of foreign policy. My mother was just a child during the war itself but her family experienced the aftermath of the war economically, socially and culturally. The Vietnam War damaged the U.S. economy,…

According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, “Play is a natural activity for every young child”. In this sense, it could be suggested that it comes instinctively to the children. For example, children have the want for food. Very much like the process of children having the want for food to help them grow is similar to the inherent want to play. Consequently, this helps the children grow “physically, mentally, and socially” (Goodson & Bronson). Introduced in 1998, Play-Doh is one of…

obvious that Bengali, Marathi, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Manipuri theatres exist with their separate identities, characteristics and problems. Karnad’s faith in the power of theatrical techniques derived from the rich indigenous sources urges him to craft plots from the native sources. No better example can be found than Karnad’s own work to illustrate the remarkable depths…

social improvement and in the machine as a symbol of that aspiration. They fostered a utopian desire to create a better world. These principles were frequently combined with social and largely left-leaning political beliefs which held that design and art could, and should, transform society. The central image of the new architecture was not that of the single building, but that of the Utopian town plan. Philip Johnson, who along with Henry Russell Hitchcock, gave the…

During the semester I have done my observation in the Community Plaza Center in Boyle Heights. In this center they provide the community with preschool, head start, and is recently implanting an infancy program for the community. The child I have decided to focused in is a student in the preschool program, she is four-year-old Irene. The class room has grown with new students in comparison to the first observation. The class now consists of sixteen students, eight boys and eight girls, in the…