Auguste Mariette

Multicultural perspectives in art pertains to an educational approach that celebrates the multiple heritages of artists and art students. By understanding the cultural context behind the creation of iconic works of art, we can move towards a more authentic understanding of the aesthetic traditions behind the creation of a work of art. It is through this educational approach that the work of Claude Monet is best viewed. Claude Monet is undoubtedly one of the most familiar and best loved of all…

French novelist Alexandre Dumas père, son of General Alex Dumas, is best known for writing famous works such as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. Born son to the obscure General Alex Dumas, Alexandre too shared in the blood of both a black slave and a white aristocrat. General Dumas died when Alexandre was a young child of not even 4 years of age. Highly romanticized and biased towards his father, the writings left behind by Alexandre père, are basically the main source when it…

Intro Fictional crime has been around ever since crime was out on the streets. Detectives try help the police solve cases from murder to robbers to thieves, but each case as important as the one before. Some detectives just glide by the police not doing anything, but some stand out. Of all detectives, fictional and real, the most famous of all by far is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s, Sherlock Holmes. Who created Sherlock? This famous fictional detective started to spread in 1887, when the first…

The short story “Robert and the dog” by Ken Saro-Wiwa tells the story of a steward and his master and mistress. The main character is the steward named Robert. Robert’s master is a medical doctor and originally a bachelor. Robert is very content with his situation in the household up until the doctor’s wife moves in from Europe. The wife treats Robert very well, and he feels appreciated in the household. But soon Robert starts to develop a strong hatred towards the family dog, named Bingo.…

The roles of inductive and deductive reasoning can be seen as polar opposites, but they can actually be complimentary to one another. There are situations where these two reasonings merge, such as criminal investigations. There is also many signs of these two ways of reasoning being complimented infamous mystery novels, such as Sherlock Holmes. One example of this is the Sherlock Holmes tale, “The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier”. This tells a story of a Veteran James M. Dodd, who served in…

The mystery genre is well known for creating feelings of suspense and sucking the reader/viewer into the elaborate web spun by the author. Mystery stories are commonly known for the retrograde type of story telling and logical deduction used by the main character to solve the crime at hand. The entire genre is always centered around an individual trying to solve an issue, usually a crime, in a detective like manner. Mystery stories can suck the viewer in as they try to solve the mystery in the…

The artistic movement known as impressionism sought to capture events and scenes in order to convey their essence not through exact reproduction but rather through color and light. The goal was not only to reproduce the scene itself but to also reproduce the sensation and life of the scene. The impressionist style with its free and unplanned brushstrokes, bright and vivid colors, and innocent subjects soon became synonymous with modern life and art. Various individuals within the movement would…

There are two writers that have really sparked and changed the crime fiction genre and in my opinion there are few that have really impacted media and production films as much as Edgar Allen Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Edgar Allen Poe was really the first major contributor to the genre and outside of this course, he was one of the only crime fiction writers that my school exposed me to. In this writing I will explore Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s writing style as well as Edgar Allen Poe’s writing…

1. author, title, year and topic "The Hound of the Baskerville" was first published in 1901 in England. The novel is a detective story, with the main protagonists Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. It was written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who was a famous writer in the 20th Century. Doyle is commonly known for the characters he created. The names Sherlock Holmes and John Watson are known all around the world. At one point in his carrier Doyle was weary of his own character. He then wrote the…

“The name is Sherlock Holmes and the address is 221B Baker Street.” (Moffat) This is where we start our story, with a name and an address. If you ask random people “Who is Sherlock Holmes?” most will tell you that he is the greatest detective to ever live. While this statement is taken for fact all around the world, unfortunately the great Mister Holmes has always been fiction. It is like calling the lion who lives in savannas the king of the jungle. The actuality in these labels maybe lacking,…