Cartography

1. Could Mr Smith’s culture influence his pain assessment? Why? What strategies could you employ to ensure that you are adequately addressing Mr Smith’s pain? A proper Pain assessment helps in preparing an accurate pain treatment plan. It involves a continuous process and multidimensional factors that are required in formulating an effective pain management plan. There are many factors that are responsible for a person’s pain, which may be Psychological, Physical, Emotional or Cultural. In…

(Mastin, 2010). A magic square contains integers with the sum of the numbers being the same in each row, column, and main diagonal. Melencolia I (1514, Renaissance). Albrecht Dürer • Vermeer’s The Astronomer explicitly links science and art. Cartography and astronomy are depicted alongside fine arts such as the painting on the wall and the Middle Eastern carpet on the table (Eskridge, n.d.). The Astronomer (circa 1668, Baroque). Johannes Vermeer The proliferation of art and the…

Ernest Hemingway, an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist, once wrote, “When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature” (153). When writing Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad did not have to create living people because the majority of his characters are accurate representations of the people in his life. In fact, the main character, Charlie Marlow, can be viewed as an autobiographical figure. Conrad’s novel accounts…

Lewis and Clark are known for completing a harrowing journey into the unknown regions of the United States and returning with a wealth of knowledge. The expedition proved to be a valuable asset in paving the way for western expansion in the United States. Unfortunately for the hundreds of thousands of Native Americans living in the West, the exploration spawned the notion of Manifest Destiny, a philosophy that American citizens were entitled to the land stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the…

Why did relations between the Dutch settlers and Khoikhoi turn violent so quickly? In this essay the relations between the Dutch settlers and the Khoikhoi will be analysed and discussed in connection to why this encounter turned violent so quickly. South Africa during the 1600’s became vulnerable to European imperialism and colonisation due to the fact that the land surrounding the Cape peninsula acts as a strategical position within the world. The Khoikhoi were the indigenous population who had…

landed in is described as, “…a harbor wherein 1000 sail of ships may safely ride.” This harbor was an expedition-changing discovery for without knowledge of geography, ships and explorations could easily be destroyed. This happened because the cartography in the hands of explorers was either outdated or non-existent. Only the natives in the area could provide them with reliable geographical information. The explorers had a tremendous disadvantage due to these topographical…

Introduction In Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era, Beatriz Preciado uses their body and their body of work as a means of transing theory. Put another way, B.P. uses a genre bending approach to writing theory to attempt to articulate the lived experience of gender ambiguity. B.P. challenges normative conceptions and understandings of bodies, theory, and modes of production in an attempt to explain the queer body. To do so, B.P. employs the radical approach…

“Maybe all we had has always been right Think of all the love you gain when you send it over Think of all the wool I’ve spun to be here tonight” A good intelligence officer should not have any tells. They should never, under any circumstances, endanger the mission by falling for and sleeping with their partner. It was a very good thing, then, that Cassian was currently on furlough because he was failing miserably on both counts. For the first time in many years, a mission—the mission—was…

There is only man of his time who was the most influential figure in Italian renaissance. Given the title “Renaissance man” he was the greatest artist in history, a magnificent philosopher, scientist, sculpture, mathematician and engineer. He was widely known as a polymath. This man was born in the Tuscan Hill town of Vinci in the territory known as Florence Italy on April 15th 1452. Leonardo Da Vinci was “born as a illegitamite son of Messer Piero Fruosno di Antonio da Vinci, a Florintine…

The range and extent of contributions within multiple fields of art and design were endless when it comes to the legacy of Herbert Bayer. The ADC Hall of Fame recognizes Bayer’s achievements in this quote from their 1975 biography, “If Herbert Bayer had produced nothing after the age of 28, his accomplishments to that point alone would make him one of the great pioneers in visual communication” (http://adcglobal.org/hall-of-fame/herbert-bayer/). Although Bayer was most passionate about graphic…