Decadence

In this paper, I will analysis the film titled Dam Street (Hong Yan) featured by First Run Featured 2008. I will discuss of Yan, a young Chinese woman who lived in the Sichuan province and her life as a young mother who was not aware the existence of her own child. In addition, I will discuss of the behavioral and personality traits, strengths and weakness, life experiences and relationship, life patterns, and other factors of Yan. Moreover, I will discuss of the biological and sociological…

culture delineates their (individuals) view of the world, culture is the source that gives the kind of knowledge obtained. For example, it is a known convention that walking around the street naked implies complete portrayal of immorality and moral decadence in societies. But it was not through the promulgated knowledge that Basotho, Islamic people and other tribes viewed nudity of every sex as immorality. It must have come about by common personal perspectives amongst individuals. This is to…

A prominent feature in Greek literature, food often serves as a cultural function through feasts and symbolizes hospitality and luxury. While food usually connotes festive times, Homer stretches the traditional perception of food in The Odyssey to something that is more ominous. From the beginning of the poem, Homer states that Odysseus and his crew were “destroyed by their own wild recklessness,” that they were “fools, who devoured the oxen of Helios, the Sun God, and he took away the day of…

In The Great Gatsby, there are many conflicting character roles that collide with one another. Almost every individual character conflicts with another one or two characters that cause major drama in the book, which is what the twenties, the “Roaring Twenties” was full of. Since the decade was full of drama, excitement, lies, and occurrences such as the stock market rising, everyone was ready to be their own hero, without ever realizing that they could be a villain. But could the true villain of…

In the mid-1800’s to the early 1900’s two artists are responsible for the modern art movement these two artists are Vincent Van Gogh and Claude Monet. These two artists have very distinct style of painting, however, they both helped to shape the direction of painting would go over the following century. Monet and Van Gogh painted their lives on a canvas and in their thoughts and words. Through both of the men’s paintings we can understand the struggle as artists during this time in history. The…

The root cause of moral decadence in the society is accessibility of information or luck of it. Technological advancement has continued to increase the access of information to every member of the society. Televisions broadcast audio visual information. The information is not limited…

Birds have always been fascinating creatures to the imaginative impression of our creative entity. The moment man realizes the value of liberty in life and living, he grows desperate to cling to it. However, the more he tries to grab it in both hands the more it evades. Life on earth within a social decorum is so designed that the free flight of a mind finds it clipped. Down the ages, this consciousness only grows to make him feel his limitation and his inevitable lot of being restrained. On the…

Society and culture have a large impact on film. This can be seen most clearly in Science Fiction and Horror Films. Films are often based on real-life events, or in some cases, fears. Two examples of this are Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The Cold War and fear of the spread of Communism led to the creation of films such as Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Psycho and Texas Chainsaw Massacre were both based on the crimes of Ed Gein. Some common themes in these…

write, but we miss important parts of character building.(Evelyn 1) It was also so scandalous that he had to front face the book with book with a warning.(Overview 1) “Allows all seven deadly sins to hold sway and enjoys the triumph of evil and decadence with the most carefree insouciance”(Doyle, Evelyn 2) It is hard to cry over the death of a character because of this.(Hollis 1) As time passes and Waugh converts to Roman Catholic, his books become more religious. "With “Brideshead Revisited”…

religious and she did not know why she could no longer go school with her male classmates. A sequence of restrictions follow as a public representative for Iran declares, “All bilingual schools must be closed down. They are symbols of capitalism. Of decadence” (Satrapi 4). The republic wants Iran to believe non muslims are wrong for indulgent qualities, and Iran is not living the way god intended if the people aren’t following the word of god. Debbie Notkin, who reviews women’s books, writes a…