Decadence

In an era muddled with reform, Post War veterans, and the search for the American Dream, the 1920’s were a critical point for all. Possibly the most critical for F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, authors driven by their lost hopes and dreams, of whose literature is still studied today to understand the adversities and bewilderment of the past. Their novels, The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises both explore the motif of achieving this American Dream throughout the representation of…

The ground smolders and sends up a disorientating haze where the heat congested with crushed coal coils around the Valley of Ashes like a hot-blooded serpent. Not too far, a grandiose bright-yellow Rolls Royce illuminates flashes of gold as it roars through the gravel course. A figure of a young woman intercepts the automobile, flailing her perspired milky arms. Her eyes divulge her soul, an ocean of hopeless grief that cries for help. Her figure is not enough. It is not enough to provide the…

to be an adult, change was occurring around him which caused him to lack the maturity needed to take the responsibilities of an adult. “There was a time when courtesy and winning went out of style, when it was good to be bad, when you cultivated decadence like a taste.”(687). The quote in the previous sentence shows a change that occurred in a society and its views, which states that it is…

I had originally planned to meet Sachy, Alvaro, and Victoria at the Getty, however both these plans fell through as we all clearly have very poor organization skills. So on a breezy Sunday Morning I embarked on a solo mission to LACMA. Well not really because my mother was lovely enough to accompany me. When I initially woke up that morning, I was overcome with regret of waiting until the last weekend to get this assignment done. The whole ride there, the clouds threatened rain and my mother…

than being solely places of worship. San Vitale is known for the incredible mosaics that create a focus on Justinian, Theodora, and other political figures which make it more of a glorification of the emperor than a religious building. How much decadence and lavishness is acceptable before the focus of this church becomes more about paying respects to the people in power in the time it was built, rather than giving glory to God? The goal of this paper is to ask the question, and possibly come to…

The Western Intellectual Tradition by J. Bronowski and Bruce Mazlish examines different European/American historical periods from the year 1500 to 1900. It focuses on the great thinkers and philosophers from those times, as well as certain historical periods that are considered significant. This essay focuses on chapters 2, 10, 15, 21, and 23. They are about the city-states of Italy, the Royal society, Montesquieu, Thomas Jefferson and the American Revolution, and Edmund Burke respectively.…

No street, classroom in the School of Communication, or journalism prize bears her name. Despite this, Tareixa Navaza's well-deserved prestige in Galician society is ever growing, as is the people's love for her. A fundamental narrator of a key period in recent Galician history, Navaza rebels against injustice with the same passion she once did, from the radios, televisions and the written press. She now shares with Coralia her perspectives on life and on the difficult moment journalism is…

This exhibition intends to reveal the contributions of jewelry to religious and superstitious aspects of Renaissance painting. There have been endless, often highly contentious, discussions of the meaning of these works, and yet their jewelry is rarely examined in depth, if at all. Adornment often signifies symbolic qualities which act as parallels of other symbols in a work, and, in some cases, reveal meanings not delineated elsewhere. This is most apparent in portraits, where jewelry is highly…

Waste consumption in the United States has been a really big problem of this century and our waste habits are even a bigger problem. The book of Garbology, written by Edward Humes, uncovers the habits of Americans. Humes writes about a woman in chapter 11 named Bea Johnson who is an advocate for not producing trash. Humes states she has been producing no more than a size of a glass a year on waste. Johnson has also been finding ways how to produce less trash and she came to the conclusion if…

Part B: ‘History is about winners.’ How accurate is this statement in relation to the personality you have studied? The history of an individual is ultimately dictated by differing perspectives and dependant on their levels of achievement as well as failures. When making a judgement about whether an individual such as Albert Speer is a winner or not, it is integral for historians to take into consideration his multitudal achievements and failures. One may argue that his greatest achievements…