Eccentricity

Turner has very close relation with his father. When Berger discusses how much Turner’s father’s shop of barber affects his later painting style, he writes: “picture [is] always possible combination, suggested by a barber’s shop, of blood and water, water and blood”(215). It confuses the meaning by using the same words in a similar form. I may regard the first form of “blood and water” means the spirit of inheritance those come from his father’s shop (215). This is usually the first…

To belong relates to being the property of something or someone. An alternative meaning is to be a member of a group, organization, or class. Whether you take the first or latter definition, both mean that you are a part of something and that you are not acting as an individual. Many people claim the need to belong. Some, more than others, attempt to belong to a group known as society. Society has given the world many unrealistic views to live life, these impractical ways have now become a…

child, as I was always playing video games, reading books, or doing some grade school homework. I remember only knowing a small handful of people, namely just those who lived in our little trailer park at the time. Everyone had that small town eccentricity we so often see romanticized. Next door was Mr. Mahan, whose daughter, Allie, was one of my childhood best friends. Allie was a year older than me, but she was always very nice and played along with everything I liked to do at the time. I…

reveals that she has written all the novels with predominantly feminist views. Her novels also focus on the changing psychological realties of female characters in her fiction. In this novel, Mukherjee has not only portrayed the psychological eccentricities in the protagonist, but has also presented her as a ‘new woman’ with a ‘new identity’ breaking the taboos of the archetypal woman. But pathetically her identity as a ‘new…

The internet has become a cult that worships eccentricity. Take, for example, the killing of Harambe, a gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo. After a three-year-old boy got inside the gorilla’s enclosure, zoo officials decided to kill Harambe, fearing for the boy’s life. The controversial decision and odd news story has become the internet’s latest obsession. Through memes like chanting “Dicks out for Harambe,” saying “Harambe died for our sins,” and putting Harambe as a write-in candidate in the US…

Ulrich Seidl’s new documentary, “In the Basement”, is mordantly funny, creepily outrageous, and boldly raw. The film gathers a set of suburban Austrian people, who expose themselves by allowing us to peak on what’s going on in their basements. Clearly, the whole is weaker than the sum of the parts, however, my voyeuristic side was awaken by the intimate little secrets it keeps unveiling, even if a couple of unnecessary scenes are there only with the purpose of shocking the viewers. The idea and…

Traveling to South Korea A foreign country means there are different customs and cultures - exactly what the reason for some of us who are traveling to these foreign lands. Korea is quite a modernized country and there are some eccentricities that some people should expect before going into this foreign and different land. So these five things should be able to help you be prepared for your new and the exciting trip to South Korea. 1. Restaurants In Korea, there are many…

If you reflect on 1920s fashion, there was a feeling of eccentricity and originality in fashion that is one of the reasons we associate the 1920s with exciting changes in culture. The movies and books we associate with those times often reflect a time of an explosion of frivolity and a certain amount of wild behavior in entertainment and nightlife. The 1920s fashion very much fit in to those cultural changes. Jean Patou was a designer who pushed the envelope a great deal in creating exciting,…

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born into a strong puritan faith family. Although his ancestors having a practiced a strong puritan faith, still participated in the salem witch trials condemning hundreds of people to be put on trial. Because of this Hawthorne criticized puritan ethical standards and would focused his stories around human perception of sin and morals. Many of his stories contain strong uses of allegory and symbolism giving a more deep perspective on human nature. Because of this…

When you were younger at some point you believed the world was filled with generous and kind people. Then eventually there was someone in your life who influenced and showed you that the world was nothing but that. To Kill a Mockingbird a dystopian fiction written by Harper Lee told mostly from the point of view of a little girl named Jean Louise, nickname Scout. Living in a old town called Maycomb in the time of the depression with her widowed father and older brother Jem. Once her father who…