Imitation

beautiful and what doesn't. One major feature that often affects the definition of beauty is skin color. Many believe that those of darker complexion are more despised over those of lighter complexion. This idea was further discussed in the film Imitation of Life, which includes the story of a young black girl who struggles with her racial identity in hopes to be white. Similarly, in the novel The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and the documentary Dark Girls, we see how many different black women…

Tomris Uyar’s short story “The Guest at the Moribund Hotel” presents a compelling narrative, which explore the lives of a diverse group of individuals that happen to vacation in the same rundown hotel every year. The authors quick transition between the various characters and their backstories emphasises the cohesive identity that all the characters seem to have as it seems somewhat repetitive to go over each character separately. All the characters seem to have a great deal of familiarity with…

Truths of Literature in Light of Aristotle, Sydney and Neo-Classical Age ‘Why Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is but it is not easy to tell what it is’ Samuel Johnson (1709-1784 ) In the study of literature, the questions which seem most straight forward are often the most complex ones to answer. Such as what are the truths of literature and what is their…

lowest possible price. Competition also brings out innovation, it makes companies search for the next best thing. The next topic is imitation of products. There's positives and negatives to imitation, positives are that is makes more of that product so more people can buy it and also brings the price down because it creates more competition for that product. Imitation of product also brings down the profit of entrepreneurs and level out the profit throughout the population. The third…

Primate Communication Human beings are primates, as are monkeys, and great apes. Observing our nonhuman primates it wouldn't take long before one would notice the behaviors of the nonhuman primate as being very similar to a human's behavior. A person may observe similar facial expressions, physical movements, or interactions with another nonhuman primate that could strengthen a person's confidence in knowing there has to be a connection in evolutionary history between the nonhuman primates and…

composed 250 sacred cantatas. The most notable one is Cantata No.140. It has seven movements. The melody and text are based on chorale tune Wachet auf. The first movement has sopranos and tenors singing a polyphonic texture. The melody and lyrics use imitation and sequence of technology. The instruments are oboes, English horn, French horn, strings, and basso continuo. The fourth movement is sung by tenors in unison. The tempo is slow. The rhythm is speedy and always repeated and varied. It…

bright yellow tutu. Two of the ballerinas are rehearsing for their performance while the third ballerina is putting on her ballet shoes. As a whole, the Group of Dancers is a perfect example of Plato’s beliefs in The Republic. The painting is an imitation or merely a facsimile, rather than a reality, and the artist Degas was an imitator. Edgar Degas was a French artist and one of the founders of Impressionism. He was born on July 19, 1834 to Celestine Musson De Gas and Augustin Degas. Through…

The American television network Investigation Discovery airs a television series called “A Crime to Remember”, which shows the most compelling crimes of the past in United States history. In the televisions first season, it aired an episode titled “A New Kind of Monster”, and in this episode it reacted a series of murders between 1967-1969 of young females from Eastern Michigan University. The murder of all the victims name is John Norman Collins also known as “The Co Ed Killer”. John Norman…

Bandura, A., Ross, D., & Ross, S. A. (1963). Imitation of film-mediated aggressive models. The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 66(1), 3–11. doi: 10.1037/h0048687 Summary: This article aims to explore the magnitude to which film-mediated aggressive models might serve as significant sources of imitated behavior. The researchers also expected that male children would be more aggressive. Amid concerns of an incident in which a child stabbed another child as happened in a movie days…

For my final paper, I will be answering the questions posed by Socrates’ critique of poetry and most interestingly, Socrates’ statement that poetry would have to make a better argument for itself if it is to be allowed into the just city. I will be agreeing with the claim Socrates makes regarding poetry’s inclusion into the city and I will attempt to draw the conclusion that Socrates would support that poets are like painters. Painters and poets appeal to a part of our souls that is not…