Minimalism

written clearly, simple and not comprising so much material is one of Hemingway’s assurances. According to Lanham (2003), parataxis is a fictional method that acknowledges short and simple sentences. Hemingway use unique and powerful style and used minimalism technique in his writing. His sentences are short, declarative and whenever needed he join those with…

ideology in their life? Based on the massive and ever-growing influence of businesses, it is probably safe to say less than ten percent. Various other media sources also depict transcendentalist value such as Wall-E, Into the Wild, Dead Poets Society, Minimalism: A Documentary About Important Things, and The Lord of The Rings. Despite exposure to these ideals of simple living and individualism, the influence and practice of transcendentalism appears to be diminishing.…

“Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child” is centered around an interview of Basquiat that the film’s director, Tamra Davis, filmed in 1986. She states in the beginning of the film that she put away the footage after Basquiat’s untimely death, only two years after the interview, and it was not seen again for almost twenty years. The film focuses more on people’s recollections rather than a straight narrative, letting the audience get a more organic view of the artist’s life and his struggle to…

The musical genre of rap has been in existence since the 1970s, but has evolved into one of the world's most likable styles of music. Some rap artists have turned their poetic lyrics into careers and often live a millionaire lifestyle. Beginning on the East Coast, the genre disseminated to the West Coast and developed another type of genre called gangsta rap. Gangsta rap is known mostly for its explicit and violent lyrics. The music genre rap had a gradual beginning that led into the golden age…

The Issues with Declaration of Human Rights I really see a lot of things that happen in our world around today that affects people. The Declaration of Human Rights was established in the United Kingdoms in 1948. “Human rights as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end of every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind will strive by teaching and education…” (Syllabus 32). There are a lot of problems facing our world…

Having said all of this, before drawing any conclusions based on Céu’s multilayered evocations of the virtual and its oscillations between the “no longer” and the “not yet,” I would like to turn to the other two films and to the notion of the ordinary, which, along with the virtual, is central to contemporary documentaries. Excavating the Ordinary Although Céu’s characters are unique, and in a sense extraordinary, we can also think of Sérgio Borges’s film as an immersion into the ordinary world…

What do we see? A car in a sound booth completely white. The product launch being featured is the one and only Lexus LFA. A luxury car with two seats of Japanese origin that is priced at $314,000 US dollars, with the essence of perfectionism slobbered all over. After all, that is the company's slogan “The Pursuit of Perfection”. Lexus has been manufacturing cars for decades and shooting commercials for years. They have extensive knowledge on buyer’s psychology, which is demonstrated in their…

Tara Donovan is an American artist from Brooklyn, New York who creates sculptural installation art pieces out of everyday simple objects, such as plastic cups, paper plates, pencils, straws, and polyester film. Donovan transforms these ordinary everyday objects into large-scale installations which in some cases create a depiction of nature resembling landscape scenes including, mountains glaciers, icicles, rocks, and more. When Donovan was interviewed by Daniel Comiskey, he asked her, “Why use…

Approach The Soviet 60s had similar cultural processes to those in Western Europe: it was a time of intellectual protest and liberalization. While France had the Revolution of 1968, the Soviet intellectual started liberty rights movement and in the 1970s, they were ostracized as dissidents. Strikingly, Bakhtin’s culture theory has similarities with French philosophical systems of the same time. First, his approach reminds of Foucault’s “History of Sexuality” and Guattari’s “Chaosmosis.”…

Target Audience Primary Demographic Kasheyz’s primary target are the customers mainly classified in the tertiary sector of the working population and the students who are undergoing higher studies, hence, these customers are aged between 18 to 40. The initial distribution of Kasheyz product is allocated in the western provincial area of Sri Lanka, including cities such as Colombo and Gampaha, where the majority of the customers belong to middle class and tend to have a higher consumer spending,…