Modernity

Within that day, Clarissa reveals the internal thoughts within a compressed period of time. While images of love, passion, friendly and peaceful life have fossilized in character’s Memories before the WW1, Clarisse's perception and recollection of the past memories are interrupted by the present interfering surroundings to cause her a confusing with remembering" For having lived in Westminster- how many years now? Over twenty, - one feels even in the midst of the traffic or walking at night,…

Introduction to Islam Islam is one of the oldest religions known to man and in most countries it was used as the governing rule in place of a constitution. The modern world has developed, and new governing rules have been established. Some are drawn from the Islamic teaching known as sharia, and they demand application in most Islamic countries or societies. The modern world is however opposed to some of the sharia laws since they tend to undermine sensitive issues in the contemporary world. The…

Society is essential to the nourishing of the human condition in the 21st century. In order to understand the necessity of society we must effectively define what it is, which, evidently can pose many existential questions. Karl Marx and Max Weber attempted to theorize, how society is shaped through the bedrock of institutions and authority structures and how the individual is the contributing factor. To understand this we must examine the sociological construct of the individual and how one is…

Marinetti challenges the longstanding traditions of Italian life by constructing provoking manifestos that undermine customary syntax and rationality; because much of his writing comprises the use of subtle and contradictory nuances, Marinetti’s ideas appear to display a more fascist and misogynist organization. He does not want men and women to be equal, but he wants to empower women to enhance the races. However, Marinetti is not a misogynist; he actually displays more of a quasi-feminist…

Throughout Postcards, Proulx presents a bleak of vision of life that is violently sad. Trapped in this unforgiving landscape; the characters are bound to their farm. With no chance of escape; the characters are seen as having no free will. Their fate is determined by their inability to adapt to the fast moving capitalism of America in the 40’s. Capitalism “nips all aspirations in the bud” which is clearly seen through the inevitable decline of the farm. As America progresses, the Blood family…

and women began fighting for equal rights. The era of progressives touched basis in both rural and urban America. Progressivism became somewhat of a brother with modernity, as the significance was displayed in the 1912 presidential election. The winner of the 1912 election, essentially, had complete control over the amount of modernity that America would swallow. The progressive era, by far, was a significant moment in the world and had a huge impact on the growth and development in America.…

There are many iterations of the Hamlet story that have been filmed dating from 1907 up until the year 2009 yet only five of those many movies portray a good feeling and meaning for the“To Be or Not to Be” soliloquy. The five movies in mention are the Branagh, Gibson, Blockbuster, Olivier, and Doran’s versions. In the five movies the camera angle, actions of Hamlet, and the music do well at producing emotion in the viewer. But only one is superior to all. The Branagh version is the most…

Klan in the 1920’s, first you need to know a little about their origins and how they came to be. The Ku Klux Klan was a group of southern resistance and white supremacists that were ultra-conservative against the forces of diversity, equality, and modernity that was transforming American culture. They were founded as a post civil war group in 1866 in Pulaski Tennessee, by confederate veterans. Nathan Bedford Forrest was chosen as their first leader or “grand wizard”. Now the first two words of…

real old west experienvce. The streets of Rifle are embeleshed by a surprising variety of sculptures, such as an elk at the towns entrance, and a cowboy riding a trout. In the town of Rifle one is confrontted by the old west in concert with the modernity of the "new west." Filled to the brim with historu and heritage, Rifle boats many downtown shops and buildings that date back to the town's centruy-old begginings.…

The Renaissance was a period of revolutionary change, therefore literature, art, and architecture all flourished. When the medieval era shifted into early modernity, this new era adopted new political and social reforms, and these new ideals ran through Renaissance writings. There are notable examples that affected this transition to modernity such as Baldassare Castiglione’s The Book of the Courtier and Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince. These pieces of revolutionary writings are prominently…