Art Review - Brian Jungen Chester Krupa-Carbone 500652158 RTA 322 Lila Pine "I experiment until I can find a way I can manipulate them [the source material] or take advantage of their iconography, without completely changing them. I like the fact that people can still recognize what the source material is." - Brian Jungen Brian Jungen is a canadian artist from British Columbia with Swiss and Dunne-za First Nations ancestry. (Wikipedia) He was born in 1970 in British…
Pilot Essay Title “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU”. This saying found throughout, as well on the very first page of George Orwell’s classic novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, epitomizes the totalitarian regime of the novel’s principal country, fictitious Oceania. Orwell depicts the regime so well, in fact, that the term Orwellian, meaning a situation that is destructive for the welfare of a people, has become synonymous with the idea of totalitarianism as a whole. Orwell’s ability to accurately depict…
In Orwell’s dystopian society, the telescreen is symbol of the governments omnipresence in the lives of the citizens of Oceania. Orwell anticipated a society in which the government would never allow trust of its citizens, thus revealing the telescreen in the first chapter as stated, “[t]he instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely” (Orwell, 1949, p.4). The telescreen’s presence in the novel is not to control the society but to…
“Faith, Journey into your soul”: An Annotated Bibliography “Young Goodman Brown” is a story about a man who is questioning his faith and finish ended up puzzled by a life changing event. Gregory, Leslie. "The Text of Nathaniel Hawthorne 's "Young Goodman Brown"." American Literature Research and Analysis. 2 May. 2012. Web. 1 August 2015. The research of “Young Goodman Brown,” explains the various images found in the short story. The two articles helps clarifies Hawthorne’s criticisms over…
Significant texts offer insights into how core values define the thoughts and actions of individuals within society. It is, however, the context of such texts which present the values and perspectives of composers. Lang’s Metropolis (1927) focuses on the misuse of technology, power and control, reflecting his fears of an exploitative capitalist system in a period of hyperinflation and social turmoil within the Weimar Republic. Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984(1948) demonstrates his criticism of…
Reality television, as the name suggests, offers viewers a multitude of programs ranging from wilderness survival to a multitude of attractive woman vying for the attention and marriage of a singular man to the everyday lives of a family. These shows aim to provide entertainment to audiences, giving them insider access to the apparently unscripted events and relationships of the contestants. While filmed and edited to appear as if everything occurred naturally, without directing and prompting,…
invades even privacy of the bedroom” (26). Afraid of the Party’s scrutinous surveillance, the citizens of Oceania helplessly acclimate themselves to living according to the Party’s tacit rules to evade penalty. With the constant reminders of the omnipresence of the Inner Party through propaganda, these people discouraged from utilizing their free time for themselves. As a result of the Party’s prominent presence in Oceanic life, people are prohibited from utilizing their basic right to…
slavery is to persuade one that it is wrong. Finally I would like to leave one with a quote to dwell upon: “Let not those who say that the path of obedience is a dangerous one claim to believe in the living and true God. They deny his omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence. It is his will that the bands of wickedness should be loosed, the heavy burdens of tyranny undone, the oppressed set…
Before St. Thomas Aquinas gave an answer to the question whether God exists in things, he, in I.7, answered that God is limitless. The characteristic of limitless things is to exist with an unending amount everywhere in everything . Then he asks about God’s existence in things, I.8.1-4. He is trying to answer the questions: Is God in all things, Is God everywhere, Is God everywhere by essence, power, and presence, and Does it belong to God alone to be everywhere? These questions and their…
Pasuram 1: The first pasuram shows that the only qualification to attain moksham is the desire to reach moksham. Therefore the path of saranagathi is open to everyone. Pasuram 2: The second pasuram informs us about the dos and donts to be followed while performing the Pavai Nombhu. Pasuram 3: The third pasuram tells us that if we perform the nombhu with the only intention of pleasing Lord Krishna, He will grant us all kinds of wealth to make our life comfortable in this world itself. Pasuram…