Pastoral

This is a piece called The Dead Soldier, by Joseph Wright. Joseph Wright was an English portrait and landscape painter. He is thought of as the first professional painter to express the spirit of the Industrial Revolution. He is also well known for his emphasis on contrast in his paintings, called the Chiaroscuro effect. He often painted figures in dark lighting illuminated by candlelight. Although he started off his career by being a portrait painter, he increasingly started to paint…

Although Wolsey was able to celebrate success at the beginning of this juridical reformation and served his King successfully by making the system more efficient, meaning that his subjects were subjected to less waiting time and the system had less chance of being corrupted, it was eventually corrupted and abused. This turned a success into a failure and his own goals of removing threats to him from Henry, so that they would have no further influence, brought about another failure. He not only…

Throughout history, pastoral and agricultural societies ruled over Asia. But once man decided to venture off and explore new parts of the world, the dispersion of culture, people, animals, plants, religion, and diseases ensued. The interaction between societies allowed the world to become more advanced and efficient. Importantly, interactions between two cultures, on opposite parts of the world, has immensely impacted the world today. At a time when the Aztecs and Incas were becoming major…

Fundamentally, the Mongols were nomadic and the Chinese and Russians sedentary. The Mongolian pastoral nomads relied on their animals for survival and moved their habitat several times a year in search of water and grass for their herds. Led by Genghis Khan and motivated by very real economic means, the Mongols established the largest land empire…

thoughts but with ambiguity and irony, it was possible to express her views indirectly. According to Levernier, the style used by Wheatley is described as African as well as British Neoclassical. The poetic modes used in her literal works were the pastoral, the elegy, the lyric, and the epic (Shields). She develops the use of subversive persona, along with ironic wording and innuendo as a form of protest against the abuse, suppression, and emancipation of slaves in…

Aristotle analyses politics as a whole. Relation between law and ruler, many rulers and one ruler, individual and state, state and house hold management, etc. Aristotle’s work seems to promote a community-centered approach to society in order to sustain the state, which aims at the good life for the its citizens—the good life is the aim of the state, and of minor institutions such as the household. From several types of community found in nature, the state is the most natural and best one.…

The mood of just about anything can elicit an emotional response from the audience. In movies, things like the lighting or the kind of music heard can change the emotions or thought-process of its viewers and, much like films, literary works can create an atmosphere that makes the reader experience something; whether it be good or bad. That is the ability that many poems possess; the ability to create a mood which can make the audience actually feel the scene, not just read it. There is a lot to…

Throughout most of this class this semester, the idea of what makes an Islamic movement authentically “Islamic” appears to be explicit, hardline doctrinal ties to the establishment of some sort of Islamic polity. As Ali Rahnema mentions in the introduction of the Pioneers of the Islamic Revival: “Islamic Revivalism …is characterized by a renewed interest in Islam as an endogenous ideology with redeeming powers. For the born-again Muslim the Qur’an and the Tradition of the Prophet provide…

The Human Beings Inclination to Attain Freedom Nelson Mandela once stated, “There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires” (BrainyQuote). Moreover, freedom is a basic desire which everyone seeks to attain. Essentially, it is a part of our human nature to strive for, go after, and achieve, a life of freedom. In the novel The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart…

Taylor Levant FMS 508 Defying the Odds: The Defiant Ones and Interracial Buddy Films Audiences have long been fascinated with interracial buddy films. From comedy to sci-fi, moviegoers love the opposites attract chemistry that these on screen homosocial relationships spark, as well as the stories they tell about men and the times in which they live. Though interracial films are commonplace today, the genre didn’t even exist until The Defiant Ones was released in 1958. Directed by Stanley…