The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

In 1872 Charles Darwin argued that all mammals, both humans and animals, showed emotion through facial expressions. He laid the foundation for nonverbal research by asking, why do we wrinkle our nose when we are disgusted and bare our teeth when we are enraged? Over the last hundred years much research has been put into answering this question and many more relating to nonverbal cues and the rolls they play in everyday life. An augment that is being debated today is to what degree does…

These facial expressions are the universal ones, like smiling while happy. If a person is angry they sometimes run into the forest to show they are mad and doesn’t want to get angrier. If a person would like to show their overjoy they may prance around in a circle. When a couple decides to start a family the man will grow out his facial hair while the women will wear a special necklace. When we burry someone so…

An early advertisement for Pipe Dream, a computer game, incorporated the image of a man in a straitjacket with “hair going in all directions, wide eyes and open mouth”. In another instance, to convey that the character was crazy, Crazy Eddie’s logo feature a misshapen cartoon with a large pointed nose, crossed eyes, and wiry, disheveled…

Growing up Scout has learned a lot about how a woman should act and why being a girl isn’t ideal for most situations. Scout constantly hears the words spewed from Jems mouth on how women/girls are lesser from the opposed man. “I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find someone to play with.” (Lee 54) Scout knows it’s not okay…

Edgar Allan Poe is a famed Gothic writer from the 18th Century made popular by his short stories and essays that depict the dark and twisted elements of the human psyche. Poe contradicts the transcendentalist belief that men are inherently good in nature by exposing the subdued sadistic impulses of his characters that he refers to as the "spirit of perverseness" (Poe 237). Poe believed that these impulses lay buried in our subconscious but eventually leak out into our consciousness affecting our…

Following the release of D.W. Griffith’s seminal work, The Birth of a Nation, was an explosion of controversy over the racism in the film’s portrayal of blacks and people of mixed race. Since then, Griffith had thoroughly maintained that he himself was not racist and in righting his wrongs, he went out to make in particular, two films to show the movie going public how unprejudiced he was (Lesage). Those two films were Intolerance and the movie to be discussed in this paper, Broken Blossoms.…

Artworks have the capacity to express deep emotions and influence generations. A variety of art forms such as paintings, sculptures, architecture, music, literature, etcetera, have profoundly emphasized past cultures and contributed to present day. Numerous works of art, even from prehistoric times are able to inspire artists because they are everlasting imprints. Similar stylistic forms and structural designs are utilized by different artists due to their impacts on one another. Artists create…

beauty and behavior. Many have made a stance against this force and sought to control society’s influence over the female struggle; however, we fail to acknowledge the male struggle. Society’s impact over the male ideology on “what it takes to be a man” has been effective for as long as its impact on women, and just as poisonous. The consequences and torture concealed in the pressures induced by masculinity, particularly toxic masculinity, must be brought to our attention. Characteristics of…

Michelangelo was considered one of the greatest artists out of the Italian Renaissances. Michelangelo “reinvigorated the classical idea that the nude human body is a sufficient vehicle for the expression of all emotions (Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564)). The Italian Renaissance was from 1420 – 1600 a time of great cultural change and new ways of thinking as well as great advancement and achievement were underway. Renaissance translates to “rebirth…

War can wound and burn, but it can also heal. In the book, All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque presents this, and then some--a thoroughly unsightly image of war-guttural, jagged landscapes of emotion, meandering rivers of humanity, and acrid pictures of the soldier's experience. Set starkly in WWI, it focuses on the brutality and senselessness of war, even going so far as to vividly depict scenes of viscera, gore, and trench warfare (however synonymous those 3 may be). It has no…