The Faceless

1. The fact that slaves weren’t even permitted to know something as simple as the day they were born, or even the year they were born lets me know just how dehumanized they were. In this quote, Douglass compares the slaves’ lack of knowledge of their age to that of a horse. This comparison was very powerful and showed me how much slaves were put-down by their masters. This also seems like a good way to keep the slaves ignorant to the fact that they were, in fact, humans. 2. It seems that slaves…

When I started this paper I assumed it would be possible to identify the various schools such as revisionist, post revisionist and New Left historians. When I began to refine my thesis, I found that there is no one true school. Instead, business, history and politics had wrapped themselves into various movements such as Libertarianism (including both Right-libertarianism and Left-libertarianism), Populist, Liberalism, as well as Conservative and Socialist movements within the United States.…

PLOT AND STRUCTURE Alex (Malcolm McDowell), a young archaic man is leader to a gang of four mischievous young adults in a future Britain. While skipping school, Alex and the gang, aka The Droogs, spend their spare time beating the homeless, raping women, and stealing along the way. Abruptly Alex ends up in Prison where he begins being experimented on in exchange for an early release. In testing, the scientists try to remove the evil from Alex. After finally breaking Alex down with a visual…

Light is illuminating off of her body in vector lines drawing the audience’s audience to her, this contrasted to the dark outside world with faceless male figures illustrates this concept of her being the symbol of purity and good. This corresponds with the similar ideas in the Grimm brother’s interpretation, with light falling on her in a similar way. Highlighting the nature of society to value…

Introduction What are the damages wrought by oil spills? The answer appears painfully simple however it affirms itself through argument less than through visceral photographs: pelicans suffocating in oil, masterpieces of oil laden water, people like surgeons in gloves and masks cleaning the shorelines. We may think that, as suggested by Tatjana Soli (2010) in The Lotus Eaters, “pictures [cannot] be accessories to the story within the frame; the best picture contained a whole war within one…

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Although both Neoclassical and Romantic art were often used for political propaganda and messages of morality, the intense emotion felt when gazing upon Romantic works is timeless, impacting human feelings century after century. Although Neoclassical successfully reminds us, after the frivolous indulgence of the Rococo, of our potential for refined principles in its solemn portrayal of the most rational of Roman figures and Greek democracy, its scenes were often used to depict the modern apex…

The term ‘existential crisis’ is relatively new. For most of history people followed the ancient Greek philosophers that people are born with their own essence, their own defining characteristic. The idea that nature or in the Christian Tradition God endowed each person with her own essential piece of being could give meaning and purpose to people’s lives, as there was a big guy in the sky dictating and creating everyone with a plan. However, the questioning of the ideal of an essence begins in…

Throughout the entire existence of film and media, there is always the perfect/crazed imaginative mind that generates the ideal monster, such as brain-eating zombies or the slashing Freddy Krueger. From folklore to the big screen, each generation grows up with a nightmare from the haunting characters that allow themselves to wonder their way into the consciousness of children. Unfortunately, for this current generation has a creature so bizarre that the creation has infiltrated into the minds of…

During his recovery, he painted The Card Players, as seen in Figure 2, in 1917. Léger continues to use tubism, primary colors, and mechanical forms, but his style has become more developed. The colors are slightly duller and, in general, there is less color in this work. Before, his paint was brighter in tone, but now the colors are getting cloudier. All that remains of any bright color is the few touches of red seen on the soldiers, presumably part of their uniform, and the yellow, which…