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    In the little Dutch Village of Aamersvoort, a kid by the name of Piet Mondrian was born on March seventh, 1872. Piet was the second child of four, with two brothers and one sister. As an Artist himself, bringing home the money off of his amateur art, Piet's dad, Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan Sr., saw that his child had a natural talent for drawing and painting and could give him lessons. His Uncle, Fritz Mondrian, was also an a fantastic painter and was self trained. Since he was a respectable…

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    Hard Times Lead to Great Ends Gustav Klimt is an Austrian painter most famous for his oil gliding paintings like The Kiss in which he finished in 1908. The Kiss is composed of two lovers, kissing passionately while wrapped in a bright yellow, gold cloth together. Klimt was one of seven children born to his mother and father, Ernest and Anna Klimt. He came from an artistic background. His father was a gold engraver and his mother was a talented singer but never did anything about it.…

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    Before we further discuss the overall benefits of a student teacher dynamic in the problem posing system we cannot discount the benefits of some aspects of the current banking structure of education in a western society. One of the faults that problem posing education is that it has no direction. A pure problem posing structure fears “oppression”, as Freire numerously refers, and fears any control a teacher may have over a student. And while this dynamic does promote more creative thinking, over…

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    Ancient Greece was one of the most impactful societies during it’s time and history in general, thanks to how the government system was created and maintained, the plethora of ideologies and philosophies, and the economic system. Greece was the birth of arguably one of the most important government systems ever created now known as a Democracy which is still used today. Philosophies and ideologies impacted the regions nearby and have also affected modern day drastically in many ways. The…

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    “No passion so effectively robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear....whatever is terrible, therefore, with regard to sight, is sublime, too." John Martin was a 19th century English painter, illustrator and engraver. He often featured melodramatic scenes of apocalyptic events taken from the Bible and other mythological sources. John was first apprenticed by his father which was where he was inspired to create art. While attending school at the Royal Academy he later got…

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    brilliant mind as she expanded Russia in a myriad of ways geographically and economically. Her expansion was not a unique idea but she led her military with the values of amelioration and westernization and ultimately expanded to be noted by modern western countries. She began the expansion of Russia by Turkey, declaring war on Russia in October of 1768. The war became calm and wasn’t a persistent issue until 1784. In 1784 a treaty was signed and Russia officially gained Turkish land,…

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    being from an egg (Nardo 52). This consequently aided the forming of a universal botanical language for doctors to converse medical terms with each other (Nardo 57). Comparable to Aristotle, Hippocrates became known as “The Father of Medicine” in the Western world for his work. Before Hippocrates stepped into the picture, doctors believed illnesses were punishments from the gods, and relied on herbs, spells, and rituals to heal someone (59 Nardo). Having Hippocrates mend a broken bone opened up…

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    During the early to late 1860’s landscapes were becoming more hyper-realistic due to the expansion of America with the Louisiana purchase. Artists were hired to go out with these brave colonials and paint the landscapes of this undiscovered region. What came back was absolutely breath taking. Even though this was a ploy to get people from the 13 colonies to migrate west, it was a successful one. Two of the artists chosen were Albert Bierstadt and Frederic Church, both painters by trade and both…

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    MAJOR THEMES IN THE NOVEL Individualism The white tiger symbolizes power and majesty in East Asian societies, for example, in China and Japan. It is likewise an image for independence and uniqueness. Balram is seen as not quite the same as those he grew up with. He is the person who escaped the "Murkiness" and discovered his way into the "Light". All through the book, there are references to how Balram is altogether different from those back in his home surroundings. He is alluded to as the…

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    seek hardly to perpetuate the division of the globe that is governed by unfair and unjust power relations. The functionality of the colonizer’s language is considered as a form of affiliation and adherence to the western standards which implies hierarchy and gives acquiescence to the Western supremacy. The works of postcolonial/feminist writers should be positioned in the third space, to use Bhabha’s term, in where there is ambivalence and uncertainty, an impasse that is hardly escapable; a…

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