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The concept of love is widely explored in literature, ranging from captivating. Odes about admirers to sorrow-filled compositions describing the loss of a sweetheart. Taking a charming spin on love, E. E. Cummings’ poem, “since feeling is first,” uses comparison to show that romance is propelled by the theme of purity, ultimately persuading his audience…

The Gebusi, written by Knauft, was written with the intention of sharing the author’s discoveries during his stay with and study of the Gebusi people in Papua New Guinea. Starting in the early 1980’s, he traveled to Papua New Guinea and lived with the Gebusi people. At that time, they were still in their traditional…

To have a deeper understanding of the French modernist painter Edouard Manet (1832-1883) and his masterpieces, together with his contemporaries, first we have to delve into the art movement that they have pioneered — Impressionism. But before that, it is just proper to discuss Realism, the movement that came before it. The rising Modern Age…

Islamic Art Art is the mirror of a culture and its world view. There is no case to which this statement more directly applies than to the art of the Islamic world. Not only does its art reflect its cultural values, but even more importantly, the way in which its adherents, the Muslims, view the…

The art of classical societies includes music, architecture, sculpture, literature, and paintings. In chapters three and four of Arts and Culture: An Introduction to the Humanities, Janetta R. Benton and Robert DiYanni describe the different varieties of arts that evolved within Classical Greece, Hellenistic Greece, Etruscan Civilization, the Roman Republic, and the Roman Empire. Each…

Negotiation: Negotiation is the process when two or more than two parties comes to terms with each other while engaging in any sort of exchange of goods and services and attempts to agree upon the exchange rate of  the transaction. Negotiations are more often termed as bargains by many people.( Business Essentials Harvard, 2003). Negotiation…

Once upon a time there was a pretty young girl named Cinderella. Cinderella was loved by everyone because she was good and sweet and kind. But Cinderella’s widowed father believed that she needed a mother. So he married again to a woman with two daughters of her own. Soon Cinderella’s father died and she was…

In the history of art, numerous paintings depicting similar subjects have been created by different artists belonging to various artistic movements. Each artist possesses a unique style and distinct approach in capturing their observations and translating them onto canvas. For instance, Theo van Rysselberghe’s “The Regatta,” completed in 1892, and Joseph Mallord William Turner’s “Slave…

The Art of War is the most successful book on military strategy that was written during the 6th century BC by SCun Tzu. It is one of the oldest books but it is still used today. The Art of War is a philosophy of war for managing conflicts and winning competitions. This book consists not…

In his essay “Images of Women in European Art,” John Berger compares the relationship between the surveyor and the surveyed in traditional nude European art. Typically in European art, the surveyor, usually a man, views and objectifies the nude women in the paintings. Furthermore, Berger places a large emphasis on the difference between nakedness and…