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Invented Dialogue             A student is conducting an interview, a final requirement for one of his courses, with an art historian. The topic of the interview is Jacques-Louis David’s Oath of Horatii. Student: Good day sir! This interview will focus on the Oath of Horatii. First, can you please tell me the basic information of…

Different types of body modification and why people do them. It is so obvious that we as humans crave to stand out in any instance we can, no way are we going to let anyone out shine us. So we modify things about ourselves daily, drastic or not to show others that we are different…

In the movie House of Flying Daggers, martial arts was portrayed more of an art rather than just fighting or violence. The scene where Mei dances in front of Leo with pebbles flying everywhere showed that martial arts is an art. In this scene, the art of dancing gracefully attracted me as a viewer. The…

As individuals age, they gain knowledge but also lose certain things. In Orson Scott’s novel “Enders Game,” children represent hope. As people grow older, they exchange innocence for intelligence and naivety for caution. Adults view the sense of wonder in a child’s eyes skeptically and fail to recognize their capacity for love, ability to appreciate…

Graphic Design has always been playing a part in beautifying written documents ever since man learnt how to write. Ancient manuscripts unearthed in Greece, Egypt and China, abound in examples of graphic designs (early cousins of what we know as graphic design today) since the need to beautify or highlight a particular point was as…

Eastern classical music is one of the oldest signifiers of music. It has a long and celebrated history that has changed in many ways over 100s of old ages. It dates back to 13th and fourteenth century. Hindustani music silhouetted into being someplace in Northern India, where it was practiced while executing the Yoga in…

The Great Mosque of Cordoba The Great Mosque of Cordoba can be seen as “the earliest extant example of Andalusi architectural culture”[i]. The Mezquita’s history begins with its initial inception and assembly in the late eighth-early ninth century, continuing into its expansions of the tenth century, culminating in its unexpected welding of ideology in the…

Jelly Roll Morten (1890 1941). First recognized and important jazz composer. Capable of playing both ragtime styles and jazz styles. (Incorporate improvisation in his music.) Pioneer of swing 8th note technique. Engaging/ energizing performer. (Coming from improvisation. In the moment. Lack in recordings). Earl Father Hines (1903-1983) pianist and band leader, born Pittsburg, moved to…

            The Millennium Bridge, one of London’s major attractions, opened on June 10 (David Newland) after the world observed the passing of the millennium (T.R. Reid). The thin silver bridge was built to link the St. Paul’s Cathedral, located on the north bank of the Thames River, and the Globe Theater of Shakespeare on the…

Music is a science of a syntactic system. Like words, musical ideas keep (some of) their identity and implication within different contexts as contributing to the whole resulting from their combination; melodies introduced in the elucidation remain recognizable as individuals while they return in the recapitulation, even if the altered method of their conjunction lends…