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            In the painting by Jose Clemente Orozco, entitled Cortes y Malinche, a white (or Mexican) man and an Indian woman sit on what appears to be a throne while an Indian man lies, presumably dead, at their feet.  There are several elements at work within this painting, the most obvious of which is that…

Frank Lloyd Wright was born in June 8, 1867 and known to be the greatest American designer of all times. In 1932, ten edifices by Wright has been selected to take part in an exhibition of The International Style at the Museum of Modern Art ( MoMa ) . This has been seen as a…

Born in 1906, R. K. Narayan was brought up in a country struggling to gain independence. ‘The M. C. C. ’, an excerpt taken from the larger novel Swami and Friends by Narayan, was published in 1935, a time when Anti-British sentiments were at their height, engaging Indians from every corner of the country. In…

Religion held a significant position in the ancient Spartan society. Alongside their renowned reputation for being formidable warriors, Spartans were also famous among other Greek city-states for their earnest devotion and deep seriousness towards religion and the deities. Due to their unwavering commitment to religious rituals, they were frequently ridiculed by other Greek states. It…

James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” recounts the troubled history and unlikely reconciliation of two brothers: an unnamed narrator, and his younger brother, Sonny. The story begins when the narrator, a high school teacher, reads in the newspaper that Sonny has been arrested on drug charges. As the older brother, he feels guilty for not keeping Sonny…

Alex (Efron) is a 15-year-old intersex person, with both male and female genitals, who has been living as a girl and using medicines to suppress masculine features, such as a beard, and to attempt to have more feminine features. However, recently Alex has stopped taking her medication. Alex’s parents moved with her from Argentina to…

It starts off with a low angle looking at the cricket ball being hit into the sky, followed by a close up to Jamal’s face. Then switching shots from the falling ball and Jamal’s face, as he is getting ready to catch the ball. As the ball is about to hit the ground there is…

Society invariably influences artwork produced by artists. Materials and available technology of the era also play a significant role. Cavemen used cave walls and ground pigments made from ocher. His subject matter was influenced by superstition and his environment. Sculptor and architect Filippo Brunelleschi was the first to use a geometrically based linear perspective. This…

In the movie Lars and the Real Girl, filmmaker Craig Gillespie tells the story about a shy, socially awkward man named Lars Lindstrom who lives in a small garage of his brother, Gus and his sister-in-law, Karin’s house. Lars barely gets into human contact that even the people he is close to, are sort of…

These cientists can be differentiated due to the paradigms, the “lenses” that view society from certain angle and characterize it accordingly. There are three major paradigms in sociology, which are Structural Functionalism, Social Conflict and Symbolic Interaction. Nowadays, there are many ways of implementing these paradigms for learning society in smaller scale, in similar to…