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Henri Matisse was a renowned and infamous artist widely recognized for leading the Fauvist movement in the 1900s. Born in France on December 31, 1869, Matisse is distinguished for being one of the most important and influential artists of the 20th century. His varied inspirations were derived from landscapes, interiors, and still life, but he…

Just as Impressionism played a key role in Modernism, another revolutionary art movement is Cubism. About 30 years after the first Modernist movement Impressionism begun, Cubism was slowly replacing it. “Since the Renaissance almost all paintings had obeyed a convention”, Pablo Picasso ditched this convention of three dimensionality illusions, rather creating an extreme demolished picture…

These days, there seems to be no shortage in site for franchises. Studios today take this approach to minimize expenditures and increase revenue, via ticket sales, merchandise sales, and product placement deals. Because of this, blockbuster films are often called “two and a half hour commercials”. Hollywood takes this approach because of past film franchise…

Kate Chopin’s controversial novel, The Awakening, presents the protagonist, Edna Pontellier, on a quest of self-questioning and fulfillment. Edna alienates herself from the flawed society of the Victorian Era that is her unfortunate reality. Her process of transforming from the imprisonment of her marriage to an individualistic woman highlights aspects of realism, specifically the social…

Derogatory language has a lengthy history in being used to demean people of certain minority populations. The way some words are defined by society can change. However, it takes much time and general acceptance by society for a meaning to amend. Marcus Schulzke explores the notion of meaning transformation in his scholarly article. Schulzke (2012)…

The narrator in The Scarlet Letter is the lens through which the reader interprets the narrative. A reading of the novel, however, becomes complicated since there are, possibly, different narrative perspectives. The novel is set in the seventeenth-century; therefore characters cannot see beyond the religious ideology of the time, Puritanism. Yet, The Scarlet Letter was…

In this story the main character “Gregor” who Kafka uses to reflect his own life of alienation and abandonment. Gregor is seen as a salesman who works day in and day out to support his family who has never given him a dime.” I agree with Robbie Batson Reality Through Symbolism, about the similarities between…

“The Breakfast Club” is the movie that I choose to analyze in views of the three sociology theories. This move directly relates to crime and deviance. I discovered a lot by analyzing and watching the film at the same time, a lot in which I did not know before. Doing these analyses really helps one…

For years woman have fought for an equal place in society. Long before the 1890’s, women were taught they had a domestic role in society. The social code in this time period consisted of all women getting married to soon starts a family at a young age. If a woman did not get married, they…

Between 1920 and 1930, America moves into a more social period, known as the Harlem Renaissance. After World War I, many African Americans migrate to big cities in the North. Harlem takes place in one of the major cities, which is in New York. In the ‘Cultural and Historical Context: The Harlem Renaissance,’ more than…