Dalia Selman 03/24/2014 Response Paper 8 The Modern World Goya and Gericault Analysis The Romantic style art was a response to the restraint of Neoclassical style. Romantics exaggerated the explosion of emotion‚ free spirit and color in contrast to Neoclassical single shaded color and clean cut lines. The Grand Manner‚ declared by Louis XIV limited artists in what type of works they can produce. The Romantic period is the backlash of the artists who do want to paint/write/sculpt the unusual
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Sharon Tate once said‚ “Everything that’s realistic has some sort of ugliness in it” (BrainyQuote). Through the problem/solution structure used in essays written by Jonathan Swift and Barbara Kingsolver‚ the ugly side of realistic solutions is exemplified. In Jonathan Swifts essay “A Modest Proposal”‚ the problem of the famine in Ireland is addressed‚ followed by a very disturbing solution. Swift proposes that to solve this problem‚ the citizens of Ireland should use human babies for food. Although
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the Publick.” The reader begins to realize that Swift does not actually wish to implement these ideas of a baby being “a most delicious nourishing‚ and wholesome food” (Swift) once this extreme idea is proposed. Through this extreme proposal of cannibalism and breeding children to solve poverty and overpopulation‚ he makes the reader vulnerable while also eager to find out more. As entertaining as this text is‚ it is more than just a comic. Swift wishes to relay a much deeper meaning to the reader
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From that point on‚ he set his sights on children as he saw them as easy targets” (Maria). In 1928 Fish indulged in his first act of cannibalism. His first human meal was a little girl by the name of Grace Budd‚ she belonged to a family whom had trusted Fish. Stripping himself naked‚ Fish strangled‚ beheaded‚ and dismembered Grace with a meat cleaver. He then cooked her body parts into a
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Anderson was a murder he stabbed in wife thirty seven times. Also Jeffrey Dahmer was a horrible man. He raped‚ murdered and dismembered 17 boys often keeping parts of their body such as the skeleton. To make it worse he even involved necrophilia and cannibalism in his crimes. This man has no care for life and caused fear and sadness in the state of Wisconsin. So furthermore what is the value of the lives of these infamous killers after what they have done to other citizens? They have no respect for
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Environmental poetry expresses emotions and ideas about the surroundings and conditions to the readers and listeners. Three different landscapes are illustrated‚ by poets of different eras‚ with the use of sensual imagery‚ sound techniques and allusions. Robert Gray presents a post apocalyptic future of the impact of cities‚ through the didactic poem “Flames and Dangling Wire”. A subjective view of the environment is conveyed in “William Street”‚ Kenneth Slessor reveals that beauty lies within. In
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This is because some explorers described the Africans to be very naive and people who did weird things ranging from human sacrifice and even some writers of historical literature depict the African sat that time to have practised cannibalism. But Olaudah Equiano Tries to prove that the Africans were people who were virtuous mostly when they were isolated from the foreign influence. Also contrary to the literature that slaves were going through a lot of trouble as compared to the free
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trapped in flesh. Western orthodoxy says its a eternal spirit Aztecs= the mexica (post classic 1200-1519ad) Page 2 The Mexica- were mostly known for enthusiastically going to war‚ human sacrifice in rituals‚ dismemberment‚ cannibalism‚ and subjagation of conquered people. Had “ well developed ideas about the ultimate nature of the human being‚ how the body was animated and why‚ and what happened to the identity at and after death” he is “concerned with how one native
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The Korowai Tribe from New Guinea permits cannibalism in their culture as a ritual to protect the tribe from the Khakhua (a demon)‚ and this is considered a cultural norm among the tribe. Cultural relativism emphasises that cultures should be respected of their rights and should be viewed upon with
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Dear Mr. Smarmy‚ On the behalf of the school board in Trinity‚ Idaho‚ I would like to thank you for your concerns about the assigned reading of Jonathan Swift’s “Modest Proposal”. It is apparent that you want Swift’s “Modest Proposal” to be removed from our school district because it contains “blatantly anti-human and sickening suggestions [that will] be read by young impressionable youth.” After a review of the essay‚ we have come to a unanimous conclusion. We‚ the school board‚ have decided that
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