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    bird" not to be caged?....no‚ she is an existential rogue. Truman Capote carefully handled the creation of this character and through her was able to elaborate on major existential themes. She is clearly one of Capote’s most intricate characters and possibly‚ the greatest existential icon in both American literature and classical‚ American cinema . With this analysis‚ Holly Golightly must be broken down to obtain a further glance into the numerous existential elements she inhibits. "It may be

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    Venus and Andy Warhol

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    a full grown woman arriving at the shore. Painted in 1486‚ and with the medium of tempera on canvas‚ The Birth of Venus hangs in the Uffizi gallery in Florence Italy. This renaissance painting is huge and is 67.9 inches tall by 109.6 inches wide. Andy Warhol’s screen print Venus was done is 1984 and has been mass produced all over the country. There are many critiques and analysis for both of these pieces. Also there is a large amount of comparisons between the two‚ because they are both of the

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    Andy Weir's The Martian

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    The Martian by Andy Weir is a newly published novel that has recently been adapted into a movie. I was introduced to this novel through Audible. It was one of my suggested reads and it sounded interesting. I’m really into science fiction and technology‚ which brought me to reading this book. The Martian takes place a majority of the time on Mars. The fourth planet from the sun doesn’t provide great hospitality as we see in this novel. Mark Watney‚ a botanist on a mission on Mars‚ is lost and left

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    Andy Warhol's Prediction

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    In Andy Warhol’s famously predicted quotation he states‚ "In the future‚ everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes."‚ many people would get the idea that he was crazy or absurd‚ but others would have argued that it was a creative prediction & chose his side. The idea seems to be very creative & beautiful because so many people would do anything to become famous. When Warhol shared his prediction with the world‚ the majority of the society dismissed him but not quite everyone. Some people

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    Humanistic and Existential Personality Theories A personality is similar to a fingerprint‚ it is distinctive. The Humanistic and Existential. Theories of personality illustrate self-actualization‚ motivation‚ existentialism and person-centered theory. Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs explicate the humanistic theory of motivation. Man achieves a situation in life established as self-actualization; nevertheless‚ the principle to achieving self-actualization a high level need‚ commence with

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    growth. In “Fairy Tales and the Existential Predicament” by Bruno Bettelheim he argues that fairy tales help teach children more than parents do‚ since parents want to shelter children and only show them the sunny side of things. Fairy tales help them understand the existential predicaments one can face in life and shows that one can overcome anything that is thrown at them. In “Aschenputtel” by the brothers Grimm there’s this young girl that is expose to existential predicaments and shows the journey

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    Lieberman I would like to answer this question not as the Dashiell we all know and love but as an existential Dashiell. As an existentialist I would want the truth and the facts; that is a lot different than wanting an explanation. An existentialist doesn’t believe that everything needs an explanation and a reason. They believe in the cold hard truth and facts like the great existential characters Donnie Darko and Mersault of The Stranger‚ who died for representing the ultimate truth

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    Andy Goldsworthy life

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    concepts. Andy Goldsworthy respectively creates his art as this. Andy Goldsworthy was born in Cheshire‚ Scotland‚ in the year 1956. He is a British sculptor and photographer living in Scotland with his wife and children. Goldsworthy has traveled and created works of art out NATURAL materials. Through the art practice analysis there are 6 main keys. ● ● ● ● ● ● conceptual practice material practice processes nature of practice Influences workspace / environment Andy Goldsworthy

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    : Existential crisis in Waiting for Godot The absurd plays deal with the themes of existentialism‚ especially the existentialist theme of absurdity. The absurd playwrights tried to translate the contemporary existentialism philosophy into the drama. The absurd playwrights also tried to portray the distressful condition of the humans. In Waiting for Godot the human condition is shown as a dismal and distressful state. The derelict man struggles to live or rather exist‚ in a hostile and uncaring world

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    Andy Warhol Apple

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    Andy Warhol’s 1985 painting‚ Apple‚ certainly caught my eyes as I was browsing his exhibit in the Blanton Museum of Art. The painting was a simple Apple logo decorated with a rainbow-like array of colors in between parallel lines that ran across the logo. These lines existed even outside the logo‚ except in a different color‚ yet stayed in stripes similar to how the lines on a sheet of notebook paper are. However‚ the most alluring part was how the lines and the “Macintosh” in the painting looked

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