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    Attempting to meet the expectations of others. William Carlos Williams worked hard throughout his career to reach his goal of perfecting his own simple and modern style of poetry‚ along with the help of some friends. William lived in the era of modernism and was considered to be an imagist poet. Williams strived to write poetry that focused on modern people and everyday situations in the simplest of words. But how did the events and people in his lifetime influence the way Williams wrote poetry?

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    and realized he had a talent for art. He had always wanted to become an artist but told everyone‚ “Being an artist is very rare‚ there aren’t many people who achieve it.” (Goldstein 4) Wayne Thiebaud is one of the hardest working artists of the Modernism era‚ and he is best known for his paintings of cakes‚ bakeries‚ and deli counters. In Thiebaud’s earlier years‚ he took art classes and started drawing and creating stage sets for the theatre‚ which gave him the idea of bright colors in his paintings

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    House and the Vanna Venturi House: A Case Study Kyuho Ahn University of Oregon‚ Oregon‚ USA  In architectural fields‚ it is often unclear where to draw the line between Modernism and Postmodernism that often represent political debates between the ideology of orthodox modernity and the anti-ideology movement against Modernism as a social and political movement‚ because architectural forms result from complex and multi-layers problem solving. This paper argues that a particular architectural style

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    References: 1. Mary Jo Hatch and Ann L. Cunliffe 2006‚ Organization Theory: Modern‚ symbolic and postmodern perspectives‚ 2nd edition‚ Oxford University Press‚ New York 2. Pauline Rosenau 2002‚ Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences‚ Greenwood Publishing Group 3. Simon. H. A. 1997‚ Administrative Behavior‚ 4th Edition‚ Free Press 4. Jaffee. D. 2008‚ Ch.2. Conflict at work throughout the history of organisations. In Dreu‚ Carsten K. W. de.‚ Gelfand‚ Michele

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    represents a departure from modernism and is characterized by the self-conscious use of earlier styles and conventions‚ a mixing of different artistic styles and media ‚ and a general distrust of theories’.(Oxford Dictionaries‚ pra.2)For a long time‚ countless artists and theorists try to define the term modernism and postmodernism‚ but it was found too hard to distinguish them. By the opinions of Paul Smethurst‚ postmodernism could be presented as a reaction of modernism‚ but this is a complex and

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    A Modernist Examination of The Good Anna and The Great Gatsby Modernism is a movement characterized by the re-examination of literary styles‚ structures‚ content‚ and even human existence thought to be standard prior to 1900. The movement was all about looking at things in a new light‚ and trying to break the mold so long held by society as the norm. This movement took place in art‚ music‚ architecture‚ and as I will further discuss in this paper‚ literature. In this paper‚ I will discuss the modernist

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    approach to the literature while holding some of its core values (A Brief Guide to Modernism). As a poet of in-between eras‚ Frost holds onto the essential structure of a poem because he burgeoned with it‚ but as other poets began questioning the nature of such conformity after the progressiveness occurring in the nineteenth century‚ Frost shifted his thinking accordingly to adopt the new audience (A Brief Guide to Modernism). Another style Frost utilizes to gain audiences derives from his knowledge of

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    things come through persistence and solitude. Constantin Brancusi is commonly regarded as a founding father of modernist sculpture‚ with Wassily Kandinsky‚ Kazimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian being founders of abstract painting. But has subsequent modernism much in common with Brancusi’s work and vision‚ or has it become its very antithesis? Herbert Read wrote in his book Modern Sculpture that the “modern artist‚ by nature and destiny‚ is always an individualist.” If this is so‚ then the question

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    another. Most of the text focuses on the weight of Modernism in today’s society and the effects our past has on shaping this movement. McEvilley begins by lamenting that people view art pieces as uncontrolled existences that are neither affected by culture‚ politics‚ economic and social history. Though his investigation within these exclusions he concludes that colonialism and imperialism had an adverse impact on these areas but also in art. Modernism‚ colonialism and imperialism The author challenges

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    such as resurrection/reconstruction‚ self-reflection‚ and multi-narratives are all applied conventions of postmodern fiction and allow us to stray from the regular conventions of modernism. Whereas Modernism

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