The Killer Disease In some parts of the world there are still wars being fought and dictators in power. There are societies that consider themselves at the peak of evolution and progress. There are people who are able to create state of the art automobiles, luxurious homes, efficient and organized ...

Our ancestors first sought to understand themselves and their surroundings through the invention of myths and the worshipping of gods. The Greeks, for example, created gods like Athena and Aries to explain the concept of wisdom and war respectively. I would like to think, contrary to common thought...

Until the early nineteenth century, art and poetry emphasized form and structure. Works of art in this classical style aspired to an idealized perfection, whether in form or subject. Classical paintings often depicted gods or war heroes in idealized poses, while examples of classical poetry extoll...

It's in our homes, our cars, our work and almost every other place we go. It invades our silence, manipulates our thoughts and plays on our emotions. It has been with us almost as long as mans very existence, has survived World Wars, famine, and disease and is constantly changing, while still ...

Dictionary definitions are always helpful in making things more clear. The definition of mutilate is: to make imperfect by excising or altering parts. Mutilation is making imperfect. There are a few listed definitions of art. The first is: human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract t...

Tattooing is a traditional art form spread over many cultures and societies. A tattoo is the marking of the skin with punctures into which pigment is rubbed. The word originates from the Tahitian tattau meaning \"to mark.\" Kings and commoners, sailors and prisoners, tribesmen and sweethearts all h...

Tolstoy wrote, in What is Art? " If a man is infected by the author's condition of soul, if he feels this emotion and this union with others, then the object which has effected this is art: but if there be no such infection, if there be not this union with the same author and others who a...

The Bubonic Plague: What Did it Really Accomplish? Imagine a disease so deadly that every one out of three people in the United States would die. A disease so tragic that it would change the course of history forever. The Bubonic Plague, also known as the Black Death, was one of t...

Multiple Personality Disorders By Philip Ausherman Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) or Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) was first recognized in the 1700's but was not understood so therefore it was forgotten. Many cases show up in medical records through the years, but in 1905, D...

In this work, Foucault analyzes the role of what he calls madness in the western civilization. In Stultifera Navis, he describes the disappearance of leprosy, and the emergence of madness in its place. Since the confinement within towns only seemed to attract more madmen, so exile on a ship, particu...

The AIDS virus has been a growing problem throughout the world, particularly in Zimbabwe, Africa. The number affected by the disease is over whelming. The virus is taking seven hundred lives per week (cnn.com 1). It is estimated that the virus has infected nearly two million of its twelve million...

"Body art Once Taboo now art" You've seen them; you've hated them; you've loved them. What are they? Tattoos. Up until a few years ago the only people in society with tattoos were people who were involved with evil cults, the army, or crime. Often people who were ...

The Matrix Reality Bytes: A journey through perceptions of reality in 'The Matrix' and the technological world. The idea for this dissertation arose from the culmination of a number of thoughts that have interested me for some time. The question of 'reality' has always intrigu...

For an anorexic dieting has become an obsession and the obsession has become a disease. Anorexia Nervosa is a puzzling and cruel disease affecting thousands and thousands of young and healthy women and adolescents (Bruch 3). Anorexia Nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by the pursuit of t...

The forties are pretty well defined by World War II. US isolationism was shattered by the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. As President Franklin D. Roosevelt guided the country on the homefront, Dwight D. Eisenhower commanded the troops in Europe. Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Adm. Chester Nimitz led...

The forties are pretty well defined by World War II. US isolationism was shattered by the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. As President Franklin D. Roosevelt guided the country on the homefront, Dwight D. Eisenhower commanded the troops in Europe. Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Adm. Chester Nimitz led...

To most people, analyzing The Sorrows of Young Werther is a simple task. Relying on the worldview of a pragmatic, technology-driven, and self-assured society, they look at Werther and see a young, romantic who, because of personal weakness, developed an obsession with a woman probably because he kne...

As early as the thirteenth century, man has had one unwelcome organism along for the ride, Yersinia pestis. This is the bacterium more commonly known as the Black Death or the plague. Plague is a word that has struck fear in the hearts of man since the earliest of times. It has also led to some o...

1939, Theresienstadt, A gift from Hitler. A place of hope and happiness for Jews and Jewesses alike. Theresienstadt was somewhere they could wait the war out without fear until the shadow of Nazism passed. It was a place filled with the most prosperous artists and musicians, daily shows and ope...

Lucy Simpson Nieder "...it's all of the little things that have made my life memorable and joyful." Bad things happen to all good people eventually. This is definitely the case with Ms. Lucy Simpson Nieder. What would you do if you lost the thing you love most in the world? Or worse, if you los...

Lucy Simpson Nieder "...it's all of the little things that have made my life memorable and joyful." Bad things happen to all good people eventually. This is definitely the case with Ms. Lucy Simpson Nieder. What would you do if you lost the thing you love most in the world? Or worse, if you los...

\"When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums.\" Andy Warhol made that quote to totally destroy the fine line between fine arts and commercial arts (art used for magazine illustrations, comic books, etc.). Warhol did not create paintings, but he developed a new printing met...

A RESEARCH PAPER No one was exempt as it swept in off the shores and into the countryside laying its burden of death and pestilence. Europe had prospered readily for about 300 years prior to the beginning of the 1300s, but a series of natural disasters occurred. Poor ha...

Born in 1795, Keats, the son of a stablekeeper, was raised in Moorfields, London, and attended the Clarke School in Enfield. The death of his mother in 1810 left Keats and his three younger siblings in the care of a guardian, Richard Abbey. Although Keats was apprenticed to an apothecary, he soon ...

Edvard Munch is regarded as a pioneer of the Expressionist movement in modern painting. At an early stage, Munch was recognized in Germany and central Europe as one of the creators of a new and different movement of art that helped artists express their feelings about all the social change that was ...