How do you perceive art and what does it mean to you? For me, art is a way for me to fully express my feelings toward a subject and lose my mind in a void of fantasy and reality. Art has no format and is very unique. A time that I enjoyed viewing some exquisite pieces of art was at the Dali Museum j...

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...

In order to have an opinion regarding the controversial views of an artist and their work, one must come to terms with the meaning of art. Art is abstract, it involves the ordinary and entwining it into a creation of many dimensions. Art is creativity, expression, rebirth, and a state of mind. There...

The Fearful Symmetry Symmetry is defined as correspondence in size, shape, and relative position of parts on opposite sides of a dividing line. This definition applies to the abstract geometric shapes and all the man-made objects that are based on the impeccably symmetric geometric model. This kind...

Within John Ruskin\'s book \"The Two Paths\" he discusses many of his ideas, concerns, and theories on art and art culture. I will cover four of what I think to be the more interesting concepts. Balancing true representation of form and \'abstract\' human expression in an artwork. The effect art has...

The chosen supplementary text is an article titled "WHAT SADDAM WAS REALLY THINKING" written by Johanna McGeary. The source of the article is the Time magazine published on the 18th October 2004. The inner journey in this article is the decision journey that Saddam Hussein undertakes...

Small discussion on the wax argument In Descartes¡¯ second meditation, when considering the corporeal things in the external world he takes the wax as an example to examine whether it is our sense that gives us the understanding of these things. First, when the wax has just been taken out from th...

Page 1 Plato is one of the most famous and influential philosophers of all time. Writing several books, pertaining to many different topics. He learned his skill from the father of modern philosophy and learned it well. Effecting countless minds of his time, and many more extending all the w...

\"O for a life of sensations rather than thoughts!\" What is the relation between thought and feeling in Keats\'s odes? Out of all his poetry, the odes appear to be the most sensually explored poems that Keats wrote. Through this collection of poetry, he deeply explores the world of feelings and ...

Dupee, mozillaPhilosophy The initial groundwork for Berkeley's position is the truism that the materialist is a skeptic. In the writing of his three dialogues, Berkeley develops two characters: Hylas (the materialist) and Philonous (Berkeley himself). Philonous draws upon one central sup...

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...

Lost Highway: Interpreted but Never Explained The purpose of this essay is to explain the psychoanalytic and postmodern ideals portrayed in the David Lynch film "Lost Highway." His works are, for the most part, non-linear, absurd, chaotic and emotional. Lynch takes the rawness of human...

We live in a world today were everything has to be factual. We as a society need to completely understand everything that is going on around us at all times. We satisfy this need in many ways. From creating scientific formulas that will include every minute detail into its calculations to spending ...

The Study of the Mind:Mind & ThinkingThe objective of The Mind is to provide the reader with a unique overview of the thinking of human kind. Self-understanding is one of humankind's most ancient quests. Who am I? What is my relationship to the world around me? These questions marked the beginni...

\'It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters in the end.\' Ursula Le Guin A journey is an arbitrary, cyclic conduit to which no end can be foreseen. The arrival of a journey is not the end, simply a reflection on the events thus far, a pause in the eternal flig...

MACBETHMacbeth is presented as a mature man of definitely established character, successful in certain fields of activity and enjoying an enviable reputation. We must not conclude, there, that all his choices and actions are predictable. Macbeth's character, like any other man's at a given moment, i...

The Character of MacBeth: Macbeth is presented as a mature man of definitely established character, successful in certain fields of activity and enjoying an enviable reputation. We must not conclude, there, that all his volitions and actions are predictable; Macbeth's character, like any other ...