Art may be present in any form of human activity. Plato regarded art as a form of play or pastime, which was inferior to such occupations as agriculture or cookery. Schiller referred to art as a play impulse. According to Ruskin, fine art is that which the hand, the head and the heart of ma...

What about the Hype? In our society today there is one key element that informs the world in many different ways. This element is the media. It comes in many forms such as television, newspapers, magazines etc. Since we are subjected to the media everyday, it can influence how we feel about p...

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...

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...

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...

James Parkinson first described Parkinson's disease in England in 1817. Parkinson wrote a description of six patients suffering from a slowly progressing disease characterized by "involuntary tremulous motion, which lessened muscular power in parts not in action even when supported, with...

Parkinson's Disease "No man has ever been successful in an endeavor for which he felt no passion" -J.T. 1995- My grandfather is Joe Kenneth McLemore, he was born June 16, 1938. He has been more like a father than a grandfather to me; I was even named after him. So, in 1995 when he was di...

The Mysteries Surrounding Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease is a killer. What we know is that it wastes no time. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease will kill a person within one year of contraction. It is yet unknown how Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease chooses its victims, but it does ...

ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE Alzheimer's disease is relentlessly destroying the brains and lives of our nation's older adults, robbing them of memory, the ability to reason, and affecting their emotions and behavior. Alzheimer's disease is a degenerative disorder of the brain. The lo...

Lyme disease is a fairly common disease that goes misdiagnosed in many cases. There are many misconceptions about the disease. The disease accounts for ninety percent of infectious diseases in the United States from 1980 to 1998, with about 112,000 cases have been reported from the forty-nine stat...

How would you feel if you digested a potentially dangerous meat that wasn't properly tested? Many people have since the discovery of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) or mad cow disease. The whole world has been hit with the disease and many humans have digested the bad beef. As it stands...

Stress is a known precursor of periodontal disease (Boyapati & Wang 2000; Wimmer, Janda, Wieselmann-Penker, Jaske, Polansky & Pertl 2002; Davis & Jenkins 1962). Whether due to the effects of stress on intermediary factors like hormonal changes that, in turn, affect oral health or to the direct effec...

Introduction: Chagas' disease currently affects 16 million people and 100 million people are thought to be at risk of contracting the disease. Of these 16 million people, 30% will develop debilitating lesions that characterise the incurable form of the disease. It is responsible for an e...

The Royal Disease The Royal Disease is hemophilia. It is sometimes called by this name because it afflicted many royal families. The National Hemophilia Foundation or NHF states that, "This is because Queen Victoria, Queen of England from 1837 to 1901, was a carrier. She passed the disease on...

There are many mentally destructive diseases in our world putting millions, if not billions, of people at risk. Of these many diseases, one of the most damaging is Alzheimer's Disease. Alzheimer's Disease is a progressive, degenerative disease of the brain, and the most comm...

Parkinson's disease is a degenerative neurological disease that affects approximately one million persons in the United States. It primarily impacts the specific part of the brain that controls movement called the substantia nigra. This degeneration creates a shortage of the brain-signaling chemic...

Livestock Disease and African Food Security A serious problem in Africa today is the emergence of rampant, deadly strains of disease that are affecting livestock and ravaging populations of pigs and cattle in many African nations, putting food security at risk in many populations of various n...

Mad Cow Disease There are two new diseases in a growing line to plague humankind. Bovine Spongiform Encenphalopathy and its human form, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, better known as mad cow disease, are new kinds of diseases that appear to be unstoppable. Mad Cow disease is caused by a mutated ch...

Forgetfulness, disorientation, moodiness, poor judgment - these are all things that can happen to a common person on a daily basis. Any person can forget where they put their keys. Any perfectly healthy person can have a bad day and seem to have mood swings. And most definitely, everyone makes bad d...

Crohn's disease is a chronic, nonspecific, idiopathic gastrointestinal inflammatory disease first reported by Dr. Burrill Bernard Crohn in 1932 (Chen, 2000). Crohn's disease can attack any part of the digestive system from the mouth to the anus (Figure I), but most commonly affects the lower porti...

The United Kingdom and much of Europe have been suffering from the crisis of first Mad Cow Disease and then at beginning of this year, from Foot and Mouth Disease. These calamities have affected their economies and trade with other countries, not to mention the financial burden afflicting farmers....

Alzheimer's Disorder (AD) is a progressive brain disease which primarily affects older people. The parts of the brain that control memory, language, and even thought gradually decline (ADEAR, date). While AD develops most commonly after the age of sixty, there is a rarer form that can deve...

As man evolved over the centuries, his views of art transformed. Each culture and era presents very distinct characteristics of their art. Through time and experimentation, the views of mankind clearly are seen in art. We must understand how art was used in the past to know why we need it today. E...

More people are at risk of infectious diseases than at any other time on history. Infectious diseases are worldwide problem requiring worldwide attention. Infectious diseases can weaken the strength of a nation\'s resources. In developing nations this poses even a greater threat. Diseases are threat...