Abstract
This is a compare/contrast essay. It compares Dave from Richard Wright's "The Man who was Almost a Man" and Andre Dubus from "Giving up the gun". It shows that their experiences with guns were very similar despite the great differences in their background and upbringing. Their motives for the use of the gun, however, were far apart.

From the Paper
"Another important difference between the two characters is in their goals for having a gun. Dave wants to be a man. Because he has a job and earns his own money, he considers himself a man. Even though he is seventeen, his parents still treat him as a little boy. He can t even manage his money. Not only Dave s parents, but his neighbors treat him as a little boy. He sees that almost every man in the village has a gun. He believes that owning a gun will bring him some respect that Dave has never gotten from anyone. He dreams to get one and practice shooting. He asks his mother: Ma, ef yuh lemme buy one Ah ll never ask yoh fer nothing no mo (Wright 388). Dave believes that the only way to prove himself as a man is to get a gun. On the other hand, he is not planning on a very dangerous action. After buying the gun from Mr.
Hawkins, Dave does not bring it to his mother as she had told; instead he had stayed out in the fields, holding the weapon in his hand, aiming it now and then at some imaginary foe ( 389). Without realizing that he could hurt someone he kills a mule. Because of this accident he will never get respect from people in his community"

Tags:1940, 1997, almost, andre, dave, dubus, giving, gun, man, richard, wright

Abstract
This paper is a visceral and historical reaction to the photographic work of Andre Kertesz, a Hungarian born photographer born in 1894. The paper traces Kertesz's historical development as an artist, discusses some of the more general points regarding his significance to the history of photography, and presents and examines three of his photographs.

From the Paper
"Perhaps what is most striking about the photography of Andrew Kertesz - all shot in black and white - is how familiar it all seems, even if one has never heard of Kertesz before. Andre Kertesz was born in 1894 and died ninety-one years later in 1985. He took his first shots as a photographer in 1912 at the Budapest stock exchange where he worked as a clerk with a camera that his mother gave him ("Andre Kertesz" par. 1-3). This was the beginning of a career in photography that would span decades and leave the world with a photographic legacy that is powerful, emotional, and seemingly ubiquitous. Once Kertesz had his first camera, it became a semi-permanent part of his own body. He took it nearly everywhere."

Tags:andre, kertesz, photography

Abstract
This paper discusses the life and works of Andre Derain, who was one of the most interesting artists of the 20th century. The paper discusses Derain's various painting styles, but describes him as best known as one of the fathers of fauvism, which was the first movement of the modern period which developed in France. The paper specifically focuses on analyzing his artwork entitled "Charing Cross Bridge."

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Charing Cross Bridge
Conclusion

From the Paper
"The abandoning of more traditional modes of painting is extremely evident in this painting. The photographic quality that is often scene in landscape paintings is not present. In addition, Derain uses extremely vivid colors and the colors have very little variation (light and dark shades). Instead Derain uses flat color. At the time this was a very revolutionary form of painting. Indeed Bazin et al explains that most of the fauvists including Derain were often confronted with bourgeois conformity or the tutelage of younger artists (Bazin et al). However they displayed a type of progressive freedom in the way they carried themselves and how they spoke (Bazin et al)."

Tags:Westminster, oil, fauvism

Abstract
This paper discusses the French Surrealist poet Andre Breton and analyzes how his Surrealist art philosophy influenced the art world in the twentieth century.

Tags:ART HISTORY / DADAISM, SURREALISM, breton surrealist art

Abstract
The writer interprets the stylistic elements in Dubus' writing that reveal his position about the social and individual consequences of murder. According to the paper, this is done through the title, plot, and the characters of the play which strengthen the connection between the story and its reader.

From the Paper
"The play's title also points to the suffering of Frank's loved ones. The victim's death was so disturbing for his parents that the father's heart was dying to kill Strout. Matt tells his friend "(Ruth) can't even go out for cigarettes and aspirin" without seeing Strout, "it's killing her" (Dubus 64). The constant daydreaming of Frank's murder killed Matt and Ruth from inside until they took out their revenge on Strout and calmed their emotions. Simultaneously, the playwright also reflects through the thoughts of Matt Fowler, how the loved ones of Richard Strout would be killed inside by his murder. Thus, the writer builds on a deeper meaning for the play's title by depicting how the emotions of families are killed on the deaths of their beloveds."

Tags:play, style, murder, character, plot

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"Andre Bazin's concept of realism varied from a mere appreciation of the medium of cinema to an ideal encompassing the
whole of cinematic imagery. on the one hand, he emphasized the reality of the photographic image with its seeming ability to "copy" the visual aspect of the world. on the other, he very nearly worshipped the ability of some films and of some film makers to generate an illusion of a reality of which the camera appears to be a neutral spectator. The former is a physical realism founded in the literal transparency of film itself, and the other a rhetorical realism based in social criticism and psychological observation. Working between these two poles, Bazin outlines a bold theory of film that in being revealing is likewise open to attack.
Fundamental to Bazin's approach is a view of cinema as.."

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"The plight of the Native American in today's society is compelling to consider; it is a struggle that is universally recognized, and yet is also universally misunderstood. As is true with all ethnic groups, there exists within the Native American community a multiplicity of traditions, ethics, and cultures: the "Native American" clan is the sum of many radically differing parts. In Andrew Garrod and Colleen Larimore's collection, First Person, First Peoples, a host of Native American graduates of Dartmouth College contribute autobiographies detailing their personal experiences in a predominantly white, upscale institution such as the Ivy League. In offering the reader a portfolio of writers with which to become acquainted, Garrod and Larimore take an important step in clarifying some of the many distinctions that shape the Native..."

Tags:indians, book, review, non-fiction

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"The underlying thematic structure of Andr? Malraux's novel Man's Fate (which could be more expansively translated as "The Human Condition") sees the destiny of humankind in political action. The novel expresses an existentialist position that mirrors ideas later developed by Camus and Sartre concerning the position of the human being in the scheme of things and the meaning of life that can be derived from that relationship. In the existentialist view, people are ridiculous because they must die. No matter what they do or how they live, death is the ending. All men and women live with this knowledge. This is the fate of humankind as reflected in the title.


It is easy to see this fact operating in the novel--death infuses the action of the novel. The story begins and ends with a murder. Most of the characters die, and they tend to die..."

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"This study will examine Andre Malraux's novel Man's Fate. The novel carries heavy political and philosophical weight, and the reader who seeks reading material which will distract him from the weightier issues of the twentieth century will not find much distraction in this novel. While Malraux clearly offers the suggestion that Communism is the answer to many of society's problems, and while he also gives much weight to the existential point of view of reality, neither of these philosophies or ways of life serve as panaceas in the novel itself. In short, it is a dark and relatively pessimistic work. The author clearly has his political and philosophical biases, but he is not so foolish as to argue in a work of art that the world will be turned into a paradise overnight if only others will believe as he does.

Writing in the early 1930s, Malraux was, like many other ..."

Abstract
This paper looks at some of the controversial works of Andres Serrano such as "Piss Christ"; "Pneumonia Due to Drowning" and "Grand Dragon of the Invisible Empire." The paper discusses how, when reviewing Serrano's works, it is important to look beyond the historical, monetary and political controversy for a moment and to evaluate his productions of art as works of art in and of themselves.

From the Paper
"The photography and other works of the artist Andres Serrano have, in many ways, become synonymous with the 1980's and 1990's cultural wars, specifically with the fight of the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) to secure continued funding and to secure its continued existence from the United States Congress. The images of Serrano such as his "Piss Christ" in which an image of Christ on a crucifix was submerged in urine was used as a kind of "look at what the NEA hath wrought" proof of the organization's funding. Of course, even the greatest work of art can be rendered in a verbally reductive sense, as in "Leonardo's "Mona Lisa" is just a picture of a woman with a funny smile, what's the big deal?" It is important, when reviewing Serrano's works, to look beyond the historical monetary and political controversy for a moment, and to evaluate his productions of art as works of art in and of themselves."

Tags:piss, christ, pneumonia, drowning, dragon, invisible, empire