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Carlo Maderno, 2008.
An analysis of the significant innovations to the Baroque architectural style contributed by Carlo Maderno.
1,349 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper examines the life and work of Carlo Maderno and his significant contributions to the innovation of the Baroque style. The paper notes that, before Maderno, many facades portrayed a Mannerist style that was often dense and without adequate spatial ornamentation. The paper further relates that Maderno's work influenced a whole generation of architects that sought greater details and more space for design to flourish in what was to become known as Baroque stylization. In essence, the paper analyzes the life and work of Carlo Maderno in relation to his architectural contributions to what has become known as the Baroque style in architectural history.
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"Carlo Maderno (1556-1629) was an Italian-Swiss architect that had moved to Rome in 1588 to begin his career as an architect for the Vatican. The fist project of significance that he was contracted for is Santa Susanna. This project would be the foundation for his style, which would help to garner a greater audience with the Pope and his eventually work on the facade for St. Peter's Basilica. The first significant contribution that Maderno made in this structure is the use of more columns and pilasters that were placed in more numerous groupings in the center of center of the entranceway (Tosini 34). "
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Carlos V, 2002.
The role of Carlos V in Spain.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper discusses the religious beliefs as well as the remarkable services rendered by Carlos V to the people of the Spain. This research paper addresses the cardinal role played by Carlos V (1516- 1555) because of his efforts to unite and strengthen Spain.
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The "San Carlo Alle Quattro Fontane", 2005.
An examination of Francesco Borromini's seventeenth century masterpiece, the "San Carlo Alle Quattro Fontane".
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 5 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper examines the design of the structure, the materials and construction methods used in the creation of Francesco Borromini's "San Carlo Alle Quattro Fontane". It also looks at the decor and furnishings of the "San Carlo" and its over-all style and function.
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This paper is a brief exploration of Borromini's celebrated San Carlo Alle Quattro Fontane. More specifically, this paper will examine the spatial organization and planning of the project, the materials and construction methods used, the decor and the furnishings that make the San Carlo Alle Quattro Fontane such a landmark of modern architecture, the over-all "style" of the room and the functions it serves. As will soon become evident, this room serves as an historic and imperishable legacy to its creator.
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Poems by William Carlos Williams, 2005.
This paper discuss the poems "The Young Housewife" and "This Is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 2 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper analyzes the poems "The Young Housewife" and "This Is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams, which reflect domestic desire and the problems of intimacy that lie hidden within American suburbia. The author points out that Williams shows an abstracted form of simile, allusion and symbolism to reflect the frustrations of couples trying to live with each other in divided homes. The paper contends that, by actively revealing his own lack of sexual fulfillment, Williams is able to convey these messages in these simply written, yet cryptic poems.
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"This poetical analysis explores the theme of domestic desire within the two poems: "The Young Housewife" and "This Is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams. By revealing William's poetry related to domestic desire through simile, allusions and symbolism, one can learn why these two poems reflect isolation and the romantic problems within 20th century American suburbia. In understanding William's poems through the theme of domestic desire, one can assume unfulfilled sexual and romantic energies that reside within his verse. The poem "The Young Housewife" reflects the barriers and sexuality of the suburbs in the way that Williams present both the woman and the doctor in the poem."
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Carlos Fuentes and Freedom, 2005.
A review of Carlos Fuentes and his concept of freedom.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 0 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper reviews the concept of freedom as defined by Carlos Fuentes, a novelist, essayist and travelling diplomat. According to this paper, Fuentes believes that without the quest for freedom, freedom would not exist.
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"Freedom is often a concept that is taken for granted, misunderstood, and, as Carlos Fuentes notes, is often defined for the citizens of the world by institutions that have no other ultimate interest but to limit the freedom that appears to be so fleeting. Novelist, essayist, and traveling diplomat, Carlos Fuentes' quotation on what freedom is inspires the reader to think about what freedom truly is. It envelops concepts familiar and new, traditional and rebellious, and in the end encompasses the multitudes of facets that have founded nations, inspired societies, and given rise to revolution. In the beginning of Fuentes' thought provoking quote, he notes that freedom is freedom based on people seeking it. This thought is comprised of two primary parts. First, without the quest for freedom, freedom would not exist. It is the process of striving for freedom that ensures that the concept continues to exist."
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Carlo Ginzburg's "The Cheese and the World", 2007.
This paper discuses Carlo Ginzburg's book "The Cheese and the World" as a micro-history of the less considered aspects of 16th century Italy.
5,000 words (approx. 20.0 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 126.95
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This paper explains that Carlo Ginzburg's "The Cheese and the World"
relates, in the style of micro-history, the life of miller Menocchio (1532-1599) from the Italian district of Friuli, who was brought before the Inquisition in 1584 and 1599 on charges of heresy owing to his peculiar religious beliefs and was eventually burned at the stake. The author points out that Ginzburg, who is a noted micro-historian and expert on the Italian Renaissance and early modern European history, comments that Menocchio's predicament owed much to two great historical developments of his day: the advent of the printing press and the Reformation. The author suggests that most readers' perception of the Reformation and its surrounding culture will be upset by the way this book telescopes the arrival of the printing press into the thoughts of the later Renaissance as if these forces immediately changed consciousness.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Printing Press
The Reformation
1599 - What a Heretic Said
On Micro-History
Concluding Remarks
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"In a manner much ahead of his time, Menocchio had argued that a religious person believed his faith to be true, just as the Christian believed that Christianity was the correct religion, with a remark too on people believing they embraced a superior culture when, in fact, who was to know this was true, or what an inferior culture might be. The inquisitor asked about the Three Rings and where Menocchio had encountered it, referring to a title as a prohibited book. Ginzburg explains how the Roman Catholic Church was by this time engaged in a "two-front war" against both high culture that would not conform to Counter-Reformation ideals and against popular culture that was showing more signs of questioning..."
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Carlo Ginzburg's "The Cheese and the Worms", 2005.
This paper reviews historian Carlo Ginzburg's book "The Cheese and the Worms: the Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller", which provides a rare view into the religious and philosophical beliefs of lower class Christendom during the sixteenth century.
2,055 words (approx. 8.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 64.95
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This paper explains that, in Carlo Ginzburg's "The Cheese and the Worms: the Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller", the miller Menocchio, who was charged with heresy in Italy at the age of fifty-two, and then again fifteen years later, is a tale of class conflict and how the tension between the classes in the sixteenth century was influenced by the Protestant Reformation. The author points out that this period was a tumultuous time, both socially and religiously, because of the emergence in Europe of the middle class as illustrated by Menocchio's raise from the peasant tradition to become a moderately wealthy miller. The paper states that the case of Menocchio can be seen as a reaction to an oppressive ruling class, which was unique because of the new influence of literature on lower society and because it was one of the first times that a poor, self-taught individual dared to stand-up to the ecclesiastical order on the basis of logic.
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"Still, many people in Menocchio's social position were unable to read or write as well as he could. And certainly, very few people in his time, who were exposed to the writings in his library, reached the same conclusions he rested upon. Yet "this distinctiveness had very definite limits. As with language, culture offers to the individual a horizon of latent possibilities-a flexible and invisible cage in which he can exercise his own conditional liberty." (Ginzburg, xx). This too, is hard to deny-an individual may be considered uncommon within his culture, but it is difficult to separate him from his culture completely. So, although Menocchio held many unusual beliefs, these beliefs cannot be removed from the context they came out of. "
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William Carlos Williams' "The Use of Force", 2006.
This paper interprets William Carlos Williams' short story "The Use of Force".
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This paper explains that, in his short story, "The Use of Force", William Carlos Williams examines the justifiable application of physical force. The author points out that all of the doctor's respect appears to go to Mathilda, the "damned little brat", who had the spunk and courage to resist him all along. The paper concludes that even an apparently mild-mannered country doctor can enjoy the passionate feeling of having a strong opponent and admire the resistance.
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"The narrator inquires about a sore throat and both parents explain that the child says "her throat don't hurt her." The slightly exasperated doctor wonders if they have actually looked and discovers that they have not. Mathilda will not cooperate, though, and the doctor tries to reason with her. Attempting lamely to help, the mother says, "Come on, do what he tells you to, he won't hurt you." The doctor is disgusted that the mother used the word "hurt" and he says "I ground my teeth in disgust" at the parents bungling attempts."
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William Carlos Williams' Poem "The Red Wheelbarrow", 2006.
The paper describes the way William Carlos Williams' poem "The Red Wheelbarrow" uses a simple battery of devices and basic vocabulary to convey a multitude of thoughts and images.
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This paper explains that William Carlos William, in his poem "The Red Wheelbarrow", utilizes imagery, symbolism, simplistic structures and a free form style to illustrate the meaning of the poem in both a literal and metaphorical sense. The author points out that the meaning behind the picture created by this poem is left up to the reader to discover by looking for patterns in a deceptively simple sentence. The author underscores that, through these patterns, the readers rediscover the beauty in a simple wheelbarrow, a simple sentence and a simple poem. The paper concludes that the plain red wheelbarrow glistens by the end of the poem, in the calm following a storm, like the reader's glow of excitement after unraveling the mystery of the scene.
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"The structure of the poem is perhaps the most interesting characteristic of it. The simple vernacular is underscored by the structure. Because the sentence is broken into four stanzas, the reader is forced to go line by line, scrutinizing each syllable, looking for meaning. Each word was carefully chosen and packs a punch, as was the author's intention. There are relatively few words, which causes the reader to notice the author's word choice more than if the poem were longer. Additionally, the pauses between each stanza allow the reader to reevaluate the mental image they are creating, as explained previously."
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William Carlos Williams' Short Stories, 2001.
A look at the antinomic forces in the short stories of William Carlos Williams.
1,200 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 7 sources, $ 41.95
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"Critics have characterized William Carlos Williams' short stories as "terribly real", exhibiting both "bitterness and compassion." Kenneth Rexroth gets closer to the matter, categorizing the stories as "the completely realized real." The stories depict a antinomic reality, he suggests, consisting of a combative coexistence between what is immediately apprehensible and a force lying "behind the colored faces of phenomena.":
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Carlo Crivelli's "Pieta", 2002.
A look at how artist Carlo Crivelli's painting follows the conventions of a typical pieta.
1,416 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 47.95
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A pieta is described as a painting or sculpture of the body of the dead Christ being supported by the Virgin, often with other mourners present. This paper analyzes how the painting "Pieta" follows the conventions of a pieta by depicting all of the above. The paper shows too how Crivelli's own unique style is apparent in the work, seen in the attention to detail and the gothic elements. This style of Crivelli's is related to his own background as an artist. By looking at the artwork further, the paper shows how the work is a reflection of Crivelli's background and influences as well as a product of the cultural context at the time of its creation during the Italian Renaissance.
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"Another aspect of the Renaissance that is apparent in Crivelli's work is the focus on religion. It has been noted that, "While the political power of the church declines during the Renaissance... the Renaissance artists, remained devout Catholics." This aspect meant that biblical scenes continued to be popular subjects for paintings. This is reflected in Crivelli's work with all of his works being religious in nature. As in the example Pieta, Crivelli maintained the religious subject but changed the way it was approached, adding his own perspective to the work, just as the trend was in Renaissance."
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Carlos Fuentes's "The Death of Artemio Cruz",, 1990.
This paper examines Carlos Fuentes's "The Death of Artemio Cruz", showing how the protagonist Artemio's character personifies the betrayal of the ideals of the Mexican Revolution.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 4 sources, $ 71.95
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"The purpose of this research is to examine Carlos Fuentes's "The Death of Artemio Cruz", with a view toward showing how Artemio's character personifies the ultimate betrayal of the ideals of the Mexican Revolution. The plan of the research will be to set forth the context in which Artemio's character develops, and then to show how Fuentes uses him as an analogue for the success of the goals of the revolution on one hand, and for the failure of the ideals of the revolution on the other.
Artemio is an emblem of the successful revolutionary who has co-opted the goals of the revolution to achieve economic gain and a more generalized personal power. To put it another way, one set of oligarchs (disguised as petty bourgeois) has supplanted the other, and by the time the new oligarchy has been established, one can hardly tell the new regime from the old one, ... "
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Carlos Fuentes: The Creation and Re-Creation of Social Reality, 2002.
This paper provides an analysis of the writings of Carlos Fuentes and explores the creation and re-creation of social reality in his works.
2,510 words (approx. 10.0 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 76.95
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This paper asserts that Fuentes used his writing as an opportunity to create and re-create the social reality of the lives of the people of Mexico as they shaped and continue to influence the development and history of their country. In order to establish this thesis more fully, the following works of Fuentes are examined: "Aura" (1965), "The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World" (1992), and "The Years with Laura Diaz" (2000). Initially, an overview is provided of Fuentes' thoughts on writing and his use of writing in documenting the lives of Mexicans and the history of Mexico, his homeland. This is followed by a discussion of Fuentes' works as each illustrates his efforts to construct and re-construction Mexico's reality through the lives of her people.
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"Through his writing, Fuentes has assumed a commitment for insuring that his readers as well as himself take responsibility for reconceptualizing the manner in which they perceive both the past and present of Mexico. His desire to accomplish this task is clearly documented by Fuentes himself when he provided the following description of the role of Latin America within history: "To restore some kind of tragic consciousness ...to make the United States understand that memory counts--that there is history, and that it does not renew itself every 24 hours when Dan Rather appears on the set" (as cited in Lippard, 1990, p. 6). As is evidenced within this statement, Fuentes presents a challenge to himself as a writer as well as to his readers to recognize that the social construction of reality that may be presented to us in the world around us may not be an accurate representation of reality and history as it truly exists."
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Carlos Castaneda, 1977.
This paper reviews four books by Carlos Castaneda on the teachings of Don Juan and focuses on the philosophy of human interaction with nature.
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This research will deal with the body awareness aspect of don Juan's teachings. The discussion will include Carlos Castaneda's four books dealing with the teachings of don Juan: The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yagui Way of Knowledge, A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don Juan, Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan, and Tales of Power.
In our society, that is, Western tradition, the duality of mind and body has been stressed, as well as the importance of the mind over the body in order to perceive and learn about the world. Western man thinks in terms of "me and my body," but the two are not separate, and mind is not greater than body. We are our bodies.
Castaneda's experiences with don Juan showed him that the body, not mind/reason/order, interacts with the environment, ... "
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Carlos Menem, 2006.
A look at the leadership of Carlos Menem and its impact on Argentinian history.
3,597 words (approx. 14.4 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 100.95
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This paper examines who Menem is, who he was, how he achieved his power. It then show what it all means for Argentina in its quest for economic growth and political stability in the 21st century. The paper further discusses how his scandals and autocratic demeanor brought about the end to his presidency.
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"Menem received a law degree from the University of Cordoba in 1958, and practiced law until, at age 33, he entered politics, and did so successfully. Menem became governor of La Rioja, where he served two terms, the first from 1973 to 1976, the second from 1983 to 1989. Why the interruption? Because in 1976, he was arrested and imprisoned during Argentina's military coup. When he was finally released after serving some five years in jail,, he returned to politics, and won election of his province again two years later. He was eager to run for the Presidency, and campaigned much as the original Perons did, as someone whose goal was to improve the lives of the poor. While this assured him not merely being elected, but winning by a landslide, it soon became obvious that his original campaign promises to look out for Argentina's poor was just empty rhetoric. In fact, soon after he was installed, he introduced some sweeping reforms, which included privatization of many of the government-subsidized organizations on which the poor depended. By privatizing, he literally handed over the reins of much of former government activities to those who were in it for a decent profit. At the same time, because of rising inflation and inability to improve exports, he downsized the spending of government to an almost alarming degree."
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