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Eastern Influence on Victorian Interiors, 2005.
This essay discusses the eastern influence, learned from the London's Great Exhibition, on Victorian interiors.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 4 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper explains that the Great Exhibition, an international exposition or world's fair, held in London in 1851, was a major influence on interior design. The author points out that the exhibition was a world exhibition in the modern sense. The paper describes that the exhibit incorporated objects from a variety of cultures, particularly eastern and middle eastern cultures, which was copied in the decorating of private homes.
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"One eloquent expression of the optimism and confidence that Britain felt during the mid-Victorian period (1848-70) was the World Exposition, sponsored and spearheaded by Prince Albert in 1851. This ambitious project was, in fact, representative of several things, including the expansion of Prince Albert's official role beyond that of the Queen's husband and toward that of a leader in culture and public education. This was a world exhibition in the modern sense; participation from the international community, particularly from countries in which Britain had a colonial presence, was actively solicited, and this produced a truly international project with samples of cultural objects from a wide variety of cultures."
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Eastern and Middle Eastern Religions, 2007.
This paper discusses the Eastern and Middle Eastern religions of Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam and Sikhism
1,890 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 60.95
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This paper explains that Buddhism is a somewhat unique religion in that it does not personify the concept of god but rather the Buddha, who is a normal human having come to enlightenment and salvation through suffering; however, Hinduism is far more focused on divinity and messages from a spiritual realm beyond the understanding of humanity. The author points out that Islam, which is considered one of the three Abrahamic, monotheistic faiths, the other two being Judaism and Christianity, uses Allah (God), who is eternal, transcended and part of humanity in his compassion and mercy. The paper relates that Sikhism, which shares with Islam the paradigm of a single god, operates on the principle that all human beings are equal and should not be distinguished by parameters such as social class and royalty.
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Buddhism
Hinduism
Islam
Sikhism
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"In terms of salvation, Sikhism is close to Hinduism in its belief of the cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth. According to Sikhism, there is a progressive journey of the soul from the lowest orders of life, such as plants and animals, to the highest order of physical existence, being human. While several rebirths at this level of existence is possible, having reached human life means that the journey is close to completion. The soul reaches God at the point of physical death, where it is judged in order to determine whether more rebirth is required."
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The Influence of Egyptian Art, 2005.
A look at the influence of Egyptian art on the 1920s development of ?Art Deco? and contemporary interior design today.
888 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper explains how the triumph of art over nature, as exhibited in Egyptian art and design, influenced American art in the 1920s. The paper explains how this influence manifested itself in the form of Art Deco and continues to influence art today.
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"If Greek sculpture attempted to create a realistic portrait of the human body during the Classical and Hellenistic periods of sculpture, Egyptian portraiture is reflected in the contrasting hieroglyphic-like portrayal of the human body in a stylized, rather than a naturalistic way. Rather than seeing what is natural as good and what is unnatural as less artistic, however, it is important instead to consider the function and purpose of this style of Egyptian design, as well as merely compare its lack of naturalness to other forms of art of the period. Egyptian art?s unnatural pairing of human and animal parts was reflective of its religious system. Its highly rigid interior home design structures reflected the focus of the Egyptian world upon the life of the dead, rather than the relatively transient existence of humans on earth. (Pile, 2004) Just as in Egyptian cosmology, God in the form of the sun died and was constantly reborn again and so were humans within their homes and tombs. The sharp lines of human depiction and sharp lines of furniture and spatial design mirrored the sharp lines of the pyramids and tombs."
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Domestic Interiors in "Northanger Abbey", 2005.
An examination of how Jane Austen uses descriptions of domestic interiors within "Northanger Abbey" to explore major themes as well as an aid to building characters.
1,520 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 50.95
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This paper shows how interior descriptions are instrumental in Austen's parody of the gothic genre, which was popular at the time "Northanger Abbey" was written. It looks at how the depiction of the Abbey itself is key to emphasising the character of General Tilney and his pride in his house and possessions are also indicative of the consumerism of the time. It shows how Austen's descriptions of Woodston Parsonage contrast with the Abbey, but again are used to reinforce characterisation and further important themes in the novel such as marriage and gender.
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"The simplicity of Woodston is refreshing after the superficiality of Northanger Abbey. The contrasting domestic interiors of both houses also serve to contrast the dependability of Henry Tilney with his father. Northanger's magnificent embellishments are just a veneer; much like the General's seemingly pleasant and personable personality which is not genuine and hides his true unpleasant nature. The Parsonage at Woodston is as humble and "unpretending" as Catherine had hoped it would be - much like honest and reliable Henry. Henry's occupation of the modest Parsonage, described by the General as "not... a good house... a mere parsonage, small and confined" (Northanger Abbey p. 172) compared to the greater expectations of the questionable character of Captain Tilney as the eldest son is perhaps a comment by Jane Austen on the unfairness of primogeniture."
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Eastern Religion and U.S. Pop Culture, 2004.
A look at how Eastern Religion, Eastern mysticism, and magic influence the pop culture in America.
2,213 words (approx. 8.9 pages), 12 sources, MLA, $ 68.95
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This paper examines how ?Eastern religion?, also alluded to as ?Eastern mysticism? and ?mysticism? and the occult, along with magic and its many off-shoots, have had a considerable influence on American pop culture over the past few decades. It looks at how movies, books, and music all have been touched and enhanced by mysticism and its cousins.
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Introduction to Eastern Religion, Eastern Mysticism and Magic
The Beatles and Transcendental Meditation: Rock Superstars Dipping into an Ancient Mysticism to find Peace in a World Drenched in Chaos and Materialism
Martin Scorsese and Eastern Mysticism
Harry Potter?s Magic as a Mystical Force in Pop Culture
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"For many people who came of age and got into rock music in the 1960s and 1970s, and perhaps smoked some marijuana and even experimented with LSD, their interest in eastern religion and mysticism began with the Beatles? fascination with ? and association with ? the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. It was John Lennon and George Harrison, in particular, who embraced the Maharishi in the late 1970s and early 1980s, in the town of Rishikesh, deep in the Himalayan foothills of northern India. The media clamored for photos of the Beatles hanging out and drinking in the good vibes of this holy man in white robes who preached peace through self-awareness and higher consciousness through meditation."
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Victorian Literature, 2002.
This paper discusses the book "Victorian Prose and Poetry," by Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, with a focus on compromise and realism in Victorian literature.
1,101 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 38.95
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In Victorian literature, realism followed the age of romanticism and realism quickly evolved into naturalism, practiced by many authors of the time, including Jack London, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and Sinclair Lewis. This paper introduces "Victorian Prose and Poetry" in which the authors Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom discuss the issues of compromise and realism within Victorian literature. They show that the Victorian authors wrote realistically about life and compromised with just enough romanticism to get people to read and enjoy what they wrote.
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"Compromise is also an important component of Victorian literature. Many Victorian writers, such as Dickens, compromised between Romanticism and Realism, trying to find a balance in their beliefs and how they portrayed them to their audience of readers. Times and culture was changing when these writers wrote, and they had to discover ways to compromise between staid Victorian culture and the modern culture that was rapidly following it. Morals were becoming less strict, and Victorian principles were being replaced with more realistic and modern beliefs. The writers at the end of the Victorian era helped illustrate the changes that were happening, and the compromises that people were making to blend the old and new belief systems."
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Victorian Women, 2004.
Analyzes how three different works of literature about women in the Victorian era portray the Victorian women's struggle for equality.
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This paper introduces, discusses, and analyzes, the readings, "Jude the Obscure" by Thomas Hardy, "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin, and "The Odd Women" by George Gissing. Specifically, it shows how Victorian women were willing to struggle for emancipation, even if it meant dying for it. Victorian women had to live under many societal constraints, which kept them subservient and shackled to their relationships. When women struck out for independence and vitality, they were crushed by an unbending Victorian society whose mores did not encourage personal growth and transformation for women.
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"Each of these novels portray a different facet of Victorian women, however, ultimately the females in these three works all suffer from the constraints of Victorian society, and each one struggles for emancipation and equality in her own way. Each woman lives outside the "norm" of Victorian society and works to become self-actualized long before it was a recognized or accepted concept."
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Minimalism in Interior Design, 2007.
This paper explores the method of minimalism in interior decorating.
2,411 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 73.95
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The paper explores how minimalism can create a new direction in the interior design field and how interior design and minimalism will complement each other. The paper examines how minimalism in interior design would be marketable and how this type of interior design would work for a commercial setting. The paper discusses how the 'Minimalist' method holds great promise for interior decorators in applying their talents as well as in gaining work due to the lower costs involved. The paper also reveals that the marketability of minimalism in today's world market holds great promise in today's environmentally-conscious world.
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Objective
Introduction
Interior Design and Minimalism in a Working Relationship
Minimalism and the Creation of a New Direction of Design
Marketing Minimalism in Interior Design
Minimalism in Commercial Interior Design
Summary and Conclusion
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"The first step in attempting to research and ultimately answer the questions posed in this research is to apply a definition to specifically what is meant by Minimalism in Interior Design. According to Gilbert Brownestone, a curator in Palm Beach, Florida and Paris: "Minimalism is simple to the point of complexity...It evokes a spiritual response from the viewer." (Kim, 2003) The definition applied in the edict of Mies van der Rohe is: 'less is more', Minimalism in architecture is a working method in which aesthetic force and capacity are employed to create an effect that astonishes without the aid of superfluous elements. Its essence ...and its intention is to accommodate life simply but beautifully." (Minimalist Space, 2006)"
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Victorian Age, 2005.
This essay looks at the Victorian age view of the connection between Victorians and God.
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This paper responds to the idea that the lines of connection between the Victorians and God had broken down so that God himself seemed to have slipped away from where he used to be. The writer uses the beliefs of Oscar Wilde, Algernon Charles Swinburne, and Robert Browning as writers who reflect this idea in some degree and whose works react to the attitudes of their time and so comment on them.
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"During the Victorian age, writers of various sorts begin to see the period as one in which the lines of connection between the Victorians and God had broken down so that God himself seemed to have slipped away from where he used to be. The view was that He no longer inhered in the world as the force binding all men and things together. The belief was that He could only to be experienced negatively as a terrifying absence, leaving man "wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born." This had the effect of leaving society in a state of disconnection: between man and nature, man and man, and man and God."
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Victorian Children?s Literature, 2002.
This paper discusses various children's stories from the Victorian period and shows how these stories were used to illustrate Victorian ideals and values that they wished to instill in their children.
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This research paper examines children's books from the second half of the nineteenth century. It examines the overt and covert control that these works exercised, and continue to exercise, over their readers. This paper also describes the language that Victorian writers used in children's books to shape the actions, behavior and beliefs of their child readers, and the strategies they employed to persuade their readers to digest their messages.
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"Many examples of Victorian literature adopt an authoritarian control over the children. Alice is framed as a conventional children's story, from which we would expect advice, guidance and the like. Yet our expectations remain unfulfilled, for Carroll refuses to adopt a position of authority, or to invest with authority any character in the story, except perhaps Alice herself, which seems hardly acceptable by Victorian standards. However, no character in Alice is in the least 'sincere'; arguably, not even Carroll is sincere, given the apparent gap between the introductory poem and the contents of the fiction. Carroll's subversion of speech acts and the language of control operates throughout the book."
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Love and the Victorians, 2007.
This paper explores the expression of eroticism in Victorian literature.
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This paper explores the expression of sexuality, desire and eroticism in Victorian literature. The author believes that although these concepts were not overtly expressed in Victorian literature, they were very much present. As compared to the literature of today, Victorian eroticism was subtle. Yet for the Victorian reader, it was understood, because they were aware of the euphemisms used. Contemporary readers may not always understand the references, but the Victorian reading public would have been able to read between the lines and know to look for unspoken erotic desire.
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"Like contemporary viewers and readers, the Victorians were not unaware of the power of sexual desire, despite their reticence, a reticence that is still evident in many aspects of contemporary love literature today. However they hoped to contain it, or mitigate its power, by referencing it in an implicit rather than an explicit fashion. Emotion still drives Bronte's novel, and love and desire remains a palpable presence, although a dangerous one in her tale. But love was not all dark in Victorian literature--love and desire offers a bastion of humanity and hope, even during times of despair, to Matthew Arnold's speaker of "Dover Beach" as looks out into the ocean, searching for meaning in a cold and meaningless world. The one rock for the despairing man on the beach is not faith, but the image of a beloved: "Ah, love, let us be true/To one another! for the world, which seems/To lie before us like a land of dreams, /So various, so beautiful, so new, /Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light..." (lines 30-34) "
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The Victorian Legacy, 2002.
A review of D.H. Lawrence?s novel "Rainbow", Vera Brittain?s memoir the "Testament of Youth" and Francois Truffault?s film "Two English Girls" with an emphasis on the legacy left to women from the Victorian Era.
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The paper discusses how D.H. Lawrence?s novel "Rainbow", Vera Brittain?s memoir the "Testament of Youth" and Francois Truffault?s film "Two English Girls", all deal with the issue of how women in the twentieth century deal with their inheritance of Victorian morality and how they shape their own lives both in response to and in defiance of those virtues. It examines how in Victorian society, women had an extremely well-defined, repressive and limited role in society with strict taboos surrounding female sexuality, which was not a subject available for polite discussion. It looks at how in all the three works, several different young female characters raised in the shadow of the Victorian Era are coming to grips with their identity especially as it relates to the typical idea of women that people held in the Victorian Era.
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"Vera Brittain on the other hand, displays an example of the new femininity that began to emerge in the twentieth century after the end of the Victorian era and the repression that that era caused people to entertain, particularly as regards their gender roles. Brittain, unlike Ursula, however, seems to have a sense of how she can achieve a difference between her and her forbearers in action as well as in thought. She realizes what she learns by working outside of the house as a nurse and what this information enable her to accomplish in the world. Further, she realizes how having access to information about the realities of both life and of sexuality enable her to have a more privileged and enlightened position in the world than many of her female contemporaries."
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The Victorian Narrative, 2002.
This paper considers the Victorian novel as a narrative method.
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This paper examines three Victorian novels - "Jane Eyre", "A Mill on the Floss", and "Tess of the d'Ubervilles" as a narrative method. The author discusses themes that identify the Victorian novel and then compares them to Robert Louis Stevenson's novel, "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde". The paper states that Stevenson is not so much criticizing the Victorian novel as he is perhaps criticizing the middle-class who read and write in the tradition of the Victorian novel.
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Victorian Women, 2002.
This paper describes and contrasts the lives of two Victorian women in the books, "The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands" by Mary Seacole and "Middlemarch" by George Eliot.
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This paper looks for a true description of the lives of Victorian women by comparing an autobiography by Mary Seacole and a novel by George Eliot (pen name of Mary Ann Evans). The author states the two texts demonstrate that the lives of Victorian women were far more autonomous in practice than traditional Victorian fictional narratives might allow. The author points out that, ironically, Eliot?s own personal life flouted conventional norms of femininity that she as an author never permitted her factious Victorian heroines.
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"The main narrative of the fictive Middlemarch tells the tale of Dorothea Brooke. Dorothea begins the novel as an extremely pious but wealthy young woman, seeking a larger purpose in life. She thinks she has found this greater purpose when she marries an elderly, pedantic clergyman named Casaubon. However, it soon becomes clear that her young passions have been diverted to purposeless ends."
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Victorian Poetry, 2002.
Shows how works by poets Robert Browning and Dante Gabriel Rossetti reflect the values of the Victorian period.
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For the Victorians, poetry was a vibrant expression of the era?s values and its fears. The paper analyzes two poems from the Victorian period which reflect these values. The first shows the era?s intense occupation with status and social hierarchy in Robert Browning?s ?The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed?s Church?. The poem demonstrates how this obsession with people?s position in the world merged into an obsession with death and the dead, with death as a force that erased the status that people strove so hard to create and uphold in life. The second paper analyzed in this paper is Dante Gabriel Rossetti?s ?Jenny?, in which we see how the notions of status and propriety that governed Victorian life and death created such a terrible psychological pressure on the Victorians that they had at times to escape into lascivious fantasy.
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"The contrast is not simply that, however, of the upright and virtuous life against the scandalous and criminal one (for Rossetti makes it clear in the opening lines that Jenny is a prostitute) but that between male and female worlds. Life for the Victorians was divided into strictly separated spheres: The worlds of men and women touching upon each other barely more than the worlds of life and death. This poem is in part an expression of regret at this latter divide."
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