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Horace Grant Underwood, 2008.
This paper looks at American Presbyterian minister Horace Grant Underwood as missionary in Korea.
1,284 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 43.95
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The paper discusses the American Presbyterian minister Horace Grant Underwood's profound effect on Korean society to which he went on mission in 1884. The paper describes how Underwood strove for a long-term, practical role that was suitable for Korea.
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"The Korea to which Underwood went in 1884 faced grave political instability, which helped open it to missionaries. Earlier, Korea had persecuted missionaries, the earliest of whom were Catholic priests.4 By the 1880s, however, the political situation compelled a change in attitude. Korea was a weak and poverty stricken nation, and her neighbors, China and Japan were competing to reduce her to colonial status. Recognizing his nation's vulnerability, a progressive Korean diplomat urged the king to open relations with the United States. He argued that with its democratic traditions and its comparative isolation from Korea, America might be an ideal patron for Korea."
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Horace, Juvenal, and 18th Century Satire, 2004.
A discussion of the distinction between Horatian and Juvenalian modes of satire as exemplified in 18th century literary writings.
4,039 words (approx. 16.2 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 109.95
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This paper analyzes the influence of Roman satirists, Horace and Juvenal, on 18th century satire. The paper examines the differences of these two modes of satiric writing. Juvenalian satire is harsher, more pointed, and often attacks particular people with an invective attack. Horatian satire is gentler, involving raillery as opposed to railing. The paper puts both these forms of satire into context and discusses the relevant points that arise from John Dryden's text, "Discourse on Satire," in relation to the topic. The paper then analyzes examples of these modes of satire as shown in Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock," which can be seen as Horatian satire, and Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," which is more Juvenalian. The paper emphasizes how neither of these two texts gives a particularly clear example of the Horatian and Juvenalian forms of satire.
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"Echoes of the works of Roman satirists Horace and Juvenal can be found, often in combination, within various early eighteenth-century (Augustan) satirical works, including Alexander Pope's mock epic The Rape of the Lock (1714) and Jonathan Swift's essay "A Modest Proposal" (1729). Pope's The Rape of the Lock is closer, overall, in terms of its satirical tone and content, to the comparatively gentle and subtle satirical style of Horace, than to the more direct, less subtle or gentle style of Juvenal. However, Swift's "A Modest Proposal", which is neither subtle nor gentle in its social critique, is arguably closer, overall, in both content and tone to the types of works created by Juvenal. Neither work, however, is sufficiently parallel in its style, tone, content, or other characteristics, to the works of either Horace or Juvenal, to warrant its being judged either more "Horatian" or more "Juvenalian" than the other: both works contain elements of both Horatian and Juvenalian satirical styles and modes. Therefore', both Pope's and swift's works to be examined within this essay might be more accurately described as instead being combinations, or juxtapositions, of Horatian, Juvenalian, and other satirical styles; i.e., the results of miscellaneous eighteenth century influences and other influences on their respective authors as well (such as, for example, Pope's social and artistic ambitions, or Swift's acerbic wit and strong personality (Nokes (1987) 101-11; 179-84)."
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Man Ray and Sally Mann, 2006.
A comparison of the twentieth century photographers Man Ray and Sally Mann.
1,102 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 38.95
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Although separated by about seven decades, this paper explains that Man Ray and Sally Mann are both 20th century photographers whose work has been preoccupied with surrealist imagery. It looks at how both artists have gone against the grain of popular styles, defying trends in their individual ways. Both were concerned with romanticism and both strove to capture an altered reality in their work. It concludes that the absurdity of fashion and the disembodied female form held Ray's interest, while for Mann, the absurdity of childhood and parenting occupies her stills.
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"Early in his career as an artistic pioneer in a variety of media, Man Ray was a founder of the Dadaist Movement of New York with Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia. [1] However, some of his most interesting work was done during his time as a fashion photographer for the great design houses of Paris. For Ray, the world of fashion was attractive because of its strange metaphors: reality vs. fantasy, and the thin line that holds them apart. Ray's style was couched in his ideas of the unreality of fashion, yet it stood in stark visual contrast to the surrealist aesthetic of the time, which also liked to challenge the "reality" of standard fashion."
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Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice", 2002.
A literary review of Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice".
1,620 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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This paper analyzes "Death in Venice" by Thomas Mann's with an emphasis of how the book and characters parallel the writer's own life experience.
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"This second critic notes Mann's use of this method he called "myth plus psychology" which plots Aschenbach's descent into a chaotic heap where both myth and psychology play equally important roles. (SparkNotes) He describes the idolized Tadzio mythically in the same level and manner as Greek sculpture, the god of love, Hyacint and Narcissus and Plato's character Phaedrus. He also likens Aschenbach's cruise into a lagoon in Venice to that across the River Styx in the Underworld, where "strange red-haired figures appear and reappear to Aschenbach to symbolize demons, probably also the furies of his moral conscience. As to the psychology part, Aschenbach always has a firm control and repression of his libido through the years of maturity. But this undue control and denial of something vibrant and powerful underneath merely leads such force to show up in other and indirect ways, per Freudian explanations. These indirect expressions include intense dreams and visions and the worship of a strange god. (SparkNotes) Moreover, this "orgiastic worship" of the strange god (SparkNotes) is likely an epitomizing of the Freudian desire to ultimately abandon oneself to such longing in and through death."
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Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice" and "Tonio Kruger"., 1991.
This study compares the author's treatment of the quest of the artist in two works by Thomas Mann --- "Death in Venice" and "Tonio Kruger".
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 3 sources, $ 47.95
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"This study will compare and contrast two works by Thomas Mann ---"Death in Venice" and "Tonio Kruger "--- in terms of the author's treatment of the quest of the artist. Specifically, the study will focus on the different ways the two artists in the stories think of, feel about, and interact with the "outside" characters --- the unsophisticated, blonde, blue-eyed figures of infatuation. For both artists, these characters have great importance, both personally and artistically, as they attempt to formulate ideas about the relationship between art and life. The essence of the difference between the two tales is found in the ultimate isolation of Aschenbach from other human beings as a result of his quest for beauty, as opposed to the ultimate embracing of others on the part of Tonio as a result of his.
Tonio seeks knowledge of the world in order to come to an ... "
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"Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man" ( Thomas Mann ), 1993.
Critical review of the novelist's views on post-WWI Germany as a nation of superior culture & character.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 39.95
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"Thomas Mann was an important novelist and social commentator, and his book Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man shows these traits as well as a personal side to the man as he argues against his brother's pacifism in World War I. Mann would change his views about how Germany should behave toward the rest of the world as he saw the rise of fascism, and he would become a spokesman for liberal democracy. In this book, he shows the reader his doubts and concerns about his country, its place in the world, his brother and the latter's attitude, and other matters related to the impending crisis in Europe. The book shows much about the writer as well as giving a strong portrait of the political and social ferment of the time.
As Walter D. Morris, editor and translator, notes in the Introduction, Thomas Mann showed little interest in politics.."
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"The Last Of The Mohicans" ( Michael Mann ), 1995.
Analyzes the 1992 film version of this 19th Century novel about the relations between American-Indians and British colonists.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, $ 47.95
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"The recent film version of The Last of the Mohicans (1992) takes certain liberties with the original story in an attempt to create a saga far more romantic than James Fenimore Cooper would ever have imagined. The novel was part of a series of novels known collectively as "The Leatherstocking Tales," of which there are five, all produced between 1823 and 1841. The Last of the Mohicans was the second in the series in the order written, though the chronological order of the novels would be different, with the first story chronologically being the last of the five novels produced. Cooper was the first major American novelist, and his books are infused with an understanding of the colonial period, though Cooper himself was born not only after that era but after the founding of the country in 1776. Cooper was born in 1789 and died in 1851. His most popular novel was probably ..."
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Sally Mann, 1999.
Examines the life, career, influences, techniques, themes and works of this American photographer.
4,500 words (approx. 18.0 pages), 19 sources, $ 135.95
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"Sally Mann is a photographer whose work has consistently challenged conventional notions of subject and technique. Her broadest fame derives from the somewhat controversial photographs of her children published in Immediate family (1992). The themes of that work, childhood and coming-of-age, had also been explored in, respectively, the "Dream Sequence" (1971) and At twelve: Portraits of young women (1988). But other portfolios, such as her "Landscapes" (1972-73), the Lewis Law Portfolio (1977), a series of "Platinum Prints" (1978-80), and her 1997 "Georgia" and Virginia" series, demonstrate a range of subject matter that belies any attempt to limit Mann to domestic subjects or a topic such as puberty. Instead the distinguishing characteristic of her work is the manner in which developments in technique (coupled with great openness on technical matters such as choice ..."
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Negro Education in Alabama, 2002.
Review of Negro education in Alabama: "A Study in Cotton and Steel" by Horace Mann Bond.
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A review of the book Negro Education in Alabama: A Study in Cotton and Steel by Horace Mann Bond. By understanding the cultural points that lay within the education of blacks in South, we can understand how this author approaches this system with clarity.
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Citizenship Education, 1991.
This paper discusses the Ideas of Horace Mann, John Dewey and Mortimer Adler on education as tool of social, humanistic and patriotic ends.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 3 sources, $ 39.95
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"This paper describes and evaluates how Horace Mann, John Dewey, and Mortimer Adler would define and structure citizenship education in today's world and also discusses their primary concerns.
There is a common thread which runs through all three educational philosophers: the concept should be available to all.
The early-nineteenth century experienced, both in Europe and the United States, the growth and development of ideas which saw popular education as an instrument of the national state. Most of these systems attempted to grant this power of reading, writing, and arithmetic; and most viewed the vital factor to be in assuring the employment of this power for the good of the ... "
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"The Castle of Otranto" and "Two Cultures", 2007.
A discussion on the two different cultures of science and the humanities using Horace Walpole's novel, "The Castle of Otranto".
1,134 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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The paper explains that scientist and novelist C.S. Snowe maintained that, after the Industrial Revolution, the way that human knowledge was classified experienced a catastrophic schism. The paper discusses the divide between science and the humanities. The paper explores how this notion of a divide is evident in the way that modern literary critics frequently interpret 18th century Gothic novels, such as "The Castle of Otranto", by Horace Walpole. The paper concludes that, in Walpole's novel, the past has more impact on the present, affirming the psychological importance of personal history rather than the forces of imminent change and scientific progress.
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"The realism that Walpole perceives in his narrative is the morality that the characters struggle with, in attempting to do the 'correct' thing. Finally, at the end of the novel, Manfred realizes his ancestor's crimes and repents: "Thou guiltless but unhappy woman! Unhappy by my crimes!" Manfred says to his first wife Hippolita, "my heart at last is open to thy devout admonitions... what can atone for usurpation and a murdered child? A child murdered in a consecrated place? The characters that submit to fate, rather than try exercise scientific control triumph, affirming Snowe's theory that there was a growing divide between science and human emotion in terms of how the culture perceived these systems of knowledge."
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Kinematic Geometry, 2002.
An examination of Horace Barlow's paper on "Exploitation of Regularities in the Environment by the Brain".
1,465 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 48.95
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This paper explores the general perceptions of Horace Barlow, reflected in his paper "The Exploitation of Regularities in the Environment by the Brain", pertaining to the role of evolutionary internalized regularities, especially as they occur in theories of vision. The focus lies principally on issues relevant to the ecological validity of Shepard's kinematic geometry constraint in ordinary motion perception perspective. This paper also establishes the thought for two individual sets of assertions; perception of apparent motion modeled as kinematic geometry theory and internalization of the like.
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"The limitations of kinematic geometry proposed in Barlow's paper have been recognized, however kinematic geometry being a model for perception of apparent motion in my opinion is an idea that can expand into new dimensions. However internalization of kinematic geometry does project reservations about being a possibility. As indicated by Barlow, internalized principle of object observation gives way to the perception of apparent motion. The human brain's support for a percept is purged from an external stimulus. Conforming to the putative universals are the preferred perceptual solutions. "
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'Centennial Hymn', 2006.
A review of 'Centennial Hymn', the ode by Quintus Horatius Flaccus, more commonly known as Horace.
950 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 33.95
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This paper reviews and discusses the ode by Horace known as the 'Centennial Hymn'. According to the paper, this ode relates to certain celebrations that were an important part of Roman history. The paper discusses how this hymn is a series of prayers to the Roman gods as the older Greek gods were being transformed in the Hellenistic era into Roman gods. The poem also celebrates Augustus, the ruler who revived the secular games that were the occasion for the writing and delivery of this poem.
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"Any understanding of the poem is altered by this knowledge, with the assumption being that the poem in performance is somewhat different from the text on the page. Scholars note that in antiquity, the poem was considered a paean, originally meaning an ancient Greek hymn of thanksgiving or invocation, often to Apollo, but also meaning a song of praise. The Centennial Hymn is clearly a song and was performed as such when first offered. The modern use of the word "hymn" may give a difference sense of the meaning and tone of the poem, as if it were a more serious statement of religious fervor. In fact, the poem is more festive than that and states clearly that it is intended to be part of an ongoing celebration to recur in another century."
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Magic in Gothic Literature, 2002.
Discusses the elements of magic in Horace Walpole's "The Castle of Otranto" and "The Monk" by Matthew Lewis.
1,521 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 50.95
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The Gothic literature genre began with the publication of Horace Walpole's novel entitled, "The Castle of Otranto" in 1765. The paper discusses how elements of magic and terror are interspersed throughout the novel. It shows how this work is similar to that of Matthew Lewis' "The Monk" (1796). The paper analyzes how magic is utilized in both novels in developing the characters of the protagonist as they descend and succumb to their worldly needs and desires. Magic is discussed as a force that led to Manfred and Ambrosio's downfall in "The Castle of Otranto" and "The Monk," respectively. Passages from both novels are included in the paper.
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"While magic is used as a useful force in "The Castle of Otranto," magic is used as a force of evil in "The Monk." Magic and its use in the novel become apparent in the last chapter of the novel, wherein Ambrosio and Matilda are being persecuted by their society and the Church because of the sinful acts they have committed. Ambrosio, as the main character in the story, is portrayed initially as a "saintly" monk, and Lewis illustrates him as a man who "...has never been known to transgress a single rule of his order; The smallest stain is not to be discovered upon his character; and He is reported to be so strict an observer of Chastity, that He knows not in what consists the difference of Man and Woman. The common People therefore esteem him to be a Saint.'" This passage is an important revelation to the readers, since in the latter part of the novel, the readers will become acquainted with the sudden changes in Ambrosio's character as he becomes immersed in his sinfulness and worldly needs and desires."
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The View of Poetry in Ancient Times, 2008.
A discussion of poetry as viewed by ancient Greek and Roman philosophers and poets such as Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Horace and Longinus.
3,560 words (approx. 14.2 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 99.95
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This paper examines views of the ancient Greek and Roman poets and philosophers on poetry. The periods' most prominent thinkers, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Horace and Longinus are essentially analyzed through their writings, thoughts and quotes about literature in general, their views on God, forms of poetry, and the role of a poet in the society.
These philosophers and poets examined the world around them, asking questions about it, and seeking rational explanations. This was the beginning of natural philosophy, which inevitably included questions of art and poetry. The paper concludes that the early Greek and Roman philosophers' and poets' writings about art and poetry greatly affected their followers and were important in the shaping of today's poet and poetry.
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"Aristotle explicitly explains poetry and poet's duty explicitly in Poetics. For him, a poet's duty is not to deal with reality itself but to deal with the possibilities that are shaped within the nature of events. He differentiates between a poet from a historian. A historian naturally reflects reality itself, but a poet reflects the possibility of a probable reality. Poetry describes the general, but history reflects the only specific real events."
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