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Stuart Davis's "Landscape with Garage Lights", 2003.
An analysis of modern painter Stuart Davis's "Landscape with Garage Lights" in an historical context.
954 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 33.95
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This paper examines how, while much of art progressed toward abstraction in the early part of the twentieth century, Regionalist painting continued relatively the same. One artist, Stuart Davis, spear-headed the movement to paint the American scene in a imaginative new way. It looks at how one of his works, "Landscape with Garage Lights," is a prime example of this progression of art and how it proved to be a new benchmark in Regionalist painting. It also shows how, by rejecting earlier traditionalist beliefs and embracing modern influences, he comments on the urban American life with abstract forms and highly saturated colors, creating a truly unique and upbeat work of art.
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"Matisse and the emergence of jazz also influenced Davis. Matisse helped pioneer the use of highly saturated colors in his works, and this concept did not go unnoticed by Davis. Although these saturated colors did not truly represent any real landscape, that did not stop Davis from making use of them. In Landscape with Garage Lights there are strong reds, oranges, blues, and greens. Every color seems to be of the variety that a child could easily pull out of his/her small box of Crayola crayons. However, this assortment of primary colors causes the work to evoke an upbeat response. This upbeat response can be compared to the rise of jazz music during the period. Jazz was a new, experimental, and colorful way to write and play music."
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Landscape in Chinese Literature, 2002.
A discussion of the relationship between landscape poetry and landscape painting in works by Xie Ling-yun and Fan K'uan.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 62.95
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In Chinese art and literature the representation of landscapes is frequently encountered. Over centuries, artists and poets have devised complex grammars that govern their depiction of the natural world. This paper will explore these grammars with respect to works by Xie Ling-yun, China's premier early landscape poet and Fan K'uan, one of the greatest of all Chinese landscape painters. Two respective works of this poet and painter will be discussed in order to demonstrate two singularly different approaches to the idea of the artistic representation of landscape.
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"The Angela Y. Davis Reader", 2004.
An analysis of "The Angela Y. Davis Reader" by Angela Davis.
987 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 35.95
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A review of "The Angela Y. David Reader", edited by Joy James. It explains how these writings cover Davis's academic and political life from the 1960s to the present and serve to show young black women one path to achieving more for their people and for themselves.
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"The introduction by Joy James tells much of Davis's story and relates it to the political currents of the 1960s and after, including the many efforts by different governmental leaders to put down various movements seeking greater freedom of speech and other rights as promised in the Constitution yet denied to many, including blacks. The efforts by the government included a number of questionable and outright illegal actions to gather and keep intelligence on American citizens who dissented from the accepted political order of the time. Davis clearly fell into this group and was investigated for practicing her rights of political association and speech."
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The Rules of Landscape Painting and the Poetic Practice of Xie Ling-Yun, 2002.
A review of Xie Ling-Yun's poem "Visiting the Southern Pavilion" in light of the generic rules of landscape painting.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper will discuss the representation of the natural landscape in Xie Ling-yun's poem "Visiting the Southern Pavilion". It will be shown, through a comparative analysis of Chinese texts on landscape painting, that Xie Ling-yun's poem plays with, and is juxtaposed against, the generic rules of landscape painting. The poetic landscape, which appears to be a celebration of the beauty of summer, is actually a reflection upon mortality and suffering. From this perspective, Xie Ling-yun's poem may be seen to have philosophical depth lacking in most landscape painting.
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Landscape Geography, 2006.
This paper discusses landscape geography in relation to culture and offers two Ontario examples.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 5 sources, $ 71.95
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The paper indicates the advantages of the subfield of landscape geography that is distinct from other sub-disciplines, discussing two Ontario examples that reveal how landscapes can shape more than one culture according to human relationships. The paper presents research/fieldwork towards inner city Toronto's landscape shaping 'homeless' culture and also how the Muskoka landscape influences local and visiting cultures. The paper examines how it is the same landscape but different phenomena, due to use/economic interaction with an environment.
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"The study of landscape geography has involved a long struggle to distinguish its subject matter and approaches from those of physical geography. Landscape geographers make much not of local details within phenomena, but towards a good deal of theory to do with both a landscape's influence on culture and the aesthetics of geography. In some respects, landscape geography is like the study of ecology in attention to soil types, vegetation and the effects of land formations or waterways. There is much in common with fields of historical and human geography, too, in the attention given habitation, patterns of settlement or how local cultures have been influenced by terrain and climate."
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People and Landscape, 2002.
Questions the relationship between people and landscape.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 89.95
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It is on this second level that this essay will be addressing the question of the relationship between people and landscape. It will be argued that the landscape serves human societies, in a sense, as a mirror that reflects our own values, prejudices and beliefs. As will be seen, this view of the landscape carries significant risks for both humans and the ecosystem as it often obscures our perception of the realities of the environment of which we are a part.
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Landscape in Literature, 2003.
A comparison of the use of landscape in "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte and "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" by Thomas Hardy.
6,925 words (approx. 27.7 pages), 15 sources, APA, $ 156.95
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This paper provides an in-depth discussion on the use of landscape description in two novels: "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte and "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" by Thomas Hardy. It focuses on the symbolic use of landscape, the position of man in the natural world and the effect that Darwin's theory had on the attitude towards nature and the effect that this had on Victorian writers. It shows how both Hardy and Emily Bronte found inspiration in their native landscape; Hardy from Dorset and Emily Bronte from the Yorkshire moors and how both novelists based their landscape descriptions either partially or wholly on their native region.
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"Hardy features prominently as one of our great visualizers; he is a landscape novelist, and his descriptive passages are central to his fiction. He brings poetic techniques to his fiction, and writes using symbols and images. In Hardy, the sense of time and place is very strong. George Sampson points out that the landscape descriptions in Hardy?s novels take on more significance than do his characters: ?The most impressive character in his novels is not a person, but a place? Indeed, nature is frequently personified and given individuality in Hardy?s novels. Trees have ?inquisitive eyes? , the river speaks as though it were human: ?the river says, - ?why do ye trouble me with your looks?? , and the ?rhubarb and cabbage plants slept? ."
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Landscape in Two Chekov Tales, 2002.
Looks at the symbolism of landscape in "The Lady with the Dog" and "Gooseberries" by Chekov.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 26.95
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Landscape in literature provides the structure of symbolism and motif that drives novels and stories. Chekov's use of landscape provides, in many ways, some of the richest literary symbolism of the 19th century. It is the purpose of this paper to examine the use of landscape within the context of two of Chekov's stories, "The Lady with the Dog" and "Gooseberries".
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Landscape in "Last of the Mohicans", 2006.
This paper discusses the landscape vividly described in James Fenimore Cooper's classic novel, "The Last of the Mohicans."
1,120 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 38.95
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The writer of this paper details why the landscape in this novel is a central character and is described in spiritual terms rather than physical ones. There is an emotional tone of foreboding and the landscape is always described in terms that dwarf the actual characters in the book. The paper shows how the author opts for the factual when describing the landscape, and delves into the mythic symbolism that can be found in certain descriptive passages.
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"These descriptions are in keeping with the nature of a frontier as the area where things come together with their conflicting forces. The force of the colonists is to tame the frontier. The force of the indigenous natives is to keep it as it is. The landscape of the frontier itself becomes symbolic of both groups of characters in opposition to each other. In this way it actually becomes a personification of each."
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Landscape and Nation in Literature, 2002.
Examines the relationship between landscape and aation in Bronte's "Jane Eyre" and Milton's "Paradise Lost".
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 44.95
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In literature, landscape and nation can be reflections of the owner, of the prevailing level of spiritual or figurative health of the owner or community and are direct connections between the characters and the society in which they live. Two works, Milton's "Paradise Lost", and Bronte's "Jane Eyre", employ landscape as a reflection of the characters. Social movements of pre-industrial England, were to shy away from the press of the urban areas, to describe them in terms of stark limitations where the soul could not grow - literally and figuratively. In the countryside, however, there is both beauty and isolation that symbolize a person's soul and path in life. Nation is used in literature to imply the unifying precepts upon which a life is built but it is also used at times as a symbol of imperialism. Nation is the archetype that guides all behaviors and makes all behaviors variations on their theme it is also that which justifies the manipulation of the land - nation is Manifest Destiny. It is the purpose of this paper to explore the relationship between landscape and nation in "Jane Eyre" and "Paradise Lost".
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"Miles Davis: A Biography", 2005.
An overview of this biography about jazz trumpeter Miles Davis by Ian Carr.
1,200 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 41.95
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Jazz is the dynamic tension between the expected and the improvised. Miles Davis was brought up torn between his well-to-do white-emulating upbringing and his black heritage. Davis not only bridged this gap but helped create entire new musical vocabularies throughout his long and varied career as a jazz trumpeter. This report shows his evolution and his continuing influence on other musicians, as described in his biography, "Miles Davis: A Biography," written by Ian Carr.
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Introduction
Childhood
Further Development
Evolution, Addiction, & Resurrection
His Influence on Music Today
Concluding Remarks
References
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"He worked with and was a catalyst for Tony Williams, Jack DeJohnette, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, and countless others(p234). Many times in his career it had been declared that he already "peaked" and was a remnant of the 50's, of bebop, of cool jazz, of fusion jazz. But he never let himself grow complacent and become an icon of the past. By not producing unless he had something new to say, he was able to continually stay relevant, and re-invent himself every few years (p183). "
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Rebecca Harding Davis's "Life in the Iron Mills", 2002.
This paper discusses art and realism in Rebecca Harding Davis's "Life in the Iron Mills".
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, $ 44.95
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This paper compares the themes of realism and art in Rebecca Harding Davis's "Life in the Iron Mills" by arguing that Deb and Hugh are symbolic characters. The author believes that Davis's work breaks down the traditional boundaries between art and realism by suggesting that realism has supplanted the more traditional understanding of art as a way of seeing the world.
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Angela Davis, 2004.
A review of the book, "Blues, Legacy and Black Feminism", by Angela Davis.
843 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 30.95
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Angela Y. Davis was one of the founding mothers of the radical black feminist and civil rights movement. Her participation in these movements was not simply vocal and intellectual, but profoundly political as well. In particular, it examines how a different, more artistic side of her political interests comes to light regarding Davis? works in "Blues, Legacy and Black Feminism", in which she shows an interest in black feminist works beyond that of the purely verbal and prosaic.
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"Perhaps inevitably, the second half of the work and its project falls a bit short. The main problem with the methodology of emphasizing lyrics is that it tends to bring ?the word? or a literary rather than a musical perspective to the forefront in understanding these performance artists. This bias may be inevitable, given Professor Davis? own background. But these women were not of the academy?their music was performed as a living text. However, although the inclusions of the lyrics and the lyrical analysis is not as strong as the first more historically oriented part of the book that seems to be more in line with Davis? abilities as an historian, the analysis of the lyrics does reveal that these artists did discuss issues of domestic violence and transgressing lesbian love in a way that is seldom given credit."
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Miles Davis, 2006.
A review of the life and work of Miles Davis, said to be one of the greatest musicians of his time.
2,112 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 66.95
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This paper reviews and discusses the life of jazz musician, Miles Davis. According to the paper, the music and the artistic innovation of Miles Davis made him one of the most popular jazz musicians in musical history. The paper further discusses how his influence as a composer, bandleader, artist and innovator in the field of jazz is still evident today.
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"In 1948 Davis had organized a nine-piece band which included a very unusual horn section; an early indication of his propensity for innovation and experimentation. "In addition to himself, it featured an alto saxophone, a baritone saxophone, a trombone, a French horn, and a tuba. "(Miles Davis) The band received a contract in 1949 from Capital records and went on to produce a record which at first received little attention but which was to be released in 1957 as the famous "Birth of the Cool" album. In the interim the music that Davis and his band were producing was to have an enormous influence on and many other musicians. Among these musicians were figures such as; Gerry Mulligan, John Lewis, J.J. Johnson, and Kenny Clarke. The music that Davis was creating at this time was to have "....a profound influence on the development of the cool jazz style on the West Coast. " (Miles Davis) "
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Mike Davis' "Ecology of Fear", 2005.
This paper reviews Mike Davis' book "Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster".
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 3 sources, $ 62.95
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This paper explains that Mike Davis' "Ecology of Fear" is a criticisms of the planning and development in Los Angeles Country, which has resulted in serious environmental and social costs. The author applies Davis' lessons from this book to Toronto. The paper demonstrates that Toronto's shortcoming in planning threaten the environment and have serious repercussions for poverty, related crime and widening class gaps in the future.
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"Mike Davis' "Ecology of Fear is a readable and interesting account of a laissez faire approach that has been taken, through the history of Los Angeles, and towards serious environmental hazards and disasters in the present. The last third, or so, of this volume is most interesting, as Davis turns to a discussion of Los Angeles' great gaps between the rich and poor, and an overall concern for security, that have been one important result. New planning may yet bring the destruction of the city, in Davis' view. "
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