Essays Tagged: "Emotion"

Jackson Pollock - Did he put more into his paintings than most artists?

nd took his methods to new heights so that he could work more directly with the canvas to show pure emotion within his art work.In 1938, Jackson Pollock went to see a psychoanalysis to help him get ov ... ll enough through words so he decided to draw a series of paintings in which he tried to convey his emotion Jackson Pollock used autobiographical drawings to create a series of paintings of distorted ...

(3 pages) 240 1 4.2 Jan/1997

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

"Symbolic Space: French Enlightenment Architecture and Its Legacy" by Richard A. Etlin.

acter, however, there exists a deeper, more spiritual connection man has with his surroundings. The emotional role of architecture is one focus of Etlin's work. In his treatment of emotion and its rel ... of the visionary French architects during the late eighteenth century.In understanding the role of emotion, Etlin first establishes his notion of space. Mankind has the unique ability to control, des ...

(8 pages) 165 0 4.4 Nov/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Design Arts

Forever young - Reversing The Aging Process, Should We?

ring events. It is assumed that during a lifetime a person will experience every possible different emotion. If one is particularly lucky, he will bear witness to, or affect some momentous change in h ... f one man he would say that life is equal to a series of interchangeably quantized, experiences and emotions. With the advent of a retarded aging process, that which we know as life changes. While lif ...

(6 pages) 202 0 4.8 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

George Washington

les of his face under perfect control, though flexible and expressive of deep feeling when moved by emotion. In conversation he looks you full in the face, is deliberate, deferential and engaging. His ...

(9 pages) 145 0 3.4 Apr/1997

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents

Early American Writers

England but then moved to America. Upon moving and settling into her home, her poems became full of emotion and spoke about concerns from her heart. She was religious and believed that men had superio ...

(2 pages) 92 0 4.6 Oct/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

Great Expectations

others. This was due in large part to the way Miss Havisham, her stepmother, raised her. She had no emotion, as Miss Havisham used her for revenge on men. On his first visit to the Satis House, Pip ov ... may have meant a lot to Pip, it did not mean anything to Estella as she was just playing with Pip's emotions.The character of Magwitch represents the symbols of isolation and the tragic hero. In this ...

(3 pages) 121 0 4.7 Oct/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Charles Dickens

Twelfth Night

lfth Night' EssayTheme of LoveIn the play 'Twelfth Night,' Shakespeare explores and illustrates the emotion of love with precise detail. According to 'Webster's New World Dictionary,' love is defined ... s, however many of the characters who are tangled up in the web of love are blind to see that their emotions and feelings toward other characters are untrue. They are being deceived by themselves and/ ...

(3 pages) 152 1 4.0 Dec/1995

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

Theodore Roethke: This is about the basic life story and the meaning behind this dramatically influential American poet's works. It's AP English vocabulary, change as needed.

ated with normal everyday thought, but that of a profoundness that evokes only the highest level of emotion. In the early twentieth century America was introduced to the poetry of Theodore Huebner Roe ... ionate words into the written work. An equal amount of influence was his personal ambiguity towards emotion in general. He neither loved or hated his father, and constantly felt that he had never trul ...

(7 pages) 86 0 3.7 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

The feelings of falling in love

and hearts and minds, not something you can't put under your microscope and understand!' Love is an emotion combined with a series of feelings. These feelings can be immensely powerful and wonderful. ... . These feelings can be immensely powerful and wonderful. Romantic love is defined to be an intense emotional state that one person experiences in relation to another. These types of feelings appear t ...

(5 pages) 332 0 3.5 Nov/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

What is life?

ng was opened for the first time,and the authorbegan writting the story; every thought, action, and emotion that isexperienced is written into the book. Memory is just rereading the book.Some pages to ...

(2 pages) 70 0 3.5 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Self-expression

and verbalization. The "Webster's Dictionary" defines it as "expression of one's own personality or emotion." Sometimes, people use hand gestures when they are trying to express a point. Usually, the ... motion of the body made to express thoughts or to emphasize speech." Some gestures might suggest an emotion or expression a person feels. For example, if a person clenches his or her hands, it might m ...

(3 pages) 75 0 4.0 Apr/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

"The Stone Angel" by Margaret Laurence's

round her. She inherited her pride from her father and from an early age she always refused to show emotion because she was too proud to let anyone see her weaknesses. Her father made aware that she h ... t him see me cry, I was so enraged' (p.9). She continued to build a wall around herself to hide her emotions. Her pride interfered with many relationships in her life. When her brother Dan was dying, ...

(4 pages) 69 0 2.2 Oct/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Romantic sonnets. Mentiones Charlotte Smith and William Wordsworth

The Romantic sonnet holds in its topics the ideals of the time period, concentrating on emotion, nature, and the expression of 'nothing.' The Romantic era was one that focused on the commo ... f 'nothing.' The Romantic era was one that focused on the commonality of humankind and, while using emotion and nature, the poets and their works shed light on people's universal natures. In Charlotte ... e poem embodies two important aspects of Romantic work in relating his or her personal feelings and emotions and also in having a focused and detailed natural setting. The speaker takes his or her 'so ...

(4 pages) 71 0 5.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Symbolism in "Scarlet Letter" by Hawthorne

houghts and secrets. Every human being needs the opportunity to express how they truly feel, or the emotion is bottled up until it becomes volatile. Unfortunately, Puritan society did not permit this ... e deep, dark portions of the forest, many of the pivotal characters bring forth hidden thoughts and emotions. The forest track leads away from the settlement out into the wilderness where all signs of ...

(4 pages) 76 0 3.0 Oct/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Touched by the torment of her lovely sight,I gaze into eyes blue and bright,Swallowed in a mist of emotion,What evil is this, what devilish potion,Tangled in the finest of hair,Mocked by a face so fa ...

(1 pages) 40 0 3.7 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Heroes, An essay on the epic, The Odyssey

A hero is a brave and strong person, who is also very human. A hero feels fearand every other emotion that we do. A true hero is a person who does something greatand does not expect to be given ...

(3 pages) 106 0 3.4 Nov/1995

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Mythology

Do we have a good reason to believe in existence of a "higher power"?Speaks of Transcendentalism

ndental. Most of the arguments in favor of God, or aso-called 'higher power' are based on faith and emotion, and nota clear logical argument. In fact, these arguments are often infavor of throwing log ...

(4 pages) 105 0 5.0 Nov/1995

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

"Society's Restraint to Social Reform" in Canada

he social reform vocabulary of Canadians today,the term workfare seems to stimulate much debate and emotion. Along with thenotions of self-sufficiency, employability enhancement, and workdisincentives ...

(6 pages) 75 0 3.4 Mar/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government

Artificial heart devices

more than just a physical part of the body. It has been thought the seat of the soul, the source of emotion, and the center of each individual's existence. For many years, doctors and researchers left ...

(7 pages) 109 0 3.3 Nov/1995

Subjects: Science Essays > Biotechnology

Five factor model of personality. Refers to theories of Allport and Oddbert, McAdams, Eyesenck, Mischel, Block, Both Costa and McCrae, Goldberg and Saucier

civilisation. Personality can bedefined as 'the distinctive and characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behaviour that definean individual's personal style and influence his or her interactio ... by Norman (1963,cited in Goldberg, 1990) which are; extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotionalstability and culture. For simplicity, this is the version of the five factor model that sh ...

(8 pages) 496 0 4.7 Mar/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics