Essays Tagged: "representation"

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

elings as illustrations but rather to express feelings that couldn't be seen. In stead of drawing a representation of an angry man he wanted to somehow convey the feeling of anger onto the canvas with ...

(3 pages) 240 1 4.2 Jan/1997

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

The Effects of Race on Sentencing in Capital Punishment Cases

ed without any type ofdue process. As the judicial system has matured, minorities have found better representation butit is not completely unbiased. In the past twenty years strict controls have been ...

(4 pages) 157 0 4.6 Dec/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

Anti-terrirosm legislation and legal theorists

ities. He argues that the law itself doesn't matter, unless a minority group has been restricted in representation in the political process (Ely 56) or where a certain group is targeted (Ely 55). Ely ... therefore so is the legislation.Ely argues that there are certain minority groups that do not have representation in the government to object to proposed legislation that affect them (Ely 66). He arg ...

(15 pages) 283 2 4.2 Mar/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

The Cultural Construction of Gender and Representation of Identity in Soaps and Music Videos

ut more importantly music videos can be said to interrogate the cultural construction of gender and representations of identity. The video suggests a set of images to the viewer and usually these are ... o the viewer and usually these are a blurring of gender and identity. Music videos predicate on the representation of female gender experience. The two interrelated sign systems- access signs and disc ...

(8 pages) 285 1 3.8 May/1995

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Genre Study

Review article for sport facility event management

d Harry Ingram got together to develop something they call the Johari window.The Johari window is a representation that reflects four windows of interpersonal actions between one and others. The name ...

(2 pages) 146 0 3.6 Apr/2002

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Minorities on death row

d without any type of due process. As the judicial system has matured, minorities have found better representation but it is not completely unbiased. In the past twenty years strict controls have been ...

(4 pages) 115 0 3.5 Apr/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty

Huck Finn by Mark Twain vs. Society

ons. He was the only father figure in Huck's life and failedmiserably at the job. Pap was the first representation of civilization to Huck and itwas a sour one. It was also civilization that awarded c ...

(3 pages) 83 0 5.0 Mar/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Mark Twain

The 14th and 15th ammendment to the constitution. The creation, history and result of these ammendments.

property, and equal protection of the laws" (62). The second section expressed the concern with the representation in Congress. It was proposed to reduce the representation of each state in Congress b ...

(2 pages) 172 2 3.0 Apr/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

This is an essay about how E.E. Cummings uses form in his poems.

," and "r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r" illustrate this fact.The poem, "nobody loses all the time" is a good representation of Cummings' work, written in no traditional form. It is 37 lines long, divided into ...

(4 pages) 115 0 3.0 May/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Opportunities of Character, Not Color. Arguments for and against Affarmative action

ence to blacks and other minorities. The idea behind these programs was to help minorities gain the representation in the job market that paralleled their percentage of the population (Finley 1). Unfo ...

(3 pages) 152 0 3.7 Nov/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

Beowulf and the Song of Roland, the theme of Father/Son Relationship

The representation of father-son type relationships in early Medieval literary worksis a key theme early ... im take the war up as a revenge for Roland and the others. The emphasis on revenging Roland is also representational of Medieval society, and how if a family member was killed it was expected that a f ...

(6 pages) 131 0 3.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

The Effects of Race on Sentencing in Capital Punishment Cases

d without any type of due process. As the judicial system has matured, minorities have found better representation but it is not completely unbiased. In the past twenty years strict controls have been ...

(5 pages) 121 0 4.3 Dec/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty

Nature as Reflected in American Literature. Speaks of work by Plato, Twain, Melville, Bryant, andThoreau

transcends human experience. He further concludes that art, including literature, is an aesthetic representation of real objects and ideas that is used to better understand their 'ideals.' In theo ... a Waterfowl' can show how American authors explore the ideals of human existence through aesthetic representations of nature.        William Cullen Bryant, who has been called 'the f ...

(4 pages) 130 0 3.5 Jun/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Characteristics of The Beowulf Poem

s of the Beowulf poem that make it a significant part of the history of literature. It is a perfect representation of how the people in eighth century England communicated, what their feelings were, a ...

(4 pages) 153 0 5.0 Jul/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Examination of Puritan Philosophy in William Bradford's "On Plymouth Plantation"

be considered include: how Puritan beliefs affect William Bradford's interpretation of events, the representation of Puritan theology in the above mentioned text, and how Puritanism forms the basis f ... antithesis of all of his Puritan beliefs lead him to partially misappropriate at least some of his representation of Thomas Morton's character. He represents Morton as dishonest, and crafty. Accordin ...

(7 pages) 231 2 4.4 Mar/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Steven Spielbergs Amistad

an ideological system.' I felt that this was a very important point. The film being a docudramatic representation of the times of United States slavery says something about what the movie is a symbol ...

(2 pages) 119 0 3.8 May/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Jim's role in "Huckleberry Finn" by Twain

fearing for his freedom, being persecuted only on the grounds of the color of his skin. Jim is the representation of all slaves both stereotyped and in reality, just as Tom is the representations of ...

(9 pages) 75 0 3.7 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Mark Twain

'The Beast in the Jungle' by Henry James

he case of Henry James there should not be much dispute about the exactness and completeness of the representation; no man ever strove more studiously or on the whole more successfully to reproduce th ...

(10 pages) 100 0 3.0 Mar/1989

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

'Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice

versus reality is demonstrated in varied ways, mainly by the use of real-life situations. The first representation of this is Shylock's generosity with his money and eagerness to make friends with Ant ...

(4 pages) 77 0 2.0 Jan/1996

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

Describe the way in which Tom Stoppard appropriates themes, characters and ideas from Shakespeare's Hamlet in his modern play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.

nts more than simply a new backdrop and modern language to Hamlet as it shows an entirely different representation of the events that occurred, and transforms Rosencrantz and Guildenstern from two man ...

(3 pages) 156 0 3.3 May/2002

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