Essays Tagged: "two pieces"

Depictions of death: Beautiful and Heroic. "Laocoon and His Two Sons" by Hagesandros vs. "Fall of the Damned" by Peter Paul Rubens

In this paper I will compare and contrast two pieces of art work that are religious in nature. Through these pieces, I will show a theme of de ... 31 BCE.). It was sculpted by Hagesandros, Polydoros, and Athenodoros and is titled "Laocoon and His Two Sons." The second piece is an oil painting on wood panel made during the Baroque time era (1590- ... heart of rock could longDry-eyed behold?Upon reading through Paradise Lost, and in particular these two passages, I am positive that Rubens influenced one of the greatest achievements in literature wi ...

(4 pages) 100 0 5.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Art Essays

Nuclear Weapons.

usion. In fission, anucleus from a heavy element is bombarded with neutrons. Thenucleus breaks into two pieces, releasing energy and two or moreneutrons. Each of these neutrons has enough energy to sp ... t very high temperatures into heaviernuclei, releasing energy and a neutron. In order to squeeze thetwo nuclei together, an atomic fission bomb is usually used. Afusion reaction releases about four ti ...

(4 pages) 133 0 4.0 Mar/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Military & International Conflicts & Security

LeFrak Concert Hall at Queens College - a criticism on a show given by the Nota Bene Cotemporary Ensemble

t than any concert I've ever seen before. For one thing, there really isn't a conductor, except for two pieces. I guess this is because it wasn't really a whole orchestra, only a couple of instruments ... te, piano, and percussion. The tempo was extremely slow and dragged out, with literally only one or two held-out notes every 10 or 20 seconds, or maybe an even longer interval in between. This piece d ...

(3 pages) 68 2 3.3 Jul/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Performing Arts

A comparison of two major Baroque composers: Claudio Monteverdi and Domenico Scarlatti (turabian format)

The purpose of this paper is to analyze two psalms by Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (1567-1643) and Giovanni Domenico Scarlatti (1685- ... nio Monteverdi (1567-1643) and Giovanni Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) and compare and contrast the two pieces to find out how music changed throughout the Baroque period. While historians grouped mus ... time period. Composers from different points in the Baroque period were chosen, but the things the two composers had in common were the country of residence and their nationality. Special care was ta ...

(4 pages) 120 0 3.9 Oct/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

This paper is about computer copyright laws. It also goes itto software copyright laws.

ands of bytes on miles of paper to millions of bytes on a thin piece of tin foilsandwitched between two pieces of plastic, software has played an important part in the world. Computershave most likely ... creators, and thus they charge more for whatsnot copied, and the whole industry inflates.There are two categories of intellectual property. The first one is composed of writing, music,and films,which ...

(11 pages) 294 0 4.1 Jan/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Computer Ethics

Critical lens on the powers of emotion.

hat literature is emotional and can be a motivation for characters. I agree with this quote and the two pieces of literature that greatly support this quote are Of Mice and Men and Macbeth.In Of Mice ... ds the castle. Macbeth then was no longer confident and was eventually overthrown by Macduff.In the two literatures Macbeth and Of Mice and Men there were many emotions from either friendships or enem ...

(2 pages) 36 0 1.5 Jun/2003

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

Software and copyright.

ands of bytes on miles of paper to millions of bytes on a thin piece of tin foilsandwitched between two pieces of plastic, software has played an important part in the world. Computers have most likel ... creators, and thus they charge more for whats not copied, and the whole industry inflates.There are two categories of intellectual property. The first one is composed of writing, music, and films,whic ...

(11 pages) 224 0 4.8 Jun/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Computer Ethics

Comparing and Contrasting two pieces of music.

t's what I'm going to explain about in this essay: both the differences and the similarities of the two pieces.I'll start by explaining how I felt about both pieces. The "Gavotte" had a very calming a ...

(2 pages) 74 0 4.7 Sep/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra directed by Nicholas Armstrong.

r movements. The work was abrupt in its changes from one section to another. Perhaps, because first two pieces had been composed in France, while the last two in Europe.The first movement, the Moderat ...

(3 pages) 57 0 5.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

This analyzes two works that describe ancient rome from a philosophical point of view.

liny and Juvenal had different ideas about what Roman life was truly like, when reflecting on these two pieces together a person, he or she should see the paradox and get an idea of what Roman life wa ... cious, and not to be wasted, even if bad events happen, as Juvenal points out. When comparing these two pieces, both of them left out something that would hinder their case, in Pliny's case, the state ...

(3 pages) 128 6 5.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

It's a Research Proposal for Societas Europa organization. Details what is needd to be done to complete the research including expenses. It's just a proposal for a research project!

ectly applicable in all Member States. This unique European Company Statute has been established by two pieces of legislation, namely a Regulation (directly applicable in Member States) establishing t ... cerning Human resources needed to accomplish the goals given, 3 of us will be working full time for two weeks. As we are proposing a fictional survey, we think ideally, and do not take any financial b ...

(4 pages) 272 0 4.3 Dec/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

A paragraph about Louis Slotin and his life.

ggering mechanism used to detonate the first test bomb.One of Slotin's experiments involved joining two pieces to the point where the neutron count increased to a critical state. This procedure was do ... with a bright blue light. Before an explosion could happen, Slotin lunged forward and separated the two pieces of plutonium with his bare hands. He took the full force of the nuclear detonation in his ...

(1 pages) 23 1 3.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

This essay is a comparison of the metaphors used to explain life by Langston Hughes and Norman McLean. It explains life in aspects people usually don't think about.

rt of our brain that wants to rationalize everything uncovered a revolutionary idea about comparing two things that have nothing in common with each other to try and provide an explanation for the un- ... and its main purpose is to explain life's wondrous and ponderous things that wrack our brain daily.Two pieces of literature that exemplify the metaphorical conclusions: "The Negro speaks of Rivers" w ...

(6 pages) 138 0 4.3 Jan/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Comparing and contrasting Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" with Paulo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed"

r. It is even harder to make that mind your own. For that reason the task of fully evaluating these two pieces side by side may forever be a work in progress. Each essay contains three major points. T ... the world; and the responsibility that enlightened individuals have to mankind. The ideas of these two philosophers both mirror and oppose each other in varying degrees. Through taking very different ...

(5 pages) 78 0 4.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Who Am I? Who Are You... Really? Online personalities, they are as expendable and changeable as the daily changing of clothes. Comparisson of online identity essays

. But what goes into this creation? And why do people do it? That is the precisely the topic of the two articles that I have found and read on the internet. I will be comparing them to find what they ... internet. I will be comparing them to find what they have in common and how they are different. The two articles are called "The Role of Fantasy in the Construction of the On-line Other: a selection o ...

(4 pages) 119 0 3.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

Formalism first pops its head onto the scene with Georges Braque and Picasso.

pops its head onto the scene with Georges Braque and Picasso. Working closely for some years, these two revolutionary artists draw away from Impressionism and create a new movement known as Cubism. He ... book rarely remember the part played by Georges Braque in the creation of Cubism. If we look at the two pieces compared in the text (p. 1076, Violin and Palette and Ma Jolie) we see the influence Pica ...

(3 pages) 70 0 4.8 Mar/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

Creative Writing Short Story "Obsession"

ch said 5:30 AM. He performed his obsessively precise morning routine: shower at 5:34, breakfast of two eggs over easy, two pieces of lightly buttered white toast, and two pieces of bacon, slightly cr ...

(3 pages) 133 2 4.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

Pillars of Eternity: Comparing the Ashoka Pillars of India to the Column of Trajan by the Romans (Complete w/Works Cited and Endnotes)

ng their history and beliefs through art gain much esteemed recognition in the millennia to follow. Two of these creative giants, the Indians and the Romans, besides leaving a historical legacy, have ... besides leaving a historical legacy, have also left us with a keen insight into the ancient world. Two surviving elements of the Indians and the Romans are the Pillars of Ashoka and the Column of Tra ...

(11 pages) 74 0 4.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art

Gattaca and Orwell's 1984 compared. False utopias and there means of control

aring socialist police state where as, the world in Gattaca is almost total control by science. The two pieces were written decades apart from one another, but both the film and the novel send a clear ... only 30.2 years. Vincent, an invalid, was condemned at birth to live a short life of turmoil.These two very rigid and well structured societies whose purpose was to create order over universal indivi ...

(2 pages) 36 0 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Death of a Salesman compared to "On Firing a salesman"

he poem "On Firing a Salesman" by James A. Autry describes the life in the salesman business. These two pieces can relate because they have many similar themes and connections. They both describe the ...

(2 pages) 74 0 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American