What It Takes To Be A Leader – English Essay
In the late nineties, I was the vice president of Afternoon Helpers, a district program in Switzerland, whose purpose was to improve the educational performance of students in the primary …
How Hitler Came To Power as Chancellor in January of 1933 – History Essay
The main reasons Hitler became chancellor in January of 1933 were because the Nazi party used a strict regime of sensitive propaganda, the Nazi spokesperson, Hitler …
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Dorthea Lange and the Essense of Subject – Art Essay
Symbols, generalisations are the language of politics, so it is not surprising to read of Dorothea Lange approaching her subject not as a human being but as “an essence”. Her …
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Modernism In Photography – Art Essay
Edward Weston’s creative philosophy seems to be about internalising the camera process so that what the artist envisions and what the camera produces are as closely aligned as possible. Unlike pictorialists who
personalise the …
Surrealism As A Method of Interpretation – Art Essay
The basic idea of Rosalind Krauss’ Surrealist ‘spacing’ seems to be that it uses the fact that photographs are both indexical and representative, and in arresting the flow of what we …
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Combination Printing – Henry Peach Robinson Essay
In Henry Peach Robinson’s writing on combination printing, it is interesting to see that the methods designed to give “greater facilities for representing the truth of nature” actually mean that the full indexicality …
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Carol Armstrong’s Birth of Photography Essay
When reading Carol Armstrong’s article, one is hard pressed to decide what the point of her analysis is. Is it really just perpetuating the reductive, gendered ideas of Cameron’s time, or is it trying …
Anne Maxwell Struggle With Exploitative Photography – Essay
While Anne Maxwell raises some interesting and valid points regarding the exploitative portrayal of indigenous peoples in colonial photography, it is
worthwhile focussing on what she sees as exceptions to this rule. …
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Daguerre and Talbot’s Understanding Of Photography – Essay
The metaphors used by Daguerre and Talbot (“the pencil of nature” etc) reveal an understanding of photography as a tool for the areas of art and science, rather than an artistic medium …
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Responce to Barthe’s Essay Camera Lucida – English
In Barthe’s essay “Camera Lucida”, we see an analysis of the photo in terms of the studium and the punctum. The studium for the most part produces the unary photo,
which merely …
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Teacher’s Summary: In this heartfelt essay, a student shares their personal experiences with loneliness during adolescence, reflecting on the emotional challenges of growing up. Through vivid memories and introspective thoughts, the student explores the feelings of isolation that often accompany …
The Meaning of Citizenship in A Democratic Nation – History Essay
The meaning of citizenship depends of course, on what context that it is used in most democratic countries it is associated with civil and not religious or moral
rights …
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Modern literature has, inevitably, one of its strongest foundations in the problem of identity. Another inhuman World War, increasingly claustrophobic cities, alienating industrial developments all take their toll on a human race that, heir to Freud and Bergson, has
just …
Comparing ‘A Christmas Carol’ with ‘The Christmas Party’ – English Essay
In this essay I will be going to examine the similarities between the novels ‘a Christmas carol’ written by Charles Dickens and also the short
story. ‘The Christmas party’ …
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Der Tod in Venedig – Eine Last Für Die Arbeiterklasse Heute? – German Essay
Thomas Mann beschreibt in seinem übelsten, im fassten Sinne des Wortes, Werk Verfall eines Künstlers. Im beschriebenen Fall ist es ein Schriftsteller. Jedoch
könnte an seiner …
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