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02 Jun 2010
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On Chrétien de Troyes' The knight of the cart

Thesis - 2 pages - Literature

In The Knight of the Cart, after Lancelot disposes of an opposing knight and saves a fair damsel, she offers a place of refuge so long as Lancelot sleeps with her. However reluctant, Lancelot agrees and to kill the time between dinner and sleep, he roams around outside the house. When he returns,...

15 Jul 2010
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The art of social justice in today's society

Thesis - 3 pages - Journalism

Social Justice is a pledge to take care of social issues, the economy, and the environment of one's planet for the future. Respecting the planet is a task we were all born with; either by recycling, planting tress, or going green is a definite was to empower a transformation of socially. It's a...

29 Nov 2010
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Fixation of Prices: Is it an art or a science?

Thesis - 8 pages - Business strategy

In a market, each company must adopt a pricing strategy which will enable the company to thrive. For that, it is necessary to determine certain parameters before entering into the pricing strategy technique. These parameters are concerned with determining production costs, evaluation of...

03 Dec 2010
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Martini: An international drink

Thesis - 20 pages - Services marketing

Martini, Sola & Cia was founded in 1863 in Torino by Alessandro Martini and Teofilo Sola. The company became Martini & Rossi in 1879. In 1922, it again changed its name to Martini. It retained the name of Martini & Rossi in the United States because Martini is the name of an American cocktail....

09 Aug 2010
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Changing the roles of women as seen through art

Thesis - 2 pages - Journalism

Mary Stevenson Cassatt was a unique woman in many respects. Her family's wealth allowed her to travel extensively during her childhood and eventually move to France to pursue painting with prominent French painter Edgar Degas. More extraordinary than that however, is that she was just one of...

15 Feb 2010
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Intellectual property: Artistic craftsmanship

Thesis - 7 pages - European law

The relevant statutory framework for copyright protection in the UK is the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA) and it is important to mention at the outset that “ideas” are not protected per se and the relevant consideration is whether the idea itself is embodied in the...

08 Feb 2010
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The art of Colonial Peru

Thesis - 5 pages - Arts and art history

In more familiar terms, a gremio was essentially a professional guild while a cofradia was akin to a fraternal society. Gremios were artists' guilds/workshops and were often extremely trade-specific. There were gremios specializing in almost every minute aspect of artisanal production, from...

15 Mar 2010
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Artie, Fritz and Will

Thesis - 5 pages - Philosophy

With the German philosophers Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860) and Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) (Oliver 6), the counter-Enlightenment came into its own after hiding for centuries under the drab rationalism of Descartes, Locke, Kant, and Hegel. Although this attack on the supremacy of reason...

29 Sep 2010
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At the heart of the Lyon Silk market: Stakes and challenges of international prospects

Case study - 29 pages - Economy general

Our initiative cleary describe the historic interweavings between our city of Lyon and the international market of the silk. The story of the silk begins dates back to the Chinese tradition in XVIIth century BC and continues with three millenniums of exclusivity in the course of which China...

15 Jan 2009
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"The Madonna of Excelsior" by Zakes Mda: The Garden Party

Essay - 5 pages - Literature

"The Garden Party" is the second chapter of Zakes Mda's fourth novel The Madonna of Excelsior which was published in 2001. The author was born in Hershel in 1948 and grew up in Lesotho where his family emigrated for political reasons. He left South Africa in 1963 for the United States where...

27 Jan 2009
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A critical study: Spanish artifact influences in the Andes in the mid-20th century

Thesis - 11 pages - Modern history

The Spanish encountered a culture very foreign to their own in the jagged peaks of the Andes. At the time of the conquest the Andean Mountains were spattered with different languages. There was no alphabetic writing. What the pan-Andeans did have was objects, everyday objects such as tunics...

16 Apr 2009
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The marketing strategy of Indiamart Intermesh Ltd

Case study - 46 pages - Business strategy

Today's companies need fresh thinking about how to operate and compete in the new economy. Today's economy is made up of old and new elements and is essentially a hybrid. We term marketing as a function by which a marketer plans, promote and deliver a goods and services to the customers or...

25 Sep 2009
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Artistic harmonious balance between the reader's mind and the author's mind

Thesis - 15 pages - Literature

Vladimir Nabokov boasts an impressive resume. As a writer, critic and scholar, he perfected both his own craft, and his ability to analyze the work of others. Similarly, within his texts, he focused a great deal of energy on the manipulation of his readers own reactions, earning him a reputation...

15 Jan 2009
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Gustave Courbet & revolutionary Art after 1848

Essay - 5 pages - Arts and art history

The idea of a revolutionary art could easily be related to famous artists, such as Malevich and his attempt to transform art into a collection of universal forms, Rimbaud and his will to crush down the language in order to crush down the world, Schoenberg and his dodecaphonism or...

03 Jul 2009
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The relationship between skill and art

Thesis - 3 pages - Arts and art history

The author Dave Beech writes in his article “Skill in Art” that skill is being devalued by society through several means. Once explaining the extent to which skill has ideological value, the author explains several reasons for this to take place. In as far as art is...

05 Mar 2009
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The Hunger Artists

Thesis - 4 pages - Arts and art history

As many authors have spent novels analyzing, we are not alone in constructing ourselves. In his essay "Postscripts on Societal Control," Deleuze aptly states "control is not a closed system." In this world of ever-growing commodities and technological advances, it is becoming increasingly...

13 Jan 2009
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Was the assumption of German musical supremacy merely a constituent part of an emergent German nationalism between 1870 and 1918?

Thesis - 5 pages - Arts and art history

What the German nation is and what its boundaries are have always puzzled historians of the early construction of the German nation-state. Indeed the further back into history one searches, the more elusive the very notion of a German national identity becomes. According to Herder, nationalism...

13 Jan 2009
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"No artist tolerates reality" - Nietzsche. To what extend is this true in the work of Yeats and Eliot?

Essay - 3 pages - Literature

"No artist tolerates reality", as far as this quotation of Nietzsche is concerned, it is true that artists - and therefore writers - cannot tolerate reality, and that is the reason why they often aim at changing this reality through their art, and in the case of writers, through their...

16 Jan 2009
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Shakespeare's plays illustrated by Blake and Fuseli: The artists as critics

Essay - 11 pages - Literature

It has judiciously been pointed out that “pictures from Shakespeare account[ed] for about one fifth -some 2 300!- of the total number of literary paintings recorded between 1760 and 1900” (R. Altick). As a matter of fact, the renewed interest in nineteenth century British art in...

15 Jan 2009
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Medieval Renewal: The Pre-Raphaelites' Quest for the Holy Grail and Arthurian Legends

Essay - 6 pages - Philosophy

The Holy Grail is usually considered to be the cup from which Christ drank at the Last Supper and the one used by Joseph of Arimathea to catch his blood as he hung on the cross. This significance was introduced into the Arthurian legends. In earlier sources and in some later ones, the Grail is...

25 Sep 2009
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Brain-exercising creativity coach businesses to open - How to use writing, music, drama & art therapy techniques for healing

Thesis - 13 pages - Journalism

The introduction sets the tone of the book: inspirational and entrepreneurial. It advises how a person could become a creative writing therapist/coach and memory enhancement counselor. The idea is that the examples presented in the book can be self-directed (for personal growth) or business...

19 Jan 2009
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William Hogarth (1697-1764)

Essay - 5 pages - Arts and art history

The exhibition about William Hogarth at the Louvre museum is an essential one for many reasons. First of all, it is the first time that such a retrospect is held in France to honor the British painter. Besides, it is the occasion to discover or rediscover this genius artist admired by the...

27 Jan 2009
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Freud, Jung and Arnheim: Artist as visionary

Essay - 4 pages - Psychology

Great artists are celebrated for their ability to create work that appeals to others on a grand scale, but what it is exactly that allows for this effect has been the subject of much debate among theoretical psychologists. To fully account for the unifying power of highly lauded art is to...

01 May 2009
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A discussion of two controversial works of art : Edouard Manet's Déjeuner sure l'herbe and Olympia

Thesis - 5 pages - Arts and art history

A name associated with controversy in the art world, French-born artist, Edouard Manet, has come to be viewed as one of the founders of modern art. (Cole & Gealt, 1989). Born on January 23, 1832, his mother the goddaughter of Charles Bernadotte, Crown Prince of Sweden and father,...

05 May 2009
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Futurism's musical eccentric: The instruments of Luigi Russolo and sound as art

Thesis - 7 pages - Arts and art history

This paper will discuss the sound art works of Luigi Russolo, who was a member of the Italian Futurist art movement. The Futurists were a group of artists, some of whom like Marinetti, a founding member of the group, is associated with the Fascist movement in Italy. (Antliff, 2000)...

11 May 2009
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Uninhibited writing: The importance of a positive writing environment in the language arts classroom

Thesis - 8 pages - Educational studies

Writing is unique from other subject areas such math, or science because it so greatly relies on the facilitation of ideas rather than the relaying of constant factual information to the students by the teacher. How writing is taught is heavily dependent on teacher values. Whether it is a...

18 Mar 2009
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Italian futurism and art: Poetry, theatre, and war

Thesis - 6 pages - Literature

“Erect on the summit of the world, once again we hurl our defiance to the stars!” (MASD 253), cries Marinetti in “The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism 1909”. A very passionate, yet aggressive statement which, when analyzed, serves as a very pertinent encompassment of...

29 Apr 2009
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Impressionism in Western art: An evaluation and discussion of the lives, times and works of Manet, Monet and Renoir

Thesis - 10 pages - Arts and art history

This essay provides comprehensive information on works by three artists known for their influence in the period known as Impressionism. Highlights of the following topics will be discussed: Overview of Impressionism; The Salon; Outdoor; Color; Patrons; Women; Japan; Crisis; Culture, Times and...

31 Jul 2009
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Advancements of liberal art's education

Thesis - 3 pages - Educational studies

Education in today's society is the main basis for starting a career. Here at Augustana, students are geared towards a liberal arts education. Students are encouraged to study a broad range of subjects in order to become a well rounded student. In order for students to receive a proper...

16 May 2009
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Maurice A. Bercof - The Art of Negotiating

Thesis - 6 pages - Journalism

Maurice A. Bercoff is a Bachelor of Law, PhD in Economics and a Statistics graduate; and fluent in four languages. He developed his systematic approach to negotiations in Harvard, Wharton Business School and the Kennedy School of Government. He has more than thirty years of experience (in Europe...