Essays on Beauties

Introduction

There is a significant part of the population that appreciates the science fiction. Science fiction is, in fact, a branch of speculative fiction that covers highly imaginative concepts that are often related to the fields of technology, astronomy, physics, and even socio-anthropology. What makes science fiction interesting and highly patronized is that it scratches the humans’ itch for discovering endless possibilities. After all, humans are avid explorers. They, as a species, tend to focus on something that they cannot get or make, set it as a goal, start a quest to be able to accomplish that goal, and then ...

Gu Kaizhi’s Chinese narrative painting Admonitions of the Court Instructress to Palace Ladies is one of the earliest and most prominent examples of Chinese art known to historians and scholars. A product of the Jin Dynasty, Gu’s Admonitions Scroll adapts Zhang Hua’s 292 AD poetic text to illustrate the varying behaviors and attitudes which palace ladies should demonstrate during their roles in the palace. In addition to the painting’s great beauty, its authorship and status as a potential copy has been the subject of much discussion, as the scholarship surrounding this painting reflects both its ...

History is a ‘process of interaction between historian and his facts, an unending dialogue between the present and the past’ (Carr 1) this statement may be supported with the different types of evidence – from literature, sculptures, paintings etc. In the scope of this paper, three following paintings (from V&A Museum in London (vam.ac.uk 1)) - as they represent the contemporary historical periods, would be assessed and their link to the historical background would be provided. The first one is ‘The Death of Ananias’ – Raphael’s Cartoon and Tapestry; the second one is the ‘The Industrial Arts Applied to War’ ...

International and local beauty pageants is a very popular and, obviously, profitable kind of show business, which is extremely spread worldwide, especially after the Second World War. Every year in different parts of the world over a hundred local, regional, national, international competitions of beauty are held. This essay will reveal some major pros and cons of beauty pageants, on focusing on its negative side. The beauty pageant is a so called expression of the ‘women power’, even though it has both positive and negative sides. Divisive, subversive and provocative role of popular international show beautiful women clearly demonstrates ...

- What features of the landscape are significant to the placement of the trail? There are a lot of features of the Wallace Falls’ landscape. Majority of which are just so magnificent to be treated natural. The trails basically function to connect the different landscape and other geographical features of the Wallace Falls State Park. Some of the best features and landscapes that the trails connect—which necessarily makes it significant include the three greatest falls in Wallace River, the coniferous forests that surround the state park’s land areas, and the rivers, streams, and lakes that intensify the ...

Compare Bruegel’s Hunters in the Snow (figure 16.14 on page 260) with Whispering Pines on a Mountain Path by Tang Yin

Coldness and the desire to go inside to rest next to a burning fire is a sensation that reveals from Bruegel’s painting “Hunters in the Snow”, combined with the vivid desire to stay out and enjoy the excitement of winter, facing the cold. This is an antagonist view portrayed by Bruegel who surprises the winter season with its hardships and its joys: while some men and their dogs are coming back from hunting tired and seemingly dull, for having a small capture (solely a rabid seems to have been hunted) a group of women are in charge with their daily tasks, but they ...

The literal book snow country by Kawabata yasunari, is a highly magnificent piece of writing that brings out numerous themes which relates to the Japanese traditional and contemporary culture. The book explores the fact that life in the real world is a mixture of numerous instances happening. They can be true or untrue, sincere or insincere, pure or impure. Beauty as a main theme in the book snow country has been uniquely developed in the book the snow country. Kawabata perceives the beauty of a pure life to be so unique and dynamic. He associates beauty with energy generated with striving for ...