Essays on Magnificence

Resurrection

Resurrection is a concept that details the return of the dead to life. The most intriguing episode in the New Testament is the death, burial, and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Resurrection is a dominant theme found in the New Testament. For one, it raised extensive opinions emanating from diverse opinions from the different events and areas of the Bible. The argument calls for a natural form of immortality to the soul and the lack of immortality of the body. The spirit lives forever in magnification of the lord's power and magnificence in His actions, favor, and love for ...

Philosophy

Explain the connections between pleasure, contemplation, and judgment in aesthetic appreciation. Aesthetics is the branch of philosophy; it is type of quality hypothesis or axiology, which is the investigation of sensory or sensori-passionate qualities, called judgments of sentiment and taste. Aesthetics is connected with the logic of art. Style is once in a while called "the investigation of magnificence". Judgments of aesthetics esteem depend on our capacity to separate at a tactile level. Aesthetics looks at what makes something wonderful, glorious, appalling, fun, adorable, senseless, enthralling, bombastic, empowering, grating, agreeable, exhausting, comical, or disastrous. Tactile separation is connected to ...

Introduction

The Getty Villa is a significant cultural and heritage center in the United States. Based in Malibu, it accommodates thousands of ancient pieces of artwork that marked important European era. Paintings are essential elements in this museum. Through this paper, I focus on two paintings I encountered during my visit to the museum. A critical analysis of the two artworks will be used to reinforce the arguments presented in the paper. Additionally, the similarities and contrasts of the two pieces of art will go a long way in shedding some light on the magnificence of Getty Villa’s inventory. ...

Essay #2: IMAGERY

The Wasteland is presumably the most scholarly rich work of T S Eliot; it teems with literary references, symbolism, and imagery, and it has enormously impacted the English poetry of its time as well. Wasteland is the manifestation and interpretation of the disenchantment the writer encountered about the modern world after the World War I. Eliot communicated his sentiments about the debasement of human qualities and disgraceful state of the civilized world in the post-World War I period. Characteristically, the tone and the subject of the Wasteland are filled with desolate and frightful imagery. Eliot has utilized the literary ...

During Italian Renaissance the promotion of cultural and artistic patronage responded directly to specific needs of the Court as a new institution. Small regional states emerged from the fragmentation of the communal and feudal regime as a new political subject directly delegated by a higher authority such as the imperator or that the pope. Because of this structural nature of their power, the Italian princes were constantly looking for support, justification and recognition, both inside and especially outside of the boundaries of the territory ruled. In fact, the political activity of a prince would not existed without a specific focus on artistic and ...

The image called the adoration of Magi is a painting that was put forth by one talented and renowned painter named Sandro Botticelli, in the year of 1475. In the subsequent years, due it sentimental and cosmetic value, it has been housed in the Uffizi of Florence. Due to the prowess and the magnificence of the painter, he was commissioned to do seven more incarnations or versions of the Adoration of Magi. From the face value of the painting, one easily spots and sees the various and numerous characters that are present in the painting. For instance, all the members ...

Introduction

Little Miss Sunshine is a shockingly inspiring dull parody that debuted at Sundance Film Festival and was later assigned for four Academy Awards. It recounts the story of a family on an 800-mile street excursion in a broken-down van, going to the Little Miss Sunshine magnificence challenge. It catches how far individuals will go to deny undesirable parts of themselves as well as other people, the expense of such a hindered presence, and the more prominent vitality and quality of incorporating the unsuitable.

Synopsis

Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris' 2006 drama-comedy Little Miss Sunshine apparently delineates the trials of a useless family attempting to get ...

In this essay, I will make a critical discussion about Aristotle’s analysis of virtues and vices regarding correct attitude towards material good, services and money. I will begin by presenting Aristotle’s virtue about generosity, a virtue that talks about how people should spend their money, and I will continue by researching how this issue reflects into contemporary virtue of generosity. I will argue that Aristotle’s ethics are the starting point regarding a good life for a human being, the middle point between deficiency and excess, both being vices. Furthermore, I contend that, even if Aristotle’s virtues were right, we ...

Application of Machiavelli on Corporate Actions.

Introduction. The Prince by Nicole Machiavelli refers to the actions of an individual. The actions of an individuacan also referrs to actions ocorporationses. Corporates are bodies that are legally identified as a person or a human being. Therefore, this paper shall rely on the ideas of Machiavelli to analyse a company known as McDonald’s. The analysis shall provide arguments and concept to understand if the company adheres, eschew or manifest the philosophies of Machiavelli. Also, the research paper shall examine critics on the Machiavelli idea in relation to the operation of a corporation. Mc Donald’s is the leading food ...

Hymn to the Aten and Psalm 104 are religious text that are in praise of God, the creator of all. The two though are written in different styles and directed to different deities. Hymn to the Aten is directed to an inanimate object the sun (David 34), while in psalm 104, the praise is directed to a living being God (Alexander 24). Hymn to Aten is basically about how the sun plays a big role in sustaining the human life. “All beasts spring upon (their) feet whatever flies and alights, they live when thou hasn’t risen (for) them (David ...

Introduction

María Candelaria (Mexican: Xochimilco) is a 1943 Mexican film directed by Emilio Fernández. The movie won several accolades for the subject matter, direction, and acting. In 1946, it became graded as a classic in the history of Latin American cinema, when it felled down the linguistic and cultural barriers as the first Mexican film that ever won the Palme d’Or at The Cannes International Film Festival. The film can be simply categorized as a classical romantic-tragedy, but the qualities that truly made it famous were the expressions gender and cultural issues and the hauntingly beautiful cinematography of the film. Today, ...