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“The Life of an Idea: The Significance of Frederick Jackson Turner’s Frontier Thesis”
$7.00Please carefully read Martin Ridge’s article “The Life of an Idea: The Significance of Frederick Jackson Turner’s Frontier Thesis” (available on Blackboard). Make sure to consider it in the context of our discussions about westward expansion during the later half of the nineteenth-century.
Then, in a two page typed and well-organized/edited essay response, please address the following questions.
According to Martin Ridge, what was the Turner Thesis? What did Turner claim was the “principle function” of the frontier in American history and why? How did Turner’s thesis change many Americans’ understanding of American history?
- * Make sure to consider the lectures before writing your paper.
- * Your paper should be typed and double-spaced with normal margins.
- * Your paper should be stapled before you come to class.
- * Use a cover sheet to provide your name, course name, and class meeting time.
- * Since you are using only one source no footnotes or bibliography are needed.
- * You must turn in a physical copy of your paper on the day it is due. No emailed attachments will be accepted.
Link: The Life of an Idea: The Significance of Frederick Jackson Turner’s Frontier Thesis
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EAC273—Introduction to Children’s Literature: Charlotte’s Web
$7.00EAC273—Introduction to Children’s Literature
Assignment #1: Short Literary Essay
Length: 5-6 paragraphs (2-3 pp. only)
Topic
- “Literature is a significant truth expressed in appropriate elements and memorable language.” Discuss the didactic (or instructional) quality of E.B. White’s Charlotte’s Web or Robert Munsch’s The Paper Bag Princess. OR
- Discuss the significance of the role of illustrations with respect to the storyline of Robert Munsch’s The Paper Bag Princess.
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- Critically assess the effectiveness of the new film on Charlotte’s Web with the original novel itself. Would children more readily identify with the story aftering seeing the film? Why or why not?
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Art History: Michelangelo and Rembrandt Answers
$17.50Art History: Michelangelo and Rembrandt Answers
Question 1:
During the Renaissance and Baroque periods the type of patron diversified beyond the church to include private individuals, city governments, and corporate commissions, sponsored by entities such as the Wool Guild. These patrons that were outside of the church were essential to artists to ensure their financial livelihood. Often artists, like Michelangelo, were forced to take commissions and complete works that they did not want to undertake. In 3 well developed paragraphs, discuss:
- Michelangelo’s version of David was a public monument commissioned by the Florentine city council. How do you see the context of a city government as patron influencing how Michelangelo visualized the biblical hero David?
- The biblical hero David was a popular subject for sculpture and painting throughout the Renaissance and into the Baroque period. By studying, comparing, and contrasting sculptures of David created in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries, you can begin to see the stylistic changes that occurred across these centuries. In 3 well-developed paragraphs, compare and contrast the following 3 sculptures of David:
- Early Renaissance: Donatello. David.1430s.
- High Renaissance: Michelangelo. David.1504. (Note: Scroll down to image 20-10).
- Baroque. Gian Lorenzo Bernini. David. 1624–1624.
In your comparison, discuss:
- What specific visual similarities do you observe in these three sculptures?
- What specific differences do you see?
- How has the attitude of David changed between these three representations of David?
Be sure to explain your ideas clearly and support them by discussing specific works of art that you have read about this week, talking about how they illustrate and support your ideas.
Question 2:
In Northern Europe, the group portrait was a popular genre of painting in the Dutch Republic, and Rembrandt was in high demand as a portraitist. In 3 well developed paragraphs, discuss:
- How did Rembrandt revolutionize the group portrait? Examine his worksThe Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes TulpandThe Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq (The Night Watch)?
- Artists like Rembrandt and the other successful Dutch portrait artists laid the foundation for what today is seen as a proper or successful portrait. From the official portrait of Kate Middleton (2013) in England, to the portraits of US presidents, to those of CEOs in major corporations all owe a debt to the work of Rembrandt, Hals, and other seventeeth-century portrait painters. Locate 2 contemporary portraits and discuss the visual characteristics that are inspired by Rembrandt’s style.
Be sure to explain your ideas clearly and support them by discussing specific works of art that you have read about this week, talking about how they illustrate and support your ideas.
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Compare and contrast the use of the first-person of view (“POV”) in Hunger, The Dwarf and Navie. Super
$7.50Compare and contrast the use of the first-person of view (“POV”) in Hunger, The Dwarf and Navie.Super. How do the authors of these novels employ the subjective POV, and what is its intended effect on the reader? How would the use of a different point of view, for example, a third person omniscient one, change the effect of the novel on the reader?
Reading:
Knut Hamsun, Hunger
Par Lagerkvist, The Dwarf
Erlend Loe, Naive. super
Write 2 page
Do not use/put quotations on your essay!!!
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Culture undertook the creation of selected monumental work of architecture
$12.00Culture undertook the creation of selected monumental work of architecture
Question 1:
We have continued our study of the art created by cultures outside of the West. Like those we studied last week, many of the cultures studied this week also created monumental works of architecture, but often for very different reasons than what we saw last week. In 3 well-developed paragraphs locate 2 specific examples of monumental architecture created by 2 different cultures we studied this week and discuss:
- Why do you believe each culture undertook the creation of your selected monumental work of architecture and sculpture despite the difficulties of accomplishing them? What can we assume about a work of art without such knowledge?
- How do the reasons for their works compare with those of a more modern example of monumental art work, such as Mount Rushmore, the 9/11 Memorial, etc.?
Be sure to explain your ideas clearly and support them by discussing specific works of art that you have read about this week, talking about how they illustrate and support your ideas.
Question 2:
The tradition of mask-making and masquerade can be found the world over, but no place is it as pervasive, diverse and rich as found in the traditional arts of West and Central Africa. Although these masks are often seen as works of art in the West, they typically were not intended to be a work of art. Interestingly, in many African societies there is not a word for “art.” In 3 well-developed paragraphs select 3 different traditional African masks, each from a different African society. Discuss:
- How is the mask used and what is its purpose?
- Does putting the mask on display in some place like an art museum or gallery change what you think of it?
Be sure to explain your ideas clearly and support them by discussing specific works of art that you have read about this week, talking about how they illustrate and support your ideas.
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Men are from Mars and women are from Venus
$5.00Men are from Mars and women are from Venus
Discussion Question 1
It is said that, “men are from Mars and women are from Venus.”
Using the South University Online Library or the Internet, read more about this statement. Based on your research and understanding, answer the following questions:
- Have you seen this kind of difference in communication style between men and women? Provide examples.
- How can this gender gap in communication be bridged?
Discussion Question 2
With a society that is so diverse in its own nature, issues pertaining to cultural diversity are bound to occur in the process of team management and leadership.
Using the South University Online Library or the Internet, research about cultural diversity. Based on your research and understanding, answer the following questions:
- How does having members of different cultures on a team affect the team’s performance?
- How would you incorporate a person from a culture of your choice into your team, keeping in mind communication differences within your and the chosen culture?
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In the Copenhagen play, the characters interact with one another in a way that is meant to illustrate the role of uncertainty
$2.00The essay will address a philosophical question. In the Copenhagen play, the characters interact with one another in a way that is meant to illustrate the role of uncertainty. We know that the Uncertainty Principle in physics tells us something about what we can know about the interaction of two particles, but the author seems to be telling us that there is a similar principle that describes what we or anyone can know about the interaction of two people. ( one page , less than 300 words,and double space)
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English 1000: A Very Short Story Sample
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The US foreign policy culture
$5.00Folks,
Thus far we have considered some of the underlying assumptions figuring into US foreign policy culture. In this thread I would like to draw these things together with the history you have been going through over the past week and will be exploring during the next two.
We can make the argument that the development of this culture can be clearly seen in the formative wars of expansion in 1812, 1848, and 1898 with the prototyping of hegemony taking place during 1916-1918. In each of these wars (and the Civil War) the tension between realism (and realpolitik) and American ideals is heightened.
Let’s look at the history of these moments of expansion and ask whether or not the US did all the wrong things for the right reasons (or vice versa) and whether or not the development of US power undermines the commitment to its ideals. Finally, how are we seeing this reflected in our contemporary debates?
Have at it!