Culture Essay Samples
The Concept of Truth in The Stranger by Albert Camus
The most prominent early work of Camus is a novel The Stranger. The problem between a human and an absurd world is central in this work. The Stranger is...
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Mahayana Buddhism & Borobudur in 8th & 9th century Java
The main theme of this research project is the analysis of the Java during the Medang Kingdom. This work includes the discussion of the important elements that can help to understand the features of this period. The topic has been chosen because the problem is interesting to explore.
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Mulan Legend in Art, Literature and Popular Culture
A famous woman warrior disturbs people minds for the centuries and gives precedents for new legends around her. Mulan Zhu, often called Hua Mulan, nowadays lives in the hearts of brave men and women, who love their motherland and take care of their families. Historically, there are two versions of the myth. The first one comes from the Ballad of Mulan, which tells about the invasion of Mongolic army and a young girl who took her father’s place in the troops. For 12 years of her service, no one discovered that...
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Fashion and Society
Fashion is one of the most widely known phenomena of social life. Scientists and common people are always interested in it. In the scientific and popular literature, fashion has repeatedly served as a research object entering the sphere of interest of experts of a number of disciplines including philosophers, historians, culture experts, psychologists, artists, clothes technologists, and others...
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Confucius Lives Next Door
The word Confucianism is commonly considered as a complicated mechanism of political, social, religious as well as moral beliefs that influences civilizations belonging to china, Hongkong, Northkorea Singapore Vietnam as well as south Korea among other east Africa countries. Confucianism can also be defined as a tradition, religion, or a lifestyle that people adopt and enact as their official way of living. The way of life is governed by several principles, beliefs, and traditions believed to be rationalistic...
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Diversity of the Feminine Beauty and Attraction
The concept of beauty has always been quite controversial issue. However, even nowadays it does not have the specific definition. In fact, the concept of beauty is often subjective and constantly changing depending on the culture, time period and the variety of other factor. Throughout history women have tried to meet the standards of beauty popular at the specific community to become more attractive to the opposite sex partners. The analysis of the beauty standards help to see the significant changes ...
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Difference between Rationalism and Enlightenment
The philosophy of rationalism began during the 17th century when this movement was popular. This period is popularly referred to as the Age of Reason. The most famous proponents of the realist philosophy included people like Descartes, Leibniz, and Spinoza, who were the pioneers of the idea of integrating mathematical formulas into the discipline of philosophy. Subscribers to the theory of realism believe that the origin of knowledge and justification arises from the process of intelligent and inferential ...
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The effect of LGBT content in popular culture on the public opinion in the United States
The influence of media is far reaching, and affects all that interacts with it. What people interact with in the popular culture influences their opinion, way of life and perspective. Similarly, the presentation of LGBT content in the popular culture, has affected the way people view the issues surrounding the controversy of non-heterosexuality. Initially, the popular culture presented LGBT content, as weird, evil, immoral and socially unacceptable. Similarly, the public used to perceive LGBT people through the ...
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Art Critique
The painter masterfully conveyed the evening far from the state of nature in the desert, with its purity, clarity, tranquility and overflowing emptiness. In this artwork the meeting of a meerkat and a rhino is depicted. These are the two animals much different from one another. They are from the one world; they live on the one hot earth, but at the same time are so distant and dissimilar. Another element of the story is a stone between the two animals, which plays an interesting part in ...
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Influence of Functionalism in Modern Architecture and in Minimalism
The human brain is an important organ in the human body. The brain controls a person’s actions and most importantly it is responsible for any innovations and inventions in the society. The fact that the brain acts as the Centre for control of both internal and external operations of a person, it is of interest to scholars. Psychologists believe that a person’s behavior can be explained by understanding their mental state. While there are no or minimal disagreements concerning the role and ...
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