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This essay - discussing the life in art of Kano Tanyu (1602- 1674) - will argue that Tanyu represents a classic example of the function of patronage in the production of art. In 17th century Japan the styles and subjects of art differed depending upon the class who were to be the designated audience for the art. The Kano family had tied its fortunes to the ruling Tokugawa clan from an early date; Tanyu's artist father having moved to Edo at the order of the shogun. This patronage was key to the Kano family's prominence both socially and artistically, as the daimyos of the lesser courts throughout the country copied the official art and styles of the shogunate (Paine & Soper, 202).
read moreThis page undergraduate paper discusses the importance of engaging in a contract with a minor in the proper fashion, suggests certain steps that entertainment industry professionals and minors can take to protect themselves when negotiating contracts, and examines several legal cases involving minors in the music industry.
read moreThis essay discusses four of Mozart’s operas: Le nozze di Figaro (1786), Cosi fan tutte (1790) and The Magic Flute (1791). It describes each of the operas in detail with some historical context, before outlining their significance. The introduction provides some material on Mozart’s background and comments on his operatic style as a whole.
read moreIn comparing various aspects of the fiction and poetry of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Walt Whitman, it is evident that each nineteenth-century writer’s use of symbolic landscapes, images of nature, and dramatization of qualities of fear and desire are strikingly similar. It is also evident that there are notable differences in the tone of the work, but this is not surprising, for Hawthorne and Whitman were uniquely talented individuals with different approaches to expressing the themes they presented in their works.
read moreThe Blithedale Romance, by nineteenth century American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a very thought-provoking novel. Drawn from the author’s stay at Brook Farm, a communal experiment in living the pastoral life, this engaging story touches on many of the issues of Hawthorne’s day, such as brotherhood, women’s rights, socialism, mesmerism, and spiritualism.
read moreIncreasing numbers of American family physicians are trading their hospital practice for increased efficiency in outpatient settings. It is argued that hospital affiliation interrupts the normal outpatient practice of physicians who are happier to leave hospital service to hospitalist physicians specialized in the care of the admitted patient, and in communication with referring physicians or specialists who also may or may not be attached to a hospital according to the traditional pattern. (Henry 1997 1) A growing number of Managed Care Organizations (MGOs), hospitals and physicianowned groups are hiring ‘hospitalists’ whose preliminary function is to care for patients in hospital, freeing up primary physicians to concentrate on outpatient service.
read moreIn Western liberal cultures the issue of multiculturalism is accepted as a reality even by those who oppose it in principle. Given how inexpensive rapid transportation and communications are shrinking distances on our planet, nation-states such as Canada are being transformed by immigration into multicultural microcosms of the global village.
read moreIn the early nineties the Asia-Pacific was considered to be one of the most economically dynamic regions of the world. It accounted for 41% of world trade and half of world output. It was the fastest-growing region in the world: 30 years ago, Asia alone accounted for only 4% of the world's economy; today it accounts for 25%. Some economists predicted that by the year 2000, it would account for 33%. By the end of the century, it was to have one-half of world trade.
read moreThe Hurricane Georges struck Puerto Rico on 21st September 1998 moving east to west across Puerto Rico with fierce winds gusting to as high as 150 miles per hour and depositing up to 27 inches of rainfall. Storm-related winds, flooding and mud slides caused billions of dollars in damages and economic losses. All seventy-eight of Puerto Rico’s municipalities and most of the 3.9 million residents were affected by the storm. The hurricane stormed through Puerto Rico for a good fifteen hours and damaged everything that came across its path. This was the biggest hurricane to pass through Puerto Rico in seventy years and claimed seven lives and caused innumerable injuries. A number of houses were damaged followed by road blockades with downed trees and electric poles. The hurricane left behind total damages of $ 1.9 billion, including more than $ 330 million in crop and livestock losses.
read moreAbstract: Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass represents a poetic perspective of the cultural changes that were taking place in America at the end of the century. Whitman’s collection of poems are more than poetry, can be read as a cultural biography, a celebration of one of the first publications of free verse poetry, and the insights of an openly passionate man who lived nowhere, but everywhere in the shifting culture of America.
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