Women Workers in World War One and Their Changing Roles
Women Workers in World War One and Their Changing Roles. Jennie Randolph Churchill wrote in her book Women's War Work, 'It is one of the virtues of war that it puts the light which in peacetime is hid under a bushel in such prominence that all can see it'.1 The aftermath of World War One left many people trying to justify so much destruction and death and one such rationalization is that the war helped to bring women's capabilities and contribution to light. There was a shift away from traditional women's roles for a brief period of time by women workers in World War One. In order to understand how the First World War affected women's work one must be familiar with traditional pre-war women's work and the suffrage movement. This enables one to analyze the unemployment period at the beginning of the war and the replacement period that followed. Upon doing so one may question how big of a change the Second World War had on women's lives and examine the long term postwar changes. It is important to understand the type of work thought suitable for women before the outbreak of the First World War. The Victorian era and the Industrial Revolution influenced the feelings and ideas surrounding proper 'women's roles' in society. A powerful middle class emerged in the Victorian era that set the standards of proper behaviour for men and women. During this time theories
Vermeer's Secret Science
Vermeer's Secret Science CHRISTINA PARKER A great teacher once told me that the key to art is not to create, he said the only reason we have "old masters" is because they had "ideas". "Just as a Shakespeare created plays?" "Yes, he created, but is that the reason he is studied worldwide?" "Well, being the only known writer of the 15th century leaves him to be exclusively famous... does it not?" "No, minority did not exist within the arts centuries ago, as matter of fact there are thousands of artists from the past left anonymous." The answer was therein comprehended. It is the idea and creation behind a piece of art that makes it famous for hundreds of years after. Without it is would be an illustration or graphic or in plain English: Plagiarism. The historical academies have studied artifacts and mysteries of the past for centuries, which is most thoroughly claimed within our art history textbooks. However, it has evidently taken over five hundred years to question the embedded facts of part of our "accurate history." It seems as though the secret knowledge that has been possessed by few for centuries has slowly been seeping out. Some great artists of the past have used optics and mirrors to aid themselves within their masterpieces. Nonetheless, it has been understood that our great artistic masters of the past excelled in extraordinary hand-and-eye
With reference to practitioners individual philosophies of dance training and your own practice, select an exercise sequence and analyse how this can be achieved.
Dance Technique incorporates more than athletic ability. A dance technique class aims to build physical expertise while simultaneously developing artistic comprehension and sensitivity. With reference to practitioners individual philosophies of dance training and your own practice, select an exercise sequence and analyse how this can be achieved. Use information discussed in lectures as a guide and reading to support you analysis and discussion. The statement above is both right and wrong. Dance is an art and some form of technical ability is required. But do technique classes look at purely athletic ability and should performance qualities be part of the lesson and vice versa? And what is athletic ability? Cardio-vascular, isometric and isotonic strength are the three key athletic strengths, but Sylvain LaFortune asks "if strength, what kind of strength? What kind of stability? Speed? Flexibility? Cardiovascular?" (Not Just Any Body 2001:84) In this case athletic ability under dance techniques can be all of the above and more. Also it is important to think about how technique classes may be different to the performance and rehearsal classes. In a performance the adrenaline rush can cause a certain something extra to appear, something that is almost impossible to recreate in a technique class. To look at this further, the broad varieties of technique classes
What does it mean to understand music?
Aesthetics and Philosophy of Music Assignment 2 BMus 2 What does it mean to understand music? Is understanding important to musical experience or can one experience and enjoy music without understanding it? Or do you imagine, hope or suspect music to be inherently beyond understanding? And how would one know that? To understand, as defined by the Collins English Dictionary, is: "to know and comprehend the nature or meaning of; to realise or grasp (something); to assume, infer or believe; to know how to translate or read; to accept as a condition or proviso; or to be sympathetic to or compatible with " I believe that this definition of what it is to understand in general will be a useful starting point from which to begin our discussion of understanding in connection with music. From the above definition it can easily be deduced that to understand music must mean to know and comprehend the nature or meaning of music, to realise or grasp it, to know how to read (translate) printed music and to be sympathetic towards music. However, such a definition of the understanding of music raises many questions when we try to comprehend what this elucidation of the understanding of music implies. What does it mean to be able to "know and comprehend the nature or meaning of music", or "realise and grasp music"? And indeed how is one to know if they truly know and comprehend the
Narrative: A History of Southern Miss
Where Innovation Meets Inspiration Southern Miss. These words can be heard at any time and spoken in so many ways. One may hear it from a Golden Eagle fan at Homecoming, where school spirit and support are always a highlight. One may say it when speaking of campus and all of the new and exciting things going on -everything from intense research in polymer science to students winning prestigious national awards. One may hear it when our campus is being recognized for outstanding achievements like the baseball team making it to the College World Series and our academic programs hosting students from all fifty states and over seventy countries. You can feel the awe-inspiring dedication when Dr. Martha Saunders announces the receipt of a six million dollar donation to the university, or when our Gulf Coast campus is recognized for obtaining important research from the only remaining buoy during Hurricane Katrina. It is to be certain, when the words "Southern Miss" are spoken; it is always with an overwhelming sense of pride. With a history of over one hundred years of excellence, Southern Miss has come quite a way from its beginning in 1910. Originally named "Mississippi Normal College", the university began as the first state supported teacher's training school. Starting out with just five original buildings, 120 acres to work with, and a class of just 227 students overseen
Adam faircloff commences at a convenient point of the failure of the reconstruction process after the civil war and triumph of white supremacy in the decade that followed.
Adam faircloff commences at a convenient point of the failure of the reconstruction process after the civil war and triumph of white supremacy in the decade that followed. Fircloff 's writing indicated the struggle of black inequality in the period immediately following the triumph of the northerners over the south republics and the hopes and expectations of the Negro population in the aftermath of the civil war. There hope of freedom and equality before the law. The 13 thirteenth amendment and the recognition of Negro marriages,, their right to form families , to worship as they viewed fit, to acquire and hold property ,enjoy the freedom of movement but they soon realized that liberation would be empty without land ,legal rights and the right to vote in and atmosphere free from persecution ,Fircoff skillfully introduces the aspirations that black held through the period 1890 to 2000 and the inequality they suffered in gaining what was legally theirs at the hand of a militant and biased white population. Emancipation was nothing without independence and the Negro population quickly realized that and began organizing themselves into groups and association to ensure this. They began to distance themselves from the white population by forming their own churches and rejecting the limitations of the whites in laboring contact. Faircliff illustrated the circumstances that
Describe the salient features of the artistic movement known as Romanticism. Identify the unique features of Spanish Romanticism and show how both are reflected in the ballads of Duque de Rivas.
DESCRIBE THE SALIENT FEATURES OF THE ARTISTIC MOVEMENT KNOWN AS ROMANTICISM. IDENTIFY THE UNIQUE FEATURES OF SPANISH ROMANTICISM AND SHOW HOW BOTH ARE REFLECTED IN THE BALLADS OF DUQUE DE RIVAS. Romanticism is, ultimately, a rather general and open term for various tendencies towards change observable in European literature, art and culture in the later 18th and early 19th centuries. Although it manifested itself everywhere in a pronounced shift in sensibility, Romanticism was not a unified movement with a clearly agreed agenda, and its emphases varied widely according to time, place and individual author. Intellectually it pulled away from the philosophical rationalism and neoclassicism of the Enlightenment, developing an alternative aesthetic of freedom from formal rules and conventions, and advocating uninhibited self-expression from the artist. It disliked the adherence to strict fundamentals for clear, elegant writing, which the neoclassical movement advocated, and instead esteemed individual inspiration more highly than educated references or style. The sense of strong feeling, original, fresh and, above all, authentic expression was more important, and the development of natural, unforced poetic diction was, to them, an essential qualification. Underlying the era as a whole is a pervasive sense of the collapse within the individual of the systems of moral, religious
One of the main pieces of work that came from Rauschenberg and the E.A.T. group was 'Revolver.' This was Rauschenberg attempting to link with the general public. 'Revolver' displays elements of motion and time
Art Analysis 'Revolver' by Robert Rauschenberg Five rotating Plexiglas disks that can revolve to where ever the viewer chooses. Medium - Silk-Screen Cultural Context Rauschenberg anticipated the PopArt eara. He broke away from the abstract exspressionism that was coming to an end. In 1966 Rauschenberg and Kluver collaborated with a group of artists for nine evenings to further explore their aspirations. Robert Whitman and Fred Waldhauer, joined them, forming E.A.T. "an organization devoted to facilitating interaction between artists and engineers in order to address the technological challenges of realizing artistic concepts." 9 Artists and Engineers collaborated to actualize projects, which were out of reach previously, due to lack of technical support. The organization attracted so much interest that the artists were issued a grant for $8,000, allowing them to finance a home base for E.A.T. Thirty engineers participated in the "9 Evenings" with artists, by 1968 engineer membership jumped to 467. In his first collaboration with E.A.T Rauschenberg fused elements of light sound and motion. One of the main pieces of work that came from Rauschenberg and the E.A.T. group was 'Revolver.' This was Rauschenberg attempting to link with the general public. 'Revolver' displays elements of motion and time. Silk-screened on five rotating Plexiglas disks and are set on a pedestal
Vincent Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”.
VINCENT VAN GOGH'S "STARRY NIGHT" INTRODUCTION: In American history, many historians had revered the concept of frontier. One such historian is Frederick Jackson Turner, in his book "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" indicated that the evolution of English colonization in the American Frontier was one of the most important age in developing the American continent. This could be compared to as a piece of art where the artist first explores and then finally matures to his work. Vincent Van Gogh, one of the most important Impressionist, is an ideal artist whose work could be used to interpret the concept of "frontierism". For this reason his work is taken as an example to illustrate how American frontier came into being, the struggle of our forefathers fruitful to today's American society. Turner had indicated that: ". the most important effect of the frontier has been in the promotion of democracy. [The] frontier is productive of individualism." (Frederick Jackson Turner, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History.") In this context Van Gogh's work is compared so that the concept of individuality could be enhanced. How Americans came to the conclusion of democracy and through which chain of logical conclusions. THESIS In this paper Vincent Van Gogh's work "Starry Night" has been taken as the metaphorical frontier, which could be
Antonin Artaud - Mad Man or Genius?
Antonin Artaud Mad Man or Genius? Antonin Artaud was a man who revolutionised theatre. He introduced new and exciting concepts to the forefront of the stage, breaking down barriers and taboos that other practitioners had set. He rebelled against all the constraints that had been placed upon the theatre and set out to create something intensely dynamic. Antonin Artaud was a well-respected poet, painter, playwright and theatre director. Artaud started his career as an actor, due to his good looks, he was on his way to becoming a major movie star. Artaud decided that this path was not the right choice and decided to veer in another direction. The direction was the theatre. Artauds work never made the theatre till the 1920's and when he did many people disapproved of his work, and found it offensive to what theatre had been like before his time. Artaud was a member of the Surrealist movement; he was greatly influenced by Vincent Vangough. There are many similarities between Artaud and Vangough, both were members of the Surrealist movement and like Vangough Artaud suffered from mental ill ness. Artaud's influence on theatre was ahead of it time and many people believed his work was produced because he was mad. There are many who consider Artaud to be a madman, yet there is no question that he revolutionised contempory theatre . Artaud was associated with various