... realist accepts that unobservable phenomena do exist and does not consider a theory to be a fact but merely as approximately true.  James Robert Brown of the University of Toronto is a realist. Realism, as affirmed by Brown, is determined by scientific success, which is best determined by theories that, first, "are able to organize and unify a great variety of unknown phenomena." ... theory which combined both claims said more about the world than the latter astronomical explanation. Yet the astronomical explanation proved to be more accurate.  Like many debates in philosophy real...

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... sculpture representations of human body. Like Egyptian statuary, early Greek sculpture tended to be formal & frontal. But over the course, Greek sculptors experimented with greater variety of poses & increasing realism in showing musculature & motion. The favorite subject was not ordinary people, but idealistic beautiful, giving people. The rich marble deposits in Greek soil gave sculptors promising material. Baked clay & ... the gods, dates from 460 BC. During the Hellenistic period, (200 BC), near the end of Greek mastery over the Mediterranean world, sculpture became overly dramatic....

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... a carefully naturalistic description of the life of the Nottinghamshire mining community where Lawrence had grown up. Lawrence's plays did not achieve wide recognition until the 1960s, when 'kitchen-sink' realism had found new favour. The well-known novelist was suddenly 'discovered' as a dramatist, and as a significant forerunner of a modern theatrical trend. As with the Irish dramatists, the use ... relationships between men and women. In The Rainbow and its sequel Women in Love (1921), Lawrence explores human relationships with psychological precision and with intense poeti...

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... more glamorous. It tends to feature primarily physically attractive people and there is also a notable absence of people of colour. Neighbours move away from realism and it challenges the stereotypes presented in most British soaps, as the characters are not typical. They're all attractive, white, middle class. ... gratified by watching the glamorised lives of the characters in Neighbours. British soaps moves away from these idealised representations and aims to present realism and also the audience relates to the characters as for example British soaps tend to aim mainly at working class...

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... every single man's action is, or rather should be, guided by reason. Amongst other theories, Objectivism's position is that of defending perceptual realism, the theory that we directly perceive things in the external world. "But Objectivism is the first philosophy that identifies the connection between the primacy ... the same kind or type of thing? What is exemplified "universally", for example by all men ( cars, trees )?". Nominalism and classical realism are two historical alternatives on this issue. In accordance with nominalism, no two things are the same. People know what each means...

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... . Recently these shows appeared in a poll by the BBC of the 50 greatest British sitcoms. While many sitcoms conform to an aesthetic of realism and are naturalistic, there are some that break this mould and fit into an alternative group of their own. Programmes such as The Young Ones ... what our complex technological world might become if not carefully controlled. In the seventies special effects were becoming more and more complex and the need for realism in the audiences was at last satisfied. Science Fiction films became exciting spectacles. Star Wars' and Close Encounters of the Third...

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... cases is not discretion but interpretation. So the judge has to ensure what he decides fits past judgments. The basis of the decision has to be principles not policies. (rejects realism) principle is something that describes rights. So, judges ultimately find the individual rights. But fit is not enough, there is be 'substance justice'. This requirement obliges the judge to ... . It changes over time. Law is derived from experience and nt logic and is pragmatic. Law can include popular prejudice. There is a close connection of realism and pragmatism. It can actually be thought as a ...

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... phenomenon of Modernism? Response Modernism has an elusive definition, with an imprecise beginning and end. It finds its identity by differentiating itself from what it is not; for example, not Realism, its predecessor, which is characterized by its attempt objectively to offer up a mirror to the world. Modernism challenged it as an alternative way of representing reality and the world, pushing ... the embrace, the assimilation of the bourgeois society: the challenge of success "a hard to maintain stance." The symbolist poet is the archetypal figure in modernism; it's equally distant from...

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... with another clue about Blanche. We learn that Blanche refuses to see life realistically, and prefers fantasy, or as she calls it, "magic."" She says in scene nine, "I don't want realism! I want magic! Yes, yes, magic!" (Williams, Scene 9). Blanche's character is shaped by her blindness to true reality. Blanche has the outward appearance of being a Southern belle, and although she was ... , she sinks to her knees "silent crumpled, immobile- and completely gives up (Fleche 5). This action is not only an acknowledgement of Stanley's supremacy, but more importantly the dominance of his real...

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... ;Judith Beheading Holofernes" was the first instance where Caravaggio used a highly dramatic scene for his painting, inspiring artists of the 16th century Baroque movement to use intense emotions and realism to bring followers back to the Church (T). This early religious painting was made from 1598-99 in Palazzo Barberini, Rome, illustrating the Old Testament account in the Book of Judith ... St. Peter" and "Death of the Virgin" but rejected the paintings because of their subject matter. There was much controversy over Caravaggio's work because of his harsh realism and morally questionab...

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... collapsed. After years of dominating the industry through producing "white telephone " films, film critics began to harshly criticize its attempts to imitate American film and suggested that there be more realism coming from Italians. Filmmakers took this advice and began to take necessary steps in order to create a natural and original style for Italy. This natural and realistic style became known ... extraordinary significance other than the works of Alfred Hitchcock. Britain's cinema took a sudden upswing with Technicolor productions, which were filled with dramatic narratives that w...

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... held up her robes. The sculpture is softly modeled, light and shadow softly play on the surface. Old Market Woman 115 152 2C BC Shows the hellenistic qualities of extreme realism and interest in old age. She is poor, crippled with infirmities, and returning from the market with provisions. Rhodes Sculptors, Laocoön and His Sons 115 153 1st C Story of ... : a roof constructed with arches Barrel vault: an arch extended in space Groin vault: two barrel vaults that intersect at right angles Veristic: sculptures from the Roman Republic characterized by extreme realism of facial features EARL...

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... and culminate in As You Like It. Written about 1600, this comedy strikes a perfect balance between the worlds of the city and the country, verbal wit and physical comedy, and realism and fantasy. After 1600, Shakespeare's comedies take on a darker tone, as Shakespeare uses the comic form to explore less changeable aspects of human behavior. All's Well That Ends Well and ... play's enchanted, unreal atmosphere.David Cooper/Oregon Shakespeare Festival A Midsummer Night's Dream, first performed probably in 1594 or 1595 and first published in 1600, presents a happy blend of fantasy and real...

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... long enough to firm any real relationships, so this was a very lonely existence. John Steinbeck uses a fairly journalistic style of writing to describe the ranch, and this adds a touch of realism to the story. The characters and places he creates seem real, and he uses real places to mark the general area that the story is set in, the Salinas river ... , for example. The characters all speak in a 1930's American style, like in chapter one when George says to Lennie We ain't got any' and An' watta I got?'. This adds further realism to the characters. I feel that Steinbeck describes the lo...

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... herself in the writings of the World War 1 poets, the greatest of whom is undoubtedly Owen. His poems shock and move us even nearly a century later, through their graphic imagery, realism and appeals to the senses that almost bombard us. Barker is equally adept at using powerful description and symbolism. In my view one of the most disturbing scenes in Regeneration ... ? which touches us with a recency that makes the death seem immediate. The events described in Owen's poems and Barkers novel are real and passionately conveyed, I think that it is the realism, which shocks and moves us, t...

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... tragic past of Nixon's family imbedded the type of cynicism and tough-minded outlook the Nixon Presidency was known for. As a result Nixon was a realist, "whose realism tilts towards cynicism or one might say, whose realism is infused with cynicism- (friedman). The loss of his brothers, left him feeling powerless, it could be for this reason that Richard Nixon always demanded absolute ... ...

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... interaction. A large slow down in the arcade industry coincided with the personal computer boom in the late 1980's . Now gamers could play arcade conversions on their personal computers with the realism of their arcade counterparts. Some of the early PC games, which added this new multimedia experience were games such as Doom developed by id Software (1993) and Myst developed by ... multimedia elements within computer games such as graphics, pictures, animation and video. The polygon-oriented approach of stimulating visual content has served the computer games industry well until now. T...

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... 1928, the Central Committee established the right of the party to exercise guidance over literature; and in 1932 literary and artistic organizations were restructured to promote a specified style called "socialist realism". Works that did not contribute to the building of socialism were banned. Lenin had seen the need for increasing revolutionary consciousness in workers. Stalin now asserted that art should not ... been Stalin's spokesman on cultural affairs since 1934, led the attack. He viciously denounced such writers as Boris Pasternak and Mikhail Zoshchenko, who were labeled "anti-...

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... , Mark Twain's impacts are indescribable because of the amount of innovative genius Twain has shared with the world through his pen. The invasive technique used by Mark Twain was inventing realism through fictional literature. Before his craft had been penned to paper, the type of biographical-realist-fiction was not in existence. Mark Twain from his works of fiction, poetry, and ... , Mark Twain began to describe things in this book, as its main character Huck would see them, and to make Huck's immortal vernacular a language resource of the most captivating shrewdness, realism, stoical h...

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... editions. The dominance of the novel in this age of print emerged also from the intimate connection between the particular form of the Victorian novel, which can best be called "realism," with the desires, aspirations, and anxieties of its readers. For all their awareness of the contradictions involved in writing "realistic fiction" and their consciousness that language could not provide a transparent ... its deconstruction of the possibility of a single reliable narrator, Eliot's masterpiece, Middlemarch, indicates the author's faith in the power to record the process of change in Engl...

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... " Since all military leaders believe that war is foreseeable then it is better to strike at a rival right now than to let him strike you first. The second theory is realism which is a "rational response to systemic pressure" . This theory uses the same principals from the international relations model stating that since the "international system is anarchic, all states, regardless of ... the enemy. Third, states that face several adversaries at the same time might wish to pursue offensive doctrines so that they can take on enemies sequentially- Another sub-theory in realism, talks about ...

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... ; the Austrian Oskar Kokoschka, the Czech Alfred Kubin and the Norwegian Edvard Munch. Edourd Manet is known for being the leader of the Impressionists and for bridging the gap between Realism and Impressionism. He was born on the 23 January 1832 in Paris, France. Manet worked in history painter and teacher, Thomas Couture's studio until 1856 and then he opened his ... ...

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... centuries. The modernization and urbanization of society drove an overarching secular revival, one that affected the composition of Gothic literature to narratives that 'embodied a commitment to feminism and magical realism.'14 The Coleridge poems present temptation in different respects; for example in Christabel, as with Stoker's novel Dracula, temptation arises due to female allure. As Wade Kimble argues, when commenting ... ...

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... she herself could not provide. In terms of the unity of time, none of the authors choose to employ it within their respective texts. This could be because it provides realism for all audiences especially when presenting relationships and love because love and relationships do not often take place over one day.; but time does play a large factor to the structure ... ...

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... conserves perception of the world of objects, conserves their quiddity, their particular precisions." In linguistic terms, metonymy is the trope of "contexture" and compression that theorist Roman Jakobson associated with realism and viewed as the antipode to the more abstract form of symbolic displacement characteristic of metaphor. (13) Thoreau's figuring of Walden as "earth's eye," for example, is metaphor, a rather Emersonian ... ...

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