Salvador Dali’s The Persistence of Memory is an oil-on-canvas work, 24 x 33 cm in size, and is presently in the Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, in New York. It was painted in 1931 and donated to MoMA in 1934. It is arguably Dali’s most famous piece of art. It is this surrealist work which …
Joseph Burstyn, Inc. vs. Wilson, 343 U. S. 495 (1952), was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court which largely marked the decline of motion picture censorship in the United States. A review of related American jurisprudence shows that the case was decided correctly and consistent with principles of First Amendment rights and …
New Orleans, Louisiana is the birthplace of jazz. It is an electric, vibrant city. Jazz music shapes and defines New Orleans. New Orleans is the home of many great jazz musicians; Louis Armstrong, BB King, Miles Davis, Sidney Bayshaw, Paul Whiteman, Artie Shaw and many other greats. Since the 1800’s, New Orleans is the place …
The decade of the 90’s certainly paced way to a more sophisticated system of communications hosted through the Internet. With all the developments that the Internet has offered the human society, everything could now be accessed; everything else could be made through one click of a button. 1 Even media presentation itself has actually been …
Today, television sets are one of the most common appliances owned by every household. Thanks to the marvel of science and to people who had been devoted to its exploration, we can now see videos either coming from a taped scene or from a live video feed. It was past 100 years since the television …
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The Internet is the most powerful tool of interaction nowadays. Through its various functions ranging from File Transfer Protocols, e-mails and Internet Relay Chats, people all over the globe and even the Universe can get in touch with each other. Just like any new thing, the Internet also had its beginnings. From being utilized mainly …
On the first Oral History interviews, Mr. Paul E. Ward was the interviewee and the interviewer was Mr. Robert Tidwell. The interview was conducted on July 28, 2003 and it was transcribed by Shannon Geach. Mr. Paul E. Ward, who grew up in Columbus mainly through the Depression, had served from 1940’s until the early …
“No man can live alone”, this basic aspect of human beings resulted in the birth of what is known as Cultural Hybridity. The interaction of various cultures since centuries in the form of colonization and trade relations brought together various human races in conjunction with each other and under the one main purpose- for generating …
The concept and instance of homosexuality has ceased to become breaking news. The reality that men and women are physically and intimately attracted to the same sex or gender, and are being categorised into labels such as Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Queer, and even Transsexual has stopped amounting to something which constitutes ‘new’ or ‘shocking’ to …
American film audiences have had a struggle with open and positive depictions of gays and lesbians relationships. In 1930 the film industry was forced to follow a code named the 1930 Production Code that forbid representation of any kind of “sexual perversion” and homosexuality at that time was classified a “sexual perversion”. The industry complied …
