Inflection

cling to the concept that being avant-garde will give art a blank slate to give itself an original concept. Krauss uses a “grid” that art fits that avant-garde into stating, “The absolute stasis of the grid, its lack of hierarchy, of center, of inflection, emphasizes not only its antireferential character, but—more importantly—its hostility to narrative .” Krauss says this grid is an imitation as it mimics a canvas, as the canvas came before the gird. Artists that paint cannot explore areas…

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When studying and doing research on one of the world’s largest hedge funds ever in existence, I came across a corporation called Bridgewater Associates. A huge hedge fund with over $169,000,000,000 under management of analysts, traders, risk specialists, portfolio and fund managers as well as hedge fund partners; Bridgewater is run like a cult which can be a good thing or a bad thing. But in terms of hedge funds a cult like operation can be a very successful operation. If you make even 1 percent…

get past the language problem our generation faces, due to the fact that it is easier to change how the world perceives us, rather than changing the world to accept us. Cameron’s attempt to explain this phenomenon of language involving the vocal inflection and word choice of women leads her to the conclusion that the world is sexist against women…

There are many conceptual definitions of what it means to be a hero. In one instance, a firefighter can be a hero for saving dozens of individuals from a burning building. In other instances, a hero can be a student sharing notes to another student who was out sick. In The Hero or O Heroi, the hero is Vitorio, a war veteran who lost his leg towards the end of the Angolan Civil War. Directed by Zeze Gamboa, the film follows the lives of Vitorio, Barbara, a prostitute who lost her son when the war…

There were two elements these certain women, Fuglei included, and their works possessed that held my attention: vocal inflection in the reading and amazing imagery in the actual piece of writing through their diction and descriptions. Visually, their facial expressions were also entertaining to watch. When I hear someone reading any writing or poetry, I always desire for…

Giacomo Puccini was an Italian composer who was widely regarded as one of the most significant exponents of the genre of operatic realism and one of the creators of some of the best-loved operas. Richard Wagner was a German-born composer known not only for his dramatic compositions, but it is said that his artistic philosophy extended and had an enormous influence on not only his contemporaries but to other genres such as painter, playwrights, and poets. It is said that few composers had such a…

The book Sigfried’s Smelly Socks! is a charming tale of a boy with stinky, unwashed socks. He compares the stench of his socks to all the messy, smelly things that has happened to the book. Ranging from food droppings to dirty diapers, nothing from the stench of the book quite compares to the distinct, disgusting smell of his dirty socks. Despite not being as odorous as the things in the book, Sigfried still decides to clean his stinky socks in the strangest way possible. I rate Sigfried’s…

“There was only one catch and that was Catch-22,” writes Heller, squatting low at the edge of the dimly lit ring, ready to tackle his target at the slightest indication of vulnerability. Dancing nimbly through the murky clouds of confusion obscuring war, Heller strikes out at insanity, grappling adroitly with his slippery objective before taking him down to the sweat-soaked mat. In a maneuver of grotesque dexterity, Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22, articulates the public’s growing concern…

that the word can be used in a derogatory manner. Naylor also says, “And so among the anecdotes of the triumphs and disappointments in the various workings of their lives, the word nigger was used in my presence, but it was set within contexts and inflections that caused it to register in my mind as something else” (2). This means as a child she has always heard the word being used amongst others in a positive tone. It was only until the child sitting behind her used it in such a vulgar manner,…