English Blog Posts

The Suitability of Secular Architecture in the Church

A Comparison Between the Cathedral of the Holy Family and the Basilica-Cathedral of Mary Queen of the World Click to download or view paper with all images referenced “Architecture is the built form of ideas” ...
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Denial in “The Death of Ivan Ilych”

The Death of Ivan Ilych is a narrative reflection on the consequences of living in denial. It is told as a third-person omniscient narrative of the journey of a Russian man named Ivan through life ...
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The Persistence of Memory

Salvador Dalí, The Persistence of Memory, 1931. Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City. This visit to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City marked the final official excursion of my college ...
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How World War I Affected European Attitudes Toward Humanity, Culture, and Art

Introduction   There is no doubt that World War I (1914 – 1918) was one of the most significant and devastating events in human history. Its unprecedented scale of destruction and loss left a lasting ...
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A Stronghold of Faith and Reason

«New Haven is a time machine». Those were the initial words of Dr. Charles Mercier, my professor of Music and Classical Language, before our class began the architectural tour of New Haven. The best part ...
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Hans Zimmer’s Life Must Have Its Mysteries and William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s Dante and Virgil in Hell

“Midway this way of life we’re bound upon, I woke to find myself in a dark wood. Where the right road was wholly lost and gone.(1)” In this essay, I seek to compare Hans Zimmer’s ...
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New Zealand Celebrity in Modern Art

Sam McKinnis, Lorde (Melodrama), 2016. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut Some faces are meant to be seen, but others are intended to be felt. I was walking into the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum when I ...
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Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise and Alexandre Cabanel’s The Fallen Angel

For this comparative essay, I have chosen Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise Op. 34 No. 14, published in 1915, and Alexandre Cabanel’s The Fallen Angel, painted in 1847. Firstly, Cabanel’s work is a blend of emotion and ...
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