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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 mark on human memory and the cultural landscape of the early twentieth century; marking the beginning of a period of

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Poema de Amor

«Hay en los hombres cosas más dignas de admiración que las de desprecio»[i] Era 14 de febrero de 2025. Día de San Valentín. El aire en Bekerly College estaba lleno de las risas, susurros y alborotos provenientes de los estudiantes que presumían sus cartas impregnadas de perfume y selladas con besos carmesíes. Esta era el

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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 Life Must Have Its Mysteries, composed and published in 2016 for the film Inferno, and William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s Dante and Virgil

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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 passion that captures the exact moment of Lucifer’s expulsion from Heaven. This Romantic work differs from previous depictions of this

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