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Essay Instructions: Answer the questions. 1 paragraph is enough and must be your own ideas in your own words.
1. Postimpressionism reflects the art-for-art's sake spirit, while H. G. Wells debated that novels should be a sort of lecture, have morals, that they should affect the people who read them. What do you think on this? Which side do you take?

2. How did the new psychology influenced the birth of key movements in the arts: expressionism, dada, and surrealism?

3. Why did the airing of HG Well's novel "War of the Worlds" on the radio cause so much panic? What would it take to cause that type of panic from a Hoax like "War of the Worlds" in this day and age?

4. What does George Orwell mean by saying in 1984 "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."?

5. What do you find to be the unique stylistic features of painting, architecture, music, and dance at mid-century?

6. How is the quest for gender equality as reflected in feminist literature and art?

7. How has high technology and the information explosion influenced late twentieth and early twenty-first-century culture, arts, and literature?

8. How has globalism effected the contemporary arts? Do you thin globalism is a good thing?

Essay Instructions: Answer the questions. 1 paragraph is enough and must be your own ideas in your own words.
1. How was Louis XIV's Versailles a symbol of royal absolutism and an expression of the classical baroque style?

2. Who were the central figures of the Scientific Revolution and what were their contributions? Did this really bring about a scientific "revolution"?

3. Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal", so read that before posting.
When did it first become apparent to you that Swift's proposal was not serious? How did you respond?

4. This question is on Darwin (there is a file)
Describe some of the evidence Darwin offers to demonstrate his claim that man has descended from a lower form. Do you think his examples are compelling?

5. How is the concept of the heroic personality as manifested in the fictional figures of Prometheus, Frankenstein, and Faust?

6. What was the role of nationalism in the arts? Are there nationalistic themes in the visual arts (Gros, Géricault, Goya, Delacroix, Bartholdi, Rude)?

7. How did industrialism, colonialism, nationalism, and imperialism lead to Western global dominion? Did this help or hinder modern society? How?

8. What was the impact of technology and the new physics on the arts? How did it effect the development of Science Fiction?

9. How did the new psychology influenced the birth of key movements in the arts: expressionism, dada, and surrealism?

10.Please listen to the radio show "War of the Worlds" and read the file on the show before responding:
Why did the airing of HG Well's novel "War of the Worlds" on the radio cause so much panic?

There are faxes for this order.