The period of the Enlightenment took place during the seventeenth century. The Enlightenment centered around a new heightened interest in philosophy and science. The Enlightenment philosophers included Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes, and John Locke. The scientists of the same time included Galileo, R...

Anselm Kiefer Kiefer was born in 1945 and was raised in postwar Germany he was greatly affected by the atmosphere and his paintings reflect his attitudes and feelings towards his country's history. Some of his works also spring from his interest into general history, mythology, philosophy, o...

A major source of these generative ideas was an intellectual movement that was neither a religion or philosophy nor a literary theory, although it had elements of all three. Transcendentalism is the view that the basic truths of the universe lie beyond the knowledge we obtain from our world, and ...

The portrait of a tree is not to be mistaken or over looked. Every one can see the beauty of a tree whether it be an ever green or disigous. This may be the key to our future. To look from the ground up standing under a tree the leaves may slowly turn around you enrapture you with all thier g...

I have always had an interest in the medical field. I can remember when I was a little girl reading any and everything about the human body and how it works. I did not know that I would choose nursing, as a career but I knew that I wanted to help people in their struggle to fight the horrific disea...

Of all the beautiful things in this world, there are few things that surpass the images of music in childhood. For most people, our earliest memories are deeply rooted in music. As children begin school, they are ready to begin formal musical training. As a music education major, I am driven to s...