Advertising and children
Sex Appeal and The Happy Meal:
A Look at the Marketing Tactics on Women and Children
Advertisements affect our lives in every way possible. From the television to the billboards on the main roads, the marketing agencies are constantly trying to persuade us into buying their product. However, th....
Food in the Renaissance
The Renaissance was an intellectual and educational movement that originated in Italy in the late 1300s and spread throughout Europe. Nevertheless the English Renaissance flourished into the early 1600s. It was a period of "rebirth" and change in many aspects of the daily life, for examp....
Gladiators: Pawns in the Games of Society
"The beating heart of Rome is not the marble of the Senate, it is the sand of the
Colosseum" (Gladiator). In Ancient Rome, the term gladiator refers to an individual, commonly a professionally skilled fighter, captive, or slave, trained to entertain the masses by way of engaging in comba....
Jean-Louis David + Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Question : In what ways and to what extent is an understanding of historical context important in approaching the works of (a) David and (b) Rousseau? "The Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of his Sons", is a painting by the French artist Jean-Louis David in 1789. Having led the fight whi....