Essays on Contemporary History

Emergence of Public Relations in the United States One may argue that the end of the American Civil War and the start of the 20th century marked the emergence of public relations in the country. According to Ewen, the time was marked by a great deal of social unrest and disarray...

Germany's Historical Context with Public Relations With its promotional efforts on railroads and industry, Nazi Germany's employment of propaganda, and the thriving post-war industry, Germany has a long history with public relations. "ffentlichkeitsarbeit" (working for the public sphere) is a phrase used in German. According to this definition, the industry is...

In his artwork, Eduardo Manet created a link between realism and impression. He regarded himself as a realism artist and classified his work as honest (Bass, 2014). His personal life was so contentious that he depicted it in his artwork. His darkly toned paintings were some of the most derided...

Romanticism and Its Origins Romanticism gained momentum as an artistic movement in France and Britain in the early several years of the nineteenth century and flourished there until the middle of the century. It was first described as tasteful in popular opinion around 1800. Romanticism, with its emphasis on creativity and...

Pablo Picasso: A Great Painter and Artist Pablo Picasso was a well-known 20th-century painter, musician, and artist. Pablo was born in Malaga, Spain, in 1881, and he passed away on April 8, 1973.Early Interest in Painting Pablo's interest for painting began when he was a little child. Banished to the calaboose, which...

A situation of racial discrimination existed during apartheid in South Africa. The British Cape Colony and the Dutch were the two main nations involved in enforcing apartheid. In South Africa, apartheid was a system of racial discrimination that gave white people a distinct advantage over black people. Apartheid was so...

The Impacts of Globalization and Technological Advancement The incomes and general well-being of people around the world have improved as a result of globalization and technological advancement. Although it has gained increasing attention in the recent three years, globalization has roots in the nineteenth century, during the time of Karl Marx...

Introduction For several years, there has been a trend in the United States to make reparations to the African-American community for the massacres, injustices, humiliations, and general mistreatment imposed on their descendants as a result of segregation, the Jim Crow period, and racist actions in many other aspects of American society...

Intertextuality has become very popular in film production and cultural studies, especially in the second half of the twentieth century. This was brought to life in the 1990s, and director Quentin Tarantino was a pioneer of intertextual referencing in movies with his masterpiece Pulp Fiction. This film bridges an inexcusable...

In the Victorian Era: Revolutionizing Networking with the TelegraphIn the Victorian era, the telegraph revolutionized networking in the same way as the internet did several decades later. Prior to the invention of the telegraph, correspondence was extremely slow and unreliable. People were able to transmit messages and news quicker than...

Contemporary Art and Conceptual Art Contemporary art is made up of various forms of art, such as Conceptual Art, Minimalism, Burt art, Body art, Op art, Neo-Dadaism, and Op art, to name a few. Because of their individuality and authenticity, these arts originated in the twentieth century. During the 1960s, the...

Jacques-Louis David: The Pioneer of Neoclassicism Jacques-Louis David, born in 1748 in France, rose to become one of the most influential painters of all time, owing to his pivotal role in the establishment of Neo-Classicism as an art school.The Emergence of Neoclassicism During David's early years, the prevalent fashion style of the...