Jazz is an example of what literary critic Henry Louis Gates Jr. has called âsignifyin(g)â; that is, the rhetoricalpractice in Black English vernacular of repeating with a âsignal difference,â ora comment on the initial version that calls attention to the change.
Art Inspired by The French Revolution. There are hundreds of paintings, sketches, and comics influenced by the French Revolution and especially Napoleon Bonaparte. Many of the paintings were painted by one artist, in particular. Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) was a neoclassical artist who was born in Paris, France.
Science played an important role in Enlightenment discourse and thought. Many Enlightenment writers and thinkers had backgrounds in the sciences and associated scientific advancement with the overthrow of religion and traditional authority in favour of the development of free speech and thought.