The Russian Bride’s Attire is a life-sized oil painting by the Russian artist Konstantin Makovsky that is currently hanging in the Legion of Honor. At 110 x 147 inches, the piece pulls you in; as if you could step right into it and begin helping the ladies prepare the bride for marriage, or maybe bust her out of there. Makovsky is telling a subtle story through the composition and subject of this painting. The amount of emotion he brings with his angles and use of light and color is breath taking. He’s telling the story of a young girl who is set to be married off to the king, although this may sound glamourous, the girl looks unhappy, and no wonder; she’s a teenager preparing for marriage, preparing to leave behind her family and everything…
Patricia Jordan, long-time Buck Hiller, passed away on October 10th. Born in Brooklyn to the late Estelle (Sanders) and I. Jerome Riker, and the sister of the late Stanley Riker, Pat was educated at the Berkeley Institute, The Packer Collegiate Institute, and Columbia University. A writer and the author of a humorous book “Under the Dryer,” she married the love of her life in June 1950 and began her family. Pat discovered Buck Hill in the 1960s when she was looking for a place close enough to their home in New York where the family could vacation.…
In Old School, the narrator becomes completely obsessed with a fictional character named Roark, a strong-willed, independent architect who refuses to bend to the “weakness” of society. To the narrator, Roark symbolizes not only what it means to be a man, but what it means to be great. In this way, the narrator falls into the “Icarus trap”, meaning he fails to realize his reality and his limitations, and he ends up paying the price. The narrator is determined to soar as “men were born to” (pg 70), and looks loathingly at all the conformity around him.…
Throughout Trash there is a central theme. Watching Girl Rising, there is another theme. When reading “I Almost Died Making Your Clothes” there is yet another theme. But what if I told you these themes are one and the same? Guess what, they are.…
Johnny Tremain was a very stubborn boy and for the most part was definitely not a good person to emulate. He let his pride get in the way of him getting relief for his burned hand. Watch and learn from his mistakes and victories and don’t do what he did to Dr. Warren and storm out of the doctor’s office when he asks you about your injury. Johnny should have allowed Dr. Warren to operate on his burnt hand for three reasons: Dr. Warren showed himself to be a competent surgeon, Johnny needed the surgery in order to fulfill his career path as a silver smith, and Johnny lost his sense of pride and dignity when he lost the use of his hand.…
In Ward’s article, she first makes the argument that homophobia is less about self-hatred and subjectification and more about heternormativity or fitting into the heterosexual culture of hating gay people (Ward, pg. 415). This why many of the ads posted by “str8 dudes” reference disliking gay men and/or rejecting gay culture. It is a way for them to remain straight, while inquiring about same-sex sex. Next, she argues that whiteness is one of the main reasons why these “str8 dudes” are able to be straight. This is because our culture often categorizes white masculinity as “normal” and “natural” akin to heterosexuality classified as “normal” and “natural” (Ward, pg.…
The prisoners at the Holocaust were very affected and had a difficult time identifying “their inability to mourn or to acknowledge their suffering which led them to exhibit a variety of symptoms” (2). Vladek saw people during his time in the concentration camp that were affected physically, emotionally, and mentally which would have been hard to witness. This is why Vladek feels like he needs to take care of his health and benefit from the opportunity to care for himself and make good decisions about how he…
The play was realistic. Gibson Carter and William Rutkowski, who played Anna and Flavio made their romance believable. When Carter and Ruthkowski kissed they did it with passion. Kat Wensel who acted as Rosalinda also made it noticeable that she was in love with Rutkowski. She told Clyde Moser, who was her father that she wanted to marry Rutkowski.…
In The Book of My Lives, Hemon introduces multiple topics that in a way or another result in the change of point of view through relating to similar experiences that Hemon had. Displacement is a topic that he was challenged with, as his change of surroundings caused him to go through a phase where he became aware of failure of reconnecting to his identity. Hemon is first challenged with displacement during the time that he is conscribed in the Yugoslav People’s Army and begins to hold a nostalgic feeling towards his family and the food they shared together. In the army, Hemon can’t help with feel displaced not only with himself but with the unity he shared with his family as now in his new surroundings “Food wasn’t meant to be shared, because it was a survival commodity” (Hemon, 34). Through this Hemon fantasizes of his mother’s cooking and to his plea of feeling unity and love that he is lacking while serving the army, his mother makes a trip to feed his child and is given the love and family unity that he missed and came to an awareness of the importance that family is to his identity.…
The Goal The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeff Cox was an interesting read. The novel introduced many concepts that can be used to create success at work, home, in school and in life. In life we set goals and have expectations that we desire to seek and achieve, this should be done with the idea that we have to consistently and constantly make improvements. These improvements will help us achieve our goals. This novel is about a plant manager by the name of Alex Rogo who manages a plant for a company called Unico that is ultimately failing.…
The copyrighted visual work I have chosen to infringe is the logo for the National Basketball Association. It represents the men’s professional basketball team in North America for a total amount 30 teams, which doesn’t include the women teams at all. America’s basketball association doesn’t exclude women teams to an extremity but there are some concerns. These concerns are the reason why I am trying to come as close as possible to infringing the NBA logo. The following concerns are why do the women get paid less, games are televised less, seasons are shorter, no female video games, and contracts.…
At a young age the socializing activity begins, people visit different places every day so at least in one you will encounter someone with the same interests or hobbies as you, or maybe not even someone with the same pastime but somebody only with an enjoyable conversation. Friends become your second family and more in a situation as a war, where your only companionship is a rifle, a pack of cigarettes together with a letter and a picture of your other family. Nobody act as a lone wolf in war, soldiers need comrades, these became a support to keep fighting. Paul found this pillar in Stanislaus Katczinsky. Paul describes Kat as “the leader of the group, shrewd, cunning, and hard-bitten, forty years age, with a face of the soil, blue eyes, bent shoulders, and a remarkable nose for dirty weather, good food and soft jobs” (Remarque 5) in other words, a mature figure in where Paul and the rest of the second company put their hopes to guide them to victory.…
Vladek tells Art that “you must eat all what is on your plate” when they are eating dinner (43). In contrast, the middle panel on page 75 illustrates Richieu dumping the food off of his plate and Vladek not saying a word. There is an obvious age gap between the two sons, but because of his hardships in the holocaust, especially with finding food, Vladek was angry when Art did not finish his meal. There were many times when he would have been grateful to have the food that Art does not eat, but because he had not yet experienced that so he was not mad when Richieu did the same thing. This demonstrates how much the holocaust changed Vladek’s personality.…
Vladek even brought back groceries that had been half eaten and managed to get six dollars worth of new groceries. When Vladek comes back into the car, Artie is surprised he…
The article “Dude” that I was asked to present to the class was written by Scott Fabius Kiesling, an American sociolinguist, whose interest in the field of language and gender prompted him to investigate the functions and meanings of the word ‘dude’ in American cultural discourses. The first thing I discussed in my presentation was the goals that Scott Kiesling pursued in his paper, namely find out “the patterns of use for dude, its functions and meaning in interactions”, the reasons of its rise in use in 1980s and “how language is socially meaningful”. Then I briefly stated the methodological framework, including various data sources, which Kiesling utilisied in his research. Both were discussed in detail during the whole presentation.…