Affluence

Tom Wesselman, Still Life No. 35, 1963 Erik Bulatov, Glory to the CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union), 1975 Emerging during the economic affluence of the United States post World War II, Pop Art is a movement during the late 1960s that can be characterised by the appropriation of commercial and highly recognisable images, bright colours, and the blurring of boundaries between ‘high’ and ‘low’ art. Tom Wesselman’s Still Life No. 35 may be seen as an example of Pop Art – the use of…

admirable city-limits in the world. Even if it was bare of barrio and population, anyone continuing at the top of the acclaimed Sugarloaf Mountain or by the Corcovado bronze would see one of the world's a lot of admirable landscapes. Green, close affluence mixes with the dejected of the ocean and the accuracy of the beach at the beaches, proving that this is absolutely "the astonishing city" as locals alarm…

During my time in the Human Development course, I studied and learned the stages of cognitive development at which a child develops and the different things that affect their development throughout their lifespan. This course helped me understand why different things affected people in certain ways and how you could tell they were affected by it. I learned that there is a large variety of evidence for the reasons in which children behave differently and the reasons why they act in those…

enjoyed by their neighbors. Another term defined that will aid in this explanation is what we call absolute affluence. Absolute affluence is those who have more wealth than they need to provide themselves with all the basics for life. This type of person you would find shopping for preference, taste, and style not for hunger, warmth, and shelter. Singer indicates that people of absolute affluence are under the ethical standard to give to the absolute…

Part three of “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” by Thomas Piketty, discusses how much the structure of inequality has changed since the nineteenth century regarding labor and wealth. The central theme of part three is that wealth is unevenly distributed compared to income. On page 267, [Piketty] makes a powerful statement regarding the distribution of wealth. [Piketty] states, “… the growth of a true “patrimonial middle class” was the principal structural transformation of the allocation of…

Thanks for your post! I largely agree with your post, mainly your stance on poverty. I have responded to this question in other peer post, but would now like to not only respond, but provide examples of how cyclic poverty could occur. We all know that "rough part of town" that we have either heard of, lived near, or drove by in our daily commute. The part of town where you make sure your doors are lock and you keep your eyes straight ahead and on the road. Well, families live there, often…

In the transition from the past to the present, the conditions of life have changed drastically. Young people in this generation are able to enjoy living in peace and affluence, in stark contrast to those in the previous generation. The abundance and superfluity of physical materials have caused the decay of moral values, one of which is resilience. People assert that: “Young people in this generation are not as resilient as those in the previous generation” and I totally concur to that…

nations to our shores” (Bayles). In the past, “the original dream was called the dream of hard work and intergenerational mobility” (Bayles). On the other hand, “this new dream features a fantasy of young, unattached men and women enjoying a degree of affluence and personal freedom” (Bayles). Even though the meaning of the dram changes, people still search and want to grab this dream. However, anything is not easy to people to succeed their dream. Globalization by big companies…

beginning of consumerism. J. R. McNeill describes this best when he writes in his book Something New Under the Sun “Ford saw that sharing these gains with his workers suited his own interests…he paid laborers enough to buy a Model-T… They enjoyed an affluence and leisure that in the nineteenth century would have required an army of household servants” (Pgs 316 & 317). Ford’s increase in wages created a market for products that…

In Chapter 7 of Ways of Seeing, Berger mainly talks about publicity images, which "never speak of the present" but "often refer to the past and always speak of the future" (p 130). In another word, publicity offers its future buyer an image of himself/herself became glamorous by the product or its related opportunities (p 132). Indeed, this kind of illusion of authority is also incorporated into lots of traditional oil paintings; and in this regard, publicity and oil paintings share tons of…