Auction

The Klamath National Forest covers roughly 1,700,000 acres between California and Oregon. Besides the usual recreational activities open to the public, the Forest "also helps to meet local and national needs for timber, gold, and other natural resources, explains the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service (FS). http://www.fs.usda.gov/main/klamath/about-forest What the federal agency fails to mention is that sometimes these "needs" for natural resources trump sound science and…

Although not focused exclusively on female enslavement, Philip D. Morgan’s Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake & Lowcountry echoes the contrasting identities between white and black Americans and its impact on the moral development of society. According to Morgan, “Slavery was not curious abnormality, no aberration, no marginal features or early America. Most eighteenth-century Americans did not find it an embarrassment or an evil. Rather, slavery was a…

the difference between reading a line and playing a part. A slave is murdered on the ship by a sailor, when in the book, the slave dies of small pox, a disease that Solomon also contracts. There is more nudity than in the book, especially in the auction scene. Solomon explicitly states that the slaves were given new suits, and the filmmakers decided the slaves should be naked. Later, when Tibeats tries to kill Solomon, it is portrayed much differently. In the novel, Tibeats ties Solomon up in…

Repatriation and the Arts During WWII Art repatriation is the return of art or cultural objects back to their countries of origin, or their former owners. In the art world, repatriation has become a very common occurrence; in particular when it comes to art from the past century. Looted art was a very common theme during both World War I and World War II. Art was often times taken on purpose, but sometimes even by accident. As previously stated, art was often wrongfully taken, or looted,…

Cosmography is the study of the known world and its place in the cosmos. This study played a significant role in our understanding of how the New World was discovered. In 1506, two men by the names of Matthias Ringmann and Martin Waldseemüller, collaborated together on a magnificent map that depicted something no one had ever seen before. Through the descriptive letters from a Florentine merchant, Amerigo Vespucci, Ringmann and Waldseemüller were able to formulate a textbook titled, Introduction…

Fingers were pointed at the IMF for its poor economic advice and promotion of privatization, which many experts agree lead to corrupt business deals and rigged auctions(Lawhead, Horowitz & Poe, 2007). In conclusion the blundered loan packages of the IMF to Russia are symptomatic of a systemic narcissism that seems to pervade all International Monetary Fund projects. The egocentric belief that a one size fits…

bracket, and these are known as name-your-price websites. A good example of such a website is Priceline. A website whereby customers can find the lowest prices is known as find-the-best-model. And lastly, but certainly not least, are those online auction sites, whereby customers bid for certain items. Ebay is a good example of…

toiled at the expansion of the Capitol. Yet, it was built under the impression that it would represent freedom. In the article it states, “Black men and women were frequently advertised for sale in the newspapers, and occasionally even sent to the auction block just a few hundred yards from the White House” (Goodheart 2). This took place years after The Pearl escape failed although many saw the reality of what was happening. After all that sacrifice very little changed during the years. Slaves…

gray walls, and a big red Kendall Motor Oil clock hangs in the middle of the garage. Many years ago my father and I started walking flea markets and swap meets to hunt for old advertising signs and classic cars. We would even drive hours away to auction houses and buy vintage road art including, signs, oil cans, and gas pumps. The collection of petroliana in my garage is a reminder of all the memories I have spent over the years hunting with my father.…

To illustrate, on auction blocks where they “were stripped, examined, and assigned meaning according to the brutal…slaveholding ideologies” , African-American slaves were dehumanized and “turned into products”. Slaves were denied their unalienable human right to privacy as…