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Before this painting he was all but ignored. None of Wood’s other paintings were ever as successful as American Gothic. Soon after he submitted American Gothic into the Art Institute of Chicago for a competition and the painting won the Norman Wait Harris bronze medal. The Institute then purchased the painting for $300. This was Wood’s first big art sell and his first prize for any work he had done. American Gothic was soon being copied in newspapers but Wood received a hostile…

The explorer conditioning technique (ECT): Treat a new task as a quest for new discoveries. To be able to perform at your peak, you have to love what you are doing. Whether it’s acting, bartending or washing dishes, you have to learn to love what you do. One way to achieve this is to technically act like any explorer would, which is to be thrilled by something new every day (or treat everything as such even when it’s not new). It should be as if each task you were making were coming…

Entertainment is available in many ways, shapes, and forms in today’s world of technology. Oftentimes we may find that these methods of entertainment are tools for information or even criticism. These criticisms often extend over various forms of media, with the same message being delivered in a different way. This can be seen in Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, which is not only a classic literary novel but also a play. The play version of Lord of the Flies, in which I attended, although…

Landless, Land Entitlement and Collective Violent Resistance to the Mining Induced Displacement and Resettlement (MIDR) in the Developing Country: The Case of Anti-Phulbari Coal Mining Movement in Bangladesh Abstract: My proposed research project will explore the role of landless people in forming collective violent resistance to the Mining Induced Displacement and Resettlement (MIDR) process in the Phulbari Coal Mining project in Bangladesh, and will demonstrate the necessity to identify…

What do people think about when they hear the word politics? To further that, what do they think of when they hear the term polarization? Congress is in a constant battle between parties, and this, in turn, keeps us in an almost constant state of gridlock. Susan Page, Jim Douglas, Brian Resnick, and Norman Ornstein have all written articles explaining political polarization, civil discourse, or the solutions to these problems. In Susan Page’s article “Divided We Now Stand,” she mainly focuses on…

The Art Institute of Chicago is a Museum and art school located in the Michigan Avenue near Grant Park, across Lake Michigan in Chicago. It is one of the most important art museums of the United States, along with the Metropolitan Museum of New York and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. It has one of the most important permanent collections of paintings of Impressionism and Post Impressionism in the world. Was founded in 1879 and was George Armour its first president. In 1893, the museum was…

ArtPrize in Grand Rapids, Michigan is a time when artists and creative minds alike are able to show their work and, if you will, bare their soul. On September 28, 2015 the sun is shining bright, scorching the skin of locals and tourists gathered around venues in the name of art. On the corner of Fountain Street and Division is the Fountain Street Church. The non-denominational, liberal church holds one of the best venues at ArtPrize. It is a piece of art itself with a tower standing tall above…

The Japanese and Norwegian violation of the International Whaling Commission’s (IWC) moratorium on whaling are two distinct issues in my mind. In 1986 the IWC imposed a moratorium on whaling (IWC. n.d.) in order to protect the worldwide population of whales. I contend that the protection of whales, or any other species which are in danger of extinction is a positive and necessary step, but the protection of thriving species is unnecessary. Norway only allows whaling of minke whales (fisheries…

The 1860’s and 70’s marked the beginning of the biggest art movement since the Renaissance, Impressionism. In the beginning, paintings in the impressionist style were sharply ridiculed for their “sloppiness” and “disrespect for tradition”. Impressionist artists were banned from exhibiting at the Paris Salon, the largest and greatest art event in the world at the time. This exclusion only fueled the artist’s passion and resolve to show the world the beauty of the new style. Perhaps the most…

As you go through life, you will probably come into contact with special individuals. These individuals may seem different from you. They may be put off by large crowds, or seem awkward when answering a question in front of a group. Actually, these people are similar to you in most respects. They enjoy movies, games, talking with other people, that sort of thing. What sets them apart is what they do when they are alone, when no one is there to watch them. I’m talking about, of course, computer…