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When i was a youngster my grandma and I were very close. She used to be my best friend and going to her house on the weekends was a trip for me. We would congregate around the front porch and enjoy the beautiful weather or be inside cooking up some new recipes she acquired from one of her friends. In 2009 I forever lost her to cancer. At the time I was young and frankly kind of confused. But most of all I was hurting and I was, and still continuing to, doing everything i could do to repress…

In the late 1880s Georges Seurat and Paul Signac began a painting technique called pointillism. The technique relies the human brain’s ability to merge individual marks of color into bright smears and smudges—forming objects, conveying ideas, and narrating stories. From far away, each speck is part of something bigger than itself—a shadow, an umbrella, or a woman’s hat. Each speck of oil paint the pointillist marks onto his blank canvas is different in shade, texture, size, and purpose. Specks…

1 Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte: George Seurat, 1884 George Seurat, 1859-1891, was a very young French artist who revolutionized the art world. The artists of the day were impressionists but this young artist used what is now referred to as pointillism or divisionism, by using tiny dots and strokes. As part of the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection this large oil on canvas painting, measuring 81 ¾ x 121 ¼ was created in 1884. From a distance the painting looks as…

everyone has their own opinion and doesn’t want to be wrong. All of these thing work together to separate the party lines. “This condition is unlikely to change, Steven Strauss, a 2012 advanced leadership fellow at Harvard, writes in The Huffington Post. Americans “believe what we want to believe, and we selectively filter out information contradicting our preferences.” This is what experts call “confirmation bias,” which was less troublesome in the 1960s, he says, when Americans “got their news…

In history, there are many words that were once used. Some have been forgotten but some have made it through time and still remains with us in today's world. But no word has stuck with us Like the infamous “N” word. A word that many people find to be bad and disgusting and totally inappropriate due to its background. But beyond all that bad reputation of the word, there are still people who tend to use the word as a reference to their friends and family. Over time many words have changed in…

Camille Pissarro-----A Great Impressionist As many of you may know, Camille Pissarro was a French artist born on 10 July 1830 in Denmark. Pissarro was a French Impressionist painter that was not so well-known by public, but he is greatly respected by Paul Cézanne as a painter. At first glance, Pissarro's paintings seem very ordinary. They have neither Van Gogh's passion, melancholy, nor Paul Gauguin bright and primitive, but after looking deeply and carefully, you can gradually see the…

to hit a similar chord within the greater American audience, installing within them an understanding which transcends the past and applies to the present onward. All the President's Men revolves around the scandal at Watergate, following Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on their quest to discover who was really behind the entire ordeal. After the mysterious break-in at the National Democratic Committee, these two young reporters quickly become obsessed…

In an article for USA Today, Krysten Dorfman said she noticed that she was homesick much less often than her friends who were farther away from home. According to the Huffington Post, you also save thousands of dollars on dorms as well as meal plans. Also, many people are family oriented and being closer to home helps them see their family often. When home, you don 't have the distraction of other students in the dorms. Instead…

However, this was with the American People, threats to National Security were made and barriers in National Security were breached. According to Washington Post writers Bob Woodard and Carl Bernstein, “The American Presidency will never be the same.” “Thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not covet anything of thy neighbor, and thou shalt not bear false witness.” All of these scriptural rules were broken during…

“All the President’s Men” is a story of two Washington Post journalist, who investigated the Watergate scandal. The journalist uncovered the story and presented the facts that eventually led to President Nixon’s resignation. The investigative reporting was effective in the Watergate scandal because journalist Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein focused on why there was a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in D.C, and why those who worked under Nixon attempted to cover-up…