Barnes Foundation

239. The Crossing. Bill Viola. 1996 C.E. video/sound installation. Bill Viola’s The Crossing, created in 1996 C.E., is a room-sized video installation that is made up of a large two-sided screen onto which two video sequences are projected at the same time. They each open in the same fashion: having a male figure walking slowly towards the front of the camera, his body dramatically lit from above, appearing to glow against the black background. After some time, he pauses and stands completely…

As a volunteer intern in the Online Services department of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), I focused on collecting pertinent articles from the old children's website and presenting them in a kid-friendly manner on the redesigned JDRF Kids Online. As I helped rebuild a resource I had often used before, I was drawn to the hundreds…

In Ohio, 15.8% of the people are considered at poverty level land there are not enough free clinics for the people to receive check ups (Larrick, Ohio Poverty Report 2016). Especially for women, because 11% of women in Ohio are uninsured and there are a limited amount of free clinics (Health Care for Women, Department of Government Affairs). Therefore, the Government needs to provide funding, so that there can be more free clinics for women that are in families that earn low income between…

The kimbell museum located in Fort worth texas, widely recognized for its different art pieces it houses. The kimbell hosts an art collection as well as traveling art exhibitions, educational programs and an extensive research library. With the Kimbell having an impressive art collection, the Kimbell may need a more impressive building to house everything. But before we get into the building we need to know the people who designed it. Louis Kahn was born in Pärnu, Estonia, on February…

Creativity has been with the human race since the beginning of time, from designing complex infrastructures, to developing the first rocket to ever reach outer space.Creativity has lead to many of the most influential practices and ideas, and has inspired countless of other individual to think creatively. Although creativity may still be present today, it continues to fight a battle of extinction where creativity is bound to lose. While some scholars believe that creativity flourishes in society…

“Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) is the world’s largest bookseller and a leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products. The Company operates 632 Barnes & Noble bookstores in 50 states (as of July 29, 2017), and one of the Web’s premier e-commerce sites, BN.com. Our Nook Digital business offers a lineup of popular NOOK® tablets and eReaders and an expansive collection of digital reading content through the NOOK Store®”. William Barnes and G. Clifford Noble opened the…

cause of disability (Oliver 1990a; 1996, cited in Hemingway 2008; Barnes & Halmstad 2009; Carson 2009). Viewing disability as a medical problem fosters the belief that those with disabilities are in need of fixing or a cure. Framing disability in this way leads to individualised treatment of those with disabilities, rather than standardised policies, which can result in marginalisation and alienation (Barnes 2003; Barnes 2007; Barnes & Halmstad 2009; Carson 2009; DPA, Singapore…

parents have complained over the fact that their students and children have very short attention spans and technology is to be blamed. They claim that in the classroom, students’ phones can be continuous distractions that impede effective learning (Barnes, Raymond, and Sharmila 2-3). At home, parents lament over the fact that their children are constantly watching tv or using their phones while simultaneously completing their schoolwork (Wilhelm 293). Employers claim that their younger workers…

utilized its previous resource of book titles and relationships with publishers to create the foundation of a new market while still being competitive in traditional book retail. This is known as an analyzer strategy according to Miles and Snow’s strategy of typology (Daft, 2013). In the first quarter of 2012, Amazon was still by far the leading e-book retailer with 70 percent of e-book sales with competitors Barnes & Noble accounting for 20 percent and Apple accounting for 10 percent. The…

repetition of the fragment “like everybody else” implies that the narrator, Meursault is re-assuring himself that he is able to be a fully functioning member of society. There is sufficient evidence to suggest that the character of Tony Webster in Barnes’ postmodern novel is insecure as he forms prejudgements on other characters he meets throughout the novel. Such is evident when Tony spends his weekend at Veronica’s home…