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carvers in the West, Northeast Coast, and engravers in the Arctic, sculptors of the East, hunters, woodsmen, planters and shepherds from numerous tribes across the United States (changing, 52). Much like the art exhibit in Pueblo art exhibition in Brooklyn in the early 1900s, this exhibit stressed each and every piece of art. This was become a key theme in museums exhibiting Native American arts and crafts The structure used by many art galleries showing Native Indian works was established in…

Long before European settlers took hold of New York City, the Lenape tribe were natives to this land. “Around 11, 000 years before the first Europeans sailed through the Narrows, the Lenape people foraged, hunted and fished the regional bounty”¹. In the early 1500’s a man named Giovanni da Verrazano was the first European explorer to ever land on New York’s soil. In the ear of 1609, a man named Henry Hudson discovered and created the first settlement while sailing up and down the Atlantic coast…

as planned, Craig gets caught in a trap of loneliness and depression. Countless therapist appointments and medication later and relief not coming soon enough Craig makes a life changing plan; Early sunday morning he would ride his bike over to Brooklyn Bridge and jump off, taking his life. At this point he realizes his worth and checks himself into a psychiatric hospital for an attempt to become normal once again. Through the character of Craig, It’s Kind of a Funny Story suggests that: when an…

substantially related to serving that interest. This case involves a female student that is unable to attend an all-boys school. Cases that deal with gender discrimination are subject to intermediate scrutiny. Frynee Fisher and her family moved to downtown Brooklyn, New York from Green Valley, Arizona. When it came time for Frynee and her brother, Freddie, to apply to middle school, her parent went to the Department of Education in order to register…

“Arabs were not a corrupt offshoot of the rest of humanity. The same rules and moral standards applied to them as to anyone else in the world. Saying anything else was patronizing trash masquerading as sympathy. To accept a lie from am Arab but no one else meant you saw fundamental weakness in them as if they were granted permission to be irrational.” In this passage, Darwish is expressing his thoughts on Arabic plights; specifically, Egypt. He believes in holding Egypt to the same standards…

Pablo Picasso was born October 25 1881, in Malaga, Spain; he died April 8 1973, at the age of 92 in Mougins, France. He was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer who spent most of his adult life in France. He is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. His father was Jose Ruiz Blasco, and his mother was Maria…

The African mask has appeared in various forms and has been adapted in countless ways in Western art as a typification of ceremonial masquerade. In the 2016 Brooklyn Museum exhibition titled Disguise: Masks and Global African Art, twenty-five contemporary artists attempted to bridge the gap between mask and masquerade by both historically contextualizing and re-creating the part that the African mask and masquerade play today. The Helmet Mask (Gbetu) with Raffia Costume was created during the…

No Child Left Behind was enacted to ensure the success of all American students however; the legislation is in need of drastic reform to truly accomplish this goal. The parameters set forth by the legislation are flawed in numerous areas. The act over emphasizes the results of standardized tests, takes on a one-size fits all approach for failing schools and most importantly, does not provide a valid measure of a student’s real academic progress. Furthermore, teachers are being forced to…

Looking Back at Yesterday to Understand Today. When you explore the ramifications that result from the prejudicial mentalities that continue to plague modern day societies, it is without a doubt obvious that there is a continuous and active issue. Through the lenses of analyzing Spikes Lee’s 1989 film Do The Right Thing, the fundamental question that is presented that corroborates this perception is how does the racial politics alongside racial tensions of the 1980’s era still resonate within…

"All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," (Thomas Jefferson, In the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776). The American Revolutionary War is probably the greatest underdog story to ever happen in history. A group of soldiers with minimum training taking on one of the most powerful military forces at the time, sounds like a plot to a horrible movie directed by Michael Bay. It took a bunch of great people and determined leaders like…