I see a young man with curly long hair wearing nothing but a hat, a long cloth wrapped around his left arm, and sandals. I also notice something on his chest that looks like a bandage and he is holding an apple with his left hand. As for his body language and position, he is not standing completely straight since most of his weight is on his left foot, while his right foot is standing at an opposite angle. In addition, I notice that he is touching his chin with his right finger while looking…
Color frequently appears throughout Toni Morrison’s novel, Beloved, giving the characters comfort, joy, and satisfaction. Scenes filled with hope, despair, love, and other powerful emotions are associated with the color red. Yet, the color red represents something more significant and painful than other colors. As the characters of Beloved continually illustrate their painful memories and face the present, red represents their emotions, hopes, and loves. The color red reflects the sufferings…
Pollination syndromes in large flowered plants. The land is more beautiful when it is that season of the year when flowers are scattered everywhere. Flowers are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul. A flower is sometimes called a bloom or blossom, it is the only reproductive structure found in flowering plants. Its biological function mostly it is to outcome reproduction through a mechanism of the amalgamation of sperm with eggs. They may go through what is called outcrossing and selfing. In…
Hardwood flooring- A treat for any space Summary: Hardwood flooring, compared to other floor types, has had longer durability and varied functions no matter where they are installed. These acts as the perfect add on to the decor when a person goes in for a remodelling of the house, especially the flooring. Manufactured from a single pile of timber, these floorings are a great hit no matter where they are used. A perfect complement to the household or the office space, these floorings is the…
Wason Selection tasks What if there are 4 cards on the table: A, K, 2 and 7. On one side of the card there is a number and on the other a letter. You have to decide which cards to turn in order to determine if the following statement is false: If a card has a vowel on one side, then it has an even number on the other side. This is called the Wason Selection task a famous reasoning puzzle (Dawson, Gilovich, Regan, 2002). The answer to this problem is cards A and 7 instead of the most commonly…
Gupta and Goel (1999) depicted ‘Chutki’ work as the traditional embroidery of Rampur in Uttar Pradesh in the article ‘Rampur folk art: Chutki work embroidery’. Major attribute of ‘chutki’ work was a dot and a leaf, which was set by folding pieces by hand called as ‘patti’. These designs were named after the arrangements as ‘chaddiyan’, ‘jaldaar’, ‘haar’, ‘suraj’ and ‘gamla’. Dresses and made-ups were amazingly supplemented with chutki work. Simple slipstitch was used to fasten small motifs onto…
Hue, Saturation, and Intensity are represented as HSI in HSI colour model. The HSI model is used as an alternative to, or alongside the RGB representation. In this model, the hue of a colour is its angle measure on a colour wheel. Pure red have hue value as 0°, pure green have hue value as 120°, and pure blues have hue value as 240°. Neutral colours like white, grey, and black are set to hue value 0° for feasibility. Intensity is total brightness of the colour and also defined numerically as the…
Simple, Clean & Organized. These are three words in my mind now. Yes, I like my home simple, clean and organized, but shortly I felt my home is back to messy and clutter. Thanks for the interesting book I’ve read 2 weeks ago, it inspire and change the way I want to tidy up now. So instead just going through my stuff, wipe the dust, and put in back in place. I follow 6 basic rules of tidying from “Konmari” method and set myself a new system to clean and organized my home. 6 basic rules of…
It also reminds me of graffiti, but graffiti normally has much more color and brighter color to draw attention to the piece. This artwork makes me think of graffiti because of the different creature characters, shapes and lines that seem to be clustered together where there is not much white space left behind in the background. My…
Nocturne in Blue and Gold by Whistler (figure 4.34) and The Scream by Munch (figure 4.35). Compare: Nocturne in Blue and Gold and The Scream are alike in that they both use color to add emotion to their paintings. The sceneries are also very similar they both have a bridge of some sort, a person, and show the water and sky. Contrast: Nocturne in Blue and Gold and The Scream are very different in the emotions you feel when looking at both painting. Nocturne in Blue and Gold is more clam, and…