Comfort food

Paper Two Louis Comfort Tiffany, born in 1848, was a famous American artist who specialized in glass making. In the beginning of Tiffany’s art career, he studied under American painters George Inness and Samuel Colman (Encyclopedia Britannica). Tiffany also went overseas to continue looking at art in different countries, including Europe and Morocco, to help expand his knowledge in various art forms (Biography.com). Once he returned back to the U.S., Tiffany became a well recognized painter.…

Louis Comfort Tiffany was the most important and influential American glass artist of the twentieth century. His renowned body of glass works redefined modern glassmaking and has continued to influence glass artists in the present day. His works have become an essential and crucial benchmark for American glassmaking. Tiffany concentrated intensely on creating brilliant, high-quality works, and courageously reformed the glassmaking industry of the United States and the world over. From a young…

THE HISTORY OF PONCE DE LEON HALL Flagler College’s Ponce de Leon hall, located at 74 King St, St Augustine, Florida, was built in 1888 by architects John Carrére and Thomas Hastings, who were still new to the field at the time (Horn). The main building of the hall is now used mostly for student housing purposes, but the exterior architectural features and domed lobby space showcase impressive design features and elements of styles that we have covered this semester (Branch). It originally…

Louis Comfort Tiffany was born in New York City in 1848. Tiffany is known for not only being the son of Tiffany & Co. founder, Charles Tiffany, but as a notorious glassmaker, designer, and is also credited with being a leader of the Art Nouveau movement. Tiffany began his studies in Europe, and furthers his education at the National Academy of Design in New York with aspirations to become an artist. Painting was Tiffany’s primary interest, however, he began to focus on decorative arts and…

surrounded by millions of dollars and tens of thousands of hours worth of glass. Roughly sixty-thousand pieces, each hand crafted by a crew of students and professionals working together, tell a story. Sixty panels of vibrant colors, sloshes of visual food that appeal to our creative stomachs, lurching the eyes of any passing viewer, including myself, forward into a land of distant time and space and beauty. The Roots of Knowledge, located inside the Utah Valley University library has only been…

health. Drugs contain dangerous substances to make you addicted. How is sugar worse? Many foods- whether you know it or not contain sugar. We consume up to 3 pounds of sugar per week because sugar is in…

the greatest issues in America. We tend to live fast lives and do not have the time to cook meals, so we turn to fast food and processed food. These foods can take a detrimental tole on the body especially in conjunction with a lack of exercise. College students often bogged down by their schedules do not have the time or the budget to eat healthy. They often turn to “comfort food” and other unhealthy meals. And if taxing schedules aren’t enough some students cultural eating habits are not…

Food: A Gateway to Happiness and Pleasant Memories Food is the bridge that ties emotional memories into reality, helping individuals escape the atrocities of life. Food can unite individuals with memories linked from their childhood or home. The association of food as a comforting haven from reality is represented in two distinct literary texts. One of the literary sources is a novel, Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel, which details different relationships within a dynamic family that…

Trying new foods is not always a dreadful idea. In fact, occasionally if you try a new food, it ends up being your favorite food which is my story. Due to the fact that I was afraid to try my grandfather’s home cooked fish I set up three stages in my mind which were what is the food, how does it look, and how it made me feel afterward. On Friday nights after church revival in the month of August around 9:45 P.M. is when we celebrate the week of revival. This particular event is when I first…

hours. Often times the need for food is experienced at inopportune moments. Personally, I have class from eight o’clock AM to six o 'clock PM on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I am always pressed for time when it comes to squeezing in a meal, so the fact that Pollock is open until eight o’clock during the week is advantageous to my…