Continents

The artwork I have chosen is the non-representational work of art titled, Dark Continent III. The media used is acrylic on paper and it is 42x 30 in. It is a work of art created by the artist, Robert Colescott in 1989. Colescott was an African American artist born on August 26, 1925 in Oakland, California. He died on June 4, 2009. The exhibition was a very large and spacious room with dim lighting. And a light shining down on the works of art, almost like a spotlight. The exhibition is very…

We’re Not… vs. Remembering My Childhood on the Continent of Africa People adapt to cultural differences in many ways. Some find the culture they were born into and their new one so interesting that they embrace a combination of the two, while others envy the new culture they discover to the point that they leave behind their original roots and adopt the new culture as their own. In “We’re Not…” by Andrea Roman and “Remembering My Childhood on the Continent of Africa” by David Sedaris, both…

In David Sedaris essay, “Remembering My Childhood on the Continent of Africa” he speaks of his and his partner’s childhood life. His writing is effective and meaning full especially when he speaks of his partners fifth grade trip to the slaughter house, the afternoon after seeing the moving about the talking car, and also the importance of their family. Sedaris seem to be envious of his partner’s life as a child though, he makes it clear that he is half way joking, letting readers know…

had their parents. Was that other person's life really any better? It may look it, but looks can be deceiving. Both David Sedaris and Andrea Roman deliberate on this topic in their stories about their childhood. In "Remembering My Childhood on the Continent of Africa" by Sedaris, he talks about his childhood and how he envied the life of another boy named Hugh. In Roman's "We're Not..." she remembers her upbringing of growing up a foreigner in America, with a strict Bolivia household, and how…

The short excerpt from “Remembering My Childhood on the Continent of Africa” by David Sedaris encourages readers to be satisfied with the things they have and not to just focus on what they don’t have. The story compared the two lives of David and his friend, Hugh. They both had pets, family gathering, and went on school fieldtrips, but David had a very dull and ordinary childhood while Hugh had a spontaneous one. His feelings towards his friend’s life became obvious without him having to come…

prove that this theory did occur. Wegener’s theory is that all seven continents were once joined into a supercontinent called Pangaea. He believes that after continents were in that supercontinent, they gradually moved apart over more than a hundred years ago and will continue to move in the future. This Theory of Continental Drift is supported by rock evidence, fossil evidence, climate evidence, and the shapes of the continents. Throughout this essay, I will show reasons why this theory is…

Africa, one of the largest and oldest continents there is today, has a lot of false information that is associated with it when it is mentioned. What many believe to be true about Africa and its people typically turns out to be either exaggerated information passed along from person to person, or information one person just makes up off their personal opinion. These are what to be considered and labeled stereotypes and myths. However, even though there are many stereotypes and myths about Africa…

movements of our continents is called Continental Drift. This theory is supported by plate tectonics, a relatively new idea that explains the constant movement of Earth's crust. Two-hundred million years ago, our seven continents fitted together, as if part of a puzzle. These continents made up one supercontinent, known as Pangea. When Pangea began to disperse into the current continental positions the process of plate tectonics began. The first to notice the fitting of the continents was…

meteorologist Alfred Wegener proposed the theory that all the continents were once all one continent and then later drifted apart and separated leading to the seven continents we have today. He thought that 200 million years ago there was one large continent that he called Pangea, which means “All-Earth.” During the Jurassic period the continents were believed to break up into two smaller continents which were called Gondwanaland and Laurasia. The continents were breaking into land masses…

present day plate boundaries and similarities on multiple continents, It’s believed that the continents of Sciencia were once together as a supercontinent called Edisonia. The supercontinent held 6 of the 8 modern continents, which broke apart due to tectonic forces in the Lithosphere. Also, the 7th and 8th continents were believed to have formed from volcanic eruptions on convergent plate boundaries. The edges on the modern- day Sciencian continents have experienced weathering and erosion,…