Craftsman

A Building about California The Bungalow on its Home Ground The big cities skyline in California is dominated by gleaming skyscrapers and high-rise buildings. However lots of people prefer to live in bungalow in the comfortable suburbs rather than in hustle and bustle downtown. The California Bungalow is a form of residential architecture of one-and-a-half storey that was widely popular in America from 1910 to 1925. “Because of its mild climate and the reasonable availability of land,…

Algiers is the part of the New Orleans on the west bank of the Mississippi River. Officially it is the Fifth Municipal District and Fifteenth ward of the Orleans Parish. Algiers Point resides within Algiers, the only part of New Orleans located on the West Bank. According to the National Register Historic Places, Algiers Point is the second oldest neighborhood in New Orleans, the first being the French Quarter (Bronston 171). Algiers Point is boarder by the curve of the Mississippi River on…

In Plato’s Republic Book 2, Socrates says justice belongs in the category, “which the man who is going to be blessed should like both for itself and for what comes out of it,” (Plato, Republic 2, 358a). This means the man who is acting justly does so because he wants to, not because he has to, and he knows he will get results from doing justice. Based on this notion, justice is a desired good. If everyone acts justly, then no one has to experience injustice outcomes. As Glaucon tries to defend…

Many people worked in the artistic area back in Colonial America because there wasn’t much you could do. I’ll talk about what jobs were popular, talk a bit about painting, and some popular craftsman. Also, I will talk about what the popular and unpopular art forms were, and talking about furniture. Finally, different facts on what was happening in different places all throughout the colonies. These will answer the question, how did art change the colonies/colonists? Portrait painters alternated…

The technology today is very advanced, but comparatively the Mayan, Aztec, and Inca Civilizations technology was very advanced. The Mayan was very successful in trading, and artistry, they also had a very high population. The Aztec came to be known for farming, creating the calendar, and they were widely known for creating the mathematical system. The Inca saw succession in building roads, weaving, and owning lots of land. They were very advanced for their time era. The Mayan were very…

This poem has a type of association with a specific kind of connection or filter, since the word sieve infers partition by a screen, like a colander. Dickerson's choice to use the word leaden can be strange, since lead makes one associate it with rust and rot, while giving a heavy and overwhelming feel to the title; a heavy sifter may be an allegory for a broken channel. The title can be seen as something that filters something cold and obscure. The following is the paraphrasing of the poem: It…

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black artisan or craftsman, whom can not be true to himself in terms of artistic expression because white society rejects the expressions of “blackness” and would be unsuccessfully in a commercial sense and as such would be looked at as a failure in the eyes of a capitalist society that views economic success as one of the primary means to ascertain “recognition”. However in order to achieve this idealized form of material success within American society the black artisan or craftsman must…

Little Rock Central High School The cultural significance of the Little Rock Central High School is supported by an influential group called the Little Rock Nine. Through the civil rights movement, these nine African American students enrolled in an all-white public school, not only making a cultural landmark in Arkansas, but also a landmark in the 1954 Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation unconstitutional. Arkansas State Capitol On 1899, architects George R. Mann and Cass Gilbert…

At the turn of the Twentieth Century, the automobile was a status symbol painstakingly manufactured by teams of craftsman. Henry Ford's idea to build a car for the common man set him apart from other automotive pioneers. To accomplish his goal, Ford realized he would have to increase productivity—producing more output (goods and services) with less input (resources) or a combination of these two possibilities. He and his team looked at other industries and found strategies that…