Florence Owens Thompson

“You are beautiful”. Matthew Hoffman’s piece titled “you are beautiful”. This piece is an biennial panel. Installed at the Elmhurst art museum Illinois. March 2015. “You are beautiful” falls under contemporary art.”You are beautiful” provides people with an opportunity to reflect on our society and the issues that we are going through on a day to day basis.People can relate to this piece.”You are beautiful” is more than just three words.”You are beautiful” is hung at the entrance of the museum…

Let me tell you a story about Evangelina Padilla-Vaccaro. Evangelina was diagnosed after birth with severe combined immunodeficiency; also known as “bubble baby” disease. Most children with this condition die within the first few years of life. Evangelina was cured as a part of a clinical trial run by Dr. Don Kohn and his team at UCLA, working with a UK-based company called Orchard Therapeutics. The treatment she underwent was called OTL-101, which involves taking the patient’s own blood stem…

Death penalty on juveniles Capital punishment has continued to elicit raging debates over the years. Inferring from the Furman v. Georgia (1972), Gregg v. Georgia (1976) and the resumption of death penalty as the retribution, the issue of innocence continues to haunt and cause contentious public debates in the United States (Foley, 2004). With regards to this, consignment of juvenile offenders to the gallows have consistently been disputed as a disproportionate punishment to minors; those below…

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson chronicles Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo in their search for The American Dream. Duke is Thompson’s alter ego and Gonzo represents Thompson’s actual attorney, Oscar Zeta Acosta. The setting, Las Vegas, is very economically significant, especially in the early 1970s where its buzzing economy and money are the focal points of the non-stop city. Believing The American Dream has…

In 1971, author Hunter S. Thompson published his book “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.” Not only was Thompson the author of this book, it was actually based on a real-life experience he took with his attorney, Oscar Zeta Acosta. Even though it was originally an assignment by Sports Illustrated to write a 250-word photograph caption on the Mint 400 motorcycle race held in Las Vegas, he ended up turning in 2,500 words, which eventually turned into the 1972 book, which first appeared in the 1971…

Within the film “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” we see a strong perception of a pseudo-psychedelic trip. In this particular scene Duke (Johnny Depp) has taken too much Adrenochrome, causing him to fall into a drug educed trip while Dr. Gonzo (Benicio Del Toro) tries to get rid of Lucy over the phone. The stylistic choices of this movie depicts the hallucinogenic structure via camera movement, framing and composition, colour and the use of depth within the space. The overall tonal colour of…

Hunter Thompson isn’t an ordinary writer but an exceptional author at that, his work is pure, intriguing and wild. Thompson’s life journey reflected on his work as a journalist and author which revolved around alcohol, drugs and firearms. Thompson was born in Louisville, Kentucky and raised in a middle class family, Thompson then has a troubled childhood once his father had died and left his family in poverty. He never got to finish high school because he was incarcerated two months for abetting…

of the story “Fear and Loathing in America” (1972) Hunter Stockton Thompson was an American author and a maverick journalist and also he is the creator of the gonzo journalism. In critique, John Hellman wrote “by conceiving his journalism as a form of fiction, Thompson has been able to shape actual events into meaningful works of literary art.” “fear and in los Vegas is an all – out display of gonzo journalism that remains Thompson best known work” and also he was become an internationally…

of the many things he did in order to help people, and himself, was the making of pedestrian streets in cities; he did this in order to cut down on the chaos of traveling. He also started the free rein in ruin architecture by bringing attention to Florence, after he transformed the spirit of it; it went from a spirit of adorations, to one of disturbing urgency. Before the Renaissance era, in the Middle Ages, only priest could read, and books were rare treasures. The Renaissance helped spread…

Giotto di Bondone, of Florence, and Jan van Eyck, of Bruges were both revolutionary artist during the Late Gothic and Early Renaissance era (c. 1300-1500). However, each artist had incredibly different styles and utilized different mediums that they would later become known for. Giotto lived and worked in Florence during a period when religious subjects and styles had been laid down by centuries of tradition. As the first artist to depict human emotion, his influence put Western art on a path to…