Grants

In this section it is hard to understand the reason for travel or lack there of. In The Paid Piper Grant Stoddard discusses his own home of New York rather than describing a travel experience. He is trying to show us as readers what to expect when traveling to New York. He takes a different route than others, which could be the “travel writing” in this piece. Stoddard shows us a side of New York that we otherwise would not have experienced without his input. It is interesting to see how well a…

Composer, arranger, and conductor William Grant Still was born on May 11, 1895, in Woodville, Mississippi. After his father, a university professor, passed away before he was born, his mother, a successful teacher, moved the family to live with Still's grandmother in Little Rock, Arkansas. Not only did his family value literature and music, but his childhood home was filled with the sounds of his grandmother singing spirituals, which seems to inspire his honorary career. In 1911, Still enrolled…

finance and other capitals, which is essential toward undertaking a huge scale of the problems by the extensive regressions in property tax revenues and housing market values from vacant property and neighborhood blight. A Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program is one key toward funding source for an extensive range of undertakings that is directed toward neighborhood revitalization, economic development, and community services, including rehabilitation assistance, code enforcement,…

American Gothic was painted by Grant Wood in 1930. Grant Wood was born in Iowa, than later moved to Gran Rapids after the passing of his father. While working as an apprentice in a metal shop he attended art school in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His inspiration for this painting came about after a trip to Iowa in 1930. Initial reception of his painting was considered as a satirical work of art, out to make fun of small town folks. There are many fictional aspects of his painting to include, the…

North and the South. The North wanted slavery to end, while the south was supporting slavery. These two men that met in that parlor, were the same two men that were in charge of leading their armies through the Civil War. General Lee and general Grant are the two famous names we hear of today. The leaders of the civil war. Who was Lee? Lee, better known as Robert E.Lee, was a military officer or a general the served in the civil war. General Lee was in support of slavery. His personality…

I would stay Catton’s focus was try to show his readers that even through General Lee and General Grant were different in many ways. Both of these generals had more in common, therefore, Catton talks about the two generals whom shared such an important where very much a lot. Catton expressed how these two men stood for opposing social forces in America but was also considered to be the best choice. Both for these generals required more to common, In Catton talks over those two generals whom…

Jocelyn: What is the Veterans Center Initiative Grant Program? The Veterans Center Initiative Grant program is a collaborative partnership between Student Veterans of America and the Home Depot Foundation. Together, they donate money through grants to create welcoming and furnished spaces in colleges for student veterans. They provide financial support for furniture, technology and even moving into larger areas with more room. The Veterans Center Initiative Grant program has built or improved…

American Gothic was painted by Grant Wood in 1930. This painting was 78 cm by 65.3 cm and was painted using oil on beaverboard. This piece of art currently resides in the Art Institute of Chicago. Grant specialized in Regionalism, which was an American realist modern art movement. Part of this focus, was painting scenes of rural life. The most interesting part of this piece is that it combined Americana with European technique. While Wood was traveling through Cathedrals in Europe, he was able…

Karl Jacoby’s account of the 1871 Camp Grant massacre fits within the broad sweep of the “New Western history” a movement that arose in the 1980s, headed by scholars such as William Cronon, Patricia Nelson Limerick, and Richard White. In their reexaminations of Western history the West became a darker place, where and the violence of conquest and the ignominious glory that accompanied it defined the expanding American nation. Jacoby’s history is a narrative, though he has task in retelling the…

The artwork I have chosen is titled, “American Gothic”, by Grant Wood, painted in 1930. Grant Wood painted on a 74.3 X 62.2 cm piece of oil on beaverboard. These materials give the painting an old timing look but with good color and contrast. This painting can be viewed at the Art Institute of Chicago. Now I’m going to describe this painting in more detail, so that you can see a visual picture in your head. The white male in the artwork has very thin brown hair; with thick bushy eyebrows; brown…