minutes, they merged onto highway 71 and they were on their way to grandma and grandpa’s house. Shirley loved this highway because of all the beautiful scenery it had to offer. There were lakes twinkling with the reflection of the sun and trees, oh so green, that stood tall in the distance. After 30 min of driving on the highway, the car took a left turn onto a dirt road that lead to Grandma and Grandpa’s tavern. They continued driving for another 15 minutes before hitting Shirley’s favorite…
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Minority Languages: Chimariko All over the world many minority languages are struggling for their existence. At one point in time there was believed to be at least 200,000 languages. Now, there are only 6,909 languages left and even those languages aren’t safe from becoming extinct. Thanks to linguists from all over the world, we have an Ethnologue that keeps track of the vitality of all the different languages. When using the Ethnologue I researched the group of the Chimariko tribe and their…
Describing Your Plaid My result on Personality Dimension Test indicates that Orange is my preferred style. My second style is Blue, the third style is Green, and my shadow style is Gold. I would choose Harry Potter’s story as my plaid. In the movie or in the book, Harry Potter is the character who would stand for my preferred style. He is kind of curious about everything and always seeking new things. In the first story, Harry is an independent and competitive student and a bit lonely in a…
Charles Sheeler “Home Sweet Home” Inside the museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, hangs the painting titled “Home Sweet Home”. This oil on canvas was created by the artist Charles Sheeler in 1931. The painting contains a few pieces of furniture. In the center is an empty wooden chair. On the left, you can see two rugs and a staircase that is leading upstairs. On the right, you can see a fireplace and a stove. Near the bottom of the painting you can make out a picnic table, it’s chopped off…
The mesmerizing effects of a waterfall and an ocean tide leave us stunned by their natural beauty. Unfortunately, you can 't bring a waterfall or an ocean tide into your bedroom design, but you can use Royal Blue and Aqua paint colors to add aquatic elements. Combinations of harmonious paint colors is a fantastic way to ensure a room design that blends and flows from one area to the next. Typically, these related paint colors are next to each other or directly below one another on a color swatch…
Do I perceive the same exact color red as you do? If not, does that mean color is impossible to standardize? These abstractions help paint the complexity of the human state of mind, or rather, our understanding of it. Ethan Watter’s “The Mega Marketing of Depression in Japan” narrates how western medicine and perceptions of depression encroached into the Japanese culture, and in particular, how pharmaceutical companies attempt to generalize this phenomenon despite cultural differences. Elephants…
In this world we are all striving to be something, we all have motive and reason. While we all know this simple fact and statement, something that is simply not quite well known is that there are only for core motives that are in the world. Now this might come as a shock to most that out of the seven point two billion people on this earth there are only four core motives that are distributed between us. The method in the madness comes from the one and only Dr. Taylor Hartman, after years of…
Analysis: In the short film "CASTELLO CAVALCANTI" by Wes Anderson, everything is taken in a scene where is in an Italian village. The setting is filmed around that area, never film in elsewhere. The cinematography of this short film is Darius Khondji, who got many international awards and nominations. There are a lot of repeating camera movement and camera position are used in the film for example the pan and the eye level shots. The whole film has a rich color of red and yellow, the setting…
Domenico Fetti was born in Rome in 1589. His father was a painter as well; growing up with an artistic father sparked his artistic nature (Fetti, Domenico). Fetti adopted a style that illustrated religious stories. While in Rome, c.1618/1622 using oil on a panel, Domenico Fetti created the painting The Veil of Veronica. In this painting, the artist uses neutral colors, the primary color red, emphasis and visual texture to convey a sense of realism and suffrage, thus representing the medieval…