Helen Gardner

Cosmopolitan From tips about beauty products, clothes, and stories about dating, it is found in the magazine called Cosmopolitan. Cosmopolitan is magazine that not only has pictures and stories about entertainment but includes important tips on self-improvement especially for women. Cosmopolitan was first published as a family magazine in 1886 by Schlict & Field of New York in the United States and was called The Cosmopolitan. After a couple of years of being published The Cosmopolitan had…

thrill and glory of freedom, be a pessimist?” This is a quote by Helen Keller from her essay on optimism. Helen contracted an unknown illness at 19 months that robbed her of both hearing and sight. For years, she could only communicate through a few gestures; no one cared to try to teach or discipline her. Then a woman named Annie Sullivan heard about Helen. She tried tirelessly to teach the child the names of different things, but Helen could not grasp the concept of names. Finally, when…

The speaker in this address to the New York Association for the Blind is Helen Keller. This speech took place on January 15, 1907. The speech, Helen Keller gave, was about the blind people consequently showing them that they can be strong and not be apart of the weak and poor. Helen wants to show the world that they can be treated as normal humans, not as the weak and poor of this country. Helen starts out by saying that a blind man’s community plays the biggest role in his success or…

Imagine going through life in silence and still being able to be the only Deaf person to win an Academy Award. Marlee Matlin is an inspiration to the Deaf community and encourages, not only Deaf people, but everyone with a disability that anything is possible if you put your mind to it. Matlin has been a well known actress to achieve many accomplishments such as awards and being a successful writer. Being a Deaf actress is not easy, yet Marlee Matlin goes above and beyond with her work. It…

Joe Keller has been working hard all his life, working years after years to provide a roof over his family. "Nothin' is bigger" than family to Joe, this is his state of mind. In honest truth, Joe really cares about his business and how much money he makes. With the Great Depression fresh in his memory and personal poverty even older than that, economic security is his greatest concern. Although it is true he caused the death of his son, he is a caring person and he worked hard to provide for his…

Peak known today as Mount St. Helens. Originally named “Louwala-Clough,” or “Smoking Mountain,” by the Native American Indians in the region. Many legends were handed down explaining accounts about eruptions the Indians witnessed about Mount St. Helens. According to the lore of these Native American tribes, a huge landslide formed a natural bridge named Tamanawas that spanned the Columbia River. In the center of this arch lived a…

wood that was then decoratively painted in bright vibrant colors (Cologne Cathedral). The artist name was no given, however it is known that they had carved the sculpture out of wood. This cross is both a representation of a statue and a reliquary (Gardner and Kleiner). This figure was created under the Ottonian Empire in the early Medieval Europe, during the first half of this period had a drastic lack of monumental sculpture and figure before the “Gero Crucifix” reignited and revived…

inaugurated as the 26th President of the United States, the Union between Norway and Sweden dissolved, and my great-grandfather was born. He went on to immigrate from Sweden to America in 1921 when he was only 16 years old. He was accompanied by his Aunt Helen, and they were both looking for a better life in America; during the early 1900’s, tens of thousands of people immigrated out of Norway. The rumor was that the streets were lined with gold in America. The Norwegian heritage within my…

structural details demonstrate Roman architecture’s distinctive innovations and characteristics that keep inspiring architects even today. Pantheon’s porch contains eight Corinthian columns that demonstrate solidity and “show respect to tradition” (Gardner, p.210). These Corinthian columns, unlike the Greek Corinthian columns, are a mixture of multiple decorative orders – unfluted and not segmented. The shafts flow uninterruptedly from the heavy bases up to the capitals, manifesting a sense of…

Reading Assignment #1; The Power of Lines and Perspective Considering myself an amateur artist and painter, I took this course with hopes of understanding the deep passion, subjectivity, and heart of making paintings. With the help of lectures and several readings, I have been exposed to a lot of great information and insight from several sources. Beyond this recent enlightenment however, I have also come to understand and appreciate the true dynamism and influence of straight lines in a…