Heritage Classic

Hopley’s article centered on the art of topiary through history, which interested me as a plant-enthusiast and hopeful botanist. I also wondered why people decided that geometrically shaped plants had artistic appeal. Through this article Hopley intended to explain the history while proving the purpose and value of topiary gardens in Great Britain. This review will summarize and critique Hopley’s argument that topiary gardens have great value and will never die off as an art form. This…

Maxine Hong Kingston and Anne Moody wrote classic pieces of literature that helped shed light on various struggles women in America dealt with. While their written pieces cover two different stories it can be said that some of the struggles they faced had distinct similarities. The two women had different experiences growing up, one was a first-generation American while the other was in a lower income and racial class. Kingston and Moody both utilize their writing platform to discuss the…

Below each chapter title in my book would be quotes and mantras that I live by or use often. At the top of my list would be Walt Whitman’s, “Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.” While this classic line may be cliché, it resonates deep with me. These words are a reminder that we as humans, are complex, and can carry seemingly polarized beliefs or ideas at the same time. Society shapes us to feel that everything is two sided, that the…

the daughter of a diplomat and a painter. At a young age, Boland and her family moved to England, where she was rejected by many people because of her Irish background. Her struggle to gain acceptance sparked an even stronger appreciation for her heritage, inspiring her to write about her country. As Deirdre O 'Byrne, a literary analyst said about Boland, “Her poems speak with a voice which is defiantly female and defiantly Irish,” (O’Byrne). Eavan Boland’s works such as “Quarantine” and “My…

prevalent today. The fact that Beowulf is one of the oldest manuscripts known to man, thought to have come from before the norman conquest shows that it might have even originated and been a catalyst for the creation of the classification of the classic…

opening this festival are Rabbit-Proof Fence and Bran Nue Dae. These two films show us the importance of land and cultural identity in Aboriginal. These films, Rachel Perkin’s 2009, Bran Nue Dae and Phillip Noyce’s 2002, Rabbit-Proof Fence have become classics regarding the struggles of Aborigines while trying to survive in white culture. Set in 1931, Rabbit-Proof Fence shows the journey of three young half-caste girls in the time when the Government was allowed to forcibly remove them from…

Australian landscape artists have been in existence for over 40,000 years with the indigenous totems, symbols and portrayals. In comparison, European Australian artists have been in in early stages of their progression since colonisation, each with their own style, subject matter and connection to the land. Clarice Beckett was a tonalist from the 1910’s, her work only recently recognised. Whereas, Emily Kame Kngwarreye was an indigenous Australian artist who used lines and dots in traditional…

purposes to serve the comminutes, from entertainment, to medical treatment for the elderly and poor and for culture and diversity. All during all this time, the teak wood floor stayed the same. The Latin American Art museum shares the cultural heritage, and education of the Latin Art history. During the time that we went it showcased Dia de…

the lower strata students on scholarship though. Another difference is that most of the girls want to be there, or their family wants them to be there. These girls are not scooped up from their lives and shipped across the country. They are taught classics, Latin, mathematics. Like most finishing schools, there is a social structure differing from the government run schools. Here the whiter you are in skin color, and in culture, the higher in status you are placed. This status is not just with…

their mark in genre films. They were able to put their personal spin on a formulaic genre film. Coppola did a lot of what we would call genre films over the course of his career, but due to his label of auteur, none of these films seem to carry any classic tropes of the genre they belong to. 70’s cinema, or the New Hollywood era, was the renaissance of American Cinema. These films primarily had open or tragic endings, were centered on the loss of faith in the heterosexual couple or nuclear…