Modern Family

The title of of this class, Modern American Families, is an interesting one that can be discussed in various ways. The choice to watch films from several different eras was enjoyable. I elected to write a paper on the films we viewed in class and the themes they brought forth regarding “Modern American Families”. The two themes that I feel were most prevalent and important were courtship and marriage along with domesticity and gender roles. These are general topics, but I will dig deeper into…

Everyone has seen her grow up on television. She is now a spunky teenager entering college for her first year in ‘Modern Family.’ In real life, she is also doing the same. Ariel Winter is taking on University of California, Los Angeles for her higher education. At one point, she says that “You gotta have something else you can do.” She refers to something aside from acting. For Ariel Winter, it means going to school. She tells E! Online that she is interested in law which is why she is going to…

Sofia Vergara wants to rule a modern home - intelligent Sofia Vergara, who plays a stunning housewife in the sitcom Modern Family, admits it's not the most competent person when it comes to technology. However, being one of the founders of Latin World Entertainment, one of the partners of CNET Spanish actress is inevitably surrounded by technology. And his love of technology has gained ground to realize how much control gives the iPhone - so much that is now designing a new home you can…

We listen every single day, but that doesn 't mean we are hearing everything that is said to us. In Modern Family, the family is like most families where you have embarrassing parents, a father that marries someone that is close to your age, and a son that you disapproves of their choices in life, but you still love them. Selective listening can mess up our relationship with our family when we only hear part of something important they say like “take out the trash”, and later you get into an…

crossword from finishing the puzzle in his own residence. In many ways though they do not because they also want to live their live in the glow that Baudelaire saw in the renovations of Paris. Present day people want to also live in the progress of the modern world. In these cities it goes beyond the changing in social interaction. Berman wrote that in Paris, “the Napoleon-Haussmann boulevards created new bases-economic, social, aesthetic-for bringing enormous numbers of people together.” Yes,…

Not only this, but Brave New World is more relevant to the modern world as it encapsulates the gathered feeling of apathy and aversion of feelings among the people in the real world, as apposed to 1984 which slightly refers to this attitude. The people in Brave New World live in a world free of negative emotions due to the elimination of families, religion, and books. Back in the Condition Center the Director explains the burden such institutions brought upon the people of the past, reasoning,…

By the late 1800s, society was tired of the same generic art and literature and wanted a change. Modernism was the result of the that. American Gothic by Grant Wood and The Trial by Franz Kafka are fantastic examples of Modernism. Modernism changed the world and how we see it today. Without Modernism who knows what art and literature may be like today. Modernism is a movement in the arts as well as a change of mindset. This movement lasted from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth…

Image 3 art” (Hawthorne, 2013). The design of The radiant City also features social morality in its aims for equality amongst people . Le Corbusier wanted to create a city which “abandons the class-based stratification” by having the size of one’s family being the determining factor for the house they are given and not the position they hold economically. (Edsonmnkande.blogspot.com, 2011) The influence of Syndicalist theories is also seen through the feature of social morality because Le…

Her relationship with the B’gwus is more tangible than her families, during her life she encounters or sights the real creature wandering through the woods. After her first encounter Lisa worries that her family would “snicker … the way they did when Ma-ma-oo insisted they were real.” (Robinson 17) Lisa’s hesitance implies the impact of the modern colonized world, one that left behind the stories and myth of the past even if they were true. It is Lisa’s…

The modern period was characterized by massive social, economical and political upheaval, ideals of the past were denounced and traditions thrown aside in the spirit of embracing artistic experimentation. “Modern artists represented new ways of seeing, bringing forth-new ideas about the functionality of art and the nature of materials” [wiki – modern art]. I will be investigating how the careers of two pioneers of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock and his wife Lee Krasner’s’ careers…