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class. In a current article Robert Reich mentions " But not every young person is suited to four years of college. They may be bright and ambitious but they won't get much out of it. They'd rather be doing something else, like making money or painting murals Although for those who never came across the idea of furthering their education, they have nothing better to do than sit around and hope that one day they will be owning a company or magically become a…

Art History Written Assignment Unit 4 Throughout history art has represented an artist's perspective on the world around us. With advancement in science these perspective began to take on new characteristics; using mathematical basis for proportions and central lines, using anatomical diagrams to model movements of the body, and the discovery of vast swathes of unseen matter with the development of the telescope and microscope. During the Renaissance period a scientific focus on the world…

Saturday Morning Art was a meaningful community service engagement project. The program increased my awareness of some of the needs and issues in my community regarding art programs inside and outside of schools. The project gave me the opportunity to self-reflect and understand that art is not always a common subject in Education. Saturday Morning Art is located at the University of St. Francis in the downstairs of the Mimi & Ian Rolland Art & Visual Communication Center. The program houses 6…

the white people. They wanted to show that black people exist and are just as beautiful as white people. Aaron Douglas illustrated “God’s Trombones” and instead of drawing the angles as white people, he depicted them as black. Douglas even created a mural series named “Aspects of Negro Life”. Despite being named the Harlem Renaissance, most of the black artists of that time were in Paris. However, most of the traveling exhibits and contests were in the United States. The Great Depression forced…

His mother died when he was 6, and initially his father initially did not approve of his son’s interest in art as a career. At 13, Michelangelo was apprenticed to painter Domenico Ghirlandaio, particularly known for his murals. A year later, his talent drew the attention of Florence’s leading citizen and art patron, Lorenzo de’ Medici, who enjoyed the intellectual stimulation of being surrounded by the city’s most literate, poetic and talented men. He extended an invitation…

Once upon a time there lived a royal couple in the kingdom of Corona. They were together for many years and loved each other very much. Their family doctor had been doing a check-up on the queen as he heard she was ill. He granted her with a special flower that held healing powers from the sun all while announcing to them that the Queen was expecting a child. The Queen, through her aching coughs manages to ask if the baby would be harmed by her illness. The doctor reassured her and her husband…

 US & Cuba: A Light at the end of the tunnel 1. Since the relationship between America and Cuba has been hostile since 1961, what will both countries have to do to ensure peaceful, easy negotiations? • Since the relationship between America and Cuba has been hostile since 1961, I think both countries should first build trust between both nations and come to the common grounds as it is for the welfare of both countries. They should forgive and forget about all the negative occurrences and move…

Benozzo Gozzoli was an influential Italian painter in the Renaissance. He helped impact art as we know it today in many ways. Some of his most acclaimed pieces included Madonna and Child Giving Blessings, Adoration of the Magi, and Women at the Tomb. His style of artwork was fresco which is a painting done expeditiously on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling with watercolor. Gozzoli was born around the year 1421 in a village in Italy called Sant’llaria a Colombano. His birth name was Benozzo…

Credible Narration in The Yellow Wallpaper: Does Intent Play into it? Stuck in a room while insanity slowly creeps in, a creative mind will find anyway to try and keep busy, even if that causes one to find meaning where meaning cant be usually be found. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is the devastatingly real account of a woman’s slow decent into utter insanity caused by a commonly implied cure called the “rest cure”. One conundrum we find ourselves having to deal with whilst…

Architecture was a means to human satisfaction as well as a way to appease a higher entity. (T) Architecture was often used by civilizations to prove to their occupants that they were powerful and raise morale. (A) The bigger, more elegant or complex the structure, the easier it would be for you to intimidate your enemies and show that your empire was a force to be reckoned with. (B) Through high vaulted ceilings, magnificent displays of engineering and breath taking pieces of art, a religion…