Oil paint

give the impression of volume in the walls and the floor (Glossary Terms n.d.). A foreshortening technique was used to paint some of Socrates’ disciples which can be seen turning their bodies in space. Diminishing scale and organic shapes are two other techniques used, the first is depicted by smaller people shown climbing the stairs on the background while the second is used to paint the bodies of the people in the painting. From all these techniques only two are present in “Return of Neptune”…

lead based paint, and it led to the banning of lead-based paint in many nations, although not in the US. (Landrigan, Philip). While we don’t know what the reasoning of the epidemic was, we can assume it was in younger children that explore their world with their hands and mouth. As a parent, we watch our children put this toy in their mouth, or pick something off the floor and put it in their mouth. We try and correct it but sometimes we don’t notice little Jane just picked up a paint chip off…

Shop or Slab An oilfield hand is a job that may seem like no other, but a carpenter’s apprentice is quite similar despite the job difference. An oilfield hand’s job requires him to do whatever it takes to get his pay from the oil in the ground, while a carpenter in training needs to help get a house built at all costs. The two jobs seem different, but at the same time they also require some similar qualities. Some similarities might make them hard to tell apart from each other. Even though…

Lead. Why should we care? Lead, it surrounds and penetrates, it binds in water pipes and the walls of homes. With lead having been outlawed for several years now it still seems to be a real big problem in America. despite being aware of the problem many Americans and lawmakers seemed to have simply ignore the problem and pretend it wasn’t there. It wasn’t until early 2016 that the public took interest when the water in Flint, Michigan was laced with lead and soon there were reports…

upstairs and asked my older sister if she wanted to help me with the painting, and she replied with a very rough tone, “No, I don’t feel like painting right now.” I wasn’t surprised she said no. So, I asked her if I could use some of her make-up and paint instead. She said yes, without looking up from the book that was holding her attention. As I went through all of her colorful make-up, I saw at least eighty different shades of eyeshadow, varying from vibrant purples to chocolate browns. I…

analyze the Lead-Based Paint Abatement Repair and Maintenance Study (1992) conducted by the Kennedy Krieger Institute, in order to provide an ethical analysis of the study. In doing so, I argue that the ethics of the study shifts depending upon which set of non-moral facts an individual chooses to focus on. My stance, however, is that the study was unethical. Before presenting my argument, I place the study within its historical context. Fourteen years before the Lead-Based Paint Abatement…

While majority of toys are safe, some can pose serious risk for children. Regrettably, a majority of recalled products are in response to child related incidents; for instance, in 2014 an estimated 251,800 toy-related injuries were treated in emergency rooms nationwide-- 73% to children younger than 15 years of age while 34% were children younger than 5 years of age United States Consumer Product Safety Commission, 2015). Although recalls are a preventative measure in helping to prevent…

departments throughout the U.S. were not communicating and helping each other to fight the public threat of lead. Therefore it was easy for the Lead Industries Association (LIA) to downplay the impact of lead and for manufactures to avoid regulation. Paint was the primarily cause, and children were the ones who were mostly affected by lead. Although, LIA blamed the parents for the lack of parental education and therefore also for the high amount of lead poisoning, instead of admitting who was…

didn’t know what I was eating, but it tasted so sweet. Eating sand and tasting the mud on my fingers after playing were my favorite snacks. My mother would often yell at me to stop, but the moment she was not looking I would go hide myself to lick the paint on the wall. One day I even became seriously sick from eating such filthy item. Luckily, I was not affected from any lead poisoning. Now that I am older I know what is eatable and what is not eatable. Moreover, it is even shocking to me that…

Macon, which was painted by Ms. Betty Edwards’ in 2014. Also, the medium that was used for her extraordinary painting was acrylic paint on canvas, and the scale of this magnificent piece of art was 78” w x 54” h (Edwards’, 2014). Ms. Edwards’ painting caught my attention because of the beauty she displayed of the city of Macon, in addition to the many shades of acrylic paint that she used in her painting and how she captured the many events that take place in Macon. Also, the different shapes…