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Fresno Art Museum: An Exceptional Experience Upon visiting the Fresno Art Museum, I was pleasantly greeted with several local as well as world renowned paintings, sculptures, pottery, and murals. There were numerous exhibits dedicated to art, Latin American pottery, and even one fully devoted to Gary Soto, a Fresno native, whose children’s books were displayed in the museum along with paintings from the illustrations of his several acclaimed books. The overall environment was filled with great…

Carnage. These men discover the thing that we use today and that we need in our day to day lives in order serve. Vanderbilt discover the train industry and wiped out every competition that tried to enter the train business. Rockefeller discovers the oil business and kerosene and made it easier for Americans…

Parc Monceau made in 1878 by Claude Monet is an oil on canvas painting. The painting is 28 5/8 inches horizontally by 21 3/8 inches vertically. I discovered this piece of art online through the Metropolitan Museum of Art website located in New York, New York, along with many other of his art pieces, but this one I appreciated the most. The Parc Monceau is a representational and figurative painting because it depicts scenery we see in real life as well as people just slightly out of focus in…

The Wedding Dance Pieter Bruegel has “the Elder” attached to his name because, he is the eldest of the Flemish Renaissance painting Brueghel Dynasty. Pieter is at the top of that dynasty, and following in his footsteps to become painters are, his two sons, two grandsons, and one great grandson. There is one difference between them Pieter is the only one who left out the “h” in the family name Brueghel. Pieter Bruegel was a Netherlandish painter and much of his works provide a profound elemental…

Imagine a day when the air outside is wonderful. You can run outside, the air smells satisfying, and you can actually breathe and not have to cough. A world like this could be closer to achieving it every day if one thing happened: cars under 30 miles per gallon (mpg) were banned from roads and from being manufactured. If cars under 30 mpg were banned, the pollution would decrease, there would be more petroleum and gas for us, and the gas guzzlers are very expensive. Cars that have under 30…

Imagine walking threw a big city like New York in the middle of the afternoon. You look up and see midnight black smog that is covering the city. How would you feel not being able to see any rays of sunlight? Well, the fact that global warming has been happening for decades isn’t something new. In fact, in some cities around the word air pollution is so bad that most people are unable to walk around without an air pollution mask. Yet with the public focus in the modern world on pollution, ways…

size and scale. There were three major businesses during the Industrial Revolution; the railroad, oil, and steel industries. With the rise of these three major businesses there were many prosperous effects but there were also many repercussions of the growing businesses. John D Rockefeller and his company, Standard Oil, controlled the oil industry. With this company he controlled 90 percent of all oil manufacturing.…

beauty. The chosen paint of this particular portrait is Oil, and is painted…

comes to renewable energies there are economical disadvantages. One being the investments made as Ulrike Lehr Lehr (August 2012) states, renewable energy technologies crowds out investment in fossil fuel technologies such as coal fired power plants, oil fired heating systems. This substitution effect leads to profit losses in the respective economic sectors. This connects to the increasing prices of the renewable energy systems in due to its higher demand. In order to get to the benefits that…

The definition of whaling in the dictionary is “the practice or industry of hunting and killing whales for their oil, meat, or whalebone.” Whaling has been around for centuries, some evidence even showing whaling being practiced as far back as 6,000 B.C. So in other words, whaling has been around for thousands of years. In the 17th century whaling had truly been materialized into an industry. For the next two centuries, the whaling industry had skyrocketed, making it a highly competitive…