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To begin, John Davidson Rockefeller’s oppositions such as Vanderbilt, and Tom Scott continuously try to make more money off of Rockefeller and sabotage his well planned industry, however Rockefeller always makes a decision that will tear down the opposition to keep his industry running. Through the study of John D. Rockefeller, he should be considered a captain of industry. He has justified his wealth many times as he has never cut his workers wages, he has also donated to charity very often,…

The Crude oil market are no exempt to the demand and supply factor. For example during 2008 and 2009 the weak economic conditions in the U.S. and around the world, led to a decrease on demand which brought prices down. With today’s worldwide economic recovery in…

measurable zone of inhibition within an E. coli culture. A zone of inhibition is the area around an antibiotic disc that contains no bacterial growth. Turmeric was tested because curcumin, the compound that gives turmeric its bright yellow pigment, has well-known antimicrobial properties (ACS). We also tested cinnamon because of its wide range of medicinal uses, including antimicrobial properties (Rao and Gan). Finally, we tested chili powder because capsaicin, the active component of chili…

Pissarro was a talented painter of the post-impressionist style era of art. In the oil on canvas painting Peasants in the Fields, Eragny it is shown that Pissarro is a revolutionary painter in the styles and techniques he uses. This one in particularly is done in a pointillism style of painting. This painting was also done in his late career when he started branching off into new directions and broadening his fields of style and techniques. He was a master painter that would draw from real life…

Painted in 1880, The Storm, by Pierre-Auguste Cot, is an oil painting currently on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Two subjects, a youthful woman and man, are the central focus of this work. The Storm is notable not only for its subject matter, but also for the striking way in which it is depicted; the technical mastery of Cot is evident in the well-rendered, linear style, and the dynamic and atmospheric nature of the painting inspires a greater sense of interest in the viewer. The…

On the evening of Friday, March 24, I had the pleasure of going to the St. Louis Art Museum. I was accompanied by my cousin and her boyfriend, as they were visiting St. Louis for the weekend and wanted something fun to do. It was a lovely experience, and when I walked in I was taken back by the many rooms full of amazing and beautiful artwork. I was immediately drawn to the Renaissance art because that is what we have been studying and that is what I most familiar with. I wandered into rooms…

the trip to The Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, one of the most captivating two dimensional work was the Gust of Wind by Gustave Courbet. The energetic painting is not just merely oil on canvas, it is the representation of an oncoming storm in a once peaceful meadow surrounding a small pool. This realistic artist is well known for his paintings because they capture day-to-day attributes. Gustave Courbet did not focus on just landscapes, his paintings ranged from nudes, still lifes, to hunting…

through a combination of western and eastern aesthetics. In general, western art focuses on objective and established facts. However, eastern art pays more attention to mood. Wu shows both aspects in his work. Furthermore, Wu explored how to make oil paintings fit Chinese nationalization and the modernization of Chinese Painting. To answer these two questions, Wu created a unique style of painting, which used dots, lines and planes to create his artistic voice. Abstract Expressionism,…

Hans Hofmann, Rue Ravignan, Paris by Maximilien Luce, and lastly Rainy Midnight by Childe Hassam. All three of these painting have something different from each other which caught my attention. The first artwork I chose is by Hans Hofmann, it is a oil on canvas painting called Sparks made in the year 1957.The image is trying to show sparks and the explosion of them.The painting is abstract because instead of actually painting in detail he decided to just use other shapes mainly consisting of…

The Persistence of Memory (1931) was made in 1931 by Salvador Dali, the artwork is 24 x 33 cm, oil on canvas painting, and now the artwork is in The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The style of the artwork is surrealistic. The subject matter is a barren landscape with melting clocks draped over unrelated objects, caricature of Dali’s face on the ground, plus a rocky headland with the sea in the background. The focal point of the artwork is the strange caricature of Dali’s profile, complete with…