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I think I eat more healthy here, at least than when growing up. When I was growing up, my dad had a large influence over what we ate. My Dad is English and he is meat, potatoes and cream sauce every night. My mom is quite healthy and she would like make herself a salad and then make a meal for us. When I went vegan, my mom stopped cooking because I would eat this, my mom would eat this and my dad would eat this. Now when I go home, I usually just cook really simple things for myself because I…

1.0 INTRODUCTION In 1950, Sam Wilton, founder of Walmart has been in the retail business. It runs well, but it's not convenient because they cannot create profits and grow your business quickly. Therefore, he wanted to develop his idea again by opening the first store in Rogers, Arkansas in 1962. This time the shop opened by Sam located in rural areas but its area is large and offers a low price. It mostly aimed at middle-class and lower middle-class people. Low prices and a strategic area…

Alternative Rappers? Another way that Outkast challenged notions of authenticity was through their defiance towards conceptions of performative blackness within Hip Hop. Here, I will use E. Patrick Johnson’s framework, as well as how authenticity is constructed based on sound, look and feel in tandem, to illustrate how OutKast resisted this limited view of Hip Hop legitimacy (Grazian). Perceptions of performative blackness connected to sound, look and feel stem from urban inner-city ghetto life…

standards in style and content when it came to paintings; portraits and works containing historical and religious elements were favored. They preferred the more realistic works, all of which contained a finer class of detail and a very muted color pallet. Around the 1860’s, various artists began venturing into the…

Marie-Louise-Elisabeth Vigée Lebrun was a painter, she made historic paintings and were sought after her work especially from women, she was a favorite artist of aristocratic patrons throughout Europe at the end of the eighteenth century including Marie Antoinette, and had a predominant sense of style and skill in her painting’s. The spark of her passion started at a young age with the art’s. She proved that she was somewhat of a prodigy with her talents. In her teen years, her fame inclined,…

The invention of photography has direct correlations to the notions of documentary. Historically, a photograph represented the means to preserve a snapshot of the world as accurately as possible. This suggests something in opposition to art, the photographer is not portraying his or her vision of the world, in so far as expressionist painters of the time would be. Instead, they are merely capturing and collating information, as a historian would. Slowly it can be seen that these notions began to…

The Poor do not Need Everyone’s Money, Only the Wealthier’s Social Capital and Mobility There are many social issues that affect individuals across America every day. One of the major social issues affecting individuals in America is poverty. Poverty is a social issue that individuals view differently depending on their own bias of cultural capital. Poverty impacts an individual in many different ways and creates what some might call a certain “way of life.” There are certain aspects pertaining…

On Thursday 26th May 2016, my drama group and I visited the West Yorkshire Playhouse’s ‘Courtyard Theatre’ to watch a production of ‘Kes’. The production was based on the book ‘A Kestrel for a Knave’, written by Barry Hines, and was directed by Amy Leach. The book was adapted for the stage by Robert Alan Evans to be performed by the West Yorkshire Playhouse. Prior to the production, the director, Amy Leach, wanted to create an abstract and original piece, allowing the audience to feel sorry for…

Francisco de Goya Francisco de Goya, sometimes called the father of modern art, he was born on March 31,1746 in Fuendetodos, Spain. When he was in his early teens, he began studying art and spent much of his time in Rome, Italy. So he could advance his skills. In the early 1770’s he begun to do work for the Spanish Royal Court. A lot of his works criticized social and political problems of the time.( "Francisco De Goya." Bio.com) Francisco was the son of a guilder, in his early youth he spent…

Over the past thirteen years, many United States Marines have joined the Marine Corps with hopes of being deployed to a combat zone, and unfortunately, remain in the United States for the duration of their enlistment. I enlisted for the sole purpose and intent to deploy to Afghanistan, specifically, so I could partake in the efforts of bringing to justice the organization that attacked our country on September 11, 2001. I was fortunate enough to be one of the Marines that were scheduled to…