Porcelain

Snow White, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s protagonist, is situated in a society that is dominated by vanity in the fairy tale “Snow White”. Regardless of her attempts to escape the influences that society poses on women and girls of all ages, she remains fixated on beauty as well. As a result, Snow White is unconsciously conditioned to believe that luxurious or pretty items are worth sacrificing one’s life for in the tale. Appearance, and more importantly the extent to which beauty can supplement…

The First Opium War took place between Great Britain and China from 1839-1842 over Great Britain’s right to trade opium, and to a lesser extent to preserve international trade in Asian Continent. While the war itself is interesting, several significant economic insights can be obtained by observing how the economic conditions of the time brought about war. At the turn of the 18th Century, China saw itself as the best country in the world. They were almost completely self-sufficient and had been…

His grew up in a five storey house full of imported furniture, unplayed pianos, Chinese porcelains, crystal glasses and family photographs among “positivist men who loved mathematics” but loathed religion and discarded Turkish culture. The family’s sitting-room with its snuff boxes and glass cupboards, according to him, was the best example of…

was the southeastern region of China, Canton. Foreigners were allowed to trade in the Thirteen Factories district with payments made exclusively in silver. The British began to send ships packed with silver in order to exchange them for tea and porcelain. The only problem was that at the British had limited supply of silver and so they had to come up with something else to trade with that the Chinese were interested in and so their…

Destin Briggs Lu Jack Chem 4235 11/4/2017 Original Synthesis of Cadmium Nitrate Tetra-Hydrate Cadmium nitrate tetra-Hydrate is an inorganic compound from the family of compounds with the general formula Cd (NO3)2.XH20, where X=4, hence the molecule has four molecules of water of crystallization in its structure. It exists as a salt but in its anhydrous state, it is known to be a volatile substance. It is a colorless substance as are all the compounds in the family of cadmium nitrates. Cadmium…

shall focus on from this series is the 17th image in the spread. The photograph features a male model bearing his hairy chest and armpits in a black sheer spaghetti strapped slip dress. The model is smoking a cigarette with wet slick back hair, porcelain white skin, heavy eye make-up and a gentle pink lipstick, against a non descript background of unfocused lights in the distance. This editorial was intended to create a media frenzy and succeeded in doing…

Phillip Toledano, a New York based full time experimental artist and photographer of a series of photographs called “A New Kind of Beauty”, brings awareness towards society’s modern standards of beauty through documenting and creating classical portraits of individuals who have had several procedures of reconstructive plastic surgery done on their faces as well as their bodies in desperate search of a flawless body. Toledano’s “A New Kind of Beauty” was inspired by Hans, the Younger Holbein.…

Julia Alvarez, a Hispanic American immigrant and a woman, remains a voice for those who have suffered the strife tied to these labels. From her award-winning novels to her passionate poetry, her words eloquently demonstrate a sort of empathetic understanding only available from an author who has experienced these difficulties. Julia Alvarez uses her poetic voice to explain, yet also escape, her multicultural world with a vocalized desire for freedom from oppression both in her home country and…

Everyone has their own kind of sacrifices for better or worse. Sometimes we offer these sacrifices as a means to provide protection or some ray of hope. Tutors are known to be educated in whatever subject they tutor in as well as being extremely patient. Though some do it for free or may charge a fee, it always comes down to how much effort they put into each session and ultimately the result. I remember a particular event during sophomore year of high school, I offered to tutor a young freshman…

John Gutmann was one of America’s most distinctive photographers. Gutmann was born in Germany where he became an artist. He later fled Germany due to the Nazi’s because he was a Jew. Gutmann moved to San Francisco and re-established himself as a photojournalist captivating the lives of Americans. He mainly took photographs of people who were imperfect like himself because of his Jewish nationality. Gutmann targeted the poor, circus folk, the gay community and the rich. Two of Gutmann’s works are…