Post-industrial society

pp.8, 9) argued that the Post-Impressionists were far more expressive of emotions than the Impressionists. Post-Impressionism is the group of painters included Gauguin, Cezanne, Seurat and Vincent Van Gogh working in France in the 1880s. Post-Impressionists intended to express beyond the impression which is the main concern of the Impressionists, while subjects of the Impressionists' painting are mainly landscapes or scenes of modern suburban life. Indeed, in the Post-Impressionist paintings,…

Would you try the no-shower challenge? That is the question that author Katie Maguire asked her readers in the article, “3 Things That Happen When You Stop Showing For A Month”. In this article, Maguire dives into the positive outcomes of not showering for an entire month. She took the results from two journalists James Hamblin and Julia Scott, and compiled a list of three changes their body underwent while going without a shower for 30 days. While reading this article, I was very critical of…

that is based on the 1974 book written by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward that is also named All the President’s Men (Perkins). In addition, the authors are the two journalists that handled the investigation of the Watergate scandal for The Washington Post. The film stars Robert Redford as Bob Woodward and Dustin Hoffman as Carl Bernstein. All the President’s Men has been nominated 21 times and has received 16 awards. The film won four Oscars in 1977 for the following categories: best actor in a…

In an article on The Washington Post, the author included a post on Reddit to bring attention to the side effect of playing Pokémon Go – injuries. The post said, “Pokémon Go put me in the ER last night.” In addition to this, the author also included another post on Reddit about getting hurt from playing the game. It said, “Not even 30 minutes after the release last night, I slipped and fell down a ditch” (Tsukayama 2016). In another article on New York Post, the author also mentions that playing…

employees, you have to closely monitor and drag yourself into social media. I believe that social media recently has had a negative impact on society. This is due to the examples that Yzzy Gonzalez discusses, things that I had noticed in my life, and as well as potential risks it poses. These ideas prove that social media has had a negative impact on our society. First of all, people have been relying too heavily on technology for everyday life. Yzzy Gonzalez wrote a descriptive article…

Analysis of “Sunday on La Grande Jatte" This week I visited the Metropolitan Museum, but because of the limited time, I only sticked to the 19th and Early 20th Century European Painting and Sculpture gallery on the second floor. There were many famous European paintings, which made me in a daze. I was attracted by several pictures at the beginning, but finally I chose Georges Seurat’s “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte.” Some of the things that caught my eyes about the painting was the peacefulness…

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…

before entering college you can travel wherever and with whomever and stay for months. But you have to make sure the that you stay on track and do what you and handle your business before you can have fun. Suzy Strutner, the editor of The Huffington Post, has stated that “By taking a gap year and traveling when it's time for college you will be an expert at adapting to new environments.” I know that you probably traveled and had to adapt to new environments with your family but when you do it…

Along with European and American society, the types of artists and artistic forms were also steadily changing. Different forms of ideas and concepts relating to art began to spread bringing about the appearance of such art styles as Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. The Impressionism art movement “captured the momentary, sensory effect of a scene - the impression objects made on the eye in a fleeting instant” (The Art Story). The Post-Impressionism art movement “favored an emphasis on more…

culture is one that finds beauty in things that others consider to dark and depressing to even think about. The goth group is known for mostly wearing dark clothing and being calm and nonviolent people. However, goths are commonly perceived from society as people who worship the devil, cut themselves, are evil, and only wear black. Goths have also been seen as people that are always depressed and only like to listen to goth genres such as rock and heavy metal. Due to their unusual appearance of…