When walking around inside the Blanton Museum, I noticed the entire exhibit on Goya’s “Mad Reason” mostly did not display colored pieces. I had a particularly difficult time trying to find a piece that I thought was beautiful or striking; nothing seemed to immediately evoke an emotion, except Goya’s Still Life with Golden Bream to which I found myself wandering back to the piece at least three times, thinking to myself there was something special about it. Goya’s Golden Bream is one of very few…
On the morning of July 15th 1953, Shirley woke up to the sound of birds chirping and the sun shining through the panes of her glass window. She unwrapped herself from her fluffy purple comforter and jumped out of bed in a jiffy. Throwing off her bland pajamas, she changed into a beautiful purple dress that her mother specially made for her! Shirley felt so proud and elegant wearing that dress. Mother told her that the purple dress was only to be worn on Sundays and if she wore it on any other…
What do you associate with the color red? For most people, they immediately think of blood.With all of its negative connotation, when it's spilled, or somebody is dead. Blood can be scary, even terrifying. It can also be beautiful though, as we see in "The Scarlet Ibis." There is a lot of association with the color red in this story. The "bleeding tree" makes us automatically think of red.The ibis found in the backyard itself is red, and the bush which Doodle dies beneath is red. When Doodle is…
Back on those old days, I have had plenty of good memories, as well as just as many bad ones, in middle school and high school. In middle school, my friends and I were always hanging around together. As a group, we always ate lunch, played at recess, stayed after school. We gathered at one spot every day. It was a common place for the “ FOB” as they called us. We just came to America for a few years and spoke little English. We all knew which groups would be gathering at school. It had an…
Three Square volunteer gives her take on the experience Jacqulin Schuette, a UNLV graduate with a kinesiology degree has always thought volunteering should be an important part of someone’s life. Jacqulin has always been the first person to raise their hand to volunteer, and Three Square was no exception. A call was made looking for volunteers and once again Jacqulin was more than willing to assist. Three Square is very dependent on volunteers and have been lucky enough to have tens of…
A primary document can change a person’s historical interpretation by enlightens them upon the background of an event in history that could often be left out of secondary documents that are meant to inform the reader upon a part of history. As example of this is Jefferson's Secret Message to Congress Regarding the Lewis & Clark Expedition (1803) this primary document enlightens a person on the outturn that Jefferson was attempting to receive from Lewis and Clarks expedition to the western side…
First reading/writing/literary experiences One of the first books I remember reading is The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. I remember reading this book with my mom often, and was so intrigued by Eric Carle’s use of his tissue paper art to illustrate the book. After we read this book I wanted to see more of this artist’s work so we bought many of his books. The second most read book that he wrote that I remember reading was Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? My mom would constantly…
The presentation “An Integrrative Approach to the eveolution of Visual Communiction in Darters” had a main focus point around the influence of color in mating preference and other aspects of darters life. This was specific to darters becseu they are so colorfull yet there is stil no true distiction as to what their coloration means, and if there is a specific reason to their color and patterns. Some patterns that they found was that only males had were colorful dring breeding season. To test…
Ashley Smith was always different than others. At the age of 5 days old, she was adopted by Coralee Smith and Herbert Gober. Even considering this, she had a pretty normal childhood. At about 15 years old, she had been to juvenile court 14 times. She was expelled multiple times, she was failing schools, she had just changed from that sweet innocent little girl that she once was. She was diagnosed with ADHD, learning disorder, borderline personality disorder and narcissistic personality traits.…
the family. Thank God it wasn't her mother's eyes. They were a boring brown. She had brown dreadlocks, which were unfortuanatly all natrually grown. She can not get rid of them. She takes great care of her hair,but it keeps growing back. Leslie shrugged. As long as she put it in a ponytail, nobody cares what types of hair she has. She usually…