Russel Wright

Tara Donovan is an American artist from Brooklyn, New York who creates sculptural installation art pieces out of everyday simple objects, such as plastic cups, paper plates, pencils, straws, and polyester film. Donovan transforms these ordinary everyday objects into large-scale installations which in some cases create a depiction of nature resembling landscape scenes including, mountains glaciers, icicles, rocks, and more. When Donovan was interviewed by Daniel Comiskey, he asked her, “Why use materials like electrical cable and plastic cups?” Donovan’s response was, “Everyday materials are easy to get and inexpensive. It's not really a commentary on the materials themselves. My interest in them is the shape, the transparency. It becomes a building block I work toward transcending the everyday object-ness of it.” One of Donovan’s installations made from everyday objects is Untitled, 2008, shown at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Massachusetts. This piece is made up of folded and layered clear polyester film which fills a rectangular shaped hole cut into a wall of the gallery. The placement of the piece allows for natural light to shine through from Boston Harbor. The elements of art which can be seen in Tara Donovan’s piece are line, value, space, as well as many art principles. The first element seen in Tara Donovan’s installation piece is line. Line can be defined as a path of moving points and can vary in width, direction, and length. Lines often…

Darwinism. In this essay, I will discuss where Darwinism started, what philosophers agreed or disagreed on his theory, and if I believe in human nature. Darwinism was created with the help of Alfred Russel Wallace. Alfred was a naturalist, biologist, and an explorer who enjoyed being outdoors and focusing on nature like Charles Darwin. With the help of Alfred, Darwin had a better understanding of how nature really looked like. He was one of the mentors that helped Darwin explore nature and how…

Social Darwinism was a philosophy created by Charles Darwin. Charles Darwin’s philosophy connected the theory of evolution within humanity. Many people were against Social Darwinism, simply because of the fact it veered from the Christian belief that god created everything on earth. There were people out there who believed in Social Darwinism and were intrigued to learn more. Both sides of the argument were able to justify their reasoning on why they either agreed or disagreed on Social…

A fungus. That’s how the human race was taken out. Pathetic. Ophiocordyceps unilateralis. Also known as the zombie virus, it was discovered by British Naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace in 1859. It affected ants of the Camponotini tribe. The infected ant would leave its nest and travel to an area with the perfect temperature and humidity for fungal growth, then the ant would use its mandibles to hang on a leaf upside down until the inevitable death that would follow. Over the next one hundred and…

Alfred Russel Wallace Alfred Russel Wallace is known for developing a theory of evolution using natural selection aside from the greater known, Charles Darwin. Wallace lived to be 90 years old, which is surprising for a man in that time period. He was born on January 8th, 1823 and lived till November 7th, 1913. His childhood was taken place in Kensington Cottage, southeastern Wales. His middle name was spelled weirdly due to a mistake at the time of registering his birth, which was never…

Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, England, on February 12, 1809. In 1831, he left on a five-year overview voyage far and wide on the HMS Beagle. His investigations of examples around the world drove him to plan his hypothesis of advancement and his perspectives on the procedure of characteristic determination. In 1859, he distributed On the Origin of Species. He kicked the bucket on April 19, 1882, in London.Darwin was much more slanted to study regular history. Darwin exhibited that the…

He read Thomas Malthus’s essay and from the reading figured out how species came about. He agreed with Malthus in that the population size of a species grows faster than the availability of resources. He also agreed that in animals that aren’t human, the population size of the species is determined by the amount of food available. Both facets lead to competition within the population and a “struggle for existence.” Darwin developing his theory of evolution is not something that he came about…

It has been argued that “the late nineteenth century was a scientific age. Literature could not simply remain the same after Darwin: the rules had changed” (Link 75) and that is what naturalist did. They started to reveal the origin to people’s actions and beliefs, as well as the cause. In The Awakening, Kate Chopin discusses some of the most relevant actions and new beliefs, such as divorce, adultery or woman and feminity. Although the work was quite controversial when she first wrote it, in…

and Piggy are the only ones building the huts. Even though the others pitched in and helped, Ralph complains to Jack that they only did so for a few minutes before they got bored and left to do something else; like playing in the sand or hunting. Ralph 's complaint offends Jack and he questions and argues with Ralph, asking him if building shelters is as important as hunting. Ralph 's reason for building the shelters is that he is doing it for the younger ones, because they are afraid of the…

In the article of natural selection by Charles Darwin there is a lot of strong points and powerful statements, but do we ever think about what makes them strong and powerful statements. You ever wonder what a theory really is? Darwin statement is considered a theory. It only became a theory through the use of ethos, pathos, and logos. No matter what articles always use some sort logos, ethos, and pathos. This is how we make theories and get reactions like we do because we use logic which is…