Silhouette

The poetry of Rita Dove, Billy Collins, Sonia Sanchez and Yusef Komunyakaa are similar in many aspects, yet each poet’s work is very distinct. All of the poets utilize powerful poetic techniques to accentuate the underlying meaning. For instance, Dove describes the struggle of living during the Great Depression, and how many people decided to commit suicide due to severe living conditions through her passionate use of symbolism: “Under the Viaduct, 1932” …He liked it down…

statement that Paulo Coelho made is very true and has very deep meaning. While some to think of culture as what they do every day, I would consider my culture to be defined as family, work and food. In the first part of my triptych, I have a silhouette of a family. That is because family is an important aspect for most people. However to me family is everything. Without my family to come home to everyday I would be lost. My mom is the most important person in my life. She is a five year…

The beautiful qipao is a cultural symbol of China that originated through hundreds of years of innovation and influence. Through the years, the qipao has two significant stages of evolution with the first being during the Qing dynasty where it originated, and the second stage being during the early republic period (Lu and Chen, 2006). The first stage was during the takeover of Beijing during the 17th century by political and Manchu military strategist, Nurhachi (Lu and Chen, 2006). Nurhachi…

combination of motivation, determination, athleticism, and definition to the game of basketball is the reason why he was voted as the Athlete of the Century. As with others, I am a huge fan of Michael Jordan; I bought his high top “jump man”, silhouette shoes and I wore his black and red Chicago Bull’s jersey. I remember my dad and older brother watching every one of his basketball games; he was my hero. So of course, when his book that he wrote came out, I bought it. Michael published a…

The style of an author is something unique and creative to their person and their soul. The writing of F. Scott Fitzgerald is skilled, concise, and detailed. His novels are not only distinguishable by his incredible imagination but also his impressive articulation. In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses diction, imagery, personification, and in order to portray the deeper meaning of his novel with his style. By using…

In film, a genre is a way of putting movies into categories where they share similar narrative elements. Auteurism, as previously mentioned, is when a filmmaker’s distinctive style and personal vision is reflected in their work. In the New Hollywood era genre and auteurism started to intersect due to the fact that auteurs were able to make their mark in genre films. They were able to put their personal spin on a formulaic genre film. Coppola did a lot of what we would call genre films over the…

achieved significant success in the UK, the USA, the USSR and in Africa. But surely this was not the first time pictograms were used in design to communicate or educate. Nader Vossoughian suggests the work “was inspired by military cartography, silhouette portraits, Egyptian hieroglyphs, mass advertising, early innovations in information graphics and the New Typography movement in Germany”(2007). It is ironic that Neurath, who is known for his notable work in philosophy, and responsible for…

Well known as the Industrial Revolution, an unprecedented advance in the efficiency of manufacturing occurred in England in the late eighteenth century. It spread to other parts of Europe and the United States in the second half of the nineteenth century and brought enormous change to humans’ life. Largely a result of technology improvement and mass production, industrialization stimulated a surge in production of manufactured goods, which largely enriched people’s material life. It also…

My birthday is one of my favorite days of the year, no lie there. It may be hard to believe, but it isn’t just about the attention either. It makes me realize how truly blessed I am to be fulfilling another year of my life. I will be forever grateful for my birthdays, even when I am getting old. It was my birthday! I was finally a teenager, the big 13, I guess it could be said as my quota for the year. I jumped out of bed and I was so excited for what the day had to hold for me. I was supposed…

t was teeming heavily in London on December 23. Almost everybody throughout Britain had just witnessed her Majesty’s, the Queen, Chritmas annual speech. The message, pretty much as it did last year adn the year before last, conveyed, in a blunt, simple and plain manner, that love is the best condolence to all sorrow. And that is, love must bring us closer, must entreat us to value and appreciate one another. For love entails us to deeper and more deeply-felt relationships, it must indeed provail…