St. Louis, Missouri

Create∽ Louis Daguerre created the first practical photographic process. He worked with a man named Joseph Niépce who revealed a pewter plate covered in asphalt to light for eight hours in a camera obscura. This seized a blurry picture of the view outside his window. Daguerre believed this was to long for just a blurry picture. Daguerre suggested that they replace the asphalt with silver iodine and use a sharper lens. This would reduce the time exposed and make a clearer image. Innovate∽ Louis…

Anna Sokolow was born February 9, 1910 in Hartford Connecticut. Sadly she passed away not too long ago on March 29, 2000. In New York City. Anyways, Anna was an American choreographer and professional dancer. Ever since Anna was a young girl she's always desired dancing. When she saw like a dance magazine or someone else dancing, it made her happy and inspired her to become a dancer. She wasn't expecting to become famous out of it. Anna found her majority of inspiration to dance in Jewish…

Louis Riel was an important leadership figure of the nineteenth century. At this time in history, the fundaments of Canada were being set in motion. Riel, born of a religious nature, attended a priest school in St. Boniface until his father’s death in 1864. He then returned to Red River, his childhood home to support his family, and widowed mother. Two years later, in 1866, Hudson's Bay Company was under pressure to sell Rupert’s land to the government of Canada. This vast area included the red…

Today as in yesterday is tomorrow as in today: struggle between modernity and tradition in Pour la Suite du Monte Pour la Suite du Monte is a Canadian documentary film directed by Pierre Perrault and Michel Brault in 1963. The film follows the residence in the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec about the traditional Beluga whale-hunting event as they agreed to reenact it for the one last time. One of the most outstanding themes from this film is the inheritance and innovation of the tradition…

NASA and the entirety of the space industry was not always a welcome place for women. From the beginning of the program until recent years, women were shunned or disadvantaged in the male dominated field. The American space program began after the launch of Sputnik from Russia during the Cold War period. This struck fear into Americans and resulted in the interest of launching not only satellites, but also humans, into space. However, no one had any way of knowing what conditions…

As I entered the University of Southern Florida and enrolled in my first college classes, I had no idea what “Academic Foundations” meant. I thought that it was going to be a class about how to write papers, take tests, and use a computer. So naturally, I wasn’t too thrilled. The term “academic” doesn’t normally scream fun. I originally thought that I was going to learn a bunch of stuff that I already knew and didn’t need help with. However, I am happy to say that I couldn’t have been more wrong…

Values: The Role of Patronage in Renaissance Art Patronage, generally speaking is the money and support provided to an organization, business, and so on. When referring to the impact of patronage on art during the Renaissance, we typically refer to this as the support provided by surrounding popes, kings, and the wealthy which would overall be provided to artist such as musicians, painters, and sculptors. Basically speaking, patrons operated as sponsors in order to endorse their political…

The artist I chose to do my paper on is Giovanni Paolo Panini and the name of the work is Interior of St. Peter’s, Rome by Gionanni Paolo Panini. This work is about the interior of the church called St. Peter’s Basilica and it was created in 1731 in Rome, Italy, Europe. This piece of work is a view painting of the interior of St’ Peter’s Basilica and since it is a church it is a religious and symbolic example of the piousness of the people of these times. Giovanni Paolo Pannini was born in 1691…

What could have been the purpose of a Ronald W. Reagan’s speech after a catastrophic incident? On January 28, 1986, a space shuttle launched from NASA suffered a casualty when the shuttle named The Challenger was on the air, as it broke apart. This launching was showcased on national television, causing the crew’s children witness their parents’ death, and most children in the U.S. being traumatized by it. As a way of unifying the nation after a tragedy of that essence, President Ronald W.…

The Challenger’s first ever mission was on April 4, 1983. The challenger took place in The United States of America. The Challenger was named after the HMS Challenger Royal Navy corvette. This was successful until one morning it exploded. This tragedy happened on January 28, 1986. What happened was that two rubber O-rings had failed due to cold temperatures. The thing was that the rocket exploded seventy-three seconds or one minute and thirteen seconds. There were seven crew members…