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In 1657, Johannes Vermeer painted “The Milkmaid”. It is an oil on canvas painting and it on display at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Vermeer was a Dutch painter who liked to get his ideas from middle class life. He used a lot of monochrome shades of grey, browns, greys, and then he would apply primary colors, reds, blues, and yellows on top, to form a transparent looking painting. He used expensive pigments to illustrate the lighting in the painting, which then helped reflect the many colors he…

Standard Oil Court Case In 1911 the biggest oil industry was being tried for going against the Sherman Antitrust Act. The Sherman Antitrust Act is a law forbidding contract, trust, or conspiracy in limitation of interstate and foreign trade. The case was between Standard Oil of New Jersey and the United States. The United States Supreme Court was the one trying Standard Oil. In the court case the actions of Standard Oil and the owner John Rockefeller were being reviewed. These actions are what…

The artwork that I chose is Edgar Degas’ portrait titled “Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Etruscan Gallery” (1879-1880). This is a portrait made with “soft-ground etching, dry point, aquatint, and etching with dimensions of 10 9/16 X 9 1/8 in” (Degas). What makes this work a form of japonisme is the overall feel. Degas’ choice of mediums have a special effect that creates a japonisme feeling. The line quality and asymmetrical composition has a lot of characteristics of Japanese art. The subject…

The painting that I have chosen is the John Singer Sargent’s Spanish Dancer . It consists of very important elements, the principles and content of the piece that can tell the story. The most important factor is the fundamental breakdown of the piece which would be the elements of this piece. Initially, the elements in this visual art piece be the diagonal lines, it gives a feeling of movement or a sense of direction pulling with or from gravity. The colors composed of this painting…

I picked the Birth of Venus because I saw this painting in my Western Civilizations course here at Maryville College and it was the one that stuck out the most to me. It is a unique, mythological painting from the Renaissance Period painted in Florence, Italy. The Birth of Venus belongs to the group of mythological pictures painted by Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) in the 1480s, following his return from Rome after completing three fresco paintings in the Sistine Chapel for Pope Sixtus IV. The…

painting I choice is called My Medusa and was made by Randy Kirksey. The painting is one of the few paintings at the Merced Multicultural Art Center in Merced that were not digital prints which already made this painting pop to my eyes. This paint is a oil painting and a two dimensional painting on canvas. This work is a fairly new painting as My Medusa was made just one year ago in 2015. I just absolutely love Greek Mythology so I had to write about this painting. Once I saw the familiar snakes…

Whirlpool has taken an innovative approach to bring the “smart” home appliances to the forefront. In 2011, the company began its push to start selling smart refrigerators, washers, dryers, and dishwashers with a technology that permits them to connect to a households Wi-Fi network; which is then displayed on the buyers tablet, PC, and smart phone. These appliances will contain functions that are energy saving and cost effective, for example, being able to turn off during peak time and…

will be highlighting the negative effects of hydraulic fracking in its role of causing potential damage to the environment and contamination of groundwater. Hydraulic fracking is defined as the injection of liquid fluid at high pressure that extracts oil or gas. In Cart’s article, she denotes how this issue is very problematic because both oppositions have different opinions. For instance, the companies she interviewed disregard the potential damages from fracking and state that it is safe and…

The UN has recently drafted a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that they aim to achieve by 2030 in different fields such as energy. Indeed, the UN aims to “ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all” (Proposal for Sustainable Development Goals: Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform). Are targets measurable? 7.1 This target can be measured by combining both population and energy consumption data. That way, an energy consumption per capita unit…

Nowadays, having reliable and affordable modern energy resources is crucial since it plays a significant role in building a sustainable and stable environment system. Targets that the goal aims to are measurable Most of the targets can be easily measured by analysing data or observing the social influence.. Firstly, building universally accessed modern energy services will be workable. Since the measuring system "CWEEDS" can easily collected the data of energy distribution in Ontario,…