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Many younger peoples wear his clothing brand, and have seen one of his more famous posters, “Hope.” Many people, however may not know who the person is, that is behind what they wear and what they see. Shepard Fairy is an American street artist, graphic designer, activist, and illustrator. His clothing line, OBEY, emerged from the skateboarding scene. He was also hugely recognized during the 2008 presidential election after his poster of former President Barack Obama. At forty seven years old,…

In I Invented The Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford, Richard Snow puts together a masterpiece narrative of Ford’s rise to fame through his greatest invention. The book covers the life of Henry Ford from birth, the same year as the battle of Gettysburg, Ford died two years after the atomic bombs fell. The book however does not start with his birth but staving his birth place and then on to saving history. One very interesting things Snow writes about this period is, “Once again his agents went…

One’s thoughts are personal to them, and once they are asked to externalize it, they often subconsciously or consciously filter out what they are thinking. Each of the personal circumstances in Tillie Olson’s “I Stand Here Ironing”, Dorothy Parker’s “A Telephone Call”, and T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” inhibit the narrators to externalize their thoughts because of the fear of judgement and self-blame that each feel. Many do not want to express their innermost fears to others…

Song of Myself written by Walt Whitman celebrates life and how people can become one with nature. Whitman shows how happy life can be if you take the world and look at its beauty. Whitman’s poem takes readers through many settings, time points and viewpoints. While the setting for the love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock written by T.S Eliot is about a middle-aged man in a big dirty city who views life as though it has nothing to offer but boredom, anxiety, and death. Prufrock shows life can be…

As the pace goes faster , Ford made more and more cars, and on June 4, 1924, the 10-millionth Model T came off the Highland Park assembly line. Though the Model T did not last much longer–by the middle of the 1920s, customers wanted to have a car that was inexpensive and had all the bells and whistles that the Model T scorned–it had ushered in the era of the automobile for everyone. Edsel Ford died in 1943, and Henry Ford returned to the presidency of Ford…

Inspired by a combination of nationalistic fervor and glorified expectations of a short war, thousands of soldiers from multiple countries enlisted to fight in the devastating conflict known as World War I. These men were quickly met with disillusionment when they discovered the truly nightmarish conditions of this war characterized by attrition. Much of the war’s combat took place in trenches where soldiers fought in filth and watched helplessly as comrades were massacred by bombshells, machine…

better. Due to how easily cars worked hundreds of companies used them to transport goods as they could be more maneuverable than trains, and unloading them on ships was unnecessary as they could just drive the cars or trucks on to the ships.(Model T: The Car for the Masses,2001)(Ford Motor…

Tom Holmes (b 1979) is an American artist based in Cannon County, Tennessee.[1] Contents [hide] 1 Education 2 Exhibitions 3 Art Work 4 Honors 5 Publications/Press 6 References 7 External links Education[edit source | edit] Holmes received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Texas at Austin in 1999, the student of Peter Saul and Linda Montano.[1] They received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California Los Angeles in 2002 where they studied with John Baldessari, Mary…

In T.S. Eliot’s “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock”, a man begins to reflect upon the decisions in life that he put off; realizing that he’s simply out of time to fulfill his wishes to find a wife and create a family along with many other wants and dreams. In the poem, Eliot uses a series of imagery and metaphors to vividly portray the character and to keep the story interesting and flowing. The poem of Mr. Prufrock is a simple yet vastly complicated poem. It begins telling the story of him as…

In T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men,” Eliot details and laments about the meaninglessness pitiful existence of men, whom he describes as hollow, and the overall decline of contemporary society. The characterization of the hollow men perfectly fits many of the characters who exist in the world of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Indeed, both authors explore the innate emptiness of human life and the ignorance of humanity to its emptiness throughout their literary pieces. Such ignorance causes…