Tiffany Pollard

It’s 9:00 p.m. and everyone gathers around the television for a night of “Reality Programming.” As we gaze upon the screen and begin loading data into our brains, I question, “Is reality television shaping our minds and the minds of our children, and if so, into what?” In the last decade or so there has been a new craze that has swept our nation, and that is reality television. Why are these shows so popular? According to the Reality T.V. World’s website, there are around 1,000 reality television programs and reality TV; and grown to the point of now having reality TV networks such as TruTv. In Fox’s network history, “American Idol posted the highest ratings of any show besides sports,” According to Business Week Online. Dramalities are in and the Walton’s are now out. Networks have addicted our society to this new form of drug and have left us to determine whether or not these shows are distracting us from our own reality. The attraction of these shows is that society has adapted to reality television and these types of shows allow audiences to be able to live vicariously through them, as a way of an escape from their reality. On the other hand, it is also a method people use to relate their lives to something that is familiar to them. I think that the flaw in these shows is that the reality is based more on the show’s business version of reality and not what the everyday ordinary person’s reality is… Television, I believe, gives a false image of life. It distorts the view…

Tiffany was boiling the kettle in the middle of the table like you would in chemistry class and she poured marjoram in the measuring cup and poured it in. It turned blue when she threw in the eye of newt and made a sound. She looked up at me as I approached. “So, where is the toad?” She asked searching me with her gaze to find it. I smiled and thought to myself she was going to love this/ “We have to go outside in the garden and catch one” I told her and she gave me a wide eyed look I…

Niccolò Machiavelli’s Principles in The Prince to Tiffany & Co. Niccolò Machiavelli, an Italian diplomat and philosopher, wrote The Prince during the period when the Medici family returned to power during the 16th century. In this book, Machiavelli describes and explains different points of advice for a prince to become a successful and reputable ruler. The Prince can be considered as a handbook for princes, and even after Machiavelli’s death in 1527, these ideas of guidance still holds true…

and looked over again. In The Wee Free Men, the main character, Tiffany, wants to become a witch and has a certain set of ideas about what a witch’s duties are. The ideas she has are her First Thoughts on what a witch is and does. Tiffany goes on an adventure to save her brother Wentworth, an adventure that can fit in to Joseph Campbell’s Hero Cycle upon further analysis. As the events in Tiffany’s Hero Cycle unfold, we see how she develops…

Louis Comfort Tiffany was born in New York City in 1848. Tiffany is known for not only being the son of Tiffany & Co. founder, Charles Tiffany, but as a notorious glassmaker, designer, and is also credited with being a leader of the Art Nouveau movement. Tiffany began his studies in Europe, and furthers his education at the National Academy of Design in New York with aspirations to become an artist. Painting was Tiffany’s primary interest, however, he began to focus on decorative arts and…

Before I went to watch glassblowing, I thought that it was just a hobby and it would be almost impossible to make a living off of it. Upon arrival to the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, I realized that this art form has artists that are both doing this for a living and doing this for a hobby. Glassblowing is an art that everyone should know about but many people have never actually witnessed it. I had the honor of observing and interviewing Lino Tagliapietra, who is considered by most to be the…

the other Renaissance revival styles of period. In addition to being the “first major poured-in-place concrete building in the United States,” Ponce de Leon Hall was also “one of the nation’s first electrified buildings,” using the industrial innovations of the “Edison Electric Company [to power] the building” (Horn). The architecture “revealed the aesthetic and technical potentials of modern concrete construction” while also “[recalling] historic coquina-based” techniques and “flamboyant…

I walk in, surrounded by millions of dollars and tens of thousands of hours worth of glass. Roughly sixty-thousand pieces, each hand crafted by a crew of students and professionals working together, tell a story. Sixty panels of vibrant colors, sloshes of visual food that appeal to our creative stomachs, lurching the eyes of any passing viewer, including myself, forward into a land of distant time and space and beauty. The Roots of Knowledge, located inside the Utah Valley University library has…

Paper Two Louis Comfort Tiffany, born in 1848, was a famous American artist who specialized in glass making. In the beginning of Tiffany’s art career, he studied under American painters George Inness and Samuel Colman (Encyclopedia Britannica). Tiffany also went overseas to continue looking at art in different countries, including Europe and Morocco, to help expand his knowledge in various art forms (Biography.com). Once he returned back to the U.S., Tiffany became a well recognized painter.…

Louis Comfort Tiffany was the most important and influential American glass artist of the twentieth century. His renowned body of glass works redefined modern glassmaking and has continued to influence glass artists in the present day. His works have become an essential and crucial benchmark for American glassmaking. Tiffany concentrated intensely on creating brilliant, high-quality works, and courageously reformed the glassmaking industry of the United States and the world over. From a young…