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Julian Opie is an English sculptor, painter, printmaker and installation artist that was born in London in the year 1958 and was raised in Oxford and he belongs to the New British Sculpture movement, he is one of the UK's best-known contemporary artists. He graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London in 1983 The new British sculpture movement started in the United Kingdom and is a term that is applied to a group of young sculptors that first started emerging at exhibitions at the start of…

Immediately after the allies rose victorious of the Nazis and the rest of the axis powers. A potentially more dangerous and devastating war broke out. This war, however was a battle about ideology and cultural habits and ways. This war would be against one of our crucial allies during WWII, the soviets. The tension broke out early after the russians had conquered their way back into the German heartland and had captured Berlin. But afterwards they would be hesitant to give all the land they had…

(Suncor U2 Cokepit) August 2014 – February 2016 Millwright Apprentice/Lead Hand (Fort McMurray, Alberta)  Ensuring a safe & injury-free work environment by operating various tools, equipment, and machinery in an efficient manner  Maintaining and servicing…

controversy, with contemporary Christian music being criticized for simple lyrics, repetitious chords, and having disingenuous motives. Well known for his Christian faith and using his music as a platform for social change, Paul David Hewson, Bono from U2, questions the validity of contemporary Christian music arguing that he finds modern Christian music filled with…

As Germany had been divided into two, the Berlin Wall was built to stop the flow of East Germans who went to East Berlin and the opposite way. The wall was made of steel and lots of traps and explosives. Churchill called The wall the Iron Curtain. The Soviet sector became East Berlin the capital of East Germany and West Germany Bonn. In 1967 students demanding reforms in education and politics of West Germany demonstrated. Over West Germany regained some economic stability. East Berlin was an…

“One small step for man”, these were the words that ended the space race; but was America truly the victor? In 1944 the first V2 streaked towards the city of London, this weapon of war that could have turned the tide of the war in Germanys favor was the first major step towards the space race. Despite having the advantage of long range liquid fueled rockets Germany lost the war. America was the first to find the both the remaining V2’s and the rocket scientist. Within only a month most of…

20s Music in the 1920's was commanded by jazz, soul and the peregrinating move groups that played what was well known at the time. Taking after the decimation of the main World War, Twenties music was entirely energetic and hopeful as the economy blasted and parties thundered in spite of banishment in the US. The music business as we probably am aware it was simply starting and all things appeared to be conceivable. Specialists, for example, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Ma Rainey, Sophie…

religion. Celebrities like Richard Gere, Harrison Ford, and Jared Leto boosted the Free Tibet movement’s cause. It was also propelled by the music industry through events called Tibetan Freedom Concerts, and other fundraisers by musicians and bands like U2, Foot Fighters, and REM. Even in the movie industry, the Tibetan’s cause was forwarded through blockbusters like Kundun and Seven Years in Tibet. Outside of entertainment, human rights activists have been huge proponents of the Free Tibet…

center of what an ideal America should be. America is, however, great, but it falls short of the very ideals it stands for. “It’s about keeping faith with the idea of America. Because America is great…”1 This is the words uttered by Bono of the Band U2 concerning the Declaration of America. The singer thought about the country as a right and wrong issue and that America has relentlessly been on what is right. He said the country should be viewed as the greatest idea in the history of human…

the lyrics. Lynskey viewed the song lyrics briefly and used them as opportunities to analyze topics such as civil rights, black-power movement, the Vietnam and Middle East wars and many others. He also included more present day entertainments such as U2, Public Enemy, R.E.M., Steve Earle, and Rage Against the Machine. Lynskey exhibits complete domination and is critical of the music he speaks of along with the measures that triggered them to be written in the first place. For example, he…