Van Gogh's Starry Night Essay

It was particularly amazing to see many of these works before the museum had opened to public and there were massive crowds around them. I cannot describe the surprise of walking around the corner to see Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night hanging on the wall with no one around it. In high school, I had intensely studied this piece before when I was trying to reproduce it with a Sharpie pen. However, there was something very profound to seeing in person. It was a little smaller…

The role of any education system is to equip its students for the real world in terms of knowledge and job preparation. In the United States, schools are becoming increasingly deficient in reaching this objective as they deviate from the arts and humanities and lean towards science, technology, engineering, and math, commonly referred to as STEM. At Whitman, only one art credit is required to graduate while multiple science, math, and technology STEM credits are required in each different…

Art throughout the world reflects new ideas of the time and preserves the past historically marking each new era. A shift in the way the world is organized is almost always immediately followed by a new perspective that changes the way people create and receive art. Art has endless capability to be felt, observed, and examined in new ways that reveal a story behind each piece that weaves another picture of life during that century. Exploring art movements not only reveals the history of the time…

As Charles Dickens stated, “take nothing on it’s looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule .” Evidence proves certain beliefs or propositions to be valid or not. It is critical to rely on evidence on all occasion to settle an answer in accordance to the fact. But is it really necessary? Evidence may not necessarily be used to reach a conclusion in certain areas, for example in ethics it is based off of people’s principles and behaviors, and in arts, it is dependent on the…

Constantly evolving, constantly transforming. A place where any outsider has to prove themselves before being welcomed with open arms, where fame or riches is not the predominant factor instead communication is the main concern. Art is such a dexterous community, with countless of people from different backgrounds, ideals or beliefs, as a result, it doesn’t belong to only one culture alone and it becomes a form of communication that can reach multiple people regardless of the language boundary…

GRAMMAR Introduction to Grammar Conventions Conventions can be defined as a series of generally accepted standards for written English. We use these specific conventions so that our writing is more readable and so that our readers can easily discern what we are trying to say. There are four main categories that a convention may fall under: sentence structure, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization. In this chapter you will find information regarding these four conventions, along with…