Weaving

information about the basket to improve her skills and be one of the best basket makers. She also takes into account any ideas given from other people, for example, one of her customers give her an idea to add more colors to the basket and diversify her weaving technique, and she do what is being suggested. The identities or folk group about her that being talked in the exhibit is farmer and artists. That is why most of her family members are creative and show their creativity by making baskets…

After reading both Wasps by Aristophanes and Bacchae by Euripides, I realized that words can be just as powerful as a god. Athenian government officials, such as Cleon, in Wasps and Dionysus from Bacchae had total control over others. The people the Athenian government and Dionysus controlled were manipulated to believe that they had power. Within Wasps, readers are introduced to Procleon, a man who has an obsession with being a juror for the Athenian government. Procleon’s obsession is…

Andy Warhol has said “I want to die with my blue jeans on.”(Brainyquote, n.d.). A lot of people today share Warhol’s affection for jeans. Denim is a staple of the modern wardrobe. It is comfortable, practical, and fashionable. However, jeans weren’t always common and popular. Denim has first been popularly used when designer Levi Strauss figured out a way to make denim affordable in 1936. Since then, denim has been through an interesting revolution. All kinds of people, including cowboys in…

Martin Luther King Jr once said “We are not makers of history. We are made by history.” Some would agree with this statement. Some would disagree. It’s an eternal debate over the role history plays in the present. And often, more importantly, the question is what is history itself and whose narrative is at the core. In her reflective, but argumentative, essay entitled “In History”, Jamaica Kincaid analyzes how these ideas-- what is history and how does what happened in the past impact us today--…

Kieran Kailer (“Kailer”), all of them high experienced Manhattan police officers that were patrolling in the vicinity of 124th Street and Lexington Avenue due to a spike in violent crimes in that area, stopped defendant Stanley Hardee for speeding and weaving through traffic without signaling (A76). The police officers had to pursue defendant’s vehicle for five to six blocks until he finally pulled over the car. Id. Officer Kailer and sergeant Siani approached to the defendant’s side of the…

How far do you agree with the view that the women in Tennyson’s poems are presented as victims in a male world? In “The Lady of Shallot” Tennyson portrays the lady as somewhat of a victim by being trapped in her room weaving as if she leaves she will break an elusive curse she is under. In line 63 we see that “she hath no loyal knight and true” this implies to us that she is utterly alone in her world and whether she stays or leaves men have set up a world she is doomed to fail by growing old…

old Andrea Jones puts it, “It’s beautiful to appreciate aspects of other people’s culture -that’s like the dream of what the 21st century should be. But to garnish yourself with pop culture stereotypes just to blend -that’s really sad” (129). By weaving together the stories and testimonies of these young people and their understandings of ethnic identity, Bernstein successfully introduces the reader to the issue. Additionally, this method of writing gives credibility to the authors account. By…

Greetings: In response to the “determination of eligibility” and document submission for missing credentials relating to my “three official transcripts on file (Syracuse U, SCSU and Univ. of New Hampshire), FIA206, Arts and Ideas II was accepted for three semester hours of credit in art. A full 12 semester hours of credit in art were not identifiable. Please submit course descriptions for the course(s) that you feel may be considered for art course work.” While is it accurate to conclude that…

Have you ever wanted to catch an illegal alien? That’s exactly what director, Steven Spielberg was attempting to do in the blockbuster film E.T. extra-terrestrial. At the time of its release, E.T. was ahead of its time and drew record crowds. The score was written by the famous composer John Williams and won an Academy Award for best Score 1982. The music in E.T. the extra-terrestrial establishes the exciting and frantic mood the characters are feeling and foreshadows the action in the upcoming…

Do you know of a place that has “beautiful beaches, plentiful sunshine, and breathtaking islands?” (Dubois 42). The answer is Greece; Greece is a very beautiful city located in the continent of Europe. The capital of Greece is Athens, and the 3 biggest cities in Greece today are Athens, Thessaloniki, and Patras. Greece has a very interesting ancient lifestyle, an interesting ancient culture, and an intriguing way of life today. Greece’s ancient lifestyle is very interesting and they used…