...A Look at Art The work of art that I chose to focus on is close and dear to me. I chose a piece done by my uncle Armond Lara whom is a well-known artist in New Mexico and other areas. He has dabbled in pretty much everything from drawing, sculpting, painting, etc. If he can imagine a place for it in his mind it will become part of his art. If you review all of his pieces, and there are many, you can sense his emotions in that piece of art. He has made such beautiful bright pieces and then very dark and tortured pieces. My personal favorite has a few different versions. The one that is sold is slightly different than the one we have kept within the family. The print is called The Jester and is pastel on paper. This particular print was from 1985. During this time his art was on the darker side and shows that he was a struggling artist. In this piece there is a lot of shadow. It is not a dark black shadow but rather a bluish shadow as not to seem as dark. The colors are more earthy and let on to a neutral feeling. There is something about the figure that is eerie though. Is this figure good or bad? Is the jester mocking the viewer or the painter? The face lacks expression. Actually lacks all features but the eyes. He is holding some sort of orb but for what reason we do not know. There really is a lot left to the imagination. If I get permission from my uncle I would really love for you to see the version that has always truly been my inspiration. References ...
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...Memorandum To: Attorney General Eric Holder CC: Department of Justice; U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism From: Kieran Wheeler Date: 2/28/2012 ------------------------------------------------- Re: S. 436 Fix Gun Checks Act of 2011: Policy Memo I. Abstract/ Executive Summary The Fix Gun Checks Act of 2011 is a bill that was proposed to the United States Senate by New York Senator Charles Schumer. The bill is meant to better ensure that individuals who are meant to be prohibited from purchasing firearms within the United States are unable to do so, by making sure that they are placed in a national background check database. This bill is meant to put an end to many of the gun-related incidents that have resulted in deaths in the United States as a result of individuals being able to purchase weapons although they would have otherwise been prohibited. Hopefully by financially penalizing those states that do not provide an adequate amount of information regarding those individuals who are prohibited from purchasing firearms, these states will start to abide by the bill. As a result, this bill should make the United States a safer place for all of its citizens. II. Introduction There is no doubt that firearms pose a major threat to the safety of criminal justice agencies and United States citizens alike. This holds especially true when these firearms fall into the hands of criminals or those who are simply unlicensed and...
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...opera and it is based on a popular book series, it not only put fashion and sex as its main point, but also reversed course and found a way saucily to make a virtue of vacuity and viciousness. Summary 2: TV show This TV show is from Gossip Girl season 4 Episode 2. Serena(S) and Blair (B) still stay at Paris and B get another chance from Prince Louis. But while B was getting ready for her perfect date, S was at Paris Morgue to make sure the people laid may or may not be Chuck Bass. Of course it wasn’t him. When S went back to tell B the whole sordid story B didn’t believe it for she just met Chuck minutes ago. Then S found her wayward stepbrother. Chuck told her that he would never go back. After he losing Blair, he didn’t think there wasn’t any reason worth let him to be the Chuck Bass. B didn’t forgive Chuck though she knew Chuck was shot because he refused robber to give ring which he would use to propose, it didn’t change what he did that destroy B’s heart. In the end, Blair changed her mind for Chuck Bass planed leave Paris and...
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...Fight Club In “Fight Club” by Chuck Palahniuk we follow The Narrator in his problem-riddled everyday life, and his attempt to escape it by fabricating an alternate identity. The essay focuses on themes such as masculinity vs. emasculation, violence and the connection inbetween. Secondly, the essay includes references to the theoretical text “The Crisis of Manliness”. In the text “Fight Club” we follow the unnamed narrator or The Narrator in his daily life at Microsoft. Suffering from relationship problems, self-esteems problems and an insufferable boss, The Narrator has a hard time suffering from insomnia because of this. To handle his problems, he starts a fight club with his alter ego, also known as Tyler Durden. The text uses first person narration, as we see through The Narrators eyes, but also the thought of Tyler Durden, as they are the same person, even though he is written as an independent character in chapter 6. The Narrator and Tyler Durden start fight club as a way to regain their masculinity. This violence begins in the parking lot behind a bar, where Tyler tells the Narrator to hit him. The Narrator is reluctant at first, but gives in. In return he receives a punch to the chest by Tyler. This is the beginning of The Narrators self-realization. The Narrator agrees with Tyler that self-destruction is the way to self-improvement. The Narrator mentions the fight club as not being a solution to his problem, but rather a way to escape from the problems, as mentioned...
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...The Odyssey, written in the eighth century BCE, is one of the two main epic poems of Homer. Homer’s writing talent inspires others to create adaptations of the Odyssey. Two examples are: Zachary Mason’s novel, The Lost Books of the Odyssey, and the Cohen Brothers’ film “O Brother, Where Art Thou?.” The scene about the Sirens is a very famous section of both the novel and the film. The novel describes the storyline with vivid details, and the film does the same, but with a different storyline. The scene of the Sirens in the film starts off when the three main characters, Everett, Pete, and Delmar drives along a road with their stolen vehicle, which they have stolen from the previous scene. Pete starts to make such a horrendous noise and yells for Everett to pull over. As Everett pulls over to the side, Pete is already off and running towards what he’s seen down by the river. The other two men follows. As the men reach the bottom, they are astonished by how the Sirens look. Their beauty is mesmerizing to the eye. The three Sirens are looking very sexy and seducing. The men could have been wondering what these gorgeous women were doing here in the middle of the woods, but once the Sirens starts coming near, there is no turning back. The Sirens all walk with the same fashion, perhaps a similar walking fashion of strippers. The Sirens all look similar to each other and have similar height with one another.. They wear the same clothes, white top.and have the same definition of hair...
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...I believe that this book, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, will be read 100 years from now as it provides an example of what our mental health care system may be like as of now. The events of this book are negative, the hierarchy of the future can use this as a manual on what to do and what not to do with regards to running a mental health care ward. One of the main themes of this book is emasculation by a head female figure and this is happening more often in today’s society though not much light is shed on it as most men are embarrassed by this. Nurse Ratched represents a kind of dictatorship in which the ward uses fear, suppression of their sexuality and their own personal insecurities to keep them in check. During their group therapy sessions she even turns them against each other by choosing one patient and having the others, what McMurphy calls, “peck at him”. The patients have been ‘brainwashed’ to believe that what happens at the ward is normal and when McMurphy tries to tell them this Harding compares the order of the ward to the relationship between a wolf and a rabbit. They, the patients, are the rabbit while the Nurse and her aides are the wolves. As they are the rabbits they become defensive, frightened and elusive when the wolf is hunting, they believe that they just have to survive through it. They think that that is their place in the order of things, otherwise they would have to challenge the wolf to combat and surely they believe that they would surely be...
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...Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club is a narration on the separation and attempt to find oneself. The men in Fight Club battle each other and every time they hit their opponent, this helps the fighters find a sense of masculinity that has not been corrupted by the consumerism society they live in. The novel takes place in the nineties in a society that gets overpowered by large corporations. The narrator is not playing with a full deck, so to speak. He is only a depiction of one's ego and sometimes he lets Tyler(id) take over for him. Throughout the novel Tyler takes the narrator and himself on a quest to make the narrator's dreams come true. The twist comes in when the narrator becomes stronger from the help of Tyler(id) and he takes control again....
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...Firstly, Tyler faces social discrimination through various types of conflict that affect Tyler negatively. One type of conflict that Tyler confronts in the novel is external conflict. This kind of conflict is when one character and another character are having conflict. This is represented in the following quotation, “Chip reached out and patted me on the back like his father did. But instead of a friendly pat, he smacked me as hard as he could.” and “It started. Not the beating of a lifetime, not bad enough to put me in the hospital, but painful. A fist to my head kicks to my legs.” It is vividly apparent that Tyler is being bullied physically by Chip Milbury. Ever since middle school Chip has been making life worse for Tyler. This predicament has especially fired up since Tyler was accused of posting an inappropriate picture of Bethany Milbury who is twin Chip’s sister. The form of external conflict is extremely prominent in our society; it is distinguished as bullying. Bullying is the most common form of social discrimination in our society and this novel. Tyler also faces internal conflict due to social discrimination, especially since in the school he attends he is considered socially inferior. This quote that is one of the many examples of internal conflict, “I will pull this trigger and a bullet will rip through my skull at eight hundred miles and hour. I will pull this trigger and my brains will detonate. I will pull this trigger and fall.... I stuck the gun...
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...Century Military | On 17 December 1903, just outside of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright made a major impact on history when they successfully launched the first motorized airplane; not only on our society as a whole but also the United States military and the way wars would be fought forever. Because of this one specific day in history the Wright brothers are accredited for the first of countless days in our history that we contribute what we know today as aviation. On that one day, the brothers sustained a total of four flights with only a small twelve horse power engine with the longest flight lasting a mere fifty-nine seconds at a distance of 852 feet. On the fourth flight of the day, Flyer 1 tumbled and crashed. Obviously not all was lost, history was made and inventions in the aviation industry began to grow. The historical first flight by Orville and Wilbert Wright did not make the front page news; it was very trivial headlines at the time. For instance, page ten of the Washington Times article dated 19 December 1903 in column four, High Gale No Bar to Flying Machine. The article described the flying machine and how the brothers got off the ground. The New York Tribune 19 December 1903 also had a small article but not until page five; Flying Machine Works Successful Trial by Ohio Men with Machine on Box Kite Plan. By 1909 The Wright brothers had set up an Airplane factory in Dayton Ohio, it was to be the first and the largest airship factory...
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...The Airplane and its History Robert Dobson Thomas Edison State University THE AIRPLANE AND ITS HISTORY 2 The Airplane and its History I am currently finishing a Bachelor of Science in Applied Science and Technology degree in Aviation Flight Technology at Thomas Edison State University. I have also been a pilot for twenty years, professionally for the past sixteen years. For these reasons, I have chosen the airplane and its history as the technology that will serve as the subject of this assignment. First, I will explain what an airplane is. Next, I will explain how an airplane works. Finally, I will give a brief history of the airplane. So what is an airplane? I'm joking! Everyone in the world knows what an airplane is unless they've lived in a stone age society their whole life. Even so, I'll begin by defining exactly what an airplane is and how they work. An airplane is a powered, fixed-wing vessel that travels through the air (Airplane, n.d.). The airplane has wings that provide the force of lift in order for the airplane to overcome the force of gravity and climb off the ground and stay airborne. In order for the wings to do their job of providing lift, the airplane must be propelled forward so that the wings can get sufficient airflow to generate the necessary force and overcome the force of drag. The propulsion methods usually employed are through use of engine driven propellers...
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...Introduction Mass culture would have most readers and viewers believing that the Post-modern American male is a simple creature. Common stereotypes margin male satisfaction in a minimal setting – a Lazyboy armchair in a lounge with a flat screen TV playing ‘the game’ along with primal banter regarding women. More often than not, this is washed down with a beer. With this array of comfort and leisure we are inclined to believe that male lifestyle has reached its peak on the timeline of satisfaction. This was until David Fincher took Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Fight Club and made it into a big budget Hollywood blockbuster. With the male demographic being the hardest to pinpoint in the literature sense, David Fincher’s adaptation helpfully put Palahniuk’s thoughts into the cinematic forefront. This increased the popularity of Palahniuk’s other works and placed him in the cannon of Post-modern American fiction. It is the issues of modern masculinity that grasps critics’ attention more so than any other Palahniuk themes. It is very apparent that masculinity has changed as a natural progression of modernisation. This dissertation will analyse masculinity as it is depicted in Palahniuk’s writings and explore Palahniuk’s intentions and beliefs. I will interpret the responses of select critics in order to gain some understanding of what Palahniuk deems to be the ideal model of masculinity in the modern world, beneath his post-modern twists, transgressive characterization and...
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...careful not to tarnish her family name. She belongs to the high class and does not like those who do not belong there. She does not like Dan Humphrey at first for his low social status, but they later become friends. She has friends who only belong to her social status, and later she gets married to the prince of Monaco. Another character Serena van der Woonsen is a young, rebellious, and very attractive woman who has the status of a celebrity in this show. Her dressing is expensive portraying her high-class status, on the other hand, grandmother who is highly respected and has high-class standards. However, Serena is less concerned about upholding her family name unlike other characters. She also dates Dan a less rich teen from Brooklyn. Chuck, another man character in this series is a billionaire kid who is spoilt and keeps company of teens of his status. He...
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...Food Marketing Policy Issue Paper Food Marketing Policy Issue Papers address particular policy or marketing issues in a non-technical manner. They summarize research results and provide insights for users outside the research community. Single copies are available at no charge. The last page lists all Food Policy Issue Papers to date, and describes other publication series available from the Food Marketing Policy Center. Tel (860) 486-1927 Fax (860) 486-2461 email: fmpc@canr1.cag.uconn.edu http://vm.uconn.edu/~wwware/ fmktc.html No. 17 October 1998 Jawboning Cereal: The Campaign to Lower Cereal Prices by Ronald W. Cotterill Food Marketing Policy Center University of Connecticut Food Marketing Policy Center, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Connecticut, 1376 Storrs Road, U-21, Storrs, CT 06269-4021 Jawboning Cereal: The Campaign to Lower Cereal Prices by Ronald W. Cotterill Abstract This article introduces the Forum by explaining the sequence of events related to the jawboning campaign and subsequent reductions in cereal prices. It also introduces the main issues on the vigor of competition and pricing that are analyzed in subsequent papers. Jawboning as a public policy strategy is assessed and found useful in certain circumstances such as those in the breakfast cereal industry in the mid 1990’s. The jawboning campaign was effective in advancing price competition in an industry that successfully resisted repeated antitrust...
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...One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest The book that my book club discussed was "One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest." In the first book club meeting, we discussed the characters and our initial impressions of them. The start of the novel doesn’t really get that interesting till later on. The story is narrated through the story of Chief Bromden, who is in the insane asylum because he suffers from hallucinations and paranoia. At first I found the part in the book where Bromden first describes the fog machine hard to understand. There was no clear indication that Bromden is hallucinating but it’s up to the reader to figure it out themselves. Matt helped me understand the scene by explaining that Bromden believes that the people running the ward like Nurse Rached have a fog machine and that they turn it on in order to make the patients lose themselves, but really the fog machine is Bromdens own hallucinations. "Before noontime they're at the fog machine again but they haven't got it turned up full; it's not so thick but what I can see if I strain real hard. One of these days I'll quit straining and let myself go completely, lose myself in the fog the way some of the other chronics have." (Kesey 37) The main character of the book McMurphy arrives being a very charismatic individual with the other inmates, and even laughs, which Bromden describes as not seeing for years. "This sounds real. I realize all of a sudden it's the first real laugh I've heard in years. He stands looking at...
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