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    The Souls of Black Folk

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    Du Bois‚ W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co.; [Cambridge]: University Press John Wilson and Son‚ Cambridge‚ U.S.A.‚ 1903; In The souls of black folk Du Bois examines the years immediately following the Civil War‚ he relates this to his experiences as a schoolteacher in rural Tennessee‚ and then he turns his attention to critique materialism in the city of Atlanta where the attention to gaining wealth threatens to replace all other considerations. Rather‚ Du Bois argues

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    Blanton Museum

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    During our visit to the Blanton Museum on Thursday we analyzed Francisco de Goya’s series of prints including La tauromaquia (1815-1816)‚ Los desastres de la guerra (1810-1820)‚ Los disparates (1815-1823) and other paintings selected to be featured in the exhibit. The first room was headed by a self portrait of Goya in Traje de luces introducing the La tauromaquia series. I was taken aback when I walked into the first exhibit room and saw the amount of detail in each of Goya’s pieces. We can only

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    Museum Visit

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    Museum visit paper The piece of art I chose is “Landscape” (Garden at St. Tropez) by Henri Edmond Cross (French‚ 1856–1910) this piece was done in oil on canvas. This was Marjorie Tiefenthaler Bequest and partial gift of Louise Uihlein Snell Fund of the Milwaukee Foundation M1996.29. As I took my time walking around the Art Museum‚ it was very difficult for me to choose just one. Nonetheless when I saw The Garden at St. Tropez by Henri Edmond Cross‚ I was amaze at how well the painter

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    Henderirum Museum

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    The Henderirum Museum is creating a new exhibit that deals with psychology of the mind and how it handles life experiences. The Art pieces can show symbolic representations of how the indivual minds process everyday events to extremely traumatizing ones. The exhibit will be focus on helping people see this events in a physical medium‚ inspiring people to observe theses changes in a different perspective. This commission asks for an art piece that asks for creative work on how the human nature deals

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    Museum Critique

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    At the cooper Hewitt museum‚ a few pieces stood out to me in the Scarps and Kravis exhibits. On the first floor of the Cooper Hewitt museum‚ there is the “Scraps: Fashion‚ Textiles and Creative Rescue” exhibit. The exhibit reveals the work done by three designers; Luisa Cevese‚ Christina Kim‚ and Reiko Sudo. I truly enjoyed this exhibit‚ because it contained fabrics‚ fashion‚ and textiles‚ which are all intriguing to me. As a fashion designer‚ I was very interested in the textures and patterns incorporated

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    Folk Practices of the Tiwas: Destructuring of Cultural System 0.0. Introduction Folk practices being integral structures of a whole composite cultural system are layered with manifold meanings. Thus a cultural system as a treasure house of a community is actually a stratified system carved with multiple interdependent structures. Changes are unavoidable phenomenon in any cultural system and they don’t become strikingly distinguishable until and unless they are made to configured enough to fit

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    Trip to the Museum

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    Trip to the Museum It’s the first Saturday of March‚ on a cold morning with a clear sky and a radiant sun‚ I decided to visit a museum in downtown Saint Louis‚ Missouri. I’m arriving at eleven o’clock‚ a little bit late to what I was expecting because the Metrolink train had a delay due to technical problems. The museum is located exactly below the famous Gateway Arch of Saint Louis. I have heard that it’s an excellent place to learn about American History and the way America expanded to the West

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    Folk and Popular culture

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    Folk and Popular Cultures 1950’s and 60s I love Lucy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7OkZrvSLcM In this episode it doesn’t really show any type of entertainment. They are spending time together and at the end playing some drums. For the outfits the women are all wearing vintage dresses. The Men are wearing are wearing suits and slacks. The little boy is dressed up nicely for a little boy. Slicked back hair. Using lots of hand expressions to speak. 1970’s The Brady Bunch: They are playing

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    Ayala Museum

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    Our class had a fieldtrip to the Ayala museum to control inspiration and to observe the vintage filipinana costumes. I havent been in a museum since grade-school‚ so I got precise mad when I arrived there. Before we went upstairs‚ where the main exhibits argon‚ we walked around the lobby theater of operations where there are pictures from Cory Aquinos memorial and articles of bloodstained habit that Ninoy wore. Also in the ground floor is an exhibit of new(a) art‚ which I find very interesting. We went

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    Vietnam Folk Games

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    Vietnam folk games Vietnam folk games have been formed and existed for a long time. They are more than entertainment‚ they contain Vietnamese culture. Bamboo jacks‚ the game of the dragon and snake‚ blind man’s buff‚ the game of squares and so on are very interesting and useful. However‚ folk games are being gradually lost. Children are at a disadvantage‚ if they don’t have a chance to play them. So it is very important to introduce and develop folk games to the children and everybody as

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