Christmas in America has had different meanings to many people through history. Farmers‚ workers‚ and religious adherents practiced their traditions in the public sphere in respective periods of time. However‚ the modern understanding of Christmas celebration stems from the experience of a growing middle class as it set out to define its identity. Christmas as a domestic‚ commercial holiday originates from the middle class engagement with the vehicles of the first industrial revolution and the subsequent
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The Northeast The northeast is great for visiting and has many attractions. One of the many beautiful attractions in this region is the Adirondack State Park‚ its huge park with many beautiful physical features and sights draws attention and a lot of tourism to the state all year round. The famous Statue of Liberty is also a very popular sightseeing attraction‚ with its history and facts. Potatoes grown in Maine are a big aspect of the Northeast. Maine relies on their agriculture for many reasons
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something in common. Both include art that depicted realism and the things going on around them. While both covered the high and the low times‚ the gilded age was a postwar era that marked a cultural change for the country. Painters in this era like Winslow Homer gained fame for realistic illustrations of the Civil
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some of the most expensive art to ever exist. He bought the Codex Leicester‚ a coveted collection of documents written by Leonardo Da Vinci for nineteen million. Gates also bought the most expensive American painting‚ Lost on the Great Banks‚ by Winslow Homer for thirty six million. Some other purchases include Distant Thunder by Andrew Wyeth for seven million‚ William Merritt Chase’s The Nursery for ten million‚ George Bellows’ Polo Crowd for twenty eight million‚ and Childe Hassam’s Room of Flowers
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One of the important questions that is simple but yet compelling is the question of who actually lived in The Adirondacks‚ Yosemite‚ and the Grand Canyon before they became national parks in the United States? Karl Jacoby asks this question in the novel Crimes Against Nature: Squatters‚ Poachers‚ Thieves‚ and the Hidden History of American Conservation. Most people would focus on the positive efforts to protect nature in environmental tends but Jacoby examines the negative aspects of how nature was
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America has been described as a nation founded for the people by the people. Critics argue that it was founded by and for white male Europeans. So which one is it? By viewing this exhibition‚ it shall become quite clear that this country was not founded by and for all the people. Indeed‚ African Americans did not found this nation nor was it founded for their benefit. Their white counterparts founded it on their backs. And unfortunately‚ they are still looked down upon today. By whites castigating
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Walter M. Brackett is an American Artist that was born in the 1820’s. Throughout his life‚ he produced multiple works of art‚ most of which depicted the rewards of fishing. In Fisherman’s Reward‚ he continues this theme by creating a scene near a river. He uses oil on canvas to create this naturalist still. In this still‚ he portrays a basket that is on a slight hill‚ with fish that have fallen out of the basket and slid down the top of the basket towards the water. This implies that the fisherman
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During the Industrial revolution‚ sometime in the 1840s through the 1850s‚ Romanticism took the backseat to a whole new movement in art called the Realist Movement. As we all know‚ the Romanticism movement was a movement of art that was vastly connected and designed to appeal to the emotions of the viewer. In the paintings of Romanticism nature was drawn with light airy colors to make the scene seem happier and the people were drawn with overly exaggerated faces to help allure emotions‚ all as a
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Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that affects the lungs. It can start out like a normal flu‚ with coughing being the number one symptom. After a while‚ the virus attacks the lungs with more vehemence‚ causing internal bleeding. This internal bleeding is visible when the infected coughs. If left untreated‚ the infected will literally cough themselves to death. Today I will talk about the history of Tuberculosis in the United States. During my speech I will discuss Consumption in the early 19th
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This artwork is created by Kehinde Wiley and the name of this artwork is called “Fishermen at Sea (Jean-Frantz Laguerre and Andielo Pierre)‚ 2017.” This painting is part of his “In Search of The Miraculous” exhibition. Wiley is essentially known for his naturalistic style of African-Americans. His art is extremely contemporary which mostly references classical works from great painters and incorporates “street models” which he takes pictures of and uses them to creatively recreate pieces in his own
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