How the Visual Arts Communicates Kristen Cortez ARTS/100 September 16‚ 2013 Dr. Laura Ruiz How the Visual Arts Communicates Elements of Composition Maya Lin’s piece Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a V-shaped wall made out of black granite that lists the names of the 60‚000 men and women who died in the Vietnam War. This massive piece is located in Washington D.C. The memorial is placed so it looks as if it is descending into the ground. Lin’s
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Zheng He’s voyages/Rise of Ottomans 1450-1750 1453 - Ottomans capture Constantinople 1488 - Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope 1492 - Columbus sailed the ocean blue/ Reconquista of Spain 1502 - Slaves to Americas 1517 - Martin Luther/95 theses 1521- Cortez conquered the Aztecs 1533- Pizarro toppled the Inca 1571 - Battle of Lepanto‚ (naval defeat of Ottomans) 1588 - defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British 1600 - Battle of Sekigahara - beginning of Tokugawa 1607 - foundation of Jamestown 1618-1648
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Color Line (1965). Eakin‚ Emily (2004). Uncovering an Interracial Literature of Love and Racism. The New York Times. April 14‚2004. Okoro‚ Enuma (2006). Race and Romance. A couple navigates differences. The Christian Century. November 14‚ 2006. Pizzaro-Eckert‚ Susan. The Polictics of Race & Marriage-Loving Conquers the Courts. http://racerelations.about.com/od/affirmativeaction /a/loving.htm Racial Purity and Interracial Sex in the Law of Colonial and Antebellum Virginia‚ 77 Geo. L. J. 1967 (1989)
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Jean-Michel Basquiat An inspiration for all generations. He has been called the Jimi Hendrix of the art world. And just like the great Jimi Hendrix he too left us when he was 27. He was and always will be an anomaly. Jean-Michel Basquiat was born at Brooklyn Hospital December 22 1960. Born to a Puerto Rican mother and a Haitian father he had the influence of two very colorful cultures. Jean-Michel was a gifted child‚ always extremely advanced for his age. Learning to read at the age of four
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Cognitive Dissonance Julie Cortez-Knapp Week 2 Assignment 2 Week 2 M.Hufnagel Cognitive Dissonance We are all customers. We all purchase items every day out of need or desire. Every day we are marketed to. We are satisfied with our purchases and have no regrets‚ most of the time. Other times‚ we purchase high risk items like computers or cars. The higher risk items bring higher chances of cognitive dissonance aka buyers’ remorse. There is cultural‚ social
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about how inhumane‚ barbarous‚ and cruel the white man was to the natives. Columbus was so ambitious that he didn’t take the time to understand that natives were people too‚ they had their human rights and emotions. Later Zinn writes about Hernandez Cortez and other spanish conquistadors that nearly annihilated tribes along their way. They too were so determined to please their kings and queens with gold‚ silver‚ slaves‚ and other treasures that they showed no mercy to the Aztecs‚ Incas‚ and other tribes
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and they were an equal exchange of diseases between the Native Americans and other people. The introduction of new animals were good for the New World‚ especially that fact that horses were introduced and this helped in future conquests as seen with Cortez as the horses helped him to be successful in his conquest. The animals also became of part of the regular diet of native people‚ and some animals became wild as they were in a new environment‚ one to which they were not accustom. The plants also
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REACTION PAPER Submitted by: Cortez‚ Diana C. BSN-III NICOLET “THIS IS MY COUNTRY” I am an average teenager‚ but I am aware of what is happening in the country. One of the big problem that our country encounters today is CORRUPTION. “Pork Barrel” is the appropriation of government spending for localized projects secured solely or primarily to bring money to a representative’s district. The usage originated in American English. In election campaigns‚ the term is used in derogatory fashion
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and his visits with Dr. Tito and Doña Elisa‚ a shurikis. The writer’s second home in Cheran City is the only hotel in town‚ a dilapidated two-story with moldy mattresses and water-stained walls. The writer became close to the Chavez’s Family. Wence Cortez‚ Rosa Chavez’s husband‚ considered Mr. Martiñez as an older brother and adviser. Wence asked for an advice from Mr. Martiñez about his decision to cross over the border with or without Rosa. He hinted Wence to wait by telling him to think about
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Cihuacoatl took the form of a woman dressed all in white and spent the nights weeping about the impending doom of the native people by the Spanish conquistidors. Later in a story reflecting the Greek story of Medea‚ a woman has children by the conquer Cortez’ and when he is called back to Spain and decides to take her children with him‚ she kills them and then dies herself. She is later seen weeping by the lake and named La Llorona. A number of cultures have stories of her‚ but‚ she seems to have originated
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