Eduardo Ochoa Art112OL December 10‚ 2012 Research Paper El Anatsui Inspired Artwork El Anatsui is known for his artwork utilizing recycled materials to create a contemporary piece that speaks to African historical traditions and art practices. One common material found in the artwork is aluminum labels of local Nigerian alcohol brands including whiskey‚ rum‚ brandy‚ vodka and others. The labels are then weaved together by copper wires to create a large cloth of aluminum. Anatsui used this
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this piece to express his “love of Gypsy music‚ dance‚ and picturesque costumes” inspired by his five-month trip through Spain and North Africa in 1879. Sargent named his piece El Jaleo to suggest the name of a dance‚ the jaleo de Jerez and counting on the broader meaning jaleo‚ which means ruckus. The painting’s other title‚ El Jaleo: Danse des gitanes‚ meaning “Dance of the Gypsies”‚ was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1882. The painting is almost 12 feet wide and appears to be mostly monochromatic
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Nercopolis at Deir El-Medina The ancient egyjuption village of Deir El-Medina was home for the artisans who worked on the tombs in the valleys of the kings (A) Tomb 1 The tomb of Sennedjem in the necropolis of Deir el-Medina on the West Bank at Luxor was actually one of the great discoveries‚ found by Italian archaeologists in 1886. Nothing had been disturbed. Today the funerary equipment‚ mostly made by the workers themselves‚ is displayed in the Museo Egizio at Turin. Almost all of the decorations
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the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer a boy named Matt is the clone of a powerful drug lord named El Patron. He is living with a woman named Celia when he got hurt and had to be taken to the Big House‚ then he ends up meeting El Patron and living in the Big House. Throughout the story Matt starts making friends with different people that treat him like a human instead of a clone‚ Matt has a choice to make to see if El Patron is worth it for his body parts or not. I believe the overall theme of this story
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Youth Empowerment in El Salvador: The Issue Since 2015‚ El Salvador has been deemed the most violent nation in the world‚ not experiencing an active war. With an unreal murder statistic of 30 per day (in a country of 6.3 million) ‚ the targeted party often becomes the prominent gangs‚ known as MS-13 and Barrio 18. The country‚ having lost a significant number of males and fathers in the civil war of the 1990’s‚ has been experiencing a generation of young men growing up without fathers. Without
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Nawal El Saadawi tells the story of a woman where men tear apart her existence and she faces brutality on a daily basis. Applying the motifs of knives and blood‚ El Saadawi portrays the discrimination of gender and the misconception that women are less than men in modern Egyptian society. Firdaus has always been enveloped in hatred and misery‚ such as being forced to endure the procedure of FGM. She does not remember much more than “a woman carrying a small knife or maybe a razor blade cut off a
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“El Tonto Del Barrio” Humbleness and charity towards one another is one of the lessons “El Tonto del Barrio” illustrates to the readers through the protagonist of the story‚ Romero Estrado. The story begins describing with very specific details the life of “El Cotorro” or Romero. Mr. Armas continues the story inviting all of the people from “El Barrio” to come along in the story to show their influence in the life of Romero. What happens in the story‚ Mr. Romero seems to be the happiest person
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graph. 19. El Niño computer model was the instrument that help scientist. The model was forecasting a cold ocean throughout the remainder of 1997. For more than a decade‚ this model had outperformed all others in predicting El Niños to come. 20. This gargantuan wedge of warm sea contains 20 or 30 times as much water as all the Great Lakes put together. 21. The wedge of seawater is less waters salty than normal seawater. The reason why is because it’s always raining over an El Niño‚ and the
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have influenced our lives since we were younger. Some people still believe in these cultural Bogeymans. One of them is “El Cuco”. I do not really remember seeing pictures of its face at all or even knowing how this monster looks like. But I can still remember the fear that would come to our minds just by hearing this name. Its appearance was supposed to be really grotesque though. El Cuco would come after any child who has misbehaved or disobeyed their elders. It would always come at night and eat those
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It began with a trip to the craft between Manila and Laguna. Among the passengers to Simuon jeweler‚ was Isagani‚ and Basilio. Thirteen years have passed since the death of Elijah and Sisa. Basilio reached San Diego and a historic meeting he saw Simuon to visit the grave of his mother inside the tomb of Ibarra. He met Simuon was Ibarra to Incognito: To hide this secret‚ Simoun attempted to kill Basilio. Without it naituloy has recruited young men to join him in his goal to avenge Spanish Government
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