Rio Grande Valley‚ and all but one closed in West Texas. Comparing November 2012–April 2013 to November 2013–April 2014‚ there was a 13% decrease in the abortion rate (from 12.9 to 11.2 abortions/1000 women age 15–44). Medical abortion decreased by 70%‚ from 28.1% of all abortions in the earlier period to 9.7% after November 2013 (pb0.001). Second-trimester abortion increased from 13.5% to 13.9% of all abortions (pb0.001). Only 22% of abortions were performed in the state’s six ASCs" (Grossman et
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The Criticism of War and the Line of Duty in Renoir’s La Grande Illusion and Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front During the first half of the 20th century‚ humanity experienced two consecutive world wars that were among the deadliest in history. This was a new type of warfare that the world had never seen before. It had Napoleonic-style battles but‚ instead of muskets and swords‚ they used machine guns and tanks; which produced countless more casualties. This horrible period of tension and
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pleasing to the eye. Renoir reflects the theme is this painting because the impressionist style was new to the art field‚ just as the advances from the industrial revolution were new to the people of the world. A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat is a vibrant piece‚ that reflects his pointillism style. This painting displays elegant‚ emotionless people taking a leisurely walk on a nice Sunday afternoon. Seurat uses space‚ texture and colour to show ordinary people
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In Linda Nochlin’s “Seurat’s Grande Jatte: An Anti-Utopian Allegory” she advocates the anti-utopian message presented by Seurat’s A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. The composition of her argument is threefold. By contextualizing Seurat’s vision of society among other utopian works by impressionists and traditionalists‚ Nochlin emphasizes the intentionally critical nature of La Grande Jatte. After establishing the work to be critical in nature‚ the argument is narrowed using critiques
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The Rio Grande Silvery Minnow is a “small herbivorous North American fish” with “small eyes and mouth”. The diet of the fish is believed to consist of “river plants and benthic macroinvertebrates”‚ which consists of “small living animals among stones‚ logs‚ sediment‚ and aquatic plants on the bottom of rivers and lakes.” Due to the small size of the fish and difficulty accessing their stomachs‚ there is “little research into their diet”. Historically‚ the minnow was found from Espanola‚ New Mexico
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Influenced by the Impressionists’ experimentation with color‚ Post-Impressionist painter Georges Seurat worked with innovative techniques. On a huge canvas‚ the artist portrayed city residents congregated at a park on La Grande Jatte‚ (literally translates as "the big platter")‚ an island in the River Seine. It took Seurat more than two years to complete this piece. This complex masterpiece of Pointillism began in 1884 with a series of almost 60 sketches Seurat made during his many visits to the
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mixtures of colored light.” This theory of his didn’t quite work out as well as he thought‚ but it really depended on the viewer. Like most others‚ he used warm colors to show a cheerful tone‚ and cool colors to show sadness. In his piece A Sunday on La Grande Jatte‚ each person in different light shows the emotions the colors correspond with. In the foreground of the painting‚ the figures are in the shade‚ with blue-green tones‚ and are all shown in a more melancholic state. Meanwhile‚ in the middle ground
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Even Divergent Men Share Similarities Reyna Grande’s novel Across a hundred mountains presents the lives of many characters each with their own eccentricities and faults. Two characters in particular within Grande’s novel are found to be in stark contrast of one another. The fatherly figure Miguel and the oafish profiteer Don Elias. Miguel and Don Elias personify two sides of a moral coin; one man chooses dedication and family while the other values unfaithfulness and greed. To begin with‚ Miguel
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Why is the painting unique? George Seurat’s painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of la Grande Jatte" is a widely known painting in the era of impressionism with the technique known as pointilism. This painting is so unique because it is a painting that has taken so much time and careful thought to make. It was a long process for George Seurat to make this painting‚ two years. A painting make by moving your brush around is an easy painting‚ but George Seurat had to use dots to create his masterpiece
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Gonzalez 1 The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Each and everyone have their own strengths and weaknesses and each one of us deals with the situations as we can. In my case there have been many things in my path but I tend to just push them aside and keep walking with my head held high. My life from the start was always every interesting times were tough‚ as a Hispanic family there was never much money in the household. Both my parents are of Hispanic heritage‚ they came from families that
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