of expression. According to the City of Calgary website‚ "Graffiti is an eyesore that ruins the natural and architectural beauty of a city." But has the city ever considered a difference between racist remarks scrawled on the side of a train and a mural portraying a dove flying from open hands? The city ’s website asks for citizens to call 9-1-1 if they see an act of graffiti or other vandalism in progress. While this may seem extreme‚ Constable Dave Laddick‚ the graffiti coordinator of the Calgary
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The Kentucky Flood The photo I am analyzing is the Louisville Flood image‚ one of many iconic photographs shot during the Great Depression by Margaret Bourke-White in Louisville‚ Kentucky. LIFE magazine covered the local disaster in February 15‚ 1937 in its issue and consequently the “American Way” billboard image was generated. Millions were left homeless due to the flood. The victims of the Louisville Flood are lining up to obtain food and clothing from a Red Cross relief station. The juxtaposition
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More Human than Human is the first episode of the BBC series entitled How Art Made the World. This documentary discusses on how people in the past rarely use realistic human images. From little figurines‚ to cave paintings and murals‚ and up to towering statues‚ Dr. Nigel Spivey investigates on how this has become so. The relics discovered were observed to have some body parts that were exaggerated while others were completely ignored. These exaggerated parts are said to have certain significance
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the Mexican Revolution. Beginning in the 1920s and continuing to mid century‚ artists were commissioned by the local government to cover the walls of official institutions such as Mexico’s schools‚ ministerial buildings‚ churches and museums. Murals from this movement can be found on the majority of the public buildings in Mexico City and throughout other cities in Mexico‚ such as Guadalajara‚ that played important roles in Mexico’s history. The movement’s influence subsequently spread throughout
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and chisels. They also developed methods for drilling‚ grinding grain and made stone bowls for storage. Pottery also came into use and acquired simple decoration late in the period. The Neolithic art consisted of plastered walls decorated with murals‚ carved reliefs and also shrines honoring a mother goddess. In conclusion we can see that the Paleolithic and Neolithic culture used the same skills and tools. They both were hunter-gatherers and used the same flint based tools. In addition to
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causing a readers to really feel the emotions and that darkness of what Montag did. At the end of the book the city is destroyed by bombs. Montag’s old life is gone everything he knew is gone and he describes the bombing. He says the town is like a mural where the “top for a bottom‚ a side for a back‚ and then the city rolled over dead‚” then he can hear‚ “the sound of its [the towns] death” (153). This shows what the government is capable of doing. They aren’t happy what Montag did. So they decided
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The renaissance period and ideologies The renaissance period was highly influenced by artists who promoted religious ideologies. The word Renaissance in itself is means ‘rebirth’ or ‘reconstruction’. It refers specifically to the revitalization of the early renaissance in Italy in the fourteenth century‚ which eventually spread to England in the sixteenth and further north in the seventeenth. Christianity was the leading religion at that period of time‚ artists such as Michelangelo‚ Leonardo
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The topic of my project is gentrification in Wicker Park and Humboldt Park. In my video I show how the remodeling of these neighborhoods causes a negative effect on those that live there. Usually development projects are meant to beautify and make neighborhoods a better place to live; though‚ this only causing more problems by raising nearby housing prices‚ and making many unable to afford their homes. I chose to do my project on gentrification because in it came up in multiple class discussions
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In Arabic language‚ which is my native language and the language that I learned first‚ there are two main influences that affected me. The first influence was my mother. She was the first person who took me to the bookstore to buy books. I remember that when I was five years old‚ I could not read fluently. She encouraged me to read some basic words‚ by saying “Now it is the time that you read by yourself and after a few more months you will read the story before sleeping all by yourself”. At that
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As I began studying and as I grow up‚ I had access to a good school‚ and good teachers. While Yousafzai didn’t have access to good schools‚ she learned by herself. One similarity that I had is family support‚ as well as Yousafzai. If I look deeply in the past and try to remember how I became literate‚ of course‚ I will recall that there are many influences that have affected my literacy. These influences are divided into two sections because I am a bilingual person. I have some influences that make
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