As I entered the Norton Simon Museum ‚ the first exhibit I saw was a sketch done by the famous Pop artist Andy Warhol. The drawing was of canned tomatoes by Val Vita ‚ a company that Simon owned‚ and was commissioned for Simon’s birthday by his sister . As I walked through the extensive collection of paintings‚ drawings ‚ and sculptures‚ many of the pieces caught my eye. The museum was divided into different chronological periods so that one could see the evolution of art and the themes that were
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“It’s always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting.” -Jean Paul Gaultier Mackenzie Cuvelier FM 114-25B Professor Reid June 15th 2015 Jean Paul Gaultier was born on April 24th 1952 in a suburb of Paris. His mother was a clerk and his father was an accountant‚ so it was his grandmother who introduced him to the fashion world. He began by sending sketches to famous couture stylists at an early age. Pierre Cardin was so impressed by his
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Paul Hardy’s case is a really intriguing dilemma. Hardy clearly meets Zaleznik’s definition of a compulsive employee: he has excessive doubts about his career and his future. He exhibits a reversal of attitude pattern: first he wanted a promotion ‚ then he wished for an equivalent position and finally he wanted to know more about opportunities outside P&C. Moreover‚ by blaming Williams for his situation‚ Hardy was clearly refusing to accept responsibility for his own actions . Most importantly
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John Paul Jones: The Father of the American Navy In times of the Revolutionary War‚ the delegates of the Continental Congress were trying to find ways to make their army more powerful. When John Paul Jones arrived‚ he helped to make and introduce the idea of a navy‚ which obviously was something that the delegates questioned and were not sure about. Jones was a Scottish sailor and an officer of the historical and well-known Continental Congress and a person that when first came to the United States
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Jerome Paul Witkin The work of art that I chose is Jeff Davies‚ an oil painting painted in 1976 by Jerome Paul Witkin. It depicts a man‚ presumably named Jeff Davies‚ standing and taking up the entire frame of the picture. He is wearing a plain tee shirt which is stretched over and exposing a bit of his protruding stomach‚ a pair of worn jeans‚ a huge down coat‚ and a hat. He stands in a plain‚ dirty-looking room. At the very bottom of the painting is the edge of a table and a mostly empty plate
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The similarities and differences in the articles “A Practical Guide to Critical Thinking” by Greg R. Haskins and “Become a Critic of your Thinking” by Dr. Linda Elder and Dr. Richard Paul will be addressed below. Similarities The similarities in these articles are to use critical thinking skills when analyzing an assumption‚ and many good tips and strategies are given on how to accomplish this. In both articles strategies such as not closing your mind to a claim that is made by a person
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In Simon Lewis’ article‚ “Culture‚ Cultivation‚ and Colonialism in Out of Africa and Beyond”‚ Lewis argues that Isak Dinesen’s book Out of Africa demonstrates the exploitation of Africa and Africans. Lewis suggests that the book‚ along with its film adaptation realized in 1985‚ commercializes this sort of safari image nostalgia that portrays Africa as a vast wilderness of splendor and then sell this “exotic chic” to Europe and other Westernized audiences. Lewis also asks us to examine the ideology
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Peter Paul Rubens is viewed in our time as one of the Masters of his period in art. Living in the 1600’s he was vastly influenced by the Baroque ideals of art and culture. He is considered by some to have blended the work from the Renaissance and Early Baroque into one of the first truly "European" styles of painting. His style is considered to be an exaggerated Baroque style with large amounts of emphasis on color‚ sensuality‚ and movement. Subjects in Rubens’ paintings are commonly shown in dynamic
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Paul Haggis’ Crash: The Evaporation of White Accountability March 10‚ 2009 in Articles | Tags: crash‚ crash movie‚ institutional racism‚ paul haggis‚ racism‚ structural racism‚ white accountability‚ white supremacy @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } “I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness‚ not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group‚” writes Peggy McIntosh in her essay “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” (McIntosh). This invisibility
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Paul Robin Krugman‚ a columnist for the New York Times‚ is an economist and a Professor at Princeton University. He has won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences‚ is known for his work on international economics‚ and is ranked as one of the most influential academic thinkers in the US. He has published over 200 articles and written 20 books professionally‚ and has written over 750 columns for the New York Times‚ Slate‚ and Fortune. As is reflected on his writings‚ and as stated by himself
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