Blake Taylor P100207428 Seeing & Knowing the Visual Arts I chose to use a piece of art named “New Tricks”‚ done by Angela Starosta. It is an architectural art that she uses to make a space for animal rescue‚ rehabilitation‚ and adopting animals. I chose to use this one in particular because I liked her architect and her thoughts on how she wants the building to work with humans and animals with rehabilitation‚ animal rescue‚ and an adoption center. She used three dimensional pictures‚ animated video
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M A R K T WA I N Two Ways of Seeing a River (1883) This passage is excerpted from Mark Twain’s 1883 book Life on the Mississippi‚ in which he shares his experiences as a river steamboat pilot and explores the many facets of the great river. As you read‚ consider his masterful use of language as he reflects on his changing relationship with the river. Now when I had mastered the language of this water and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I
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Perception: Seeing is Believing - UFOs Since the times when the earth was believed to be a flat object‚ man has had a lust and curiosity about space and the bodies that exist in it. Early astronomers trying to grasp the incomprehensible mysteries of the universe would study the patterns of the stars and planets to try to put this massive puzzle together. In their studies history has recorded sightings of objects that didn’t hold to any pattern or set movement supposedly proved to be correct
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In “Living like Weasels” Annie Dillard tells a story about how a weasel taught her how to live her life. Meeting this weasel made her think about how life would be if humans lived like animals in the wild‚ basing everything on instinct and being as tenacious as the weasel she came across. Maybe the most important concept Dillard learns is that it is better to live life to its fullest or someday you will regret not knowing how life could have been. Dillard learns that everyone can live a life
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WR 121 Annie Dillard A #4 5 July 2013 Shadows of Night: The Fear of a Child In Annie Dillard’s book‚ An American Child; chapter two describes the fear she had as a child‚ of the night shadows that would appear on her walls. Dillard was five years old and shared a bedroom with her little sister Amy‚ who was two at the time. When Dillard describes her little sister sleeping‚ I can picture her clearly in my mind. Dillard writes; “even at two she composed herself attractively with her sheet folded
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Culture is your upbringing‚ culture is what inspires you and motivates you to get through and be successful in life. In her reading Seeing and Making Culture: Representing the Poor‚ she shares with us what she learned from her family members: “… not to believe that “schooling made you smart.” One could have degrees and still not be intelligent or honest. I had been taught in the culture
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wheels of judgment and expectations of what it means to be a man that destroy his true self. He sees images of a perfect male and desires the same stunning looks and exaggerated strength. He falls victim to society. In the articles “From Believing is Seeing” by Judith Lorber and “Getting Huge‚ Getting Ripped: A Qualitative exploration of Recreational Steroid Use” by Matthew Petrocelli‚ the authors identify the negative ways society influences the way a man lives. Exaggerated expectations of society lead
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Analysis on Two ways of seeing a river by Mark twain Now when I had mastered the language of this water and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet‚ I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had lost something‚ too. I had lost something which could never be restored to me while I lived. All the grace‚ the beauty‚ the poetry had gone out of the majestic river! I still keep in mind a certain wonderful sunset which
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"Brokeback Mountain"Annie Proulx was born on August 22‚ 1935‚ in Norwich‚ Connecticut‚ into a family of farmers‚ mill workers‚ inventors‚ and artists whose ancestors had lived there for three centuries. Because of her father ’s career in textiles‚ Proulx ’s family constantly moved‚ so she lived in several states‚ including North Carolina‚ Vermont‚ Maine‚ and Rhode Island. She earned a bachelor ’s degree in history from the University of Vermont in 1969 and then went on to graduate from Concordia
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Dante’ Holmes MAYA ANGELOU SUMMARY “NEW DIRECTIONS” In 1903 the late Mrs. Annie Johnson of Arkansas found herself with two toddling sons‚ very little money‚ a slight ability to read and add simple numbers. To this picture add a disastrous marriage and the burdensome fact that Mrs. Johnson was a Negro. When she told her husband‚ Mr. William Johnson‚ of her dissatisfaction with their marriage‚ he conceded that he too found it to be less than he expected‚ and had been secretly hoping to leave and
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