Always to Remember: The Vision of Maya Ying Lin Is 21 too young? That is the question you may ask yourself before reading the story “Always to Remember:The Vision of Maya Ying Lin”. “Always to Remember” is referring to the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War is a major historical moment in our nation and the author does not want anyone to forget about it. As for “The Vision of Maya Ying Lin” it is to understand how and why Maya came up with the design that she did for the memorial. She went to the actual
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Minimalism‚ Maya Lin and Vietnam Memorial Discussion “Minimal art is characterized by its simplicity in both form and content‚ where personal expression is removed in order to achieve this. The intention of minimalist artists is to allow the audience to view a composition more intensely because the distractions of theme etc. have been removed”. Minimalism can be detected as early as the 18th century where the artist Goethe constructed an Alatar of Good Fortune that consisted of a stone sphere and
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CHARLES by Shirley Jackson The day my son Laurie started kindergarten‚ he gave up his little-boy clothes. He started wearing blue jeans with a belt. I watched him go off that first morning with the older girl next door. He looked as though he were going off to a fight. He came home the same way at lunchtime. “Isn’t anybody here?” he yelled. At the table‚ he knocked over his little sister’s milk. “How was school today?” I asked. “Did you learn anything?’’ “I didn’t learn nothing‚” he
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PAPER Singaporean Short Story By Catherine Lim He dreamt about it‚ he hankered after it like an addict after his opiate. When it came to his mind the idea of big and beautiful house‚ Tay Soon always think of it until it become his insanity in his life. A house. A house of his dream‚ just like what his family see every time they pass by in their street behind the elegant subdivision and in pages of Homes and Modern living Magazines. He knows every detail of his dream house from the aluminum sliding
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Hamilton by Lin Manuel Miranda is a musical album about the life of our American founding father Alexander Hamilton and it also mentions how Americans fought for their freedom. This musical album gives us a lot of great information about American history and what was happening during that time. It showed how people struggled through their life during that time period and what their leader Alexander Hamilton did for them. This album also highlights the American way of life during the war time. Many
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Fabia Ling-Yuan Lin in her chapter ’Cartoon’s Hyperrealism’ of her book Doubling the Duality (2014) explains the issue with realism within animation by means of a case study. Like the other texts‚ she explains at first the meaning of hyper-realism‚ using Lister’s text as a secondary source. She emphasises that in order to understand the origins of hyper-realism‚ and how it became the norm in western animation‚ one must examine the creation process of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Lin‚ 2014). This
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Ever wondered if there has been a phenomenal Asian American basketball player? What about one to come through the NBA and help conquer racism on top of that? Well‚ ponder no more because in The Nation’s article titled‚ “Jeremy Lin: Taking the Weight” Dave Zirin offers an excellent analysis about the topic due to the author’s skills with rhetoric. Dave Zirin is an American political sportswriter‚ among the most famous in the world. A very talented writer‚ Zirin is the sports editor for The Nation
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Shacole Smith TOPIC: Shirley Chisholm GENERAL PURPOSE STATEMENT: To inform my audience about Shirley Chisholm SPECIFIC PURPOSE STATEMENT: To inform the audience on her speaking and speeches. CENTRAL IDEA: Shirley Chisholm Speeches I. INTRODUCTION: Attention Getter-How many of you know who Shirley Chisholm is Preview Statement- Today I am going to talk about Shirley Chisholm’s background‚ the major ideas of her speeches‚ and analysis her speeches
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"The Possibility of Evil"‚ by Shirley Jackson‚ is a twisted story. It starts off with Ms.Strangeworth‚ the main character‚ having pride in her family and roses. She goes to the grocery store and has friendly conversations with the town’s people‚ but goes back home to write anonymous‚ cruel letters to the same people she talked to. She later on gets caught and everyone knows all the letters were from her. By writing the letters‚ she thought she was stopping the evil in her town‚ but‚ the ironic part
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short stories‚ the author‚ Shirley Jackson‚ described the characters‚ the themes‚ and the situations to create an illustration for the reader. Laurie and Mr. Summers are both portrayed as characters who want to push the boundaries of the rules. Shirley Jackson made Mr. Summers a single man‚ who organizes the lottery. Mr. Summers doesn’t like the idea of the black box. The black box represents death and bad traditions in the community. Mr. Summers likes the idea
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