in my own time. There was a time in our history where we as Americans would do whatever it took to produce products that could be sold throughout the world. I think about the old days when they had men actually risking their own lives to build skyscrapers and like the many hardworking men who work in mines miles beneath the earth. I do not condone the cheap labor / hard labor that other countries benefit from to make products that could be made here. I think it is immoral on a few levels; first
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Metropolis The technique combined miniature sets and live actors which allowed the miniature sets to be turned into full scale shots through the use of mirrors. Lang wanted to insert actors into the shots of the skyscrapers and other scenes so Schufftan had to develop a method that would allow him to do so. A plate of glass was placed in front of the camera lens‚ Schufftan then used the camera’s viewfinder to trace an outline of the area where they desired to place the actors. German Expressionism
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Within seconds of WALL-E ‚ we can clearly see a vivid image on how Earth is polluted and destroyed by mankind. Director‚ Andrew Stanton‚ utilizes a song called Put on Your Sunday Clothes‚ by Jerry Herman from 1965. This opening song was from an earlier film called Hello Dolly! ‚ which helps support ¨ the film’s nostalgic‚ sci-fi tone.4 Set in a stylized 1890‚ Hello‚ Dolly! depicts the draw of modernization and urbanization‚ but an additional correlative emerges through the context of the 1960s
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The piece titled Painted Circa 1921-22‚ Georgia O’Keeffe’s Lake George Reflection‚ the most ambitious in scale of her works from the 1920s‚ is a meditation on the sublime‚ building upon the tradition of the 19th century Hudson River School artists who sought to capture the drama and beauty of the unspoiled landscape surrounding Lake George. The painting “Painted circa” look at the angle horizontally‚ the painting exemplifies the boldly colorful landscapes which foreshadowing the abstracted paintings
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seemed to residents of the 16th century? Human technology has advanced significantly over the past 5‚000 years‚ and the Earth bears the scars to prove it. We’ve altered the landscape‚ the climate and the biological diversity. We’ve erected skyscrapers for the living and colossal tombs for the dead. Perhaps most important‚ we’ve learned to harness a portion of the planet’s energy‚ but we still thirst for so much more power. Technology has improved exponentially since the 1500s‚ and
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Emerging from an era of peace and prosperity in Paris‚ the gothic style seen in Europe is a result of the rapid growth of cities‚ increasing the number of civic architecture present in Europe‚ and the emergence of the stylized and ornate christian cathedrals from a previously unseen class of patrons‚ including the Church of England‚ which hasn’t been seen at any other point in time. With the rapid growth of cities and towns‚ the cathedrals became the center focus of the town in order to build trade
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Corporation 10. American Federation of Labor 11. Haymarket Riot 12. Pullman Strike 13. International Commerce Commission (ICC) 14. Steerage 15. Sweatshop 16. Sherman Anti-Trust Act 17. Karl marx 18. Skyscrapers 19. Push/pull factors of immigration 20. Ellis Island 21. Angel Island 22. “Gilded Age” 23. Americanization Programs 24. Urbanization 25. Vaudeville 26. “melting pot” 27. Mass culture 28. Mass transit
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popularity. Aspects of these cultures and time periods can be seen in the retro architecture and couture. The architecture in particular shows this contrast‚ with the ruined buildings that can be seen at ground level in contrast with the magnificent skyscrapers that can be seen in places throughout the movie.
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According to Jeff Chang‚ “By the beginning of 2005‚ hip-hop music‚ in particular‚ had become a weapon of mass distraction— abused by corporate media monopolies with their deployments of blockbuster-minded execs‚ reactionary programmers‚ and vernacular shock jocks‚ incurring a grassroots clapback from hip-hop activists dismayed at the pimping of their culture” (Chang‚ xi). In other words‚ the author points out that the new age of hip hop has lost the true meaning of the genre and is too focused on
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it exemplifies the two dynamics that exist within Panama. In the picture‚ you can see small shack like houses clustered together‚ a housing plan that usually denotes homes of lower income residents‚ and in the background‚ there are the notorious skyscrapers of the affluent Panama City. This conflicting setup is the truth for all of Panama. All of the people who occupy the upper class and are well off dominate the center of Panama‚ whereas all those who occupy the lower class are marginalized to the
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