Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz‚ a German artist‚ used several techniques to express her feelings toward social injustice. She was an expressionist and perfectionist who portrayed her life through images. She devoted her work including sculptures to humanity‚ detailing historic rebellions against social injustice and creating memorable images of Berlin’s working-class women‚ mothers and children and the victims of modern warfare. With the use of drawings‚ etching‚ lithography‚ woodcuts‚ paintings‚ printmaking
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About Schmidt is a film about an older man Warren Schmidt who retires from his job as actuary in an insurance company. After he retired from his job‚ he was surrounded by a boring mundane life and he did not know how he got it. He ends up signing up for a foster program for African children. His wife passes away and his only daughter is marrying someone who he does not approve of. So essentially he is left alone‚ when he decides to take a road trip to his daughter to talk her out of getting married
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Understanding Continuum of Care Service Long term continuum care: the continuum of care includes all levels of health care and personal care service available. It is normally defined as all levels of housing‚ supportive‚ and health care services available to a person in a given locality. The senior housing and services industry uses specific terms to refer to the various levels of service and care. If you’re not familiar with those terms‚ it may be confusing for you to understand what you need
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Schmidt and Muller Case: Resourceful purloiners involved in the Nazi German war‚ Schmidt and Muller created the opportunity to embed themselves‚ as important individuals in the German intelligence that had a ravenous for results. Schmidt used his understanding of psychology to his advantage. At the end of WWII‚ Schmidt and Muller unsuccessfully attempted to pursue Allied Intelligence with the intent to continue their system. Additionally‚ counterintelligence (CI) agents conducting the investigation
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In Migrant Imaginaries Schmidt-Camacho provides a view on the transnational movements of Mexican migrants toward United States from the 1920s onwards. The relationship between the Mexican culture and the social movements created by the migration is analyzed through the focus on some important historical moments (the 1930s‚ the Chicano Movement‚ contemporary globalization and neoliberalism). Borderlands/la Frontera is a text that deals with the concept of ‘border’ not only in the physical but
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Chloe Anna Schmidt was undoubtedly privileged. She’d grown up with her family in the affluent DC suburbs‚ and although she’d always moved around with her family‚ they had never lived in anything other than relative luxury. Indeed for as long as she’d been alive her parents had been people of significant means. Yet it was more than money‚ both of her Chloe’s parents had friends and old colleagues connected to some of the biggest and most prestigious institutions in the city. Her family on the whole
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A. 5 Cognitive and Psychosocial Theories “About Schmidt” was an excellent‚ eye-opening kind of movie. I watched the movie one night‚ and then I decided to research the movie. Warren Schmidt is forced to deal with a random future as he enters retirement. Soon after‚ his wife passes away and he must come to terms with his daughter’s marriage to a man he does not care for and the failure that his life has become. At his retirement party‚ another gentlemen states that Warren as devoted his life
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In the novel Trouble by Gary D. Schmidt‚ a possible theme could be that one will occur multiple conflicts and will have to overcome them to continue life. In the novel‚ Franklin’s father was “sitting alone in the bay window” with “no work” on his desk and his pipe was “cold and unsmoked” (Schmidt 143). In the following days after Franklin’s desk‚ Henry’s father is not overcoming his son’s death and will not continue on with his normal life. This quote relates to the theme because it shows that
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In the world of cultural studies‚ there is a balance. There is a balance‚ especially‚ in the continuum of the relationship between the concepts of cultural relativism and ethnocentrism. Ethnocentrism is defined as “a point of view that one’s own way of life is to be preferred above all others” (Rosado). This is an interesting viewpoint on life‚ contrasted by the definition of cultural relativism‚ which is the view that “values that are established by a culture are relative to the cultural ambiance
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By Alexandra Edwards In About Schimdt‚ Warren Schmidt is a retired insurance salesman‚ who at age 66 has no particular plans other than to drive around in the motor home his wife insisted they buy. He’s not altogether bitter‚ but not happy either‚ as everything his wife does annoys him‚ and he disapproves of the man his daughter is about to marry. When his wife suddenly dies‚ he sets out to postpone the imminent marriage of his daughter to a man he doesn’t like‚ while coping with discoveries about
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