When I look at the George Washington picture I notice how the artist uses lighter colors to make Washington stand out among his achievements, such as the crumpled up British flag in the left hand corner. When I see this article of art I think that Washington must have been a wonderful officer and won many battles. However, when I add what I have learned about Washington it changes how I see the picture because Washington was not always a great general, he made mistakes but he learned from them. He learned a lot from his first battle at Fort Necessity in the French and Indian War, which helped him adopt the strategic defensive he used in the revolutionary war to help his men stay alive and keep fighting to show that American would not back down.
When choosing a portrait to analyze, some may have a very difficult time doing so due to the abundance created over the years. For my analysis, I chose the portrait called Washington, General Lafayette and Tilghman at Yorktown. This painting, done by Charles Willson Peale depicts the three generals after their victory at Yorktown during the American Revolutionary War. As a response to the victory, the Maryland House of Delegates asked Governor Thomas Sim Lee to commission Charles Willson Peale to paint the portrait- which he finished in 1781.
In the excerpt’s of “Logan's Lament” and “Chief Red Jacket” both chiefs were affected in a drastic way by the actions of the so called “White Men”. Both chiefs faced rage towards the white men and they also felt abandoned. In both excerpts the white men caused harm to each chief and tribe; killing countless numbers of people and also family members. In “Logan’s Lament,” his family was killed by a white man who betrayed him, but before, Logan's tribe members tried warning him and even quoted that “Logan is a friend of the white man” to acknowledge their disappointment. Chief Logan being betrayed by the white man; Chief Red Jacket was as well but his whole tribe was killed by a group of white man.
In the painting, Warren is shown to dramatically descend into the arms of another soldier. Americans and British, the two main sides, are shown to be in hysteria. Among these figures, some key participants are William Howe, Henry Clinton, and William Prescott (St. Germain). Prescott also supposedly ordered American soldiers not to fire until “you see the whites of their eyes”. Two African American soldiers are also shown on the battlefield, representing the importance of black soldiers during the war.
No longer are your hands shaking from fear but now from anticipation to prove that your newly founded nation will preserve itself. That is the feeling one gets when they put themselves in the painting “George Washington's Crossing of the Delaware” by Emanuel Leutze. Finished it 1851 this painting depicts the famous scene when General George Washington of the American continental army, crosses the icy and frigid Delaware river Christmas night in 1776. General Washington planned
Metacomet, a.k.a King Philip, screamed his first cry in Massachusetts some time in 1638 amongst a fraternity of local natives such as the Narraganset and Wampanoag tribes and subsequent son of Massasoit. He later became successor as sachem, after the bereavement of his father and brother. Metacomet realized the warrant required to become sovereign the natives would have to distance themselves from the colonists. He felt obligatory to sign an armistice in exchange for relinquishing the weapons that the natives had traded land for from the colonists. King Philips character ultimately led to the colonists to disparage him in every way; however, perceptions of him kept the colonist on their toes in excess of a decade.
Loss of More Than Just Life During WWII, the Nazi´s used a certain tactic to abuse the Jews. It was called dehumanization. Dehumanization is the psychological process of demonizing the enemy, making them seem less than human and hence not worthy of humane treatment. In Elie Wiesel's Night, he shows dehumanization through loss of identity,loss of humanity, and desensitization.
August 1868; General Nathan Bedford Forrest told a Congressional committee after the war: He said to 45 colored fellows on my plantation that I was going into the army; and if they would go with me, if we got whipped they would be free anyhow, and that if we succeeded and slavery was perpetrated, if they would act faithfully with me to the end of the war, I would set them free. Eighteen months before the war closed I was satisfied that we were going to be defeated, and I gave those 45, or 44 of them, their free papers for fear I might be called. In late August, General Nathan Bedford Forrest gave an interview to a reporter. Forrest said of the black men who served with him: "... these boys stayed with me... and better Confederates did not live."
This painting shows George Washington, then a general in the American Revolutionary War, crossing the Delaware River with his troops on the night of Dec. 25, 1776. The crossing immediately advanced Washington 's surprise attack on the Hessian forces in the Battle of Trenton. Although the painting portrays a historic part of the American Revolution, it was spuriously painted by Emanuel Leutze, an artist born in Germany. Moreover, where the original was actually painted.
On March 5th 1770, British Soldiers shot and killed five colonists and injured 10 of them. The tragic event was nicknamed “The Bloody Massacre”, but the colonists were at fault because they were the ones that provoked the soldiers, they attacked the soldiers, and they created a chaotic scene. First reason why the colonists were at fault is because they are the ones that provoked the soldiers. (Paragraph 2 of page 155 from the book United States History Colonization through Reconstruction written by Michael B. Stoff and James West Davidson) “A crowd gathered…colonists shouted insults.”
While historians continue to study the similarities and differences, the two main civilizations that show the most major fluxuating differences and similarites are the Incas and the Aztecs. While the pressence of gods and agricultural societies of the Aztecs and Inca were similar between 1300 to 1500 C.E., there were differences ine the type of goverment rule and trade between civilizations, due mostly to isolation brought upon by the Andes Mountians. In both ancient societies there is an obvious sense that gods have the primary rule; in the case of the Aztec and Inca this trait is unchanging. It can be observed that both the Incas and the Aztecs relied heavily on religon for everyday life by the eloborate temples that each society erected in favor of the gods.
In Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue by Quiara Alegria Hudes, Ginny, mother to Elliot, suffers from PTSD, and maintains a garden as a means of possessing a sense of stability. In 4/Prelude, she recalls her purpose for bringing the garden to life, and the memories it brings back when she spends time there. Through elements of style such as diction, figurative language, and imagery, Hudes establishes Ginny’s garden as a symbol of healing. In this scene, Hudes establishes Ginny’s garden as a symbol of healing, as she utilizes diction to reference Ginny’s specific reasons for constructing the garden, and memories of Vietnam.
The massacre of Jonestown was committed November 18, 1978, where a death toll of 918 people lied dead. The People Templed was founded in 1956, where Jim Jones was the main cooperate in the mass murder. Jim Jones was what some would call a “God” and what most would call a murder. This all started when Jones established The Peoples Temple in Indianapolis, Indiana, where people could go for sanctuary and help. He grew so vast he was soon able to move his practice to Redwood Valley California, where things would start to take a surprising turn for the better or worst?
A varied balance between the symbolic and realism has been struck world over by the painting. In the fifteenth century Western painting began to turn from its age- old concern with spiritual realities towards an effort to combine this spiritual expression with as complete an imitation as possible of the outside
Most people can understand that when a soldier comes back from war, he is not going to be the same. He has seen too much and done too much to still be the innocent boy he had been. In the novel, The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh, he not only puts the effect of war for soldiers, but for regular civilians as well. The novel is saying that war affects females even though they could not fight in war. The message is conveyed through female characters that have felt sorrow and emptiness during and after the war.
