French parenting styles have become a hot topic of conversation since the release of Pamela Druckerman’s book Bringing up Bebe as she compares American parenting styles to those of the French. This blog, by Catherine Crawford was inspired by her French friend and how she approached parenthood. Ms. Crawford was in awe as she watched her friend parent with calm finesse and she decided to incorporate some of those technics with her own unruly children. Here are few examples from Catherine and other parents who stand behind the French way.
I have chosen to compare and contrast the following two works of art: (1) Vincent Van Gogh, The Sower, 1888. Oil on canvas, 25 ft. ¼ in. x 31 ft. ¾ in., Netherlands, Europe, and (2) Winslow Homer, Veteran in a New Field, 1865. Oil on canvas, 2 ft. x 3 ft. 2 in., Prouts Neck, Maine. The painting The Sower is based on a sketch that Van Gogh did in a letter to his brother Theo.
Out of all of the stories, “What The Dogs Could Teach Me” by Gary Paulsen and “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty, “Flowers” by Alice Walker had the best description. “Frayed, rotted, bleached, and frazzled-barely there-but spinning restlessly in the breeze.” With this quote, you can easily picture the old noose swaying in the breeze. A quote from “The Sniper” says “His hand trembled with eagerness.” Unlike the other passages, “The Flowers” creates a vivid image in your mind of what’s going on in your story.
In the ted talk by Adam foss, about the prosecutor’s vision for a better justice system; the theme of the talk is about when people commit crime in the this country, that the US justice system has a prosecutor that charge people for their action they committed as being explain in the chapter (7.16) of the text book. The action the government takes to punish people with their criminal record which the government has been doing for a long now till today. The author Foss believe that reforming justice system will help to replace wrath with the chances that will change people’s lives for better than destroying them with criminal record. Another point the author is making is arguing about how to reinvent American justice systems. His opinion in
Today, money has made many people believe that you need to have a lot of money to live a great, happy life. People in the world, especially the people who don’t have as much money as the ones that do, look up to people like popular idols, because they have money. People think they have a great living life with all the money they have earned during their lives. In the short story “Why You Reckon?” by Langston Hughes, the author uses diction, colloquialism and dialect to express the fact that just because people have the money to go out to eat somewhere expensive or buy the newest clothes, does not mean that a person is happy all the time and expresses how people in the town talks. Money is what makes the world goes round and everyone has come
Today, there are endless arguments about the existing of the American dream. In “They say, I say” by Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein and Russel Durst. There are four article that I have evaluated. The upside of income inequality – Gary S. Becker and Kevin M. Murphy, American Dream: dead, alive, or on hold – Brandon King, Bring on more immigrant entrepreneur – Shayan Zadeh, America remains the world’s beacon of success – Tim Roemer
Through the synchronization of social media with the process of death, ritualistic theories held by Barry that “death is an occasion for scandal and entertainment” becomes increasingly difficult to accept (261). Excerpts from the song, Hell You Talmbout, which catalogs the numerous and reprehensible accounts of African-Americans that have lost their lives to police brutality, is an example of this. With hints of African tribal music playing steadily in the background, the song repeats lines such as: Eric Garner, Say his name Eric Garner, Say his name Trayvon Martin, Say his name Trayvon Martin, Say his name Sean Bell, Say his name Sean Bell, Say his name to emphasize through the process of physically and mentally processing their name, that
Ted Hughes’s “To Paint a Water Lily” tells about an artist painting a scene of nature, and his choice to focus on a water lily. The poem also shows how the artist has two ways of thinking about nature. One way the artist thinks about nature is as a violent and scary thing. The artist also thinks of nature as a thing of beauty and grandeur. Though the artist acknowledges both of his views towards nature, he chooses to focus on the beauty.
The last element that is important is texture which Van Gogh uses a canvas to create his illusion zing masterpiece of the sower and he uses great amount of time and focus when he creates the artwork by using oil pastels as his texture
I paced each breath I took in front of the masterpiece, soaked in the unnatural colours and accentuated shapes, noticed the start and end of each brush strokes life span on the canvas and fell in love with each one. Despite just standing in front of me, Vincent displays his passion with swirling action and dominant skill. The whooshing of the wind that blew the field could still be heard and the kiss of the sun still fell on my face. A moment later and the tears were being rubbed out of my eyes while the painting grew smaller and the shuffling feet became softer.
In the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC’s exhibition Van Gogh’s Van Goghs: Masterpieces from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam art pieces are arranged in such a way that they reflect the course of Van Gogh’s life as an artist. The exhibition begins with pieces that Van Gogh painted while he still lived in Holland. It then displays works from after to his move to Paris, then to Arles, then to Saint-Rémy, and finally to Auvers-sur-Oise. The paintings shown in this exhibition are arranged in this way, because the curator is attempting to convey how Van Gogh’s works changed throughout his life due to different influences in his life. The painting of this exhibition are arranged according to style of the painting and when they were made.
The poem “One Boy Told Me” by Naomi Shihab Nye, was told by her son when he was two and three years of age. His comments, thoughts, and remarks were jotted down verbatim by Naomi and pieced together to create the one of a kind free verse poem. Nye assembled the phrases into individual stanza’s where they coherently flow to one another to illustrate the mind of a toddler. Wide ranges of emotions and personalities invoke the inner child and their curiosity. Overall, her son’s interpretations of his surroundings and understandings are represented in how the idioms expressed set the stage for intrusiveness, humor, and poetic devices to contribute to the overall meaning.
Vincent Van Gogh’s art work can be classified by subject matter into four groups which are landscape, people, still life, and cityscape. The first group of Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings is a landscape. It means the land or the area where there is no construction or just a little, but most of the time, it is always focused on nature such as trees and flowers. Nature is one of the component of landscape’s theme which did not present only in the spring (Spence, 2001).
Along the line of the aforementioned article, the chosen blues and white of the night sky represent the vulnerability of Van Gogh’s feelings and mental state depicting the almost constant depression that plagued
