Archibald John Motley Jr.’s painting, “Mending Socks”, illustrates an elderly woman sitting in a rocking chair. She has a scarlet blanket loosely hung around her shoulders and is wearing a lace-bordered white apron. Above her on the wall is a wooden cross. In the painting she is repairing socks, hence the piece’s name. On the periwinkle table to her left is a small pile of olive green socks.
In the story, Ella Sarah Gets Dressed, Margaret Chodos-Irvine tells a story of a young girl named Ella Sarah. This children’s story is geared for children in the younger age range, most likely preschool or just entering school. Chodos-Irvine tells a tale of Ella Sarah making tough stylistic decisions while getting dressed in a humorous style. For an early reader, the text was clear and easy to read. It was strategically placed mainly towards the top of each page without an overwhelming amount of words.
The poem, “The Century Quilt”, by Sarah Mary Taylor demonstrates the meaning of The Century Quilt through the use of tone, imagery and symbolism. This complex quilt has a way of bringing family together through means of remembrance, as the quilt will be passed on and on. Symbolism in this poem is most prominent in the title itself. “The Century Quilt” makes its implication of being passed on by the word, century. A century is a long period of time and within that time period the quilt will have been passed down through means of connecting with family.
A Cloud of Oppression Experiencing the torment of a label is difficult, especially if it is given to your whole family. In the memoir Red Scarf Girl, set in the time of the Cultural Revolution, being within the upper middle class was frowned upon and proletarians were seen as the leaders of society. The label of black class status tainted the bourgeoisie, including the Jiang family, with torture, ridicule, and incrimination by others influenced by the governmentally coercive ways of Communism. Political oppression was visible everywhere within China, affecting neighborhoods, families and even children.
Before today, I didn’t know much about Georgia O’Keeffe and I wasn’t familiar with any of her paintings. After reading through the section, I realized how much I admired this artist that I’d just learned about and how undervalued her art was, or maybe how little she’s spoken of nowadays, compared to other artists. Her landscape paintings all contain a very distinct look to them that make them seem very original. The fact that she makes a place like New Mexico seem like it’s got breathtaking scenery, when in reality it’s mostly rugged and dry looking, is astonishing to me.
In the “Inner Corset” by the Laura Fraser described that how the thin ideal developed in the United State from the 1880s to 1920. Fraser’s article has as its purpose how the women’s body were apprise by men and experienced by women and appeals to logos by doctors being thin is very harmful for their body. The “Inner corset” is an except form “Fat and its follies”, “Never satisfied”, “American beauty, “Illness as metaphor”, “The complete Poor Richard almanacks, Vol.1, Imprint society”, and “Fat and fashion”, uses for
Art is a form of expressing the inner feelings, emotions, and imaginations. Artists such as James McDougal Hart and Mattie Luo O’Kelley delivered strong messages and relived memories of the past through their artworks. Mattie O’Kelley is an American, folk artist who painted the Yardsale in 1979. Much like her other works, it portrays a busy country scene from her early life in rural Georgia. James McDougal Hart is another landscape artist and a Scottish-born American cattle painter.
Read Mary Walker Wears the Pants by Cheryl Harness. This is a true story of the first American woman doctor named Mary Walker who received the Medal of Honor when she served her country during the Civil War; she remains the first and only woman to ever hold this high honor. Mary Walker fought for women’s rights and made a big statement during her time by wearing pants when women always wore dresses. After reading, ask students to work in pairs (partner pair share) to describe Mary Walker. Then show the YouTube video, A Female Civil War Surgeon: "How Dr. Mary is Remarkable” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiyGiHELnSU).
There will be two images being discussed in this essay. The first image was called “9/11/2001” by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly. The second image was “What So Proudly We Hailed” by Carter Goodrich. The reason these images were chosen was because they have many differences, but they also have a lot in common. This essay will contain the color, date, prices, color, and what are the similarities and differences between these two images.
In this essay, Author Mei Chun began with explaining a concept of the prosimetric form, which is the incorporation of verse in a prose narrative. It is also a distinctive generic feature of vernacular fiction in late imperial China. The content of this article is about examining the narrative significance of verse in Feng Menglong’s “The pearl Shirt Reecountered”. Many scholar regards verse in friction as a type of narrative redundancy or a sign or orality. However, Menglong has utilized verse space and prose space in the story.
While reading the King essay “I'd Rather Smoke than Kiss” King goes talks about how smoking affected her youth, life today, and even her love life. She also touches on anti-smokers and the role they play in society. While king's essays is a fun to read, it is full of errors and fully emotional based. In this essay King’s main point is that smoking is not bad because she smokes and nothing dreadful has happened to her because of her habit.
You could make a case for Jordan in 1st as well because overall Nike and Jordan are the best and most widely known shoes worldwide. In the website we will cover the shoe collection for each pair, historical background for each, what each brand represents and it's origin, and pictures of shoe design as
I have created an art piece which links ot the artist Jackson Pollock and Joanne Boon Thomas. It is a painting of space with a cluster of neublas and stars, however what makes it unique is that there is an eclipse in the middle of the canvas which is elevated from the canvas, this gives it a slightly 3D feeling that you would get when looking at a planet. The meaning behind my work is to show how galaxies can be lightyears across but still be tethered to each other, this links into together and apart as it demonstrates how even though the planets, stars and nebulas are so far apart from each other, they are all still bound to each other by gravity, and the galaxy is only called a galaxy because all these planets, stars and nebulas are together,
In Martha’s personal narrative, “The Scholarship Jacket,” Martha Salinas shares her experience when she has earned the scholarship jacket but almost loses it to a less deserving peer. In the beginning, 14 year old Martha, is attending in a small Texas school in 8th grade. Martha knows she would get the scholarship jacket because she has earned straight A’s for the past 8 years. Forgetting her PE bag in one of her classrooms, she overhears a conversation between her history teacher, Mr.Schmidt, and Mr. Boone, her math teacher. When she hears they were arguing about her and who would get the scholarship jacket, Martha became shocked and ran.
Today, the imagery of the goddess Nike, and her name live on. Today one of the most popular shoe brands have the name nike. Nike (shoe company) has been manufacturing sports equipment since 1978. The name was chosen because nike is the goddess of speed and victory. The Nike sports brand logo has an indirect connection with the goddess Nike.
