...Courtney 24 March 2010 Art censorship and obscenity People in the United States of America are allowed to express themselves in many ways. One of these ways of expressing yourself is through art. Although we have this freedom, it is not completely accepted or viewed as right. What makes the many different forms or art acceptable or unacceptable with censorship? Why should creativity and artistic abilities be censored from other people or artists? “According to Plato, ‘because art has the power to intensify and not just purge emotions, a “dramatic censor” must control the content and form of all artistic expression’” (Hoffman). There are some people who just cannot accept or understand certain pieces of art, which leads them to find them inappropriate and misleading. Just because these people cannot handle certain works of art does not mean that the work should be hidden. Imagine painting a watercolor picture, which is very hard to work with, and working on it for months upon months. You strive to get it finished and once you do you feel very proud of what has been accomplished. Naturally, you would want to put your hard work on display to show it off to whoever you please. But right when you get the chance to do that, the watercolor that you painted for weeks and weeks is taken away from you by Nazi’s and banned from ever being seen. In 1940, this is exactly what happened to German painter, print maker, and watercolorist Emil Nolde. People come to the United States to...
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...Putting Thoughts to Paper For several years in school, I dreaded writing academic papers because I found many of the topics monotonous, provoking little desire in me to work hard. The writing process intimidated me because I was often unaware as to where I should begin a paper and once I did, how I should develop my thoughts in an effective manner. My appreciation of writing, both academically and artistically, did not surface until my sophomore year in high school. When I transferred from public to private school, I realized that my writing skills were not as strongly developed as many of my fellow classmates. This feeling of inadequacy motivated me to seek help from my teachers and peers. By the end of first semester sophomore year, my...
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...GOALS 1) Emphasize effective communication in written English; 2) Introduce the relationship between reading and comprehension in the discipline; 3) Emphasize critical thinking and abstract reasoning skills; 4) Emphasize technology applications; 5) Emphasize student recognition and appreciation of cultural diversity; STUDENT LEARNER OUTCOMES Upon completion of the course, students will be able to do the following: 1) Effectively demonstrate an understanding of the rhetoric appropriate to the discipline and construct logically ordered and developed responses to art historical questions and issues; 2) Differentiate between main ideas and supporting details as well as distinguish between fact and opinion in relation to the artists, styles and artistic periods; 3) Demonstrate the ability to identify and dispel misperceptions pertaining to artists, their work and period; make reflective decisions regarding the inclusion of artwork within a specific period; 4) Use technology as a resource for study, as well as for communication; 5) Distinguish and categorize the painting, sculpture, architecture, etc. across various cultures and analyze the impact of these differences. 6) Demonstrate an understanding of the nature of art, its cultural significance and its value to the human experience that translates into a lifelong appreciation and advocacy. ASSESSMENTS FOR STUDENT LEARNER OUTCOMES 1) Assignments submitted on Moodle. 2) Objective tests based upon slide recognition and the informational...
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...She emerges as a Black woman intellectual whose work transformed consciousness and cultivated resistance. Garvin wrote a Master’s thesis that problematized labor unions as institutional contexts that privileged the liberal pro-capitalist perspectives of white males over the needs and views of the diverse labor force. While serving as national staff of a labor union organization, she used her position and the platform it provided to give voice to the experiences and needs of African American laborers, who had been silenced within or excluded from labor union decision making processes. In furthering this effort, she similarly used her position as a writer at the Freedom newspaper to bring attention to the specific circumstance of African American women workers. Finally, as a founding member and leader of the National Negro Labor Council, Garvin developed a philosophy and institutional structure for a labor organization that would put the experiences and needs of African American women at its...
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...ENGL347: Women Writers: Assessed Essay “Becoming a mother will be the one thing that frees you as a woman. But it will also be the one thing that traps you...” – Anon. Discuss the way in which women writers use the concept of motherhood as a gender-divide to explore the themes of entrapment and escape in literature. Since the 19th century, the broader sense of literature as a ‘totality of written or printed works’, and the foundational means of communicating information or ideas, has given way to a range of more exclusive and specific definitions. The rapid growth of adult literacy, combined with economic, social and political developments have vastly increased the sheer spectrum and quantity of subject matter and forms which fall under this umbrella term, forcing the need for greater categorisation in order to make ‘literature’ more accessible to the general reader. The resulting categories which attempt to standardise this process may take many forms, including observation of the structure or literary genre of the text (for example, categorising the text as a novel, poem, report or article) or perhaps the particular literary period or movement, which will link all associated texts with underlying principles or stylistic traits, such as the Romantic era or Post-Colonial literature. However, due to a long-standing patriarchal tradition dominating the history of literature- a literary practice challenged and corrected by the rise of the Feminist movement, particularly following...
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...Types | Sources | Purposes | Verbal | | | Formal definition- Relating to or in the form of words.Information-There are many forms of verbal communication the most popular being face to face due to the fact it allows for verbal and non-verbal messages to be passed on, but is also inconvenient. Speech enables complex ideas to be expressed and spoke about.Advantage- It’s instant and easy to communicate with, due to the fact that things are easier to make out what people mean because of the tone of their voice and the volume of the voice etc. Verbal communication is the most comfortable method of expression. There are ample methods of verbal communication. Easiest method of resolving things.Disadvantage- There’s no record of the conversation so it can’t be referred to in the future. Business example 1- The manager of McDonalds having a meeting with the board about the satisfaction of the BigMac, due to the fact that they previously started a campaign to make the BigMac healthier yet more satisfying to attract more customers and make their present customers want to purchase the burger more often.Business example 2- Business example 3-Appropriate- If you need to have a conversation.Inappropriate- If the business just needs informing of something. | Business example 1- The information informing the business about the satisfaction of the BigMac could have come from internal or external sources. The internal source using technology and the external source being a traditional method...
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...the future. Many music lovers and I are in favor of technology helping us develop new musical interpretations. For example in 1991 Pierre Boulez wrote a solo work entitled Anthèmes, later between 1994-1997 he rewrote the work into Anthèmes II which included live electronics. These electronics give both the performer as well as the audience new sound experiences which a robot cannot do. The most a computer can do in projecting music is playing what’s known as a MIDI(Musical Instrument Digital Interface) which is a horrible music program that plays exactly what’s typed in the program, from that, it cannot express emotions, it only plays the basic notes written. But when technology such as a MIDI is advanced enough to feel emotions, all artistic forms of expression will be gone. In Carl Flesch’s book ‘The Art of Violin Playing’ he roughly states in the first chapter that the main two components in playing any musical instrument are personality and circumstance. If you compare Anne-Sophie Mutters early and late recordings of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto you will obviously hear the same notes, but you will hear them played drastically different. First of all the soloist has to have their own idea on the piece and what they believe Tchaikovsky would’ve wanted to hear, this is a lifetime experience. From the time they learn a piece in their 20s to when they’re in their 50s, they might have kids, lose their partner, or even get their hearts broken. All of these life experiences...
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...This paper will discuss developmentally appropriate methodologies in teaching language and literacy to young children across a developmental curriculum. Also to be discussed will be the aspects/knowledge of language, language diversity and Theoretical Perspectives. There is now evidence that it is never too early to teach a child. Through research it has been discovered that the infant even before he/she is born can hear sound and as we know that is how we acquire language, by hearing spoken words. According to Otto (2010), language development begins when language speakers assume that an infant is a participating partner in conversational settings, even though it is months before the child is able to begin using conventional words. In an article written by Dr. Carmelita Lomeo-Smrtic,Ph.D, she wrote that “Teaching children to become literate members of society is a daunting task, often relegated to the elementary teacher. However, research on teaching children to become literate suggests that this process must begin well before kindergarten. Research suggests that children are primed for learning language in utero. Also from the Otto text, “research on children’s perception of speech and the development of the auditory system in utero has determined that the fetus can perceive sounds beginning with the 25th week of gestation and at the 35th week a fetus’s hearing acuity is at a level similar to an adult’s (2010). Knowing all...
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...Johnathan Kennedy WorldLit Monday,Wednesday 8:30pm-9:45pm Research Paper #2 May 25, 2016 Autobiographical of James Baldwin The depleting endlessly of James Baldwin's enchantment was a dramatization quite examined in the years paving the way to his passing in 1987 at the age of sixty-three. There had been the primary demonstration of waif in Harlem, artistic drifter in Paris, and avenging blessed messenger of the Freedom Summer, when his lifted up voice caught the strain of a country went up against by what resembled a decision amongst respecting and selling out its goals of social equity. The articles, books, and short stories had accompanied all the power of reason and splendor of dialect any youthful author could seek after. At that point...
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...From the aftermath of the Civil War to the turn of the 20th century, America saw the Gilded Age, which was characterized by unprecedented industrial and urban expansion. Yet underneath the surface of this growth and development, there were widespread corrupt practices, political unrest, and social injustices in society. The Gilded Age in America is a particular subject of analysis that Voices of Freedom: A Documentary History (Seventh Edition), Chapter 16, delves into. The word "gilded," which was coined by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, accurately describes the contradictory character of the time, in which wealth concealed more serious social divides. Through primary sources like Andrew Carnegie's 1889 “Gospel of Wealth” and William...
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...Digital Photography and Its Effects on Humanity: A Brief Examination of Three Examples Communication, Rapid Modification, Digital Artistic, & Advertising Laura Tavera DeVry University, Decatur Campus December 09, 2011 The digital world of photography change how humanity communicates and exchange images in a matter of few seconds provoking to have less privacy in your everyday life. Digital photos in the Web are very common, which is a useful tool for people to share memories and personal events, but once the pictures are downloaded and shared it’s impossible to erase. Almost everyone have digital access from either a camera phone or digital camera, which creates a whole new era of artistic art that helps humans to express feelings and emotions. Technology made it easier to play and experiment with common features of devices and programs to have a variety of pictures with different effects that creates artistic photos. Digital Photography transforms the view on how humanity has access to instant photos from family and friends, editing, and digital artistic. Events that Led to the Advancement Capturing digital images comes back in 1960s where NASA use digital signals to capture the surface of the moon with the help of computer technology to improve the images that the space probes were sending. The government used satellites to spy and helped to advanced digital imaging. The private sectors made big contributions like Texas Instruments invented a film-less electronic...
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...Plagiarism is one of the biggest problems in academics today. Plagiarism can be described as the act of borrowing and copying someone’s else words as one’s own without crediting the source. There is also the issue of self-plagiarism that occurs when a person attempts to get credit for work that they had previously published without stating that he or she had already received credit for the same work. Notably, the most common causes of plagiarism include, time management, incorrect paraphrasing and poor note taking when doing the research. The consequences of plagiarism can be personal, ethical, legal or professional. To avoid plagiarism, the paper should include the in-text citations and the bibliography. Citing and referencing one’s work ensures that the writer credits the source of the work he or she used in the paper, thus avoiding plagiarism. Evidently, people need to understand that plagiarism is a grave issue that needs to be looked into seriously. Writers should be careful not to copy another person’s work without crediting...
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...goals and values unique (and/or integral) to this institution. Additional readings are on reserve in the library, and an enormous amount of information is available on the web. *Distributed at the Program Chairs meeting on 9.9.2008 MISSION Maine College of Art delivers a demanding and enlivening education in visual art and design within an intimate learning community. We teach each student how to transform aspirations and values into a creative practice that serves as the foundation for a lifelong pursuit of personal and professional goals. VALUES o Maine College of Art’s educational philosophy is built on the premise that focused individual attention and meaningful collective inquiry produce the conditions in which students’ voices can find strength, clarity, and purpose. o Our faculty of practicing professional artists, designers, writers, and scholars are committed and passionate educators who consider their classrooms to be extensions of their creative work. o We give our students the tools they need to take risks, think critically and...
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...Nina Wohl Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences AHIS W4855 African American Artists in the 20th and 21st Centuries Spring 2012 Research Paper – African American Art & the Great Depression The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn of the twentieth century. The federal government took unprecedented action to provide relief, recovery and reform. No group was harder hit by the Great Depression than African Americans. The New Deal was slow to deal with the unique situation faced by African Americans. The struggles of the Great Depression laid the foundation for the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Art would play an important role in influencing the future. Despite its limitations, the New Deal, through the Works Progress Administration’s (WPA) Federal Arts Program (FAP), was responsible for reshaping the cultural agenda and “marked a significant turning point in the production of black culture.”1 The artists of the Great Depression built upon the work done during the Harlem Renaissance. New Deal art extended and affirmed art that translated “politics into cultural terms.”2 The FAP looked for a “new sense of authentic American culture – one that championed national values and traditions by celebrating regional and racial diversity.”3 As a result, many artists worked to place African Americans in the historical narrative of the United States while combating long held stereotypes. None were less important than Aaron Douglas...
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...All events are free and open to the public. Calendar of Events (For more information please contact Jennifer Kattman at jkattman@sierracollege.edu.) MONDAY, OCTOBER 13 9:30-10:50am in the Fireside Room: “Brief History of Protest Music” by Professor Jason Roberts In this presentation, Professor Jason Roberts will look at protest music from the early 1960s to the present with such artists as Joan Baez, the Rolling Stones, Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy, and Rage Against the Machine. 11am-12:20pm in the Fireside Room: “The New Native Intellectualism: Social Media, Social Justice and Native American Studies” by Cutcha Risling Baldy Cutcha Risling Baldy (Hupa, Karuk, Yurok) is an instructor and PhD candidate in Native American Studies. Her research is interdisciplinary (feminist and literary theory, politics and California Indian theory and methodology). Author of “Why We Gather: traditional gathering in native Northwest California and the future of bio-cultural sovereignty” and numerous related publications. Her dissertation (translated) is “To Grow Old in a Good Way” is about the revitalization of the Hupa Women’s Coming of Age Ceremony. Ms. Risling Baldy founded the Native Women’s Collective. 12:30-1:50pm in the Fireside Room: “Louder than Words” by Billy X Jennings Join Billy X Jennings, the founder of “It’s About Time,” an organization and archive dedicated to preserving the legacy of the Black Panther Party and editor of a newsletter by the same name, as he presents the “Louder...
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