Prompt: American History: “Our Hope for the Future.” Harry S. Truman said with a great heart, “America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and the determination to do the job at hand.” His words rang true then and now. We can’t be afraid of what’s going to happen in the future, because we’d then be cutting out everything else and what would be an amazing future for all of America. Letting our imagination and creativity have a part in our lives is one step to a greater
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Through the years the definition of a beautiful woman has changed in many ways, shapes, and forms. Roberta Seid explained that “The female body has not altered for thousands of years; the range of body types in the past does not differ from the range we know today. What has changed is the body type (or types) regarded as ideal, as well as the effort put into meeting this ideal the methods used to do so (296).” She also goes on to explain that compared to today voluptuous women were the more preferred
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American Art. Her views on the world through her art were none other than inspiring, passionate, and full of life. Georgia O’Keeffe, one of the most famous painters of the 20th Century, showed America that women can paint just as well, if not better, than their male counterparts. She filled the eyes of America with color and the realization that art does not have to be in the form of realism, but in the way that one sees the beauty in life. Ms. Georgia O’Keeffe’s transition from Wisconsin to New York
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the same. My first major travel experience is to come to New Orleans, Louisiana United States of America to study after spending eight (8) year in a Nigerian University (University of Maiduguri) without graduating. Everything is entirely different in this part of the world. Unlike some parts of Nigeria that currently does not want westernization including western education. I clearly see what makes America great and New Orleans the crescent city facing the Mississippi river and the birth place of jazz
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The Great Gatsby is a wonderful story representing the American soul, which successfully portrayed the cheers and tears of the 1920’s, or “roaring 20’s” in United States, the reality under disguised of surreal fantasy of commercialism and materialism. In this story, there were three significant places the storyline breed and grows. Among them, the most significant West Egg, the settlement for Nouveau Riche, filled with residences who believe they achieved the American Dream, but in fact, ruined by
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exhibits. Also, on top of the museum was a roof gallery which held the sculpture part of the museum. When I walked into the museum, the first gallery I visited was called the Lower Level South Gallery. This gallery was very unique and contained many beautiful Japanese paintings. When I read about them, I found out these paintings were inspired by the Japanese-American movement. The next gallery I visited was the Turk Gallery. This gallery was mostly filled with paintings as well. However, there were two
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Matthew, the author, states, “I also question their target. By protesting the flag, they are protesting america”(Matthew 3). We need to realize that the reason behind it is good, but the target is not. A time for respecting soldiers and heroes is no time for politics. She also states, “Can they stand on a U.S. flag or even burn it?”(Matthew 3). What they are
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basis of Poe's critical theories and these two essays alone suffice to give one a full understanding of Poe's critical views. Edgar Allan Poe is considered to be America's first significant literary critic or, at least, the first major writer in America to write seriously about criticism, about the theory of composition, and about the principles of creative art. He was also the first to set down consistent set of principles about what he thought was acceptable in art and what should be essentially
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A Beautiful Mind History is often a story of trials and tribulations, with great men who unintentionally change the world. This trend of personalizing history by telling it through the lives and contributions of brilliant individuals continues today. Due to the wide-ranging success of science, mathematics, and technology, a unique emphasis has been placed in recent years on the individual contributions of innovative scientists, mathematical geniuses, and technologist. As a mathematical genius
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1. In the video series Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt, Alex Blumberg describes the whole process behind the manufacture of ordinary T-Shirts, how the cotton is made into beautiful T-Shirts and who made them. The process begins in America – country which have the highest productivity by applying modern technology into production, where the cotton is collected transported to countries such as Indonesia, Bangladesh and Columbia which a have a crowded source of workers. In those countries, raw cotton is
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