Italian-born Cubist painter, Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) and the French, Jacques Villon (1875-1963), both painted vibrant and expressive portraits during the early twentieth-century. In this case, the chosen portraits are Modigliani’s “Portrait of Mrs. Hastings”, 1915 and Villon’s “Mme. Fulgence”, 1936. Both of these compositions are portraits. Nothing is of more importance than the sitter herself. The […]
Child Poverty in America
The current economic crisis is almost guaranteed to inflate statistics, but according to the last census, more than 33 million people live in poverty in the United States. The amounts to about 12% of the total population. Families living in poverty are counted at 9% of the population or about 6.8 million families. These numbers […]
Film Marketing In Australia
It seems Australia’s film success is not determined by its quality but by its box office returns. The national identity of Australia has become nothing but a market strategy. The future of the Australian film industry seems doubtful, as it cannot command the crowds necessary to sustain high enough box office dollars, or market films […]
The Mafia
The Mafia, a well-known crime organization, is still prevalent in society today. In the past five years the Sicilian Mafia has taken some heavy hits, with the murders of two leading prosecutors in Mafia-related trials (Coming back). The prosecutors were Giovanni Falcone ( see picture), and Paulo Borsellino. Their successors have managed to put behind […]
Red October
It was Wednesday, October 2nd, 1968 in Mexico City, a few weeks away from the Mexico ’68 Summer Olympic Games Opening Ceremony. For the last three months, the city had been facing an intensive and stressful situation with the national university students on strike. This strike was initiated at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, […]
What is Technology Education?
“What is Technology Education?” I asked myself nearly a year ago. I was at the time involved in Industrial Technology with a concentration in Drafting & Design. Unchallenged and bored with that particular field of study, I searched for something new, but yet somewhat the same. I saw a flyer posted in Flanagan Hall at […]
Mackenzie King – The Greatest Prime Minister of Canada
The greatest Prime Minister of Canada was? Mackenzie King our 10thPrime Minister of Canada and by far one of our greatest. William Lyon Mackenzie King accomplished a lot in his twenty-0ne years of ministering our Country Canada! “It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government.” (Mackenzie King august […]
The Devil and Daniel Webster
The play “The Devil and Daniel Webster” was written by Stephen Vincent Benét in 1938. Stephen Vincent Benét was born in 1898 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. His education came from Yale University and the Sorbonne in Paris, France. “The Devil and Daniel Webster” has a wide array of characters, each with a distinguished personality, yet an […]
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