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Shows The Reader Early 1900
1,168 wordsThe Jungle is perhaps the most brutal novel ever written in America. It is one long scream of pain and tragedy (Cook 117). The novel shows the reader how hard being an immigrant was in the early 1900 s. Immigrants had to take any job they could, even if that meant working in the packing plants, which Upton Sinclair shows in the novel. Jurgis Radix is the main character. Jurgis and his family move to America searching for a better life. Jurgis works in a packing plant and is continuously loosing ...
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Conditions In The Plants Working Conditions Meat
1,192 words... ease she was a woman (111). All the time, these workers in factory lines were forced to work at backbreaking paces, because they had to keep up with the people in front of them moving the line so quickly. What supervisors would do is pay some of the meat cutters at the front of the line a little extra to work at a very rapid rate, and they would stand over them making sure that they went very fast so that everyone else would have to, which they called the process of "speeding up the gang" (6...
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Twentieth Century Great Depression
994 wordsEdward Hopper is one of the major Realist painters of the twentieth century. He is often considered an American Scene painter as well. American Scene Painting is simply a term for a popular style of painting that existed in the United States during the Great Depression. This style was a reaction against modern European style. These artists tried to create a style of art that was uniquely American. Hopper did not want his art put into a category like that though. He felt that the American quality...
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Lighthouse At Two Lights Child With A Book Color
652 wordsVincent van Gogh's Sower is well-known for the authors use of line in the painting. Peter Paul Rubens Kermis perfectly depicts extensive use of light and color, while Chuck Closes Stanley is famous for its space. All three works exhibit extensive use of line, space and color. Authors of these works used different techniques to create impression of space, which sets up the mood of a composition. I have decided to discuss use of line, color and light in Sonia Delaunay's Electric Prism, Edward Hopp...
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Twentieth Century Sunday Morning
1,732 wordsEdward Hopper Edward Hopper is American painter whose realistic depictions of everyday urban scenes shock the viewer into recognition of the strangeness of familiar surroundings. He strongly influenced the Pop art and New Realist painters of the 1960 s and 1970 s. Hopper was initially trained as an illustrator, but, between 1901 and 1906, he studied painting under Robert Henri, a member of a group of painters called the Ashcan School. Hopper traveled to Europe three times between 1906 and 1910, ...
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Late Night Early Morning
1,727 words... not themselves. We, as viewers, are left with the memory of those moments in our own lives, and forced to examine our assumptions about who we are and how we related to the world around us in the way only true great art can make us do. Deliberately so or not, in Hoppers still, reserved, and blandly handled paintings the artist often exerts a powerful psychological impact distantly akin to that made by the Metaphysical painter de Chirico; but while de Chiricos effect was obtained by making th...
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Woman Is Wearing Summertime And Spring Rain Painting
933 wordsSUMMERTIME AND SPRING RAIN Upon first sight, it appears that John Sloan's Spring Rain and Edward Hoppers Summertime only common characteristic is that they are both oil paintings on canvas. Spring Rain, from the school of Impressionistic art, was painted in 1912. Summertime, which possesses a simplified, schematic style, was created over thirty years later, in 1943. Therefore, there are extreme differences in the two artists technique and style. However, despite these differences, the two painte...
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Hip Hop Culture F K
746 wordsHip-Hop s Culture Eminem, Dr. Dre, Nas, Eve, Missy Elliot, Tribe Called Quest, these are all known for their best flows and culture beat of Hip-Hop. But how can we define Hip-Hop? . In the early 90 s Hip-Hop began to rise, and its popularity became more big as early hip-hoppers brought the country to its feet from its unique beats and it s possessive lyrics. Most songs in the early Hip-Hop days were about simple lives of different people, going through a rough time, or hanging out with the homes...
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Puritan Religion Black Veil
1,362 wordsPure Criticism In Hawthorne's short story The Ministers Black Veil, the extent to which the Puritan parson repents for his sin is a direct critique of the Puritan religion by Hawthorne. Through his writing, Hawthorne portrays a belief that the Puritan religion is one of an excessive and almost absurd nature. Although all religions have their seemingly irrational and superfluous rituals, the dogma of the seventeenth century Puritan religion was rigid and sometimes outright bizarre. The church set...
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Dance Floor West Coast
1,153 wordsThe history of Swing dates back to the 1920 s, where the black community, while dancing to contemporary Jazz music, discovered the Charleston and the Lindy Hop. On March 26, 1926, the Savoy Ballroom opened its doors in New York. The Savoy was an immediate success with its block-long dance floor and a raised double bandstand. Nightly dancing brought in most of the best dancers in the New York area. Really being moved by the presence of great dancers and the best black bands, music at the Savoy wa...
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