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1,064 wordsIn 1998, Drew Carey held a sit-in because of the smoking ban in the California bars. Even though Drew is not a smoker, he smoked that night and called the ban stupid. Three years ago, California enacted a state law that forbade smoking in bars and other work areas for the sake of the employees. Drew felt "It should be up to each bar owner and patron to decide if they want to smoke or not. Drew Carey was not cited by police for the incident, but the owner, Irwin Held, was. Held said, "It's smokin...
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1,693 wordsAmerican Pop Art was born of the newly found self-confidence with which American art had asserted itself. The subject matter which provided the initial impulse was the cultural concept of Americanism itself: the idea of progress, the media industry sensation, and the relative boom of stardom and cultural icons in Hollywood. The birth place of these new phenomena seems to have its roots in the city of New York, the so called cultural center of the USA. In the relative upheavals of the forties and...
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949 wordsH 2 > 1. EPIC EPIC is the Educational Participation in Communities. This organization involves students as volunteers in the fight against poverty and social neglect in local communities. The goal is social awareness and student involvement. It says that poverty, neglect, and social inequity are a growing reality for millions of people in America. Families are losing their homes, people can't find good jobs, children go hungry, and education in the inner-city is a disaster. There is a is ...
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358 wordsAlways Running: La Vida Lca: Gang Days in L. A by Luis Rdriguez Petry is a means f focusing n moments that are drawn frm extended experiences t frm a brief, cruise, immediately communicable feeling. Few achieve this as well as Luis J. Rdriguez, an East Ls Angeles pet, novelist, and China activist. Rdriguez has gained his powerful language frm his child in the basis f Ls Angeles, a twenty-eight year price sentence fr three cunts f attempted murder, time spent in the inner city f Chicago, a Naval ...
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2,344 wordsThe Influence of Discourse on the Artwork of Cindy Bernard Over nearly two decades, Cindy Bernard's artwork has progressed and she has become one of the truly accomplished contemporary artists of today. Writings and discourses of her work have appeared in LA Weekly, Flash Art, The Serpentine Gallery, and the New Times. For Cindy Bernard, the discourse of her work has not created or transformed her art, but rather, her art has transformed and created the discourse. Cindy Bernard was born and rais...
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970 words[Course Title] In relevance to print making, what is Tamarind? Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Inc. (TLW) was founded in Los Angeles in 1960 as a means to "rescue" the dying art of lithography. Fully funded by the Ford Foundation until it became affiliated with the University of New Mexico in 1970, founding director June Wayne (right), together with Associate Director Clinton Adams and Technical Director Garo Antreasian, established multiple long-range goals: to create a pool of master artisan-pr...
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Products And Services Los Angeles
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2,204 words... the irony and complexity which enrich historical architecture. This dissatisfaction was translated into direct action in 1972 with the demolition of several 14 -story slab blocks that had been built only 20 years earlier from designs by Yamasaki as part of the award-winning Pruitt-Ie housing development in St. Louis, Mo. Similar apartment blocks in Europe and North America were demolished in the following decades, but it was at St. Louis that the postmodernist era was begun. (Drexler 74) Ven...
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1,198 words? Weston is, in the real sense, one of the few creative artists of today. He has recreated the matter-forms and forces of nature; he has made these forms eloquent of the fundamental unity of the work. His work illuminates man? s inner journey toward perfection of the spirit. ? Ansel Adams, Date Unknown Edward Weston (1886 - 1958) may seem like he was a confused man in trying to find his photographic goal (s). Just like many other photographers, both of his time and now, he strove to find what tr...
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Japanese Americans Concentration Camps
2,341 wordsEXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 9066 The President EXECUTIVE ORDER AUTHORIZING THE SECRETARY OF WAR TO PRESCRIBE MILITARY AREAS WHEREAS the successful prosecution of the war requires every possible protection against espionage and against sabotage to national-defense material, national-defense premises, and national-defense utilities as defined in Section 4, Act of April 20, 1918, 40 Stat. 533, as amended by the Act of November 30, 1940, 54 Stat. 1220, and the Act of August 21, 1941, 55 Stat. 655 (U. S. C. ...
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2,469 wordsRay Bradbury? s Fahrenheit 451? It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed, ? begins Fahrenheit 451 (1). This opening of Bradbury? s novel immediately evokes the consequences of the careless use of new technology and modern-man? s refusal to recognize these consequences (de Koster 44). The book Fahrenheit 451 is one of only two novels that Ray Bradbury has written, the other being Something Wicked This Way Comes. (Many believe th...
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Andy Warhol Marilyn Monroe
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