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    Faith Ringgold

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    Peggy Orr Professor Knight Art History April 12‚ 2009 Ringgold’s Story Quilts Faith Ringgold’s artwork on her quilts is not only beautiful but literally tells stories. Ringgold began her artistic career more than 35 years ago as a painter. Today‚ she is best known for her painted story quilts -- art that combines painting‚ quilted fabric and storytelling. She has exhibited in major museums in the USA‚ Europe‚ South America‚ Asia‚ Africa‚ and the Middle

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    Faith Ringgold Analysis

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    While Faith Ringgold has had a long and successful career‚ the most exciting and powerful works of art she has created were the works of the nineteen-sixties. These works illustrate such passion and raw truth of the situation she and all of the African American people of the U.S. were facing during those turbulent times. These works of art truly show the growing divide between the American dream and the reality of life for many people. Faith used her artwork to tell the world her views on the political

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    Flags and Their Many Meanings Art Appreciation Final Critical Essay By: Rachelle Goude April 23‚ 2005 Critical Essay on God Bless America‚ Faith Ringgold‚ What is the Proper Way to Display the American Flag?‚ Dread Scott Tyler and The World Flag Ant Farm‚ Yukinori Yanagi. Flags and their Many Meanings I will be describing and evaluating the works and artists described above. To begin I will describe each work and its symbolism. I will then summarize the artists and the times of their

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    Tar Sands

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    Geography Debate Given the carbon costs the Athabasca Tar sands should not be allowed to continue production. Not only will the cost rise when there is little oil left but the tar sands also create a lot of pollution. If they are not careful the cost is going to get outrageously high because they will eventually have to pay for some of the damage they cause with all the pollution they make. If they continue it will ruin the environment around the oil sands and they will hurt the environment in

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    characteristics and values. Also‚ she points out one of the leading figures was Faith Ringgold in the article Afrofemcentrism and Its Fruition in the Art of Elizabeth Catlett and Faith Ringgold. Personally‚ I agree with her perspective because many black female artists demonstrated a sense of injustice and its artistic manifestations based on both African continuum and feminist consciousness. Therefore‚ I explore art of Faith Ringgold in the women’s liberation movement‚ what Afrofemcetric chracteristics she

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    Tar and Feathering

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    as 1189‚ and was commonly used in the 1700s as a punishment for any wrongdoing. If this happened in the present people would regard it as bizarre and very cruel‚ but back then it was very common to see as a punishment. The colonists were so eager to tar and feather someone because they wanted to make an example of them‚ and to publically humiliate the wrongdoer. In the 1700s there was little to no patience for causing a disruption in public and they wanted everyone to know that. The tarring and feathering

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    Tar Sands

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    Tar Sands The majority of oil used by the United States as well as internationally soon may come from the tar sands in Alberta‚ Canada. Extracting oil from tar sands is an extremely costly and immensely dirty way of obtaining fuel. There is currently a plan to build a pipeline‚ the Keystone XL‚ which will run from the supply of tar sands in Albert down the western United States to refineries in Texas. There are two major concerns when dealing with the creation of this pipeline and the increased

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    Tar Sands

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    Extract Tar Sands Ltd. Background information Extract Tar Sands is an extraction plant company located in Athabasca‚ Alberta. It is a leading extraction plant‚ and one of the worlds most global industries. Large investments are required but the future outcomes are unknown. Athabasca has the largest reservoir of crude bitumen in the world. The tar sands go through a refining process to separate the bitumen (black viscous oil) from the mixture of clay‚ sand and water. Extracting oil from tar sand is

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    Sydney Tar Ponds

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    The Sydney Tar Ponds are the most toxic hazardous waste site in North America‚ located in Cape Breton. These tar ponds were caused essentially from a century of steel making‚ polluting it with high levels of PCB‚ mercury‚ lead and polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons. This was first discovered in 1980 by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans in Sydney Harbor‚ which resulted in a period of events and frustrations for both the government and residents. In1982 lobster fisheries were all closed down due

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    Tar Sands Essay

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    opinions on the issue of the “Tar sands” or “Oil sands” (I shall use both unambiguously) development. Environmentalists (like myself) and concerned citizens in Canada‚ as well as the international community‚ decry that the largest industrial energy project on the face of the planet is destroying future generation’s right to clean soil‚ water‚ air‚ biodiversity and most importantly a stable climate. As well as strong local economy‚ the current economic setup of the tar sands’ development is to focus

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