Mount Rushmore - America’s Greatest Sculpture The United States of America is the greatest nation in our world today. It is made up of 50 states with each state having its own unique history. South Dakota is well known for tourism mostly due to the beauty of the Black Hills and the Mount Rushmore National Memorial nestled in a granite mountain located by Keystone‚ South Dakota. Mount Rushmore started out as a dream which led to the reality of a monumental sculpture commemorating four outstanding presidents
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Things and People are not always as they appear to be on the first sight that is why we have to examine them in different ways otherwise they may mislead us. That is more then true in the short story “The Kiss” by Kate Chopin in which she uses imagery‚ irony and simile to show us how deceitful a person can be. She tells us by the actions of her characters that a person should not be judged solely by his or her appearance or words because those things can be dangerously misleading. All of the characters
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A girl’s first kiss‚ whether good or bad‚ is an experience she never will never be able to forget. At age twelve I had never had a serious relationship with a guy‚ although it seemed as though every girl my age had already kissed several guys. It really hadn’t bothered me‚ because I really wasn’t interested in any of the guys I knew at that time. Then‚ when it seemed as though I would never find a guy I would be interested in‚ I met Blake Sadler. Blake and I first met through my cousin Amber. One
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her Janie with a kiss.’ Through the choice of the word ‘lacerating’‚ Hurston connects the act of kissing‚ to whipping. To lacerate‚ means to tear or make deep cuts; this definition starkly contrasts the soft and vulnerable nature of a kiss. The delineation resonates with Nanny recounting the time where the slave master’s wife was whipping her‚ ‘but dem last lick burnt me lak fire’ . The only difference between the way Nanny explained her beatings and the brutality of Janie’s kiss‚ are simply a matter
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“The Kiss” The definition of sculpture is the art of making two or three dimensional representative or abstract forms. Just like carving wood or by casting metal or plaster. The qualities of a successful sculpture would have to have a well constructed figure and emotion behind the actual figure. My two artworks i chose to compare and contrast was “The Kiss” by Constantin Brancusi and “Pieta” by Michelangelo. “The Kiss” by Constantin Brancusi was made in 1908. Constantin’s sculptures were
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works are abstract and innovative. They are made of found pieces that could be quite random but through the assemblage Klippel makes his sculptures portray qualities such as balance and structure. Klippel’s works are abstract but not at all random‚ ‘The New McCullochs’s Encyclopaedia of Australian Art’ described‚ “His distinctive‚ abstract wooden and metal sculptures as a unique blend of airy grace and solidity deriving from the discards of industrial society. Derived from disused industrial materials
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Phillip the 2nd of France was also known as Phillip Augustus or French Philippe Auguste. He was born on August 21‚ 1165 in Paris‚ France‚ and died on July 14‚ 1223‚ Mantes. He was one of the first greatest Kings of medieval France. He was one of the kings who gradually reconquered all the French territories held by the kings of England and also other royal domains. Phillip Augustus was a major figure for the third crusade. Phillip indeed travelled to the Holy Land to join in the third crusade from
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Ashleigh Tucker Assignment 3 Langer & Rodin (1976) Article Review I. Preliminary Analysis of an Article ● What are the author’s credentials and institutional affiliation? ● Has the author’s work been cited by others? This will require you doing some looking around. Dr. Ellen Langer‚ Ph.D.‚ is a social psychologist and the first female professor to gain tenure in the Psychology Department at Harvard University. She is the author of eleven books and more than two hundred research articles
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David "" Analysis and Structure It is obvious that Michelangelo was meticulous when creating this sculpture. His sculpture‚ David‚ must have been done after studying the human form a great deal. The lines he has used are very natural‚ and though his figure is rather chiseled‚ the lines seem very gentle. Michelangelo has paid special attention to shape. Every ligament‚ muscle and bone seems as though it is alive. I especially noticed the shape of the legs‚ the back of the knees particularly. The muscle
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meaning of Henry Moore’s sculptures Moore’s sculptures are exhibited all around the world. In Moore’s homeland‚ the sculptures are exhibited in Kew Botanical Gardens‚ the natural suuroundings of the gardens compliment the sculptures. It feels as if the sculptures are different during the different times of the day. In the morning‚ when the sculptures are wrapped in mist‚ or during middag when the blue sky and sunshine makes them shine‚ or in the evening‚ when the sculptures absorb the red evening
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