Framing The West By Rachel Stiff Essay

I think that Roy thinks Wolff has reached the age where he should be allowed to handle a gun. Roy has been holding a gun since he was Wolff’s age, so he doesn’t see why Wolff’s mother would think he is too young to handle one.

“I have freedom,” you say? Do you really? Perhaps, in some ways, you do. But in the end, you’re just another puppet being controlled by invisible strings whether you know it or not. “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains,” Jean-Jacques Rousseau once said. In society, man is “chained” and controlled by the government, by pressure of conforming to the social norms, by wealth and social class, and by one’s desires and emotions. Prior to birth, man is not restricted by such factors but that is merely a fleeting moment as he is slowly exposed to more and more of the world. I agree that “everywhere [man] is in chains,” but on the contrary, I believe man is already chained from the start—that man is never free. In the novel, Brave New

The Westward Expansion has often been regarded as the central theme of American history, down to the end of the19th century and as the main factor in the shaping of American history. As Frederick Jackson Turner says, the greatest force or influence in shaping American democracy and society had been that there was so much free land in America and this profoundly affected American society. Motives After the revolution, the winning of independence opened up the Western country and was hence followed by a steady flow of settlers to the Mississippi valley. By 1840, 10 new western states had been added to the Federal union. The frontier line ran through Iowa, Missouri and Arkansas on the western side

“Chasing the Lamb,” by Russell Rowland is an essay about the time he spent during his teen years working on a ranch. It was on the ranch that he learned about hard work, perseverance, and what it means to be a community. Jim Harrison tells of his experience in “Geopiety.” Harrison, like Rowland, writes from Montana, and though he believes Westerners are still around he believes they have a violent past. In “No Direction Home,” Charles Bowden writes about his experience of the west. Living close to the Mexican boarder his perception is much different from both Rowland and Harrison. Bowden explains his belief that the West is “not in our minds but under our feet” (Bowden 265). Each author has had his own experience and each

Web essay 4: The West There are many people that think of the land west of the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean known simply as “The West” as just another part of the United States. The real story of how the western frontier as we know it today manifested is a truly magnificent one. It is one of many different perspectives filled with war, courage, religious freedom, and the bloodshed of many for the fulfillment of dreams or the perseverance of ones right to their land and culture. It was the center of the universe for the Indians who were first to inhabit the land and a promise of riches and power for explorers, settlers, and missionaries who set out to make the West their own. The two sections I paid particular attention to in my research were The People and The Empire upon the Trails.

The Great War, or World War I, ended in 1918 with the Treaty of Paris. It marked the beginning of a new era. During the war, there was a boom in the economy and employment was easy to find. The damage the war caused on the land in Europe was catastrophic; with the trenches and heavy artillery and machinery being used to destroy each other and take cities, it is amazing that there was anything left. Many people, soldiers and civilians, died during the war. After World War I, many countries gained their independence, and many countries suffered severe economic debt due to the expensive war reparations.

In Give Me Liberty, the West “had been seen as a place of opportunity for those seeking to improve their condition in life.” (603) In the West, capitalism was also more speedy here and it was a very diverse region, which advanced by the end of the nineteenth century. Also, in the late nineteenth century, the most multicultural state in the Union was North Dakota. Interestingly, the regions would not have been settled if not for active governmental assistance. A new farming emerged on the middle boarder were the farmers were a diverse group, which was a good thing for farmers, but what farm farmers invested in was not going to favor the women, neither was it going to ease the women’s burdens in the household, instead it only brought cash to

Kupchan, Charles A. No One’s World: The West, The Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Artists tell stories through their canvas, stories that cannot be told by words, stories that can only be painted. One will interpret the meaning of an artwork base on their own preference and palate. Similarly, artists also painted out their own taste of beauty and present them out for viewers to contemplate and construe as they desire. “Skyline” by Charles Sheeler and “Yellow Room” by Fairfield Porter in the Wichita Art Museum are two particular artworks that have their own voices hidden under the combination of line, shape, and space. The two works utilize the elements of form harmoniously to deliver the perfect balance and unity. At the same time, the use color and their representation are what differentiate the two pieces from each

The Navajo Indians emulated the pueblo. The shed their animal skin clothing for cotton and learned quickly how to farm. These people settled in between the Rio Grande and the Grand Canyon. They herded sheep and grew corn in the valleys. They were a peaceful group of people, and were one with their surroundings.

In Samuel P. Huntington’s article “The West: Unique, Not Universal,” he addresses his audience with a very controversial question: Is Western Culture universal or unique? Huntington elaborately opens up this question with research and examples to explain and persuade readers that the West will never be a universal culture for all, but rather a unique culture that will be accepted by those who appreciate it. For decades now, historians and scholars have debated with one another to determine who is right and wrong. However, from a handful of articles from different scholars, Samuel Huntington’s statement that the West is unique rather than universal is supported and even further elaborated on by these particular sources. A common understanding between all the sources, that must be noted, is that a civilization’s culture is not comprised of material goods but rather their culmination of their religion(s), values, language(s) and traditions. While although there are scholars out their that negate the West is unique, a large amount of scholars still argue and strengthen Huntington’s argument that the West has unique and exclusive characteristics that make them distinctive and rare.

The exhibit “Collage” contains works by Merle Axelrad which can be located in downtown Sacramento ARTHOUSE Gallery and Studios. The artist's fabric collages are in several locations as a private collection, they are also placed in a corporate and civic area (ARTHOUSE), she worked in sculpture and sewn collages, however in this exhibit she is great for the fabric work. Axelrad collages are influenced by the real nature and landscape she encounters.Three pieces of her fabric work: River 2, River 3 and Sierra Water reflect her style as modern and elaborated, making her unique from other artists. Each individual collages she made has been carefully arranged, layered, pinned and sewn together (Axelrad) in order to depict the image of nature

Standing nine feet tall and twelve feet wide, the painting Margarete towers over viewers in a gallery. The layers of paint, straw, and burlap are weighed down by the story of horrors it has been tasked with telling; the rough surface reaches out towards three dimensions. In another room somewhere pieces of broken wood, bike tires, and other artifacts are suspended mid-explosion with a singular light bulb in the center. The remnants of the shed throw dramatic shadows on the walls giving second life to these found objects. These two artists share similar themes and inspirations yet work in vastly different processes and mediums. The artists Anselm Kiefer and Cornelia Parker explore materiality through chaos; both crushing, burning, and harvesting

A. J. Polyzoides, an honorary senior lecturer at Birmingham University, states: “The western world has adopted and developed their discoveries throughout the centuries.” (Polyzoides 1). As the Hellenistic society shifted away from the Classical ideals of perfectionism and idolization of the elites and gods in sculpture, artists began to be fixated on illustrating imperfection of a variety of individuals faced with the ruthless authenticity of their emotional struggles. Whereas, Classical architecture focused on dedicating massive structures to the gods to emphasize their divinity, but Hellenistic architecture used advanced technology to exemplify Alexander the Great’s magnificence. Thus, differences in the architecture can be seen in the sophisticated town of Alexandria with structures such as the lighthouse that show how Alexander the Great influenced town planning that was centralized on the creation of a superior city, likewise, The Altar at Pergamon expresses the loss of focus on the divine through unique sculptural techniques. Change can also be seen in the sculptures of The Boxer and The Old Market Woman as they are depicted to be imperfectly individualistic and in emotional distress.

I have often wondered about the early days of Jesus, what he did before he met John the Baptist, got baptized, and started his new life. Many people believe he went for a long walk, a journey to the East, like the one described by Hermann Hesse in the novel with that title, A Journey To The East, which goes to the same place as the Chinese story called Journey To The West. Some says Jesus went to India and some say he went to Tibet.