Joe Scarpa

Laci Peterson, a 27-year-old wife who was eight months pregnant, disappeared on December 24, 2002. When the body of the California woman and her unborn child were found four months later, her husband, Scott, was charged with two counts of murder. Detective Craig Grogan gave a sworn statement that he had probable cause to believe Mr. Peterson committed two counts of the crime of 187 Penal Code, homicide, on or about December 23 or 24 of 2002, in the county of Stanislaus. April 17, 2003 the Judge of the Superior Court in Stanislaus County, California issued a warrant for the arrest of Scott Lee Peterson. The court found that the District Attorney’s office did, in fact, have probable cause to bring Scott Peterson in. The Judge specifically

TorusMacroCopula is a sculpture created by, Ernesto Neto. This sculpture is a representation of a large scale environment sculpture. An environment sculpture is a sculpture that you can physically enter into or explore either indoors or in a contained space. This sculpture consists of large plastic balls in netting hung from the ceiling. Tourists are able to enter inside of the netting and physically walk across the gigantic plastic balls. This artwork would be classified as an assemblage because it was the process of brining individual pieces together to form a larger whole. The individual objects that were assembled together would be the large plastic balls and the netting.

Fischer teamed up with a local Kansas City-based firm A. Zahner Company together they created and brought to life Fischer’s inspiration. The largest of the sculptures is 40 feet tall and 35 feet wide and weighing in at 24,000 pounds. In order to get the sculptures on top of the four 300 foot pylons, a special helicopter was needed. A Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane which is designed to lift heavy objects was used to lower the sculptures down.

However, the “live” is still typically absent. As the audience for this kind of art, we are always complicit in its meaning. This ringing especially true to any sort of “live” performance. With artworks such as this, one has to allow for themselves to be changed in response to the stimuli. O’Grady pushed the limits when it came to identity in her pieces, she went against the norm and decided to be different. Others chose to intervene into public spaces such as the street, or in this case a parade, to instigate a conversation between the viewer and performer - as one, they work together to allow for later viewers to understand the motif and the

Joe Nocera is a world renowned business journalist and author. He currently writes for the “New York Times, previously writing about business, but over the years has changed his focus to sport. Just recently, Mr. Nocera has released his newest book “Indentured”, in which he discusses the not so glorious side of the NCAA and college sports. In his book, Nocera uses real life stories of former and current collegiate athletes, to further continue his strong feelings and opinions towards the operation and policies of the NCAA. With that being said, one of the first stories he tells in his book is about Ryan Boatright, a former UConn basketball star. Nocera continues in his discussion to share that it is stories like Boatright’s that have driven

The Joe Chemo, 1996 illustration from Scott Plous and Ron Turner, spoofs the popular Joe Camel mascot of Camel cigarettes (see fig. 1). Instead of Camel cigarette’s healthy, strong Joe Camel; they have created a sickly, weak camel in a hospital bed, attached to an iv. Their camel is named Joe Chemo, to show the dangers of smoking. I think that this is a valid attempt to show the flip side of smoking, especially with the popularity of Joe Camel during that time. I think the creators are appealing to all audiences. The image doesn’t have text, it just shows a sick version of Joe Camel. The dangers of smoking were already known in 1996, so their illustration was an appropriate reminder.

You step into the street without really looking, and a bus zooms by, almost hitting you. What flashes through your mind? I would wonder if the bus was manufactured by the company I used to work for and would look to see what kind of shape it was in at that time.

Freedom is the ability to express one's beliefs, wishes, desires, and so on. When people think freedom, they may think of the West being a major symbol of it. However, that is not necessarily the case in several instances. Freedom should be the ability to walk freely, as Chief Joseph described. The unfairness towards the Chinese, Native Americans, and the Hispanic Americans counteracts the idea of the West symbolizing freedom.

As I walk on the grounds of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, I encounter one of the Oldenburg and van Bruggen’s giant shuttlecocks. Additionally, as I view and walk around this giant shuttlecock, I cannot help but think of how this object is disproportional, especially in comparison to it’s surroundings. The shuttlecock is huge and unbelievably larger than the average size of a shuttlecock, which would fit within the palm of my hand. An altered view is created by the use of the visual principles of scale and proportion in order to create this sculpture.

Standing in front of this sculpture, the viewer can feel the wind whipping around them and the sea spraying you in the face. The energy and motion add to the dramatic effect that immediately draws the viewer in. This dramatic effect is created by the lines of the figure. Nike’s elongated wings catch your eye and create a lengthy transverse line which adds to the drama. The drapery that clothes the figure has the same

In the Euthyphro, Euthyphro himself gives three proposals of piety. First, the pious is to prosecute the wrongdoer and the impious is not to prosecute the wrongdoer. Socrates disputes this example as lacking generality. He believed that in order to define piety, one had to find the form that made all pious acts pious. An example of a pious act does not in turn define piety. Euthyphro’s second attempt stated that the pious is loved by the gods, while the impious was hated by them. Again, Socrates objects, saying that although it passed the generality requirement, there was no conformity among the objects dear to the gods. After all, the gods had different opinions as did humans. Euthyphro then

Our world is full of so many grandiose monuments, eye-catching sculptures, and stunning statues, each having an individual story to tell. Thousands of them have been created however, only a small number of them are actually extraordinary and picture-worthy. This paper will compare and contrast two of those picture-worthy sculptures. Furthermore, I will examine the aspects of each of these sculptures. I will compare and contrast what each of them represents, the differences in texture, their size and their tone.

One of the most challenging problems I encountered this semester was reconciling the inconsistency within the Sufi textual tradition between the hagiographies of the early Sufi masters, who practiced a form of renunciation that was characterized by the unfettered relinquishment of all possessions, social relations, and familial duties, and the instruction manuals of the developing systematization of Sufism, which no longer required its students and masters to engage in such rigorous renunciation but instead substituted more moderate and socially acceptable forms of renunciation. On the one hand, Abu Na’im al-Asfahani (d. 429/1038), author of Beauty of the Righteous, refers to a group of renunciants named ahl al-Suffa, as “the apotheosis of

The regime in Gilead is totalitarian since the government puts no distinction between public and private. The state controls all aspects of beliefs and relationship; citizens are discouraged to form relationships outside their rank. By doing so, Atwood is displaying a society where individuals are stripped of their fundamental human rights- free will, they are deemed as incapable of creating decisions for themselves. Moira comments that, “You can't help what you feel...but you can help how you behave”. It is expected of the Handmaid’s to control their ‘feelings’ -they have to supress their sexual desire and sexuality.

Initially, when I walked up to this sculpture my thoughts were the name of the piece pretty much sums it up. Approaching the statues, they seem to just be large bronze masses on the corner of McCaul street but, as any art should be looked at, I decided to dig deeper than the superficial. The location is odd to me, mainly because the bronze forms are not alone in the corner of the building, but are not really impacted by its surroundings. The trees behind the statue are dead giving a desolate atmosphere invoking a sense of loneliness. Moreover, almost the entire area surrounding the piece is solid concrete, giving a very penitential outlook. I’m not sure if the sculpture’s initial approach is supposed to invoke miserable emotions but if so it does its job