Sherrie Levine Analysis

Students today undergo constant pressure for perfection, going through extreme efforts to meet this expectation. Alexandra Robbins, an investigative journalist and author of The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids, views modern educational culture as a danger to students because it advocates productivity over learning. On the other hand, Jay Mathews of the Washington Post believes that students today are more apathetic than stressed. Robbins perception of today’s schools is more accurate than Mathews’, for students cheat to appear smarter, burden themselves with grueling schedules to impress colleges, and develop mental disorders as a result.

Plagiarism has been seen as a harmful practice when it comes to the preservation of an artist’s originality. Jonathan Lethem demonstrates the commonality and convenience of plagiarism by composing his article “The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism” of phrases and ideas of other writers; however, he also supports the claim that a person can rethink and reinterpret the understandings of other people and create an “original” idea based off of them. Is this what Lethem truly means when he says that appropriation is acceptable, or is he supporting intellectual thievery? Appropriation is different from plagiarism in that appropriation doesn’t want the ideas of another artist to be stolen, but further elaborated on or rethought completely.

Belonging to a certain group is a natural experience in the lives of individuals. Groups are categorizable by a variety of options but often expel a trait that epitomizes each individual within the group such as rank, societal merit, or simply just appearance. Behaviorism gratifies purpose within cohort mentality among those in an association due to the psychological commonalities that bring these groups together. When it comes to an individual's development within a certain group, joint mentality helps create a safe environment but often times supports ideologies of self empowerment. Anthropologist Karen Ho composes the analysis of students whom graduate Ivy League universities and enter into financial professions, in her essay “Biographies

Michelle Rhee is an extremely polarizing figure in the educational reform movement. She was hired as the Chancellor of the Washington, D.C. Public School System in January, 2007. Rhee had very little teaching experience, only three years, and she had never been in charge of a school before. (Dingerson, 2010) Still, she had a high level of confidence and she felt that she had a strong sense of what needed to be done to improve the school system.

Sarah Boseley explains how white women have a high greater chance getting breast cancer than those blacks and south Asian women. The author mentions that women from ethnic groups such as "blacks," "whites," and "south Asian" being recruited from since 1996 to 2001. However, the large population who has breast cancer is white women. Analyzing the data from women's study at the University of Oxford, Boseley argues how women have a better chance to protect themselves, nevertheless by breastfeeding their babies and also to plan having a large family. Consequently, she also suggests all women's need advice from the Cancer Research Center in United Kingdom and these women are insensible of terrible disease. This sources urges us to understand significant

Heather Hoodhood has strong beliefs, she is also independent, she says a lot sarcasm, and she is determined. Heather learns that you can’t just walk away from her family and that she should listen to them instead of blocking them out like Holling.

Mollie Goldman’s piece titled “NOW-THEN: NEVER AGAIN” symbolizes the perspective of a young boy who survived the Holocaust. This piece was made in 2014 in honor of Jacob Hennenberg, a Holocaust survivor. The artist Mollie Goldman is a young aspiring artist and a 10th grade student from Fuchs Mizrachi School in Beachwood, Ohio. This aesthetic piece is an acrylic painting on canvas. Goldman evokes a strong intellectual reaction from her audience through the details and cues she uses in her painting to channel her message.

Marcie Crain is an artist and photographer from the beautiful port city of Duluth, MN. She enjoys capturing the diversity of local and regional shores and urban scenes as well as an eclectic mix of people and discoveries in everyday life. Marcie’s photography and a link to her blog can be found on her website: http://www.craingalleries.com

Miss Nikki McKinley gets her ideas across most obviously by choosing bold colours (which are mainly warm but she used cold colours as well, varying her use of colours especially when she was younger) and earthy tones (although as I have mentioned before, she occasionally chose to use more bright and vibrant colours), which give a clear and bold statement. Also, her use of a wide range of media and materials, including: Pencils (colouring and normal), textiles, paint, mosaics, oil pastels, wire, charcoal, photography, digital manipulation (via Adobe Photoshop), clay (for ceramics), hessian, pen, ink, graphic design, boutique and drawing inks, all show the variety of ways in which she is capable of successfully

Myranda Aguilar is a privacy analyst for Sutter Health in Sacramento, California. The purpose of the program is to protect patients’ privacy, compliance, and information security. Her responsibilities are to monitor and investigate any suspicious activity by taking a proactive standpoint against hackers, educating hospital staff, and ensuring patients safety during their stay in the hospital. One of the projects that she is currently working on is privacy auditing and monitoring by tracking patients records to determine if there has been any inappropriate activity by any of the workers, if so she is obligated to report the incident. They use a quarterly metric system to track the negative and positive attempts on a patients’ chart. Some of

The author Francine Schwadel states that consumers in poorer neighborhoods are set up to purchase goods at a higher price not necessarily having better quality. As the article states the price difference paid by the rich and poor appears to have widen at the same time the income gap is growing, furthermore although the rich could afford to buy everyday essentials the poor continue to purchase the same goods at as high as 8.8% more or $350.00 more a year for a family of four-than did shoppers of middle class area. In the authors opinion consumers in poorer neighborhoods are set up to purchase goods that they can’t afford at higher prices in some cases they use their food stamps to cover fees that they can’t afford in return they are charged a higher fee. It is apparent that inequality does exist amongst poorer consumers according to the authors findings.

Is an imitation of an already existing artwork a separate artwork in itself? Some philosophers consider would consider saying yes to this question such as Davies from the theory of multiple artworks while others may say no such as Collingwood in his differentiation of a true artwork as contrasted with a craft. There are many instances of artwork that are only imitations but the credit for its appreciation are given to different people. For example, would a cover for “Hey Jude” by the Beatles in Youtube be considered an instance of the musical work “Hey Jude” or would it be considered an entirely separate artwork? The title of the song that is being sung remains “Hey Jude” but the appreciation of the performance now belongs to the one who made

You would think that most students would be ready for college after high school. They have more freedom and get to live their life how they want to in college. Well, it’s a whole other ball game when you come to the college world. As for Donna Beegle, she never had the college experience so it was very different for her to accomplish, her goal to become a college student. As for me, I personally was ready for a challenge! With Donna and I, we both had a common struggle and that would be a lack of understanding and subject.

The turn of the 19th century was tumultuous time in terms of the arrival of many new ideas and ideals—human rights, and whether people should have them and to what extent, being an example. According to Lynn Hunt, the rise of the credibility of human rights largely came out of “subtle but momentous changes in the perception of bodies and selves” (9). In other words, because the general public began to view other individuals as separate, morally autonomous beings—and also began to appreciate the fact—the rights of man became more accepted. What exactly allowed people to understand others, however, is very interesting. Hunt continues to argue that, in essence, art helped draw out empathy from people. Novels, theater, painting, music—they all

Farmers and ranchers are disgraceful people. They kill, abuse, and torture innocent animals. They do not care about their livestock, because “farmers and ranchers only care about the almighty dollar.” These are the exact thoughts of animal rights activist all across the globe. Emily Rohr is one of those activists. She published an article that recently gone viral. FFA is lame, with a not so nice acronym following. In this article, she bashed the FFA and farming procedures. She claims we are a “killer” organization, brainwashing innocent children to see animals only as food, and not friends. Within every occupation, there is always a bad apple, but to stereotype all agriculturalists is a tragedy to all farmers and ranchers. Especially three