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    Cultural Change and Shifting Views of America Tina Hudaifa ARTS/125 – Pop Culture and the Arts Professor: Kevin Ballard April 20, 2015 Cultural Change and Shifting View in America Many consider The 1893 Chicago’s

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    Art in general is a form of expression. Individuals use art to express emotions, passion, or make a statement. Society can have an impact on how an artist chooses to express his or her sentiments. The beauty of it all is that interpretation is what makes art so unique. The same piece of art can mean so many different things due to who is looking at it. Just like everything else, art changes with time. There has been different eras in art that have impacted society as we know it. The Gilded

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    society at that time like the ashcan school like I mentioned before focused on the economic hardships in New York city. The paintings from John Sloan come to mind as they were of everyday people in bars and restaurants which like I said before were the place to be and showed how society was in that era from the clothes to the food and drink I think John Sloan captured that image perfectly. George Bellows was also great at capturing the current events I saw one painting called Tennis in Newport

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    In the past, most YouTubers stayed on YouTube and did not venture to get their name out to the public. Now, most of the YouTubers and people famous from the internet are going beyond that and getting their name across different platforms, whether it is by writing a book, acting, singing, or some of those combined. Gabbie Hanna, also known as The Gabbie Show on YouTube and other social media platforms, is venturing out getting her name out to the public more. In the past year, Gabbie has written,

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    Arguably Marin suffers the influences of the European futurists who are just emerging in Europe during this period, which can imply that Bellows, like other Ashcanners and the French Impressionists, did involuntarily start the concept of dynamism and its application in their paintings. From the macabre description of New York and some of his inhabitants and the thermodynamic of some of Bellows paintings, the symposium proceeded

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    movement, and it was catalyzed by authors like Honoré de Balzac, whose magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels called La Comédie Humaine. These stories were innovative as they depicted French society during 1815-1848 as it really was, not a fanciful tale of French aristocracy, but of regular French citizens in their natural home. However, this is not to belittle the impact of Balzac’s and other realist author’s stories as they often captured their audience equally or even more effectively

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    different kind of hero to show realisticness to the real world came up in several books including: Mr. Penumbra’s 24 hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan, A Good and Happy Child by Justin Evans, Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera, Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, and A Family Fang by Kevin Wilson. Numerous authors, like Evans, Wilson, and Sloan, made it clear that their main character was nerdy or different unlike the common usage of the all-American boy. For example, in A Good and

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    John Constable was born the in year 1776, in Suffolk, England, and was raised in the English countryside, which greatly influenced his later career as an artist. Almost one hundred years later, the artist John Sloan was born in 1871, in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. His subsequent upbringing in the city of Philadelphia significantly shaped his later career, in a similar fashion to Constable. Both were brought up, not necessarily aspiring to be artists, but each found his passion for painting later in

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    Julia Child was born on August 15th 1912, she was born in Pasadena California were she was the eldest of three children, Julia often went by many nicknames such as “juju” “juke” etc. Her father John Mcwilliams was a graduate at princeton and was an early investor in California real estate, The family was actually rather wealthy and as a result Julia Child was a rather privileged child, She studies at San Francisco's Elite Katherine Branson school for girls, she was an astounding 6’2 and stood out

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    Critical Analysis of the Relative Merits of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and the Fama and French (F&F) Three-Factor Model (TFM) Introduction During the 20th century, securities trading in the stock market has significantly increased. Since then, many studies have analysed the performance of managed portfolios and evaluated the way investors explain returns on stocks (Jagannathan and Wang, 1996). The most common theory used by managers and practitioners is known as the Capital Asset

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