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    “Keep it simple, stupid”, was a phrase that Kelly Johnson followed. It means that things, such as military systems or equipment, work better if kept things nice and simple. How Clarence “Kelly” Johnson changed aeronautics, he had a part in designing things such as the F-117 Stealth Fighter and the SR-71 Blackbird, as well as U-2 spy plane, and the famed Model 10 Electra, the plane that Amelia Earhart flew on her attempted flight around the world. Kelly Johnson was born in a small town in Michigan

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    Desert Storm “This will not stand, this aggression against Kuwait.”-President George H.W Bush, Aug 6,1990. Desert Storm was the largest build up of U.S forces since the Vietnam War. Within a short period members of the 82nd Airborne Division as well as 300 combat aircraft were deployed to the Middle East. Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait with 120,000 military personnel 2,000 of which were tanks. Iraq’s Air Force at the time was the largest but it was week. They choose quantity over quality also, their

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    While Nighthawks is this artist’s most recognized piece of work, a similarly named artifact leaves his audience pondering with a feeling of mysteriousness and somber. In Night Shadows, Edward Hopper creates an etching of a man walking near a building. The artifact, which was created in 1921, has a man approaching the corner of a lit-up street in a long black coat and hat. Casted across this corner is a shadow, presumably from a streetlight (Slater 143). Viewers receivs a bird’s-eye view of the anonymous

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    You also notice that her clothing and hair are of light color, and she is very detailed. After studying the complex painting closely, you find that the focus of the painting is the Princess. The Nighthawks by Edward Hopper shows you the inside of a dinner. The use of color gives the dinner a since of warmth, but coldness at the same time. The buildings outside of the dinner are very dark, lonely, and deserted. The buildings feel very cold. Inside

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    Choosing Edward Hopper

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    For my choice of photographer/artist, I chose Edward Hopper, the reason for choosing Edward hopper was that he related with my project, which consist of that of a diner. Edward Hopper most famous work was a painting named Nighthawks, which is of a diner and its occupants at night. I’ve seen this painting at the Art Institute in Chicago and at first glance it was to me but a painting of a diner. The overall way I saw the painting was change after taking drawing studio, but also learning about the

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    Exposing social convention and its inexorable political control over human bodies Gregor Schneider’s 21 Beach Cells (2007)(Fig.1) reinvents the irony of ‘determined leisure’ found in Realist painter Edward Hopper’s implicitly dystopian work People in the Sun (1960)(Fig.2). The difference in practice and context shows a subtle and vital difference between what each work is saying. Hopper creates irony through the conventions of realism and composition: determined people of the fifties era trying

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    gain the radio signals to get to the Internet connection (Switcher, 2015). Table 2 refers to the comparison of three models of wireless router. Wireless Routers Router 1 Router 2 Router 3 Model D-Link AC3200 Ultra Wi-Fi Router Netgear R7000 AC1900 Nighthawk TP-LINK Archer C7 AC1750 Dual Band Wireless AC Gigabit Router Network Standard IEEE 802.11ac, n,g,a IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.3u IEEE 802.11ac 2.0 IEEE 802.11n v2 IEEE 802.11b 2.4GHz IEEE 802.11a 5.0GHz

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    INT 1 Task 1

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    Part One Changes in DNA Understanding - a Continuing Process INT - Task 1 Understanding Genetics a Timeline of DNA Science ● ● ● ● ● ● 1700’s - it is believed that all traits are acquired. Example - a giraffe has a long neck due to stretching to reach the leaves in the taller trees. 1800’s - Carl Linnaeus classified by visible traits. 1866 - Gregor Mendel, through pea plant breeding and research; discovered that traits are inherited not acquired- before anyone knew or understood anything about

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    Today, we live in a world of change. Change is everywhere and it can be a major or so small we don’t notice it until later in the future. Our environment is changing, we as humans are constantly changing. Our world is moving into modernization and globalization. “Globalization is a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology. This process has effects

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    Art Institute Of Chicago

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    Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and American paintings. Many famous paintings are housed in the Institute such as The bedroom by Vincent van Gogh, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat, American Gothic by Grant Wood, Nighthawks by Grant Wood, The Old Guitarist by Pablo Picasso, and many more. Not only does the museum hold art pieces but other pieces of art from different mediums as well. On the lower levels are the Thorne Miniature rooms which showcase interior American

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