Portrait of an American Family

Van Winkle" is a public celebration of the American Revolution. The story opens with the prefigurative imagery of family breakups, specifically the Kaatskill (Catskill) Mountains that "are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family" (p. 769). In the story, Rip's colonial family is also dismembered as he escapes from his tyrannical wife, but he is finally rediscovered and reintegrated into his new American family at the end. The context of family

about slaves, African American suffrage, the struggles they went through as slaves, the racism during many years, the bad treating of African American people, from children all the way to adults, the deaths and all of the court cases that had to do with African Americans, we all talk about it much now and in comparison to the Native Americans struggles, I believe that this isn’t really fair or right in a way that, Native Americans should be recognize just as African Americans do, because their struggles

wants to be. In Hung Liu’s self-portrait Peaches, she depicts herself as a traditional Chinese woman veiled behind an array of natural life. This woman is dressed in cultural garb with a collar that extends up past her jaw line. It seems almost as if the high collar is meant to hold her

Many people will say a picture is worth a thousand words, and a picture displaying a woman in between Mexico and the United States is worth a lot more than a thousand words. Frida Kahlo painted a portrait of how she viewed Mexico compared to the United States, it is obvious that she missed Mexico and didn’t like the US as much because she was from Mexico and Mexico was her culture. Culture consistently informs the way one views the world and others. People often judge others by their culture and

Joseph Szabo, born in 1944 in Toledo (Ohio), is a contemporary American photographer, whose body of work could serve as an intimate chronicle of adolescence over the past four decades. Receiving his education from Pratt Institute in New York (1968), Szabo started his teaching experience, firstly at Malverne High School in New York (1972-1999), and later also lecturing at the International Center of Photography (since 1978). Since the very beginning, he started to intensively observe his students

The iconic imagery of George Washington is present in various aspects of everyday life to the average American citizen; his portraits are displayed in government buildings, museums, a mountainside, and even loose pocket change. In a sense, his image has become a pseudo-allegorical figure representing the stability and power of the United States. Although the humble Washington has been documented as discontent with the act of sitting for artists, he patiently allowed hundreds of painters and sculptures

specifically Native Americans, believe certain mascots are offensive and should from sport team names. The author attempts to create sympathy within the reader by sharing a story from is youth that tells how his mom was displeased with a hat he wore home that had a Chief wahoo on it. He told how his mom "jerked his hat off and threw it in the trash" because "she had been fighting against Indian stereotypes all her life." While the author believes that these Native Americans are right to protest

Obsession in Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray Wilde’s development and use of a metaphoric painting allow multiple characters to interact with various principles of the aesthetic movement. First, I will evaluate Dorian Gray’s obsession with his portrait and its supernatural tendencies. Then, I will examine Dorian Grey’s mild obsession with Lord Henry’s aesthetic

potatoes are when fresh from the earth and had been thrown from the hand of a decrepit indigenous Mayan woman dressed in a bright huipil who sat in her stall at a local street market which had occurred every Saturday for the last five hundred years. My family was soaking in the eclectic mix of colored clothes all around us, the variety of brightly colored strange fruits and vegetables for sale, in front of a white adobe colonial church where since the arrival of the Spaniards in the 1500’s, ancient pagan

Grant Wood’s American Gothic is one of the most famous paintings in the history of American art. The painting brought Wood almost instant fame after being exhibited for the first time at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1930. It is probably the most reproduced and parodied works of art, and has become a staple within American pop-culture. The portrait of what appears to be a couple, standing solemnly in front of their mid-western home seems to be a simplistic representation of rural America. As simple