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According to the Art History Archive, Barbara Kruger is an American conceptual artist born in Newark, New Jersey in 1945. She attended Syracuse University in 1964 where her interests in graphic design, poetry, and writing developed. A year later, Kruger moved to New York and attended Parsons School of Design where she was exposed to the creative spheres of photography, fashion, and editorial design. In 1966, she left Parsons to work for Condé Nast Publications and soon after began to work at Mademoiselle

power over the land in California. San Francisco Solano Mission was the last mission established in Sonoma, the Valley of the Moon, resulted an important historical event in California and the existence of the California flag. The Spanish arrival to California created a major impact to the lives of the native Indians, and there were many significant events occurred among the Spaniards, the native Indians, and the Americans before California became a part of America. San Francisco Solano Mission was founded

Anthropology: An Intimate Ethnography I remember it like it was yesterday. I was driving to Mount Shasta with my friend, Marley, and her parents for the weekend. It was about a four-and-a-half-hour car ride full of two eight year olds giggling in the back of the car and two parents blasting Disney radio in the front seats. Marley’s mom’s phone rings and she picks it up as we continue to sing our young hearts out to the Jonas Brothers. All of a sudden my friend and I hear her mother shriek with

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San Francisco has a homelessness problem, yet that problem can be solved. The problem of homelessness in San Francisco can be observed by taking a stroll through an area such as the Tenderloin District or Haight Ashbury. In these places, homeless people are plentiful, yet they are almost always overlooked by the other San Franciscans who use those areas to work and play. Providing permanent housing (as opposed to places at shelters) to chronically homeless people has been proven to be an efficient

Some people believe that students from low income families have little to offer. However, I consider that low income students have extra to offer as they have emerged from harsh situations that have nurtured hard work and encouraged their eagerness to succeed. My families’ financial situation is below the poverty line which is why I am pursuing a higher education and career. For months during high school, my family and I would receive our daily nutrients from soups and undergo months deprived of

against the backdrop of the Californian Gold Rush of the 1850s, The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt follows the lives of two brothers, Eli and Charlie Sisters. The Sisters Brothers tells the story of these infamous assassins who are on a journey to San Francisco to kill a man named Hermann Kermit Warm. Warm appears to be a subtle man, who is accused of stealing from their boss, a formidable figured named the Commodore. As the brothers continue on with their journey, they come across many people from

many women in San Francisco who were very influential and leave an everlasting impression on the city. Women such as Lillie Hitchcock Coit, Isadora Duncan, and Mary Ellen Pleasant were all very important people living in San Francisco during the 1800’s to 1900’s, and were able to make a difference in their community. Being the first woman to participate in a fire rescue and late be made the mascot for firemen was Lillie Hitchcock Coit. What made her famous amongst the people of San Francisco was

Morris Fuller Beton creator of the Typeface News Gothic as well as many other typefaces was born in the year of 1844 in Little falls New Jersey. He was the son of Linn Boyd Beton an American engineer who created the ATF (American Type Founders Company) in the early 1892’s. Morris Fuller’s father was an inventor and discovered many different ways to use and create typefaces, his most successfulness invention was a pantographic punch-cutting machine, this invention took the world of typography to the

affected brand identities. Taking influence from ideas of the modernism movement designers began to scrap the handwritten and script tendencies used in advertising of the 1950’s and instead looked towards simplifying a design or identity with the use of a sans serif type family. Chermayett & Geismers rebrand of Mobil is an example typical of this and when comparing the 1964 rebrand to its predecessors it is clear that the