Schindler's List

Schindler’s List (Steven Spielberg) is a movie about World War II, mainly the holocaust and the terrors, triumphs, and deaths that occur throughout the war. The movie focuses on the death and torture of the Jewish party in the German concentration camps. Even with these horrendous events Oskar Schindeler, a member of the Nazi party decides to remove some Jewish prisoners and have them work in his factory where they would be safe from the Nazi soldiers. Even though over 6 million were killed Oskar still managed to save over 1,100 men, women, and children which was amazing, especially for a member of the Nazi party.

The word power is, well a very powerful word and can mean different things. But when I think of it I see it as actual power, like a leader. Also I see it as being able to change something or having the guts to be able to voice your opinion about something. For example, how I was able to stand up and write about how bad teenage drinking really is, why teens shouldn't drink and to me not many people have that power to do so.

Well, I couldn't find an exact definition for "Goethe", but I do know that there was a man named Goethe and he was a German scientist and writer so he could have had an affect on Schindler, but I do not know.

I think what had changed Schindler was the girl in the red dress. At the beginning when the Nazis were clearing out a ghetto he noticed a little girl in a red dress looking for a place to hide so she could survive, then later on he was at a death camp where the Nazis were burning dead bodies and he again saw the girl in the red dress.

I believe is film is very effective, very powerful. Steven Spielberg was not afraid to hold back because you can't sugarcoat the holocaust, it's a terrifying, disturbing thing. I almost don't think it was "bad" enough because there were people that just giggled and talked throughout the movie. But personally it was powerful to me, it really showed the terrors of the Holocaust and you really feel as if you were a part of the Jewish party, seeing what really happened.

Pigment Sources~

http://www.winsornewton.com/about-us/our-history/history-of-pigments/
-The history of pigments

http://jcsparks.com/painted/pigment-chem.html
-All the colors and their history+chemical properties

http://www.winsornewton.com/news/pigment-stories/
-pigment colour facts

http://www.scribd.com/doc/44140/Egg-Tempera-Painting

http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/painting/tempera.htm
-mini history on egg tempera paints; artists who used them

http://www.cyberlipid.org/perox/oxid0011.htm
http://www.arcyart.com/history.htm
-History of oil paints

http://www.alifetimeofcolor.com/study/g_oil_paint.html
-brief overview of oil paints

(just for fun)
http://www.ci.tucson.az.us/arthazards/paint1.html
-"deadliness" of certain pigments and paints

Capital Punishment

First off, I find capital punishment one the worst things the Government can do to a single person because they are basically saying it's okay to kill another human being and that to me is not right.

I think that this type of "art protest" is a huge eye-opener to anyone who sees it because you do not always hear about the capital punishment. Such as yesterday while in the exhibit I saw a few people who looked confused because they did not quite know exactly what it was. Imagine that all over America, some people do not know what the Government is doing to these people. So maybe that if this were to be seen all over people might know about this and even protest so it could have a huge impact on how capital punishment is used today. Also I think this artist's point is perfectly valid because there is nothing more to this subject, you commit and crime, or are convicted of a crime and just killed. Which means that some people who are really wrongly convicted are killed for no reason and guess what! That means that the government killed and innocent person, do you want murderers to be running our country?

Sources!

At the beginning of this website I found it interesting that they started out asking questions like "...so, really, who needs a real butler or even a personal assistant anymore when you can now outsource your personal life?" So of course I started reading more because it really captured you attention, so it gave me more information then I though it could. One thing I learned is that the outsourced employees or "personal assistants" are becoming the "Cash-rich, time-poor", but I don't know exactly what that means. I also learned that they do a lot more than you think, like if you had dry cleaning, they might not physically bring it to you, but they can arrange someone to deliver it all the way from Asia. I used to think that if you needed help with something you bought you called someone from a different country, but I was way wrong.

This article is about Globalization, but focuses on the technology that is changing the "art world". "Globalization and technology are forcing artist, curators, and museum directors to rethink the world of American Art". After this quote they explain that they need to start rethinking American Art because new art collectors are 'emerging' from all over, pulling away from the American and European arts. Then this article brushes by the topic of "high art" and how after World War II the United States starting getting very into the art world. After words it explains how artist like Andy  Warhol and Roy Litchenstein "...appropriated imagery from popular culture like Campbell's soup cans and comic book strips in their work, blurred the lines between high and popular culture."  What this says to me is that this two artist used their amazing, different artwork to change the views and bring together genres of art. 

This was one of the more interesting articles I read. It's basically going off of Presidential candidate Barrack Obama's speech, not directing towards India or it's software program. At the beginning of this article it says that four years ago another presidential candidate John Kerry gave a speech about his opinion on outsourcing, which was anti outsourcing. "...And it was also enough to open debate  on what Obama's stance could mean to the Indian information technology services industry, which still earns around 60% of it's  business from the world's largest economy, if he were elected president..." This quote confused me a little bit, but if I understand it correctly it means if Obama is elected president he would let India receive 60% of the profits they make, it order to help their economy, but we still get our fair share, 40%. 

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This article seemed to me to be too long and more than what I need right now, but I found the first part "Globalization" to be a little unhelpful. First of it described the 'term' of globalization "one of the most fashionable buzzwords of contemporary, political and academic debate..." I thought that was probably the only useful things because it doesn't really describe what globalization is, just what 'things' go with it. I didn't read on to this page because I was afraid that the rest would just be as unhelpful as the first. 

Globalization!

"Globalization is a process on 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 on the environment, on culture, on political systems, on economic development and prosperity, and on human physical well-being in societies around the world." quote taken from this website!

There are a couple of things I can take from this on how globalization works. I see it as countries helping countries for different things like trading, technology, medical discoveries, cures, aid, etc, also factories in other countries. Trading has always been around, the main item that was traded back in the day would have been spices. An example of "culture" would be  how the United States uses to government process called from ancient Greece. The biggest part of Globalization to me is the dependancy on other countries for our goods. Have you ever noticed how most of everything we have is from China? Well it's because the US buys from China so we can the goods at a cheaper price instead of having our expensive, inadequate products.