Shepard Fairey Essays

Shepard Fairey is a representative of the Los Angeles street art. He has become famous for his "Hope" poster of Barack Obama (Ng, 2015) that has found recognition to a large extent among people. Through his art, Fairey speaks out against the power abuse and militarism, supports people of color and women seeking for equity. The works by a street artist have gained much public interest while the powerful visual rhetoric became a reason for interest of younger generation art critics and collectors.

sponsored by major corporations; the “authenticity” of those pieces are now devalued due to that. On the other hand, street artists often take up these partnerships because it allows their work to become more visible. For example, Shepard

Barack Obama hope poster by Shepard fairey. This work of art is a screen print. The medium is an acrylic paint on paper. This portrait was inspired by the 44th president. This content of this particular art expresses fairey decision to design a portrait of Obama stems from his feelings that Obama’s power and sincerity as a speaker would create a positive association with his likeness. Fairey mixed media stenciled portrait was create with a lot of materials. This piece of art is a perspective that

Matthew Wayne “Matt” Shepard was an openly gay student at the University of Wyoming who was beaten, tortured, and left to die in a field on the evening of October 6, 1998. After spending five days in a comma, Matthew Shepard died on October 12, 1998 at 12:53 a.m. in which the cause of death was caused by the massive injuries and head trauma he sustained during a robbery and hate crime assault. Due to the nature of the crime, Shepard’s death quickly became the center of international and political

In the play The Laramie Project, the most compelling moment that I’ve found in the book was the moment “Dennis Shepard” because this moment was the final statement that was given before Aaron would’ve received the death penalty. In this moment, Kaufman is trying to make the argument that by adding in the voice of Dennis Shepard in giving the last statement before the court decides what do with Aaron, this choice is very effective because his statement basically summarizes how he and his family feels

Loffreda, Beth. 2000. Losing Matt Shepard. New York, New York: Columbia University Press. The murder of Matt Shepard, and the reason for it, will be remembered. The book, Losing Matt Shepard focuses on the murder of Matt Shepard and some of the effects and events surrounding it. The book was written by Beth Loffreda. Beth Loffreda has a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree from the University of Virginia and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree from Rutgers University. Loffreda now works as the Associate

The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman is a play that captures the sentiment in Laramie, Wyoming following the murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, at the hands of Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson. The play incorporates real-life interviews and testimonies from Laramie residents performed by the actors and actresses. By using the verbatim quotes from people involved with the incident and its aftermath, Kaufman grounds the play in reality and prevents fictional elements from undercutting

According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a hate crime is a crime motivated by hostility towards a group of people. This is the kind of crime involved in the situation of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Before we look into what the crime was and how crimes like it are prevented, let’s look at who these two men were. Matthew Shepard was born December 1, 1976 in Casper Wyoming. He lived in Casper until 11th grade, when he moved to Saudi Arabia. In his Senior year, he decided to take a trip with some of

Human beings are reactive in nature. Throughout history, this fact had both aided and hurt us. Matthew Shepard was a case in which this tendency hurt us. On the night of October 6th, 1998, Matthew Shepard was kidnapped, brutally beaten, and robbed, tied to a fence and left to die. Once Matthew Shepard was murdered for being gay, the town of Laramie reacted, mostly with love and support. The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman depicts the story of Matthew Shepard's murder, and the struggle to overcome

Matthew Shepard was the victim in one of the worst hate-crime murders in history. On the night of October 6, 1998, an openly gay man was viciously beaten. Matthew Shepard was a twenty-one-year-old openly gay man. Matthew hadn’t come out until after high school. He was a freshman at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyoming. He had a troubled past. Matthew had gone to Morocco, South Africa with three of his classmates. One night he couldn’t sleep so he decided to go to a nearby coffeehouse, where

Mckinney On October 7, 1998 a man by the name of Matthew Shepard was brutally beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die in Laramie Wyoming. His perpetrators, AAron Mckinney and Russell Henderson, have been caught and prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Since then Matthew has become the face of hope and has helped shape the platform for gay rights in the LGBTQ community. This is to testify what, how, and why this happened to Matthew Shepard. Is it rightfully labeled a hate crime, or was this something

interviews about Matthew Shepard horrible death. The problem is that these people all go into Laramie assuming this murder was a hate crime, therefore they are very biased in the way the assume Aaron McKinney and Russel Henderson killed Shepard because he was gay. By doing this they stayed away from the problems that Shepard had, such as prostitution and Methamphetamine. Later, Jimenez goes and conducts interviews as-well, but he doesn’t shy away from the truth. Shepard was not murdered because he

murder of Matthew Shepard. The article from The New York Times, Gay Man Dies From Attack, Fanning Outrage and Debate, by James Brooke, is specifically dedicated to conveying the news from an unbiased viewpoint. There are definitive differences found in both writing pieces that arguably make the play more effective at serving it’s purpose than the news article. The play, The Laramie Project, was a two year process that started immediately following the death of Matthew Shepard. The idea for the

The play is obviously about the geographical community of Laramie. It was obviously inspired by the death of Matthew Shepard. But did the piece address an inequality? Did it facilitate the healing of a community? To both of these questions, I think yes. Matthew Shepard was likely killed due to his sexuality which shed light upon an inequality in the community: homophobia. Not only so, but the play attempts to show characters in an unbiased

that it was motivated by Shepards sexual orientation., therefore they are very biased in this way. The media immediatly jumped on this case and made it a hate crime, and ignored all other evidence in the case. By doing this they stayed away from the problems that Shepard had, such as prostitution and Methamphetamine. Later, Stephen Jimenez goes and conducts interviews as-well, but he doesn’t shy away from the truth, or have a pre-conceived idea of what happend. Shepard was not murdered because

fist but also with a pistol as well. Another helpful quote is “ Our focus is to turn to Laramie, Wyoming and the Albany county courthouse, where Aaron James McKinney and Russell Arther Henderson are being charged for the brutal beating of Matthew Shepard, a gay university of Wyoming student. (Kaufman 49) This quote states that two people who are responsible for the attack on Matthew

fence, and was left there to die. This event sparked a significant movement throughout the world which was followed after the death of Matthew Shepard. Everyone around the world wondered if this act of murder was instigated by hatred towards homosexuals. There were also the antagonist of the event that believed that it was justifiable that Matthew Shepard was murdered.

Before Gagarin and eventually Shepard went into space, the NASA made a program for people, with experience in flying planes and such, to apply to be the first man into space. Now this is before the United States knew they were going to be shown up by the USSR, so they were focused on safety and doing things the right way, on schedule. Their training was rigorous and mandatory. The training and regulated food was so that any of their immune systems could survive the unknown just as good as their skills

Matthew Shepard was a 21 years old who identified as gay and was brutally attacked by two men who tied him to a fence and hit him until leaving him unconscious. He was found after 18 hours of being there and died 5 days later. James Byrd Jr., was an African American male who was tied to the back of a truck by two white supremacists who dragged him and eventually he was decapitated. By that time, either of this cases were prosecuted by the justice because the 1969 Federal Hate Crimes Law didn’t cover

the person is participating in a federally protected activity, such as public education, employment, jury service, travel, or the enjoyment of public accommodations, or helping another person to do so. However, in 2009, Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. This made it easier to prosecute criminals while also adding in gender, disability, gender identity, or sexual orientation. There is much debate on whether hate crime laws are a necessity or not. Some