Spray painting Essays

  • Paul In Tangerine

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    Tangerine, a novel written by Edward Bloor is about a visually impaired boy named Paul Fisher.Paul and his family move from Houston, Texas to Tangerine,Florida. This realistic fiction novel shows you Paul Fisher's everyday life through the eyes of Paul Fisher himself. Consequently Paul was visually impaired at a very young age sadly losing his peripheral vision. Paul never remembered how he lost most of his vision but his parents and family had told him that he starred at a solar eclipse

  • Fisher In The Tangerine Essay

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    ways. In the Tangerine, Erik’s choices most greatly impacted Paul’s eyesight, friendships, and strength. One choice Erik made in Tangerine that greatly impacted Paul’s life was the spray paint incident. Page 263 talks about Paul’s memory of losing his eyesight and why it happened. Apparently, Vincent and Erik had spray painted something on a gray wall and all the kids knew who did it, but no one told the adults. Somehow their parents found out and Vincent was in trouble. Believing it was Paul, Erik

  • Personal Narrative: My Experience With Revenge

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    My Experience with Revenge It is possible to say that I know quite a lot about the revenge. I saw its examples both in the literature (cinema) and the real life. First source showed global, more dramatic types of revenge, like the blood feud, Poe’s story The Cask of Amontillado or many action movies where the antagonist retaliates for the death of his/her parents, family or friend. The real life demonstrated more routine, down-to-earth cases. These small revenges appear both at home and work. For

  • Ugly Shag Rug Short Story

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    ugly shag rug. I’d spent a year on it, as that sunk in I sunk into the floor and stared up at the gross green glow in the dark stars that I was still to lazy to remove from my ceiling. I’d continue to stare and blink breath and listen, until it grew dark outside and the stars actually began to glow. The Front Bottoms played in the background while the floors creaked under my feet as I made my way to the kitchen to wash my brushes and dump the water. I washed the brushes diligently and watched the

  • Characteristics Of National Honor Society

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    An ideal member of the National Honor Society must demonstrate the following characteristics: Leadership, Service, and Character. To qualify for such a prestigious organization, one must qualify with a GPA of at least 3.5. Academically, I have been able to do so, maintaining a cumulative GPA of 4.11 and yet to receive an overall grade below A- in these past three semesters of High School. Moreover, I have been taking two languages, Malay and French, as well as juggling advanced classes such as Integrated

  • Jeremy Bentham's Theory Of Utility And Punishment

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    Jeremy Bentham's theory of Utility and Punishment is one of greatest yet failed phisdophys I have ever read. At one point it acturly lays out rules for understand and responding to crimes,however, while making clear rules that cover crimes generally. Bentham oversteps in how he defines punishment and how that affects his argument in a negative making his argument less effective. Bethmen splits his theory into two section ‘General View of cases Unmeet for Punishment’ and ‘Of The Proportion

  • Tasers Guideline And Analysis

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    guideline is when they are trying to control riots. Using less-lethal technologies officers may be able to control a large group, if they are not able to restrain them, then officers will be left to use blunt impact, chemicals such as tear gas or pepper spray, or even conducted energy devices until they are able to get hold of the situation The last guideline that officers may use is lethal force, this is when officers use lethal weapons to control a situation. This guideline is taught to officers to only

  • Monologue Of Valentine

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    So the cup was in the painting but a demon kinda thing attacked us. It’s dead now though cause Simon killed it. Alec saved Jace and is pretty hurt, hopefully he’ll be okay. I have to go though to see if everything is okay. So I’m back and let’s say, wow it’s been frustrated and scary. Alec was poisoned but is okay now. Hodge was a guy we all trusted a lot, I thought you should know that. I went to talk to Hodge about how Alec is doing. Jace and I went to talk to him and after he found out that we

  • Murals

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    disfranchised city youth” (Kotwal). Spray cans and stencils have become a form of expression for the children of a city that does not know they exist. This form of art allows them to leave a mark on the place they call home. In big cities, wall art has been used to spread political propaganda and promote the culture of mass consumerism (Kotwal). For years, wall art has enabled generations to lose themselves in the crowd all the while making their own mark. Currently, mural painting has been reinvented into

  • Graffiti Vs Graffiti Essay

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    bees, spreads color and thought throughout locations in America. Bees spread color through the pollination and growth of new flowers, and Graffiti artists use spray cans to spread symbolism and paint color on the streets. While bees do their work out in fields, graffiti, or street art, takes place on the street. Street art is the act of painting or scribbling of a drawing or picture usually in public view. Because street art can increase community value, street art is different from graffiti writing

  • Negatives Of Graffiti

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    Toxic fumes released into the air from the paint promote global warming. According to Graffiti in the Natural World, “Modern-day, CFC-free aerosol sprays emit volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that contribute to ground-level ozone levels, a key component of asthma-inducing smog” (“How Does Graffiti Impact the Surrounding Environment?”). Many individuals believe that becoming a tagger marks a substantial

  • Essay On Graffiti Art

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    In my opinion graffiti is art, I stand by this claim because i have a friend who does graffiti and she is a wonderful artist with or without a spray paint can, but graffiti is how my friend got into putting the work on canvases instead of walls on streets and in abandoned houses. As said in “A Nod From The Art World” recognition by the art world and inclusion in galleries and auctions in a way has legitimized graffiti as a real art form. Graffiti has started to be recognized as real art as it should

  • El Mac: Famous Graffiti Artist

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    gorgeous large-scale works blur the lines between fine art and graffiti. Graffiti art is a natural progression for the FAC, following in the artistic traditions of mural art that extends back to our inception as an institution. Mac began painting with acrylics and painting graffiti in the mid ’90s, when his primary focus became the life-like rendering of human faces and figures. Mac has since worked consistently toward developing his unique rendering style, which utilizes repeating contour lines reminiscent

  • Valley Of The Yosemite Analysis

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    Bierstadt was drafted into the army in 1863, but paid for another to take his place. He had already served in 1861 and created a painting named Guerilla Warfare, Civil War that was based on his involvement. He joined a survey party traveling to the American West he was eager to see what others had described as “America’s Alps.”[1] Bierstadt received his education while painting the Swiss Alps, with other Romantic artists of the time and brought with him classical European training and outstanding technical

  • Diagnostic Museum Report Examples

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    painter and Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) was a British artist. Even though Fitz and Joseph were from different countries, they both effectively express their landscape’s observations to their viewers by using skills, design and other painting

  • Argumentative Essay: Graffiti Art And Freedom

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    Graffiti the word in itself is really cool, coming from Greek origins, as that is where graffiti art found its name and stature. I always looked at these paintings, drawings and weird signatures on walls displayed in such a beautiful and colorful manner and it made me wonder on how anyone could do that with just spray paint. I remember being eight years old and visiting my home country Pakistan for the first time and visiting the old neighborhood where my grandmother lived and all around the place

  • Ancient Christian Art Essay

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    and Primitive Art: Paintings in the prehistoric era i.e. during 1400 to 9500 BC were generally done in huge limestone caves that served as habitation. Cave paintings have been discovered in Northern Spain and Dordogne Valley of South-West France. The Paleolithic art that flourished in this region is termed as the Franco-Cantabrian school. The paintings during this period were done for magico-religious purpose. The art of the Franco-Cantabrian school consists entirely of paintings of animals functioning

  • The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia Analysis

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    Words can paint a picture just as a picture can tell 1,000 words. There are times when literature and paintings can portray similar feelings and thoughts about the same topic. For example, the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson and the artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo were both on the same page when telling the story of Iphigenia and her sacrifice. Tennyson and Tiepolo both capture Iphigenia as a helpless woman who is defenseless and broken down while being watched by everyone during her sacrifice. Tennyson

  • Analysis Of Augustus Egg's 'The Travelling Companion'

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    opposite direction inside a moving train carriage. The painting is almost symmetrical as there are many similarities between the two ladies. However, there are also subtle differences between them which enforces the main themes of this painting through symbolism adding layers of meaning in its reading. This painting was created in 1862 during the Victorian era, a time when industrialization took place, and hence having trains as a background in the painting. Although industrialization brought better income

  • Leonardo Da Vinci The Flight Of The Mind Analysis

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    Leonardo Da Vinci: A close up of a man like us Alice Bonetti Book summary: Leonardo Da Vinci, The Flights of the Mind by Charles Nicholl Painting analysis: Virgin with the Child and Saint Anne by Leonardo da Vinci Art, Literature and Religion of Europe (F0VL7a) KULeuven, 2014-2015 Professor Hedwig Schwall What is fair in men passes and does not last. (Da Vinci Notebooks 257) In this essay I’ll convey and discuss the biography of the Italian genius Leonardo Da Vinci, basing myself