Wiley Post Essays

We often hear quotes and sayings about taking things for granted, and are also told that we don’t know what it’s like to have absolutely nothing. Joseph Banks along with Jerry Borrowman wrote A Distant Prayer to tell what it is like to actually live with absolutely nothing as a prisoner of war in World War II. The authors also wanted to show other people to always turn to God to help them through their trials and hardships. Starting in fall of 1939, the world was at war and every country was in

blacks in the segregated south. The nicely pulled theme of racism, the ornate literary, strong, emotionally grounded performance- there is just so much to admire about “The Great Debaters”. This team which goes on an unbeatable feat is from little Wiley College in Marshall, Texas, predominantly a black institution in the Jim Crow South of the 1930s.

Google Acquires Famebit for Influencer Marketing On Tuesday, October 11, 2016, Google announced the acquisition of Famebit, an influencer marketing platform that helps creators connect with brand advertisers, especially on YouTube. To date, more than 25,000 branded videos have been produced via Famebit from its start in 2013. Since then, complementary and innovative influencer marketing platforms, such as Octoly, have emerged, many of which are helping drive significant creator content while simultaneously

Have you ever gotten a positive like or comment on a social media post and felt the rush of joy that comes with it? Instagram is a platform all about interacting-- from commenting and liking, to following. Out of those three, liking is one of the most common ways of interaction on the platform. Interaction is what keeps the app thriving but, people have proposed that we take away that feature of ‘liking’ posts on Instagram. I believe that we should keep the like feature. Not only is it a posterchild

towards other people, and underage drinking. It is a major problem that people have posting inappropriate things. There are many consequences that could happen with this behavior. Reputations and the rest of your life can be determined from what you post. Kids in High School can not get recruited anymore because of the making bad choices of social media. You never know who is watching you, be careful, in just a few seconds, your future career can be over. There are many stories that have happened

The article “Snapchat files for $3 billion IPO” misuses the statistics. For example, in the article snapchat claims that 2.5 billion snaps are created every day. This article misuses the 2.5 billion. It’s a precise number, the number and it’s not an exact number. This number is estimated by the billion (2.5 billion). This is how this article misuses one the misleading statistics. The author’s motivation in misusing the statistic is to make it seem like there is more users being created by estimating

CULTIVATING REFLECTION-IN-ACTION & REFLECTION-ON-ACTION Reflection is loosely defined as the way we learn from an experience in order to understand and develop practice. Reflection is a means of processing thoughts and feelings about an incident, and gives us a chance to come to terms with our thoughts and feelings about it. For example, if something did not go the way you wanted it, we would tend to reflect on it by asking ourselves questions such as why did it go wrong and how did it go wrong

Edouard Manet was one of the most influential artists of the nineteenth century. Considered the Father of Impressionism, Manet bridged the gap between the Realism and Impressionism movements. He is remembered for defying the artistic traditions of his time by portraying current day subject matter in his paintings. He held the belief that art should reflect life as it is, and it should not be fictionally portrayed by idealized concepts of the past. Although his individualism and creative originality

INTRODUCTION This research chooses pointillism technique in painting as a key area of study. Pointillism is one of the style in impressionism that is known as a technique of painting which using a small distinct dots of color to form an image. This technique was developed by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac in 1886. . In Gestalt theory, there are four principles which is known as proximity, similarity, continuity and closure. This theory had a relation principles with pointillism technique. According

Women of The Impressionism Movement What is Impressionism? Impressionism is an art movement in the 19th century, where artist tried to re-create the viewers observation of a scene. The impressionist movement was not just for men. It was not gender specific which meant women were able to take part in the chance to express their talents. Artist such as Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt and Marie Bracquemond were well known at this time. Some were of the elite upper class and some were not, but the impressionist

William Wordsworth is considered as the real pioneer of romanticism all over the world so he published a lot of romantic poems which reflect the beauty of nature to all readers. He had established effective relation with Samuel Coleridge for emphasizing the romantic context of poetry in the 19th century. They both revolted against the norms of classical movement which dominated Europe until the end of the 18th century. Romantic poets adopted a new approach of poetry writing as they avoided the poetic

People tend to go with two of them, dogs or cats. Dogs are the most popular pets in the whole world, beside them there are the cats. Cats have a lot of good characteristics for them to make a better pet than turtles. As for my own, I prefer a million times cats than turtles and I have had both of them. Looking at both perspectives, cats are almost self-taught. They learn where to do their neccesities by themselves. I mean, they are very brilliant mascots. Turtles also have very interesting characteristics

In the 1839, Louis J M Daguerre released the born of photography, and the nature of art was becoming different since photography had changed the features of art. The main element to create a photo is light. Because of light, then that’s image. It’s totally different from the painting. Every painting has slightly differences when we looked at them even they were being drawn on the same thing. But photography does not contain this problem. The reality of photography is not based on the individual skill

Introduction In this essay I will discuss the impact XX Century modernism had on animation. I will also analyse its importance and relevance as a way of understanding its principals and origins. Modernism is usually confused as a form of art which ‘is modern’ with it’s own set of principals and a unique ways of assessing art. Everyone has their on opinion on the subject but one thing is certain, art was stagnating and in need of something new . The modernism movement went from the late 19th century

Walmart Stores Inc. The giant retailer, Walmart is an American based public multinational company; operates a chain of Walmart stores, Sam’s club, Walmart international. Sam Walton founded the company in 1962. From the beginning, he introduced Walmart as a store which provide the goods at lowest price. Its headquarter is in Bentonville, Arkansas. The mission statement of Walmart is “saving people money so that they can live better” with the purpose of Walmart has positioned itself as a giant retailer

What if you were a trainer at SeaWorld and you were the one who got attacked? Do you think animals should be in captivity? Animal captivity has become a serious and dangerous problem all over the globe, for example, being used as breeders also, zoos claiming that they are helping species re- enter the wild through breeding in captivity but there efforts have been initiated by government not zoos. Lastly, taking babies from their parents. Some people think it is okay for animals to be kept up in a

The Interview was a satirical movie originally scheduled to be released by Sony Pictures on Christmas Day 2014. The subject matter of the movie was considered by some to be controversial. The plot of the film centered around a fictional plan to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. A month before the film was to be released, Sony was the victim of hackers who stole a large quantity of sensitive data from Sony’s hard drives and then published it on the Internet. Although they never took credit

“Bernstein, are you sure on this story?” Ben Bradlee, executive editor of The Washington Post, asks journalists Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward before publishing a story about the Watergate scandal, which is contradictory to what the rest of the world believed (All). Based on a true events, All the President’s Men is a 1976 American political thriller. The film is based on the non-fiction book, which has the same title, by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. Directed by Alan J. Pakula, this film has

Post-it Notes: An Idea that Stuck In 1966, 3M hired a young chemist named Spencer Silver. Silver was born in San Antonio, TX and had worked his way to a doctrine degree in chemistry. Little did they know that his invention, in just over 20 years, would account for one billion dollars in sales. His invention, seemingly so simple and used every day, started as a solution without a problem. Spencer Silver began his work looking to invent a super strong adhesive. Incidentally, he developed an adhesive

Impressionism came about in the mid to late 1800’s. French painters rejected current ideas of painting and chose to set themselves apart by painting their immediate impressions. These artists believed that the natural beauty surrounding them was far better than the current ideal beauty being portrayed. The name impressionism came from art critic Louis Leroy. Leroy had made a comment on a painting by Monet, “It indeed was just an impression and that the work could not be considered finished.”