National Medal of Arts

The poem Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou, was voiced by Maya Angelou herself, and the audience hearing that she was trying to reach was the “pretty women” in the world who have a definition of flawless that Maya does not agree with. She wanted her audience to know that while they may be beautiful, that she is beautiful and flawless by her own terms and that being flawless does not only mean being small and looking like the models in the magazines. One could argue that her audience is all the women

Comparing Death of a Salesman and The American Dream     In Arthur Miller’s Death of A Salesman and Edward Albee’s The American Dream, Willy Lowman and Mommy possess the trait of superficiality. Their priorities are to look good and be liked, and this contributes to their misguided paths to reach success. This attribute is one of many societal criticisms pointed out by both authors. Arthur Miller criticizes society for perceiving success as being liked and having good looks. He illustrates

Analysis Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Edward Albee is a well known American was born in Virginia, he moved to New York to start his passion of writing plays and he wrote his first play which is The Zoo story, Albee then started to spend most of his time in the American University Theater. Albee became famous and received numerous amount of awards. He won awards for his plays that include Seascape, Three Tall women, and A Delicate Balance, and his play

“You’re a blank, a cipher… a zero.” (Albee, 1962, p.18). With these words, Martha the main character in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” showed her husband, George, that he was nothing. Edward Albee, the writer of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” talked mainly about Martha and George who pretend to have different identities just in order not to face reality. Moreover, Arthur Miller, the author of “A View from the Bridge” presented the idea of identity in a different way. Miller used the character

Authors all write in different ways. They all have different minds and ideas. Even though authors think differently, they still are alike in a weird way. They also don’t think alike and they all have their different ways of writing their thoughts. While reading all 4 different essays, I’ve learned a lot about trying to understand how other people think. All four essays have something in common, and I believe that “ignorance” is one of the biggest common factors in all of the stories. They may all

In the book Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison and the play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller the two writers use various symbols to develop the American Literature Theme of The Journey. Two important symbols Ellison uses in Invisible Man are dreams and the narrator’s briefcase. Two important symbols in Death of a Salesman are diamonds and the car. Ellison and Miller use these symbols to take their characters through their life’s journey, whether physical or metaphorical. The portentous dream the

frame with a caption reading "Erased de Kooning Drawing, Robert Rauschenberg, 1953”. Fellow artist Jasper Johns, at the request of Rauschenberg wrote the caption for the piece. The work is considered to be a Neo-Dadaist conceptual art work, attaining affinities to Added Art, albeit having material removed from the original work rather than added to it. Through the conception of this work, Rauschenberg first attempted to create this piece by erasing his own drawings. He ultimately decided that for

On May 20th of this year, I will be graduating from De Kalb High School, and as I look back I cannot help but feel accomplished and proud. During my eighth grade year, our high school band was in desperate need of marchers, so seven lucky eighth graders, including myself, joined the band. From there I was able to earn honors in band, such as a chair in the A/ AA/ AAA Honor Band twice, a chair in the All-Band four times, a chair in the All-Area Band, a chair in the All- State Band, 2015-2016 DHS

to Determine If Your Military Medal is Real In order to avoid financial losses, military medal collectors must know how to visually, historically and scientifically determine if potential collection pieces are real. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Medal Standard Testing A magnifying glass is the basic piece of equipment to allow you to carefully examine the medal. Be sure to pay very close attention to the details because official government manufactured medals are made with only the highest

The Presidential Medal of Freedom is America’s highest civilian award and is a great accomplishment for any American citizen. The Medal was first awarded in 1945 by President Harry S. Truman to honour civilians service during world war two. At this time the medal was just called the Medal of Freedom. In 1963, the Medal of Freedom was replaced with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by John F. Kennedy. Now the Presidential Medal of Freedom is given out to less than 11 people every year who display