Although many people are very familiar with racism and sexism, too many people are unfamiliar with speciesism. Speciesism is the discrimination of one species over another; more specifically, it is the human species in the exploitation of other animals. Animals are forced to participate in many u...

This poster art form took off in the early 20th century as a result of the Russian Revolution and grew a tremendous amount during the 1920's and 1930's. Founded in 1917 in Russia by sculptor Antoine Pevsner and his younger brother Naum Pevsner Gabo, they believed that art should be functional and ...

"The experience with Internet stocks since the start of 1998 is another illustration of a speculative bubble (i.e., a situation in which high prices are sustained largely by investors enthusiasm rather than by consistent estimation of real value). By the end of March 2000, the CBOE (Chicag...

Summary of events The morning of September 11, 2002 started like every other morning for me. I got ready for school, and eventually, I was taking World History in Laredo Texas. It was an easy and interesting class, plus the teacher was really understanding. Anyway, we were talking about the Sume...

The Sounds of the Unknown Try to create a music, which no one has ever heard. It is so broad, new, and unexplored even the creator cannot even place a name for it. As Derrik May put it, "We had to crack some serious codes, we did things no one else would do, played music no one else would ...

In the year 1922, a young woman, Ellen Welles Page wrote in an article in Outlook Magazine, "We are the Younger Generation. The war tore away our spiritual foundations and challenged our faith. We are struggling to regain our equilibrium. Help us to put our knowledge to the best adv...

TV in the 1950's Reflected/Created Culture How many hours per week do you spend watching television? The average American child or adolescent spends 22-28 hours per week watching TV, which is more than any other activity other than sleeping. Did you know that there are more television sets in...

COMING TO AMERICA I always used to do what I wanted to. I never held a job let alone apply for one. I went out on weekends and never listened to my parents. I would go with my friends to clubs and party until the sun came up. I slept all day and never did chores around the h...

Jose Orozco is one of the greatest Mexican avant-garde painters. He studied at the San Carlos Academy in Mexico City, and since he was very young, he was a plastic interpreter of the revolution; as we can see in the political and social topics developed in great mural compositions. He gave these id...