Rhetorical Analysis: Regarding the Pain of Others Susan Sontag writes “Regarding the Pain of others”. It is an essay which is based in the medium of the photography. In this essay Susan examines the way that war is seen into some factors, for example culture and sex; and the form that people can see and recognized these factors are by imagines that show what happened in certain event. Sontag evaluates the use of pictures that represent atrocity and how the interpretation of these ones is influenced for the context, therefore these visual representations have an effect on society. Sontag’s her purpose is to make the reader think how the commitment with a photograph affects the way people see and understand the term of suffer and war that society have lived through the time.
Juan Hamilton, a young potter, appeared at her ranch house in 1973 looking for work. She hired him for a few odd jobs and soon employed him full time. Hamilton taught her to work with clay, and working with assistance, she produced clay pots and a series of works in watercolor. On January 10, 1977, President Gerald R. Ford presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor awarded to American citizens, and in 1985 she was awarded the National Medal of Arts. She became increasingly frail in her late 90s.
Julia Child was born Julia McWillams in Pasadena, California, on August 15, 1912, one of John and Julia McWilliams's three children. The children were raised in comfort: they were all sent to private schools, and the family had servants, including a cook. The children, all of whom were unusually tall, loved outdoor sports. In 1930 Julia went to Smith College in Massachusetts, where she majored in history. After graduation she took a job as a copywriter for a furniture company in New York City and enjoyed an active social life.
Kenneth and Mamie received their bachelor and masters from Howard University. Mamie did her master thesis on, “The Development of Consciousness of Self in Negro Pre-School Children, She did this because of her work with the all black nursery school and her future husband wrote the thesis with her and added the research on self-identification in Black children and she had two children during this time, Katie in 1940 and Hilton in 1943, all the she completing her degree (Butler, 2009). Kenneth went to Columbia University in 1937 and Mamie in 1938 graduated magna cu laude. Mamie worked at a law office for a while. That is where she saw firsthand how segregation had a damaging effect.
Annie Leibovitz Annie Leibovitz was born October 2, 1949 in Westbury, Connecticut, to Sam and Marilyn Leibovitz, an Air force Lieutenant and a modern dance instructor. In 1967, Annie enrolled at the San Francisco Art Institute majoring in painting. It wasn’t until she took a trip to Japan with her mother after her sophomore year, that she realized her love for photography. She lived briefly on an Israeli kibbutz and returned to the United States in 1970 and applied for a job with the, then, start-up rock music magazine Rolling Stone. Jann Wenner, Editor for Rolling Stone at the time, was very impressed with Leibovitz portfolio and offered her a job as a staff photographer.
This is where Alice primarily learned about the suffrage movement and formed her strong commitment to social justice. Alice attended Moorestown Friends School, where she then graduated at the top of her entire class. From there she went to Swarthmore College, co-founded by her grandfather, and earned a Bachelor degree in Biology.in order to avoid going into teaching work, Paul completed a year at a settlement house in New York City after her graduation, living and mentoring settlement students as part of the College Settlement Association. working in the settlement taught her about the need to right injustice in America, Paul quickly saw that social work was not the way she was to achieve this goal Alice Paul then attended Swarthmore College, where she studied law. Her work when she graduated took her to England where she became active in the Women's Suffrage Movement, which followed by her joining the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
Her parents were Sidney and Rebecca Fishman. When Elizabeth Loftus was 14 years old, her mother drowned. At first she was planning to become a math teacher, then she discovered psychology at UCLA where she received her BA in 1966 in math and psychology. In 1968, she married a man named Geoffrey Loftus and also applied to graduate school at Stanford. While attending Stanford, she became interested in long term memory.
Kara was born in 1969 in Stockman, California on November 26. Her father who worked as a painter and raised her, at the age of thirteen her father Larry Walker, accepted a position at Georgia State University where they relocated to Stone Mountain a suburb of Atlanta. It is here that Kara spent the rest of her childhood and later attended the Atlanta College of Art, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting and printmaking in 1991. Three years later, in 1944 she received master of Fine Arts degree in painting and printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design, located in Providence. Kara knew that she wanted to be an artist when she was just three years old “One of my earliest memories involves sitting on my dad’s lap in his studio in the garage of our house and watching him
The role she played, as Buffy Davis was as close to being her real self as you can get. Backtrack to March 11, 1958; Mary Anissa Jones was born in West Lafayette, Indiana, Her middle name means “little friend” in Arabic and just like Buffy that seems very accurate. Both her mother and father were students at Purdue University at the time of her birth. Soon it was goodbye to Indiana, and hello to Playa Del Ray in Southern California. A typical, beach bum surfer community, not far from the world famous Venice Beach.
She also decided to use some yarn and place it on the top of the head in a couple of messy buns. The effect was, in all honesty, creepy. It stood out to me though, which is why I decided to include this piece. The artist took Bearden’s style of collage and adapted it to her own art. She herself was African American which adds to Bearden’s theme of African