A Moment With Murryum

The a rtist behin d  The Chancellor Seg éur on Horseback  (pictured below) ,  Kehinde Wiley, said in an interview that with this work of art  he wanted "to tie the urban street and the way its been depicted with elements that are not necessarily coded as masculine."   After reading that I thought sure, he's combining two very different things in this painting, but femininity and masculinity aren't the only two things merging here. The other two things are  European history and African American history.  Every "olden times"  European-American painting we see in history textbooks, museums, and documentaries have always been filled with only white people, which is horrifically inaccurate from a historical perspective.              Our society praises the great works of European-American history, but turns a complete blind eye to the fact that all of these paintings only show a fraction...

              Corinthian Dead of Song of Solomon  might be viewed as a mid aged woman that's been living off of her parents her whole life due to her laziness. It might look like she's snobby, entitled, and the kind of person that's never had anyone deny her anything before. Maybe she is (or once was), but all the blame shouldn't be thrown on her. Everyone is a product of their environment, and in this case Corinthian is a direct product of the environment created by her parents core beliefs. She has a  mother who treats her like her whole life is a resume for a prospective husband, and a father who constantly emphasizes their family's high status in society.               Most of the time, people eventually move out, and once they are exposed to the real world without their parents presence and opinions I'm assuming, (since I still live with my parents) they are able to form their own opinions ...

                                    Everyday, when we wake up, and start our lives, not a moment goes by where we don't use names. "Pass me the milk please", or  where's my coat?" we say. We are constantly using words coined as names to identify objects and keep everyone on the same page.              When it comes to judging names we very often, subconsciously and consciously judge places based off of their names. A name has the power to emulate a certain aura. By judging names of places we decide whether we think that place is  trendy, casual, a little bit on the shady side, or worthy of our full trust. Companies purposely incorporate colors they think we tend to trust more into their names and logos.                          Now, the kind of names we are taught not to judge, a...

          I am very late to the game with Netflix, in fact, I actually just got it yesterday night.  Being as excited as anyone can be about suddenly having access to such a vast amount of movies and shows (at least as vast as Netflix can be), I spent the better part of my Friday evening, and Saturday morning, ( if you know what I mean) watching and scrolling through a jumble of shows and movies.          Through this late night scrolling, I stumbled upon a show called World War II in Color, and, although I'm not sure if I would enjoy spending my free time watching a documentary like show, full of explosions and people dying, the clips that automatically played when I hovered my mouse over the show caught my interest. I'd always seen history as something far and distant, almost in another world, and I think its the black and white that made me feel that way. In source E for our synthesis essay next week, the author talked abo...