Vanessa Godden- Herbie Popnecker

Herbie Popnecker first appeared in Forbidden Worlds #73 in December 1958, published by ACG, American Comics Group. It was the introduction of the antithesis of a hero -- short, fat, young -- but this unlikely hero was one of the most powerful and best known beings in history. Deriving some of his powers from genetics and some from magical lollipops from the Unknown, Herbie could talk to animals (who knew him by name), fly (by walking on air), become invisible, and when he got his own comic, travel through time.

In Forbidden Worlds Herbie made several appearances (#73, #94, #110, #114, and #116, the final two with Herbie featured on the cover), during which his character developed: emotionless, terse, irresistible to women, consulted by world leaders, and more powerful than the Devil. Herbie's parents were unaware of his great powers and fame, and his father repeatedly referred to him as a "little fat nothing". Herbie's dad, Pincus Popnecker, was a financial failure with one poorly-conceived scheme after another, but Herbie would bail him out every time and his dad would take the credit for being a business genius.

Herbie also made cameo appearance, albeit very much out of character, in Unknown Worlds #20 published in 1961.

Herbie received his own title in April 1964. The series ran for twenty-three issues until February 1967, shortly before the demise of ACG. The stories were written by Shane O'Shea, one of several pseudonyms of the ACG editor, Richard E. Hughes, with artwork was by Ogden Whitney. Comics writer Alan Moore has called Herbie his favorite superhero.

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CLAUDIA MELGAR ON WILLIAM BLAKE...

William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His prophetic poetry has been said to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". His visual artistry has led one contemporary art critic to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced". Although he lived in London his entire life except for three years spent in Felpham he produced a diverse and symbolically rich corpus, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God", or "Human existence itself".

Considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views, Blake is held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity, and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. His paintings and poetry have been characterised as part of both the Romantic movement and "Pre-Romantic", for its large appearance in the 18th century. Reverent of the Bible but hostile to the Church of England - indeed, to all forms of organised religion - Blake was influenced by the ideals and ambitions of the French and American revolutions, as well as by such thinkers as Jakob Böhme and Emanuel Swedenborg.

Despite these known influences, the singularity of Blake's work makes him difficult to classify. The 19th century scholar William Rossetti characterised Blake as a "glorious luminary," and as "a man not forestalled by predecessors, nor to be classed with contemporaries, nor to be replaced by known or readily surmisable successors."

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Thais. My topic: Paris, Texas


Downtown of Paris,Texas

so Paris, Texas has a mini Eiffel Tower with a hat on it

Paris,Texas:

- 98 miles (158 km) northeast of the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex

- As of the 2010 census, the population of the city was 25,171. It is the county seat of Lamar County and serves as a business and employment center for the county.

The film Paris, Texas by Wim Wenders was named after this city, but it was not set there.

- In 1998, presumably as a response to the 1993 construction of a 70-foot (21 m) tower in Paris, Tennessee, the city placed a giant red cowboy hat atop the tower.

Philip Guston (Brit Imwald-Mahar)

Philip Guston
(June 27, 1913 – June 7, 1980)

Guston was a print maker and well known painter for his abstract OR NEO-ABSTRACT paintings. He is considered to be the first person to be a neo-abstract artist because he was the person who shaped the name and began creating cartoon like abstract pantings which was new to the abstract world.
-Phillip Guston was born in 1913 in Montreal Canada, Guston moved with his family to Los Angeles as a child.

-in 1927 he enrolled in the Los Angeles Manual Arts High School, where both he and Jackson Pollock studied under Frederick John de St. Vrain Schwankovsky and were introduced to Modern european art, orieantal philosophy, Theosophy and Mystic literature.

-As an 18 year old, politically-aware painter, Guston made an indoor mural in L.A. depicting the Scottsboro Boys. This mural was defaced by local police officers, which impacted Guston's political and social outlook. Guston, as Philip Goldstein, along with Reuben Kadish, completed a significant mural in 1935 at City of Hope, at the time a tuberculosis hospital located in Duarte, California, that remains to this day.

-In the 1950s, Guston achieved success and renown as a first-generation Abstract Expressionist. During this period his paintings often consisted of blocks and masses of gestural strokes and marks of color floating within the picture plane. These works, with marks often grouped toward the center of the compositions, recall the "plus and minus" compositions by Piet Mondrian or the late Nymphea canvases by Monet. Guston used a relatively limited palette favoring whites, blacks, greys and reds in these works. This palette remains evident in his later work.

-Guston is best known for these late existential and lugubrious paintings, which at the time of his death had reached a wide audience, and found great popular acceptance.

- Guston died in 1980 in Woodstock, New York.

(Information Pulled From Wikipedia @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Guston)

Paolo Aninag Journal Entry Gospel Music Halleluiah!

Gospel Music:


Living in the States Gospel Music it is almost impossible to not at least hear it once in our lifetimes especially in a southern state like Texas.  Gospel Music is a form of music that express personal, spiritual, or communal belief in Christian life.  It relies very heavy on vocals and a recurrent theme is about praising, worshiping, and giving thanks to God and Jesus Christ.  Modern Gospel music can be found using various music genres from rock to rap to country.
The first known recorded Christian music can be traced back to the early Christians who were encouraged to sing their prayers in order to feel and express their religious connection with God.  Medieval monks chanted Gregorian Hymns during rituals.  However, common style of Gospel Music we know in particular is an 18th century American creation which comes from oral tradition and uses a great deal of repetition.  This role of repetition were created by illiterate African Americans who were not allowed to read.  Early slaves were required to attend the worship services held by their white masters.  Not only that the masters can look over their slaves during services but it is also enforces slave indoctrination.  Many readings of St. Paul teaches good servants to be obeying, loving, and trustful of their masters.  Early on, the songs barely had any musical instruments to assist them so most were done in a capella.
Modern gospel music has its roots in the Mass Revival movement and the Holy Pentecostal Movement of the 1870s.  There were mass evangelist revivals happening in numerous cities and in the process musical talents also get swept up in the fray.  Many musicians having been religiously revived have a new batch of emotions and feelings to express.  The Pentecostal movement also appealed to people who are not attuned to sophisticated church music and attendees bring in any musical instruments they can find.  This merges many styles of music even those of African roots.  Many fathers of Rock and Roll like Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis got their inspiration from being brought up from a Pentecostal environment.
After the advent of Radio, the audience of gospel music multiplied ten fold and became a booming industry creating competing gospel music companies which continue to make music to this day.  Today, you can find Gospel Music outside the church and in your Best Buy, Target, and now iTunes.
Now, Gospel Music can be broken down in to several sub-genres:
Urban Contemporary Gospel
Gospel Blues
Southern Gospel
Progressive Southern Gospel
Christian Country Gospel
Bluegrass Gospel
Celtic Gospel

Till next time may God bless you all.

HALLELUIAH!
HALLELUIAH!