Volume 8

            As America was growing used to its independence within the 17th century, many authors began to acknowledge the country’s beauty. Walt Whitman, Philip Freneau, and William Cullen Bryant were particularly skilled at using poetic imagery drawn from nature to establish the mood of their pieces. Just so, painters at this time used their preferred […]

             La Nouvelle Vague, or “New Wave,” was a cinematic movement that began in France during the late 1950s and early 1960s. It significantly impacted the world of cinema in a revolutionary way as it introduced innovative filmmaking techniques, narrative styles, and auteur-driven approaches to filmmaking. The concept of auteurship was central to the French

            Since America’s founding, there has been an immense fascination with the untamed West. The Pioneers believed in Manifest Destiny, or “the belief that it was our duty to settle the continent, conquer and prosper” (America’s Manifest Destiny). The American dream was to find country untouched and unscarred by human industrialism. To obtain cheap or