The Eleventh Hour

The air hits my face smoothly; the trees are green and tall. Despite it being Winter, the trees are green and the flowers are blossomed. The grass grows wildly- gentle blades spring up from the Earth. In the distant lay mountains of shaded blue. They stand so high in ignorance of bliss of its…

“The American Dream” leaves me with a wonder of what is truly signifies, and how that ideal has been shaped and modernized over the centuries. I had no clue that there were myths personifying the American Dream: El Dorado, Fountain of youth, City Upon a Hill/New Jerusalem.

What I find most…

The American Dream—-people leave all of what they know to come and chase this American Dream? What constitutes the American Dream is their a standard definition. or does every individual or every community create the definition of what is the American Dream. The American Dream is a focus for many…

In Barbara Beirnes photographic exhibit Becoming American she gives a optimistic view of the lives of immigrants and the struggles that come about when becoming American. She photographs immigrant teenagers from through the globe : Iran, Egypt, Ukraine, Hair, El Salvador, Cambodia, the Congo, and…

I went to this exhibit at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach and although a lot of contemporary art can be extremely difficult to understand and too revolutionary for many of us there was part of the exhibit titled STAGED IRONY which I became intrigued by. Through the use of irony and…

While looking through the Barbara Beirne photographs and their descriptions, I noticed that most of the teenagers said that their family moved to America seeking a better life. For most they were able to have this better life. For example, the 13-year-old boy from Mexico said that his family moved…

As I was looking at some of Barbara Beirne’s photography, I read the four most basic reasons to have immigrated to America: educational and financial opportunities, protection from the unsafe environments of the home country….and the big one: CHANGE…there seems to be a rewarding satisfaction for…

As i was seeing the Smithsonian page on Barbara Beirne’s Photography the whole concept of the “American Dream” was being portrayed on these teenagers who seek in obtaining it by coming to an unknown land. Its shown through their faces and captions. I enjoyed seeing the slide show that this page…