Meghan Markle’s Speech at the United Nations Conference (March 2015) We can hear the famous African-American actress Meghan Markle giving a speech at the UN conference. She shares an experience she went through when she was 11 years old. She saw a commercial for a dishwashing soap with a tagline that said: “Women all over America are fighting...
Banksy’s shredded piece of art The document under study is a video published in 2018 by Good Morning America. It deals with an artwork made by Banksy that self-destructed during an auction art in London. It was sold to private collector for $1.4 million. However, the canvas shredded in tiny strips. Banksy’s aim through this action was to...
Underground Art – Banksy The document under study is the trailer for a documentary about Banksy, a famous British anonymous street artist. It was released in 2019. We have learned that Banksy created a global movement through his outlaw art. It is interesting to note that any movements have in common the fact that they came out of...
Ketanji Brown Jackson breaking glass-ceiling. Ketanji Brown Jackson made history by being the first black woman nominated to the Supreme Court. Indeed, she is one of the only judges that is not a white man. In fact, throughout the years, there have been 150 supreme court judges and 108 of them were white men. She was nominated by...
The Power of Fire and Ice The document under study is news report from PBS News Hour, published in 2019. It deals with two American eco-artists. The first one is Jeff Frost, who is seen as an alarmist because his goal is to warn people about the danger of global warming on forests. Indeed, there are more and...
The Blue Whale The document under study is an article extracted from Albuquerque Journal, published in 2019. It is about a piece of art made out of plastic from two eco-artists from California. This sculpture was created with polyethylene. This sculpture has the same weight and height as an adult blue whale. Indeed, the artists wanted people to...
Kamala Harris, First Female Vice President of the USA: She Put another crack in that glass-ceiling” The document under study is a video from ABC News published 2021. It deals with the new vice president at the time who was the first black female vice president and first of Asian Indian descent. We have learned that she was...
