It was a nice day today, so I can sit outside the Starbucks coffee shop. I found this is a great spot to people watch. I noticed some people were walking into the coffee shop, some were walking pass by the coffee shop quickly and some people would stop for a second and decided to […]

  Is there a better way that we can follow to evaluate art value for food? The article “Can Food Be Art” is written by Sara Davis, she basically wants to tell the reader to explore the aesthetic value of what people eat. She has pointed out in the very beginning to the article, most […]

The author Elizabeth Telfer explained that not only we can associated the word “aesthetic” with arts, but we can consider natural things as art, such as beautiful landscape, or man-made objects. Food can be an art, a minor form of art rather than a major art.   She defined on page 5 “a work of art […]

1. The term paleoanthropsychobiological is coined by Ellen Dissanayake. She used this word to suggest several things. First, the idea of art encompasses all of human history; second, the term included all human societies; third, the term takes the fact that art is a psychological or emotional need and effects into account. She wanted to […]

This article was written by Ellen Dissanayake to emphasize people’s view of art and the development of art. Based on her past experience of living in another culture, she realized difference people’s beliefs might be different from one’s own. She came to approach a thought that “art as a kind of behavior that developed as […]

My life is always on a regular routine: library-gym-home. It seems boring from all aspects, but this is my current life situation. Time flies, I am a senior now and there is so much pressure on me because I have to face the fact that I need to find a job. Since I am international […]

Human beings are born with different gene and level of intelligence; therefore, they value things might be different from various aspect. The difference occurred in personal valuation might be due to people’s inborn genes or acquired information as they grown up. According to the definition the author mentioned in the article, the term values should […]

There are two factors to account for whether a person wealth or not: income and spending. The relationship between income and spending will determine how well you do financially and how long you would last on building wealth. The author of this blog pointed out there are four “extremes” that highlight the boundaries of good […]