Finding health through art.Our neighborhoods are full of advertisements. Advertisements are billboards on the sides of buses, logos on your clothes, displays in storefronts, or attention-catching notices in magazines, newspapers and television. Companies use advertisements to convince you to buy their products, such as movies, clothes, unhealthy food unhealthy food Any food that is not regarded as being conducive to maintaining health; UFs include fats, in particular of animal origin, 'fast' foods–low in fiber and vitamins; 'junk food'–eg, potato and corn chips, pretzels, crackers–high in salt or soda. They also use advertisements to make bad habits bad habit Unhealthy habit Clinical medicine A patterned behavior regarded as detrimental to physical or mental health, which is often linked to a lack of self-control. Cf Good habit. look like fun, or to get you to agree with their ideas of how you're you're Contraction of you are. you're you are you're be supposed to look. A lot of this advertising uses stereotypes. A stereotype stereotype (stĕr`ĕətīp'), plate from which printing is done, made by casting metal in a mold, usually of paper pulp. The process was patented in 1725 by the Scottish inventor William Ged. is picking out one thing from the way a person looks or acts and saying that all people like that person are the same way. Stereotypes are bad. They keep us from learning about ourselves--who we are, what we are like--and also keep us from getting to really know other people. The Health Through Art: Signs of Recovery project in Oakland, California “Oakland” redirects here. For other uses, see Oakland (disambiguation). Oakland (IPA: /ˈoʊklənd/), founded in 1852, is the eighth-largest city in the U.S. , decided to make some good advertising to replace the harmful advertising we look at every day. Every two years Health Through Art has an and people in the community, like your mother, uncle or teacher, choose ten pieces of art out of hundreds of entries. The artwork shows that stereotypes are unfair, and shares positive ideas. Children in schools just like yours, your neighbors, cousins, sister and father think of these ideas and draw them: red blobs stick people, funny faces, and animals with big glowing hearts. The winning artworks This article is about the software drawing application. For art objects, see work of art. ArtWorks is an advanced vector drawing package for RISC OS created by Computer Concepts (now Xara) in 1991. It has been developed by MW Software since 1996. are put on billboards and on the sides of buses. They are messages about how to be healthy, safe, strong and free. They tell us that "Color Doesn't does·n't Contraction of does not. Matter, Nor do the Clothes," to "Eat Your Vegetables," to "Stop Smoking, Just Try" and "Nobody's Better Than You, Not Even Me." Even if sometimes people just down the street seem to be from another planet, we're all people, and when we take care of one another, we keep our neighborhoods healthy and strong. To see more artwork or for additional information, go to HTA's at www.HealthThroughArt.org or write them at 1904 Franklin St. Suite 701, Oakland, CA, 94612. |
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