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Stood There Watching Lunch Pails Danny
566 wordsLunch Table Drama I was about eight years old. It was a hot summer day. My friend Danny aka El gorditaand I were on our way to the park. We were holding in our hands our colorful lunch pails, full of sweets. We were two chubby boys on our way to do something that we do best that is eating. We walked over to our favorite table, it was right next to the tier wheel. We just began to open our lunch pails, when two huge shadows were blocking the sun. We were frightened by there mere shadows. I looked...
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Light In My Hand Side To Side Rain
2,182 words... This seemed to remind to remind me of my lonesome childhood from the time I was born to the time from when I had broken my left arm. I had never known my inconsiderate and narcissistic father; he left me before I had even come into this world. My considerate mother then tragically died two years after I was born. I was then apparently sent to an orphanage were I had spent the younger parts of my childhood. I was eleven, and a young married couple that always wanted the best for me eventually...
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Symbolism In The House Of Seven Gables
1,768 wordsAmerican literature reflects life and the struggles faced during existence. Symbols are an eloquent way for an author to create a more fully developed work of art. The stories themselves tell a tale; however, an author also uses symbols to relay his message in a more subtle manner. Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of the earliest authors to use symbols as an integral part of his plots. This is clearly seen in both The Scarlet Letter and in The House of the Seven Gables. The use of symbols causes an "...
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Mad Hatters Tea Mad Hatters Tea Party Dark
1,114 wordsBlackman's Schoolgirl in the Lane painting displays an ominous scene of a young schoolgirl wandering alone through a bleak ally way at night. The girl appears carefree as she is skipping along, portraying just how ignorant and vulnerable the innocent child is to this dark, threatening atmosphere. Dreary colours such as greys, browns and dull blues, contrasted with black build up the sinister mood of the piece. The girl is contrasted with a reddish-brown colour that does not appear anywhere else ...
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Seven And Eight Oclock Seven And Eight Time
550 wordsQuentin is totally obsessed and consumed by time. From his constant references to shadows, to his grandfathers watch, to the various clocks and other timepieces denoted in the section, Quentin is completely consumed by his reflections concerning time. It is this infatuation that drives Quentin mad. His madness stems from his personal feelings on time, and his fathers cynical outlook on time and life in general. This section begins with Quentin waking in his dorm room to the sun coming through th...
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Death In Life Figures Of Speech
973 wordsAlfred Lord Tennyson, a Victorian poet, used characters from history and mythology for his poetry. Much of his poetry touches upon the subject of death and loneliness. For example, the Lady of Shallot dies when she looks beyond her inner world, Mariana lives in constant sadness over her departed lover, and Tithonus lives forever in an agony worse than death. With a background of melancholia, isolation or anguish Tennyson conveys themes of half-life and death-in-life by the use of uses imagery, s...
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Unanswered Questions Red Room
1,027 words... y mysterious. He sustains this feeling throughout the story through the use of many literary devices such as again the use of unanswered or unanswerable questions that in this context we get the feeling that the story itself is an unanswerable question or a mystery with no end which gives suspense in a reader as this is magnified by more specific devices, such as Bradbury's final cliff-hanger, Behind her in the living room, someone cleared his throat. The device is yet another unanswered que...
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Short Story Analysis Of Uneasy Homecoming
847 wordsUneasy Homecoming by Will F Jenkins is a short story that has the effect of a particularly tense atmosphere. The story is about a woman named Connie returning to an empty house after a two-week holiday. When she arrives home she had developed a nervous feeling. While Connie was on holiday some burglaries had taken place. Later Connie finds the loot in her home and uses quick thinking to attract peoples attention from the other side of the bay who then catch the burglar. In this short story the s...
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Kind Of Thing Innate Ideas
2,126 words... "Principles of Community"), one has a right to govern one's own body, etc. As stated above, the social contract requires that power be conferred on an individual or assembly, the sovereign. Otherwise, there can be no confidence that surrendered rights will yield security in return. This security is needed for there to be any hope of enjoying the fruits of one's labors. Hobbes listed various rights of the sovereign, including censorship, lawmaking, judging, and making war and peace. There is ...
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Robert The Bruce Desert Shield
2,261 wordsAugust the 2 nd 1990 Saddam Hussains forces crashed the defenses of oil rich Kuwait in fear of an Iraqi invasion into Saudi Arabia. The United States and her coalition allies poured into the Arabian Peninsula to form a deterrent that would be known as Desert Shield. The result was a series of diplomatic talks, negotiations and count negotiations that rapidly declined into a no hope situation. On August the 17 th 1991 the Desert Shield became Desert Storm. The conflict was witnessed by millions t...
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L A Confidential Film Noir
957 wordsL. A Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997) is a neo-noir film about a shooting at an all night diner and the three Las Angeles policeman who investigate in their own unique ways. It is based on the book by James Ellroy and after a very well adapted screenplay, won nine academy awards. It starred actors with big names like Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce and Danny Devito, which made it a very high earning film. The Narrative or storyline is much the same as any other film noir movie. It has a 'hard boiled...
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Hand Side 2 D
1,114 wordsFrom the hours of 1800 to 2200 on Thursday 2 - 17 - 05, an inspection of the lights found on the exterior of the warehouses, container lots, pipe yard, and dock took place. After searching all the light fixtures on the outside of the warehouses there were only two found that possibly could cause a hazard to someone. The first one found was at bay door 1 A- 1, the fixture was hanging loose off the wall with wires exposed. 2 B- 2 was the other site with a possible hazard. The light fixture was mis...
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Due To A Lack Allegory Of The Cave
1,363 wordsThe Benefits Education Has On Individuals And/Or Society Plato, the most creative and influential of Socrates' disciples, wrote dialogues, in which he frequently used the figure of Socrates to espouse his own (Plato's) full-fledged philosophy. In "The Republic, " Plato sums up his views in an image of ignorant humanity, trapped in the depths and not even aware of its own limited perspective. The rare individual escapes the limitations of that cave and, through a long, tortuous intellectual journ...
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Landscape Painting Yale University
2,624 words... this particular painting, the focal point of the golden mean is the sun on the horizon, and characteristically he uses the sun to give the painting depth. In around 1635 forgeries of Claude's work began to appear, so he began recording the pictures he sold in his Liber veritas, which contains sepia drawings and etchings of almost all his paintings, creating a record of his most beautiful draftsmanship. Claude did not construct these sketches as finished items. He always thought ahead, their ...
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Landscape Painting Vertical Lines
1,214 wordsGeorges Seurat painted A Sunday on La Grande Jatte on canvas with oil pigments in 1844. In his work the artist used the pointillism approach and the use of color to make his painting be as lifelike as possible. Seurat worked two years on this painting, preparing it with at least twenty drawings and forty color sketched. In these preliminary drawings he analyzed, in detail every color relationship and every aspect of pictorial space. La Grande Jatte was like an experiment that involved perspectiv...
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Sir Lancelot Descriptive Language
1,352 wordsIn any piece of lyrical poetry, authors must masterfully use the language of the poem to covey the intended meaning. In order to ensure the meaning is not lost, it is imperative that the author incorporates various aspects of the narrative to escalate the poem past its face value. Alfred Tennyson's poem The Lady of Shallot is no exception to the rule. From lines like blue unclouded weather and the gemmy bridle glitter free, one can draw that descriptive language is Tennyson's tool to revealing t...
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Due To A Lack Theory Of Forms
632 wordsPlato's theory of knowledge is found in the Republic, particularly in his discussion of the image about the myth of the cave. Plato distinguishes between two levels of awareness: opinion and knowledge. The myth of the cave describes individuals chained deep within the recesses of a cave. Bound so that vision is restricted, they cannot see one another. The only thing visible is the wall of the cave upon which appear shadows cast by models or statues of animals and objects that are passed before a...
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Good Vs Evil Grendel And His Mother
1,787 wordsBeowulf is an epic poem written, most likely, towards the end of the first millennium. It is considered a masterpiece and is the oldest known piece of English literature. Written in Old English, the story tells of magnificent heroes and terrible monsters, of the struggle between good and evil. Beowulf follows the style of the time, intended to be read aloud and one of few stories written in that manner successfully recorded. Because of the time period the story was told, it encompasses many diff...
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Attention To Detail Homer
1,270 wordsThe 1873 masterpiece Breezing Up, by Winslow Homer located in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC is an oil on canvas painting that measures 23 3 / 13 X 38 1 / 6 in... The primary subject of this painting is a man with three boys in a small wooden sail boat that is moving along with what appears to be a fairly choppy sea. At the center of this painting is the stern of the sail boat. The oldest of the boys is sitting on the high end of the stern with his knees up and his bare feet plante...
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Lines Of The Poem Writing Poetry
832 wordsJohn Keats When I Have Fears As John Keats When I Have Fears As A Representation Of His Balance Of Creative Manifestation A Balance of Creative Manifestation In his brilliant poem, When I Have Fears, John Keats uses several metaphors to explain the three principal things that he will miss when he cease (s) to be. The third quatrain deals with his lover, whom he fears he will not live long enough to love completely, which ironically was the case in his real life. In the last two lines of the poem...
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