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Oil On Canvas Edouard Manet
1,490 wordsHunting Dogs by Jean-Did-Gustave Courbet is the first painting I looked at and I was created in 1867. The painting is oil on canvas and the size of it is 361 / 2 x 58 inch. Courbet paints two dogs and a dead hare in the woods. The woods are becoming dark and the sun is setting. The painting is dark and gloomy except for the quarreling dogs that the sun is directly setting on. With fine brushstrokes he sets a depressing mood because of the choice of dark colors. This picture is a very good exampl...
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The Things They Carried By Tim Obrien
1,000 wordsWhat did they carry? Was it just their standard issued gear? Was it relics from the world? Or was it something more sinister? Tim OBrien explores these ideas and many more in his heart stopping, breath taking, uniquely sad but true book, The Things They Carried. OBrien, a victim of the Vietnam War himself, shares with us stories that he endured while in the Nam. Moreover, I believe that this book of his was much more than a collection of stories. I believe this book was not meant to entertain ou...
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Point Of View Part Of The Book
1,153 wordsAnnas Story is a non-fiction expository text written by Bronwyn Donaghy. Donaghy's deliberate use of language and selection of detail have combined to convey specific attitudes about teenagers and drugs. The way these are conveyed is also aided by the use of structure, point of view, quotes and bias. In this text we are given facts about drugs as well as the story of Annas life and what caused the early end to it. Donaghy is trying to convince us that it was not Annas fault she died, but that it...
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Drink And Drive Drunk Driver
712 wordsthat I didn't choose to drink and drive The kid that caused this wreck was drunk, " because he chose to drink and drive that it's wrong to drink and drive. SIGN IT AND ADHERE TO IT: "I PLEDGE TO NEVER DRINK AND DRIVE" (please sign and pass on) 133. Sally J. James -- - In memory of William 149. Matt Ashley -- - In memory of Alison, killed by drunk driver 1 / 9 / 98. 180. Meghan Anne Meyer -- - In memory of James and Kendall killed by a drunk driver January 1, 1996. 185: Kris Jensen -- - In memory...
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Dmitri Gurov Anna Sergeyevna Life
1,064 wordsIrony: incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the expected results. Huh? Well take the short story Lady with a Dog written by Anton Chekhov as an example. First lets get a look at our main characters, Dmitri Gurov and Anna Sergeyevna, and how they met. Then we will take a look how the story has an ironic turn of events. We first meet Dmitri Gurov, a married middle aged man with children, who has been unfaithful to his wife many times. He has a great contempt for women ...
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Day By Day Walt Whitman
1,319 wordsWalt Whitman's poem A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim, sets the picture of a solider camp near a battlefield. (This was probably around the time when he served as a volunteer nurse and comforter in the army. ) In line two Whitman wakes up early due to little sleep, perhaps from going to battle. As he goes outside near the hospital tent, he sees three people on stretchers brought outside untended. He describes the blankets covering the soldiers over each stretcher. In the next lines se...
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Heavy Monsoon Rains Cattle Have Been Killed People
462 wordsIn Nepal hunger is having because of heavy monsoon rains. The heavy rain has been going on sense mid-June. It has caused serious flooding in most parts of the country killing at least 113 people. It has displaced more then 7, 000 households in 62 districts. About 1, 160 hectares of crops have been reported to have been destroyed from the rain and more then 300 cattle have been killed. Also in Bangladesh heavy monsoon rains have done damage. The rain started in the second decayed of July caused e...
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Brutus And Cassius Antony And Octavius
1,908 words... ind. He, unlike other men, is constant. They all stab Caesar at Cassius's word. His final words are "Et tu Brute" meaning "you too Brutus?" The conspirators celebrate, and assure the senators they mean no one else harm. Casca and Brutus mention that they have done Caesar a favor by cutting short the time he will fear death. Cassius and Brutus predict that Caesar's death will be acted out many centuries in the future. A servant of Antony's asks if Antony can talk to Brutus. Brutus says that's...
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Nursing Home Good Friend
1,847 wordsAlbert Camus was a French philosopher / writer who was born in Algeria (part of North Africa that was owned by the French) in 1913. He wrote this book showing how life is "absurd" because death is final, therefore making life meaningless. This is a very basic look at the philosophy and you shouldn't assume that what you read is all you really need to know about it. People are still debating what Camus was talking about hence why you have to read this book. Camus was killed in a car accident in 1...
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Dramatic Irony Committed Suicide
1,854 wordsThere is much bitter dramatic irony in An Inspectors Calls, which the plays original audience would have been all too aware Whilst opinions may vary on the impact of dramatic irony in the play, I would like to argue that the dramatic irony in the play was very bitter. The true meaning of dramatic irony is where the audience knows something that the people on stage or the characters they are playing would not have known. The play viewers would be recently mourning over the loss of people in the S...
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Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter House Of Usher
714 wordsThere were many great writers in the early 1800 s, such as Edgar Allen Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau, but each had many special qualities. These special qualities were sometimes similar throughout all of the writers, and some were very different. The main differences were split with writers such as Poe and Hawthorne, in the "Prophets of Darkness" and others were mostly "Prophets of Promise. " The main similarity between all transcendental writers in the e...
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Seamus Heaney Short Stories
600 wordsA lot of works of poetry and or short stories demonstrate the sad but interesting topic of aging or growing old. Four works that illustrate and show the topic of old age are, "Old Age", by Elisha Port, "The Mirror", by Sylvia Path, "The Follower", by Seamus Heaney, and "When I Am Very Old", by Arthur O. Roberts. These selected works show and present the topic of aging or growing old in many different ways. The first work I chose, "Old Age" by Elisha Port, shows how it is to age and to go "over t...
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Characters In The Play Winters Tale
1,036 wordsShakespeare creates many topics for discussion throughout his play, The Winters Tale. For many of these themes, multiple viewpoints can be derived from the thoughts, words, and actions of the characters in the play. The reasoning for Shakespeare's title is indeed one of the aforementioned topics. Firstly, the title helps to set the stage for which the play takes place. Numerous references hint to the fact that the play is staged mostly during the winter season or close to it. In act II, scene I,...
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Style Of Writing Jack Kerouac
1,947 wordsIn the beginning Jack Kerouac lived a wild and exciting life outside the realm of everyday " normal" American life. Though On the Road and The Dharma Bums were Kerouac's only commercial successes, he was a man who changed American literature and pop-culture. Kerouac virtually created a life-style devoted to life, art, literature, music, and poetry. When his movement grew out of his control, he came to despise it, and died lonely on the other side of what he once loved and cherished abo...
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Careful He Might Hear Boy With A Strange Vanessa
1,276 words2. Theres a good deal more to Careful, he might hear you than the sad story of a little boy with a strange name. Do you agree? Careful, he might hear you is much more than the sad story of a little boy with a strange name, although the story does contain elements of pathos. It is a milan of emotions slowly heating until boiling point is reached. The author, Sumner Locke Elliott, dwells on a number of themes which appear throughout the novel. The story follows the constrained life of a young boy ...
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Midsummer Nights Dream Measure For Measure
2,312 wordsShakespeare wrote many plays during his lifetime. Some of his plays have similar comedic characteristics and then other plays are the exact opposite of comedy. Shakespeare wrote tragedies, romance, history, comedy and problem plays all with great success. During the performance of these plays there was no scenery so great time was taken when developing the characters and the plot so the plays would be entertaining. A Midsummer's Nights Dream and Much Ado About Nothing are just two of the comedie...
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Year Old Boy Vicious Circle
1,115 wordsMoizSalaam Bombay Salaam Bombay! More Bhinderwala Westford, MA Title: Salaam Bombay! Director: Mira Nair Give a brief description of the main characters: The main characters in this movie are Krishna, his friend Chillum, a prostitute with her small daughter, a pimp, street-kids and a 16 -yr old girl. Krishna: Krishna is a twelve year old boy, who is in search for a job so that he can earn enough money to pay his mother in order to return to his family. He is left behind by a travelling circus wh...
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Manic Depressive Illness American Psychological Association
2,704 wordsAccording to the American Psychological Association over 17 million Americans have depression (Par. 1). Depression is triggered by many things; whatever the trigger, it is much more than a simple case of the blues. Depression is a serious illness that can take a terrible toll on victims and families if left untreated. With proper treatment the disease can be minimized or even eliminated. Everyone feels sad or blue sometimes. But when an upsetting event occurs, Feelings of sorrow usually subside ...
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Seasonal Affective Disorder Depressed Mood
842 wordsTYPES OF DEPRESSIVE CONDITIONS DEPRESSED MOOD DUE TO GRIEF Grieving the loss of someone significant in one? s life is a necessary but usually painful and difficult process. The symptoms of grieving are actually a very normal and healthy reaction to the death of a family member, lover, or friend. The grieving process may involve guilt, despair, anger, insomnia, changes in appetite, and obsessive thoughts about the lost person, and in some cases people report transiently seeing the image or hearin...
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Strong Feelings Teen Suicide
1,212 wordsSuicide is a very serious problem, and it happens too often for us to ignore. I have always been interested in the different things involved in suicide and what would cause a person to kill themselves, but have never had the time to find out, until now. I used to think it was something that was a spur of the moment decision, but it? s not always. I thought it only happened to kids whose parents abused them, but that? s not always true. I found that out when one of my friends that I had known sin...
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