The Mirror Annotated

Takaki’s book, A Different Mirror, offers the multicultural history of the United States. This book provides the reader with the American experience of Native Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans, Irish Americans, Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, and Jewish Americans. During this time, America demonstrated manifest destiny and the Master Narrative. They were led by the belief of “white purity,” which these ethnic groups threatened. America exhibited supremacy over all of these ethnic groups. Takaki’s work allows me to become aware of the history and the outcomes of manifest destiny and the Master Narrative.

This investigation will focus on the early 17th century and explore the question: Why did the French have better relations with the Native Americans than the English when colonizing Quebec and Massachusetts Bay Colony? With Quebec founded in 1608 by French explorer Samuel de Champlain and Massachusetts Bay colony established in 1630 by Englishman John Winthrop, investigating the development of these two colonies will allow a perceptive analysis of early European-Indian relations in North America to occur.

John Szarkowski is an American photographer and curator, whose opinions on a photograph’s narrative and direction are highly valued. In his time he analyzed many works of art, and produced many different interpretations, one being the ideals of mirrors and windows.

"Man in the Mirror" was written by Glen Ballard and Siedah Garrett and co-produced by Michael Jackson, and released from the album Bad on August 31,1987 and released as a single January 16,1988 (YouTube). Siedah Garrett had an idea about a man looking in a mirror in her head for quite some time and took her ideas to her writing partner Glen Ballard. Once Garrett shared her lyric ideas, Ballard added some soulful vocals to help make the song become more powerful, which helped make the lyrics even stronger. The straightforward lyrics about making a change to yourself first caught Michael Jackson’s attention for his album Bad he was working on. “His chemistry with Garrett was so strong that he invited her to duet with him on another Bad single” (Yahoo! Music). The uplifting lyrics of making a change to yourself first, with the combination of Michael Jackson’s voice took off on the charts in no time. “Even though it wasn't a song he wrote himself, it was a message that was strongly identified with him and reflective of his own philosophies, as demonstrated through his actions and expressed in some of his own lyrics” (YouTube). “Man in the Mirror” became a world-wide hit in the late 80’s helping to inspire people to make a change within themselves and to help others.

In addition, Girl before a mirror by Picasso, shows a girl standing in front of the mirror. As we can see the girl possesses two sides of the face where one of them looks colorful and the other one seems not much color; this can be perceived as how the colorful side of her face means all the happiness in her life because of colors represents the makeup and how young and beautiful she looks where on the other side of her face lacks some color meaning that she depicts her sad and depressive side, where she feels unhappy and the colors make her look older. Also, we can see in the picture that the mirror reflects a different image of the girl; her body seems disturbed and shows darker shades of the colors giving the appearance of how the girl sees

From the beginning of the poem, we see that it revolves around water. We find out that the mirror is "unmisted" and "swallows" everything. We see that by the end of the poem, a girl is drowning and a fish is rising to take over her. In the poem water is both a

Director Tarsem Singh decided in 2012 to put a fresh enjoyable twist on Walt Disney’s animated classic by producing the film, Mirror Mirror. The center of attention shifted from the distinct personalities of the seven dwarfs to the outshining temperament of the haughty, over-the-top Evil Queen played by Julia Roberts. The Evil Queen in this film does not seem so vile but rather more of an excessively excited cougar desperately attempting to get the attention of the handsome young Prince to win his hand in marriage and his fortune, which she frantically needs to cover the debts acquired by her lavish lifestyle. She outshines our main hero Snow White and makes the film what it seems like: a comedic composition intended for a few good laughs.

A Distant Mirror connects fourteenth century life with modern, proving that history is doomed to repeat itself. The economic arrangements of the fourteenth century are surprisingly similar to the policies that exist in the present day United States. Nobles earned exemption from direct taxation. They were still expected to pay aids and sales tax, however these taxes fed proportionately much more off of the poor than of the wealthy. While tax exemption is now associated with the lower classes, the wealthy of America are not required to pay taxes in a manner which is proportional to their earnings. This allows the wealthy keep a much greater portion of money, thus broadening the gap between classes. Allowing the same type of separation between

The mirror is in her connection to the outside world. She sees all the people who travel the road. The significance of the mirror is that while it does give her the ability to see the outside world, the images are dark and unrecognizable. What I take from this is that in her solitude, she is still unable to make connections with people even through a magic mirror.

When the narrator first encounters the girl, his friend's older sister, he can only see her silhouette in the “light from the half-opened door”. This is the beginning of his infatuation with the girl. After his discovery, he is plagued by thoughts of the girl which make his daily obligations seem like “ugly, monotonous, child's play”. He has become blinded by the light. The narrator not only fails to learn the name of his “girl”, he does not realize that his infatuation with a woman considerably older than himself is not appropriate. He relishes in his infatuation, feeling “thankful [he] could see so little” while he thinks of the distant “lamp or lighted window” that represents his girl. The narrator is engulfed by the false light that is his futile love.

     The mirror in the poem is a representation of the truths in life that as a person is difficult to come to terms with in one's self. The woman's view of herself and her reluctance to accept her natural and God-given beauty, shows how we all (as a society or as an individual) find it hard to accept ourselves for who we truly are. How we try to make ourselves into a conformed object of "popular beauty" based upon our outward appearance, instead of going by how our personal feelings that come from within us.

There is a great amount of variety of style and purpose in art. To say that the “truest” art is the most realistic, because the only purpose of art is to reflect humanity, ignores a great part of all the works of art that have been created and the many reasons behind their diversity. Distortion of human (or humanoid) figures can be used as a tool to communicate opinions about power and spirituality, among other things, and its combination with realism can enhance a connection between the audience and subject instead of diluting it.

A bio-poem highlights biographical information about a subject, including their experiences, relationships, hopes, and interests. The book provides you with an example of a bio-poem. Once you have completed reading the example, please complete your own.

I opened my eyes and found myself looking into a sizable mirror atop a colossal mahogany desk. The dark wood was cool and smooth beneath my fingertips and brought goose bumps to my skin. The room was dark but I could still see the rich blue paint on the walls and the classic paintings on the wall. There were paintings by Monet, Picasso, Leonardo da Vinci and other world-renowned artists. I wanted to rush over to the paintings and exam every last detail and commit it to memory. Something pulled me back to the mirror and I was entranced by a pair of eerily similar smoky grey eyes.

People are often confronted with difficult choices. Ordinarily, these difficult choices have subtle consequences. Nethertheless, in The Obsidian Mirror, Catherine Fisher writes of Sarah, who has to choose between two choices with severe repercussions. Sarah is a girl from the future, whose universe will be destroyed by a time machine called the Obsidian Mirror. In Sarah’s time, the Obsidian Mirror will collapse into a black hole due to the mirror’s constant abuse from a man named Janus. Rashly, Sarah goes back in time to present day Wintercombe, where the Obsidian Mirror currently is, with the plan to smash the Obsidian Mirror to forestall it from destroying the future. However, she learns that the Obsidian Mirror is being used by Oberon Venn to bring back his dead wife along with Jake Wilde, who is trying to bring back his father, who journeyed to the past and got stuck there. Conflicted, Sarah starts questioning whether she should destroy the Obsidian Mirror, seeing that doing so would ensure that Venn, along with Jake would never have the ability to bring their loved ones back. After factoring this in, Sarah should still destroy the Obsidian Mirror.