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    Look Pass the Label A few weeks ago, I visited the Museum of Modern Art. As I was going through the second exhibition a particular painting caught my attention. Still life with three puppies by Paul Gauguin was titled. My first encounter with this painting was through the title, which made me create negative hypothesis on what the painting was depicting. When looking at this painting all I could think about was my lack of fascination towards animals, especially puppies, while the person standing

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    Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” is a very strong poem emotionally that has many different meanings and interpretations. The narrative that Plath created is one that conveys a deep emotional distress and feelings of confinement of a woman as she is trapped by the memories of her father until finally gaining freedom when she lets go and make peace with her past. The speaker, symbolism, and the sound devices all play big parts in giving the poem a profound meaning of resolution. The speaker often speaks in

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    In the “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong,” a girl by the name of Mary Anne Bell arrives at a military compound. She used to be a civilian until she completely changed while spending time over at Vietnam. O’Brien uses imagery to enhance the story. Several examples of imagery are found in the chapter. One example is “To the north and west the country rose up in thick walls of wilderness, triple-canopied jungle, mountains unfolding into higher mountain…” (87). This quote gives the reader a vivid image

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    Clarinet Technique Essay

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    “In order to become a truly good and versatile musician in the long term, correct technique is very important.” (LTP Editor, 2014) To improve in performance skill, an understanding of the correct techniques is required. The clarinet is a woodwind instrument that is played with a single reed, it is an instrument with a cylinder body or bore. It was created by Johann Cristopher Denner at around 1690 (Gale Research Inc.1998). This essay will include two examples demonstrating clarinet techniques; example

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    Justice Game

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    2011 Catholic Trial Feedback from marker: * First two sections need to be addressed more effectively * Question needs to be addressed more specifically ------------------------------------------------- More than anything else, conflicting perspectives are the result of bias or self-interest. ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Respond to this statement through an analysis of the ways perspectives are represented in

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    statements and actions of Prophet are recorded in a set of literary texts that modern Muslim call the Hadith. The original term for the customs of the Prophet was “Sunnat Al- Nabi”, which is an exact translation of “customs of the Prophet” in the native tongue of the Prophet’s time, which was Arabic (textbook). While the entire genre of Islamic literature that surrounds the Prophet Muhammad is called Sunnat Al-Nabi, the individual reports that outline the personal and private life of the Prophet are called

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    The Witches are often seen to be of great importance in Shakespeare’s Macbeth; not only are they the first characters to speak, but their prophecies lay the foundation for Macbeth’s ultimate spiral into madness. However, their prominence does not necessarily entitle them to be labelled the ‘heroines of the piece’ that Eagleton describes. In order to evaluate Eagleton’s classification of the Witches, we must underpin the true conventions of a literary hero, both to an Elizabethan and contemporary

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    Peter in da Vinci's Last Supper Essay

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    Leonardo's The Last Supper depicts the sequence of events before Jesus's betrayal and crucifixion. Rather than merely a snapshot in time, The Last Supper seems to be a continuous sequence of events, and a foreshadow of events to come. Two interpretations of the subject of the painting come to mind: the betrayal announcement and the first communion. Observing the impulsive Simon Peter's interactions with Judas and John, Jesus and Thomas, it is clear that The Last Supper represents a conjoint presence

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    Abundant emotional components not only grant the diverse interpretations of visual arts in poetry but also induce the sympathetic resonance from the readers. Therefore, the first important feature of visual arts in literature, especially poem, is to serve as mediators of emotions. Poets’ representations of visual

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    In the short story, “The Story of an Hour,” by Kate Chopin, Louise Mallard goes through every wives worst nightmare, losing a husband. One day, there was a train accident and one of Mr. Mallard’s friends, Richards, saw Louise Mallards husband, Brently, name on this list of people who died on it. He then called Josephine, Louise’s sister, so she could break the horrific news to her softly because of her heart condition. Although Louise grieves when she is surrounded by everyone, when Mrs. Mallard

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