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    Light and Colour- Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night The Starry Night is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. Painted in June, 1889, it depicts the view (with the notable addition of an idealized village) from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, just before sunrise. The dominating colour palette in the painting is dark blue and black hues oppose the bright whites and the yellows in the sky. The size of the painting is 29

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    English creative writing When I was a child, my grandfather and I would spend every possible moment of the holidays on the glistening pearl sand of the picturesque river known as the spring river. For hours on end, with time receding from existence we would cast our lines into the iridescent water, only to break the seamless surface of the water by thrusting our legs, immersing them in it so that the droplets of water glimmered like diamonds in the summer sky. We would lie back, indulge in our favourite

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    The Starry Night (fig.1), painted by Vincent van Gogh in 1889, and Fountain (fig. 2), created by Marcel Duchamp in 1914, are generally known as Modern Art. The professor Nalini Rao always taught her students about the importance of analyzing artworks by various viewpoints in order to appreciate underlying purposes of each artwork and how artworks are created, and The Starry Night and Fountain actually have both similarities and differences. While both Vincent van Gogh and Marcel Duchamp used new

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    hallucinations. In the novel Captain Steerforths is a man that is trustworthy and clean. The position of being Captain of the ship entitles him to power, this makes Gilbert Pinfold question the events he is hearing from his cabinet. After a quiet night in his bunk Mr. Pinfold is startled when he hears the Captain beneath him committing a murder. The following day he finds it hard to be around him being the only one who is aware of the occurrence, “ Knowing what he did of Captain Steerforths character

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    A Short Story : A Story?

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    place filled with dread. The whole house was filled with despair. I completely zone out and stumble upon a rock solid bed. Curling up I buried my tear stained face into a soft and fluffy pillow. Slowly my body starts to fall into a deep sleep. That night I did not have a breathtaking dream, but instead a memory. A memory that would forever leave a profound bruise on my soul. “Amanda, can we talk?” my sister, Vanessa, whispered almost as if she was in pain. “Please.” she desperately begged her eyes

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    It has once been proven from a survey by the American Psychological Association which found “that nearly half of all teens — forty-five percent — said they were stressed by school pressures” (Neighmond). As a young adult, dealing with an overwhelming amount of issues or struggles is part of growing up, but certain faculties may put students far outside their comfort zones. Today, majority of schools assign unnecessary amounts of homework to students on a daily basis. Dealing with a variety of different

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    In William Shakespeare 's comedy Twelfth Night, it is ironic how many times the fool is said to be dishonest, when, in fact, his role proves entirely opposite. Though sometimes the characters do not realize his hidden messages, the reader can instantly comprehend Feste 's figurative language, which is evident in every scene in which the fool appears. Whether he is singing to Orsino, arguing with Malvolio, or playing around with Viola, Feste always manages to sneak in a few symbolic foretokens before

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    Art 101 Week 3 Assignment 2 When comparing the lines in the Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night painting and Sol LeWitt’s the Wall Drawing No. 681, the lines are the opposite. In the Starry Night painting the lines of the sky are very curvy and flowing, but the lines of the buildings are very straight. The artist in this painting is showing you a vision he has had during the time he was in the asylum. The lines of the sky are erratic, and it shows how the artist was feeling very unstable

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    In the kingdom of Illyria (fantasy world), Twelfth Night was supposedly originally written for the entertainment of Queen Elizabeth I. William Shakespeare’s comedy associates with the Feast of Epiphany (January 6th) and was means for entertainment in the seventeenth century. It contains some aspects that can be thought of as a successful comedy when compared to the standards of today’s society. The play incorporates some of the very same devices that are used in modern comedies today, such as topsy-turvy

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    wrote were: Tragedies, Comedies, and Histories. Among the many plays he wrote he wrote one his most famous play, “Twelfth Night”, which he wrote during the middle of his career. “Twelfth Night” is considered to be one of Shakespeare’s greatest comedies that he has written. In addition to it is also the only play that he wrote that has an alternate title which is called, “Twelfth Night, or What You Will”. By analyzing the themes presented in the play: Actions of love, Gender, and madness, helps show what

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