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    Pieter Brueghel was the most significant artist in the Dutch and Flemish Renaissance for paintings. Brueghel was known for landscape and peasant scene painting which were called genre paintings. His two pieces that were brought into discussion were The Kermess or Peasant Dance and The Fall of Icarus. Both of these painting were written in two Ekphrastic poems. The poem foundation defines a Ekphrastic poem as a vivid description of the scene or, more commonly, a work of art. Through the imaginative

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    Sky High is filled with special effects. The special effects are used to emphasize the theme and style of the film. The use of special effects is very sufficient throughout the entire film. The variety of effects ranges from the mimics of comic book pages to crafty backgrounds and super powers. For example, the movie starts off by presenting the background information of Will Stronghold’s family through a comic book illustration. Sky High also contains more fun through special effects. All of the

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    Catalin Monroe was a dancer – this was the only thing she knew for certain. Yet, most of time she only knew this as her feet hit the battered floor, humming in tune to a song that never existed. She moved in exact time to a partner she never had. But, to Catalin that thought of not dancing was inconceivable. Barren floors, cold with intertwined cracks like spider webs would turn to stained glass beneath her feet with swirling magnificent designs – a chorus of greens and reds, displaying the grandest

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    raining on me!” As I look at the old broke down tree, beautiful, crunchy, red leaves dropping all around, I think to myself, “I’m going to do it!” Looking at the dark blue sky, I see it. Raindrops falling everywhere. Desending from the sky, it starts pouring.

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    Clash with the Hurricane- Personal Narrative The sky darkened from the blue light sky, it turned suddenly to a dark black gloomy sky hovering with a mist cloud. I walked back into the car, seemingly it was going to pour down. Heavily, the wind blew. I turned to shut the windows, but, as I looked closer out of the window, huge clouds started fusing together which then created a huge immense hurricane

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    first difference we notice is that there is only one being present in the Aztec myth, as there are two in the Iroquois. There's the Earth Mother, who was known as Coatlicue. The Earth Mother belonged to the Aztec myth. Then there's the Sky Caretaker and his wife, the Sky Woman, who both belonged to the Iroquois myth. The Earth Mother had been responsible for creating the moon and the stars, that were known as Centzon Huitznahua, after that she had a daughter that became the earth goddess. There were

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    devastating incident. Witnesses that were standing by just kept on seeing people jumping out with someone else while holding hands. Doyle used, metaphor, imagery, symbol, simile, pathos, and allusion throughout the passage. The witnesses saw people falling from the buildings, but the attention is on a couple holding each other while

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    skating scene.  Morrison uses this scene to represent the slow, but consistent, deterioration of the family living in 124 and to foreshadow the ultimate demise of the family unit.  Morrison writes repeatedly, “Nobody saw them falling,” yet in all reality they were falling, and falling fast (Morrison 174).  There are a number of details, including the setting, Sethe’s emotions, the choice of

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    The Interlopers

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    Interlopers. For example, the Story of an Hour occurs indoors, during spring and during the day. It does not directly state it occurred during the day, but we do know that if it occurred during the night then the sky would not be blue. However, the story overtly states this: "There were patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds that had met and piled one above the other in the west facing her window." (Chopin). However, the exposition of The Story of an Hour also has foreshadowing in is

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    to identify the situation, one way to identify the situation is by understanding that the “tiny pulse, coming from behind [the] hill” (Baker, 1989, p. 7) is light coming from the nuclear bomb. Also if a “jet is drawing a thin white line across the sky” (Baker, 1989, p. 7) there is a possibility that they could have dropped the bomb if they are leaving a large light behind them. It is a scary thought knowing that a normal jet flying could leave a bomb behind them that could potentially kill many people

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