The artwork I selected is Lot & Daughters by Orazio Gentileschi. The piece is on display at the Getty Museum and was painted in 1622. This piece is a dynamic‚ wonderful example of the baroque style. Gentileschi’s strong use of chiaroscuro makes the painting seem to be a living scene being viewed from the other side of a window. His use of the three primary colors for the three subjects clearly defines each of them; while still creating color harmony. The subject matter is the story of the city
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The major characters in The Optimist’s Daughter are Judge McKelva‚ Becky Mckelva‚ Laurel Mckelva‚ Wanda Fay‚ Dr. Courtland‚ Miss Adele Courtland‚ Tish Bullock‚ Major Bullock‚ Miss Tennyson‚ and Miss Missouri. Becky Mckelva was Judge Mckelva’s wife before she died and had Laurel Mckelva with him. Wanda Fay remarried Judge Mckelva after his wife’s death. Dr. Courtland did surgery on Becky Mckelva and the final operation on Judge Mckelva. Miss Adele Courtland is the sister of Dr. Courtland and is a
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gets remarried to Hanae‚ the antagonist of “Silent Spring”. Hanae is an unsympathetic woman and also self-centered like Hideki. Yuki and Hideki had a weak relationship before the death of Shizuko; this caused Hideki to never truly understand his daughter Yuki making it hard for his new wife Hanae. Hanae hates Yuki and treats her badly and becomes the wicked stepmom to Yuki‚ causing Yuki to avoid going home whenever she can. Yuki gets extremely involved with school. “Silent Spring” is the story of
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“Rappaccini’s Daughter” Would you sacrifice your only daughter so you could gain notoriety among your colleagues? Or consider killing a man’s daughter for the purpose of thwarting him? This is the basic theme in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story “Rappaccini’s Daughter”. Dr. Rappaccini‚ Professor Baglioni‚ and Giovanni all seem to prefer ideas over human life. Dr. Rappaccini has devoted his entire life to the pursuit of scientific knowledge. He views human beings as experiments. “He would sacrifice
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The Explorer’s Daughter Biography of Kari Herbert: The daughter of polar explorer‚ Sir Wally Herbert‚ Herbert spent the first few years of her life living on a remote island in the Arctic with the Inuit of Greenland. Her first language was Inuktun‚ the local language of Greenland. At the age of four Herbert accompanied her parents on a journey that took them through winter blizzards in a caravan to spend time with the Sami of Lapland. She has continued to travel there ever since. Poem description/criticism:
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Rappaccinis Daughter Story Summary The story rappaccinis daughter takes place in Padua in northern Italy at the University of Padua. A medical student there named Giovanna Guasctonti moves into a small apartment in an old mansion that once belonged to a family of nobles. One of the former family members was thought to be the lost soul Dante a character in the define comedy Dantes Inferno. Giovanni’s apartment has a balcony view over this extravagant large garden tended by the Great physician Giacomo
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The prodigal daughter Plot: The story begins with a single mother who has two daughter‚ she works two jobs to meet their necessities. They are dirt poor and struggling. She tries to instill in her daughters the principle of character ( the soul) which only comes through a relationship with Jesus Christ. She always told them that a relationship with Jesus Christ is worth more than silver‚ gold‚ and all the material things the
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Kathleen Kent even said herself that "Martha was called the “Queen of Hell” by Cotton Mather‚ Martha was unyielding in her refusal to confess and went to her death rather than join the accused men and women who did so and were spared." (Heretics Daughter‚ WWW). Both Sarah and Martha never believed in the process of the witchcraft and knew that they were not witches‚ while everyone else in the town was terrified and continuing to accuse people of being so. While having a different opinion of the situation
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Only Daughter In the essay entitled “Only Daughter” by Sandra Cisneros‚ she wrote about her life growing up in a Mexican-American family of nine; to which she was the only daughter. Although her father did love her‚ he did not show it much at all. The effects on Cisneros’s life due to her father’s lack of attention while growing up were: Spending time alone‚ attending college‚ and becoming a professional writer. The first important effect due to Cisneros’s father’s lack of attention was
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Rappaccini’s Daughter is a story with a great deal of meaning behind it. Throughout the story‚ Hawthorn coveys the theme about loss of innocence and purity and uses symbolism‚ characters and diction convey his theme along with strong reference to religious entities. In the literal sense‚ Nathaniel Hawthorn’s Rappaccini’s Daughter is the story about the rivalry between two scientists that ultimately causes the destruction of an innocent young woman. However‚ when the story is seen on a symbolic level
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