Good Will Hunting is an American drama type film that was released in 1997 directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Robin Williams (as the therapist)‚ Matt Damon (Will Hunting)‚ Ben Affleck (the best friend Chuckie)‚ Minnie Driver (the love of his life)‚ and Stellan Skarsgård (the professor). The film was actually written by Affleck and Damon‚ and with Damon in the title role and Affleck as a best friend to the lead. The film follows 20-year-old South Boston laborer Will Hunting (Damon)‚ an unrecognized
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Washington Irving published the first American short story called “A Posthumous Writing of Diedrich Knickerbocker” published in The Sketch Book and Irving used the pen name Geoffrey Crayon but the piece is often referred to as “Rip Van Winkle.” This essay reviews Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle” by first summarizing the plot and then second detailing the relationship between the story’s structure
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A Study in Portraits – da Vinci and Van Gogh Two of the greatest artists of all time would have to be Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519) and Vincent Van Gogh (1853 – 1890). Da Vinci was an artistic genius‚ as well as an ingenious inventor and scientist‚ while Van Gogh was an artistic savant whose mental instability cut short a career of wonder and enlightenment. Both artists presented works that made people look both outside at the artwork itself as well as inside the individual viewer in order
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"Crazy Face" The song I chose to review is “Crazy Face” by Van Morrison on the album “His Band and the Street Choir”. The tone color of this song is upbeat and jazzy‚ not so much inspirational‚ but laid back and pleasant. The tempo is based around an 8th note signature‚ mostly displayed by the Hi-hat in what I would classify as allegretto. The instruments involved in this song are; a piano‚ a standard drum set most likely a five piece with a standard 2 toms maybe 3‚ bass drum‚ snare‚ ride symbol
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The last two chapters of Karen van der Zee?s book‚ ?A Secret Sorrow?‚ are very eventful. Chapter Eleven begins with Faye‚ one of the main characters‚ horrified by the question her boyfriend has just asked her. Kai‚ Faye?s boyfriend‚ has found a slip of paper that has slipped out of Faye?s wallet the previous Saturday morning. The slip of paper is from Doctor Martin recommending her to a psychiatrist by the name of Doctor Jaworski. Earlier in the book‚ Faye had a car accident that left her infertile
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Mystery Play‚ written by Jean-Claude van Itallie was first produced at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York City on January 3‚ 1973. Jacques Levy was the director. Peaslee wrote the song “We Want a King” for the play. The song is included with the play book. Words were written by van Itallie and Peaslee wrote the melody and basic harmonization. The music came from the previous collaboration‚ The King of the United States‚ that Peaslee wrote for van Itallie. Troilus and Cressida opened November 10
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Sir Walter Scott. One of his earliest works was published under the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon in 1819‚ The Sketch Book. Included in this work of art were two American tales which he is probably best known for‚ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. Through his writings‚ Irving composes two different types of stories. His realistic stories‚ for example‚ The Alhambra‚ are one of these types‚ which objectively seeks
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Architecture‚ William G.Ramroth P31) They started to discover the fundamental morality of the building. (The artless word P96) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe‚ as one of the most “Zeigeist” architects in the biography of modern architecture‚ began his career under this ultimate paradox era. Now we scale our eyes down to the three projects successively done by Mies van der Rohe during the 1920s‚ that is the Brick Country House‚ the Wolf House‚ and the Barcelona Pavilion‚ through which‚ we can follow the
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waking up a single time is a whole different reality. In Washington Irving’s mythological story “Rip Van Winkle”‚ the title of the story / character falls into a deep and long sleep lasting for twenty years. After that twenty years and when Rip wakes up‚ the fashion‚ the government‚ and the architecture of the village have all changed. Washington Irving’s creates a humorous and magical experience in Rip Van Winkle that takes the reader through a world of exaggerated characters‚ mysterious events and breathtaking
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Rogier Van der Weyden was a Flemish painter of the mid-15th century. Rogier was chiefly influenced by his first teacher‚ Robert Campin. Although details of his early training are sketchy‚ it is generally accepted that he entered the workshop of Robert Campin‚ the foremost painter in Tournai and dean of the painters’ guild‚ in 1427 at the age of 27 (http://www.belgium.be). Rogier remained in Campin’s studio for five years‚ becoming an independent master of the guild on August 1‚ 1432. Van der Weyden
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