Letter to His Son: Rules of Conduct in Polite Company by Philip Dormer Stanhope‚ Lord Chesterfield Bath‚ October 19‚ O.S. 1748 Dear Boy: Having in my last pointed out what sort of company you should keep‚ I will now give you some rules for your conduct in it; rules which my own experience and observation enable me to lay down‚ and communicate to you‚ with some degree of confidence. I have often given you hints of this kind before‚ but then it has been by snatches; I will now be more regular and
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Lauren Williams English Language 119 “Ti-Jean and His Brothers” Questions 9 and 10 9). Discuss the different advice the Mother gives to each of her sons. The different advice the Mother gave to each of her sons were as follows: to Gros jean was to “Praise God‚ ask for directions from the bird and the insects‚ to imitate them. She told him to be careful of the devil traps‚ to beware of the wise man called Father of the forest. Also‚ she told him that the devil can appear in many features‚ he
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Saturn Devouring His Son Saturn Devouring His Son is a name given to a mural painting painted by Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes during year 1820 to 1823 at his house Quinta del Sordo (Villa of The Deaf Man) which is located at Spain. He used al secco technique (also called fresco-secco) which means the color pigments are mixed with water and egg york and applied on the moistened plaster. This painting was painted in oils on one of the wall of his dining room. Goya showed Saturn crouched in
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Chesterfield’s letter to his son traveling far from home. The strategies used by Chesterfield not only display his desired intentions for his son‚ but‚ also‚ the rhetorical strategies implemented in the letter reveal the values Chesterfield holds as true. In order to persuade his son that the knowledge he holds is pertinent‚ Chesterfield first disbands the notion that parents only give advice to induce suffering in the child‚ then ties the ability‚ and pride of himself to the success of his son and finally suggests
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Comparing Akhenaton and Laocoon and his Sons The statue of Akhenaton from the Temple of Aton created between ca. 1353-1335 BCE‚ whose artist remains anonymous‚ and the statue of Laocoon and his Sons from Rome‚ created in the early first century CE by Athandoros‚ Hagesandros‚ and Polydoros are two masterfully sculpted pieces of art that come from two different walks of life. During the time of creation‚ the artists of both compositions were experimenting with new ideas and techniques to portray
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110 4 November 2012 Midterm: Ugolino In Canto 33 of Dante’s Inferno‚ the Pilgrim enters Antenora and sees the sinner‚ Ugolino‚ frozen in a hole and feasting on the head of his nemesis‚ Ruggieri. Although the reason for his damnation in the realm of Antenora is the sin of political treachery against Pisa‚ there seems to be something else he grieves and feels the need to explain to Dante: while Ruggieri locks Ugolino and his sons in a tower with no food‚ Ugolino bites his hand out of sheer rage. This
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Ugolino’s treatment of his children defies Aristotle’s view of friendship between children and parent; friendship is more about loving than being loved. Ugolino shows just how much he cares for his children when he refuses to console them when they are locked in the tower (Montemaggi et. al). Instead‚ when his children see Ugolino biting his hand out of grief‚ they think that it is because he is hungry and they offer themselves to him to be eaten: “‘Father‚ for us it would be much less pain / if
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After two or three false starts‚ Jean Dubuffet became a prolific and monumental artist and writer who made a substantial and lasting contribution to world culture. And although he professed a profound disdain for culture and tradition‚ he cultivated and maintained relationships with leading French intellectuals‚ philosophers‚ artists and playwrights until his death in 1985. As important as Dubuffet’s own work was‚ his collection of outsider art which he termed Art Brut is probably even more important
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: Overdosing on Art It was the late summer of August 19‚ 1988 the terribly young‚ Jean-Michel Basquiat died tragically of a heroin overdose in his art studio located in Manhattan‚ New York. There laid Basquiat asleep in a huge bed covered in television noise. Beneath the window of his bathroom were bloody syringes and words written “Broken Heart” with his favorite copyright sign. Devastated by her friend’s death‚ Director‚ Tamra Davis hid away hidden tapes of Basquiat not willing
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the center of art‚ making literature valuable as an expression of unique feelings and particular attitudes more than it values completeness‚ unity‚ or demands of genre.” In this time period‚ everyone was really starting to step outside of the box. Francisco Goya’s oil painting of Saturn Devouring His Son comes from a short story where Saturn learns of his fate‚ that one of his sons will kill him in order to take over for themselves. He decided to not live in fear‚ and instead to eat his children moments
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