Still life

that too may be different than what someone else likes and dislikes. Although the artworks may show a similar object, the pieces are still unique since with anything that has similarities, there are also differences present. At the Wichita Art Museum, two paintings of flowers are on display, William J. Glackens’ Bouquet of Flowers in a Vase and Alfred Maurer’s Still Life with Flower. These two artworks show the similarities and differences through the incorporation of line, shape, color, space,…

I had family and friends. Rajeed and I would play cricket in the streets of an afternoon with some of my other friends. I had a life and a future. The Taliban changed everything. Once they took Kabul, we knew we had to leave just to live another day. The once bustling streets filled with markets were now desolate. Buildings that were brimming with people were now crumbled ruins…

different walks of life each have come from but all still fight to live on, when faced with the end. Dylan Thomas begins by challenging his father to fight the coming of darkness, by contrasting the wise and good men in the world, those who live fruitful lives, and how they respond to the coming of the night. These courageous men, although knowing that death is a part of life, refuse…

everything about them. The Fermi Paradox establishes two different points of view where one may be correct and prove the other wrong: there’s life all through the universe or we are all by ourselves. Both are only speculations, but I believe the first one is closer to the truth. Though, most of us will rather ignore or not even accept the fact that human life and life on other planets develops in different ways and that they may be even more advanced than us. It’s simple, we used to…

Everyone has their own idea of how they should live their life. "What Life Should Be" is an inspiring poem written by Patricia A. Fleming. Patricia A. Fleming was the middle child of three and had a middle-class upbringing. She worked as a psychiatric social worker for 36 years and after retiring, she began writing inspirational poems about life. The poem "What Life Should Be" argues what it means to be a human. She uses many different strategies to make the point across to the reader. In…

"Though wise men at their end know dark is right, / Because their words had forked no lighting they / Do not go gentle into that good night /". (4-6) In the first line of this second quatrain, Thomas is explaining that wise men know death is a part of life. It is natural and not something that you can escape. However, because their words had "forked no lightning" they have the want to continue to live. (5) When lightning strikes it forks and shoots light through the entire sky. It 's one prod…

bravery. Palmer argues everyone has times of bravery and times of weakness. Palmer also shows that death is a big part of life and that everyone must learn how to live with it. He shows that every family has secrets just some are bigger than others. Palmer argues that everyone has times of bravery and times of weakness it is shown in Will’s life Murray’s life and even Sid’s life. Will has always been Murray’s hero especially when they we little and even when they grew up. Murray saw Will as a…

She has lost something and he has too, but still they go through life like it never happened; they can not change it though they try so hard to do so, they can forgive but never forget the pain and sorrow from that day, so they keep chugging along day-after-day. Everybody experiences the loss of a loved one at some point in their life. However, some losses may be harder than others and everyone deals with death in different ways. Some may shut down and not like to talk about it, while others…

Still Alice, is the fictional work of author and neuroscientist Lisa Genova (Genova, About Lisa). At 50 years old Alice Howard is satisfied with the life that she has made for herself, her husband, and three grown children. She is a successful cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and an expert in linguistics. However, Alice is at the height of her life when she begins to have frequent “memory disturbances” and is diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s. The book follows Alice through her…

The truth is I’ve always been a fool” (Edward Bloom). Edward Bloom was a man that lived in a fantasy world. His stories were exaggerated to the point they became a fantasy. He hyperbolize the stories not to lie, but to escape the boring reality of life. In that way I am like him; I tend to have my own Wonderland, where I go to escape the monotonous pattern of my existence. Edward Bloom and I are not only alike in the fact that we both have a dreamland, but also in that he never gave up, even if…