Mirror Essay

Both Mayan and American beliefs have many differences, but not many similarities. One thing I found similar about both Mayan and American beliefs are: Sometimes, Americans figure out the weather by the stars. The Maya figure out the future days by the stars in the night sky. So, since both Americans and Mayans use Astrology to predict future days. (Astrology means the study of the stars.) There are many beliefs in both cultures that are and are not that similar, but have some little similar…

I watched how the others opened theirs. I tried the motion that they were doing and it worked. As I thought, the inventory was mostly bare. What I didn’t expect was that there was a convenient mirror as my only item. I took it out and decided to see if anything about me changed. When I looked in the mirror, I saw a whole new person. My curl was gone and I had the same hairstyle, except that my hair was crimson in…

the painting, coming back. Velazquez presents himself to be in a moment of anticipation, observing the viewer’s constant shifting. However, it can also be interpreted that the gaze of the figures are towards the king and queen reflected in the mirror. The mirror can also be mistaken for an already finished portrait, but the cloudy detailing of the glass suggests that it is a…

to her father and yells “I want that one!” (29). However, the “real-life” magic mirror in the Boutique is extremely problematic as a reflector of female desire. Instead of gazing upon an unknown model, the girl in front of the “mirror” sees and envies her own (altered) reflection. The illusion before the girl appears to be more elegant and poised than her original, non-reflected self. In other words, the magic mirror causes the viewer to envy a version of herself which does not actually exist.…

I relate to the character it also might help me in the real world. In my opinion, I think that the protagonists Quinn and Rashad in All American Boys, are windows and mirrors to my identity because we both have similar reactions to some of their experiences. In the book All American Boys, the characters Quinn and Rashad are mirrors…

Camelot, and has absolutely no company at all. Her only task is to weave on her loom. As she watches people pass by through her mirror, her lack of companionship is emphasized when “The knights come riding two and two” as “She hath no loyal knight and true” (Tennyson 61-62). It is also emphasized when she sees “two young lovers lately wed” in the reflection of the mirror (Tennyson 70). It is this image that prompts her to exclaim, “I am half sick of shadows” (Tennyson 71). As a young lady…

The book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson is about Melinda Sordino, a ninth-grader in Merryweather High School in Syracuse, New York. From the outside, she might have looked like an ordinary girl, but inside she held a secret that had withdrawn her to a life of silence and melancholy. She had gone through a traumatizing event that had changed her whole life to the point where she had lost all hope and became self-destructive. Melinda was raped by Andy Evans, a senior, at a party before the start…

Vanitas - About the Art of Painting, Levin Rodriquez, incorporates symbolism to represent the allegoric themes of inevitability of death, the futility of pleasures and transience of life. This photograph appears to be a Vanitas (from the Latin “vanity”). The main symbols that are used in a Vanitas artwork are usually, skulls to represent the inevitability of death; knowing that we cannot run and hide from it, the futility of earthly pleasures; whether using wealth or knowledge or arts to…

MOTIF: MIRRORs There are references throughout the novel made on mirrors to emphasise the need for people to discover one’s true feelings and to become self-aware. Montag states that he believed Clarisse was just like a mirror as it was after meeting her and seeing himself in her eyes, that he was able to realize he was not happy, that he was actually alone, empty and lost in a meaningless society. Reflections of himself through his wife and the other firemen makes him realise just how shallow…

better and overcoming weaknesses. The second mirror is science. I plan to work under the discipline of neurology after my graduate studies. Even now, neurology and psychology help me to understand the workings of my mind compared with everyone else’s. It is helpful to see where I am the same as others and where we differ. This also helps me to improve due to the fact that I can see where I fall behind in the crowd and can resolve to change. The third mirror I use is evaluating how I interact…