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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Birthmark” portrays this foolishly driven desire in creating a flawless being by illustrating the battle between a man’s love for science verses his love for women. Hawthorne’s choice of language conveys the barriers that lie between morality and sin that are recognized by challenging nature and scientific triumph. Early in the short story, Georgiana and her birthmark are introduced as “a single mark, deeply interwoven, as it were, with the texture and…

Johnny Lee 9-10-16 Period 3 Museum Project I chose LACMA, or the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, for my museum. It is located on Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036. It is on Museum Row, next to the La Brea Tar Pits. It started in1965 and currently is now the largest art museum in the west side of the United States. I learned many things about paintings, sculptures, writing, and much more. I had visited the Alternative Dreams: 17th-Century Chinese Paintings from the Tsao Family Collection,…

replied, but I knew that she would force the answer out of me one way or another. “Okay,” I started. “I was hoping to get advanced in math, but I got proficient.” As the words flowed out of my mouth, my cheeks began to redden until they were a deep crimson. She asked me to pull my crumpled score sheets out of my backpack, and she showed me the math chart again. She showed me that I was only a few points away from Advanced, which should have relieved me, but I only grew more angry with myself.…

Aylmer, the main character in “The Birthmark” has a special hatred for the crimson hand on his wife’s cheek. One might see the mark as a beautiful feature differentiating oneself from the world, but Aylmer saw it as an imperfection, which he found necessary to be removed. In speaking to his wife Georgiana, Aylmer states, “ you…

A trip downhill A trip downhill It had finally come,our yearly trip to Crimson lake!.Once a year our cousins, uncles, and basically our whole family went to crimson lake,which belonged my great uncle he used to bring us when we were younger, f6vgb7 but since he passed away we made it a tradition to go there every year as a memory of grandpa.”hurry up guys were about to leave”. “ok coming just a minute” I grabbed my backpack and ran to the car “now here comes our 6 hour car drive”…

collaborators in the American government. It is for this reason, Arthur Miller wrote “The Crucible” a play that describes the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692 and showed the similarities of the terrible period in American history known as “McCarthyism.” (Crimson) The lies told during The…

“ ‘My dear widow, you are charming!’ cried Colonel Killigrew, whose eyes had been fixed upon her face, while the shadows of age were flitting away from it like darkness from the crimson day-break.” (Hawthorne 508). Similarly, the widow shows her own self lust as she gawks over her own beauty; “She trusted her face close to the glass, to see whether someone long-remembered wrinkle or crow’s-foot had indeed vanished. She examined whether…

While observing Juliet’s “dead” body, Romeo says: “Thou art not conquer’d; beauty’s ensign yet / Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, / And death’s pale flag is not advanced there” (86). From an objective viewpoint, there is obviously something wrong with the situation, and the wise decision is to be patient and consult Friar Lawrence. Unfortunately…

Color symbolism has an influential role in The Great Gatsby, as it has had in many literary works throughout history. It is used many times to give a deeper meaning to the story, and convey messages that the author doesn’t explicitly say. It is the responsibility of the reader to read closely, and try to find the deeper meaning in specific details of the story. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, a tale is told of Jay Gatsby. Jay is a new money business man, and is intent on trying…

Antonio sat on the Douglas C-133 Cargomaster which held, including himself, 50 soldiers. They were on route to Vietnam to assist Southern Vietnam who were struggling against the Northern Vietnam. The Chinese and Russia helped the Northern Vietnam, this action needed to be countered immediately by the United States. Lyndon Johnson sent soldiers to Vietnam, not to fight, but to train the Southern Vietnam’s soldiers. Antonio sat on his side of the aircraft, fumbling with his fingers. “Eugene, Leone…