Friday Night Games

Afghanistan, engaging the Taliban, and handling death of their friends in action. Connection: Trever and Mike both talk about their past serving in Afghanistan, when they were in Kandahar, Afghanistan, they had their first rocket attack on the first night. They describe it as a full-on conflict. This can be considered as a memory that would stick them due to the intensity of conflict happening every…

The play “Much Ado About Nothing” by William Shakespeare has many themes a couple being trickery and deceit. In this play the characters Prince, Claudio, Don John, Leonato, and the Friar use trickery to change the minds of other characters. This eventually leads to love and romance when many of the characters use their skills in deceit to help their friends and family fall in love. The themes of trickery and deceit were encountered three main times in the play. First when Prince tricks Benedick…

When researching Vanitas, I found that I really liked the paintings and pictures using flowers and animals alongside skulls. It represents life and beauty along with death. I found an artist called Harmen Steenwyck, who used mainly fruit and sometimes flowers in their work and I really like it. Steenwyck also uses skulls, old books, shells, with occasional animals and fish. Harmen Steenwyck, was a Dutch painter of still life, notably fruit. He was born in Delft, in 1612, in the Netherlands.…

The storm has passed, leaving the land broken, the water shaky, and the sky at bay. I chose this particular canvas because the content makes you inquisitive about the changing sky. This painting makes me feel peaceful; like the calm after the storm. This composition reminds me of places I would like to travel in Germany, I love the old castles. The artist Jacob van Ruisdael oil painted this canvas, using more secondary hues to portray the landscape and the mood. The use of secondary hues makes…

Tanner 7th Grade Richland Jr. High Essex, Mo Edgar Degas Edgar Degas was born on July 19, 1834, and died September 27, 1917. Edgar was born in Paris, France. He also died in Paris, France. Edgar died of brain aneurysm. Edgar was a French artist who was highly famous in the 19th century, and was famous for not only his paintings, but also his sculptures, drawings, and prints. Most of his paintings were of dancers. Edgar was actually not born “Edgar Degas”, but Hilaire-Germain-Edgar.…

has stood ground for strengthening him. The Jackson brothers, Kendall and zach, are Mikey’s best friends since he was 10. He met them on a boy scout trip almost 5 years ago. Almost every saturday, they will drive over to Mikey’s house and spend the night. They also spend time together periodically throughout the week. They have been together in almost every aspect of life. Whenever one of them liked a girl, they helped each other out. If someone got hurt, they stopped what they were doing to be…

We arrived in Tralee at 10:48am. Tralee is the biggest town in North Kerry. From my short observations of the other towns was had driven through, Tralee felt more urban than any other town I had seen. However, my first view of Siamsa Tíre made me feel like I had gone back in time. The theatre had stone towers and was encircled by a stone wall. The whole facility was beautifully situated with a dramatic view of the Slieve Mish Mountains behind it. We were warmly welcomed by the artistic…

Some humans, are in love with other people and others are just in love with the idea of love. In the play Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, depending on the characters and their attractions to another, love is simultaneously blind as well as clear. Viola is in love with Orsino even though Orsino is blind to her love because he thinks she is a young man. Duke Orsino has blind love for Olivia because he is in love with the idea of love. Antonio clearly has strong affectionate feelings toward…

While watching, and listening to the video, it me feel at peace and gave me a feeling of joy because I was looking at all Van Gogh’s successful artwork that he created while facing adversity. One painting that stuck out to me that I like is “Starry Night Over the Rhone”, he painted the painting in 1888 in Arles. It was one painting of a four-painting…

Measure for Measure is considered a comedy, which is sometimes misleading. Some critics consider the play as being the "dark" element of comedy for its bitterness and cynicism. The play certainly raises important moral issues in its detailed descriptions of Christianity. Measure for Measure can also be called a problem play, because it brings up a difficulty and then seeks to solve it. However, the difficulty lays in misunderstandings and hidden identities as it the moral question of the play.…