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    Though more often than not when Seabiscuit and War Admiral arrived, one or the other scratched for a minor detail, like heavy dirt or a sore neck (Hillenbrand). When the race would come it would mostly be on Howard’s terms, not Riddell’s as War Admiral had raced all across the country and could adapt to temperature changes easily. The only thing without minor alteration was the lack of starting gates, Riddell insisted on this because the Admiral hate the machine. The main event in the movie, War Admiral vs. Seabiscuit, was very accurate, void of the talking mid-race. George Woolf, the jockey at the time, had been talking to Red Pollard, for weeks before the race. This is the same in real life as in the movie, the two discussed strategies for getting Seabiscuit ready for the big race, it was included in the movie for the reason of showing how determined the racing team was. Though there was more to it, George Woolf had been racing Seabiscuit for months when the race came up, Pollard had been injured for quite some time, and the team had been looking for a new jockey. Another huge part of the movie was teaching Seabiscuit to break early, allowing him to get the early lead, there are no reports that this is true, but they had been training Seabiscuit at night so that no reporters could see how much he was improving. At the start of the race both horses lunged to a start with Seabiscuit coming to the lead by three and one-half lengths, the movie depiction was correct with…

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    Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf was a troubled individual who struggled with depression her entire life. She was able to write about her experiences which inspired some of her greatest works. It is sad, though, that she was in darkness her whole life and was not able to see the light. But, despite the darkness, she was able to give the literary world some great pieces and that is what she is remembered for. Virginia Woolf was a very influential writer of her time and continues to be today, she…

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    Adeline Virginia was an English writer foremost modernists in the twentieth century. She was born in January 25, 1882 to March 28, 1941. Woolf was significant figure in London society and central in the influential Bloomsbury Group intellectuals. Best-selling novels like Mrs. Dalloway 1925, The Lighthouse 1927, and Orlando 1928, the book-length A Room of One’s Own 1929, its dictum. Woolf severe bouts of mental illness her life committed suicide in 1941 at age of 59. Adeline Virginia Stephen…

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    and dance. As a matter of fact, art can also be interpreted in many ways because art is open to interpretation. The three pieces of art I analyzed were the beaded crown, George Washington’s painting , and the Dinner Party by Judy Chicago. I used three of (Scott McCloud’s) steps to analyze these pieces of art. The first step I used was Idea/ Purpose which is the impulses, ideas, emotions, philosophies, purpose, and content the art deals with. The second step I used was form which is either a…

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    On January 21, 1931, Virginia Woolf spoke in front of a branch of the National Society for Woman's Service as a guest speaker. Virginia was a well-known female writer in the early 1900s during the rise of Woman's Suffrage. She uses both rhetorical appeals and judicious use of figurative language fir her argument of a woman's role and her limitations in society. At the very beginning of the speech, Virginia uses logos to convey that she began her life like many women raised in the anti-feminist…

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    literary devices. The story shows the style of stream of consciousness that Woolf uses. Virginia Woolf’s writing style is creative because many people do not use it in today’s writing. Woolf’s writing style of stream of consciousness uses Mabel’s thoughts and events that happened. Woolf decided to write in a stream of consciousness style, and her choice of writing let her use flashbacks as a literary device. She was able to use flashbacks and other literary devices to tie in with the recurring…

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    frantically to run away from her windowpane before it dies. At first, Woolf wants to help the moth to escape her windowpane as she is watching it struggle but, as she goes to do so, she realizes that the moth is going through the same struggle that all living species go through while trying to escape death. She realizes that, this is part of every creatures’ life. When Woolf witnessed the moth’s death, she is compelled to ponder the philosophical implications that incur within the circular…

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    In the novel Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, there is a reoccurring motif of nature, birds, and flowers. Each character has a unique attitude towards flowers and nature in general. Oftentimes, a specific type of bird or flower represents a character. Reiza, Clarissa, and Lady Bruton are prime examples of these motifs in the lives of the novel’s characters. Reiza is an Italian woman who married Septimus. When Septimus comes back to England with post-traumatic stress disorder, Reiza cares for…

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    Throughout the novel “Mrs. Dalloway” by Virginia Woolf, there is a certain understanding of underlying skepticism of the world. A huge part of the story revolves around the premise of being able to see into the thoughts of all of the characters. This allows the reader to make assumptions about each character’s own unique morals and their personalities. Woolf does an exquisite job of giving the reader an omnipresent point of view in which we see all occurrences throughout the span of a single…

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    In accordance with Virginia’s Woolf’s essay titled “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown,” the idea that human relations changed circa December 1910 is explored. In Woolf’s words “in or about December 1910 human character changed” (Woolf 2). This change, which she asserts was “not sudden and definite,” (Woolf 2) leads the reader to believe it was gradual. The Victorian and Georgian Era are stark in contrast regarding the everyday individual (and said individual’s relationships). Where the Georgian lived a…

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