Girl with a Pearl Earring

lives. Lourdes, the eldest daughter of Celia, grew disdainful of her mother for her mother’s apparent hated of her. Thankfully, their family’s saving grace came in its third generation. Pilar Puente del Pino is a rebellious, strong headed, self assured girl who is finally able to distance herself from her family’s lunacy. The woman of the Del Pino Family from Christina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban continue to make their children learn and thrive from their misfortunes. Celia was tormented by the…

IMAGINE A RUIN so strange it must never have happened. First, picture the forest. I want you to be its conscience, the eyes in the trees. The trees are columns of slick, brindled bark like muscular animals overgrown beyond all reason. Every space is filled with life: delicate, poisonous frogs war-painted like skeletons, clutched in copulation, secreting their precious eggs onto dripping leaves. Vines strangling their own kin in the everlasting wrestle for sunlight. The breathing of monkeys. A…

Germs and Steel. I mainly decided to read it based on how it was highly recommended for AP world history. It also seemed very interesting, as it proposed a question that I have never thought about very well. I was debating over this book and Girl With a Pearl Earring, but I decided that if I really wanted to read it, I could read the latter for my own leisure whenever I wished, but this book had to be read before the next school year began, as it was strongly recommended to me. Those are…

all those other things women did in the 60 's and 70 's. Who made these rules? And why do we follow them? Gender roles are the roles men and women are born into. For instance, that little boys are given G.I. Joe or trucks to play with and little girls are given Barbie. I believe that all of the gender roles are equally important because they all are society’s expectation of what you are supposed to do and look like. The gender roles that I choose to touch base on are the ones you are introduced…

in the background. This makes the subject, in this case, the young girl stand out more. He also makes the use of chiaroscuro in the girl’s clothing, towards her back, but her face is filled with light. In Vermeer’s paintings, there seems to be sense of passage, something momentary. With the subtleness of light, he creates intimacy, and engagement with the sitter. Although the girl is not as pretty as the Girl with a Pearl Earring, “the adolescent version”, she still emanates a moon-like beauty…

were finally granted legal access to the ballot. The rise of women suffrage then led to a culture that rebuked previous social and cultural implications placed on women; the new woman formed from this newfound independence is today known as a flapper girl. The radical notion of equal suffrage came about in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York where it was petitioned by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and then adopted as a platform. Both Susan B. Anthony,…

burying White Dog. The mother confidence in her ability to provide for her family is shown when she tells the girl that if she doesn’t like the chicken then she doesn’t have to eat it. The mother’s changes begin to become apparent as you reach the middle section of the book. This change is shown when she losses her pearl earring, and she says that she had no business wearing that earring in the camp. (Otsuka 86) This illustrates how they are made to think that they no longer deserve to have…

floral prints in bright colors. Make sure to team it up with a pair of leggings which is present in your tunic or one that of a contrasting shade. Not only your outfit, your entire look should be top notch. So, complete your look with a pair of pearl drop earring, a delicate bracelet and not to forget a coordinated box clutch. Since puja means pandal hopping, go for a pair of wedges that is not just trendy but also high on comfort. Leave your hair open, put on some gloss, and make sure your…

to European imperialism and colonialism or one could wrongly assume it was due to western culture emerging without influence or knowledge of people of color. When I think of classical figurative (containing a human figure) art images like Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer, and The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli. What doesn’t come to mind is Paolo Veronese’s Judith and Holofernes or one of the plentiful adaptations of a bible story picturing the brown magi arriving at jesus’…

The tangy sea breeze of the early morning filled the room with the aroma of salt and fish. As Debbie woke up she looked at the sea blue curtains on the right side of the room, the sun shining through made it resemble a waterfall. Just above the bed on the ceiling, a beautiful mermaid with sunny blonde hair swam above her. An orange starfish smiled over her shoulder. This was her safe haven and waking up in her room at her dad’s shore house always made her smile. Her grandmother had worked hard…