earliest recollection of someone's clothing is my mother's. I remember this sweater she had when I was little. When I told my mother about the assignment she told me I was only two years old. She couldn't believe I even remembered the sweater. She had a grey sweater, embellished with white beads on it. I used to sit in her lap and rub the beads between my fingers and try to pick them off her shirt. I loved when she wore it and apparently that sweater was pretty entertaining to my young mind.…
Deceitful Dreams According to the Oxford Dictionary, a dream is, "A cherished aspiration, ambition, or ideal; An unrealistic or self-deluding fantasy." Dreams are different from one another and come in many shapes and sizes, but all dreams are purely a desire and are imaginative. In society, dreams play a large role in how people live their everyday life. For instance, people may make decisions solely based on their own dream. In the United States, a common ethos is the American Dream. The…
Wonderland is as beautiful and colorful as she remembered, reminiscent of a masterpiece painting using colors selected by a child. Alice navigates through the dense forests, tall mushrooms and strange fauna. Alice navigates the path as if she’d done it every day of her life. Upon stumbling through a darker part on her path she all at once gets the sensation of being watched, a chill goes down her spine; the sense of someone breathing on her neck; the sound of faint whispers into her ear, yet she…
painting created a atmosphere of the unknown to say they could be alive or dead hopeing for certainty. There was a lot of detail information about the painting. Guernica showed pain, death, fear, loneliness and darkness. Picasso uses black, white, and grey paint to set a somber mood and express…
Moment (Page #) 2 Quotations (Pages #s) Literary Device Connection/Significance Chapter 6 – Pages 85-97 – (34-38%) This chapter basically goes into detail about the forbidden daughter of Hester whose name is Pearl. The first quotation is not from a scene, but rather just the author introducing you a bit more to Pearl. The author uses a metaphor in this first quotation on page 87 by comparing Pearl to a flower. The second quote is from an actual scene. During this time from on…
England, to Kincaid was a land that inspired awe, mystery, and had a sense of wonder surrounding it. The map of England, the products from England and the way she ate her food in the morning all contribute to her feelings about England. Kincaid begins by describing England in ways the British “favour” to flatter themselves. It is a “special jewel,” “beautiful” and “delicate.” As she is a child, England is presented to her as a mysterious far off land that has an almost magical appeal. It was a…
Social Programming The program I chose to watch was Gravity Falls. The show is about a brother and sister, Mable and Dipper, who are twins. They spend the summer living with their uncle Stan who runs a creepy tourist attraction, The Mystery Shack, in a town called Gravity Falls. It is animated, and each episode is about the kids getting into conflicts with the mysterious things in the town and the woods around The Mystery Shack. I watched the piolet episode of the show because the episode’s…
sports jackets that were popular. These primary sources were essential in dating the sports jacket. In one ad, LW Foster sportswear shows a male wearing a two-toned tweed sports jacket. The front torso portion of the jacket is brown and sleeves are grey. One difference between the research garment is the pocket flap, but both sports coats are similar in style (Fig. 9). The jackets also have narrow-peaking lapels. Although this ad was from the 1950s, this shows that the two-toned style…
live his life in Pip’s name. He did it because he has a good heart and he is a gentlemen. The first impression we get of Magwitch, when he approaches Pip, is that he is a big, tough, and scary guy. Dickens describes him as a man in coarse grey, with an iron leg, no hat, and broken…
History Quiz #2 1) Both men have two very different viewpoints when it comes to what they thought happened during the massacre. According to the readings, General Thomas Gage is a commander-in-chief of the British Army in America. His side of the story contradicts with Samuel Adams story, who is known as a radical propagandist. According to Gage, he believes the whole situation was premeditated. Gage states that mobs were prancing in the streets, trying to get soldiers to come out. The mob then…