House of Plantagenet

Among the various pieces of artwork representing the Italian Renaissance housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Giovanni di Ser Giovanni Guidi’s 1449 piece, The Triumph of Fame (Desco Da Parto di Lorenzo De’ Medici) stands out as a key work of the time period. Foremost, the subject matter seems to call to attention both a mythologized scene recalling characters of antiquity presiding over the representations of persons who were presumably alive at the time of the commission, all gathered for…

ink cartoon style painting entitled “Broken Windows” by cartoonist Barry Blitt on its cover. (Mouly, 2017) It is a multi-dimensional caricature with the back side of President Donald Trump in the foreground as he hits golf balls towards the White House which sits as a target in the background. The New Yorker, a magazine that has been in circulation since 1925 is published by Conde Nast and although geared to New Yorkers as it’s name implies, it receives national attention for its often…

The Blue Man One stormy, foggy night I was sitting near the glass door, I was having a good time playing my video game. About 30 minutes later I got up to get a drink and came back to play. As soon as I took a seat I heard loud noises like branches cracking, then at the corner of my eye I saw a blue figure outside of the glass door, it passed by at the speed of a bullet. At that moment my heart was racing. My mind is telling me to crack the door open but my body said no. I went with my gut and…

there a many despairing views on how that should be done, one major idea is privatizing parts of the U.S. Government and make it run more like a business. With the recent news of Donald Trump appointing his son-in-law Jared Kushner to lead the White House Office of American Innovation; one might expect that very thing to happen. Kushner appears to be implementing the reform process of reengineering to stabilize the government which clearly demonstrates flaws the system has and the differences…

CREEPY is one way to describe “Coraline”. When I think of PG rated movies I imagine a pleasant family movie with singing and laughter. This is not one of those films. It's more like the children’s version of “Texas Chainsaw Massacre”, of course without the actual killings, but still the presence of ghost spirits of children who didn’t realize the dangers in time. And as always the curious and adventurous ones wind-up dead. This movie might have a familiar feel because the…

Nora does not have desires on her own, which is supported by the statement that she makes to Mrs. Linde regarding what they will do once they are free of debt. “To be able to play and romp with the children; to be able to keep the house beautifully and have everything just as Torvald likes it” (Ibsen 213). Nora does not speak of the things that she will want when they are free of debt, but of what her children and husband will want. This shows that Nora is a mother and a wife before…

accessible to all audience members. Even though everyone has different life experiences, an image is something they can grasp onto, but interact with in different ways. This gives each audience member a personal experience with the piece. In A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen uses the image of the Tarantella dance to emphasize the poison of deception and hypocrisy that characterizes Nora and Torvald’s marriage. The Tarantella was a wild Southern Italian dance, generally danced by a couple or line of…

go home and prepare dinner and clean the kitchen. Men would make sure the house is nice and tidy for the children. On days they didn’t have to work they would have a free day, which is basically recreation. On their recreation days, they spend time getting things for the house like groceries and cleaning supplies. Maybe even shoes and clothes if anyone in the house needs them. If you have everything you need for the house, then you could do whatever you want that day. Although you don’t work…

long hours at work. The setting of the story has a feel of a small quite town in middle of nowhere. Where there are dirt roads to get to houses. Houses were spread out from mile to mile. There at the end of the road sits a house with a big willow tree of front. A two story white house with a front deck. The time feels of the nineteen fifty’s. Inside the house sit an old comfortable arm chair. The window lay open and looking out you can see the wind blow the top of the trees. The arm chair…

Classic Book Essay The book Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott, was first published in two parts in 1868 and 1869. It’s about four sisters that are trying to figure life out and stumble along the way. Little Women should be considered a classic. It has universal themes, high quality writing and gives a view into life in the 1800s. One of the reasons Little Women should be considered a classic is because it contains universal themes. As an example, the characters Jo and Laurie fights the…