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Rece Pellersels Art History 261 An Analysis of Lilian Zirpolo’s Interpretation of Primavera It’s no question that Sandro Botticelli’s painting Primavera (Spring) has an emphasis on the femininity of women in the renaissance. In Lilian Zirpolo’s essay “Botticelli’s Primavera” she discusses the many different aspects that it served as a lesson to women in medieval society. In this essay I will discuss key points analyzing Zirpolo’s argument on the work’s femininity and function, comparing and…

Outcomes: The 4-H Extension Agent directly taught 1,635 youth and 85 Educators during 22 separate STEM events: • 634 K-5th grade children received quality 4-H science program through 4-H Outdoor Classroom Days and through partnership with elementary schools’ outdoor classrooms. • 200 youth participated in 4-H science activity at the Clay Center for the Arts and Science Engineering Day. • 132 second, fifth and sixth grade students received in-school STEM training. • 143 participated in STEM…

It is widely believed that human beings cannot escape death. Virginia Woolf’s narration in the story “The Death of the Moth” displays the battle between life and death, which is never won. The writer employs rhetorical devices such as fragmentation and tone, as well as metaphors to deliver his message and advance the feeling of pity in the reader. In addition, Woolf attentively uses metaphors and other literary devices in a manner that agrees with the shifting of the tone all through the…

On close examination one may find a literary equivalent of anubhava in T.S. Eliot's principle of objective correlative. Lady Macbeth walking in her sleep is an example of angica or visual correlative whereas Macbeth's speech at the death of his wife is that of vachika or auditory correlative: What Eliot takes as the formula of a particular emotion is naturally the inevitable motive and manifestation of the emotional state. If the creator has a proper knowledge of human psychology, he shall…

The Civil War The fight between the Confederate and the Union created a war that defines the United States as a union today. Many historians argue that President Abraham Lincoln was overstepping his boundaries by going against the third amendment by beginning a war between States. Contrary to their beliefs, the war between the Union and the Confederate needed to happen to keep the United States together. Although the Union won the war, the laws, punishments, economy affected the civilians,…

With the contrast that happens between the characters of the novel, Virginia Woolf utilizes the consciousness of her characters to be the narrator in the novel “Mrs. Dalloway”. To have a person’s inner thoughts be the narrator it gives the novel an ability to back and forth from a person’s mind that is comprehending their thoughts, emotions, and physical reaction to an event that is happening while still mentioning the details of the outside world events. By doing so it was deemed fit as a work…

Uneven Ground: Appalachia Since 1945, by Ronald Eller explores the devastation of traditional culture and land use in the Appalachian region at the hands of the coal industry and local, state, and federal leaders and policy makers. His perspective comes from one that separates growth from development and is highly critical of efforts to force Appalachia into a national economic model that is not aligned with the regions unique historical situations. After briefly setting the stage in the Civil…

2. Hofstadter 22-27 “Instructions for the Virginia Colony” After the first two failed attempts at settlement in the new world, England decided to use joint stock companies to fuel successful colonization. The first joint stock company to be entering the new world was The Virginia Company. They were given very specific instructions on how and where to successfully colonize the new land. The first bullet of these…

think. Source G comments on Dove’s campaign stating that “every girl deserves to feel beautiful just the way she is” (Source G). While Dove’s campaign is meant to be uplifting for people who need the simple, reassuring reminder, Source G’s author, Virginia Postrel, criticizes the company with “Dove is peddling the crowd-pleasing notions that beauty is a media creation, that recognizing plural forms of beauty is the same as declaring every woman beautiful, and that self-esteem means ignoring…

Jorge Luis Gutierrez Prof. Koritsoglou English 103H 3-17-17 Close Reading Essay 1 Virginia Woolf's novel To the Lighthouse greatly explores the stream of consciousness of its characters. In this novel, external events possess little space, and instead are replaced by an omniscient storyteller who vanishes from the beginning; emphasizing the work through emotional cognizance. The novel does not advance on a sequential premise, but instead pushes ahead through a progression of scenes orchestrated…