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    “Ophelia” by John Everett Millais, was created around 1851, over a five month period. This painting conveys great attention to naturalistic detail. The scene that is depicted in the painting is from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, in which the girl that is portrayed in the painting named Ophelia drowns herself in a stream because of the grief of losing her father, who was murdered by the love of her life, Hamlet. The medium of this painting is oil on canvas, it is a method of painting using pigments distribute in oil. It was commonly used during the middle ages as a binder because of its flexibility. The flexibility of oil made it possible for Millais to create the details of Ophelia's hair floating in the water, and her facial features. Another thing…

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    Ophelia is an oil on canvas painting. It was painted by Sir John Everett Millais in 1851-1852. This is a victorian masterpiece. It is located in Tate Britain Museum in London. This is a painting of the moment after Hamlet kills Ophelia's father and she is letting herself drown. Shakespeare has described the scenery and Millais expands on the botanical setting. Millais uses Elizabeth Sittle lying in a bathtub wearing a dress to make sure he got all right crinkles and that the dress would float…

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    D. Company Analysis Background & Context Initially founded as Everett City Lines in 1893, Everett Transit is the public transit authority for Everett, Washington. This organization was created in order to help fill the transportation void of near the turn of the century. People needed a reliable way to travel from one location to another, and thus Everett Lines was born. Dissimilar from the rest of Snohomish County, who operate under Community Transit, Everett Transit operates its own city wide…

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    said, Goldwater did not believe that the end of segregation would be beneficial to the country, but instead he thought allowing African Americans to be with white Americans would be the end to our government (Brown and Shannon 2014). Some senators like Ervin and Goldwater believed that the end of segregation would ruin the Constitution and the government. Another senator referred to African Americans as their “own people.” Overall, many of the senators were racist and did not believe that…

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    As Everett notes, “the most striking thing I remember about seeing the Pirahas for the first time was how happy everybody seemed” (Everett 6). The Piraha eternal happiness and warmth speak to their laidback culture and lifestyle. The Piraha take life lightly, and are able to brush off adversity. Everett notices this on seeing them in their day to day life, Everett states, “Pirahas laugh at their own misfortune: when someone’s hut blows over in a rainstorm…they laugh when they catch a lot of…

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    If I were to be any person for a day, I would be Malala Yousafzai. If I were to switch places with Malala Yousafzai, I think I would be with a mind that is bigger than I can imagine. I also think I would be in a bigger body with experiences and memories only a soul could hold on to, not only emotionally, but physically and emotionally and I think I would be faced with many responsibilities If we switched places. I would want to be Malala Yousafzai for a day because she has accomplished many…

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    or large. At the Boys and Girls club I was thought varies ways to overcome my anxiety, things like: hosting events (MC) and even talking in front of small audience. As of right now I am very proud to say I no longer have stage fright. I am proud to say that I host (MC) all the events that is going on at the Florence Degeorge Boys and Girl Club. There was a boy name John, who was very timid to the point he was afraid of interacting with the other kids around him. I took the…

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    universal themes worth investigating theatrically. Bibliography Ellis-Fermor, Una, trans. Ibsen: Hedda Gabler and Other Plays Penguin: London, 1983 Fjelde, Rolf, ed. Ibsen: A Collection of Critical Essays Prentice-Hall International Inc: New Jersey Mayerson, Caroline W. “Thematic Symbols in Hedda Gabler” 131-138 Lucas, F.L. The Drama Of Ibsen & Strindberg Cassell: London, 1962 McFarlane, James and Jens Arup trans. Henrik Ibsen: Four Major Plays Oxford University…

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    Of Mice and Men Essay - Fate or Choice? Choice is defined by the ‘Shorter Oxford Dictionary’ as; “The act of choosing; preferential determination between things proposed.” It also states the definition for fate; “The principle, power, or agency by which events are unalterably predetermined from eternity.” Is our life choice, can we determine our fate by choosing our path or is our destiny determined for us? John Steinbeck puts forward this question in his novella Of Mice and…

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