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    gray and eventually to black. Las Meninas is also complex with the subjects and objects within the work. The portrait or mirror in the Las Meninas work is the same scale as the Las Meninas work and it’s very mysterious in its nature. It seems as if Velaquez left it up to interpretation of the viewers on what exactly it might be. The King and Queen may be reflected in a mirror and may be a representation of reality or it could just simply be a portrait of the King and Queen. This ambiguous issue…

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    The Lottery

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    story “The Lottery” can be read as a brute tale of a barbaric tradition, one that sacrifices a member of the community once a year by stoning them to a slow death. The sacrifice is chosen through two rounds of picking a slip of paper out of a black box and the one who has the black dot they will stone. It easy to judge this village as savage. Yet the story begins with a gleeful description of a beautiful day with a context that depicts the heart-land of America type of farming town,…

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    Scientists conducted an experiment on whether or not rats show empathy. Two rats were placed in a clear box where a treat was placed on one side of the box and the rats on the other. One rat was allowed to move freely while the other was restrained, but could be released if the other rat pushed the button to do so. As no one expected, the rat freed his companion rather than keeping the treat all for himself. There is much debate on if animals have feelings and if they contain the amount of…

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    Emilius Nicolai Scherr

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    polished surfaces. A great example of this style in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) is a Reed Organ with Writing Table with a Sewing and Dressing Box made by Emilius Nicolai Scherr in 1837. This object would have been very popular in a woman’s parlor during the 19th century. Emilius Nicolai Scherr, Reed Organ with Writing Table and Sewing and Dressing Box, c. 1837 Emilius Nicolai Scherr grew up following in his father’s footsteps in the family piano and organ building factory. By the…

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    Camera Comparison Essay

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    other camera is how the photographer/operator sees the image. In an SLR camera, the operator will see the actual real image that the film will see. In any other camera, the image is roughly portrayed in the viewfinder. The SLR camera has a movable mirror…

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    approach that has gained a great deal of public attention, though only used on a small number of patients, is the mirror box developed by Ramachandran and colleagues. “Through the use of artificial visual feedback it becomes possible for the patient to "move" the phantom limb from potentially painful positions” (Ramachandran, 1996). This technique uses a box without a top, with a mirror placed in the center, with two holes in the side which the patient can “insert” the phantom limb as well as…

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    in many ways mirrors her own life. It is old, like Miss Brill, and has been taken out of a box, a dark place, which is similar to Miss Brill’s own environment. At the end of the story, the fur is returned to its box like how Miss Brill too returns to her lonely room, the highlight of her isolation from the joys and delights of the world. The fur coat may also be important as it too in some ways mirrors Miss Brill’s life. Mansfield describes the fur as being alone which would mirror Miss Brill’s…

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    this paragraph explains how you can measure the probability that you need to loose weight. I have typed it below EXACTLY how the book has written it. Mirror Test for Excess Body Fat "This is a very fast, low-cost method of estimating excess body fat that you can use today. Take off all of your clothes and stand in front of a full-length mirror. If you like that you see, you are probably okay. If you see…

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    cookie. New York: Harper & Row. Annotated summary: This book is about a boy who shares a cookie with a mouse. After the boy gives the mouse a cookie, the mouse asks for milk which makes him want to look at the mirror to make sure he doesn’t have a milk mustache. Once he sees himself in the mirror, he decides to give himself a trim. After that, he decides to clean his mess as well as the whole house. Once he takes a nap, he decides to draw a picture of his family. After he hangs the picture on…

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    quietly while Godfrey abuses the prisoners. A punishment a couple of the prisoners received was staying in “the box.” “The box” was a tiny shack similar to the size of an outhouse. The prisoner had to strip down, put on a gown given by the guards, and then be placed inside “the box” for an entire night. One of the guards actually felt sorry for Luke when he had to be put into “the box” when Luke’s mother died. Boss Godfrey was not sympathetic whatsoever. Boss Godfrey seemed careless and…

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