Night owl

Poor little Millie doesn’t want to stay at the hospital. You need to toughen up, girl! ~ Relief washed over Millie as she and her father walked into the blustery night. Wind and rain pounded against them as they pushed through the front door to Hanna waiting in the living room, “Well, what did the doctor say?” Millie headed up the stairs to bed while Max and Hanna discussed the doctor’s findings. Slipping into bed…

Viola/Cesario & Duke Orsino: Mutually, key figures of the main plot of the play. Viola the survivor of a shipwreck, disguises herself as a man named Cesario to work for Duke Orsino. As Cesario she is sent to the grieve-stricken Lady Olivia, and onto the duke’s behalf to woo Olivia, who ignores Orsino’s attention. Under an entangled masquerade Viola as a male becomes privy to Orsino’s inner desires, and as his confidant she falls for him, and Olivia falls for Viola—the male ruse messenger. A…

Born in Wyoming in 1912 Jackson Pollock, dubbed as 'Jack the Dripper’, is most famous for his many abstract expressionist drip paintings, such as Number 5 (1948), which sold in 2006 for the world record price of $140 million (Learnodo-Newtonic). Yet, the drip period from 1947 to 1950 formed only a brief part of his self-discovery journey that spanned over two decades, starting from traditional representational art and ending in abstract art. His journey resulted in a significant body of work…

The use of deception often has an intentional purpose, whether it is running away from the mob or playing a character who represents a lost brother. In Twelfth Night the character Viola portrays a man named Cesario who represents her twin brother whom she thinks died in a boat crash. She uses the identity of Cesario as a form of mourning, while also keeping his image alive. While Viola uses the appearance of Cesario to mourn, Olivia tries to deceive everyone around her by putting on a veil and…

had the right to go to a school out of her district, she had the permission to go to parties late at night, and the access to the latest technology along with gifts from birthdays to Christmas. However, she threw all that away for a single fling with a boy, giving him her virginity and wrecking the car that was meant to be mine by sneaking out at two to three in the morning. Doing this all in one night, she extirpated the trust of my parents, more of my father, and causing the family to live in…

famous because of his talents towards painting (43). He was also famous for getting in a fight with a fellow painter and cutting off his own ear, only then to give it to his lover (43). One of Van Gogh’s many accomplishments is getting The Starry Night painting put up at the Louvre museum in France (100). Even though Van Gogh had done many things to almost get himself killed, he lived long enough to know people took an interest in his art…

disguise themselves as boys? The play Twelfth Night and the movie She’s the Man are not similar at all. First of all, the traits of the characters in the play are not at all similar to the ones in the movie. Secondly, the plot is different in the movie than the play. Finally, the disguises and cross dressings are for different purposes. Here are the many differences I found in the play and the movie. Firstly, the characters in She’s the Man and Twelfth Night are very different. In She's the…

Nocturne in Blue and Gold by Whistler (figure 4.34) and The Scream by Munch (figure 4.35). Compare: Nocturne in Blue and Gold and The Scream are alike in that they both use color to add emotion to their paintings. The sceneries are also very similar they both have a bridge of some sort, a person, and show the water and sky. Contrast: Nocturne in Blue and Gold and The Scream are very different in the emotions you feel when looking at both painting. Nocturne in Blue and Gold is more clam, and…

Man was adapted from Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Night. She’s the Man is a modern version of the play with the same plot, relationships, and character names occurring in both. While Twelfth Night is aimed at everyone, She’s the Man is aimed at modern teenagers, and this difference can account for many overall differences between the two. The modern adaptation of Twelfth…

Tarsem Singh, in his movie The Fall, shows exceptional usage of visual story telling, or mise-en-scène. Characters and themes are introduced within the first two minutes of the film without any usage of dialogue. These beginning moments, while upon first viewing, are not so easy to make sense of, but subtly hold foreshadowing for the future events of the film. The opening scene of the film starts with a series of people yelling and panicking in black and white. The black and white filter alone…