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    Gogh painted The Starry Night. Kloss states: it is “majestic, expressionistic and unexpected. It is often cited as one of the most important precursors of German and Nordic Expressionism.” “At least one art historian has observed that it is more powerful, and more imaginative, than anything in later Expressionistic art, which proceeded from a similar charged vision of Nature (L44). Van Gogh’s work around this time was full of “passion and turmoil” yet his Starry Night is an extreme expression…

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    I wonder if Ishmael will soon run into some people who will help him or recruit him onto their side of the fighting in this war. “So I couldn’t bring myself to be completely happy. It was much easier to be sad than to go back and forth between emotions, and this gave me the determination I needed to keep moving. I was never disappointed, since I always expected the worse to happen. There were nights when I couldn’t sleep but stared into the darkest night until my eyes could see clearly through…

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    addresses the “spirit of love”? He uses falconry as the metaphor. 6. What is the subtitle of the play? Its “What You Will”. 7. Toward what does the title Twelfth Night orient the reader? i think it orient festive atmosphere and playful. 8. What recreation does Curio ask the Duke about? Curio asked if he is going hunting.…

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    Vincent van Gogh was a post-impressionist painter who is considered to be one of the greatest Dutch painters to ever live. One thing van Gogh is known for is the emotion in his work. I chose to write this paper about van Gogh due to this. In Starry Night, van Gogh communicates his feelings of coldness and darkness in his life. Van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853, in Groot-Zundert, Netherlands. He was the child of Theodorus van Gogh and Anna Cornelia Carbentus. Theodorus was an austere country…

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    A Very Starry Night Vincent Van Gogh created Starry Night in an asylum looking out his window. This is the way that Van Gogh depicted nature. The painting was the most famous of all the paintings he did. It was the only painting he sold. Van Gogh painted two pictures of Starry Night but they did not come out the way he wanted them to. The idea of Starry Night was over a “land scape and not a town.” (Soth) He wrote to his brother Theo about his vision of what he thought about what he saw outside…

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    two poems I am speaking of, Porphyria's Lover written by Robert Browning and Lady of Shalott written by Lord Tennyson, are the same in his many ways as they are different. This is like comparing two great works of art the Mona Lisa and the Starry Night both have beauty in their own ways. But you can't challenge either one about being more beautiful than the other is the retaliation will get from the art loving community. The same could be said about these two poems how they contrast so greatly…

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    around other people (250). Van Gogh had multiple mental breakdowns, and he wanted to die (250). Van Gogh overcame his disability by using it to advantage and used his emotions to paint out what he was feeling (Hammacher 251) Van Gogh was 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…

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    Character Analysis Sir Andrew Aguecheek Twelfth Night, a comedic play, written by Shakespeare, eloquently develops unique traits, actions, and dialogue for each character to defy roles. Throughout the play, there are clear examples that convey the characteristics and the use of Sir Andrew Aguecheek in the play. He is the clueless, cowardly character who is used by other characters to create a humorous scene and plot, and the vehicle Shakespeare used to prove the stupidity of the royal class. In…

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    The Twelfth Night or What you will is a play written by William Shakespeare in about 1601-02. It is a comedy which focuses around the romantic relationships of the twins Viola and Sebastian and their love interests Orsino and Olivia on the island of Illyria. The play has a comedic twist by including an element of crossdressing, which in turn brings much confusion to the romantic relationships of the characters.The Twelfth Night was written during the renaissance, which was a time of excess; in…

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    They want to take control of their victims to make them weak and helpless so they will follow them and do all their biddings. They take their victims under their control by taking their blood to the point of near death. Vampires are night crawlers, who keep to the night and wait in dark remote places. These are typical features of vampires throughout each…

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