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    subject matter and governments that were developing. He had a handful of popular art, but only after he had passed away. A few selections would be Starry Night, The Potato Eaters, and Crows over a Wheatfield. During van Gogh’s time period, many things were happening. He was born in the Netherlands in 1853, a time of modernization for the Dutch people. As well, his time period was part…

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    play, Twelfth Night, Shakespeare uses Olivia to display how one’s desire affects others’ emotions, which changes how people feel about the person who has desires or about a situation. Desire has importance as all people have some form of aspiration. Desire comes in three main forms: love, wishes, and orders or instructions, and Olivia displays all of these throughout the play. Thanks to Olivia’s desires, Shakespeare teaches readers how desires affect the actions and emotions of people. The most…

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    Your Name Professor Name Subject Name 04 September 20XX Vincent van Gogh as a Mad Genius Vincent van Gogh is celebrated as one of the most influential Western artists in history, but he is also one of the most complex. Born in the mid 1800s in the Netherlands, van Gogh spent the first portion of his life intent on studying theology but turned to art only a decade or so before his death. While he created over two thousand pieces of artwork that are revered today, he was not considered a famous…

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    The romantic comedy, Much Ado About Nothing a play by William Shakespeare, showcases how deception can be viewed in more than one manner. These deceptions rely on the sender, and their tricks and lies can come with good intentions. This play celestially reveals how characters are deceived and how the tricks uncover their emotions, and why they behave in a certain manner. The use of lies and deception in Much Ado About Nothing highlights the idea that tricks and plans are not just for villains…

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    Lights Twas the night of Halloween when all of a sudden, the electricity in the entire town of Bridgman went off. Cars zooming, loud noises echoing, the town was in a cluster. Everyone hiding in their homes or driving to be with family and friends. By midnight, not a single person could be seen, everybody hidden away. All except one girl who couldn’t fall asleep due to nervous butterflies in her stomach, for tomorrow was her wedding day. The plans were in place, the tux was tailored, and the…

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    90’s, pop singer Haddaway posed a question about love. In this song, Haddaway explores the dimensions of what it means to love. A little silly, right? It’s hard for one to take this question seriously when all you can picture is a scene from “A Night at the Roxbury”, with Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan simultaneously bobbing their heads to the beat of this infamous song. While I can’t help but bob my head along to this extremely catchy song, I also wander off into an idea of what this song…

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    We arrived in the middle of the night, almost in secret. When we were a couple miles away, we could see dimmed lights up ahead. The closer we got, the brighter they shined our way. They resembled the stars in the sky, but instead they had fallen onto the ground to illuminate the night. When we drew into town, everything seemed so strange to me. These building seemed foreign, I didn’t recognize anything. The stone buildings, seemed strange from my perspective. Strange in a way that this was all…

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    realize this. This past summer, I spent 5 weeks of my sunny days in Kansas City, Missouri for a ballet intensive. This trip helped me realize the importance of family and comfort. Some people say, ‘home is where the heart is’, during my experience, this statement reined true. I believe that the comfort of knowing the people around you can substitute homesickness, but almost everyone, at some point in their lives, catch the ‘virus’. Last fall, I auditioned to go to a ballet intensive for the…

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    beautiful. My favorite painting done by Van Gogh is his painting titled The Starry Night. I am not a huge art fan but since I can remember this is one piece that I thought was done so incredibly well. The way he expressed the way he felt about death in this was amazing he took something so dark and scary to some people and made it into a true work of art. I love the way that he used the stars to symbolize the souls of the people who have passed on and at first honestly I did not know it was a…

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    Equality’s invention, the lightbulb, would benefit mankind greatly. But this was not his intent when experimenting in his cramped tunnel. He had a greater drive that overpowered him into doing things that he normally wouldn’t. He was out late in the starry night when others were in creaky, old beds and he stole items that should not of be stolen. He was extremely motivated for him to make these great transgressions, but he was always different from the very beginning. The light changed him a lot…

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