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    Twelfth Night

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    William Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night takes place in the kingdom of Illyria, where twin brother and sister Sebastien and Viola become shipwrecked, both assuming the other is dead. Viola, a young woman with slight features similar to those of her brother, decides to disguise herself as a eunuch and calls herself Cesario in order to serve the Duke Orsino, for whom she falls deeply in love. However, when her brother Sebastien shows up in Orsino’s court, the plot implodes into a mess of confusion…

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    The book, Night, by Elie Wiesel and the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, demonstrates two completely different perspectives towards the Holocaust. Night, a nonfiction memoir, depicted the life and feelings of a young boy who was forced to endure the harshness and depression of a life in a death camp. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, a heartbreaking movie, based on a fictional novel, shares the inimaginable friendship of a Nazi soldier's son, Bruno, with an imprisoned Jewish boy, Shmuel.…

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    the book Night, by Elie Wiesel go through many terrible experiences, and are beaten alive while trying to survive the concentration camps during the Holocaust. In the world today, there are many tragedies that happen every single day such as earthquakes, tornadoes, and fires, where people lose friends, families, homes and their valuables. The theme “Emotional Death is very evident in the book night by Elie Wiesel, and is still very evident in the world today. The first example from Night of the…

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    Twelfth Night

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    In the Shakespeare play The Twelfth Night, Or What You Will, a girl named Viola is shipwrecked on an island called Illyria where she hides in plain sight dressed as her brother Sebastian but going under the name of Cesario. While acting as Cesario she goes to work for the Count Orsino who is in love with the wealthy Olivia. During Viola’s time working for Orsino as Cesario, she eventually fell in love with him, but as she is known as a boy to Orsino, she cannot profess her love to him. Instead…

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    In Elie Wiesel's memoir, “Night” it is clearly shown that throughout the book he slowly loses faith in his God. He is forced out of his home in Sighet, moved to a ghetto, and then moved to several concentration camps. As he endures the cruel punishments from the Germans, because of his religion, he almost loses sight of what should be important to him; his faith, himself, and his family. When tragedy occurs some might be completely destroyed and devastated, whilst others are strengthened and…

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    During Elie Wiesel’s time in the Holocaust, from time to time he started to change as a person and started to question the God he praised so much. When the reader first realizes that Elie starts to lose his faith was on the very first night of his time at the camp, “Never shall I forget these moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes”(34). The quote explains when Elie first starts to lose his faith in God when it says that his God was murdered. After that event Elie…

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    apart. When arriving in the camps, family relationships were often disregarded with half of a family going straight to the crematories. Whatever sort of relation could be salvaged was clung to, even when letting go was the best option. In his memoir Night, Elie Wiesel, prolific author and Nobel Peace Prize winner, recounts his relationships with his god, which was the foundation of his early life, and his father, who became his motivation for carrying on. Just as often as his father was a help,…

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    southern Scotland. The night sky portrays a sense of intricate detail covering the entire horizon as far as the eye can see. Nature’s vastness contains power and encompasses a sense of motion, especially when glancing up at the night sky. Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh utilizes intricate brushstrokes to portray the nighttime. Van Gogh’s representation of the night sky utilizes colors and intricate brush strokes to portray a depiction of nature’s impact. “Such a painting as Starry Night… with…

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    Final Art Paper What category does the art fall under? (Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, Ceramic, Metal Work, other) How can you tell? This artwork (Starry Night) falls under the painting category for art. You can tell this because because of the brush strokes visible and how the color is somewhat blended together. Turn your attention to the piece as a whole. Take a few minutes to look at the artwork in its entirety and answer the following questions. a. How does the artist use color? Are there…

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    Causes Of Night Terrors

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    What May Trigger Night Terrors? Night terrors are a type of Parasomnia, that causes screaming, intense fear, and flailing, while still asleep. These episodes are most common, but not always limited to children between the age of three and twelve, but they can also occur in adults. Primarily, children are affected by this Parasomnia, because their CNS, is still in early development, and seems to be more easily disrupted than the matured CNS, of older adults. Some studies show that there…

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