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deeply into their cultures and art. This trend was especially common in rich and influential people for they were more superstitious and concerned of their social ranks. Gourds and peonies in particular, represent auspiciousness and wealth in Chinese cultures. In Shanghai Museum’s exhibition, bottle-gourds and peonies appeared repetitively in numerous artworks across dynasties which demonstrated their incomparable importance to Chinese civilization. Because of their propitious significances,…

The Circle of Life Edward Young, an English poet, had once said. “There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.” Poems may use few words, but they can invest the reader as if they’d have read a novel instead of a few stanzas. This is because of an author’s use of the poetic craft to form their vision. Ted Kooser’s poem entitled Mother shows great examples of intense imagery, symbolism, and irony to arouse the emotions of anger…

The type of artwork that attracts me shows scenes of mother Earth from the bottom of the deep blue ocean floor to the silent and breathtaking galaxy and everything in between the two layers. In the East Asian culture, the Syngman Rhee Era pertained artworks of the bird and flower painting genre where simple drawings of simple life forms were used as the major subject (Yong-Jin, Kim 1¬¬¬¬). At the University Of Michigan Museum Of Art, Kim Yong-Jin’s Fourteen Fruit and Flower Sketches features…

Miranda chats to Good Health writer Bonnie Cleaver about her ideas on food, fitness and staying balanced in life. What's been going on in your life recently? My new skincare range KORA has been keeping me busy. In terms of travel and other projects, I have just come back from a secret location shooting the new David Jones catalogue and I'm on my way to LA for several big projects with Victoria's Secret. Related video Please install the latest version of the free Adobe Flash Player. Download…

“A wise man ought to know that health is his most valuable possession”- Hippocrates. In the very beginning, ancient healers used prehistoric medicinal herbs to aid with diseases. Many different religions and races contributed to today’s knowledge of health care in a variety of ways. The outbreak of many diseases in the Dark Age resulted in vital forms of medicine used on a daily basis for the wellness of the human population. Primitive people were superstitious and believed disease was a…

getting to the joyful moments. He continues his point with the next three examples; "Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose, /Or on the rainbow of the salt sand-wave, /Or on the wealth of globed peonies" (15-17). Each of these images holds a piece of Keats' lyric style. Morning roses and globed peonies, like the flowers mentioned earlier, fade very quickly. The rainbows made of spray on the beach also fade when the light changes even the slightest. Keats wants us to focus on fading beauty. …

uring the Japan’s Heian era, there was development of culture and the beginning of feudalism. The philosophy of Buddhism is to search for enlightenment, and renounce their desires. The end of the Dynastic rule was caused by economic failure, rebelling peasants, and difficulty for the government to efficiently rule all of China. The yin-yang symbolism opposites, the white meaning something positive, while the black meaning something negative. The Japanese modified China’s system of…

the governor’s wife owns. “What it has instead is all the famous criminals in it, the ones that have been hanged…” (27). This scrapbook represents the way society views Grace and her actions. Another symbol is that of peonies. Grace remembers them growing in Kinnear's garden. Peonies represent shame (the red ones), which is opposite of what most would view the color…

Cinderella vs. Cinder Although, Cinder and Ella have many similarities, like they both are minors. They have a lot of differences, like they both aren’t named Cinderella it’s Ella’s nickname. Cinderella is actually her nickname that her cruel step-sister’s gave her, because Ella had slept by the fireplace one night and had cinders all over her face. In the beginning, Ella has both of her parents. Ella’s mother dies first because of…

Description: This photograph was taken by Fulvio Bonavia. It is explored at the Vanitas exhibition, Publics, Paris. Its dimensions are 25.6 by 14.4 inches. The photo is vanitas themed. We can see the skull, flowers, crow, book, dice, candle and the fruit. The hues in this art piece are mostly dark and cool, from the flat background to the table and most of the objects. The bright colors are arranged in the diagonal from the upper left to the lower right. On the left there is a flowers bouquet…