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Acquainted with the Night by Robert Frost is about depression. The poet describes his depression as night. Night is used as a noun and personified. In line 1, “I have been one acquainted with the night”, the poet personifies the night as a person he is aware or familiar with. The poet uses the word “one”, to symbolize he is not the only one who have acquainted with the night. Line 2, “I have walked out in rain-and back in rain” suggest the poet was traveling in the rain and that it must have…

Everyday, choices and decisions are given to people to be made. However, the choices and decisions made will always have a positive and/or negative outcome. The one making the choices has the responsibility for there to be a positive outcome. Robert Frost shows how choices could change our lifestyle with the poems created by him. In Robert Frost poetry, Robert Frost uses multiple literary devices to describe that life has multiple outcomes in order to illustrate that people have responsibility…

The struggle of life- its changeability, unpredictability, and man’s inability to block the blows of chance- is difficult, but how someone deals with life- whether they wither away and cry out in defeat or whether they stand tall, accepting the blows without a complaint- is completely up to them. In the poem “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley, one can see his determination to be strong, independent, and fearless. Though it seemed like he would be defeated, Henley chose to stand up and face the…

The simple, straightforward title of the poem “Mother to Son,” by the African-American poet Langston Hughes (1902-1967), finds both the speaker of the work and the person to whom her words are discussed. The very first line of the poem is typical of the rest of the work in its use of phrasing that is colloquial—that is, in this case, phrasing that implies one person speaking to another. Yet the phrasing is also colloquial in the sense that it is ordinary, unpretentious, and informal. By…

Giotto Di Bondone,St.Francis Receiving the Stigmatization,C.1300 Giotto Di Bondone was an early renaissance painter who captured many works of art, a lot of them involving the church and christian religion.Giotto was born 1276 in Vespignano, Italy. Giotto was the student of the Florence painter Cimabue. Giotto contributed a lot of his early career to the creation of paintings in the upper chapel of the st.Francis of assisi church in Assisi that was later destroyed by Napoleon's church. Later he…

Giotto’s work on the Arena Chapel leaves many historians questioning the iconography and placement depicted, and whether or not they were directed by his patron or himself in the final outcome. The famous Italian wall painting is located in Padua, and is suspected to have been created around 1305 or 1306. Since its creation, the work has had to overcome many restorations to be presented to the public. Enrico Scrovegni was the patron in charge of Giotto’s creation, and the piece is theorized to…

Demons, houses with dark pasts, and plenty of gore. These are just some of the things you will be able to find within the works of Adam Gierasch. Gierasch is an LA- based American horror film director, writer, and actor inspired by David Cronenberg, John Water, and even the movie Final Destination. He has worked on projects such as The Mother of Tears, Mortuary, Toolbox Murders remake, and Rats. These movies help to express Gierasch’s love for horror itself. Gierasch is known for directing…

The passing of the eighteenth amendment provided an opportunity for Lucania to recruit some new meat. Lucania became one of the “Big Six” of bootlegging along with Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel (“Luciano”, n.d.). His bootlegging gang grew throughout the 1920’s. Lucania and his friends recruited new Jewish gang members, including Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, nicknamed “Lepke” by his mother, Abner “Longie” Zwillman, another Jew, and Zwillman’s partner, Willie Moretti (Gosch, 1975). These unscrupulous…

There’s just money.” kind of mindset in him. It's that exact mindset Luciano had that led him to be one of the most respected and accomplished mobsters of his time. By the time Luciano's reign had toned down, he had already earned the title of capo di tutti capi (“boss of all the bosses”). Luciano was always a big part of the…

Spotlight – Sociologial Theories 1 “When the Boston Globe’s tenacious “Spotlight” team of reporters delves into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover up at the highest levels of Boston’s religious, legal, and government establishment, touching off a wave of revelations around the world” (Road, n.d.). Spotlight is a movie based on real-life events that occurred in 2001and it shows the viewers the obstacles that these…