Ruins

With a ruin standing strong in the night, a lone traveler passes by, using the light behind the never-ending barrage of clouds as his only compass. The twisted trees find home in the grassy plain bordering the trodden path to the right as the darkness closes in and a peaceful desolation takes into place. A dark and foreboding oil painting on canvas, Arnold Böcklin’s Mondscheinlandschaft mit Ruine, or Ruins in Moonlit Landscape, capture and illuminate the idea of the picturesque beauty of…

Performance enhancing drugs. They are drugs that make you smarter, and make you perform better in your sports, academics and almost anything else you want to get better at. These drugs are also known as PED’s, is using PED’s worth the risk, they can ruin your life, also, most people see it as a form of cheating. Although using PED’s really worth the risk? No, besides of you going to jail or getting kicked out of your school or sports team, you can get fined lots of money. Also if you don’t get…

definition of ruin is “to spoil or destroy something” (Cambridge Dictionary, 2017). Joseph Mallord William Turner’s oil painting The Fall of an Avalanche in The Grisons, and Robert Smithson’s installation piece Partially Buried Woodshed, both recreate and capture the act of ruin through different techniques, imagery and medium. Turner’s piece captures the act of an avalanche through a static depiction of the moment before the destruction of a wooden cabin. This work is an example of an…

F. Kennedy, and the America facilitated the Vietnam War. Furthermore, there were drastic change in the economy. In episode Love Among the Ruin it shows a lot of emphasis of what have occurred during that time period. There are many ruins associated with establishments of businesses, economy system and personal lives during that era. On the other hand, the ruin Moreover, it relates to Nietzsche’s The Twilight of the Idols because Don Draper always seeing to change the conversations because the…

I like “The Ruined Maid” by Thomas Hardy. My paraphrase is this: “Two women talk about the ‘ruined’ lifestyle. Ironically, a ruined lifestyle is filled with luxury and refinement. The ‘ruined’ woman seems to have been a country woman before like the other woman. While the country woman focuses on the other woman’s success, the ‘ruined’ woman constantly says that it’s because she is ruined.” Thomas Hardy’s “The Ruined Maid” consists of a conversation between a ‘ruined’ woman and a country woman…

through all of college before going into the NBA instead of only one year. College should be required for basketball players because those that go straight to the NBA normally are not as good, may ruin their careers, and college is good. First, basketball players may ruin their career which could also ruin their life. In the Article, “The NBA’s…

has on society. Some say it makes us antisocial face to face while others say it makes us more social because of social media and instant access to knowledge. I agree with the notation that technology does in fact ruin nature with industry and all that but does the social ripple really ruin public interactions? Nowadays most aren’t bothered by other people using their cell phones in public since it’s become the norm for public manners. The effect phones have on nature and on public places are…

(H.G. Wells; The War in the Air) This quote states that, civilian homes, towns, and cities are defenseless against a merciless pounding from above. In the story, “By the Waters of Babylon”, John explores the ruins of New York City. The ruins, named the Dead place, was believed to be the ruins of the homes that godly beings once inhabited. John discovers that not only did humans create these structure, but it was at the hands of humans that the structures fell. The author’s purpose for writing…

reducing the amount of time it takes to salvage ruins and doing so without having to go on foot. Archeologists are often portrayed in the media as people who explore dense forests with only a machete, or as people who cross entire deserts on foot. However, archeologists know those methods to be inefficent and have developed new means of exploration. Inventions such as satellites have helped archeologists in their search for ancient civilizations and ruins. Satellites are objects that orbit…

relationships between Leonato and Hero, and Beatrice and Benedick in which other characters, such as Don John, use deceptive tactics to mislead others. Don John and Don Pedro help illuminate in the play that deception can be used to hurt others in order to ruin the happiness or reputation of others and for themselves to have greater self-satisfaction. Don John portrays characteristics such as mischievousness, deception, arrogance, and ruthlessness. Don John says “If I can cross him anyway,…