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most famously known for her self-portraits. The piece reflects Mexican culture. The audience would most likely be those who are interested in self reflection, since the artworks are known for the in depth portrayal of Kahlo herself and aspects of her life. The mode of display is an oil on canvas, with the setting of the piece currently located in the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City. However the work itself portrays "The Two Fridas" with a stormy sky in the background, and the Kahlo's…

journalists’ refusal to make a bad situation worse was the very essence of the second type of courage. The film also exhibits the first type of courage. It would have been easy for Sarah Polley to keep quiet about the situation and simply live her life, but instead, she came forward and shared her story in spite of the difficulty. This courage is something we would do well to copy. Finally, “The Things They Carry” offers some very important lessons in how to deal with death. Many people are in…

Chasing the Wind Remember that wonderful feeling when you wake up from a bad dream, but soon feel the sudden relief of reality? When I woke up the next morning, it was the exact opposite of that feeling. I recall having a vivid dream that Riley was still with us on the trail. The three of us played out an uncanny reenactment of Without a Paddle as we came across our first bear encounter. In the dream, we all came out unscathed, prancing to feel-good music and hindered by nothing but a good…

Heroes act as symbols for the qualities we wish to possess and ambitions we want to satisfy. While loneliness is the state of feeling unhappy because of being alone, solitude is a condition of peace from one’s choice to be alone. Loneliness is a prison of the mind, where one involuntarily resides, but constantly longs to escape, whereas solitude is a peaceful and quiet garden, where one is content with the absence of others. With happiness the ultimate goal, or the top of the ladder,…

the state of loss, and grief to the reaction to loss. According to Townsend (2008), “Grief is a subjective state of emotional, physical and social response to the loss of a valued entity.” (p.10). It is shown by someone who has had a sudden change in life such as a divorce or permanent separation of a spouse or someone that has lost someone or something they cherished deeply (Townsend, 2008). When an individual experiences grief their whole persona shifts and sometimes, they become unaware of…

In Eugéne Green’s “La Sapienza”, a zippy camera guides us through architectural views and details before introducing us to Alexandre Schmidt (Fabrizio Rongione), a respected French architect who's being awarded for a lifetime work. Lyrical music floats around and Alexander’s speech, which referenced the human progress and praised the environmental consciousness, despite routine, pleased his wife, Aliénor (Christelle Prot), a dispirited psychoanalyst who still suffers in silence with the early…

and cash. As a result, they had to constantly move from places to places such as Battle Mountain in Nevada, Phoenix in Arizona, Welch in West Virginia, New York City and so on in the search of the survival. Some places provided the better quality of life while some worsen it. Thus, the author and her family were living under the condition of the poverty, where they had to struggle for the basic needs such as food, clothing, and shelter because of not getting adequate resources to support the…

Confederate general, Robert E. Lee, in his letter, narrates his anguished thoughts pertaining to the conflicts between the North and South. Lee’s main objective is to express his extreme grief when seeing the Union in its current state of unease as well as to voice the plight of secession and ultimately civil war. He employs the uses of several rhetorical strategies including: doleful diction, hyperboles, and historical remembrance to efficaciously illustrate his feelings of melancholy towards…

by the day. Dialysis is a pain I would not wish on my greatest enemy. It did not only drain her blood, but her spirits as well. There is no greater pain than seeing a woman so strong begin to wither away. As time went on you didn’t see the lack of life in her pruning face, but in her words. She began to talk as if she was on her deathbed that last time I visited. She barely ate and the only solace I found was finding her food that she would be excited to eat. I remember running around the…

In the midst of my youth, perfection meant everything. The sense of inferiority creeped around every corner of my life, the social pressures, the culture pressures, the personal pressures. The issue of self-acceptance began from a young age, as I often used to sit alone in the vast woods behind my house, pondering on the inevitable, ominous thought, am I good enough for the world? With the ideal image of nature surrounding me, I wished I could hold as much beauty and perfection as the world…