The Shape of Things

to live internal until he figures out a way to kill the immortal beast who is after his daughter Mary Hesling. Thieves break into the safe in a Carfax Abbey in search for paintings to cash – out, but finds a coffins which they believes has worthy things in it. The thieve trying to pry open the coffin cuts himself which gets onto the coffin, which is immediately sucked into the coffin, which awakens the Count and unleashes him. He searches for Mary Hesling; for what the…

Environments and Cookie Cutters Cisneros tells the reader about Esperanza’s house before we even learn her name because the author is making a point about what shapes our identity. Esperanza is the main character in the story. As the story works its way to the end the reader sees Esperanza's identity change. In the beginning Esparansa’s house is described as being “small” (Cisneros, 11) and somewhat ugly. It is not difficult to see how she could consider the house to be a box or a restrictive…

Plenzler said, “We marines have historically held ourselves to high standards in both fitness and appearance” (Sanborn 1044). The author includes this so Marines can see that other Marines know that they have to stay fit and in shape, they know that they have certain standards that they have to meet; they shouldn’t even allow themselves to get to the point where they have to go through the process to lose all the weight. Sergeant Matter Torres said, “I'd much rather have a guy…

1.“The weeping woman” has art elements line, colour, texture, and shape. The first element that I found was lines. There are different lines in the face and the background. Some of the lines are wavy (which are in the hair) and straight (the yellow lines in the background). However, the most significant amount of lines in this portrait are in the woman’s face and the background. The second art element that I found was colour. The colour I noticed in this artwork are primary and secondary colours…

these shoes you can really get hurt. Today I will tell you the five major parts of them that all work together to make sure that the dancer does not get hurt. At the very bottom of the shoe there is a thing called a platform. The platform provides a flat surface for a dancer to balance on. It has the shape of an oval. The dancer will trust the platform with the entire weight of her body. Above the platform is…

World The woman who made this sublime piece of ceramic artwork goes by the name of Thancoupie. This is an aboriginal ceramic and it was made in a time where clay was used in a ceremonial context. The history of Australian Aboriginal art has spanned over thousands of years. Aboriginal artists still use traditional and modern materials while creating their art. Artist Thancoupie was born in 1937 in the rural town of Weipa in Queensland; she died in 2011. When she was young, clay was very…

The elements of design are visual components that artist use to make their artwork. There are six primary elements of design and they include line, shape, mass/volume, perspective, texture and color. We use these elements of design to add more depth to our analysis of artwork. All of these elements can be seen in the painting After the Bath, Woman drying herself by Edgar Degas. The main lines in this piece are the vertical and diagonal lines where the floor and wall meet in the background. The…

artists. His mom was a painter, his dad and grandfather were both famous American sculptures. Since art was an everyday occurrence in Calder life, he grew up always loving to create things and was encouraged to do so. He even had his own little studio as a young child where he made his own toys. Even though he loved making things growing up, he never saw art as a career in his future. Calder wanted to do into engineering and his parents encouraged that because they didn’t want Calder to suffer…

social expectations are high and where our attitudes are affected by everything we do, it is easy to lose track of our self-concept or what we believe in. However there are many things that can influence our self concept and many things that impact what we believe in, your thoughts and your attitudes. First, a lot of things can impact the way we perceive ourselves or who we are. Self concept means the construction of oneself based on your beliefs and relations with others, which in turn can be…

I woke up that morning with the sound of glass shattering. I thought I must be imagining things because I lived alone in a small house by Lidtke Mill, but the sound just kept on going. The sound was becoming fant. Like maybe litter pieces of glass were getting thrown up against the wall. I got out of bed to go see what the sound was coming from. I walked slowly down the stairs just so I didn't scare away whatever was down there. But when I got down to the first level of the house I could…