Above the Sea of Fog by the best-known Gothic Romantic Caspar David Friedrich. This artwork was created in 1818 in Hamburg‚ Germany. This landscape is currently displayed at Hamburger Kunsthalle who is as well the owner. This artwork is done on a canvas and the medium is oil. In the painting‚ we can see there is a masculine figure (possibly be the painter) having his back to the painting‚ on top of a mountain or cliff‚ and looking downwards. Some say that he is supposedly looking at the sea that is
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West Side Story transfers Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to present-day New York. The love story of Romeo and Juliet becomes that of Maria and Tony. The feud between the houses of the Capulets and the Montagues is re-created in one involving two teen-age gangs‚ the Jets and the Sharks. The famous balcony scene of the Shakespeare drama transpires on a fire-escape of an ugly New York tenement. The curtain rises on a bleak scene representing a warehouse. For the next five minutes not a word is spoken
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GIANT SEA SNAKE ( PELAMIS ) A Renewable Energy Application Abstract: Over the last few year’s development associated with low or even zero based greenhouse gas emitting energy sources is on it’s peak. More recently volatility in the price of oil and gas has increased the number of problems of low greenhouse gas emitting energy sources. Our paper mainly concern’s in this aspect to produce electricity with the lowest p/kWh with no-fuel and delivers
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The Old Man and the Sea Callie Dorfman 1031099 Amanda Cockburn (Remake) 1 In the book The Old Man and the Sea‚ Ernest Hemingway uses the flashback technique in order to characterize Santiago and develop key themes of the novel‚ such as Santiago’s connection with nature and what it means to be a hero. Hemingway employs several flashbacks as an effective technique that develops Santiago’s character as he recalls past occurrences in order to renew his strength of will. There are three flashbacks
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passage and the lecture concerning possible explanations of sea cow’s extinction‚ one kind of marine animal. The reading passage represents 3 theories about the extinction. However‚ the lecture casts doubt on it‚ and gives contradicting evidence. First of all‚ the reading states that native Siberian people over-hunted sea cows‚ eventually resulting in the extinction of them. The lecturer‚ on the other hand‚ disputes it with the statement that the sea cow was so enormous that few of them provide a village
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in many situations‚ addictions to certain things can be perceived as having two sides. Most likely‚ these addictions are seen as being bad. One of the most popular examples for this is the way Internet usage has been categorized among today’s college students. The Internet has become a part of students’ lives and for some of them it has become an addiction. In many instances‚ being addicted to the Internet has two sides to itself. The high usage of the Internet among today’s college students can be
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Book Review: In the heart of sea: the tragedy of the whaleship Essex‚ written by Nathaniel Philbrick‚ recounts the mystery surrounding the sinking of the whaleship Essex in the South Pacific. The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the sinking of the Titanic was in the twentieth. In 1819‚ the 238-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage for whales. Fifteen months later‚ the unthinkable happened: in the farthest reaches of the South Pacific
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How does the lanuage used create effects? The following paragraphs explore how language is used to create effects in the poem Not my Best Side by U. A. Fanthorpe‚ an ekphrastic poem that uses the free verse form arranged in three stanzas of nineteen lines each. It’s purpose is to entertain‚ which it does through the use of humour‚ using Standard English in an informal‚ conversational manner. Dramatic monologues from the characters re-tell from their own perspective‚ the historical myth of a
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“The Old Man and the Sea”‚ Ernest Hemingway connects Joe DiMaggio’s life with Santiago’s. DiMaggio’s father‚ like generations of DiMaggio’s before him‚ was a fisherman‚ and he enthusiastically wished for his sons to join him. While Joe DiMaggio never had any interest in fishing‚ his upbringings as the son of a poor immigrant fisherman helped form his popular image as the personification of the American Dream. Santiago‚ much like DiMaggio’s father‚ was a fisherman. One day when Santiago was out
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Unrest in the Arab World Will the United States be on the right side of history? The Right Side of History? The wave of demonstrations‚ uprisings and revolutions in North Africa and the Middle East has presented the United States with a complex set of diplomatic problems. While a key component of U.S. foreign policy is promoting and supporting democracy‚ it is vital to U.S. interests that the Middle East remains relatively stable. A truly democratic Arab world is a new concept‚ and
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