Oleksandra Sydorenko “The Black Madonna” by M.Spark The extract under analysis is taken from the short story “The Black Madonna” by famous award-winning Scottish novelist Muriel Spark. The Times newspaper named Spark in its list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945" The extract is about a Catholic childless couple Raymond and Lou Parker. They live in their three-roomed apartment and try to cultivate their tastes in an aristocratic manner. But in the end of the story they are presented
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Article: CONTROVERSY OVER THE BHAGVAD GITA A great controversy has been going on throughout the nation over the ban of the great Hindu scripture The Bhagvad Gita in Russia. Not only the Hindus‚ but most of the people who consider the Gita as a great piece of literature also are surprised at the wave of protest showed in Russia calling it a literature that spreads social discord. It is already known to all that in a Siberian court‚ some state prosecutors have petitioned that
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veteran turned novelist.” Crane was handed essential historical knowledge in the reliable series Battles and Leaders of the Civil War published in Century magazine that would help him write his novel. Also influenced by Sebastopol‚ a war novel by Leo Tolstoy‚ Stephen Crane was ready to write a best-selling war
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Art is a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities; this article focuses primarily on the visual arts‚ which includes the creation of images or objects in fields including painting‚ sculpture‚ printmaking‚ photography‚ and other visual media. Architecture is often included as one of the visual arts; however‚ like the decorative arts‚ it involves the creation of objects where the practical considerations of use are essential—in a way that they usually are not in a painting
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Realism is defined as “the quality or fact of representing a person‚ thing‚ or situation accurately or in a way that is true to life” (Dictionary). This way of displaying people or a situation in their true reality is recurrent in many works of literature. Stephen Crane wrote The Red Badge of Courage‚ a realistic novel that tells the honest horrors of the battlefield. Crane used his life influences of family‚ education‚ and society to shape him into the realistic writer that we see in The Red Badge
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George Orwell’s 1984 is one of the most famous novels of the negative utopian‚ or dystopian‚ genre. Unlike a utopian novel‚ in which the writer aims to portray the perfect human society‚ a novel of negative utopia does the exact opposite: it shows the worst human society imaginable‚ in an effort to convince readers to avoid any path that might lead toward such societal degradation. In 1949‚ at the dawn of the nuclear age and before the television had become a fixture in the family home‚ Orwell’s
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of the music as a special aesthetic value is disclosed in the ratio of applied creativity and artistic purposes. Music is an art form that is designed for auditory perception. Its feature is direct and strong impact on the people. For instance‚ Leo Tolstoy said that musical art “by its nature has a direct psychological effect on the nerves”. In contrast to all the kinds of visual and verbal arts‚ music doesn’t reproduce visible pictures of the world and is deprived of the semantic specificity. That’s
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with beauty and style following after every step and turn. Even when you begin to dance‚ some might say there is no grace in the movements of a beginner‚ but you can not avoid what is being expressed within and out; happiness. In “What is Art?”‚ Leo Tolstoy states his opinion of the matter: “To evoke in oneself a feeling one has experienced‚ and...then by means of movements‚ lines‚ colors‚ sounds or forms expressed in words‚ so that to transmit that feeling-This is the activity of art.” A lot goes
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a boy who broke all the rules at his middle school. He broke so many rules that he was often given detention and finally ended up being expelled from middle school for drawing a mural on the school wall. Rafe had an imaginary friend whose name was Leo. Rafe imaginary friend turn out to be his twin brother who died when he was three years old. Rafe’s mother worked double shift at a diner. She worked long hour and did not have enough time for her son and daughter. She had an abusive fiancé who was
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W.G.H Sha’anan Teachers’ College The English Department Bernard Malamud: A Contradiction between Personal Philosophy and Living Reality Submitted by: Leah Hassin ID: 302545157 Supervised by: Mrs. Revital Steiner Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a B.Ed. degree August‚ 2011 Layout: • Abstract • About the immigrants- historical review • About the phenomenon • About Bernard Malamud
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