Grande Odalisque by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres is widely agreed upon to be one of the most alluring and seemingly controversial paintings of its time. The oil painting depicts a female nude lying on her side with her back toward the viewer upon a dark blue quilted bed. With nothing but jewelry and a turban on‚ she gazes over her shoulder giving the viewers a somewhat inviting look. In this piece‚ Ingres paints vague detail in the woman’s face only showing basic facial features and minimal expression
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Rio Grande Valley‚ and all but one closed in West Texas. Comparing November 2012–April 2013 to November 2013–April 2014‚ there was a 13% decrease in the abortion rate (from 12.9 to 11.2 abortions/1000 women age 15–44). Medical abortion decreased by 70%‚ from 28.1% of all abortions in the earlier period to 9.7% after November 2013 (pb0.001). Second-trimester abortion increased from 13.5% to 13.9% of all abortions (pb0.001). Only 22% of abortions were performed in the state’s six ASCs" (Grossman et
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Billy Sunday once said “Let’s quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ.” This wasn’t Billy Sunday’s mindset his whole life‚ he wasn’t even a christian until his older adult life. Billy Sunday is an extraordinary muckraker and christian evangelists‚ even best know as one of the best evangelists of all time. Before Billy Sunday turned into an evangelist he was an even greater baseball player. It may not seem like Billy Sunday did much to greater the world but he actually
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The poem “Those Winter Sundays” was written by Robert Hayden. The poem ’s theme is centralized around the love and commitment of Hayden’s father. The poem expresses how Hayden seen his father as a strict‚ responsible‚ and sometimes angered man. Although his father was strict in his ways‚ he did show his love in his own ways. Hayden wrote this poem in open form. This form allowed his poem to come to life as it moves along. The poem contains fourteen lines and there is no rhythm or rhyming pattern
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Analysis of Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays” “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden describes a relationship between father and son. It shares many different emotions such as unconditional love‚ fear‚ regret‚ ungratefulness‚ compassion‚ and hate. Hayden makes this work very relatable to us‚ possibly making us reflect on our relationships with our own parents. Almost all relationships do come with some sort of complication‚ but it is important to know that complication can be overcome and
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The Unspoken Love in “Those Winter Sundays” Robert Hayden was one of the most celebrated poets of his days; he was the first African-American to serve as the nation’s official poet‚ a distinct honor that is now called the U.S. Poet Laureate (poets.org). Among his enduring works‚ “Those Winter Sundays” stands out as one of the utmost anthologized poem. In fact‚ ten years ago‚ on a survey conducted by Columbia University Press‚ it ranked the 266th most anthologized poem in the English language (Biespiel)
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Trenton York Theory of Coaching Football Any Given Sunday Summary July 14‚ 2014 Any Given Sunday We watched the movie “Any Given Sunday” in class the past two days. The movie was filmed in 1999 and is a drama film based on a fictional professional football team named the Miami Sharks. The Sharks are owned by Christina Pagniacci (Cameron Diaz) who also happens to be the general manager of the team. She inherited the team from her father when he passed away. The team is coached by “
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Those Winter Sundays In the poem‚ “Those Winter Sundays‚” by Robert Hayden‚ he tells a familiar story about the relationship between a parent and a child. The story is that more times than not‚ the child is oblivious to the sacrifices. He talks about the father still getting up on Sundays after a long work week‚ and how he would build a fire to warm up the house before his kids would get out of bed. He would also polish his child’s shoes. He would do all this and no one would ever thank him. “When
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Do you think treating someone who is a different race different good? In the documentary “Murder on a Sunday Morning” Brenton Butler was beat up by the white police and in the novel‚ Monster‚ the law enforcement all thought he was guilty‚ both of the stories have examples of racism. The novel‚ Monster‚ and the documentary “Murder on a Sunday Morning” are more alike because they both are on trial for murder‚ they both are black and some of the law enforcement are treating them badly because of it
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1. La música cubana La música cubana tiene dos grandes influencias: los ritmos traídos a la Isla especialmente por los colonizadores españoles y por los negros esclavos procedentes de África. También‚ en menor medida‚ hay una cierta influencia asiática‚ con la inclusión de la corneta china‚ un hecho que comenzó a finales del siglo XIX con la llegada de los primeros inmigrantes chinos a la isla. Según el origen de sus influencias‚ podríamos diferenciar entre la música euro-cubana y la afro-cubana
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