Martin Weinsteins’ Sun Dogs is a beautiful art piece. It would bring your mind to ease looking at this piece and have you imagining that you are there. The art depicts a field of green nature‚ with a gorgeous view of two mountains with bodies of water in front of them‚and bright blue slightly clouded sky. It reminds me of something that can be seen in a country like Norway where it is full of greenery‚ vast mountains‚ and bodies of water. Imagine yourself standing in front of a large canvas and
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"I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main theme is manliness..." once said by Ernest Gaines . Although Ernest Hemingway takes a different route to manliness in his book‚ The Sun Also Rises. It is made evident with the radical reevaluation of what it is to be masculine‚ and the rendering of Jake’s manhood‚ useless because of an injury obtained during World War 1 that the recurring theme is the male insecurity. First‚ the male insecurity is shown as World War 1 questioned what it real
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and start figuring out what we want to do for a living. College is the perfect breeding ground for this. For some people‚ I know they are just looking for partying and sex‚ but then you have the smart‚ bright mind like Beneatha. In A Raisin in the Sun‚ by Lorraine Hansberry‚ Beneatha dreams of going to college and becoming a doctor. Her brother‚ Walter‚ heckles her about how she should just give up her dream and become a housewife; but Beneatha doesn’t let this affect her because she is smart‚ confident
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The metaphysical era in poetry started in the 17th century when a number of poets extended the content of their poems to a more elaborate one which investigated the principles of nature and thought. John Donne was part of this literary movement and he explored the themes of love‚ death‚ and religion to such an extent‚ that he instilled his own beliefs and theories into his poems. His earlier works‚ such as The Flea and The Sunne Rising‚ exhibit his sexist views of women as he wrote more about the
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Annie Dillard‚ the author of “The Death of a Moth” and Virginia Woolf‚ the author of “The Death of the Moth” have very different outlooks on the subject of life and death. Annie Dillard notices the point of loss and gain involved in the circle of life. Virginia Woolf‚ however‚ seems to see life as pointless and meaningless. It is essentially a postponement of the inevitable to her. Each author writes her essay at a different point in the year. This has a major impact on the personalities each
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Sunday Afternoon All four windows of that metallic black pick up truck covered in mud speckles were down. The sun illuminated the flawless sky that Sunday afternoon. Our vehicle was loaded up with my favorite blue pin striped beach chair‚ several kick balls‚ a cooler filled with water‚ and two of my best friends. There was Rosie‚ the redder of the two and who always seemed to have an endless supply of energy. The other is Ruby‚ a curly blond with a much lazier personality. Two golden paws rested
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A Raisin in the Sun is a play written by Lorraine Hansberry in 1959. This play is about a lower class African American family dealing with their living conditions on the Southside of Chicago. The title of the play was inspired by the poem A Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes. Hughes’ poem describes the differing paths people take in life. This idea is displayed throughout the play as every character has different aspirations in life and will do whatever they can to accomplish their goals. For this
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Throughout the entire book of The Sun Also Rises‚ hardly a page goes by without referencing any alcohol. From the very beginning of the book‚ the main character/protagonist‚ Jake meets a young prostitute named Georgette and they have drinks together. She states that‚ “Everybody’s sick. I’m sick too”. Bars‚ dance clubs‚ cafes where alcohol is served seems to be a place of escape for a majority of the characters. Jake Barnes‚ like the other characters‚ uses the consumption of alcohol to escape what
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” Where Shakespeare failed to connect with me as a reader‚ limiting my appreciation for King Lear‚ Jane Smiley made me a believer with her clear and natural manifestation of Lear‚ titled A Thousand Acres. In fact‚ my entire interpretation and view of King Lear changed considerably after watching A Thousand Acres. I read the book many years before reading King Lear‚ and as a result never linked the two until I watched the movie version for this essay. I found the book was far better than the film
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Raisin in the Sun reflects the author‚ Lorraine Hansberry; with the starring Younger family during the 1950s and 60s. Her life was riddled with controversy‚ from her upbringing to the different movements and clubs she participated in. Granting her the experience to reflect the conflict between blacks and whites. She merged the feminist movement‚ The Great Migration‚ and the redlining and covenants into her play with ease. Giving us the opportunity to reenact what it would have been like to live in
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