“I put my heart and soul into my work‚ and I have lost my mind in the process.” - Vincent Van Gogh. A man who is known for his passion of painting but battled a fight of mental illness which ended up causing the end of his short artistic career. Van Gogh is considered one of the most fantastic painters of his time‚ though his work had not become popular until the 20th century. He has created over 1‚000 watercolors‚ drawings‚ sketches and produced over 1‚250 paintings in his last ten years of his
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Edna St. Vincent Millay’s life was limited to fifty-eight short years‚ but she clearly made a substantial impact in the literary world expressing lifestyle choices for women indicative of the societal changes precipitated during the Progressive Era. Millay and her two sisters were raised primarily by a divorced mother who was often forced to leave the girls alone as she traveled as a nurse. The marriage of Millay’s parents was destroyed by the financial recklessness of her father and it is likely
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went‚ “Whoa!” The right image drew my eye immediately with its dark purple background‚ and then I turned to see the contrasting image on the left of the same exact building; making me want to examine further. “Church at Auvers-sur-Oise”‚ painted by Vincent Van Gogh from 1853-1890‚ first drew my eye with its vivid color. The background sky is painted a deep‚ dark purple that engrossed me. The color makes a great sky‚ especially in contrast to the normal blue of the opposing image: an actual photograph
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Love in different types of litrature Love is a theme that can be written and expressed in many ways‚ using many different literary devices‚ such as metaphors‚ similes‚ personification‚ allusion‚ etc. The poems‚ Sonnet 29 written by Edna St. Vincent Millay‚ and Sonnet 43 written by Elizabeth Barret Browning‚ are both very different from each other as they both are conveying different messages. Sonnet 29 talks about the reality of love which is it is difficult to stick with one person‚ where
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Van Gogh painted this piece in 1889 while he was in Saint Rémy seeking treatment in a mental asylum. Interestingly enough‚ he painted this piece from his memory and it was supposed to have been based on a constellation arrangement he had seen earlier on in the night sky of Provence. Starry Night is perhaps one of his most famous and yet most elusive works. The first thing that I noticed was the overwhelming night sky‚ which takes up most of the background. Its swirling‚ flowing lines appear to
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There are four basic necessities to sustain life: food‚ sleep‚ shelter‚ and air. Without these four things‚ humans cannot survive‚ but are living and surviving two different concepts? In Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem “Love Is Not All”‚ she argues that while love does not keep us alive‚ it is the one thing in this world worth more than food‚ or shelter‚ or air. While basic necessitates for survival are wonderful‚ even they cannot overcome the human desire for love‚ shown by how the author sets up
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leading the main character‚ Alex‚ to become sick whenever he thinks of violence‚ leaving him defenseless‚ and having suicidal tendencies. After undergoing the experiment‚ Alex finds the violent acts that he once loved are now unenjoyable and sickening whenever they are upon his mind. Following his release from prison‚ Alex is left alone in the streets where he is unable to fight back without getting sick. Lastly‚ realizing the effects of the experiment on his body‚ Alex concludes the experiment has
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view of an anti-hero‚ our main character‚ Alex. He is a 16 year old criminal who is involved in violence‚ rape murder and robbery throughout the book. After reading the whole book‚ I think the whole story can be divided into three parts. The first half of the book focuses on Alex’s criminal and ultra violence lifestyle‚ the second part focuses on Alex rehabilitation in prison‚ and the third based on Alex’s entry back into society. The novel opens with Alex and his gang‚ Pete‚ Georgie and Dim at a
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into a passive stupor of complacency‚ blind to the insidious growth of a rampant‚ violent youth culture. The protagonist of the story is Alex a fifteen-year-old boy who narrates in a teenage slang‚ which incorporates elements of Russian and Cockney English. Alex leads a small gang of teenage criminals through the streets‚ robbing and beating men and raping women. Alex and his friends spend the rest of their time at the Korova Milkbar that serves milk laced with drugs and a bar called the Duke of New
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Alex is the leader of his gang‚ has a privileged place in it to enjoy hurting‚ controlling every detail. Nothing escapes his approval in his misdeeds‚ and he and the rest enjoy being violent. Gets a unique pleasure to see blood‚ that is linked to music. Both make him feel an indescribable pleasure when he hits someone. Music is used against him in Ludovico treatment as aversion therapy of violence‚ and is associated to negative feeling that hurts and makes him feel physically ill (Classical conditioning:
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