12/27/2012 Rachel | The Williams Sisters | Venus Williams Serena Williams Venus Ebony Starr Williams (born June 17‚ 1980)‚ is an American professional tennis player who is a former World No. 1 and is ranked World No. 24 as of December 24‚ 2012 in singles. She has been ranked World No. 1 in singles by the Women’s Tennis Association on three separate occasions. She became the World No. 1 for the first time on February 25‚ 2002‚ becoming the first African American woman to achieve
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The Yellow Wallpaper Annotations “It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. A colonial mansion‚ a hereditary estate‚ I would say a haunted house‚ and reach the height of romantic felicity--but that would be asking too much of fate!” She finds it odd that she got a large mansion type estate for the summer even though she is not wealthy. The mentally insane of this time were often sent to insane asylums that were actually wide open
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The three works of art that I have chosen to write about are “Venus” of Urbino‚ Spirit Spouse and Zenobia in chains. The Venus of Urbino was a painting made in 1538 in Florence‚ Italy. It depicts a Venetian courtesan woman lying down naked in a bed with provocative gestures. She has very fair skin and a Rubenesque body type. The 16th century was a time where women were depicted with a more curvaceous body type to express their wealth because in those times the thicker a man or a woman was the wealthier
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Jessica Foltz Concert Report #3 On Friday‚ May 2‚ 2014 at 5:30 P.M. I attended my favorite concert yet at the Morrison Center Recital Hall. It was a cello concert with graduate Jacob Saunders‚ accompanied by Betsi Hodges on the piano. The scene was beautiful‚ and the energy was great. White Christmas lights‚ and the position of the instruments made me feel like I was at a classy coffee shop in France. The cello and piano were the first instruments I ever learned how to play‚ and I went with
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Discuss progression of her life as parallel to change in Florentine Streets (pull in art and religion/rules of society in order to examine the similarities) (also note how in end when Savonarola’s reign ends‚ Florence is better and life is better) Marriage/love art religion Quotes: The City of Florence: During her youth: Page 52: Lorenzo’s death put the city out of sorts in many ways. Page 85: And when soldiers are at war‚ they are not citizens‚ only mercenaries‚ and young virgins are
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JACK Lord of the Flies Jack Key Quotations I ◦ “ we can’t eat them” this is about the candle buds‚ the fact that jack says he cannot eat them shows that he doesn’t care as they are not useful to him and he has no appreciation for beauty or his natural surroundings as apposed to Simons response. Shows the selfish nature that he has already‚ in a way he could be practical in this sense they are useless to us. A quality of a leader‚ he is decisive. His language is very assertive. ◦ “we’ll have rules…
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------------------------------------------------- Act 2‚ Scene 1 | Original Text | Modern Text | | Enter DUKE SENIOR‚ AMIENS‚ and two or three LORDS‚ like foresters | DUKE SENIOR‚ AMIENS‚ and two or three LORDS enter‚ dressed like foresters. | 5 10 15 | DUKE SENIOR Now‚ my co-mates and brothers in exile‚Hath not old custom made this life more sweetThan that of painted pomp? Are not these woodsMore free from peril than the envious court?Here feel we not the penalty of Adam‚The seasons’
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“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes‚ but in having new eyes.” ― Marcel Proust Good morning. Discoveries possess the potential to rework beliefs regarding human experience in the wider world. Each revelation proposes outlooks pertaining to the development of an individual’s worldview. Such developments facilitate growth and understanding in regards to social proceedings. American author Robert Frost explores the mechanics of humanity through his poems. Frost scrutinizes
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First‚ we will discuss the message conveyed in the first four lines of Wheatley’s poem. The first line of her poem describes how mercy brought her from her pagan land. She used the word pagan to describe the difference between Africa and America‚ since Africa was godless and America were not. The author uses the word “mercy” but it is unclear if she means mercy of the white colonists or the mercy of God. However‚ it was mercy nonetheless that taught her pagan soul to learn about a God and a savior
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and Warhol’s Art Works of Venus Sandro Botticelli created the beautiful‚ captivating‚ and norm breaking Birth of Venus. It depicts the story of the goddess Venus‚ having emerged from the sea as a full grown woman arriving at the shore. Painted in 1486‚ and with the medium of tempera on canvas‚ The Birth of Venus hangs in the Uffizi gallery in Florence Italy. This renaissance painting is huge and is 67.9 inches tall by 109.6 inches wide. Andy Warhol’s screen print Venus was done is 1984 and has
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