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    Cerfewed Night

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    CURFEWED NIGHT: BASHARAT PEER‚ RANDOM HOUSE INDIA‚ 2009‚ 239 pp. The Kashmir conflict is not new for the people of the world and more so for a Kashmiri. Yet‚ as the author rightly points out‚ hardly any work exists in the canon of Indian Literature in English about this issue. Basharat Peer‚ in his debut book Curfewed Night‚ sets out to change exactly that. Whether he succeeds or not depends on what the author aspires for; to be a narrator presenting a true and holistic picture of the tragedy

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    Twelfth Night

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    Shakespeare’s the Twelfth Night is a classic comedy filled with lies‚ misunderstandings and many love triangles. One example of this may be the Orsino‚ Olivia‚ Viola‚ Sebastian triangle. Although Orsino seemed to have a passionate love for Olivia‚ Viola is another obvious candidate for his affection. Through out Viola’s time as Cesario‚ Orsino’s feelings for her seem to come out more and more. Viola is a good friend to Orsino‚ knows him quite well and likes him for himself‚ not his money or looks

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    Day & Night

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    English 111-1N 2 October 2013 Day & Night Us as humans are supposed to sleep during the night and be awake for the day. We do our activities during the day for many reasons. Given our sight capabilities‚ we can only see things clearly when given the proper light. During the day‚ the sun is that light. With alternate light sources ruling the night in today’s age‚ there are now more possibilities that were incomparable to the times of day before. Day and night are complete opposites‚ so there is

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    Starry Night

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    Starry Night is a beautiful painting‚ representational in the type of art. The size of the painting is 29 in. by 36 ¼ in.‚ and oil on canvas were the materials used. Van Gogh is using an expressive quality and an emotionalism viewpoint. On the left side of the painting‚ there is a group of black lines that curve in waves upward‚ coming to a point. To the lower right‚ there is a small town that leads up to hills and then mountains. The painting is set at night‚ and the sky is a wondrous swirl of bursting

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    Starry night

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    BY PICASSO WEEPING WOMAN Composition and Brushstrokes The weeping woman portrays a woman who is in deep despair. Throughout the painting‚ we are able to see quite a lot of sharp edges and contrasting colours. The woman’s black piercing eyes are wide-opened‚ her tears running down in clear drops‚ and she is biting a handkerchief which she grips tightly in her hands. Placed on the top of her head is a black‚ yellow and red hat with a blue flower on top. Her shattered image reminds us almost of a

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    Night Analogies

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    torture. "Night" is used throughout the book to symbolize death‚ darkness of the soul‚ and loss of faith. As an image‚ it comes up repeatedly. Even when the scene is literally set during the day‚ night may be invoked. Consider all the terrible things that happen at night: Mrs. Schachter has her visions of fire‚ hell‚ and death; (Wiesel 24-27) Elie and his father arrive at Auschwitz and see the smokestacks and wait in line all night long with the smell of death in their noses; there is the night the soup

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    Billy is spastic in time‚ has no control over where he is going next‚ and the trips aren’t necessarily fun. He is in a constant state of stage fright‚ he says‚ because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next (Vonnegut 23)”. Billy Pilgrim has lost control over one of the most important principles we humans tend to treasure in life—time—but he also feels eerie in performing in his own life. Billy Pilgrim the protagonist‚ has become unstuck in time. Billy was capture

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    Acquainted With The Night

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    Forever One: A Man and the Night Nighttime can only mean that a storm is brewing. Whether it be a hurricane making landfall the next morning‚ or a crime about to unfold‚ one can be sure that an explosion of major consequences will take place. Or maybe a man is just wallowing in his sadness‚ as illustrated in Robert Frost’s poem‚ “Acquainted with the Night”. Frost uses negative‚ cloudy‚ dark imagery and universal symbols of sadness to describe the unsettled mind and heart of the speaker.

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    Night John

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    In the novel Night John it uses descriptive details and shows visual pictures in your mind. Night John’s plot stays on topic with all the characters and events. In the film Night John they added subplots which made the story a lot different. The novel Night John was better than the film. Here are the reasons why the novel was better. Descriptive details in this novel help tremendously by‚ showing us the pain the slaves have been through. The adjectives they used elaborated the suffering times and

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    Twelfth Night

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    Consider the elements of comedy employed by Shakespeare in Act one – how might a modern day audience’s reactions be different to that of a Shakespearean audience? Shakespeare uses several main elements of comedy in Act One of Twelfth Night. These elements are used to promote comic reaction with the audience; some of these elements are still relevant to modern audiences today. Throughout Act One‚ Shakespeare uses antonyms to create comic effect. He uses this element on several of his characters

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