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    Romeo Character Analysis Essay In the play Romeo & Juliet‚ Romeo tends to blame destiny and fate for all of his problems. In reality‚ Romeo’s character is flawed. He shows this through his actions in the play. When he loves Juliet‚ he only shows a superficial love for her. He then loses his temper when Mercutio dies and doesn’t think before he goes and kills Tybalt. After he kills Tybalt‚ he whines that fortune has gotten him in trouble. Romeo is not a victim of destiny or fate‚

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    A RECONSTRUCTED PORTRAIT OF JUAN DE LA CRUZ By Roger Don S.J. Cerda How do we describe today’s Filipino? What are the qualities or physical attributes that make us stand out among all the races in the world?  What distinguishing marks do we have? Is it our nose that is as big and wide as the gorilla’s? Is it our fair skin? Is it our round brown eyes?  Is it our moderate height? Is it our unique black hair?  Is it our proficiency in the Filipino language?  Is it our conservative way of dressing or

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    Jan van Eyck was able to create a naturalism and religious feeling in his oil painting‚ which made him one of the most famous painters in fifteenth-century. The “Arnolfini Portrait” was painted in 1434 by van Eyck in the style of oil on panel. This piece has various interpretations because of the different objects and layout in the painting. In this painting there are two main figures of a man and women. “Images represent a man and woman standing in a richly furnished room‚ equipped with a brass

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    Walpole and William Beckford are amongst the best known English authors of the dawn of the century. With the beginning of the 19th century came some the greatest pieces of the genre such as Frankenstein by Mary Shelley‚ Dracula by Bram Stoker and The Portrait of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde. Unsurprisingly‚ with the success of many Gothic authors this

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    understand the broad subject of The Triple Self-Portrait‚ a portrait that made it onto The Saturday Evening Post. They use a concrete concept which helps the readers to see the portrait mentally when seeing it physically may not be an option. Authors Rosen and Zerner give insight on every aspect of the portrait. They help readers to understand by taking the writing step-by-step with the claim of the portrait‚ the layout‚ content‚ and detail of the portrait. As the writing reaches its conclusive point

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    While observing a portrait the audience should be attentive to the three major aspects which are; the size‚ the medium‚ and the condition of the portrait. The portrait Mrs. Robert Shurlock (Henrietta Ann Jane Russell‚ 1775–1849) and Her Daughter Ann size is a half-length portrait‚ the medium is Pastel on paper‚ laid down on canvas‚ and the condition of the painting is fine and sound. The figure of the portrait contains a lot of information. This is a double portrait. The gender of the sitters in

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    While visiting the San Diego Museum of Art I chose to examine the artwork Portrait of a Lady‚ by Marie-Guillemine Benoist which was painted in 1799. The artist of this painting was a frequent salon contributer after the Paris Salon began to allow female artists to submit their own artwork. Benoist often paints portraits of varius people in the same fashion with oil on canvas. Portrayed in this artwork is a woman wrapped in a gold shawl with a soft and pleasant face. The woman grasping her gold shawl

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    Character Essay/Landlady In the short story “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl‚ the Landlady begins as very kind‚ caring‚ and motherly. But her pretention is all part of her both psychotic and evil plan; although she is aware of her actions‚ there is no clear logic to the murders‚ creating an interesting‚ complex character. In her pretentiousness the Landlady hides her true character to gain the trust of Billy and her recent victims. “She seemed terribly nice‚ she looked exactly like the mother of

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    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Critical Analysis A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel by writer James Joyce. The book follows the development of Stephan Dedalus‚ from his childhood to his adolescence. Stephan struggles with issues of identity and the role that he plays within his fervently religious and nationalistic society. The book is written in the third person; the narrator recounts Stephan’s thoughts and feelings‚ and describes events from Stephan’s

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    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man The novel‚ A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man‚ depicts the life of Stephen Dedalus from his disjointed youth to his clarifying adulthood‚ in a stream of consciousness approach that reveals his inner thoughts. Throughout the novel‚ he perceives the world around him in an unusually keen way‚ considering he is extremely aware of his senses‚ particularly his sense of smell. People by nature have involuntary connections between their physical world and their

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