Comprehension Questions: Chapter One: Why could Davie not find Mathieu? Davie could not find Mathieu because Mathieu was below decks seriously ill. He was suspected to have caught the plague in Glasgow‚ Scotland. Why did the captain not turn back to Scotland to obtain assistance? The captain did not turn back to Scotland to obtain assistance because they would be refused entry to the port as their ship was suspected to contain the plague. Chapter Two: What had happened to Mathieu
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Before sunrise They meet cute on a train in Austria‚ and striking up a conversation. He is an America with an Eurail pass on his way to Vienna to catch a cheap plane back home. She is French‚ a student returning to Paris after visiting her grandmother. They go to the buffet car‚ drink some coffee‚ keep talking‚ and he come up with this crazy idea when the train arrive at Vienna: Why couldn’t she get off the train with him in Vienna and so they can be together until he catch the airplane. “Imagine
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1. In “A Sunrise on the Veld‚ Doris Lessing uses contrast to get her theme across. In the beginning of the story‚ the boy is very excited about life. He exclaims how he is fifteen and that he had a long and wonderful life ahead of himself. Then‚ Lessing brings the dying buck into the story. The buck symbolizes how life comes to an end. Everyone dies at some point and sometimes it is not expected as the young bucks death was. The boy becomes very disturbed by confronting death face to face.
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Every night that winter he said aloud into the dark of the pillow Half-past four Half-past four till his brain had gripped the words and held them fast. Then he fell asleep at once‚ as if a shutter had fallen and lay with his face turned to the clock so that he could see it first thing when he woke. It was half-past four to the minute‚ every morning. Triumphantly pressing down the alarm-knob of the clock‚ which the dark half of his mind had outwitted‚ remaining vigilant all night and counting the
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Bryan Medina 4/30/14 Period 4 Claude Debussy “Music is the expression of the movement of waters…” Nine words is what it takes to vividly put into perspective the life of Claude Debussy and how he composed his own music. Debussy wrote his music as if he were to trying to portray water; making his music flow‚ reflect‚ and permeate through the listener’s ears. Masterful compositions such as “Claire De Lune”‚ “Prelude” from the Suite Bergamasque
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Claude McKay was born in Jamaica‚ West Indies‚ in 1889 (there has been much confusion over whether McKay was born in 1889 or 1890‚ but his birth certificate has been discovered showing that he was born in 1889 [See Winston‚ Footnote 8] ). Educated by his older brother‚ McKay published his first work entitled Songs of Jamaica in 1912‚ the same year he left his homeland for the United States. There he attended Tuskegee Institute‚ although his enrollment was short-lived. He left after just a few
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Claude Debussy: The Father of Impressionism Claude Debussy was among one of the most popular twentieth century composers of his time. He is known for his famous “Clair De Lune” and “La Mer”. This impacted the 20th century music genre with his difficult impressionist technique. He was among the few to be influenced by symbolist poets and impressionist painters‚ which resulted in true originality. He was the founder of Musical Impressionism‚ and impacted numerous composers such as Maurice Ravel
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Claude Debussy Claude Debussy was one of the greatest composers of impressionistic music and considered by many one of the greatest composers of all time. He had a genius mind and portrayed that through his music. He was a man of deep thoughts and showed great emotion through his music. “Although Debussy rarely appeared in public‚ only to perform‚ and left behind no pupils‚ it is clear that Debussy has many imitators (Debussyistes‚ as they were known)‚ and his death was widely mourned throughout
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“The Sunrise on The Veld has the boy stuck in the moment of serendipity‚ his moment of clear and awakening thought. Yet it is interrupted by the death of the buck or more so‚ the discovery of a dead buck. It is this discovery that strips bare the moment of happiness
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artists‚ we could say that Claude Monet and Vincent Van Gogh were born in the same period. They may have been born quite close together but both men discovered art was their vocations almost 20 years apart‚ which may have been why they are such different artists. Monet had a head start on Van Gogh as he was introduced to art at a very young age. Monet also had a mentor who taught him the tricks of the trade and pushed him from caricatures to landscape paintings. We know Monet was an Impressionist painter
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