The last book I have read is “The girl with the Pearl Earring” by Tracy Chevalier. It is written in a narrative form revolving around the intricacies of Vermeer’s genius at its best. Meeting Vermeer through this book was quite a fascinating experience. His solitary ways and forlorn clumsiness in real life speaks volumes of how crowded and passion-filled his brain must have been. The rush of passions‚ the hurried compassions‚ stolen moments of guilty love and meekness of human vulnerability seems
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Raising Awareness By: Tina Vu As a cadette‚ The Girl Scout Silver Award is one of the most important things to achieve in my life. This is an important step to help me build leadership and organization. My purpose for this project is to raise awareness for problems in the world‚ and maybe even discover solutions for them. Raising awareness isn’t just about educating people of what the things are‚ but on how you earn them as well as how you can stop yourself from getting such. What I basically
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inflicted upon us? Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly up till now? It is God that has made us as we‚ but it will be God‚ too‚ who will raise us up again” ( Frank 207). The Dairy of a Young Girl is a diary written by Anne Frank. This diary takes place during the Holocaust in World War II and contains the thoughts‚ feelings‚ and emotions of Anne Frank during this time period. Anne Frank shows how she is hopeful and courageous throughout this
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Girl Scouts was created to give girls an outlet for activities not usually considered for girls. For that time period it was considered revolutionary and a step towards equality of the sexes. My Girl Scout experiences began in 1977 when I was in third grade as a Brownie Girl Scout. I was a Junior Girl Scout in fourth through sixth grades and a Cadette Girl Scout in seventh through ninth grades. Through Girl Scouting‚ I learned things such as how to paddle a canoe and archery skills that I probably
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Welcome to Stockholm‚ Sweden. This is the hometown of the author‚ and also the setting of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Like any large city‚ there are numerous people that resort to crime and heinous acts. Here in Stockholm‚ corrupt businessmen‚ neo-nazi nationalists‚ rapists‚ and misogynists hide in the darkest‚ most grotesque recesses of the city. In The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo‚ Stieg Larsson attempts to exhibit the ideals and reveal the harsh atrocities performed by criminals in Stockholm
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Mean Girls and High School Confidential The movie Mean Girls‚ was filmed and produced to highlight the various and different forms of the “average” High School‚ and its students which include: the various cliques of students‚ who believe they are the most popular‚ or those who are too scared to expose themselves to the real world. There are many various groups described in Mean Girls which‚ reflect upon almost all high schools throughout the world. Mean Girls brings out a major discussion
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this semester is “The Good Life‚” but as the class read different poems‚ novels‚ and dramas‚ one will realize that “The Good Life‚” can have multiple meanings. The dystopian novel‚ Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel and the poem‚ “Waiting for Icarus‚” by Muriel Rukeyser has given me a good understanding of what the good life is about especially when one takes little aspirations and objects for granted. As the novel and the poem are being analyzed‚ the thoughts begin to evoke when thinking about
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Naturalism made his introduction in American literature in the nineteenth century. In 1878‚ Henry James published a story‚ Daisy Miller‚ that made his reputation. A romantic tale of a beautiful American girl and her adventures in Europe. Oppose to Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) by Stephen Crane was about the story of Maggie and her family‚ who lived in the Bowery district in New York‚ which is a rough neighborhood.Both authors were a famous in their own style. They both had a different style
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sources based on Williams’‚ “Red Wheelbarrow” and in the end viewed the poem in a different light and felt doing so with another poem by Williams would be beneficial. I would like to take the work of William Carlos Williams‚ “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” and do extensive research and gain a greater insight of this specific poem. When I began brainstorming and attempting to come to a decision on how I wanted to approach this project‚ I simply opened up the literature book and started reading randomly
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Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier is an exhilarating novel about art‚ passion‚ and life. This novel can give a reader an insight on artistic views and prove just how harsh life was in the seventeenth-century. A young sixteen-year-old girl is forced to work as a maid for famous painter Johannes Vermeer due to the fact that her father lost his eyes in a kiln explosion and can no longer work to support the whole family. As a maid‚ she must do housework‚ take care of Vermeer’s children‚ do
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