Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving is a short fictional story. It was set in the years before and after the Revolutionary War. Rip lived in a pleasant village at the bottom of New York’s Catskill Mountains. One day Rip decided that he needed to escape his wife’s nagging so he went up the mountain with his pet dog. They reach a hollow where there were bearded men playing the nine-pins. Rip doesn’t say anything but instead drinks some of their moonshine and falls into a slumber. When he wakes more
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Vincent van Gogh is a man who lives a depressing life and who I admire the most. He is a painter who deals with various mental illnesses‚ who is shunned most of his life by others but‚ nevertheless‚ persists and continues to create works of art depicting how he views the world through his eyes. It is odd to admire someone who has been carried through life by his younger brother and has sold one art work of about 2‚000‚ but there are times when you meet someone who is different shades of imperfect
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Essay #2- “Rip Van Winkle” It is no surprise that Washington Irving has received international acclaim. Irving’s’ writing‚ “Rip Van Winkle” is very sophisticated with a broad vocabulary. There are very extensive or vivid details throughout the story. Irving’s story is written so well it could not become outdated. Though the story of “Rip Van Winkle” is fictional‚ Irving does a good job illustrating American history. For example‚ the change in that small town after the revolution went from tranquil
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events. Basically Artists paint on the events based on their lives. Such as Cloude Monet and Vincent Van Gough‚ their artwork was based on movements of Impressionism and Post Impressionism. Their interest shows outdoor environment to show effect of natural sun light or atmospheric light on day to day life scene. Claude Monet’s “Water Lilies” is the great example of outdoor paintings and Vincent Van Gogh’s “The garden of the poets” is based on two poets combining with the garden that he is referring
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“Rip Van Winkle‚” is a character that is part of American mythology. The character trait least evident is‚ admirable. In the story‚ we see that his neighbors loved him. Including the men‚ women and children. Unfortunately‚ when he was at home he always wanted to leave. He complained about his nagging wife. It seemed he was all too happy to lend a helping hand to his neighbors‚ but to his own family‚ it was a different story. To me‚ that is not admirable. Not when you have a wife and children. When
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Drawing I May‚ 2014 The Flowering Orchard by Vincent Van Gogh Vincent van Gogh was a unique artist who worked with a sense of urgency which often caused him a great deal of stress. He was famed for his bold‚ dramatic brush strokes which expressed emotion and added a feeling of movement to his works. Its thought that he often used paint straight from the tube (impasto) and in the 70 days leading up to his death‚ he averaged one painting per day. Van Gogh is generally regarded as the greatest Dutch painter
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this tale felt gratitude for these words of his comrade. He had feared that all of the untried men possessed great and correct confidence. He now was in a measure reassured” (Crane 1.73). The setting is during the Civil War during the Battle of Chancellorsville‚ Virginia‚ over four days in May of 1863‚ author is Stephen Crane‚ the book is the red badge of courage and is about a 16 year old boy that goes into the war for his country and turns out to do very heroic things to win several battles. Many
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In Rip Van Winkle‚ Irving shows his doubts the American Identity and the American dream. After the Revolutionary war‚ American was trying to develop its own course. They were free to govern their own course of development; however‚ some of them had an air of uncertainties on their own identity in this new country. Irving was born among this generation in the newly created United States of America‚ and also felt uncertainty about the American identity. Irving might be the writer that is the least
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observing‚ I saw a tiny girl reading on her porch. The girl was very skinny and she had short‚ dark brown hair. The book she was reading was reading a novel that what part of a Dutch book series called Joop ter Heul novel series by Cissy van Marxveldt. Cissy van Maxveldt was a very popular author back then. I wanted to get closer to her but not too close. I walked a little closer towards her and I could see a tiny radio standing next to her on the ground. I heard the radio playing classical music
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philosophy of the tragic hero can be located in both Charles Van Doren in Quiz Show and Shakespeare’s character‚ Othello‚ in his play Othello. It is the
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