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    Reflecting on My Past‚ Present‚ and Future Diana Koch Jones PSY 202 Laura Prout November 12‚ 2012 Outline Reflecting on My Past‚ Present‚ and Future Thesis Statement: Our past creates the foundation that brings us to our present. Throughout life we are faced with choices. Those choices determine what road we travel. The past cannot be changed‚ only learned from. What we choose to do with those lessons will determine how we live our present and by our choices within our present we can

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    Jane’s dreams suggests that although Jane is close to her suppressed feelings‚ she is still rejecting them out of fear. Bertha’s presence within Jane’s paintings suggests Jane’s desire to have some of Bertha’s characteristics as well as her awareness that she must remain within the confines of society. During one of their many meetings‚ Rochester ask Jane to show him her drawings. Jane describes her second picture to the reader: Rising into the sky was a woman’s shape to the bust‚ portrayed in tints

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    For my topic‚ I chose Edgar Degas’ painting‚ “The Dance Class‚” or often referred to as‚ “The Ballet Class‚” to discuss how his interpretation of ballet aspects are de-romanticized despite its era of late romanticism. This topic is of interest to me because I have an appreciation for ballet as an art form. For almost all of my life‚ I have noticed that media and society have hyper-exaggerated the obsession with sexually objectifying ballerinas. This‚ in turn‚ has undermined the true beauty of ballet

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    The painting I chose to analyze is Nighthawks by Edward Hopper. The mood in this painting is loneliness‚ because of the setting‚ the main focus in the painting is the young man‚ and the colors. The setting takes place at night in a coffee shop‚ there is three characters in the painting: the employee‚ two young men‚ a young woman‚ and all the rest of the seats are empty. The focus point in this painting is the young man wearing the blue suit next to a woman‚ who seems to be her girlfriend. Then on

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    illustrated rare and unique manuscript Tarikh-iKhandan-i-Timuriyah known for its highly finished excellent miniature paintings by master artists of Akbar’s Court. This painting depicts the death of Timur‚ Hazrat-i-Sahib-i-Qiran. A leaf from the rare copy of the manuscript Padshah Namah‚ Not dated; apparently 18th century. The painting depicts Emperor Shah Jahan sitting for the first time on the Peacock Throne‚ giving rewards to princess and nobles. A leaf from a richly illustrated manuscript Shah

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    in our modern times? How can we make people more aware of abstract art? The discussion includes how each media/medium is used and what these media are without their medium‚ i.e. what is a stage backdrop without the theater? So why is art and in particular‚ abstractionism‚ important and culturally relevant in our time? Our society has become increasingly dependent on technology‚ particularly‚ the use of computing power to retrieve information about questions in almost-real time. This idea that

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    Joseph Griffith’s painting “The Surrender” could mean a lot of things. While many see a good side and a bad side fighting each other‚ I see a war ending‚ and two sides coming together as one. To me‚ Joseph Griffith’s painting is about different cultures and things coming together. After taking a long look at the painting‚ I noticed that unlike in war‚ many of the people didn’t look upset‚ or mad at the other. On the side of the American flag‚ many looked excited or shocked‚ while on the side of

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    A. Mau‚ a German scholar‚ established four distinct styles of Roman wall painting at the sites of Pompeii‚ Herculaneum‚ Boscoreal‚ and other smaller sites covered with ash from the volcanic eruption at Mount Vesuvius. The styles begin with one direction‚ shift completely‚ and end on a more combined technique. Style I‚ known as incrustation‚ began approximately during the second century b.c. This style features the strong influence of the Hellenistic Greek period in its surface decoration. At

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    The drastic use of color has been used to depict the mood of the subject‚ with greens and intense reds contributing In the "Human Condition I‚" surrealism is employed to pit reality against its representation to see how closely they match up. The painting of a seaside landscape is placed before the door that opens up onto the landscape and the two appear to line up perfectly‚ except for the nagging suspicion that the so-called reality against which we measure the painted representation is nothing

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    months before returning home to England for more supplies. He made a series of paintings of indigenous people‚ plants and animals almost over seventy paintings. The purpose of his paintings he thought was to give the people back home an idea of what the new world was like. Despite the significance the watercolor paintings were not published until the twentieth century. Theodore De Bry made engravings on John Whites paintings so they could be printed in Thomas Hariot’s account of the journey. A second

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