Reyes Art Matters October 26‚ 2009 Formal Analysis: Judith Cutting Off the Head of Holofernes As I was walking across the 17th century art section at Walters Art Museum‚ hanging behind the big rectangular pillar in the middle of the hallway‚ an oil painting on panel by Trophime Bigot draws my attention. The high contrasting tones of colors and values and the artist capability to make the grotesque painting appealing interest me. Judith Cutting Off the Head of Holofernes (Figure 1)‚ ca. 1640
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The Perspective of Cultural Differences “The Myth of the Latin Women” by Judith Ortiz Cofer‚ the author states how she has been treated by different people in different countries due to their conception of her as a Latin woman. She points out several incidents where she is viewed‚ stereotypically‚ as a woman only capable of being a housewife and as a sexual object. She also shows the cross-cultural conflict Hispanics have to deal with on an everyday basis. This country‚ the United States is purely
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Who is Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles) and what where the defining moments of his life? These are the questions that lead Thompson (William Alland) and the viewer on a captivating goose chase through the memories of Kane’s closest associates. Like the many possible meanings contained within the word kane‚ such as the Irish interpretation “little battler”‚ the Japanese translation of “money” and “gold”‚ the Welsh’s interpretation of “beautiful”‚ and the Hawaiian’s definition as “man”‚ friends
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The assignment I chose to revise is my literary analysis of Judith Ortiz Cofers The Story of My Body. I have made some local‚ but mostly global revisions to the paper‚ as well as addressed some of the feedback made by the instructor. The local revisions include: making complete sentences‚ rearranging words. For global revisions‚ I rewrote the conclusion‚ broke a paragraph into two‚ and as suggested by the instructor I added more analysis and connection to the young girl. In the first paragraph
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Judith Wright’s poems ‘Train Journey’ and ‘Flame tree in a Quarry’ both achieve a balance between language and the imagination of concepts with her use of themes and techniques. In both poems‚ Wright creates a sense of life in the landscapes and adds beauty to it‚ which heightens its importance. The poems also highlight the power and destruction of the environment. In the poem ‘Train Journey’‚ the themes of Australian landscape and environment are portrayed with the use of personification and
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Descriptive Paper In this essay I will describe the elements that make up Judith Cutting Off the Head of Holofernes by Trophine Bigot‚ a Baroque artist. This work is an oil painting on wood panel from 1640. It is part of the permanent collection at the Walters Museum in Baltimore Maryland. The painting is of a close up scene occurring between two females and a male. Behind the people there are red curtains parting open. It is the only part of the back ground that is visible to the viewer. The
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Yee Yee it’s my essay Check this An Island Like You‚ by Judith Ortiz Cofer is about a bunch of teens who live in the barrio of New Jersey. The short stories you read throughout the book will show you how they come of age and learn values and connect to their heritage. One theme that I like is be thankful for those who keep bad influence away. This theme is portrayed in the stories of bad influences and catch the moon. "Bad Influence" details a summer in the life of a young Puerto Rican girl
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Thompson challenges the effectiveness of the premises of her opponents argument by demonstrating that abortion should be impermissible in all cases. Instead of focusing on personhood‚ Thompson chooses to demonstrate that the right to life is commonly misunderstood as an entitlement that would‚ at times‚ permit them to disregard the rights of others. She uses the analogy of “people-seeds [that] drift about in the air like pollen‚ and if you open your windows‚ one may drift in and take root in your carpets
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Judith Butler‚ gender theorist‚ consistently challenges the social and cultural informalities associated with both gender and sexual identity. In 1990‚ she published her book‚ Gender Trouble‚ which has since transformed previous understandings about gender and sex‚ and the roles that they play in society (Julia). Her theories were developed as to define what sex and gender truly mean‚ and how the cultural definitions of these terms are reflected in how humans represent themselves in society. Her
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novel the monster is not the same monster as was in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Hollywood has used aesthetics‚ science and dehumanization of the monster to turn the story of Frankenstein into movies that would reflect our current society. This essay will strive to draw connections from the original text‚ empirical research and Hollywood’s modern day film remakes of Frankenstein to demonstrate how the monster has been changed and turned into a monster that our society can understand. In the
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