Upon entering the Philadelphia Museum of Art‚ the immediate visual effect of the architecture and large columns peaked my interest‚ while shifting my view towards the seven different exhibits. After analyzing the map to choose a section to start‚ the closest was American Art. This wing featured galleries featuring Philadelphia realist painter Thomas Eakins. The dark nature of the paintings was accented by dim museum lighting‚ adding to the effect of an electricity-deprived society. Haunting paintings
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Chapter Six I Grew Up Here I’ve lived in a lot of places since I was born. My first home that I can remember is the red house. I don’t know where it was‚ but I called it the red house. The red house had a red roof‚ it was one story‚ and I had an awesome room. I had a large bed‚ and it had a Disney princess bed comforter‚ a canopy‚ and was the best trampoline I ever had. The kitchen was like a hallway‚ it was narrow and long. My memory of the red house is very vague. I remember the day the movers
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Linden Hills and creating offspring to take over for him when he passes away. Luther also shows us his belief in family when he thinks about how lonely he is on Christmas and wishes his wife was there with him enjoying the holiday and everything that comes with it. This makes Luther a positive role model because young men who represent the ages of Willie and Lester need to know that family is important. Family will always be there for you‚ and if you don’t keep them around‚ you’re going to face some
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"I Stand Here Ironing"‚ by Tillie Olsen is a short story portraying the life and regret of a young mother struggling to raise her oldest daughter. The mother- daughter relationship is the major part of the story and the attitude of the mother toward her daughter‚ Emily‚ and the actual character of the mother are two very important elements. The character of the mother can be said to be strong and persevering‚ and along with her age and experience came her wisdom. At first her attitude toward
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“I Stand Here Ironing” by Tillie Olsen is a story about a mother who loves her child deeply‚ but it is at a depressing time in history. Other dark influences seem to have a negative effect on Emily’s personality such as the mother giving birth to her at a young age and having few resources. I think the climax of the story is when Emily calls her mother to tell her she has won the amateur school show. Emily and her mother seem equally surprised. Although Emily is happy at the moment‚ it doesn’t really
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The exhibit that I viewed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art was one about European Art between the years 1100-1500. This was a series of paintings‚ sculptures‚ architecture‚ and tapestry of the Medieval and Early Renaissance as well as objects from the Middle East. This exhibit was an important part of the history of the Philadelphia Museum of Art because for the first time‚ Italian‚ Spanish‚ and Northern European paintings from the John G. Johnson collection were shown. It gave me a good idea
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In Philadelphia there are many families facing challenges like each one of us. They face social‚ mental‚ and physical struggles that attempt to destroy their character and drive to achieve their goals but in this life‚ some make it out but many of them it was too late to change their life around. This film makes you ironically image a image of crabs in a cardboard box that’s attempting to escape. What would you notice? Well‚ some of them will make it out with wires and tires but the only way they
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"I Stand Here Ironing" was written in the first person so that we could see Emily the way her mother (narrator) saw her. Through her reverie‚ we feel the mother’s pain that her daughter felt ugly as a child. We ache with the knowledge that she had to send Emily to the daycare with the "evil teacher" and to a convalescent home when she was desperately ill. We feel her regrets that she couldn’t be there with Emily as she was growing because she was working too hard to keep the family together
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I Stand Here Ironing Tillie Olsen’s short story‚ “I Stand here Ironing”‚ records the critical thoughts of a mother‚ as she reflects on her daughter’s life. Although the mother in the story feels disappointing and deficient because she feels as though she has not done much good in her life‚ the author is very empathetic toward her as you can see in the author’s narrative techniques and other resources of language. After hearing of another person’s concern for her daughter‚ the mother
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Theme Analysis “I Stand Here Ironing” by Tillie Olsen. This short story “I Stand Here Ironing” by Tillie Olsen is about complicated relationship between mother and daughter. The author gives us a portrait of American’s life in the 1930s - 1940s during the Big Depression. In this story the mother has to leave her daughter in the nursing center because of Emily’s mental problems‚ but she doesn’t expect what are the counsicuances might to be after that. One of the main theme in this story is a “power”
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