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    objects as well as ideas. This type of abstract art form allowed it to return to its main social function‚ by evoking emotions or ideas that were pure‚ natural and most important of all‚ untainted by social‚ cultural‚ and national realities. The abstraction that is being talked about‚ when reflected on paper‚ and rhythmically expressed took on the appearance of movement. Given that lack of movement or our inability to show motion through the canvas had crippled artists’ imagination for long‚ the idea

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    Savannah Frederick Boehringer ENG 102 30 October 2014 Diving into the Wreck Called Life While poems laced with metaphors can be hard to understand‚ reading into them deeper can create an even more beautiful story to be told. Adrienne Rich had a deeper story to tell through her poem “Diving into the Wreck.” Her story was more than scuba diving; it was a story of life and self-discovery while she remained ominous and mysterious; Rich hid behind her metaphors. Upon first reading “Diving into the Wreck”

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    which his observations of the same subject‚ viewed at various times of the day‚ were captured in numerous sequences of paintings. Masterful as a colorist and as a painter of light and atmosphere‚ his later work often achieved a remarkable degree of abstraction‚ and this has recommended him to subsequent generations of abstract painters. Monet’s early work is indebted to the Realists’ interests in depicting contemporary subject matter‚ without idealization‚ and in painting outdoors in order to capture

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    Snakes and ladders or Chutes and ladder is a children’s board game. It is played on a square grid‚ each small square is marked with a number from 1 to 100. A player starts from 1‚ roll a single die and then move depending on the number on the die. On the way there are ladders and snakes. Ladders are reward; skip a player to a higher level whereas snakes are penalty leading to lowering in level. Any number of players can play simultaneously and one who reached 100th square earlier is winner. It

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    Problems: 1. A ladder with its foot on a horizontal flat surface rests against a wall. It makes an angle of 30° with the horizontal. The foot of the ladder is 41 ft from the base of the wall. Find the height of the point where the ladder touches the wall. Solution: Draw the figure for the given data. [Given] The distance from the foot of the ladder to the foot of the wall adjacent = 41 ft‚ and the angle of elevation is 30° Leto be the height of the side at which the ladder touches the wall

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    “Climbing the Mountain of Success‚” Sydney J. Harris creates a realistic analogy that being successful is like climbing a mountain rather than climbing a ladder. He explains that climbing a mountain is a better description because of how difficult it can be to become successful. He debunks the metaphor “climbing the ladder” by saying “there are no ladders that lead to success‚ although there may be some escalators for those lucky enough to follow in a family’s fortunes” (Harris paragraph 1). I thought

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    Rhetorical Devices Style is part of classical rhetoric and a number of rhetorical devices are worth considering in any analysis of style. For the analysis of literature a knowledge of rhetorical devices is indispensable‚ since there is often a considerable density of rhetorical figures and tropes which are important generators and qualifiers of meaning and effect. This is particularly the case in poetry. Especially the analysis of the use of imagery is important for any kind of literary text. (For

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    Georgia O’Keeffe: A History and Art Analysis Intro to Art Instructor: Catherine Blackburn June 20‚ 2013 History of the Artist On November 15‚ 1887 in Sun Prairie‚ Wisconsin an artist by the name of Georgia O’Keeffe was born‚ the second of seven children. Her family members were famers and she grew up not only in Sun Prairie‚ but also Williamsburg‚ Virginia. Even as a child‚ she knew she wanted to be an artist. Georgia and her sister received in home art lessons from a local watercolorist

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    upward social mobility. My grandmother managed an apartment complex for most of her life. My mom was more successful than her mother. My mom finished school and went on to start and run her own cleaning business. I am currently on my way up the success ladder to experience upward social mobility. I am currently attending college for business administration. When I am finished‚ I hope to be a successful business woman. Within the past three generations of my family‚ we have not experienced any downward

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    E. E. Cummings: Modernist Painter and Poet Author(s): Milton A. Cohen Source: Smithsonian Studies in American Art‚ Vol. 4‚ No. 2 (Spring‚ 1990)‚ pp. 54-74 Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Smithsonian American Art Museum Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3108985 . Accessed: 05/04/2011 17:57 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR’s

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