Contrasting the Two Stories of Rip Van Winkle. The story of Rip Van Winkle was written in 1819 by Washington Irving. It was the first American short story. Robert Coover wrote Rip Awake 153 years later. It is his version of the continuing story of the man named Rip Van Winkle. Although both these stories have obvious similarities there are also many differences. These differences include the setting of the story‚ the character of Rip himself‚ and the mood of the story. Rip Van Winkle was written as a short
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Mikayla Russell Hist 1160 October 1‚ 2013 History 1160 Assignment One: Chapter 4: European Material Life‚ 1600-1800 Document One: Page 96 A Meal of Gruel in a Dutch Peasant Family is an engraving done by A. Van Ostade in Paris in 1653. During this time era‚ there were many wars taking place‚ like the Thirty Years War‚ and this time was in the middle of the age of exploration. Since most of the wealth of the Dutch Republic‚ as well as all over Europe‚ was going towards funding these great
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of times‚ dark‚ cool colors are made to show darker emotions‚ and light‚ warm colors are added where happy emotions radiate out in a painting. Contrast in colors was also used to help distinguish different feelings between parts of each painting. Van Gogh was one of the most popular painters to use color to show his feelings; he went for contrast and bolder strokes that were charged with emotional energy. In his famous piece‚ Starry Night‚ he used the blues to show the cold‚ winter winds of France
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Ichabod Crane and Brom Van Brunt were both similar and dissimilar. They both were in love with Katrina Van Tassel‚ they were both loved or wanted by the townspeople‚ and they didn’t have affection for each other. That is where the similarities stop‚ however. Ichabod is lanky and skinny‚ he is intelligent‚ and he is somewhat lazy. Brom is stout and strong‚ he is smart in trickery and mischievous acts‚ and is always looking for something to do or an individual to prank. Their jobs were different
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The Large Plain Trees by Vincent Van Gogh was painted in 1889 when a street in Saint-Remy was being repaved. When we first look at this oil painting we see the large yellow trees which can help us identify that it must be fall but then as our eyes scan down we can see the white rubble‚ I initially thought this could have been snow‚ and the reflection of the trees in the puddles. Behind the trees we see people walking and the women wearing long dresses‚ what looks to be a horse and townhouses. We
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3.7.2 Knowing what it is like‚ Van Gulick optimistic’s point of view Multiple realization implies that any given creature with a brain suitable to interact with the world has a very rich mental life‚ and should have conscious experience. According to Nagel “… fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something chat it is like to be that organism something it is like for the organism. We may call this the subjective character of experience” (Nagel‚ 1974/2002‚
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fictional. Irving helped established an American identity with his writing style. Irving is best known for his short stories “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”. In the short story‚ “Rip Van Winkle” the main character Rip Van Winkle sleeps for twenty years. Winkle wakes up to a greatly changed world as Irving eloquently describes in this excerpt from “Rip Van Winkle” ‚ “…through thickets of birch‚ sassafras‚ and witch hazel‚ and sometimes tipped up or entangled by the wild grapevines
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Interpretations of Van Eyck’s Arnolfini Wedding Portrait The “Arnolfini Wedding Portrait” by Jan Van Eyck is a painting believed to be a portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his wife in a room‚ presumably in their home in the Flemish city of Bruges. It is considered one of the most original and complex paintings in Western Art History. There has been much debate on this painting. Two scholars’ in particular have two very different interpretations of the “Arnolfini Wedding Portrait.” Erwin Panofsky
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their colonies to ensure they would succeed in the future. Van Den Bogaert‚ a barber-surgeon‚ an individual who helps the sick‚ voluntarily goes on an expedition in an attempt to restore trade. A man with such an occupation should not be leading such an important expedition since the potential failure of this expedition could lead to dire consequences for the colony of New Netherland.
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different aspects of today’s society. However‚ this is completely the opposite. Faith is shown in our actions and what we do in the world. It can be seen in the government all the way to economics. It’s everywhere‚ sometimes we just miss it. Jeff Van Duzer and George N. Monsma Jr. looked deep into how faith is related to economics. They found that economics is mentioned many times in different places in the Bible. It actually is one of the bigger themes talked about throughout the Bible. If it
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