taking control‚ life there isn’t easy. Symbolism‚ the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities. In The Hunger Games‚ Katniss showed that the woods represent her survival and the world beyond District 12. In the Divergent‚ Tris showed that the mirror represent her old self. There are many meaningful symbols in the two stories‚ The Hunger Games and Divergent that relates back to their authors. In the story The Hunger Games‚ many people are isolated from the outside world. In each District‚ there
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space telescopes‚ the can do some incredible things. For example‚ a small 6-inch (15 centimeter ) scope lets you read the writing on a dime from 150 feet (55 meters) away! Within a few decades‚ the reflecting telescope was invented‚ which used mirrors. In the 20th century many new types of telescopes were invented‚ including the radio telescopes in the 1930s and infrared in the 1960s. The word "telescope"(derived for the Greek language tele "far" and skopein "to see or look" i.e. teleskopos "far-seeing)
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look into her gold painted mirror and ask “Mirror‚ mirror on the wall‚ who is the fairest of them all?” The mirror would then swirl into a face and say “You are the fairest Queen of them all.” “Of course I am” Said the vain Queen. Years passed and Snow White grew up and became very ugly. The Queen could not imagine having an ugly princess for a stepdaughter; she needed Snow White out the house immediately. One day the Queen spoke into the mirror and asked “Mirror‚ mirror on the wall‚ what do I do
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objects‚ and mirrors to create illusory subject of her image. Her style of photography is different from a traditional photography. She was influenced by James Turrell and Robert Irwin of the Light and Space movement. Till today‚ Kasten is still shooting projects. There are many photographers that have similar styles‚ but Kasten has her own twist to her photograph. Kasten took ideas from the Space and Light movement
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“Self- reflection is careful thought about your own behaviour and beliefs” (Merriam-Webster‚ 2013). When doing my own self-reflection I took a mirror and stared in it‚ the first couple of things that came to my mind that meant something to me or had significance in my life were a phoenix‚ a tree‚ the number 5‚ musical notes or a piece of music‚ and a mirror. To begin with‚ I drew a phoenix because they represent rebirth. The phoenix is a fiery mythical bird that rises from the ashes renewed and reborn
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Reaper’s Image” characters are tortured as they stare into the mirror and someone goes downstairs and never returns so the people are waiting forever‚ “he stared into the mirror and waited” (King). In this story there are several characters who are tortured such as; the Bates family‚ Carlin‚ and the duchess’s husband.They all stared into the mirror and waited for people to return. They all went downstairs after seeing the Reaper in the mirror and never returned.
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a brass chandelier‚ a mirror‚ and a canopied bed” (Janson 483). There are identified as Giovanni Arnolfini and Giovanna Cenami (Arnolfini’s wife). There are also two male figures reflected in the mirror in-between the two main figures in the foreground. Many scholars believe‚ “that one of these men must by Jan van Eyck himself‚ perhaps the figure wearing the red headdress. The combination of the signature‚ with its flourishes and phrasing‚ and image of the men in the mirror suggests to some that
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would interfere‚ her jealousy was shown when she stated "When they’re together she’s his queen‚ the black-eyed slut‚ calling him daddy." letting the worse of her become her words. The mirror held great representation throughout the poem‚ she said that the mirror made her feel invincible; all she sees in the mirror is "her sneering face‚ her wide lips mimicking mine." No matter how pretty the step mother may have been she never acknowledged herself but rather the step daughter. She felt disrespected
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themselves in the mirror‚ further damaging their self-consciousness and hindering their potential to perform to the best of their ability. Being a substitute dance teacher and frequent student‚ I am able to observe the body language associated with having an issue with body image‚ and address these problems accordingly. Although there may be less of a problem in rural dance schools (such as the one I teach at)‚ it is still common to see a student standing in front of the studio mirror in a leotard with
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reflected off a concave mirror composed of “ultra-low expansion glass” that is constantly kept at room temperature. The mirror was ground to have reflecting surfaces of the precise shape (“Hubble’s Amazing Optics”). The Hubble Space Telescope has a focal length of 189 feet (Elert). In 1993 the Hubble Telescope was surpassed by the Keck Observatory Telescopes located in Mauna Kea‚ Hawaii (Moseman). The twin telescopes both hold a 33-foot in diameter mirror‚ each mirror separated into 36 individual
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