Offenses” (satire‚ literary criticism) Charles W. Chesnutt‚ “The Goophered Grapevine” and “The Wife of His Youth” (stories) Kate Chopin‚ The Awakening (novel)‚ “At the ’Cadian Ball” and “The Storm” (stories) Discussed in This Unit: Bret Harte‚ “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” (story) Joel Chandler Harris‚ “The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story‚” “Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox” (stories) Sarah Orne Jewett‚ “The White Heron‚” “The Foreigner” (stories) Mary E. Wilkins Freeman‚ “A New England Nun‚” “The Revolt
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Claude Monet’s painting Water Lilies is a beautiful impressionist representation of just what its title suggests: water lilies floating on a pond. The scene is simply that of some of the wonders and beauties of nature and the loveliness of its plant life and flowers adrift on a lake. The painting is filled with various shades of cool colors; violets‚ blues‚ and greens are all blended together with white and the soft‚ impressionist design of the water lilies softly gliding on the lake all create an
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Morality Among the "Outcasts of Poker Flat" As Mr. John Oakhurst‚ gambler‚ stepped into the main street of Poker Flat on the morning of the twenty third of November‚ 1850‚ he was conscious of a change in its moral atmosphere from the preceding night. Two or three men‚ conversing earnestly together‚ ceased as he approached‚ and exchanged significant glances. There was a Sabbath lull in the air‚ which‚ in a settlement unused to Sabbath influences‚ looked ominous. Mr. Oakhurst’s calm handsome face
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original and "keep it real" to survive the physical and mental fatigue life throws at them and also that everything will always be real and we must be in touch with our minds to harvest the realness. Bret Harte tells of a story where a group is outcast into the world to fend for themselves during the winter season. After they have been exiled and are outside the city
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Oil on Canvas 1772 Claude Joseph Vernet French 1714-1779 Patron’s Permanent Fund and Chester Dale Fund 2000.221 Claude Joseph Vernet was one of the most artistic French landscape and marine painters in Europe during the seventeenth century. Throughout his successful career‚ Vernet made sketching trips within Rome and along the Mediterranean coast capturing scenes that reflect his most famous works of art (National Gallery of Art‚ 2005). During the age of Enlightenment‚ he received many
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Claude Debussy In a quote from June 1885 Debussy wrote of his desire to follow his own way. “ I am sure the Institut would not approve‚ for‚ naturally regards the path which it ordains as the only right one. But there is no help for it! I am too enamored of my freedom‚ too fond of my own ideas.”. From the start of his music studies‚ though clearly talented‚ Debussy was also argumentative and experimental‚ and he challenged the rigid teaching of the academy‚ favoring techniques that at the time
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On May 12‚ 2016 the court case Binks/McKay vs the United States challenged the idea of the Fourth Amendment. The case explains the situation between Binks and McKay‚ who claimed that the FBI violated their Fourth amendment rights when the FBI searched through their Facebook messages after being suspected of being terrorists. This occured when Binks and McKay were discovered to have been communicating with a supposed ISIS member. They had claimed to have no intentions of joining the terrorist group
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whether people are different or just outcasts. In many books as well‚ a character ends up being an outcast or a unique‚ different person as a whole. When are we outcasts and when are we just ‘different’ from the rest of the world? S.E. Hinton’s book The Outsiders represents this interesting situation where some people belong in the path of the status quo while others seem to stand out more than they fit in. Throughout the book‚ characters are shunned for being outcasts‚ honored for being unique‚ or even
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“The Outcasts of Poker Flat” is an unfortunate tale involving the death of several exiled outcasts by many different means. The actions of two of the people in the group ultimately led to the death of two young girls‚ known as Piney and “The Duchess‚” by starvation. “Mother Shipton” another female in the group‚ also died by starvation after giving her food to the younger girls so that they may survive. Starvation was the cause of three of the four deaths in the story‚ as the fourth death was the
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“The Outcast of Poker Flat” by Bret Harte and “To Build a Fire” by Jack London‚ the role of regionalism is very prominent and it plays a very vital role in both stories. If the region of either of these stories were to be changed‚ then neither of them would work the way the writers intended them to. Although both “The Outcast of Poker Flat” and “To Build a Fire” capture the essence of their regions‚ one does it better than the other. The role of regionalism is so important to “The Outcast of Poker
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