After watching the film Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)‚ I was curious about the painting that this film was inspired. Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer is one of my favorite works of art because it arouses a lot of emotions in me: curious‚ amazed‚ and obsessed. Her eye contact and her lips are about to say something. It draws me in her gaze to guess what she wants to say. Because of its huge impression on me‚ I decide to choose this artwork as the topic for my Photo Self Portrait Paper
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MABEL. Somerset Maugham I was at Pagan in Burma‚ and from there I took a steamer to Mandalay. But a couple of days before I got there‚ when the boat tied up for the night at a riverside village‚ I made up my mind to go ashore. The skipper told me that there was a pleasant little club in which I had only to make myself at home; they were quite used to having strangers (iron off like that from the steamer‚ and the secretary was a decent chap; I might even get a game of bridge. I had nothing in
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HUM 228 Reflection Paper Unit 1 Girl with the Pearl Earring There could be many different interpretations of the ending scene when the pearl earrings are returned to Griet. The look on Griet’s face is a look of shock‚ some anger‚ and recollection. Catharina gave Griet the pearl earrings because she cannot bear to wear them‚ nor stand the sight of them since the day she saw the painting. Vermeer betrayed Catharina and the earrings are the biggest reminder of the betrayal‚ so to move on from
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Name Instructor Course Date Summary: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson The book begins with Mikael Blomkvist‚ an investigative reporter with Millennium‚ being found guilty of libel against a powerful business mogul named Hans-Erik Wennerstrom. He is determined to clear his name‚ and after receiving a call from Henrik Vanger’s lawyer‚ he learns of the disappearance of Vanger’s grand-niece‚ Harriet Vanger. Blomkvist takes a temporary absence leave from Millennium and consents to
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work to fit within the moral mold that society creates for itself. Stephen Crane was one of those authors who wanted to use his works to show his readers and the general population the things that are often just swept under the rug. In Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane‚ many controversial topics are addressed which led to problems with publication. Following the end of the Civil War‚ a new literary movement began to take place. "Realism was taking root in the United States from
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while this service industry is in high demand in the labor force and benefits from low staff turnover. In the past three years‚ China’s market is more and more widely and with the help of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai‚ which provided more chance for China to expand their
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output and consumption of wine in China went down by 4.7% year-on-year and 13.7% year-on-year‚ respectively. By region‚ the consumption in China wine market varies a lot in terms of development. For now‚ China’s southeast coastal regions‚ including Shanghai‚ Guangdong‚ Fujian and Zhejiang where are economically developed‚ have achieved provincial-level market scale valuing RMB1-3 billion‚ city-level market scale valuing RMB100 million‚ and county-level market scale valuing RMB10 million. However‚ in
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Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane is a short novel about a young girl and the people in her life. Despite its brevity‚ this book displays many significant themes that its author intertwines in the story plot. Such themes are determinism‚ hypocrisy‚ false morality‚ self-deception‚ and appearance verses reality.<br><br>Maggie’s mother‚ Mrs. Johnson‚ is a symbol of hypocrisy in the story. She lost her husband‚ and had to raise her children by herself in poverty. She drinks to heal her pain
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Ningbo-Zhou Shan 3) Port operation strategies 3.1 strategies 3.2 Pros & Cons Port Strategy covers cargo‚ equipment‚ insurance‚ logistics‚ global trade and law Strategies: SWOT analysis method . Pros 1. Hinterland of the economically developed and location advantages Port of Nighbo-zhoushan has unique Geographical Location. It enjoys a perfect geographical position by being located at the "T" shaped route intersection between China’s coastline and Yangtze River golden waterway. It also
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personnel: Charles Williamson‚ Dale Edgel‚ Lowell Bradford‚ Clyde Cousins‚ Maria Trinh‚ and Robert Lord. The memo was meant as a general communication to inform those individual stated above that the relocation of the China operations to the city of Shanghai will result in insignificant cost savings‚ will provide the operations with more substantial urban infrastructure and will put them into a better position market and ship their Chinese products throughout Asia and Europe. Organization The organizational
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