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    The Starry Night is a post impressionist painting by Vincent Van Gogh that was created not long after he arrived at asylum in Saint Remy France in 1889. This is oil on canvas that measures 73.70” X 92.10”. This work is currently owned and housed by the Museum of Modern Art‚ which is located in New York City‚ New York. The work depicts the pre-dawn view from his room at the Saint Remy Lunatic Asylum. It features a bright‚ turbulent night sky‚ which is framed in the foreground by a small village

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    Kansas by Stephen Dobyns

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    Stephen Dobyns (1941) Kansas THE BOY HITCHHIKING on the back-country Kansas road was nineteen years old. He had been dropped there by a farmer in a Model T Ford who had turned off to the north. Then he waited for three hours. It was July and there were no clouds. The wheat fields were flat and went straight to the horizon. The boy had two plums and he ate them. A blue Plymouth coupe went by with a man and a woman. They were laughing. The woman had blonde hair and it was all loose and blew

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    representation of a family’s everyday life. The first painting is by Jan Steen and is titled The Merry Family and was created in 1668 and in this painting‚ it depicts a boisterous family gathering or possibly dinner. The second painting is by Vincent van Gogh and is titled The Potato Eaters. It was created in 1885 and displays the life of a peasant family and outlines the lifestyle that these individuals had to endure in this time period such as: living in a small

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    Amelie Faith Vincent I am Amelie Faith Vincent. My values are God‚ family‚ & friends come before anything. I have learned through all this is I truly enjoy helping in anyway I can with anything. I have a much bigger understanding and much more empathy for volunteering now that I have experienced it. I now know that I want to help people in any way I can because I am a very happy person and I love when other people are happy also! Volunteering and helping other people when they need it makes

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    I Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art.“La tristesse durera toujours‚” is a French expression which means‚ “this sadness will last forever.” These were the final words that Vincent van Gogh uttered‚ but there is more to the story. Van Gogh was a very unloved in his lifetime‚ shunned‚ and his work ignored.This is his interesting untold story of his short life. Vincent Willem van Gogh was born

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    Monet Vs. Vincent Van Gogh

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    and events. Basically Artists paint on the events based on their lives. Such as Cloude Monet and Vincent Van Gough‚ their artwork was based on movements of Impressionism and Post Impressionism. Their interest shows outdoor environment to show effect of natural sun light or atmospheric light on day to day life scene. Claude Monet’s “Water Lilies” is the great example of outdoor paintings and Vincent Van Gogh’s “The garden of the poets” is based on two poets combining with the garden that he is referring

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    Name Thanate woradetwarasakul nickname tortan Student number 58110180 Vincent van gogh Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Post-Impressionist painter. He was a Dutch artist whose work had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art. His output includes portraits‚ self portraits‚ landscapes and still lifes of cypresses‚ wheat fields and sunflowers. He drew as a child but did not paint until his late twenties; he completed many of his best-known works during the last two

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    Stephen was born into a famous family in Lawrenceville‚ Pennsylvania. Stephen Foster had many siblings and out of all of them‚ he was the youngest.As he matured‚ he applied to 3 colleges after being accepted to Allegheny College in 1840. Six years later he went to work with his brother as a bookkeeper in Cincinnati. In July 22‚ 1850 Stephen married Jane Denny McDowell. They had a daughter named Marion. Later on he had no inspiration to write songs‚ until the civil war has started creating him to

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    Stephen Tobolowsky relays what he labels his “first crisis of belief” in his article “The Santa Conspiracy.” This “crisis of belief” occurs when he has a conversation with his six-year- old friend about his own questioning of whether Santa is real. Tobolowsky is struck by the confrontational and profound statement of this friend: “’It is always easier to want to believe in something than to say it never was true.’” Stephen is five years old when he is jolted by this philosophical maxim from his

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    Rachel Vincent’s science-fiction  novel The Flame Never Dies‚ offers a deeper take on the tales we always hear about demons and exorcists.  With the assistance of others‚ Vincent has created a masterpiece about the classic purifying art‚ exorcism.  What’s special about exorcising demons instead of killing the host is that when exorcising‚ the demon is killed.  If one kills the host the demon will be freed to obtain another host.  However‚ the host’s status will be no different if the demon is exorcised

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