Mirror and Magnification Equations The mirror equation expresses the quantitative relationship between the object distance (do)‚ the image distance (di)‚ and the focal length (f). The equation is stated as follows: [pic] The magnification equation relates the ratio of the image distance and object distance to the ratio of the image height (hi) and object height (ho). The magnification equation is stated as follows: [pic] These two equations can be combined to yield information about the
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person who witnessed the aftermath of the earthquake‚ glanced over the ravaged ‘imperial city’ of San Francisco using photographs‚ along with its renowned citizens‚ who were distraught about their personal belongings being burned. In his article‚ “The Story Of An Eyewitness”‚ London argues that despite the tragic event that occurred‚ the citizens turned heroic due to maintaining their serenity‚ as well as working with one another to survive‚ regardless of their social status or ethnicity‚ and turning
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Girl Before a Mirror shows Picasso’s young mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter‚ one of his favorite subjects in the early 1930s. Her white-haloed profile‚ rendered in a smooth lavender pink‚ appears serene. But it merges with a more roughly painted‚ frontal view of her face—a crescent‚ like the moon‚ yet intensely yellow‚ like the sun‚ and "made up" with a gilding of rouge‚ lipstick‚ and green eye-shadow. Perhaps the painting suggests both Walter’s day-self and her night-self‚ both her tranquillity and
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the poem "Mirror"‚ Sylvia Plath employs many different poetic devices to develop her message that people need the truth although it may be hurtful. Plath uses a mirror and then a lake as a metaphor for the truth. She also makes the mirror come alive with personification‚ simile and metonymy. These other devices are important to the poem and the scene it creates‚ but the mirror being a metaphor for truth is the most important. The poem is basically about a woman looking into a mirror. As she ages
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This chapter starts up in the hospital. Esther is having a very hard time in the hospital since her suicide attempt. With the stories she describes‚ it is very apparent that people are looking at her as if she is a freak. Esther looked at herself in the mirror in the hospital and could not believe the face staring back at her. Her face was bruised and her hair was gone. I think at that moment it was more than just looking at herself. She realized all the bruises and the haircut‚ but she also realized
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Research Body image is the way humans express their feeling and show their own unique personality‚ positive body image can give people confidence and make them who they are‚ unlike negative body image it can have some dangerous impact on the persons life and career. For example‚ it can affect the emotions or the behavior of the person. Did cave men think about their body image? We are not sure if cave men cared about their look‚ as people all know that cave men didn’t consider their look as an important
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Only after Ying-ying realizes that she has passed on her passivity and fatalism to her daughter Lena does she take any initiative to change. Seeing her daughter in an unhappy marriage‚ she urges her to take control. She tells Lena her story for the first time‚ hoping that she might learn from her mother’s own failure to take initiative and instead come to express her thoughts and feelings. Lena‚ too‚ was born in the year of the Tiger‚ and Ying-ying hopes that her daughter can live up to their common
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THE MIRROR OF ART: REFLECTIONS ON TRANSFERENCE AND THE GAZE OF THE PICTURE Joy Schaverien The images in this paper are strictly for educational use and are protected by United States copyright laws. Unauthorized use will result in criminal and civil penalties. 1 Cognition‚ language‚ myth and art: none of them is a mere mirror simply reflecting images of inward or outward data; they are not indifferent media‚ but rather true sources of light‚ the prerequisite of vision‚ and the well-springs
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novel The Joy Luck Club. Suyuan Woo‚ An-Mei Hsu‚ Lindo Jong and Ying-ying St. Clair are in The Joy Luck Club. The novel is about these four different characters and their relationships with their daughters. Lena and her mother‚ Ying-ying‚ are similar in many ways. Both can see what others can’t. Lena explains‚ “Because even as a young child‚ I could sense the unspoken terrors that surrounded our house‚ the ones that chased my mother until she hid in a secret dark corner of her mind. And still they found
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Girl before a Mirror‚ an oil on canvas painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso‚ shows two sides of a girl; one which is illustrated with a dark tone and one with a vibrant colorful tone. This painting is bright; colors are at full intensity and are arranged next to their complements‚ producing a visual relationship between shape and form. Forms are used to draw the viewer’s eye across the canvas where circular shapes‚ repeating throughout the work‚ are compensated by the pattern of diagonal lines
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