While visiting the San Diego Museum of Art I chose to examine the artwork Portrait of a Lady‚ by Marie-Guillemine Benoist which was painted in 1799. The artist of this painting was a frequent salon contributer after the Paris Salon began to allow female artists to submit their own artwork. Benoist often paints portraits of varius people in the same fashion with oil on canvas. Portrayed in this artwork is a woman wrapped in a gold shawl with a soft and pleasant face. The woman grasping her gold shawl
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“The Wedding Ring” by Denise Levertov is about the speaker in the poem coming across a wedding ring that had been stored away‚ and remembering the failed marriage attached to the ring. In the first line “My wedding ring lies in a basket as if at the bottom of a well.” The wedding ring itself being a symbol of marriage and the word bottom brings ideas of the dark taps and loneliness. A person feels when they are at the bottom‚ emotionally speaking. The next line “Nothing will come to fish it back
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are so many moments of your wedding day that are precious and need to be captured forever. A great wedding photograph should take you back to that day every time you look at the picture‚ but for many brides and grooms‚ their wedding day is one of the first times they’re in front of a professional camera. If you are interested in wedding photography in Calgary‚ here are a few tips to help ensure you achieve wedding picture perfection. Consider the Weather Calgary wedding photography can be tricky
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Mitchell Thomas certainly directed a show to remember with 100 minutes of intense suspense and grief. Thomas’s seemingly classic portrayal of Blood Wedding(Bodas de Sangre) did justice to the original by Federico Garcia Lorca under a new form by Tanya Ronder. Though Blood Wedding focuses on a tale of love and murder‚ Elena White (Death) steals the Porter Theatre show with her lurking darkness and creepy stares. From the start‚ Elena captivates the audience with her non-verbal communication through
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Four weddings and a funeral‚ directed by Mike Newell‚ is a quite amusing film that takes place mainly in London and the Home Countries. This acclaimed British romantic comedy is focused on the intermittent romance between a charming‚ but bumbling Englishman -Charles- and a beautiful American woman -Carrie-‚ who seem to always run into each other at weddings. The story begins with the wedding of Angus and Laura‚ at which Charles is the best man. At this wedding‚ Charles meets Carrie for the first
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else--life." This quote spoken by The Mother is true in Blood Wedding’s early spanish society‚ yet it causes one to question what kind of life is one really living when being succumbed by social stereotypes? In Frederico Garcia Lorca’s tragic play‚ Blood Wedding‚ he uses many literary strategies in order to maintain various social stereotypes. Three main techniques the author chooses to incorporate include atmosphere‚ archetypes‚ and resolution to further his critique of the social stereotype present in this
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Blood Wedding Social‚ cultural‚ historical context Federico Garcia Lorca wrote “Blood Wedding” in 1933 during the social turmoil that was taking place in Spain. His plays were viewed as controversial and opposed to traditional Spanish values and traditions. As a result of this‚ he was executed by a firing squad on 16th August 1936‚ following the outbreak of Spanish civil war. At the time that Lorca was writing “Blood Wedding” Spain had a non-pluralist society. All aspects of political and domestic
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man The novel‚ A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man‚ depicts the life of Stephen Dedalus from his disjointed youth to his clarifying adulthood‚ in a stream of consciousness approach that reveals his inner thoughts. Throughout the novel‚ he perceives the world around him in an unusually keen way‚ considering he is extremely aware of his senses‚ particularly his sense of smell. People by nature have involuntary connections between their physical world and their
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Best-man’s speech--- Hi‚ good morning everybody. For those of you who don’t know me‚ I am ____‚ brother and best-man of the groom ____. I want to start off by saying‚ there is a point of life when you experience the miracle of love. He experienced this love 25 years ago when he saw me for the first time (joke laugh for 5 sec. or‚ more) Jokes aside‚ I’ve been lucky enough to watch ____& ____’s relationship grow from the beginning. ___ has always been an amazing person but he is even more amazing
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I would like to welcome everyone here today. I would also like to thank the Board of Education‚ family members‚ teachers and friends for where the class of 2005 is now. I’d like to start with a quote from the song Celebration by kool and the gang‚ "There’s a party going on right here‚ a celebration to last throughout the year‚ so bring your good times and laughter too‚ we gonna celebrate your party with you‚ come now let’s all celebrate and have a good time‚ we gonna celebrate and have a good time
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