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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Coleman 1 Staci Coleman Professor Thoreson English 101 18 February 2012 Cell Phone: A Cordless Addiction Marie Winn wrote an amazing article “Television: The Plug-in Drug” in which she introduces the argument about television and its overwhelming affects on families. She opens the minds of readers with explaining that the casual entertainment television was intended for has now become a troublesome problem within families. Winn proposes that the problem lies within the seductive
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I have finished reading Legend by Marie Lu. The prompt I have chosen for my Journal Entry is “Describe the author’s craft (language and style). What was good about the author’s writing? What thing might you try to do in your writing that you learned from this author?” Things that I believe the author did well in her writing were the use of perspective‚ character development‚ and foreshadowing. One of the features of Legend was that it was told by two characters in the same story‚ Day and June.
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Throughout the last two weeks‚ I have been reading Marie Lu’s Legend. I am currently on page 200 of the book. This book is about a girl and a boy who live very different lives but eventually come together. The boy’s name is Day and the girl’s name is June. Day is a wanted criminal for the things he has done to the government and he also killed June’s brother. June joins the military and becomes highly ranked quickly soon after her brother’s death. Her job is to find Day and bring him in so he cannot
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This is a case of Isabella Anne Constance Marie Wiens who was born on June 11‚ 2011. Isabella was taken from her mother‚ Sara Jane Wiens in August 2011 after she was deemed unfit to care for her (Kane‚ 2015). In March 2013‚ the 21-month-old toddler was found dead in the crib at her foster home (Kane‚ 2015); and the place of death was listed as Burnaby (Culbert & Shaw‚ 2015). Two years later‚ Ms. Wiens is still searching for answers as the coroner’s report classified the death as being undetermined
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In Legend by Marie Lu the author uses situational irony to add unexpected or mysterious actions to keep the plot rich and interesting. At this point in the story‚ June and Thomas are watching a riot begin. June and Thomas are watching from a raised platform outside Batalla Hall. The riot began because of the sentencing of Day‚ they did not want/like that. The main problem that shows situational irony is that instead of just throwing dust bombs or tar gases (like they normally do)‚ the soldiers are
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My book report is going to be on the book Legend. The author is Marie Lu and is best seller in new york. It was Published on November 29‚ 2011 in the U.S and in the U.K on February 2012. The genre is a young adult fiction‚ and has 305 pages. The publisher is Putnam Juvenile. The book has interesting characters and has a very interesting plot. The Legend Marie Lu fiction provides how the relationship between a famous criminal and a prodigious detective might translate into a more modern story. Legend
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I read the book‚ Legend written by Marie Lu. In this book the world has been flooded after the polar ice caps have melted completely‚ leaving most of the world covered in water. During this time the eastern seaboard of America tried to move west for land that wasn’t flooded. After the floods‚ the inflation of America’s population and lack of resources and places to live it caused major conflict. Eventually the two sides settled and separated to become two separate countries. As the eastern side
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At first glance‚ one may agree that Marie Umutesi’s autobiography is a truthful testimony about the historical event known as the Rwandan Genocide and its aftermath‚ but further analysis proves that the terms “truthful” and “testimony” cannot accurately describe Surviving the Slaughter. Using Jacques Derrida’s Demeure and Umutesi’s Surviving the Slaughter‚ one is able to analyze the meanings of these terms to reveal that‚ in the context of Umutesi’s writing‚ they are not completely valid‚ and the
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Marie Winn demonstrates her ideas backed with evidence she supplied in the article. The evidence given are anecdotal evidence and academic studies. Her use of academic studies throughout her article strengthens her argument as academic studies is a good way of understanding the environment of families and individuals who are under the influence of television and how people are affected by it. Although out of the academic studies she referenced‚ the study referring to eye contact was most likely the
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