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    The Raft

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    English assignment Text B 1. The short story Burying Your Life is written by Harkiran Dhindsa and published in 2010 on The Guardian website. Rahul is standing in his backyard trying to dig a grave. The soil is extremely hard so he struggles a lot with the hole. As he digs his wife Sarah walks back and forth from the house to the grave. They have agreed be nice to each other when Tom their son is around. Rahul try to make Sarah understand that it for the best that Tom stays with him at the house

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    Analysis of "The Raft"

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    “The Raft” by Peter Orner The short story ”The Raft” is written by Peter Orner in 2000. The story is about a boy growing up‚ who becomes aware of life and death and the difference between good and evil. This analysis will focus on the main theme growing up‚ the narrator‚ and his relationship to the grandfather. “The Raft” is about a twelve-year-old boy‚ who visits his grandparents. The grandfather tells him a story that he has already heard several times‚ but this time the story is different

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    The Raft of the Medusa

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    The Raft of the Medusa In 1819‚ the French painter‚ Theodore Gerricault‚ created a sensation in Parisian art circles and high-society when he unveiled a huge and impressive canvas entitled "Scene of Shipwreck." Not only is the painting gigantic (16 ft high and almost 24 ft wide)‚ but is also quietly horrifying. A group men on crowded fat are making an attempt to get a faraway ship to notice them. Survival looks almost impossible‚ and but the desperate situation does not even begin to suggest

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    The Raft Of The Medusa

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    Theodore Gericault‚ The raft of the Medusa The raft of the Medusa by Theodore Gericault exemplifies political influence showcasing the struggle and crisis happening in France. The political climate of France in the 1820’s was tumultuous causing an eventuality of Gericault’s work of art. His work demonstrated romantic art in its consummation. (Willard WSJ) As a painter he wielded crucial influence on the ontogenesis of Romantic art in France. Géricault was a keen and an avid horse rider whose melodramatic

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    The Doomed Rafts

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    feverish as the terrible ocean‚ which is buffeting the doomed raft itself. • It is a painting of tumultuous bodies‚ reaching out‚ turning‚ twisting‚ and contorting‚ much seemingly in desperate conflict with each other‚ which coheres as if by some miracle. • There is so much of it‚ and it engulfs the eye to such an extent – it is almost as if the eye (mimicking the raft itself) seems to drown in it‚ as if the ocean is threatening to upend the raft in our direction so that this horrifying mess will shortly

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    The Raft Of Medusa

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    romanticism and political inspire painting. A large painting or life-size painting that describe a situation from consequence in ruined of the shore in the coast of today’s Mairitania on 1816. This painting interpret the situation of the people that build a raft and died. The survivors resist and experience hunger and thirsty ‚ bit by bit deliver their life from their death. They fight for each other even they are companions and comrades ‚ the weakest will die . The structure of the painting build up into

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    On The Raft Of The Medusa

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    The Raft of the Medusa is a Romantic painting by Théodore Géricault from the early 19th century. Géricault was a French artist and lithographer who had a short but influential career. The Raft of the Medusa‚ arguably his most famous work‚ was first exhibited in the Salon of 1819 and proved controversial at the time as whilst it adhered to aesthetic standards of fine art but focused on an event from contemporary history rather than an interpretation of an Ancient Greek or Roman tale. The painting

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    Raft Of The Medusa Essay

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    The Raft of the Medusa was the beginning of a new era for art called “Romanticism”. Today it is in a museum in Musee Du Lourve‚ Paris. To better understand this analysis I’m going to start from the beginning and give you the backstory. On July 2‚1816 The Medusa was being sailed by an incompetent captain whom had been appointed by the King of France. This captain also had a reputation for being quite ignorant according to many historians. His ignorance and lack of experience eventually led to the

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    Essay - The Raft

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    The Raft This essay is based on the short story ’The Raft’ by Peter Orner written in 2000. I will be focusing on analysing and interpreting the text in general‚ as well as the psychological effects that war has to its attendees as well as their descendents. The short story is about our soon-to-be 13 year-old narrator and his grandfather Seymour‚ who was a captain on a Destroyer in the South Pacific during World War II. Seymour who suffers from short-term memory has a story to tell his grandson

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    The Tiger on the Raft

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    Life of Pi is a fantasy adventure novel by Yann Martel published in 2001. The protagonist‚ Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel‚ an Indian boy from Pondicherry‚ explores issues of spirituality and practicality from an early age. He survives 227 days after a shipwreck while stranded on a boat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. The novel was rejected by at least five London publishing houses[1] before being accepted by Knopf Canada‚ which published it in September 2001. The UK edition

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