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    Starry Night

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    On October 10‚ 2017‚ I observed the painting called “Starry Night” by Vincent van Gogh from an online art source. This is a painting I have seen several times since the second grade in art class‚ but on Tuesday‚ October 10‚ 2017‚ at 2:34 pm. I witnessed this painting once again. Vincent Van Gogh‚ who was born in 1853 and lived until 1890‚ painted “Starry Night” in June of 1889. This painting represents the view of the East window from his room in the asylum of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole. (Van Gogh) From

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    The Moonlit Night

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    moonlit night. Nowadays‚houses and buildings in a city or town are mostly lit by electricity public roads are well lit at night. Therefore‚town people do not seem to notice the moon shinning in the night sky.There is no electricity in villages and resultm country folk have to do things by the light of the moon. They usually get a chance to admire the beauty of the moonlit nights. I still remember a beautiful moonlit night night that

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    Dehumanization In Night

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    Darkness covered the earth‚ not even the stars could give off light in its piercing darkness. Stars give off a light ‚ the star of David was the light of the Jews‚ that light of the star was overshadowed by the pitch darkness of night. Night is a memoir written by Elie Wiesel‚ Night documents the horrendous events of the holocaust through the eyes of Elie Wiesel that he experienced . During this time period humanity was briefly shown towards people . Dehumanization

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    NIGHTMARE COME TRUE In Night‚ by Elie Wiesel‚ the day before Elie and his family and friends were to be deported‚ they were taken to the local synagogue. Elie described the place of worship as a huge station luggage and tears. (Wiesel 19) The Nazis had destroyed much of what had been inside. The bimah (altar) was broken‚ all of the wall hangings had been ripped from their places‚ leaving the walls empty. When Moishe the Beadle comes back into the ghetto in the novel Night by Elie Wiesel‚ several

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    Darkness and Night

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    imagery‚ and structure to portray the significance of dark and night in their poems. Although the poems differ in many ways they share a common theme of loneliness. They also use darkness as a symbol of their feelings. In the two poems “We Grow Accustomed to the Night” and “Acquainted with the Night” the authors use figurative language‚ sentence fluency and rhythms‚ and their word choice to reflect their similar views on the darkness of night symbolizing life experiences everyone has to face throughout

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    A Thousand Splendid Suns Book Report 1. State the title‚ author‚ and number of pages. For the third quarter I read A Thousand Splendid Suns‚ by Khaled Hosseini. It was 372 pages. 2. Tell what the book is about. Describe the setting This book starts off from the perspective of Mariam’s life in Herat. She lives with her mother‚ Nana. When she was pregnant with Mariam‚ her mother and a housemaid for her father‚ Jalil‚ she was tossed out and was given a small and dirty shack to live in.

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    “By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions‚ one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.” That is what Christopher Columbus said when he was traveling from Europe to the new world. There are many things standing in ones way of prevailing. The most important thing to remember is that having worthy character traits such as the will to survive and courage will bring you through those obstacles. In the face of adversity‚ moral character causes some people to prevail while others

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    strength‚ love and support from my family and friends to stay positive during my long recovery. Many people lose hope and get discouraged easily when life becomes hard‚ however‚ like Mariam and Laila‚ I did not give up. In Khaled Hosseini’s novel A Thousand Splendid Suns‚ Mariam and Laila experience physical and emotional pain. The women live in Kabul under the Taliban with no rights and little freedom. Additionally‚ they are married to an abusive husband named Rasheed. To endure a life with little

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    Twelfth Night

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    William Shakespeare’s multidimensional comedy Twelfth Night dismantles and obliterates socially constructed limitations regarding biological and assumed gender and identity‚ thus emphasising that nothing is certain‚ rather‚ a matter of perspective. The reader to an emphatic extent becomes an integral part of the way language forms and shapes the reality of the play. Therefore‚ language instructs initial perceptions and the foundational reality of the reader but not final perceptions and ultimate

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    In the Heat of the Night

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    Of The Night can be read as a mystery story for few people‚ but others would simply read it as an underlying racial issue. In general opinion‚ this novel is both a mystery story and an underlying racial issue. These statements will be discussed in details: When local police officer Sam Wood found Virgil Tibbs waiting for the train‚ he swiftly takes him into custody where he was questioned about a murder. The mystery is shown by the literary point of view used in In the Heat of the Night. The novel

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