Still Waiting... Essays

  • Short Story About 9/11

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    Important Work “Get to work!!!” Hunter is 6’4” weighing In at 210. He’s darker and has bright green eyes and dark hair. The sound of traffic and typing filled Hunter Harbaugh’s ears, and then suddenly he got a private number call. Hunter answered the phone “Hi, this is The Kings Toys how may I help you.” “Hey Hunter it's John Ryan and the office in Russia is failing we need your help now”. “Ok i just bought a flight to Russia i'll be there Tomorrow.” Hunter gets on the plane and sits down and

  • The Process Of Exploring To The Local Penderyn Distillery

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    I decided to study the process of how whisky is made, from start to finish. I visited the local Penderyn distillery, Aberdare situated in Rhondda Cynon Taff on the 2nd October 2014. “In 2007, Penderyn Distillery introduced three new brands: Brecon Five Vodka, Brecon Gin and Merlyn Cream Liqueur. Like Penderyn Single Malt Whisky, all three have won international recognition and are gaining an excellent reputation in the UK and abroad as premium spirits” (Penderyn Whisky, 2008). Whilst there I met

  • Still Life With Flowers In A Glass Vase By Jan Davidz De Heem

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    jan Davidz De Heem “Still life with Flowers in a Glass Vase” Description The piece is a still- life painting of flowers in a glass vase on a stone sheet It was painted by Jan Davidz De Heem in 1650. In the piece, I see multiple brightly coloured flowers in a bouquet, some are standing up straight and some are wilted and falling. Each flower is bright, and their colours make them pop, there is red, white, pink, brown, blue and green. I think that there are some roses, trosnarcis, dormers, tulips and

  • Impressionism And Symbolism In Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness

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    Heart of Darkness, written by Joseph Conrad in 1899, has undergone immense scrutiny since publication. This narrative piece introduced new formal elements that reflected the innovations of literature during the late nineteenth century. One specific element that seems to be of interest to literary critics and analyzers is the use of two narrators in one story. And to add onto this distinctive quality, the storytelling behind Heart of Darkness incorporates both impressionism and symbolism. With

  • William Kalf Research Paper

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    William Kalf (1619-1693) was a great Dutch master who was known for his range of still life paintings ‘Pronkstilleven’, which translates to ‘Ostentatious still life’. This still lifes displayed an array of luxurious possessions that could only reflect the lifestyle of a wealthy human in Holland during the seventeenth century. Venetian glass, Chinese porcelain and Turkish carpets decorated with ornamental gold and silverware were painted as a symbol of status, to be hung in the homes of the wealthy

  • Rachel Ruysch Dioramas

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    Rachel Ruysch was a Dutch still life painter (1664-1750) from Amsterdam, specializing in flower paintings. Ruysch was ranked highly, not only by other female painters, but also by male painters, which was unheard of at the time. She was born into a family that allowed for her to flourish as an artist. Her father, Federik Ruysch, was a highly acclaimed professor in botany and anatomy as well as an amateur artist. As a way of documenting and embellishing scientific findings, Federik created a set of

  • Pros And Cons Of Tipping

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    With only one waiter on duty, a large Rotary Club of around twenty-six people enters a restaurant with no reservations. They ask for everything to be put onto one bill and order around $500 worth of food and drinks. After they are finished eating, the treasurer of the group asks for everything to be put onto separate bills instead of the one. This causes the already exhausted waiter even more distress having to try and split it correctly. Once the bills are brought out and the customers leave, the

  • Absurdist Theatre And The Resilience Of Good Night

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    Union and the democracy of the Western world. A fear of communism behind the Iron Curtain and nuclear annihilation spread throughout the US, while existential views regarding the meaning of life arose. Samuel Beckett’s modernist existential play ‘Waiting for Godot’ is a philosophical questioning on the purpose of human existence, and the nature of scientific progress. In response to the existential angst following WW2, Beckett uses the conventions of Absurdist theatre to examine philosophical paradigms

  • Relevance Of Act 2 In Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot

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    Relevance of Act 2 in Waiting for Godot Waiting for Godot is an absurdist play written by Samuel Beckett. The play seems to refuse any attempt to impose meaning systematically. The author would have us believe that time is meaningless, that repetition rules all, that inertia is manifest and human life is pointless. This idea that human life lacks meaning and purpose and that humans live in an indifferent universe is often associated with Existentialist writers like Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre

  • Chubby: A Short Story

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    on his way out, empty handed. He must have received a really important call, because that 's the only kind of call worth walking out of Chubby 's, empty handed, for. Once inside the tiny restaurant, I immediately stand in line. The restaurant 's waiting room is almost like a beating heart, as blissful attitudes from all over the city

  • Function Of The Narrator In Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse

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    The Function of the Narrator in Slaughterhouse 5 A narrator is an essential element in every narrative, taking on the responsibility of telling the story. This central role is in the control the narrator has over the story, in terms of perspective and pace, as well as the sequence in which events are related to the reader. In the limitations imposed by the view presented to the reader, the narrator is able to address the issues and concerns of the novel. In Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse 5, the narrator

  • Theme Of The Absurd In Rhinoceros, By Eugene Ionesco

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    The Penguin Dictionary of Theatre defines the theatre of the absurd as-”The Theatre of the Absurd diagnoses humanity’s plight as purposelessness in an existence out of harmony with its surroundings. Awareness of this lack of purpose in all we do produces a state of metaphysical anguish which is the central theme of the writers in the Theatre of the Absurd. The ideas are allowed to shape the firm as well as the content: all semblance of logical construction, of the rational linking of idea with idea

  • Analysis Of A Clean Well Lighted Place By Ernest Hemingway

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    “A Clean Well-Lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway, demonstrates the different perspectives on a person and how it applies to each individual character’s views on life and the true meaning of it. The narrator describes each character and how each of them live their life with different morals, values, and different motives in which each person sets out to accomplish. In this short story, the narrator describes an elderly deaf man who comes into the café where the other characters work every night to

  • Hard Boiled Wonderland Essay

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    The endgame of Samuel Beckett is well known for reflecting the spirit of time in relation to the reaction of individuals in terms of overwhelming political and social changes of 20th century. The works of this play are the productions of an ironic golden age in which the developing technological and economic supremacy was used as a means of subjugation on man. The characters of the play depict the fact that they are in continuous search for meaning of life in a meaningless universe. The characters

  • Ap English Language Essay

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    them with some unusual and disturbing feature for the audience’s expectations, such as living in a container or being incapable of sitting. Switching the focus from language to characters is one of the main strategies that Beckett follows, but he is still unusually interested in choosing the rights words to convey the anti-message, and thus become counter

  • Evolution Of Baroque Art

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    faced many problems with the law. He was jailed for many assaults and for murdering a colleague after a disputed match in a game of court tennis. He fled and hid in distant places away from the city. He arrived in Naples and painted for some time waiting for the pope to pardon him. He was a baroque artist who painted several masterpieces for the Catholic Church for Counter-Reformation efforts. He is famously known of his masterpiece of “the crucifixion of saint

  • Vanitas Still Life Analysis

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    showing a reflected image of Claesz himself, painting the still life. Among these goods, Claesz includes several references to death. In the rear right side of the painting is a human skull. Next to it is a glass that’s been tipped over, and right next to that is a cracked open walnut. These all allude to the idea that nothing and no one can last forever, and serves to remind the viewer of life’s inherent transience. The Vanitas Still Life was just one example of the many various artworks that

  • Deer's Skull With Pedernal Analysis

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    In 1936 Georgia O’Keefe’s used oil on canvas to create a painting titled, “Deer’s Skull with Pedernal.” It was painted in the desert of New Mexico while O’Keefe was living there. It is one of her many works that reflects what she saw during her time there. The first thing the viewer’s eyes are drawn to is the deer’s skull. Skull’s similar to this are also included in “Summer Days” and “Cow’s Skull with Calico Roses.” From the repetition of this element in O’Keefe’s work, it can be concluded that

  • The Skull Of Zurbaran By Salvador Dali

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    vanitas was a Spaniard named Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1664). Many of his still life paintings involved monks and skulls, where he also showed his skill of white draperies and the texture of those cloths. All of these elements can be found in Dali’s painting, and the title of the painting also suggests that Dali received inspiration from Zurbarán’s

  • Still Life In The 1800s

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    Still life is objects that are inanimate and cannot move. Still life art is paintings and drawings which are produced by capturing and gathering objects together in a group in an arranged manner. Like; Fruit, Flowers, Household Items and food. The earliest still life was produced by the ancient Egyptians. They used to paint object and food on the tomb walls. Their aim of this was to show what the object clearly was and scenes of everyday life. In the 1800's was considered unimportant as it didn't