Water Lilies Essays

I remember the first time I saw a water lily, and how intrigued I was by the uniqueness of the flower. I used to look forward to the visit at my grandparents Lake House just to catch a glimpse of the beautiful water lilies. The relaxing and calm setting the flower brought to the lake compensated for the moldy, and fusty stenge of the green lake water, which took a while to acclimate to. The sight of the flower was just so easing to me. My curious seven-year-old mind wondered how it was possible

Ted Hughes’s “To Paint a Water Lily” tells about an artist painting a scene of nature, and his choice to focus on a water lily. The poem also shows how the artist has two ways of thinking about nature. One way the artist thinks about nature is as a violent and scary thing.The artist also thinks of nature as a thing of beauty and grandeur. Though the artist acknowledges both of his views towards nature, he chooses to focus on the beauty. Through the use of diction and irony the author successfully

Diego Velazquez's piece titled 'Las Meninas' represents the art of western civilization. This piece of art was made by oil on canvas in the year 1656. ' Diego Velazquez' decided to draw such a large canvas, describing himself in this group picture .The work performed represents All the work is a weird composition many questions revolve around between fact and fiction, and it produces a certain relationship between the characters and scenes. The size of this piece of art is (3.17×2.74 m) and

Swish, swish, dot. Thick lines here. Thin lines there. Broad strokes to fill an area. I squint at the photograph placed in front of me. I imagine. Reds, blues and browns materialize in the black shadows of the arch. What holds the arch together? I try to visualize the web of force interactions in the intricate assembly of brick and mortar as I paint. Will it fall like the London Bridge, with some imagination? Or will it fall like the Tacoma Narrows, due to the right wind speeds? Painting in watercolor

Pop art was known as the art of popular culture, it fit in with the globalization of pop movement and youth culture. It contains different types of sculptures and paintings from different countries. An example of pop art is A Bigger Splash by David Hockney, what all pop art paintings have in common is the interest in mass culture, mass media, and mass production. Pop Art was mostly based on bright colors and youthful exploration. A Bigger Splash was painted by David Hockney who was a British artist

looks closer, they do not rhyme perfectly. It is the same with a painting of a lily pond. When one first glances at the painting, they see a peaceful, still pond, with a delicate flower standing tall. However, when they look closer and focus on what the artist desired to convey, they might be able to sense the conflict happening under the surface, like the conflict happening with the rhymes. In “To Paint a Water Lily”, the poet uses imagery, personification, and rhyme to convey the attitude that

In Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s short story “The New England Nun” The protagonist Louisa is faced with being pressured by society to play the role of a women. Women in this particular century had a certain role in life . They were either wives or mothers who cooked and cleaned. Louisa conformed to this role even without the pressures of a family. Although many women at the time we're starting to reject house work as a way to free themselves . Freeman uses Louisa to show a women who went against society's

Imagine being placed in a situation where if one does not confess to their actions or beliefs, even if they are not true, there will be negative consequences. One would either confess truthfully or not, based the consequence and if they are willing to go through it for the greater good. This theme has been demonstrated through many ways such as in books, mainstream current media, and in the history of the United States. Negative consequences can influence whether or not one chooses to rightly, or

plays a role in changing a corn into an all time favorite snack.There are five different types of corn, they are known as sweet, dent, flint,pod and popcorn. Popcorn out of all is the only one that pops. The kernel need to about around 13.4% or 14% of water for it to actually pop. The popcorn will only pop at a 177°C

Finding Fear Have you ever feared what was outside your house and you would not leave for an extended period of time, well in this case William Forrester did this very thing. He came to think after his brother had died in an accident that people were crazy. In this very example Forrester is in the ER talking to a nurse while his brother is sitting in a room in the hospital without a pulse because he was killed in a car accident. The nurse tells Forrester how much the book that he wrote meant to

Mark Twain called the late 19th century the "Gilded Age." The years between 1878 and 1899 were a soul-searching time for many Americans especially women, as they examined the basic values they lived by. This period was seen by many as “Glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath”. The late 19th century was a period of greed and guile: of corruption, dishonest speculators, shady business practices, and scandal-plagued politics. Kate chopin and Henrik Ibsen were two controversial authors who showcased

The beast is first introduced to the boys early on in their time on the island when the crash acts as a scar to the boys and there is still a state of innocence in everyone. Piggy illustrates the boy with the mulberry-colored birthmark fears to the others (as he is too shy to speak on his own) his discovery of something else existing on the island to the entire assembly, “Tell us about the snake-thing...Now he says it was a beastie...Beastie?...A snake-thing. Ever so big. He saw it ... In the woods

Everyone has experienced fear in their lives, such as the fear of taking a test, the fear of speaking in front of a class, the fear of walking in the dark, etc. These instance relate to the theme in “Checkouts by Cynthia Rylant, which is never let fear take control. This theme is also reflected in the poem “Don’t Fear” and the novel, Divergent. A theme in the short story “Checkouts” by Cynthia Rylant is never let fear take control. For example, the author writes “He wanted a second chance. Another

Copper Sun, written by Sharon Draper, is a book filled with a wide range of emotions. It is about a young African girl who was taken from her home country to an unknown land into slavery. The two emotions that Sharon Draper used to engage her readers are fear and love/affection. The first emotion that impacted the story a lot was fear. It was fear because in the beginning of the story it played a big role like in Chapter Two, page 13 when the destruction of her tribe begins and her parents die

usually is an empty threat, for Lily Owens, the protagonist in The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, it was a milestone. The summer of 1964 marked the year she finally realized there was nothing holding her back from escaping her abusive father. As she leaves home for her journey, she takes her African American, motherlike housekeeper with her, who was in jail for insulting some racists. Together, they find their way to three beekeeping sisters, one of which helps Lily to finally understand what happened

Which is worse failing or never trying?This is a very difficult question that most struggle with .this question applies to the text of Ayn Rand Anthem, ‘’Emancipation proclamation’’by Abraham Lincoln, Prometheus from the Greek mythology, ‘’Critical Thinking Video by Leo and a Socratic Seminar. I think never trying is worse because without trying you'll never know what u could accomplish. First,Equality 7-2521 connects to the question when in the book anthem by making light better than candles but

Facing the unknown is risky because it produces an outcome that is or is not expected, which is why many people in the modern world tend to avoid it. In contrast, author Anne Morrow Lindbergh supports the idea of exploring the unknown, stating that “its disappointments and surprises that are the most enriching.” Exploring the unknown is seeing and taking on ideas or topics that is not understandable, and finding something new from it. She believes that the unknown will be the only way people can

Lord Of The Flies Jaedyn Clavelle Per 3 Lit comp 1. Imagine you're on an Island stranded, filled with fear trying to survive. Do you feel you could stay calm and handle it in way an “adult” would or could the fear bring out the inner beast which hides deep down inside all of us. The novella Lord of The Flies by George Orwell, tells a story about a group of british boys who crash a plane on an inhabited island. These kids have to work together with the help of a leader to govern themselves yet

This part of the book focuses on when Jassim kills a teenage boy in a terrible accident and Salwa becomes hopelessly entangled with a shadowy young American, their tenuous lives in exile and their fragile marriage begin to unravel. Once in a Promised Land is a dramatic and achingly honest look at what it means to straddle cultures, to be viewed with suspicion, and to struggle to find safe haven. America has traditionally been referred to as a "melting pot," welcoming people from many different countries

In nineteenth century Louisiana, Creole’s lived by strict rules to explain how Creole household’s run: “The man ruled his household and his wife was considered part of his property. He was permitted to take a[nother] mistress if he liked, though his wife was expected to remain faithful” (Kosewick 3). The wives of the household are also “expected to be of good character” and “loyal, passive, innocent lovers”, despite the fact that their husband can take another woman of his liking out and the wife