...Imagination - “Girl Before the Mirror” Kaiulani Frink Eng/340 May 21, 2012 University of Phoenix Imagination - “Girl Before the Mirror” The painting by Pablo Picasso “Girl Before the Mirror” was the painting that caught my attention because at first glance I notice a woman adjusting the mirror as she is looking at her reflection; this is something I do every day. I gazed longer at the painting and the woman’s appearance seems to be younger in the mirror, perhaps she is reflecting on her past (youth). The dialogue taking place in this story is with herself as she is reflecting on the many years that have passed and how her appearance has changed. Her pregnancy has captured her attention to the changes in her life. The painting reflects the past, present, and future. The different colors, lines, and shapes tell a story about her development. The colors in the mirror are deep dark in color representing a faint memory of what once was. Looking at herself in the mirror gives her a sense of relief yet pain. She can still see a little of her youth in the mirror, which easies some of her distress as she is aging knowing one day that the memories of her youth will soon fade. The long strokes of lines and curves in the mirror by her face and around her head display a covering a sense of innocence; before she has known a man intimately. The lines in the lower area of her body in the mirror shows it is still in development as the lines are arched up and not down in a drooping...
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...“No Mirror, No Problem” I set out to change something about myself. Now, believe me, this is much easier said than done. Especially if you’re someone like me that has a million and one things you’d like to change about yourself, and you’re in denial about pretty much all of them. It’s like picking a meal off a menu that you hate everything on. Though, after some reflection, I thought up something interesting and seemingly challenging. That’s where my journey began. I was walking around my house trying to think up some little things I could do or stop doing, when I found myself looking in the mirror. Just sitting there blindly staring at myself while trying to come up with something. Selfish, I know. Then I thought, “I look in the mirror way too much. Why do I look in the mirror so much? My eyebrows look like shit. THAT’S IT!” There it was, the center of all my problems. I’m the most self-critical person I’ve ever known and I think it all relates back to my image, sadly. In that moment of realization, I was a genius and I had just came up with the best, most relative idea ever. I decided what I’d do; I would not look in the mirror for two weeks. I was extremely excited to start for some strange reason. I couldn’t wait, really. Right after I had my epiphany, I ran to the hall closet, dug out an old sheet, and hung it up over the big mirror in my bathroom. I also turned around the unnecessarily large mirror I have in my hallway; it stands right across from my bedroom door...
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...declaration that Plath isn't the speaker in this poem. Instead, we have to think back to the title: what is silver and exact? Well, a mirror! We know mirrors don't talk – but that just makes us more curious about what this mirror is going to say. We know from looking at them that mirrors are silver and give an exact reflection of what is in front of them. The second part of the line is not so simple. This mirror is telling us it has no preconceptions. The mirror doesn't change what it shows you based on it's understanding of who you are, or whether you're having a bad day or a good day – it just shows what it sees. So, while this mirror may be personified in the poem, it doesn't, like most people, let what it has seen before affect what it does in the present. Line 2 Whatever I see, I swallow immediately. Now the personification becomes a little weirder. We can imagine a person who is exact, who has no preconceptions, but a person who swallows everything he sees – now that's a stretch. To figure out this line, it helps to think of what mirrors do to everything they see – they reflect it. Swallowing everything, then, is a metaphor for reflecting everything. The substitution of "swallowing" for "reflecting" makes this mirror seem human. It appears hungry to us, and a little unforgiving and scary. We certainly don't want to be swallowed by our mirrors. In terms of sound, the rhythm of this line swallows the reader right up; it's arranged to be sharp and deliberate, but reads...
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...Samantha Barreau College of Mount Saint Vincent English 110: Writing in Context I Professor Rogers Close Analysis; “Girl before the Mirror” For this essay I chose a painting by Pablo Picasso called “Girl before a Mirror”, according to the research I had done, this painting is in connection to his mistress Marie- Therese Walter. It displays several view, depending on who’s interpreting the painting. Pablo Picasso became one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century and the creator (with someone named Georges Braque) of Cubism. A painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and stage designer, Picasso was considered radical within his work. The poem that is showed in connection to this painting is called “Before the Mirror” by John Updike. This poem is the poets emotions, thoughts and views based on the painting. John Updike was an award-winning writer of fiction, essays, and reviews, John Updike has also been writing poetry for most of his life. He was inspired by his mother, who was also a writer. For me, “Girl before the Mirror’ is a painting that talks about reflections of one’s self or how we see ourselves versus how others see us even the duality of our natures. There are so many levels your creativity and critical thinking can go in regards to Picasso’s intent with this painting. I can see this particular Picasso painting in a philosophy class where people are wrestling or conversing what the exact meaning of this painting is. The painting...
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...interests me is Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami, painted in 1434. This painting, made with oils on an oak panel, depicts a man and woman holding hands in what seems to be the bedroom area of their home. The man, wearing a long, fur-lined coat, is raising his right hand as if he is taking an oath or vow. The woman, dressed in a long, expensive looking green dress, has one hand resting on her stomach, as if she were pregnant, but according to historians, the swelling of a women’s stomach was just a sign of woman’s beauty. On the back wall of the room, van Eyck painted a mirror in the center of the wall, and above the mirror he wrote Jan de Eyck fuit hic, translating into “Jan van Eyck was here.” In the mirror, the reflection is that of two figures, one of these a man in a...
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...manoeuvre is also one of the more common manoeuvres asked by the test examiner for you to perform. This tutorial will demonstrate an ideal technique that the examiner will be looking for in order to pass this part of the driving test. The test examiner will be looking for 3 key skills demonstrated by yourself in order to successfully complete the reverse round a corner manoeuvre. These skills are: • • • Accuracy - The test examiner will be assessing your ability to reverse round the corner, not touching the curb or straying too far onto the other side of the road. Control - The examiner will be judging your ability to keep the car at a slow and stable speed by use of clutch control. Observation. Effective and all round observation must be taken whilst performing the reverse round a corner manoeuvre. Reverse round a corner diagram A During the driving test, the examiner will ask you to park up on the left on many occasions. They are observing your accuracy and safety for parking. Another occasion may be the examiner is going to request you demonstrate the reverse round a corner. The examiner will ask you to park up on the left, just before the turn you are going to reverse into as in diagram A. When the examiner asks you to park up, ensure you check your main mirror, your left mirror and signal to the left if necessary. Once you have stopped the car, cancel the signal if applicable, apply the handbrake and select neutral. The examiner is now going to...
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...Mirror Rosalind Sledge ENG 125: Introduction to Literature Instructor Michelle Pinkard November 5, 2012 Mirror by Sylvia Plath is a poem that focuses on the purpose and existence of a mirror. The mirror is showed to be the speaker of the poem by in the beginning, describing itself and explaining its character as though it is human. One is able to feel emotion by understanding the important qualities it possesses. The mirror also metaphors itself as a lake and tells the important relationship it has with a woman. Women are drawn to mirrors searching for beauty but are often disappointed and turn their backs looking elsewhere. The mirror represents truth and is not intended to hurt or be cruel. This poem is very engaging by way of point of view, language, and imagery which helped to address a common human experience in how a woman sees herself. The point of view in a piece of literature work is very important in that it helps a reader to understand the narrator’s purpose of the story. The poem Mirror is told from a first person’s point of view in which the speaker is a mirror explaining what it reflects. In the first stanza, it states, “I have no preconceptions / Whatever I see, I swallow immediately / Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike” (cited in Clugston, 2010, Poems for Reflection, para. 13). By knowing the thoughts of the narrator, it allows a person to not only understand but to also feel the emotions portrayed within the story. While reading the poem, one...
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...What Hides Behind the Mirror? If you were to tell me to pick an object that represents what I am today, I would not be able to; I feel that I am still growing and developing as a person. At this point, I do not really know what I am or what I represent. I can surely though pick out an object that represents certain time period in my life. As weird as it might sound, I find that a mirror would best represent this time in my life. While getting ready to start my day every morning, it beings about the same way. Being the upstanding citizen that I am, I get up when my alarm goes off..kidding after hitting snooze a million times . I open my closet to pick out my outfit for the day, being careful not to swing open the closet door too hard and send my mirror crashing to the floor. After I get dressed, I take a look in the mirror every day. I don’t do this because I want to see how I look; it is more of a reminder that I am happier than I was a couple months ago. My forced, pseudo smile that was once paired with teary, glassy eyes has transformed into an authentic one. I don’t see any bruises on my skin anymore. Most importantly, the bruises on my skin have faded along with the puffiness around my eyes. When I look in the mirror I see self growth and progress. For some odd reason, this mirror is special to me. This mirror saw me go through a very ugly stage in my life. If you were to enter my room you would not know I had it because it remains hidden most of the time. It is only seen...
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...express your feelings, one feels disconnected from the world and it really messes up your brain because it very important let your feelings out to someone. The only person who showed some affection for Alice was the White Knight, who left her right when she reached the eighth square and she must become the Queen. Lonliness was a big part of Alice's life, but she believes lonliness is an important part of growing up, even in her dreams she faces womanhood alone. Whenever we look into a mirror we see ourself. Mirror images are our own reflections, they are the oppostite of what people see. You see what people see when they look at us in the mirror. In the story Alice sees the mirror over the fireplace and sees the mirror is growing, and she is looking at herself in the glass world in which is everything is the opposite of what she's used to. The looking glass world is backwards in many different ways. Alice notices that the things she could see from the living room are the same in the looking glass but other things are quite different....
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...Previous to this visit I had never gone to any other museums aside from those that are located on campus, so it was a whole new experience for me. After going into the museum and taking a look around I was surprised to see the variety of work that they had accumulated. I especially enjoyed the new branch that was added the held the new additions of contemporary art. My favorite pieces of art were the ones that took photographs and then added touches to them to make them unique and I particularly enjoyed observing the artwork where the artist manipulated mirrors to make different allusions depending on how you looked at them. After...
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...themselves. Antonio’s poem, “Bully in the Mirror”, displays the how agents of socialization influence one’s “looking glass self” and how the look glass self once realized impact “answerability” and one’s desire to change. When students such as Antonio began to seek change in who they, are educators must be prepared to support this change as bullying is an epidemic is schools and students should be aware of its impact in every aspect. Antonio is a child that has been a bully for quite some time. He has come to realize that he does not like the person that he has become and wants to change. Antonio is alone as he makes this clear that he has no friends. The looking glass self is basically how we view ourselves based on our reflection of personal qualities and impressions of how we believe others perceive us (Kenny, R., 2007). As theorized by Cooley socialization coincides with the looking glass self (self-image) which is developed by “the imagination of our appearance to the other person; the imagination of his judgment of that appearance, and some sort of self-feeling of pride or mortification" (1964:184)” (Kenny, R., 2007). Antonio, in his mirror reflection, has come to see that those around him don’t like who he is as a bully and no he is perceiving himself in the same way that others do which is why he is crying out for help in changing what he now sees in himself as well as what other see in him. “I am a bully how could this be. The mirror is starting to Change...
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...Mirror Mirror on the wall who is the fairest of us all? A famous line from a famous fairytale, one that has been twisted by Gregory Maguire in Mirror Mirror. 7 year old Bianca de Nevada, lives in Montefiore, Italy in 1502, with her father, the cook Primavera, and Fra Ludovico. A mirror is found in a lake and taken to Binca’s house. At Montefiore, Bianca is sheltered and told never to leave. In time, Cesare and his sister Lucrezia Borgia arrive in Montefiore.The powerful children of a pope demand that Vincente, Bianca’s father leave on a mission to find apples from the Tree of Wisdom in the Garden of Eden. He departed leaving Lucrezia to manage Montefiore, and his daugher. Time passes and in 1506, the Borgia family has been thrown into disarray...
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...Devices are considered to be more helpful for detailed individual physiological data collection. Medical mirror or otherwise known as Medial mirror is one that displays our heartbeat. It gives contact free measurement about our physiological information using basic image processing devices. Users have the experience of remote health monitoring by simply looking into medical mirror. It recognizes our heartbeat without any external or internal sensor and displays it in real time. This invention helps people to access their own physiological data. This can be used in our home, not just in doctor’s office and research labs. Currently many techniques are available for counting our heartbeat. But it all needs bundles of sensors and wires. For heartbeat measurement using Electrocardiograph (ECG) method, we have to...
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...If you are looking for used car spares in Birmingham, you need to check out all of the used car spare parts that you are able to find at Tyseley Vehicle Breakers. You will be able to find quite a few car parts at prices that you are not going to be able to beat when you purchase the parts new at many of your retail auto parts stores. There are a lot of people that are going to seek out used car parts when they are looking for replacement components for their car. The reason that people like to look for the used car spares in Birmingham is that many times the used car parts are going to be a lot more affordable than purchasing a brandnew part from a retail auto parts store. Below in this article you will find a list of some of the more popular...
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...A family secret will always be hidden.A family secret should always be hidden. This story gives off a mystery feeling because it's about a mirror that shows you a different way of seeing today's side of society . This mirror is part of the family for many of years and is the family secret.The mirror is moved in the story and brings the family closer at the table.The author that wrote this book is María Elena llano.The title is "In the Family.”This story is a dark creepy story telling about a family's secret. The secret is an mirror that shows the dead relatives. Sooner or later they would know what the mirror was showing was a reflection or real life. Maria Elena Llano uses symbols in her story “In the Family” to convey the theme of pride sometimes obstructs one’s ability to make wise decisions....
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