...The concept of reflection is fairly simple; it is simply “the change in direction of a wave, such as a light wave, away from a boundary the wave encounters” (dictionary.com). However, in literature, waves can represent so much more. The reflection of ones self can be a representation of not only their physical appearance, but their spiritual appearance, emotional appearance, and interior appearance as well. Although some reflections show distortion, many reflections actually display a brutally honest picture. Through the repetition of various types of reflection, Oates is able to paint a vivid image of the innermost being of her characters, as well as offering insight on the reality of society during the 1960s and even the reality of our...
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...Field)” Date created: 1890 Oil on canvas 26 x 36 7/16 in Monet's use of color along with use of intricate brush strokes and composition is outstanding. The vast variations of brush strokes and color placement techniques are what make his work so unique and individual. Grand Canal, Venice, 1908 is a prime example of Monet's talents in these areas. The structure of the painting is very loose. There are few hard lines in the composition that represents solid structure. The curves in conjunction with the shades of color as well as light usage give the piece a mirage-like effect. It is easy to imagine Monet's vantage point while he was painting the picture by the way the composition is set up. One can tell he was looking towards the buildings on the other side of water because it's obvious that the building are being reflected as well as the wooden poles sticking out of the water. It is quite evident that Monet is observing a sunset and that he is painting quickly to capture the full effect of light during this short period of the day with the study of light being the main focus in this work. Shadow also plays a large part in the make up the painting. Monet uses an even tonality of blues, lavenders, oranges and pinks to create the buildings across the water, thus showing the sunlight reflecting off the sides of them. It's quite amazing how he uses many different colors to create one large color. For instance, in the sky he uses a mixture of greens, pinks, oranges and...
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...Programming Exercises For Chapter 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THIS PAGE CONTAINS programming exercises based on material from Chapter 2 of this on-line Java textbook. Each exercise has a link to a discussion of one possible solution of that exercise. http://www.java2s.clanteam.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Exercise 2.1: Write a program that will print your initials to standard output in letters that are nine lines tall. Each big letter should be made up of a bunch of *'s. For example, if your initials were "DJE", then the output would look something like: ****** ************* ********** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ******** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ***** **** ********** See the solution! : visit this website http://java2s.clanteam.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Exercise 2.2: Write a program that simulates rolling a pair of dice. You can simulate rolling one die by choosing one of the integers 1, 2...
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...viewed as more true to how we actually see. I found the Impressionism and Post-Impressionism movements, each with their own distinct styles and characteristics were the gateway to the modern art of today. In this essay I will describe and compare art in the two periods, including social conditions of the time and how these movements influenced the future art world. Impressionism represents a style as well as a name of a group of artists who rebelled against the art academies in Europe. These art academies and government-sanctioned art exhibits, known as salons, controlled how artists made their work known and the value of that art. Artists, such as Monet, Renoir and Degas, used radical techniques in their compositions and were rejected by the salons. These artists challenged the conservative academic standards of form and detail. They came together in 1874 to hold their own independent art exhibition. The name of the style came from critic, Louis Leroy, after publishing his review of the exhibition in which Monet’s painting Impression: Sunrise was displayed. Leroy criticized Monet’s work for appearing unfinished and only giving the impression of art (Samu, n.d.). The Impressionism artists renounced the traditional style of previous art periods and focused on humble elements of daily life. They no longer painted historical and religious subjects that hid the artist’s personality and emotions, but instead painted landscapes and still life using vivid color and loose brush...
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...Consider it or not, bearing certain colors can help us elevate, make head way argument or encourage friends to share the latest gossip. Colors in our surroundings have the ability to keep us cool, motivate or de-motivate the conversation. The hues on packaging give some unperceivable messages that the enclosed product is salubrious, pricy or unsafe. Why? Because of the psychology of color, which refers to the strong emotional reactions that we all have towards colors? Research studies show that our reaction is partly physiological based on the effects of the colors that have on our eyes and nervous system. It is also influenced by our environment and life experiences. Beginning with the technology at its simplest, the retina focuses on colors as rays of light which have varying lengths and degrees of refraction, reflection, absorption depending on the hue. The eye's sensing of each color induces fast reactions in the brain and autonomic nervous system. For example: Warm colors like reds, orange, yellows have the longest wavelengths, requiring energy to view them, that's why those colors seem to pop out at us. They stimulate the brain, raise pulse and respiration rates. In contrast, cool colors like blues and green have the shortest wavelengths and can easily enter the eye. This produces a calming and relieves us while slowing the metabolism. In addition to the involuntary reactions we have learned reception that is equally important to color. We're taught that pink is for...
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...called the "world mirror"... run for your lives! As a result, most teenagers suffer from what some call a poor self-image. They don't like the way they look. They think that they are being continually watched and criticized by others. After time and enough glances in the "world mirror" the poison of self-doubt, frustration, and discouragement creeps into their thinking. The real question, though, is not what we see when we look at our reflection in the "world mirror" Rather the true issue is what God sees when He looks at us - and that is a whole different story! The Bible tells us several truths about what He sees when He looks at us, because He is using the God Mirror so let's take a look First of all, He sees us as specially created and uniquely made individuals. David put it this way in Psalm 139:13,14: "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;" Just like David, you have been personally designed by God as a customized creation. From the color of your eyes to your thumbprint to...
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... * Medium (Material) – Oil * Style - vibrant light and has saturated color * Judgment – a typical scene from Paris 1. What is it about? The painting depicts a typical Sunday afternoon at Moulin de la Galette in the district of Montmartre in Paris. It was an open-air dancehall and café that was frequented by many artists living there. In the late 19th century, working class Parisians would dress up and spend time there dancing, drinking, and eating galettes into the evening. Renoir attended Sunday afternoon dances and enjoyed watching the happy couples. For him, it provided the perfect setting for a painting. This canvas shows Renoir's friends, Frank Lamy, Norbert Goeneutte, and Georges Rivière gathered around the central table. 2. What is it for? And who is the intended bodies / audiences? Especially for working girls and their young men together with a sprinkling of artists who enjoyed the spectacle and also found unprofessional models. The dapple of light is an Impressionist feature but Renoir seems especially to have welcomed the opportunity to make human beings, and especially women, the main components of picture. 3. What are its materials? Or what are the materials used? Renoir used oil on his canvas painting. It is vibrant light and has saturated color. He uses brightly colored brush strokes and opts to blend colors that suit him best. He uses patches of soft color and combines this with vibrantly colored figures, to give the impression of...
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...Irene Sainz Mayo the painting call on the lake to the composition elements description. Like the line element on the lake, two painting is curved lines, which the tree line gives off the image within the sky. Drift off towards, the sides of the canvas and the curve line show in the length within the tree line and beyond. The colors united, in the painting. Is the sky is mix with dark and light blue. Also, a combined with a yellow mix, with reddish orange the clouds look grayish black color. The tree lines in this painting are a blackish color. The lake watercolor in this painting is the dark blue mix, with light blue and blended colors of yellow, reddish orange color. The on the lake two painting movement the shape of the paint is two-dimensional space, the element in the paint are organic and geometric shapes distance within the canvas .The theme of this painting is the beauty of the sunset over, the trees, and the lake water which shows the reflection of nature's magnificence. The rhythm lake to paint the trees and the sky through the reflection through the lake the tone of the painting is light and the tree; in the painting are dark colors in the trees. Overall, the painting gives off a good mood tone and peaceful setting, beautiful, and relaxing...
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...and the goddaughter of the Swedish crown prince. They had expected for their son to “choose a respectable career”, preferably in law. However that was not in the cards for Manet. Ironically, his art career is still being appreciated over a century later. Manet's uncle, Edmond Fournier, supported Manet is his early art interests, arranging frequent trips to the Louvre. Eventually, Manet and his parents were on the same page and they supported his calling for art. The artist’s use of color, space and composition: The lemon by Manet is a unique piece of art. Manet utilizes realism to capture the simplistic form of the fruit. However, this painting is nothing less than sophisticated demonstrating Manet’s true command of color and touch with his brush. The painting is encompassed by dull, dark colors with sporadic brightness. Manet uses different forms of yellow to capture the color, shape, and texture of the lemon. The sudden brightness in the painting can be seen as the natural reflection that the lemon and the plate give off. He also utilizes dark browns mixed with green to reflect the depth and texture of the plate. His brush strokes are different throughout the painting. At times the brush strokes are hard and streaky, and at other times very clean. The painting is open composition, with the plate that the lemon is resting on going off the canvas. The lemon is horizontally depicted, with a strong shallow sense of...
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...characteristics, such as hair type, the color of eyes and skin. Race as a social construction is changing as time goes on. Our daily lives are affected by race whether we are aware of it or not. We can see all over the world that race has affected various domains of our lives. From the types of jobs we have the amount of money we make, the kinds of friends we keep, the food we eat and even the schools we will attend. The entire foundation of race is constructed on a platform based on the color of people’s skin. The construction of social reality is based on social groups and the agreements and disagreements that are made based on the acceptance of certain constructions when it comes to our existence. There is nothing biologically real about race. I have learned that that there is no certain identification of race that exists from our collective agreements, acceptance, and positions other than our existing with one another. Race is a social construction that has real consequences and effects. Race shapes the way we view ourselves and those around us. We shouldn’t have an objective knowledge about race. We can know what race is and how it works being aware that regardless of the various shifts in the meaning of race that they have occurred through history and going to occur geographically but this should not lead to skepticism and the destruction of positive social constructions. The understanding race draws upon differences not only in the skin color and physical attributes but also...
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...TRIED AND TRUE Earth’s reflection: Albedo by Brandon Gillette and Cheri Hamilton H ave you ever walked outside on a sunny winter morning to look at the freshly fallen snow? If so, I hope you had your sunglasses on! When viewing objects of different colors, you might notice that some appear brighter than others. This is because light is reflected differently from various surfaces, depending on their physical properties. Different surfaces of Earth also reflect light in different ways. The word albedo is used to describe how reflective a surface is. An ideal white body has an albedo of 100%, total reflection, and an ideal black body has 0% albedo, or total absorption. The Earth-atmosphere system has a combined albedo of about 30%, a number that is highly dependent on local surface makeup, ground cover, angle of incidence, and cloud distribution (Budikova and Hogan 2010). Figure 1 shows the range in albedo of a variety of common surfaces, ranging from about 5% for dark objects such as forests and asphalt, to as much as 90% for light objects, such as fresh snow. Because Earth’s albedo affects the amount of sunlight the planet absorbs, it has a direct effect on Earth’s energy budget and, therefore, global temperatures. Over the next few decades, effects of climate change, including decreasing areas of highly reflective snow and ice, will decrease Earth’s albedo. This will accelerate the rate of global temperature rise, creating what is known as...
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...Module 3 The Nature and Properties of Light What this module is about Most of the things that you know you have learned about through your eyes. You can only see if there is light. Light makes you see shapes and colors. Light also helps you identify objects both near and far. But what is light? In this module you will learn about the nature and properties of light in the following lessons: Lesson 1 – Lesson 2 – Lesson 3 – Lesson 4 – The Nature of Light Reflection and Mirrors Refraction and Lenses Colors, Interference and Polarization What you are expected to learn After studying the lessons in this module, you are expected to: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. state the different theories about the nature of light; demonstrate reflection properties of light using mirrors; describe the image formed by mirrors; show the refraction properties of light using lenses; give applications of total internal reflection; describe the image formed by lenses; enumerate the colors that make up white light; explain what causes colors of object; and cite applications of diffractions, interference and polarization of light. How to learn from this module Here is a simple guide for you in going about the module. 1. Read and follow the instructions very carefully. 2. Take the pretest (20-item multiple-choice test) to determine how much you know about the lessons in the module. 3. Check your answers against the correct answers provided at the last page of the module. 4. Be very honest in taking the test...
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...its glory. The objects in the piece seem like they are almost incomplete, yet at the same time seem very precise and just as the artist intended them to be. As is a hallmark of Impressionist Art, this picture portrays the overall visual effects as opposed to the details, to not detract from the overall viewing of the piece. Another characteristic of Monet’s Art and Impressionism in general is the use of short vibrating strokes in order to obtain a kind of shifting effect with the light and color, which is very apparent in this particular oil painting. One of most noticeable uses of light in this image is in the reflection on the river of the village. Another good use of the lighting was to create shadows on the front bank in the image. The methods used in this piece have a very interesting way of capturing the fluctuations of light occurring in the scene. The colors in the painting are all bright, with a lack of any dull tones whatsoever, even the shadows are rendered in color. The main colors are vibrant shades of blue, green, and yellow with a...
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...variations within school districts. This can present a problem, because children don’t know how to respond to different ethnic groups, therefore, causing unintentional discrimination/segregation. Our teaching strategy of student centered role playing will be used during a 4th grade social studies lesson, in which we are discussing discrimination and segregation. The children are at the tender age of 9 and 10, and they can relate this activity to things that are happening in their everyday lives. School shooting and bombings are examples of things that are happening often, and many people start to focus on what ethnicity the person is, rather than the person themselves. By doing this, children are learning to look at a person’s skin color or ethnicity, rather than who the person is. In short, this could result in children forming an unknown discrimination against a certain ethnic group. We are focusing on the macro-system by expanding their knowledge about the world around them. The students will also practice perspective taking to help them develop prosocial attitudes. As a result of this, their understanding of themselves will further mature as well, by learning more about who they are and the person they want to become. This type of higher level thinking strengthens the child’s theory of mind. At this stage of development it is important for kids to recognize other’s interpretations and beliefs. Domains in Relationship to Scenario Through our scenario, students will...
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...Formal Analysis of Art The use of lines in an artist piece of work can tell much about their personality. A good example is, Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night which is one of the most personally expressive pieces of art in history (Sayre, 2010). Van Gogh’s lines in The Starry Night appear lose and free in a sense out of control; they are imprecise, and emotionally charged, as if the artist is expressing feelings of anguish (Sayre, 2010). Come to find out the painting, The Starry Night, expresses the authors feelings and energy toward life and death by putting focus on the tip of the church and the swaying of the cypress tree, a tree used to mark graves in Southern France and Italy (Sayre, 2010). More or less when he created this piece of art he was torn between life and death, which led to suicide a little over a year after the piece was finished (Sayre, 2010), so he expressed his confusion and point of view through the out of control lines, while giving the painting a different meaning. The lines that Vincent Van Gogh uses though is like an autograph, one of a kind and could be easily pointed out. Speaking of autographic lines another artist that uses a distinct form of lines that are not only original to the artist, but also expresses their personality through lines used is Sol LeWitt. Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing No. 681 expresses a different sort of personality. Sol LeWitt’s lines are precise, controlled, logical, and rationally organized (Sayre, 2010). The Wall Drawing...
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