This painting is called “Café Terrace at Night” by Vincent Van Gogh. It was created at 1888. This painting has the primary colors of blue, green, and a tiny bit of red. It also has a secondary color of yellow. The painting depicts the analogous colors of blue and yellow. The color temperature in this painting is cool and chill, but at the same time it is warm and cozy. The complementary colors of yellow contrasts with the complementary colors of blue and green. The contrast draws the attention to
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In the essay "Let There Be Dark" by Paul Bogard, Bogard uses evidence and reasoning in order to successfully persuade the audience that natural darkness should be preserved. Bogard begins with an anecdote, by telling a story from his childhood. He then provides evidence that darkness is beneficial to our health, and conversely, artificial light isn't. He then addresses the problem, which is that due to pollution and other artificial light sources, our nights are getting brighter. In the final paragraph
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Light vs. Dark In the epic poem Beowulf, a battle between light and dark arises throughout Heorot, and even though it looked as if darkness had fallen over society, light broke through the darkness, ultimately shining back onto civilization. This darkness that has fallen over Heorot follows Grendel, the monster from Hell, with every step he takes. Only coming out at night to terrorize the people, this darkness seems to be unbeatable, and all hope seems lost. But, Beowulf, a warrior who “swam
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appeared before. The dark side of Othello has supplanted the fair Othello as he replies to Iago’s trickery with “Her name…begrimed and black as my own face.”(3.3.389-91). One can see that Othello recognizes himself as an air to darkness and that he is of an evil nature. As before he took pride in his skin color, however, now he is referring to his skin as an example
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Research on Fear of Darkness The fear of the dark is a common fear or phobia among children and, to a varying degree, of adults. Fear of the dark is usually not fear of darkness itself, but fear of possible or imagined dangers concealed by darkness. Some degree of fear of the dark is natural, especially as a phase of child development. Most observers report that fear of the dark seldom appears before the age of 2 years. When fear of the dark reaches a degree that is severe enough to be considered
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I would read in the dark with a little fan light every night. I remember hearing my dad coming in and yelling at me for reading in the dark. He would claim my eyesight would worsen, but I always ignored him (little did I know he was right). My happy place was me in my bed, snuggled under my white, furry blanket, with a book in my hand. Some kids would be up watching TV or playing on their Nintendo DSI, but not me. As soon as my parents checked on me at night, I would pull out my book from
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Others are of the dark, spiders, bears, and more which is a physical fear. Some people love the feeling of fear, others hate it. I personally am scared of the dark, spiders, and not having my phone or headphones on me. The last one is a weird fear, but it seriously scares me. The dark is so terrifying, I detest the dark. So many bad things can happen in the dark, you can’t see anything and it’s terrifying. After you watch so many scary movies and everything happens in the dark, you start imagining
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She opens the door to the dark apartment. INT. APARTMENT - DAY Layla and Gabby walk into the dark, neat, scarce apartment with worn furniture. Layla flips the light switch, but they don’t work. She struggles to open the blinds of their barred windows. When the blinds opens a rat scurries away from the outside
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The Creepy Night By Bling Dog The night was cold and windy. The moon was a full moon tonight. The trees looked haunted and scary with their big shadows. The sky was completely pitch black. There was a haunted house. It had a purplish-blackish roof. The house was painted completely pitch black. The door was an indigo color. The lights were out, but the chimney was puffing out black puffy smoke. On the roof there were some very scary looking bats. They even looked real. On the front door there
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Acquainted with the night Have you ever watched a spooky bone chilling movie and had cold chills run down your spine? What about going into a withered old abandoned house by yourself on a stormy night? These are the types of feelings I had while reading “Acquainted with the night” by Robert Frost. In “Acquainted with the night” by Robert Frost he describes himself as being alone, depressed and he has no meaning. Robert may have related this poem to some of the tragedies he had in his life, whether
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