The Rapture series is Shirin Neshat’s thirteen-minute video installations that were shot in black and white (Whitney Museum). For this specific analysis, we are looking at a horizontal gelatin silver print of a scene in this series. Since the photo is taken from Neshat’s original video installation, it also appear in black and white. When looking at this image, we can see the environment that everything took place in, which is an ocean scenery. There are around forty women in traditional black chadors
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Our Lady of Guadalupe, or also known as Virgin of Guadalupe, is a very religious figure to Catholics after appearing to Juan Diego. In 1531, Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared to Juan Diego in Tepeyac Hill (Mexico) to send a message to the Bishop. She requested that a shrine to her be built where she appeared. In order to be sure the Bishop requested a sign to make sure Juan Diego wasn’t lying. Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared to Juan Diego once again, demanding him to collect roses and take them to the
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imagination and when she walks in to the church her eyes catches a painting of a woman dressed in blue. The painting is surrounded by lots of candles, and is placed “higher than the rest of us”(line 28). At this time, she’s not aware that she’s looking at Virgin Mary – the holy mother of Jesus. She loves her. The relation and connection she feels talks to her in a way she does not know. This scene brings us to the whole conflict of the text and a big change in Violets life and mind. Because then, on a Sunday
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MaroianBrianna Fehrman Bradshaw Final Winter 2012 The history of Mariology traces theological developments and views regarding Mary, the Blessed Virgin, from the early first century through the twentieth. The first image of Mary that we see is in the early second century and it is the earliest veneration of Mary with her son, Jesus. It was found in the Catacomb of Priscilla, Rome and is a fresco that included Mary and Saint Peter together. Mary’s status as the Mother of God is clear in
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and Violet suddenly notices a very beautiful woman on the wall. She gets all Violets attention. Afterwards Violet starts to admire this woman, and everywhere she goes, this beautiful woman is too. Violet doesn’t know that it is the Virgin Mary, she saw. One day the Virgin Mary also is on the front page of her father’s newspaper, yet with a little baby boy in her arms. When Violet sees that, she gets so angry and jealous. I think she feels in some way that this woman was her “mother”, it was Violet
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Ave Maria Frank O’Hara’s “Ave Maria” can be a great voice for mothers depending on the way it is interpreted. The name of the poem itself literally holds a Latin meaning “Hail Mary.” Hail Mary is prayer to the Virgin Mary saluting her to the mother of God which conveys that this poem will reach out to mothers in a serious way. The first time I read this poem through I began to relate. I could relate to almost every part of the poem. Ave Maria can either be a good way of giving advice to a mother
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fascination with the Virgin Mary. The story is told from her point of view and we only know what she knows. The story starts out in medias res, with the family on their way to church. The story starts at the church and ends at the church, the whole story is centered mainly around religious objects, and the most visible theme is religion. At church Violet notices this beautiful lady dressed in blue, Violet is transfixed with her, she does not know or realize that this lady is the Virgin Mary, and her
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Sindhuja Muppa November 21, 2013 Writing Workshop Mythology “Myths are common stories at the root of our universal existence” (Seger). In the essay written by Scott Russell Sanders, "The Men We Carry in Our Minds" discusses Sander’s perspective on men in comparison to the impression that women carry in their minds. The essay, “Creating the Myth” by Linda Seger shows on how stories are based on our own life experiences. Sander’s argument about how the impressions of men or women are based on
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Before checking this book out from the library I had no idea what it was about, after reading the short summary on the back of the book and finding out a film was also created to mimic this story I was immediately intrigued . The story was narrated through the main character Lily, a young teenage girl who wanted nothing more than to seek out information regarding her diseased mother whom she has restricted memories and who desperately desires to know what love and true happiness consists of. Lily
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