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    In the impressionism era‚ any exoteric about impression such as paintings or music would like to show people that picture in color with a completely abstract and beyond reality. The French composer‚Claude Debussy (1862-1918) is a leader of the impressionism in field of music.Debussy likes to place the title of a work at the end of the peice‚that allows pianists to feel and imagine the music intuitively before they find out what Debbusy intended to compost about. La Cathédrale engloutie (The Sunken

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    I used the poem titled‚ America by Claude McKay as my inspiration to write my own poem called Institution based off my experience in school. I used the literary elements and techniques of the poem to use as influence for mine. For example‚ I used the rhyme scheme‚ syllable count‚ and line count that had been used in McKay’s poem‚ in mine. My poem is exactly 14 lines long‚ ten syllables per line and has a rhyme scheme of A‚ B‚ A‚ B‚ like the McKay’s poem. Using similar techniques helped me to convey

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    of key phrases and metaphor‚ in the poem ¨If We Must Die” by Claude McKay‚ the author shows that African American people wanted to show pride for at least trying to express themselves to be equal because if they must die‚ their lives should show the whites that they didn´t die meaninglessly‚ they wanted the whites to show some respect for other African American in the future for the honor. In the poem ¨ If We Must Die” by Claude McKay‚ the author uses key phrases to show that African American wanted

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    Date: March 7‚ 2014 Assignment: Art Critique Name of Art Gallery: Frist Museum Of Art Title of Artwork: “Grainstacks (Sunset)” Name of Artist: Claude Monet Form (size‚ shape‚ materials‚ colors‚ and composition): Size; Medium. Shape; Triangular formation. Colors; Yellow‚ Badge‚ Brown‚ Red‚ Gray‚ and Blue. Materials Used; Oil on canvas‚ and paint. Content: In 1890 and 1891‚ Monet painted a group of pictures of the stacks of wheat in the fields near his home‚ exhibiting

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    Throughout the years‚ Claude Monet’s Impression‚ Sunrise has been celebrated as the quintessential symbol of the Impressionist Movement.  This renowned work of art which illustrates a view of the port of Le Havre in north-western France is considered to be one of Monet’s “most poetic expressions” of his engagement with France’s revitalization efforts after the Franco-Prussian War.[1] Unlike other artworks of the time‚ the subject matter and specific painting techniques evident in Impression‚ Sunrise seek

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    The captivating true words of writers Claude McKay‚ James Weldon‚ and Jean Toomer resemble the atrocious events of the past couple months of the multiple homicidal murders and brutality by law enforcement against African Americans. Nothing is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and stupidity. The year of 1619 was the beginning of slavery in our country by the Europeans and did not end until 1865 ‚ and it wasn’t until almost fifty years later in 1913 that a white man was finally persecuted and

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    Oil on Canvas 1772 Claude Joseph Vernet French 1714-1779 Patron’s Permanent Fund and Chester Dale Fund 2000.221 Claude Joseph Vernet was one of the most artistic French landscape and marine painters in Europe during the seventeenth century. Throughout his successful career‚ Vernet made sketching trips within Rome and along the Mediterranean coast capturing scenes that reflect his most famous works of art (National Gallery of Art‚ 2005). During the age of Enlightenment‚ he received many

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    The Tropics in New York was written by Claude McKay in 1920. McKay was born in Jamaica in 1890 and immigrated to the United States in 1912. The twenty-two years that he lived in Jamaica gave him inspiration for this poem. The poem includes masterful imagery and other literary devices. The poem starts with McKays somewhat cheerful description of luscious tropical fruits: Bananas ripe and green‚ and ginger-root‚ / Cocoa in pods and alligator pears‚ (lines 1-2). At this point‚ the reader is not sure

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    A Renaissance man but born in Jamaica‚ grow up in the times where blacks talked about the injustices that they faced in their time‚ and expressed their culture. At the age of seventeen he moved to the U.S. where he spent most of his years writing. Claude quickly learned that racism was a social norm and segregation was a none to be a part of life. The poem “If we must die” on page 1005 vol.1. “If we must die‚ let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot‚”. Was understood to be written

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    Shaymeon Robertson AP English Literature If We Must Die By: Claude McKay If We Must Die‚ by Claude McKay is a sonnet written during the Harlem Renaissance period; a period where there was a flowering of African-American literature and art‚ (1919- mid 1930s). Though the Harlem Renaissance period was a time of thriving people and culture in the African-American community‚ prejudice was still very much active; something

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