The artist also used chiaroscuro to establish a light source by using shadows falling away to the background from the boy himself on the wood planks and on the bench. ... The boy's clothing promotes wealth and regality. ... The boys face seems to stand out also with its light orange tint against the dark gray of the sky that frames it. ... The hills in the background are painted very small and are dark in value. Even the shadows themselves seem to taper off as they fall behind the subject, painted in a perceived reflected color of his jacket. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The novel 'Wild Cat Falling' deals with journey because throughout the novel the first person or narrator experiences and deals many issues in his life, which is the journey. ... One issue that clearly stands out from this novel is that the laws for aborigines are different from the laws for white Australians. ... These rules are more likely to be experienced as foreign and difficult to understand by someone coming from a different background or cultural tradition, than for someone who is apart of the dominant culture by whom the rules are made for. ... "Wild Cat Falling" shows us ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A young trigger happy boy who has herd tales of Eastwood's background, has come to partner up with him and collect on the hookers bounty. ... After a couple days of recovery the three set out to collect the reward and do what has to be done. ... Later he is captured while Eastwood and the boy kill the second cowboy. ... First with Morgan freeman losing his nerve and then the boy falling apart after he killed the other man. ... I think the movie would have been just as could had they left that out. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Buddy is a teenage boy with no direction and no motivation, he seeks a father figure to replace his own who is divorcing his mother, and Harry Flowers seems to be his answer. ... This is most evident through the Avenger, when reading the first few chapters, one believes that this Avenger is actually a decent person and is really out to do well. However further into the novel it becomes apparent that he is actually a cold-hearted killer, which drastically changes the reader's notion of this boy. ... By the end of the story the characters have all had trust wrenched from them by the misfor...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The boy told his dad, yes. As they got within 100 yards of the house, the boy tripped. As he was falling to the ground, he used the butt of the gun to keep from falling, when he did, the gun went off and killed him instantly. ... Now that there is a law, everybody who purchases a gun has to fill out a questionnaire. Their background is checked before they are allowed to take the gum home. ...

• Word Count: 715
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Phoenix Jackson's background is easily understood as Welty describes her as "an old Negro woman with her head tied in a red rag." ... When Phoenix comes across the black dog, she talks to the young white boy with a sense of inferiority. ... When she notices a nickel fall out of his pocket, she soon changes her attitude and tries to hurry the boy away. ... When the boy returns to her, he tells her "I"d give you a dime if I had any money with me." Ironically, he did have money with him, yet it fell out of his pocket and Phoenix got it anyway. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The main character, Anson Hunter, the rich boy', thinks he is socially above the few women that appear throughout the short story. ... Anson and Paula fall in love, and have what the author describes as a successful engagement'. ... "In the evening he went out as usual, saying nothing of what had occurred; he was cordial, humorous, unabstracted. ... Anson's character and background effects the way he treats women. ... "The Rich Boy- portrays a tension and a struggle for power between two genders. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The light in the painting stands out more heavily than the shadows. Only the boy who is cupping his hands to make a sound like a boat horn breaks the summer silence. ... The light, the sun, the sky, the trees, the buildings, people swimming and the boats moving along in the background points out the heavy heat of a summer day. ... This style of bright colors could also fall in the same classification as it being primitive. ... The background is in the effect of strong primary colors. ...

• Word Count: 448
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• Grade Level: High School

The next clip shows a little boy standing in the middle of a street holding a bag and staring up at the changing sky. It proceeds with angels falling from the sky and the song "Sexy Angels" by Fallen Angels starts to play in the background. ... Many things about this ad caught my attention, such as the changing of the environment as soon as the man who used the Axe product stepped outside, the dropping of the angels out the sky, the playing of background music, and when the man said, "New Axe: Excite; even angels will fall. ... First, immediately when he walks out of the door after using the ...

• Word Count: 1476
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He was always top of his class, and rather than spending his time out with friends or with his family he spent his time with books and notes. Initially, this approach makes Rodriguez stand out as an exceptional student, but as time goes on, he becomes an outsider both at home and in school. ... The scholarship boy comes from a working class family background and when he starts school is thrust into a totally new environment. ... It is easy to see a young boy might get caught up in all this. ... Some students may embrace the new environment and excel others may find it hard to adjust and fall b...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

McCarthy does this on purpose, by creating this relentless, colorless landscape it enables his symbols of optimism to stand out. ... He took out his knife and chiseled at it with care. ... The apocalyptic scenario the reader encounters in The Road is filled with ash and falling trees. ... Whenever glimpses of hope came through they stood out from the gray monochromatic background of the post-apocalyptic world. ... Color stands out from the rest of the world and gives the audience a glimpse into what was. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

"A&P" Essay A teenage boy finds himself in conflict with his boss in John Updike's "A&P." ... Critics draw attention to the fact that "Updike has found a voice of singular appropriateness for his narrative consciousness - a boy of nineteen from a working-class background who is working as a checkout clerk at the local A&P grocery store" (Magill 915). ... After quitting his job, Sammy exits the store marking the beginning of the falling action. The falling action informs the reader that Sammy realizes his mistake. ... This new knowledge is what makes Sammy a man instead of a teena...

• Word Count: 1281
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• Grade Level: High School

This describes the backgrounds of the characters through the use of metaphorical descriptions of televisions. ... The audience is again reminded of the fact that these individuals live through television, as they experience their first falling out over a TV program. "Their first falling out, took place over candid camera". ... The boy only wants to please his mother, this also symbolises Australians urge to please America. ... The girl is the illuminated figure also in the advertisement her dress and skin stand out against the background and the man's suit. ...

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It will be so hard for him to recede into the background He wouldn't really lie, but perhaps he made himself believe he heard those words and recognized the face. ... Third, he states that an old man wouldn't want to recede into the background and become a man who amounts to nothing. ... A few of the jurors could not understand how the old man could here the boy's voice from the ceiling, but quickly one of the jurors pointed out that since it was a hot night the windows had been open. ... Juror #8 states that the woman said she was tossing and turning because she could not f...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the background you hear someone hollering, most likely from the pain of having a tooth pulled. ... The preacher angry at the boy because of his disbelief tells the boy he feels sorry for him." ... The preacher asks the boy "So now we the ignorant?" ... After falling back, the boy gets his balance and provokes the preacher to hit him again on the other side, which the preacher does. This time the boy braces and stands tall. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

BACKGROUND PAPER 1. ... Born and raised in New York's mountains, Currey seemed just like any other average boy. ... In the face of handgun, machinegun, and artillery fire, Currey, with a companion, knocked out a German tank with one shot. ... He took command of a machinegun, whose crew had been killed, and laid down machinegun cover fire, which allowed the five Americans, two of whom where badly wounded, to fall back safely out of harm's way. Currey had inflicted such heavy damage to the enemy that the Germans were forced to fall back. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

ARRANGED MARRAIGES Arranged marriages, by definition are when two individuals from the same racial and cultural background are picked by their respective parents or relatives to be united in the holy name of marriage. ... They believe that love comes after marriage, as love before marriage can be a moment of excitement or about doing the "in-thing", or that they might mistake lust for love so when a couple actually takes the big step and gets married they find out that their attraction is wearing off and it is not working out, which eventually leads to a divorce. ... They believe that fa...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

For example, Citizen Kane opens on a sign saying "No Trespassing" which eventually pans out to reveal a lone house on the hill, with one light burning dimly in the window. ... During the scene where Kane's mother effectively signs the boy over to Mr. Thatcher, we are first introduced to Kane through a long shot of the boy playing innocently out in the snow. ... Kane stood behind them ranting and complaining, and young Kane in the background seen playing through the open window. ... This complex shot allows for a foreground/background change in focus, as our attention is constantly shifte...

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The reader learns a lot about Gatsby's background when Fitzgerald writes how Gatsby changed his name from James Gatz, representing poor and lazy farm boy from North Dakota, to James Gatsby, a hardworking man with a dream to become rich so he can marry Daisy. ... On the other hand, the movie does not give the audience the background of Gatsby and it fails to provide the kind of passion he had for Daisy and what was he willing to do to get her. ... This has some of the best imagery in the book because it creates an image of cool autumn, "when leaves were falling", and "sidewalk was white ...

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• Grade Level: High School

For example, Jean has loved Miss Julie since he was a young boy. ... But, the main conflict is that Jean and Julie fall in love and want to run away together. ... They both have detailed background stories and spend all night talking in the kitchen about how they are in love and want to be together. ... It is consistent as a serious and tense tone through out the whole play. ... As long as people continue to fall in love, someone will be jealous, like Kristin, and sometimes it just doesn't work out. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

One example is the boy who collected all the marbles in his pocket. The External is when the movie suddenly goes into slow motion and you hear his pocket rip as all the marbles fall out. To get rid of the gold fish the mother dumps it out in the river. ... To do this effectively the movie first shows Amelie looking out the window and then scales down to a garden that is spacial with it's surroundings . ... The news story of the death of Lady Di in the background is also an intensifier because Amelie ignores the T.V. and focuses on the box. ...

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• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

This technique is best exemplified by the varying detail given to the trees as they fall deeper into the background of the painting. ... Lighting effects are also evident by the washing out of colors as one looks deeper into the painting. ... Close to the path, there is a small brook with a young boy lying on his stomach and drinking the water. ... The comparison of the relative sizes of the boy, dog, trees and other objects establishes size and distance. ... Consequently, the details of the objects in his painting are vague and hard to make out. ...

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• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Depression started to take place, as the people were beginning to fall apart day after day. ... A person from the crowd yelled out, "Where is God?" ... The little boy that looked like a sad angel was to light, and did not completely hang. As the watched the little boy, the same man yelled out, "Where is God now?" ... Knowing that people actually went through those kinds of things, just because they had a little difference in their backgrounds is outrageous. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The dance starts to become boisterous and the pots and pans start to fall to the floor. While this whole ordeal is going on he is just trying to, "Hang on like death" to his father and not fall over. The mother remains an odd man out to the situation at hand which is why she has a glower countenance. ... To determine the true understanding of this poem the reader must first learn the background of Theodore Roethke's childhood and what all he remembers of his father. ... Otto Roethke accepted his son's choices and let him live them out, but he wouldn't approve of it. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Peter Houghton, he is an average 17 year old boy. ... In this case, Peter and his father, Lewis, were very close when Peter was a little boy. Lewis would always take Peter out to hunt. ... "It seemed as if Peter had been waiting all fall for this weekend. ... Peter had hacked into the school system a couple minutes before the shooting had occurred, "Patrick stared at the purple background, the flaming red letters that scrolled like a marquee: READY OR NOT, HERE I COME." ...

• Word Count: 1341
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School