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    A Picture Of The Shadows

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    A Picture of the Shadows: A Discussion of How Chiaroscuro Illustrates Remembering and Forgetting in In the Skin of a Lion In the novel, In the Skin of a Lion, Michael Ondaatje uses the motif of chiaroscuro, or the relationship between light and shadow, to illustrate the themes of remembering and forgetting. A motif is a narrative element that reoccurs throughout a narrative, an idea that has a symbolic meaning. As described by H. Porter Abbott, it is not abstract but a concrete idea, which moulds

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    Shadow of the Night

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    Shadow of the Night On a freezing, dark blue night of Li, in the Village of Li-Marta. This was an old little village, the houses were nothing but ash and rubble except an old abandoned barn. The barn had creaking floor boards and a rotten wooden roof. In this abandoned barn there lived a young and confident farm boy; his clothes were ragged and full of holes. The young boy was called Rye named after the agricultural god Ren-Rye. As Rye was sitting on the creaking floor boards a thought hit him

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    Shadow Reflection

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    The student I chose to follow for a shadow study is a junior girl who has been very open in class about expressing her opinion. The student is in my cooperating teacher’s Basic Geometry class during second block. I picked this particular student because my cooperating teacher told me a story about how last year this student yelled at a substitute teacher while he was absent and walked out of class. Also, I have seen how this student interacts with her peers in my cooperating teacher’s classroom.

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    For this assignment I chose to shadow my mother, Gidget Wray. Gidget is the owner of Hip Hip HooWray Events and Designs. This business consists of a variety of wood designs which are sketched and painted to the customers satisfaction. A typical day in the studio begins with scheduled and unscheduled events, such as private parties, Open Studio, and offsite events. Choosing to shadow my mother was an easy decision because of how dedicated she is to her business. During my time shadowing her, I was

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    is called Across Tender Land and was inspired by Saurer’s surroundings while growing up (Shadow Casting). On piece, in particular, caught my eye. His Shadow Casting sculpture is around 75 pieces of welded steel and charred wood composed into different shapes mounted on a wall. When I first saw this piece, I found it interesting, but as I got closer, sensored lights came on and caused each piece to cast a shadow on the wall behind the sculpture. This piece of art reminded me the incense burner that

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    Moon shadow is a young boy from the motherland aka China. Moon shadows dad works in america or as the call it the land of the golden mountain. White people and anyone from America are called demons. His dad was a kite maker and made very nice kites that moon shadow would fly with his mom. Hand clap who brought them a letter was his dad’s cousin, His dad wanted him to come to America to be with him to help him work. Moon shadow made up his mind and decided to go. Moon shadow is scared and nervous

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    Carl Jung proposes the idea of a ‘shadow’, a reflection of our own, unconscious, personal demon that is always there. Although I am not sure I have fully grasped what his idea is, I would describe my ‘shadow’ as the doubt I have for myself. I always constantly doubt my abilities to do anything, whether it is something I have done a hundred times or am trying for the first time. Anytime I go to do something here is this shadow lurking behind me, saying I am not smart or able enough to do whatever

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    during bedtime. His grandfather shared a story about a mystical legend of people called the "Shadow Snatchers". The Shadow Snatchers were a mythical tribe that believed in the ritual of snatching children shadows. The Priest would catch a child sleeping and cast a spell to steal their shadow. The kids thought the story was amusing. James told them about a book in the library that tells the story about the Shadow Snatchers. Cindy who mother was the town mayor suggested they should get the book and

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    went on strange thing continued to occur. In math the shadows seemed to be constantly moving as if they were watching her. Sylvia tried moving to different seats and walking around ,but it seemed that everywhere she went to shadows made an effort to follow. When she was alone in the restroom the shadows started inching their way towards her in what seemed like an effort to consumer her. Then some random girl walk in and they went back to shadows. You must really be losing it Sylvia thought to herself

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    Shadows on the Sidewalk Dr. Owens tells me it's called Sciophobia. He says I’m afraid of shadows. But they’re not just shadows, and no one, no one believes me. Everyone just always accepts the fact that shadows are there, casted when light is draped over an object. Darkness, that's what they truly are. Infinite darkness. They are the demons we are born with; they follow us from birth to death. My shadow is always there, even when there is not a ray of light shining upon me. If it’s

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