... , during which many painters copied his color scheme that boosted their recognition as well. Some of these painters were Maes, De Hooch, Fabritius, and Vermeer who eventually abandoned Rembrandt's influence for a cooler, daylight color range. Following Vermeer's turn away from Rembrandt's tendencies were many others who found greater appeal to contemporary taste brought in from the classicism coming from Italy and France ... ...

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... the story progresses the embrace of Pieter by Griet's family, expressed their desperation and need for their daughter to have a secure future. The Vermeer's standard of living was more exquisite and existed more toward the upper class. Johannes Vermeer's paintings were the main source of income for a family of nine; five children, two mistresses and two servants with more expected. Money was ... ...

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... family. You see for a young African-American male with a dream, no college savings, and a resolve to win - I made a way in a very non-traditional way. Instead of the glorious path of chasing a football dream until no end, even if it meant moving 1,000 – 2,000 miles away from home, I had to be more creative concerning that phase of my dream career. Instead ... ...

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... wants the viewers to know about the tragedy of what had happened to the aboriginal families torn apart during the 'Stolen Generation'. The moment when Riggs is driving and chasing the three girls and their mother, a low angle camera shot is manipulated to depict Riggs' serious face and reflects his power and authority as well as his strong body shape ... ...

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... college is extremely expensive and it creates not only an enormous aunt of debt, but additional financial problems, which are hard to solve due to lack of employment or underemployment. Chasing the American Dream can actually put a person in a horrible nightmare. The statistics stated above reveal how college cost is crippling and can be very harmful to the productivity of college ... ...

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... amount just for possession!) rather than the real bad guys like street meth, crack/cocaine and heroin. For something like weed which is used wide spread, punishing pot users and chasing after them is more of a waste of time for the police than it is for them to bust an underground meth lab- the drug itself is capable of offering harsher ... ...

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... , many if not all the images featured in Women's Perfectly Fit and Chanel No. 5 ads are altered in one way or the other and are design to trick many into chasing something that is unreal. The constant chase and disappoint, cause-and-effect, cycle may cause separation amongst women because they feel like everything is a competition. Exclusion in the fashion world ... ...

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... in frequently can symbolize her innocence because for much of the book she was a young child that knew happiness more than most. Pearl is seen running in the sun and chasing it, then recognizing that the sun does not shine on her mother. Seemingly well informed, Pearl explains this occurrence being caused by the fact that "the sunshine does not ... ...

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... citizens to report crimes, be witnesses, and believe testimony of the police when serving on juries. The continuous fight against marijuana causes law enforcement to alienate minority youths and communities. Chasing after pot smokers also diverts resources from pursuing predatory criminals ("Perils of Pot Prohibition" 2010). McNamara is a member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), a group started by retired ... ...

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... cinematic technique of reserving close-ups for climactic scenarios in which strong emotions of fear or revelation are personified (e.g. the ape police force are shot close-up when they're chasing Heston). Planet of the Apes works beautifully as work of engaging science fiction because it doesn't settle for visual effects that were merely "acceptable" for its time, resulting ... ...

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... a feeling that they are trying to help the viewer have a better life if they buy their product. To quote Brad Pitt's character from the film Fight Club, "Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need ". This illustrates just how far television has come into becoming propaganda because companies always try ... ...

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... readers could take away an awareness of the fragility their individualism and right to things like high art. At the same time, he was trying to show the dangers of chasing after this so called perfection. In the novel this message is shown when Bernard succumbs to the pressure of society once he is popular again; Success went fizzily to Bernards ... ...

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... or figures being more important than them, some were stubborn about their own beliefs and others didn't exactly follow the Ten Commandments. Too many ended up ruining their lives by chasing religious goals that were unattainable or by letting religion and influences decide their lives too much. Despite all that, religion helped people relate to each other and help one another ... ...

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When it comes to community entertainment, nothing beats a good, old-fashioned witch hunt. It's so much easier to just accuse someone of witchcraft and have them hanged then to actually deal with your problems. Towns from New York to Savannah participate in this outrageous behavior, and when it comes to films depicting such grand dissipation, one of the best is Nicholas Hytner's "The Crucible." Based on Arthur Miller's play of the same name, "The Crucible" is set in the small settler town of Salem, Massachusetts in the early 1690's, a town with many young ladies looking for love. In their despe...

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... trade deficit, which has an economy that's having trouble building up a head of steam. "Economists refer to this phenomenon as overcapacity, which is really nothing more than too much supply chasing too little demand. And it can be found these days across a wide swath: agriculture, autos, advertising, chemicals, computer hardware and software, consulting, financial services, forest products, furniture, mining, retail, steel ... ...

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... mind when they think of an Indian reservation and you might get anything from tribal dances with feathery headdresses, and teepees to buffalo running wild, Indians on horseback, the Calvary chasing close behind with their guns blazing. That was mostly due to the cinematic depiction in the 1950's and 1960's. That image changed in recent years to a more sympathetic feeling toward ... ...

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... terror in the Middle East and elsewhere. Back in the days when CIA operatives got their results by getting their hands dirty and running covert operations, Baer spent his career chasing down leads on suspected terrorists in the world's most volatile hot spots. As he and his agents risked their lives gathering intelligence; he watched as the CIA reduced drastically its ... ...

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When journalism is chosen as a career, society tends to have a stereotypical image of a group of photographers chasing celebrities. If not, then an image of an anonymous person writing biased comments about current affairs, trying to manipulate the truth. However, their real work earns them every cent they ... ...

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... is being presented. The obvious concern of journalists is uncovering the truth, but recent trends in current affairs journalism clearly show that the journalists inspiration for the unrelenting and insensitive chasing of stories is to achieve good ratings even if this means that the presentation of the truth is a casualty. Frontline helps the audience challenge the representation of truth by the ... ...

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... was smoking one-two marijuana joints daily through the week, and five-six joints daily on weekends, as well as drinking the equivalent of a 12-pack of beer daily, occasionally "chasing" it with whiskey during the week, and on weekend, consuming the standard 12-pack of beer in addition to half of a fifth of whiskey mixed with soft drinks. 5) Physiological Symptomology ... ...

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... humanities flaw of "judging based on the cover", when a blind man finds Frankenstein a sincere man; but when the blind De Lacey's family learns of the monster they disown the creature, chasing him into the woods. "The being in Frankenstein, is no doubt, a tremendous creature. It was impossible that he should not have received among men that treatment which led to the ... ...

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... the other hand, Eveline's siblings were considerably older than her and her father would customarily be a menace in their life during their childhood by either drinking uncontrollably, being violent or chasing them out of the field that they played in with his "blackthorn stick."" These issues from her past eventually have a profound impact on her and are now leading her to ... ...

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... to be ignorant, untrustworthy thieves, mobsters, and decadent, as servants, mulattoes, domineering. He called the freedmen "Renegade Negros," and showed their characters as nothing more than dim-witted, gorilla rapist chasing dreams of marrying white women. Lt. Governor Lynch was viewed as a conniving dictator who was "out to get" the Camerons, our powerless white family. The good "faithful souls" were the ... ...

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... to exploit the worker allowed them to get a foothold in the market. So capitalism evolved into globalization. This is the major reason why all other systems, communism included, found themselves chasing the idea of wealth through production. According to Marx, the 'capitalist mode of production' is a product of the 'industrial revolution' and the division of labor coming from it. By virtue ... ...

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... and Legolas (The new Fellowship) are met by the Riders of Rohan. After talking, the new fellowship learns the Riders of Rohan have caught and killed the Orcs they were chasing, but did not harm any hobbits. Aragorn's party later arrives at the scene where the battle took place and guess (correctly) that Merry and Pippin escaped to the forest. While ... ...

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