La Vita Nuova

The value of being an accomplished artist often leads to a strong imagination. In “La Vita Nuova”, Amanda is introduced as a skilled artist, and someone with a wide imagination. The importance of Amanda’s talent for painting is seen in her relationship with Nathaniel, because the two are able to interact in a familiar relationship, unlike the other relationships of the story. Art and creativity are important aspects in this story for Amanda and Nathaniel’s relationship, because the nurture between the two helps Nathaniel to have a tender relationship, and Amanda to have a relationship where she can be herself, free from judgement. Amanda has a talent in art, as introduced on the first page of “La Vita Nuova”. This talent for art, stems from…

In Allegra Goodman’s short story “La Vita Nuova”, we are presented with a character that possess several traits. Amanda, the story’s protagonist undergoes change as she develops as a character. Amanda went from being an emotionally-dead victim of a hurtful breakup to someone who can feel again. In the beginning of the story, Amanda is perceived as a depressed character. She got dumped by her fiancé shortly before their wedding. Her fiancé would say that she was a “very dark person" or was "like…

In the story, “La Vita Nuova” by Allegra Goodman, several concepts of Starkey’s checklist were used. First, the story started with the most opportune moment. For example, the introduction of the story started with Amanda walking in the Colonial cemetery. As a result, the conflict and tension were present in the situation. Then, a few lines later a flashback of her ex-fiancé’s comment about her was mentioned, “you are living with a dark cloud, Amanda’s fiancé had told her when he left.” This…

Maurice Pefura is a contemporary artist and talented architect in Paris. In 2008 Maurice Pefura's work was on display at Heart Gallerie located in Paris France. However, one of Pefura's recent pieces of artwork, The Silent Way, Beatrice is currently on display for The Divine Comedy exhibition at SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia. The Silent Way, Beatrice was created in 2013. Pefura's inspiration for this work of art is to portray a woman named Beatrice, who was loved deeply by a man named…

Beatriz Milhazes was born in the 1960; her father was a lawyer and mother was an art historian (Ebony 130). In 1981, she earns her degree in journalism but after that year she attended a visual art school called Rios Escola de Artes Visuals do Parque Lage (Ebony 130). In 1993, she started showing her art internationally in countries such as Europe and Latin America (Ebony 130). During the mid-1990’s she showed her work in brazil where she created her set designs for a dance company and her…

It is these three Christian themes of love towards God, free will, and suffering that are significantly present in Dante’s Purgatorio. Dante Aligheieri was an Italian poet from Florence, who wrote his most famous poem, the Divine Comedy, in exile. Dante wrote the Divine Comedy for his idealized love, Beatrice, who appears in the trilogy as a goal for Dante. He traverses Hell, Purgatory, and even into Heaven to find and be with Beatrice. In the first part of his poem, titled Inferno, Dante, led…

argument with the paparazzi, and there is always that one person that feels the need to say, “They signed up for it,” but that’s not true. These celebrities signed up to do what they love; they signed up to do a job just like any other person. What they didn’t do is sign up to have drones fly over their homes, be followed and yelled at as the walk down the street, or be photographed as they are eating dinner with their family and friends. The definitely did not sign up to have their privacy…

the sirens to be unconscious. And for the siren queen, a diamond encrusted silver sword must be used to slay her for she is immortal. Markeus nods his head, gathers the elements given to him and is off to his journey. When Markeus reaches the rocky coasts of Athens, he spots the guardian siren named Mayia. Markeus quickly pulls out the shell from his satchel and throws it towards the siren. The shell then exposes an enchanted powder, that puts Mayia in a deep sleep. The waves crashed on top of…

Landing on the hard consonants and using them at the beginning of the word to propel the pitch forward worked perfectly. However, where there were any uncertain parts, prime example being the "Fa la la" section of “Fire”, our intonation, as well as all the other technical aspects declined rapidly in quality. As far as rhythmic accuracy goes, “Fire” may have lacked that quite a bit in the “Fa la la” section of the song, as well as small hiccups in some of the alleluia phrases of the Latin piece…

I could hear the water in the lake behind moving ever so slowly, but just enough for me to know that I wanted to stay forever. I felt like I was rich and had the biggest and most beautiful house on the entire planet. I remember dancing around with Hippo in the living room singing, “I am rich, la la la! I am rich la la la!” After I stopped dancing and singing, I then thought to myself “ This is paradise.” As I placed my placed my hand on the little statue next to me, I could feel my heart start…