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A Critique of Pablo Neruda's "Enigmas"

Enigmas You've asked me what the lobster is weaving there with ...

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"Three Lemons" still life by Robert A. Sloan77

Positive Criticism

"Three Lemons" still life by Robert A. Sloan  I've been teaching art ever since the 1980s, either casually or sometimes by holding classes. Inevitably I run into adults, sometimes older people, who swear up...

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Stellaluna Children's Book Critique, Lesson Plans and Activities for Educators

This is an endearing story about Stellaluna, a silver fruit bat baby who gets separated from her mother during an owl attack, and falls head first into a nest of baby birds. She did everything she could to fit into this peculiar situation. "She ate bugs without making faces. She slept in...

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Rihanna Satana

This photograph of pop music star Rihanna is from her new album Rated-R. I first saw the photo on a blog that jokingly said she was covering it to hide a bruised eye that Chris Brown gave her. Now that might...

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Critique My Query Letter

The process of getting a book published, especially under current economic conditions, might just be impossible unless you have a massive 'platform' as they call it in the publishing world.  It seems to a...

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The Best Kept Secret of Figure Drawing: The Open Session

Figure by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon. Figure by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon. Salvador Dali, in his book 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship, affirmed that even having a bad drawing teacher was better than having none at...

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Strong is Your Hold by Galway Kinnell

In Galway Kinnell’s “Strong is Your Hold” his poems rejected the idea of seeking fulfillment by escaping into the imaginary world, and instead has his characters inhabiting perfectly tangible worlds....

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How to Write a Critical Movie Review

Chances are, you like to watch movies. It's only natural that you would want to write about them. With the internet, it's easy for moviegoers to espouse their thoughts about movies at their blogs, journals,...

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Hieronymus Bosch- an art critique

Hieronymus Bosch's work is very symbolic, leaving the observer unable to stay neutral in emotions and wonder. In some sense it seems to be surreal or dreamlike- somewhat ahead of his time since it is a few...

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Yearling cover of Thomas Rockwell's How to Eat Fried Worms.81

How to Eat Fried Worms

More and more children's books for boys are popping up in the last couple of decades. While it used to be boys would rarely do much reading, overall, unless it contained graphics and superheros and sound...

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