For this informal essay, write for up to 30 minutes in response to this painting:
https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/works-in-focus/search/commentaire_id/la-gare-saint-lazare-7080.html?no_cache=1
Claude Monet's Gare St. Lazare. The Musee d'Orsay site allows you to zoom in on the image, but feel free to search the image on Google or wikipedia.
Prompt: In looking over this painting, how does it seem to capture both the promise and the threats of the emerging modern world? How would a contemporary of Monet's (i.e. someone living in his time of the late 1800s) feel about the image and the scene it portrays?
Note: it is going to be one page without double space. It has to be done in 15 hours.