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Herman Melville: An Anti-Transcendentalist Or Not
Number of Words: 1672 / Number of Pages: 7
... of evidence concerning Melville’s relation to his mother Maria Melville. “Apparently the older son Gansevoort who carried the mother's maiden name was distinctly her favorite.” (Edinger 7) This was a sense of alienation the Herman Melville felt from his mother. This was one of the first symbolists to the Biblical Ishamel.
In 1837 he shipped to Liverpool as a cabin boy. Upon returning to the U.S. he taught school and then sailed for the South Seas in 1841 on the whaler Acushnet. After an 18 month voyage he deserted the ship in the Marquesas Islands and with a companion lived for a month among the nati ...
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Alexandre Dumas
Number of Words: 252 / Number of Pages: 1
... on Dumas's works. Few people know, however, that the author was the grandson of a Haitian slave, or that Dumas's mulatto father rose rapidly through the ranks of the French Army to become a legendary general by the age of 31. His father died when Dumas was only four. General Dumas, having fallen out of favor with Napoleon, not being sympathetic with Bonaparte's imperial ambitions. Though the general died young, leaving his son without an inheritance, Dumas overcame poverty, the lack of formal education, and the constant wear and tear of 19th-century racism to become one of the world's most popular wr ...
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Juan Gris
Number of Words: 1115 / Number of Pages: 5
... del in Prado, Madrid. This was deffinetly one of Gris's greatest achievements. The portrait of Josette is based on his studies after Corot and Cezanne. To perfection he seemed to create a stunning mixture of the foreground and the background. This beauty is accomplished through color patterns that ensemble different spatial planes. The blacks which are used around the bosom, butox and leg are used to enhance this women's shapely figure. The transparency does not result in an illusion of depth instead it acts as something to join the planes together. The table was created in Spring of 1914. Today it ...
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Machiavelli And Plato
Number of Words: 1588 / Number of Pages: 6
... was simply to influence Lorenzo The Magnificent son of Piero Di Medici in the hope for possible appointment within public office. The Prince is therefore merely suggestions on possible theories in terms of a governing policy.He does not infer that this account is the be all and end all of successful rule and acknowledges himself as a humble man who has taken the time to study the deeds of great men to form an ideology that can be taken by the reader, in this case Lorenzo Medici as he interprets it.He does not claim to have the answer to politics just a different perspective by way of analyses of the ...
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The Life Of Walt Disney
Number of Words: 1332 / Number of Pages: 5
... factory. But, he
determinedly replied," I want to be an artist."4 His first endeavor was
the Iwerks-Disney firm. He and his friend , Ub Iwerks, rented a small
studio and designed ads for local businesses. They payed the rent of the
studio in artwork.5 In April of 1920, Disney took a better paying job at
the Kansas City Film Ad company. Ub also took a position at the company.6
Later Walt Disney left the company and moved to Hollywood. He wanted to
make longer animated cartoons in stead of short animated ads. Disney's
first character with a personality, was Oswald the Rabbit. But, in a
sc ...
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Rudolph Christian Karl Diesel
Number of Words: 348 / Number of Pages: 2
... was modified and improved many times before finally prefected in 1896.
To do this Rudolph had to have a great understanding of Thermodynamics. He had
to know basic principles of engines and how they work. Rudolph got help from
many people. Some of the people that helped him are Machine-fabric Augsburg,
Gasmotoren-Fabric Deutz and Mannesmann-Werke. It took them six years to finish
the Diesel Engine.
It was important because it gave a new and easier way of using engines. It
gave a way for large vehicles to transport goods safely. It is easier to make
than the steam engine. All we did was be ...
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Willa Sibert Cather And His Works
Number of Words: 709 / Number of Pages: 3
... where she attended Red Cloud High School.
She attended the University of Nebraska, and graduated in 1895. As a student
she worked as a journalist, copy editor, critic, and fiction writer. When she
graduated, she moved back east to Pennsylvania. It was here where she worked on
a Pittsburgh newspaper named The Library. She also taught English in a high
school. Willa published "The Dance at Chevalier's," and four other short
stories under a pen name of Henry Nicklemann. Another major publication for her
was in April 1900, when "Eric Hermannson's Soul," was published in Cosmopolitan
magazines. I ...
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Martin Luther
Number of Words: 1628 / Number of Pages: 6
... of this period, the 1500's through the
1700's, mercantilism had a major effect on the economies in the new
world. English speaking colonies were effected by England's policies
and acts. These policies and acts were means of controling the economy
of the colonies in America and strengthen the central government of
England. Dutch traders had the commercial vessel market well cornered
in the 1640's. It was very difficult for English colonies to compete
with the Dutch. With owning 75 percent of Northern Europes' vessels,
being well-financed and experienced, the Dutch were going to stay in ...
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Auguste Rodin
Number of Words: 879 / Number of Pages: 4
... worked as a craftsman and jewelry maker as well as at other odd jobs. His beloved sister died in 1862, which shook Rodin greatly, and he entered the Fathers of the Saint-Sacrament. It was there that he created his second sculpture, a bust of father Piere-Julien Eynard, his first bust being that of his own father. After two years Rodin realized that religion was not his vocation and left to continue working as a craftsman in Paris and set up a small studio in which to sculpt. In 1864 he submitted his plaster mask of L’Homme au nez Casse to the Salon and it was refused entry and it was not until th ...
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Martin Luther King Junior
Number of Words: 1427 / Number of Pages: 6
... in Boston, he met Coretta Scott of Marion, Ala. They were married in June 1953, and the following year King accepted an appointment as pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
That same year the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed all segregated public education, and in the wake of that decision the segregated South was soon challenged in every area of public service. In Montgomery, the African-American community was outraged when a woman on her way home from work, Rosa Lee Parks, was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a municipal bus to a ...
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