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Henry James
Number of Words: 1046 / Number of Pages: 4
... observer rather than participant in the American social scene. (Matthiessen 14)
The first phase of James' writing begins when he is twenty-one, in 1864 and continues until 1881. He was extremely popular during this time, especially during after publication of a short story Daisy Miller, which is concerned with the destruction of a naive American girl by European mores. James continues the theme of placing Americans without sufficient social experience into
the complex society and culture of Europe with The American, which chronicles a man whose finds himself unable to buy his way into French soci ...
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Stephen Sondheim
Number of Words: 632 / Number of Pages: 3
... was A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (1962) - a show so funny few people spotted how experimental it was: it's still the only successful musical farce. In the following three decades, critics detected a Sondheim style - a fondness for the harmonic language of Ravel and Debussy; a reliance on vamps and skewed harmonies to destabilise the melody; a tendency to densely literate lyrics. But, all that said, it's the versatility that still impresses: you couldn't swap a song from the exuberantly explosive pit-band score of Anyone Can Whistle (1964) with one of the Orientally influenc ...
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Picasso
Number of Words: 2069 / Number of Pages: 8
... pictures with astounding results. (Duncun, 47) During school, would pay little if any attention to his work or the lecture that the teacher was giving. Instead, he spent his time making sketches of his fellow classmates. (Duncun, 52) At the age of 13, was enrolled at an art school where his father taught, and suddenly his academic habits changed. He began to apply himself to his work, showing interest in what he was doing, and his grades showed a vast improvement. (Galwitz, 92) The family moved to Malaga and on the way there they stopped at their uncle Salvador's house. While they were there, ...
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The Life And Work Of Chaim Potok
Number of Words: 588 / Number of Pages: 3
... at The Jewish Publications Society. Chaim
Potok also served his people and religion through all of his writings which
are all in some way related to or involve Judaism.
Now, to go in-depth into his writings. First, his novels. The first
novel Potok wrote was The Chosen, which won him the Edward Lewis Wallant
award, in 1969, here is a quotation about that book:
"So why did Potok's book make such a heavy impression on me?... he takes a
meager story, told in plain words, about two Jewish boys who are radically
unlike me and turns it into something so universal I couldn't help getting
pulled in by ...
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
Number of Words: 544 / Number of Pages: 2
... he challenged the Hudson River Association in the Albany trade and they paid him to go elsewhere. Vanderbilt continued to improve his businesses and his boats, adding luxury and comfort to all his boats, he launched the largest steamboat ever in existence in 1846 and it was named for him. By 1840 his company had more than 100 steamboats and more employees than any other company in the United States at the time. By the time he was 40, Vanderbilt's fortune exceeded 500,000 dollars, but he was still looking for new opportunities. During the 1849 gold rush, Vanderbilt offered an overland route across ...
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Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau
Number of Words: 1685 / Number of Pages: 7
... Rousseau created a revolutionary idea of the state of nature. They did not believe government should be organized through the Church, therefore abandoning the idea of the divine right theory, where power of the King came directly from G-d. Starting from a clean slate, with no organized church, they needed a construct on what to build society on. The foundation of society began with the original state of nature. Hobbes’s perception of the original state of nature is what would exist if there were no common power to execute and enforce the laws to restrain individuals. In this case, the laws of the jungl ...
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Number of Words: 1457 / Number of Pages: 6
... the president, who named him, at age 27, to head the National Youth Administration in Texas. This job, which Johnson held from 1935 to 1937, entailed helping young people obtain employment and schooling. It confirmed Johnson's faith in the positive potential of government and won for him a group of supporters in Texas.
In 1937, Johnson sought and won a Texas seat in Congress, where he championed public works, reclamation, and public power programs. When war came to Europe he backed Roosevelt's efforts to aid the Allies. During World War II he served a brief tour of active duty with the U.S. Navy in ...
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Alfred Nobel
Number of Words: 1812 / Number of Pages: 7
... by the prizes stipulated by the will reflect Nobel's
personal interests. While he provided no prizes for architects, artists,
composers or social scientists, he was generous to those working in physics,
chemistry, physiology and medicine—the subjects he knew best himself, and in
which he expected the greatest advances.
Throughout his life he suffered from poor health and often took cures at
watering places, “less to drink the water than to rest.” But he expected great
improvements in medicine, and the profession has since realized many of them.
Once he employed a young Swedish physiologist in Paris t ...
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1984: Winston's Hatred Of Big Brother
Number of Words: 716 / Number of Pages: 3
... was
"I love you", he was stunned and also pleased that someone had feelings for
him. If Winston was totally under Big Brother's power he wouldn't have felt
the urge to return the love, and have the anxiety of wondering if she did
really love him rather then just throwing away the incriminating message.
Winston felt the feeling of hatred toward the Party and was willing to
search for the Brotherhood to try to overthrow the government.
O'Brien asked Winston and Julia, "...what are you prepared to do?"
Winston replied, "Anything that we are capable of ." Winston's strong
hatred toward the Party made ...
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Alfred Hitchcock
Number of Words: 2114 / Number of Pages: 8
... "The Lodger", a film that came to be an ideal example of a classic Hitchcock plot. The general idea of the plot is an innocent man is accused of a crime he did not commit and through a web of mystery, danger, action, and of course love he must find the true criminal. This plot came to be used in many of Hitchcock's films throughout his career both silent and "talkie". It was not long before Hitchcock came to be known as the "Master of Suspense". He was said to have "not only mastered the art of making films but he also mastered the task of taming his own raging imagination".
The fi ...
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