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The Life Of Georgia O'Keefe
Number of Words: 574 / Number of Pages: 3
... in its elementary schools; at Columbia College, South Carolina, in 1915-1916; and at west Texas Normal College in 1916-1917, and I taught summers at the University of Virginia. Despite my studies at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Art Students League of New York, the University of Virginia, and Teachers College, Columbia University, in New York, I was never able to remain at one institution long enough to receive an academic degree.
My career began on April 3, 1917 with the opening of my first solo show, sponsored by Alfred Stieglitz, who I later married in December 1924. My work displayed bold ...
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Karl Marx
Number of Words: 955 / Number of Pages: 4
... rulers. "Workers of the world unite!" he wrote. "You have nothing to
lose but your chains."
Another thing Marx taught was that organized religion, the churches,
help capitalists to keep the workers quiet and obedient. Religion,
according to Mar 'the opiate of the masses'. The church tells working
people to forget about the injustice they meet in their lives and to think
instead of how wonderful it will in the after- life when they go to heaven.
Marx, with his colleague, Engels, spread his ideas in two famous
books, Capital' and 'The Communist Manifesto'.
In the early years of the twentiet ...
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Isaac Newton
Number of Words: 1267 / Number of Pages: 5
... stepfather died. His mother returned to
Woolsthorpe to take care of the farm left by Newton's father. But she could
not manage the farm by herself. Isaac was taken out of school and brought
home to help her.
As a farmer, Newton proved to be a dismal failure. He neglected the
necessary chores and thought only of books to study and mechanical things
to make. There are many stories about him at that time that show how absent
minded he was becoming. One day while he was leading a horse, the animal
slipped its bridle and ran away. Isaac continued walking home with the
empty bridle, unaware that t ...
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The Mathematical Art Of M.C. Escher
Number of Words: 997 / Number of Pages: 4
... work mostly unnoticed until the 1950's. Among his first admirers were mathematicians, who saw that his work was the visualization of many mathematical principals and ideas. This was remarkable because he had never had any math courses after high school, where he had learned only the basics. As his work developed he read more about mathematics and showed in his art an understanding of projective geometry and non-Euclidian geometry. He was also fascinated with the idea of " impossible" figures and used this to make fascinating art. For the mathematician Escher's art shows the application of ...
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Harry Elmer Barnes
Number of Words: 2763 / Number of Pages: 11
... the emotional excesses had lessened. He was unable to predict that similar corrections of Allied propaganda and popularized conceptions of the methods of warfare in the Second World War would meet even sterner resistance.
Today - half a century after the conclusion of the Second World War - it would be fair to expect a less emotional environment, one in which historians, researchers and writers were free to examine the actual causes of the war as well as the atrocities committed by both sides in the conflict. However, those and other topics are more forbidden than ever with the greatest tabo ...
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Francesco Petrarch
Number of Words: 1993 / Number of Pages: 8
... in 1337. The relationship between the two was disappointment to Francesco. He describes him as:
"Intelligent, perhaps even exceptionally intelligent, but he hates books"
He let Giovanni live with him till he could no longer stand the sight of him and sent him to live in Avignon, at the age of 20. It wasn't until just before Giovanni's death, of the Black Plague, did they start to write each other. Just before his sons death, Petrarch's friends though of Giovanni as a good person and wrote Petrarch about this. He never saw his son before his death but in his mind knew that he had started to get ...
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Karl Marx
Number of Words: 2054 / Number of Pages: 8
... His parents had a good relationship and it help set Karl in the right direction." His 'Splendid natural gifts' awakened in his father the hope that they would One day be used in the service of humanity, whilst his mother declared him to be a child of fortune in whose hands everything would go well. (The story of his life, Mehring, page 2) In High school, Karl stood out among the crowd. When asked to write a report on "How to choose a profession" he took a different approach. He took the angle in which most interested him, by saying that there was no way to choose a profession, but because of c ...
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The Life Of Emily Dickinson
Number of Words: 794 / Number of Pages: 3
... reputation for eccentricity to the local towns people, and perhaps
increased her interest in death (Whicher 26).
Dressing in white every day Dickinson was know in Amherst as, “the
New England mystic,” by some. Her only contact to her few friends and
correspondents was through a series of letters, seen as some critics to be
equal not only in number to her poetic works, but in literary genius as
well (Sewall 98).
Explored thoroughly in her works, death seems to be a dominating
theme through out Dickinson's life. Dickinson, although secluded and
isolated had a few encounters with love, two perhaps ...
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Mark Twain
Number of Words: 674 / Number of Pages: 3
... years at his new trade. The river swarmed with traffic, and the pilot was the most important man aboard the boat. He wrote of these years in 'Life on the Mississippi'.
The Civil War ended his career as a pilot. Clemens went west to Nevada and soon became a reporter on the Virginia City newspaper. Here he began using the pen name . It is an old river term meaning two fathoms, or 12 feet (4 meters), of water depth.
In 1864 he went to California. The next year he wrote his 'Jumping Frog' story, which ran in many newspapers. He was sent to the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii) as a roving reporter, and on his ...
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Maurice Sendak
Number of Words: 2105 / Number of Pages: 8
... even to enter the childrens' section of the library. Sendak writes the type of books he wished he had as a child; entertaining stories which are not limited by any effort to make things so simple for children that they become mundane.
Sendak's greatest influence as a writer was his father. Phillip Sendak was a wonderfully creative storyteller who amazed Maurice and his brother and sister. "He didn't edit," remarks Maurice in an interview with Marion Long. "It's funny, because that's what I'm accused of now: being a storyteller who tells children inappropriate things." Sendak strong ...
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