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Lytton Strachey
Number of Words: 490 / Number of Pages: 2
... short of adulation was regarded as disrespect Strachey, however, announced that he would write lives with "a brevity which excludes everything that is redundant and nothing that is significant," whether flattering to the subject or not. His intensely personal sketches scandalized stuffier readers but delighted many literati. Strachey's impressionistic portraits occasionally led to inaccuracy, since he selected the facts he liked and had little use for politics or religion. By portraying his "Eminent Victorians" as multifaceted, flawed human beings rather than idols, and by informing public knowle ...
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Confucius
Number of Words: 360 / Number of Pages: 2
... children persuading us to support their
struggle. Them commercials should be outlawed. The commercials should be on the
poor famined kids in the United States. We have our own poverty problem in our
country. We should take care of that before we solve another countries problem.
The U.S. has also money and military force in the middle east. Sure we get some
valuable products from them, but we should solve our own problems before we
decide to dive into the rebuilding of some foreign nation.
These two teachings of Confucious if applied today, would result in the
superiority of the Untied States of Americ ...
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Sylvia Plath Compare To Esther
Number of Words: 2175 / Number of Pages: 8
... thoughts and emotions are reveal to us; it becomes clear to us that despite all her achievement, Esther’s true state of mind is not in the right place. As the story goes on she has to make a decision, like Sylvia, whether she wants a career or a family (LW, pg. 38). “Esther sees herself as something else than primarily a housewife, and she uses much of her energy to try to avoid marrying the one she is expected- Buddy Willard”(SP, pg3). Like Sylvia, she did a summer internship in New York City, and suffered a mental collapse, and was institutionalized. While
Esther’s future in the novel’s conclusio ...
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Artist: Turner: Outline
Number of Words: 365 / Number of Pages: 2
... b) Turner wanted to have a marriage between art and industry and painted “Rain, Steam and Speed, The Great Western Railway, “yet artists disliked the industrial revolution saying it was repulsive.
3. The changing style of Turner.
a) Turners’ works have changed greatly throughout his career and now his late works have been regarded as highly as his earlier works.
b) Many of his later exhibition canvases eluded interpretation in anything other than abstract visual terms.
4. Understanding Turner.
a) In the painting “The Sun of Venice Going Out to Sea” Venice had ...
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Edward James Hughes
Number of Words: 1513 / Number of Pages: 6
... nearly
three years following Sylvia Plath's death in 1963 (the couple had separated
earlier), but thereafter he published prolifically, often in collaboration with
photographers and illustrators. The volumes of poetry that succeeded Selected
Poems include Wodwo (1967), Crow (1970), Season Songs (1974), Gaudete (1977),
Cave Birds (1978), Remains of Elmet (1979) and Moortown (1979). At first the
recognition came from overseas, as his Hawk in the Rain (1957) was selected New
York's Poetry Book Society's Autumn Choice and later the poet was awarded
Nathaniel Hawthorn's Prize for Lupercal (1960). Soon he ...
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Miles Davis
Number of Words: 1678 / Number of Pages: 7
... Davis form a quintet which included Red Garland, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones, and John Coletrain. In 1957 Davis made the first of many solo recordings with the unusual jazz orchestrations of Gil Evans, and he wrote music for film by Louis Malle.
In 1963Davis formed a new quintet including the talents of Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Tony Williams, and Wayne Shorter. The late 1960s sound Davis playing with a variety of talented musicians. Davis retired during the mid-‘70s due to severe ailments and an automobile accident. He returned in 1980 making new recordings and expensive tours. H ...
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Margaret Bouke-White
Number of Words: 576 / Number of Pages: 3
... wanted to take his picture but she didn't have her camera with her. She ran into a camera store and asked to rent or borrow a camera. The picture became one of her first works of art and the owner of the store became one of her best friends. One of Margaret's early dreams was to photograph the inside of a steel mill but women weren't allowed inside. Being a woman didn't stop her and the pictures were a success. Her shots were published in magazines all over the country and got Margaret her first big job, at Fortune magazine in New York. With Margaret's photos Fortune became one of the leading photogra ...
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Stalin As A Continuation Of Le
Number of Words: 696 / Number of Pages: 3
... him, and all the rest." The two agreed on the point that anyone who did not agree with them was an enemy. They both used this as an excuse to kill thousands of people. The reason they were able to do this was because both wanted power and neither were afraid to act on their desires. "Lenin was an activist, indeed a hyper-activist, and it was this which made him such a violent figure." This is also what made Stalin so horrible. In the way Lenin acted on behalf of the revolution, Stalin acted on behalf of himself.
Although their personalities were similar, it can be argued that they had different ide ...
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Notes On Emily Murphy
Number of Words: 904 / Number of Pages: 4
... that Mrs. Murphy, most hapily married to
the Reverend Arthur Murphy, received a letter from a grateful but
misinformed pioneer woman who wrote:"God bless you, Janey Canuck, I have a
troublesome husband too."
((p. 71))
Not content with vague anticipation of benefits to be conferred in some
shadowy future, Mrs. McClung and Mrs. Murphy joind forces to call upon
Sifton on March 2 and ask that a suffrage bill be introduced at that very
session. Other cabinet members were also interviewed. The local press
account does not reveal how the gentlemen fared at this meeting but the
premier's comment upon ...
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Fidel Castro 2
Number of Words: 3347 / Number of Pages: 13
... regime increasingly nauseating to most public opinion. It became clear that
Batista regime was an odious type of government. It killed its own
citizens, it stifled dissent.
At this time Fidel Castro appeared as leader of the growing rebellion.
Educated in America he was a proponent of the Marxist-Leninist philosophy.
He conducted a brilliant guerilla campaign from the hills of Cuba against
Batista. On January 1959, he prevailed and overthrew the Batista
government.
Castro promised to restore democracy in Cuba, a feat Batista had failed
to accomplish. This promise was looked upo ...
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