YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Balancing Life and Work
Essays 541 - 570
philosophers and playwrights, addressed themselves to the reality of the absurdity of life and argued that that its reality should...
short time, then "showed up, unannounced, at Carnegie Mellon University (then called Carnegie Tech) with just a sheaf of designs f...
at 4 a.m., his guilty conscience elicits the narrators confession. Is this an example of another Poe murder mystery or does it re...
he began working for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of the CIA (Gregory Bateson). He served in India, Burm...
- such as whenever he needed funding for one of the many wars he was fighting. This constant in-fighting between the English mona...
he was struck by the "ways in which evil and beauty, love and pain, aspiration and finitude, are not so much balanced as interwove...
earnings from his art were meager ("Seven Dutch Masters: Jan Steen"). In the popular imagination, Steen is associated with the i...
of this minister, and "his belief in Gods sense of humor and His fondness for neer-do-wells," inspired Sonny, as this fueled the ...
West Point (Virginia Military Institute). And in 1842 "began his U.S. Army career as a 2nd Lt., First Artillery Regiment" (Virgini...
world around them. One might legitimately ask why todays artists see nothing but ugliness and degradation when there are still so ...
According to one theory, the universe and its components were formed in a single cataclysmic explosion between ten and twenty mill...
decided to become a physiologist during his third year" (Lautenheiser, 1999). His focus became narrowed to digestion and blood cir...
played on him. Stephen Crane was born in Newark, New Jersey on November 1, 1871, the 14th child (only eight survived) of a Method...
and Coke bottles. Soon he became a famous figure in the New York art scene. From 1962 on he started making silkscreen prints of fa...
of women in medieval society, De Pizan wrote two of her most significant works, The Book of the City of Ladies and The Book of the...
leading role in the Compromise of 1850, and supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854" (The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, 2009). ...
he was, I never heard of his taking the least interest in me or providing for my rearing. But I do not find especial fault with hi...
recognized and encouraged Fitzs literary talents, anything outside that parameter was not worth his time, attention or study, unle...
originated within themselves. In present-day language, some would have been considered "nerds," because they did not necessarily e...
the Dead Watching" Despite the fact that he painted numerous tropical scenes and used the colors of the jungles and oceans of the...
is encapsulated in his writings. Indeed, autobiographical elements are characteristic of much of James Joyces work. This...
matter which would make him a household name in photography, that is, signs, cafes, bridges, street scenes, poor people, and the l...
general, an office he held for one year" (Anonymous Benjamin Franklin, 2002; franklin.htm). In the year 1775 he traveled to Can...
workers were needed during this time and it seems as though men were not willing to do the hard work with little pay. The reasons ...
criticism points toward a different orientation, as she accuses previous writers of materialism, and explains this accusation by ...
Margaret Bourke-White was born in The Bronx, New York on June 14, 1904, although some sources place her year of birth as 1906....
be some degree of accountability to the employer. Workplace Violence One concern which employers may have in terms of a persons p...
that monetary success comes with a price and in the end, it is said that people never regret spending too much time with the famil...
and it was this heart-felt emotion that elevated her works from ordinary to the ranks of extraordinary. Music had long play...
Murry Falkner was interested in railroads, hunting and drinking, not necessarily in that order. Alcoholism was the Falkner family...