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Beat Generation 'Filmographer' Robert Frank

viewer to simply glance at the picture and walk away. This Abstract Expressionism was not typical of the average snapshots of the ...

Biography of 19th Century British Romantic Poet William Blake

begin studying engraving and it would be here that his genius would find a purchase. As a young man, some biographies state,...

Showman and Composer Franz Liszt

noted novelist George Sand (women novelists in the nineteenth century often wrote under male pseudonyms). One of his most signific...

Greatness and Marie Curie

as a whole, do not necessarily have to like an individual to admit that they were great in one way or another. The point seems to ...

Comparing Alice Walker's 'Everyday Things' with Eudora Welty's 'Why I Live at the Post Office'

it clear that there are many unsolved frictions between the two sisters, frictions which include the fact that the youngers husban...

'Unexamined Life' Philosophy of Socrates

In six pages this paper analyzes the contention of Socrates that an 'unexamined life is not worth living' as this view is represen...

Comparing the Self-Portraits of Female Artists Kathe Kollwitz, Frida Kahlo, and Paula Modersohn-Becker

been wrinkled by the hands of time. Rather than being strictly a portrait of age, however, Kollwitzs 1934 self portrait is also a...

The Meaning of Life According to Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky

quite a bit about himself, he insists that he is lying. There is no point in this narrative in which the Underground Man becomes ...

Life and Music of George Frederic Handel

Giulio Cesare is Handles opera about Julius Caesar and is considered to be one of his finest. The action pivots around Cleopatras...

Chicano Author Sergio Troncoso

can be different for different people with the interpretation being subjectvie. By looking at this work there is a reflection of...

Banana Yoshimoto's Fiction

In four pages this essay examines two books by Japanese writer Banana Yoshimoto in a consideration of how her works capture young ...

Did Machiavelli Have a 'Prince' of a Life?

but weak, and Medici was allowed to return to power (2000). Machiavelli was dismissed but was soon afterward imprisoned, and sub...

Benjamin West's Artistic Career

Francis Hayman for the Rotunda at Vauxhall Gardens during the Seven Years War. Jonathan Tyers, the proprietor of Vauxhall Gardens ...

Faulkner, Poe, and Chopin Bringing Characters to Life

did not allow her to be an individual. This offers us a subtle vulnerability that all people possess to some extent. And that vuln...

Effective Management and Barriers

this case, they might have the same education. Otherwise, todays employees tend to come from a wide variety of backgrounds, traini...

Thinking Errors, Research Abilities, and Critical Thinking

in any field is vital to the industrys lifeblood; however, it may mean the difference between life and death within, for example, ...

Life of Zora Neale Hurston in Their Eyes Were Watching God and Dust Tracks on a Road

be rash and foolish for awhile. If writers, were too wise, perhaps no books would be written at all. Anyway, the force from somewh...

Life and Writings of Lois Lowry

stories and poems in notebooks" (IPL Kidspace). In this interview she also noted, "My books have varied in content and style. Y...

Colonial Women’s Public Role and Legal Status

formal education or technical training, women would be hired. The obvious vocational choices were extensions of their housekeepin...

Roman Cultural Life and Architecture: Analysis and Interpretation

gender bias in the favor of men, who were lords and masters of their wives and children as well as their slaves. All male Roman c...

About Eugene Lee

short time, then "showed up, unannounced, at Carnegie Mellon University (then called Carnegie Tech) with just a sheaf of designs f...

John Keats Deserves His Place in the Literary Canon

he was struck by the "ways in which evil and beauty, love and pain, aspiration and finitude, are not so much balanced as interwove...

Administrative Assistant/Hospital Administration

for top executives of an organization (BoLS, 2008). They also aid physicians and researchers with the preparation of "reports, spe...

Essays on Absolute Monarchy, the French Revolution, and the Effects of Mechanization on the Working Class

- such as whenever he needed funding for one of the many wars he was fighting. This constant in-fighting between the English mona...

Edgar Allan Poe, Suicidal Tendencies, and ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’

at 4 a.m., his guilty conscience elicits the narrators confession. Is this an example of another Poe murder mystery or does it re...

Family Life in the American Colonies

(Demos, 2000, p. But this common kitchen tool was also "used by conjurers magicians in obscure ceremonies of fortune-telling" in t...

Gregory Bateson: Anthropology and Cybernetics

he began working for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of the CIA (Gregory Bateson). He served in India, Burm...

Stonewall Jackson

West Point (Virginia Military Institute). And in 1842 "began his U.S. Army career as a 2nd Lt., First Artillery Regiment" (Virgini...

Post-World War II Developments in Art

world around them. One might legitimately ask why todays artists see nothing but ugliness and degradation when there are still so ...

Genetic Diversity and the Origin of Life

According to one theory, the universe and its components were formed in a single cataclysmic explosion between ten and twenty mill...