Manet
.... believe is the key to understanding the ambiguous portrayal of woman within his paintings, throw out his career. It was during the late 1850’s when Manet was serving as a naval cadet in Rio de Janeiro, that he met a number of slave girls, Manet had openly admitted in letters to his friends the extend to which he found their tropical beauty alluring. Yet, is was not until Manet returned to France that he reveled the true extent of his relationships with these girls, and confessed to the fact that he had b .....
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Mohandes Gandhi
.... of time, to end the fighting and hatred that had began between Hindu's and Muslims once India was freed. During these times, he was near death, but both Hindu's and Muslims agreed to stop the fighting because their actions would either stop Gandhi from fasting or eventually lead him to his death.
I believe that Gandhi's life is not only about the freedom of India, but through the freedom of India he realized and carried on the mission of the brotherhood of man to the whole world. But Gandhi's symb .....
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MICKY MANTLE
.... could not swim, and he fell off and almost drowned.Mickey did not like school . He looked forward to recess andafter school. Baseball was a big thing in Oklahoma. Everyone went to watch the kids play (Falkner 30). Mantle was one of the fortunate kids, he could throw and bat right and left handed (Falkner 31). Mickey was one of the fewkids that could throw a knuckle ball, even though he was not a pitcher. Mickey as one of the best players in little league, and even won the championship of little .....
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Martin Luther King- I Have A D
.... and justice (152). From his peaceful persuasion, to imaginative solutions in changing times to the power of hope, optimism, nonviolence strategy, and finally to the need for a great dream, these valuable applications are comprehensive instruments for taking courageous action under even the most difficult of circumstances. Above all, King follows his method of careful reasoning and is convinced that his arguments will persuade his audience (153).
King, quickly realized that the best strategy to .....
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Miles Davis
.... sometimes unpopular styles of music, but he is most respected for being one of a few jazz musicians who continually took the music to newer and more creative heights.
The musical events Miles Davis created during his so-called electric period (1969-1975), are acts of constant exploring in constant willingness to push into the unknown, daring to always look forward and to not rely on any conventions or any of the safety nets of the past. The music is rebellious and its uncompromising intensi .....
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MARGARET ATWOOD
.... even if she does have amnesia. But when Dr. Jordan's arsenal of root vegetables fails to provoke, by association, memories of the cellar where Nancy Montgomery's body was found, Grace is off and running, weaving a skein of stories, and like any Scheherazade worth her salt, delays the ending. She quickly learns which details excite him and does her best to provide him with as much material as he can handle.
Dr. Jordan thinks privately, "What is perceived as being known is only a small part o .....
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Mark Twain
.... than the best man in history ever did for any other town” (Hoffman 15).
1847 proved to be a horrific year for John Clemens. He ventured to Palmyra in order to find work on the county seat. On his voyage home he found himself in a devastating snowstorm which left him ill with pneumonia. He stayed at his friend Dr.Grant’s house, ill and jaded, where he rested and grew weak. He died on March 24, 1847 at the age of 48 (Kaplan 112-125).
Samuel was eleven years old when his father passed away. He was .....
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Maya Angelou
.... but she left her marriage two and half years later and set out to become a professional dancer. Maya Angelou spent her formative years shuttling between St. Louis, Arkansas and San Francisco. She worked as an editor for The Arab observer, an English-language weekly published Cairo. Maya Angelou lived in Accra, Ghana, where Sergejs Golubevs under the black nationa .....
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Pablo Picasso
.... most of his success was accomplished.
Three months later, Picasso returned to Spain and co-founded the short-lived magazine "Arte Joven" (first issue March 31, 1901 - "Young Art"), in Paris. On a second trip to Paris, in the summer of 1901, he exhibited his works at Ambroise Vollard's gallery in the Rue Lafitte and became good friends with the avant-garde poet Max Jacob. It was during this visit that he discovered Vincent Van Gogh, who inspired him to create "The absinthe Drinker" (1901, William J .....
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Poe And Thoreau
.... of life, Edgar Allen Poe brought perspective to the darker side of the Romantic period. His success in the literary world led to the publication of his short stories and poems as he worked as a magazine editor. Poe’s desire was to “cut free from reality or actuality and enter the world of imagination.” Unlike Thoreau, he believes that truth lies in the dark and irrational depths of the human mind.
In comparison, both Thoreau and Poe try to understand and explain their individual, creative mea .....
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Peter The Great
.... the labyrinthine corridors, and the bloody memories of terror and danger (4:89). When Peter was 10 years old, the palace guards revolted, and brutally murdered the supporters of his mother. Peter witnessed the brutal murders of Artemon Mateev, and Natalia¹s brother on the lawn of the Kremlin. It was then that Peter, his two small sisters, and his mother withdrew to the countryhouse of Czar Alexis in the village of Preobrazhenskoe outside Moscow. They returned to the Kremlin infrequently, where Peter .....
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P. T. Barnum
.... of land called Ivy Island. For years Barnum herd stories about what a lucky young man he was to be given Ivy Island At the age of ten he set out to see the island himself. Barnum soon found out Ivy Island was named for poisoned ivy. It was an Island in the middle of swamp just east of Bethel. Barnum then learned that he was the unknowing butt of jokes for ten years. Barnum learned from this, although a bit angry, that people loved being humbugged.
He would attend school just long enough to maser basic .....
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Poe
.... sense, rather exquisite nonsense- would but do
himself justice (he) might make a beautiful and
perhaps a magnificent poem. (Neal, p. 35).
This is not exactly negative critisim, but it is not recognizing Poe as a magnificent poet as most other people do. Shoshana Felman does not give her own opinion of Poe, but tells how the rest of society sees him. She states the Poe is both highly acclaimed, and .....
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Patton
.... Palermo, he received a message telling him not to take Palermo. [Bluemenson] Patton Respond, "Ask them if I should give it back" [Bluemenson] Patton now was run a race to see who would take Messina first, Patton or Monty. Along the way, Patton almost ends his career. He slapped a solider with "battle fatigue". [Biography] He informed the solider that he would not have a yellow belly discresasing his tent of honor. Patton was forced to apologize to the solider he slapped, the doctors involved, and .....
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Pete Rose
.... He was playing for the Reds at the time. 3000 hits is something that a player dreams of getting during his career. It is a milestone that is not reached by about 99% of all baseball players, but it was just a stepping stone for Pete Rose. Since he was not nearing retirement yet, he knew he had a chance at something that was unheralded, the 4000 hit mark. There was only one other person who ever played the game that had 4000 hits, Ty Cobb. To get 4000 hits, and have your name up there with Cobb w .....
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