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- 381: Michelangelo 2
- ... pope ordered him to put aside the tomb project in favor of painting the ceiling of the Sistine chapel. When Michelangelo went back to work on the tomb, he redesigned it on a much more modest scale. However Michelangelo made some of his finest sculpture for the Julius tomb, including the Moses now located in Rome's church of San Pietro in Vincoli. The muscular patriarch sits alertly in a shallow ...
- 382: Hercules His 12 Quests
- ... the heavens, at least for a few centuries. So he stepped up to Hercules and said, slyly, "I'll take the apples to Eurystheus for you.But Hercules was clever, too. Pretending to accept the proposal, he requested Atlas to resume the burden of the sky just for a moment, so that he, Hercules, could adjust his lion skin as a pad. Atlas agreed, dropped the apples, and groaned as he ...
- 383: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- ... have one sister, I married the other.' Whether or not this quote is true, the facts remain the same. Three and a half years after a young musician named Aloysia Weber refused Mozart's marriage proposal, he married her younger sister Constanze, on August 4, 1782. What sort of person was Constanze Weber? Mozart, who nicknamed his bride Stanzerl, described her this way, 'She is not ugly, but at the same ...
- 384: Slaughterhouse - Five: Satire About War and Life
- ... come off professional but his outfit was so outrageous that no one could take him seriously. Vonnegut wanted to portray this for mainly the same reasons of Roland Weary. Cambell was very serious about his proposal, but his clothes turned him in to something not understandable and crazy, as war is. There are many themes to this novel and in every one of them satire is present. A not as obvious ...
- 385: Willy Lomans Struggle with the American Dream
- ... was trying to live his life through Biff. Willy was not successful in the business world and he believed that Biff could be. He tried to prepare Biff for the business world. Dont be modest...Walk in with a big laugh. Dont look worried...its how you say it-because personality always wins the day.(Miller 65) Biff failed to make it in the business world. Willy took ...
- 386: Different Strokes For Different Folks
- ... contacts with the other characters. Myrtle seems to have two different demeanors when she is around different classes of people. When Tom goes to pick her up at her husbands garage she acts very modest; She smiled slowly and walking through her husband as if he were a ghost shook hands with Tom, looking him flush in the eye. Then she wet her lips and without turning around spoke to ...
- 387: The Scarlet Letter: The Theme of Punishment
- ... of the law and did everything asked of here in order to prove that she is "able." Hester became quite a popular seamstress, admired all over the town of Boston for her work. Hester is modest in everything that she does. Hester herself wears only poor clothing while she embroiders marvelous works for the rest of Boston. The only piece of clothing forbidden to create was the wedding vail. How could ...
- 388: Critical Summary: Descartes' Meditations I, II, and VI
- Critical Summary: Descartes' Meditations I, II, and VI. In his First, Second, and Sixth Meditations, Descartes outlines and carries out part of his plan in search of the indubitable. With the proposal of an "evil genius" and the noted fallibility of the senses, he casts potential doubt on virtually all fundamental knowledge (Meditation I). Then he proposes that the only knowable fundamental truth is the fact that ...
- 389: Feminism in Jane Eyre
- ... prove any point in regards to equality of men and of women. However, those who do see the feminist tendency in this novel may back their point by citing Jane's response to Rochester's proposal in chapter 23 as one of the earlier breakthroughs towards feminism. "Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automation?-a machine without feelings? and can ...
- 390: The Picture of Dorian Gray: Evil
- ... Even once he knew he was doing something wrong he could not control himself. He even yearned for self reformation but could not make it possible. He started off as one of the kindest, most modest and innocent men ever. That all changed once he traded his soul for his youth with the painting. He entered a life of gradual dissipation. It became easier and easier for him to sin because ...
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