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- 4441: The Life and Work of Ronald Dahl
- ... Here the administration was even more heartless than that at St. Peter's, but the boy managed to foster some strong friendships to lighten the dark atmosphere. One of these was Michael Arnold, an anti-American budding intellectual whom Jeremy Treglown describes as an "individualist, attention-seeking, conservative, [and] anarchic" young man whose particular form of rebellion caught Dahl's attention (29-30). It was this same friend who provided Dahl ... Arnold shared at Repton. Like James, critics also attacked Dahl's 1964 release, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, not as subversive, but as catering to the sadistic streak innate in all children. Eleanor Cameron, an American author for children, levied these claims particularly, accusing him of trying for laughs at the misfortune of Charlie's companions in the chocolate factory (West 72). Dahl responded by asking his critics to understand that ...
- 4442: Anne Bradstreet: The Heretical Poet
- ... Poet Greg Saxon The purpose of this research is to discuss heretical elements in the poetry of Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672). This is not to imply that Bradstreet was a heretic in the sense that American religious reformer Anne Hutchinson was. Hutchinson (1591-1643) emigrated to Boston in 1634 and preached a doctrine of salvation through intuitive apprehension of grace rather than by works, and attacked the rigid moral and legal ... S. Canby and R.M. Ludwig, Literarty History of the United States, 3rd. ed. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1963. Stanford, Ann. Anne Bradstreet: The Wordly Puritan. New York: Burt Franklin, 1974. Unger, Leonard ed. American Writers: Supplement I. Part I. NY: Charles Scribrer's Sons, 1979. 8 vols. White, Elizabeth Wade. Anne Bradstreet: "The Tenth Muse." New York: Oxford University Press, 1971.
- 4443: William Christopher Handy
- William Christopher Handy Handy was an American black composer and compiler of "BLUES" music. He was born in Florence, Alabama. He was educated at the Negro Agricultural and Mechanical College near Huntsville, Alabama. He was the son of former slaves. He was educated in the public schools and by his father and paternal grandfather, both of whom were clergymen. Handy was the first to bring the African- American blues to the general publics attention with the publication of his MEMPHIS BLUES in 1912. He began his musical career as a cornet soloist and bandmaster with minstrel shows; one of his earislst engagements was ...
- 4444: Seeing Through Salvador Dalν's Kaleidoscopic Eyes
- ... through his work. After marrying Gala in 1934, Dalν visited America for the first time. He held two solo art exhibitions and as a result was featured in the Hall of Fame section of the American magazine Vanity Fair. As World War II broke out, Dalν and other artist refugees were forced to move to Paris. Most of Dalν's recent work was destroyed by fascists. At about this time, a ... the contemporary research of Romanian mathematician Matila Ghyka, then Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Southern California. He published his first novel, Hidden Faces, and also worked on Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound, a popular American movie. The creative flow didn't stop there either. For his first museum retrospective, by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, he included fifty paintings, seventeen drawings, and six items of jewelry. In ...
- 4445: Henry David Thoreau
- ... the fourth of July, 1845..." Ralph Waldo Emerson provided Thoreau with the opportunity to complete his first work, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and the first draft of a Thoreau's uniquely american work, Walden; or Life in the Woods. Walden, as it is more commonly and popularly known, is Henry's response to a multitude of questions he received as a result of living two years, two ... him as the town naturalist and would ask him many questions regarding nature and would ask him to identify interesting creatures and plants. Many scholars consider Henry David Thoreau to be the father of the American conservation and preservation movements. The essay heralding Thoreau's ideas of conservation and preservation is "Walking". In his essay "Walking" Henry claims, "To preserve wild animals implies generally the creation of a forest for them ...
- 4446: Yasujiro Ozu (1903--1963)
- ... does some tracking like he moves along the road with a character. Ozu's films as they are about only japanese life did no cought the attentions of other countries, but when europe and the american movi industry discovered his style his films started to show up in other countries and many critics has been done on his style. some critics compared Ozu's style with zen buddhism and some like ... to their childrens as they should be. Also Chishu Ryu(the father)plays perfects and the scene that he learns that his wife will die is superb. Toky story moves slower than most of other American movies and offcourse we have to be more patient in understanding the techniques of Ozu. Ozu's films never tells us who to love or who to hate like most of the Hollywood films, his ...
- 4447: Mark Twain and Racism
- ... It does not expose and deal with racism, as many advocates of its reading claim, but encourages an attitude of superiority that is unnecessary and intolerable. In order to rid ourselves from this racism, African American literature should be read more often in classrooms throughout the United States. Anything less will simply perpetuate racism. The American Heritage Dictionary defines racism as "the belief that some races are inherently better than others." Mark Twain holds this belief, and his writing illustrates it. The use of the word "nigger" does not merely serve ...
- 4448: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... further into an abyss. This abyss could be called death or ultimate despair. When we read Poe's stories, we often find ourselves wondering how such a mind could function in society. This quotation from American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies, very accurately describes the landscape of Poe's stories: The world of Poe's tales is a nightmarish universe. You cross wasted lands, silent, forsaken landscapes where both life ... early age. Poe was only forty when he passed away. Insignificant in his lifetime, it was only after his death that he was appreciated. He is now acclaimed as one of the greatest writers in American history. It is indeed a pity that he will never know or care.
- 4449: Daniel Webster
- ... an outstanding skilled public speaker or an orator. In 1823, Webster was returned to Congress from Boston, and in 1827 he was elected senator from Massachusetts. New circumstances let Daniel Webster become a champion of American nationalism. With the Federalist Party dead, he joined the National Republican party, he joined with Westerner Henry Clay and then endorsing federal aid for roads in the West. In 1828, since Massachusettses had shifted the ... keep it together for a little while after until the Civil War started. BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. Prodigy - Grolier Electronic Publishing, 1990, W-section 2. Daniel Webster - John Melvin, Copyright 1976, Bonhill Publishing 3. Civil War Heros - American Books, 1979, p.244-247
- 4450: Booker T. Washington: Fighter for the Black Man
- ... s view of the Negro. He felt that knowledge was power, not just knowledge of "books", but knowledge of agricultural and industrial trades. He felt that the Negro would rise to be an equal in American society through hard work. Washington founded a school on these principles, and it became the world's leader in agricultural and industrial education for the Negro. As the world watched him put his heart and ... of an entire race. He didn't do it by accusing and putting blame on others, but instead through hard work. Booker T. Washington cleared the way for the black community to fully enter the American society. Washington was born into slavery on April 5, 1856, in Franklin County, Virginia, on a small tobacco plantation. His only true relative was his mother, Jane, who was the plantation's cook. His father ...
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