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- 3371: William Shakespeare's Life
- ... plays are characterized to a degree of superficial construction and verse. Some of the plays from the first period my be no more than retouchings of earlier works by others. Four plays dramatizing the English civil strife of the 15th century are possibly Shakespeare's earliest dramatic works. These plays, Henry VI, Parts I, II, III, and Richard III, deal with the evil results of weak leadership. Shakespeare's comedies of the first period represent a wide range. The Comedy of Errors depends on its appeal on the mistakes in identity between two sets of twins involved in romance and war. The Taming of the Shrew, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Love's Labour's Lost are all comedies and satires. Next, Shakespeare's second period includes his most important plays about English history. The ...
- 3372: Timeline of Art
- ... the mechanics of pictorial creation and destroyed the artificial barriers between abstraction and representation. It still remains the pivotal movement in the art of the first half of this century. Abstract Expressionism: Since the World War II the paintings' movement had gathered considerable momentum. The political realities of the time- from 1943 to early 1950s- the War, the Holocaust in Europe, the apparent threat of the world destruction by atomic bomb, the conservative reaction of McCarthyism in United States and even intensified hurly burly of city life-resulted in a movement called ... our development. One can accumulate a number of high-tech weapons to gain superiority but it is gain in the art world which brings harmony and peace in this diverse world. Even before the Cold War ended, the involved countries were familiar with each other only by heir respective artistic talents. There was always artistic exchanges among the countries with an understanding to know each other differences and similarities. Art ...
- 3373: Ida B. Wells
- ... was fueled by her natural drive to search for the truth. Wells was born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Her father, James Wells, was a carpenter and her mother was a cook. After the Civil War her parents became politically active. Her father was known as race man, a term given to African Americans involved in the leadership of the community. He was a local businessman, a mason, and a member ...
- 3374: Faces Of The Diamond - Essay O
- ... the rights of the enslaved. Fitz-Norman Culpepper Washington, Braddocks father, read his slaves a proclamation that he had composed which announced that the shattered Southern armies were reorganized from the remains of the Civil War and they defeated the North in a one pitched battle, his slaves believed him implicitly. Through this satirical event, Fitzgerald expresses his idea to the readers that many forms of slavery still exist today. After ...
- 3375: Farewell My Concubine -- Inter
- ... with him was in the opera and acting. At the same time, the political tension in the city of Beijing was getting fiercer with the occupation of the Japanese in 1937 and before that, the Civil War between the Nationalists and Communists. One rainy night, Cheng was walking to his quarters in the Opera Academy and he found an abandoned baby, who would later also become a famous actor. His name, Xiao ...
- 3376: Henry VIII and Louis XIV
- ... As a start, he planned to conquer all lands west of the Rhine River. He gained several important territories, but was always checked by the alliances that other countries formed to oppose him. In the War of Spanish Succession, England took an important part in defeating him, leading to animosity between the two countries and their respective rulers. This war, which ended in 1714, left France exhausted and weakened. Both men had a common ability to see the goodness in other men as royal advisors. Both hired surprisingly intelligent and wise men to run their ... got out of hand. He was to the point, by the end of his reign, of setting up a well-appointed and furnished estate for each of these families. Not only that, but the Spanish War of Succession severely crippled the treasury, and Louis never could truly raised the taxes enough to cover his love of these ³little wars² and women. Louis was known in Europe for being the longest ...
- 3377: Refugees Population And Needs
- ... communities, living in tents outside the main stations. the biggest problem,which these refugees rae facing ,is that of food ; there is an immense shortage of food in the state of kosovo due to the civil war .uno should try hard to provide these helpless refugees with enough food so that they can survive.unicef and unesco should be given the responsibilities to conserve the rights of the children. the shortage of ...
- 3378: Louis XIV
- ... no challenge to his authority, from the Pope or anyone else Louis got into many wars while he was ruler of France, he was quick to the draw and did not hesitate to start a war. To show the Catholics that he was still a catholic king ,Louis kept mounting pressure on the French Protestants, until 1685 when he revoked Edict of Nantes. Then he forbid anyone to practice Calvinism. To ... no kids, he made he offered to make Louis's grandson the sole beneficiary of the vast inheritance to be left behind, Louis Accepted the the offer out of pure greed, but that dicision meant war with Austria. Although, Louis was already getting half of the money he still greedily accepted the offer, if he had not accepted the offer war could have been avoided, but hey we all make mistakes The second thing about Louis that made him a good leader was that he had Mercy on those who betrayed him which was something ...
- 3379: Panama Canal
- ... dollars. Though the idea of having a waterway through the Isthmus of Panama was older then the respective name the completion could not have come at a worse time. When the canal was finished, World War I was just beginning. During the war the canal was used only by two thousand ships a year, but after the war the total jumped to five thousand ships annually. The toll was originally only $0.90 per ton but due to increasing costs of operation the fee was raised to $1.08 per ton in ...
- 3380: To Kill A Mockingbird 2
- ... story, beginning with a brief family history. Simon Finch, a fur-trapping apothecary journeyed from England to Alabama, establishing the family which made its living from cotton on Simon's homestead, Finch's Landing. The Civil War left the family only its land, which was the source of family incomes until the twentieth century when Atticus Finch (Scout's father) and his brother Jack left the land for careers in law and ...
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