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- 3171: Franz Joseph Haydn
- ... was played. The genre of the string quartet occupies a special place in Haydn s oeuvre. He was central to its establishment as a major genre-a status that it has maintained to the present day-and he composed quartets from the beginning to the end of his lengthy career. He was probably attracted to the medium of two violins, viola, and cello because of its inherent musicality. The instruments blend ... these sonatas developed the sonata form, a type of structure and rhythm that is used and expected of all classical music even until today. A great example of this is his Sonata No.37 in D minor, one of his first sonatas where the sonata form was gradually developed. He wrote a total of 49 in his life time. In the second quarter of the eighteenth century, well before Haydn and ...
- 3172: Florence Nightingale 2
- ... not like other people. She was scared that other children might discover her secret. Florence was not happy living the rich life that she was. She was always in discontent. To escape from this, she day-dreamed all of the time. Florence was very pretty like her mother. She had a very vivid and active imagination. She would day dream all of the time. She imagined herself as a monster and as a great heroine. Flo and Pop were educated by their father. Their education was very thorough and classical. Florence was very smart ... the sick and wounded soldiers, she sent flowers to them. She wanted to make them feel welcome. She also wanted to make them feel as at home as possible. Florence just wanted to brighten the day of that nurse who might be a bit scared. Florence cared deeply for others. Even before Florence was a nurse she cared for others. She cared for them by just being nice. Before Florence ...
- 3173: Ernest Hemingway 5
- ... for his failures. This act is very important because, if he had not, he would become forever caught up in that old played out moment of time which would prohibit him from beginning anew each day (Rovit 97). Santiago still believes that he has the ability to catch fish; he leaves the harbor every day intending to return home with a catch. On the eighty-fifth day Santiago decides to fish far off shore, despite the risks that could accompany this long journey. It is believed that to risk more invites disaster, but the risk is worth taking, the joys to ...
- 3174: Edgar Allan Poe 4
- ... attracted the most attention. Poe has a way of writing in which he does not have to reveal too much, or paint a pretty picture for the reader in order to attract his attention. In D.H. Lawrence's Studies in Classic American Literature, the author states, "Poe's narrowness is like that of a sword, not that of a bottleneck: it is effective rather than constricting. Nothing adventitious is in ... the same genre." Bibliography 1. Bloom, Harold, Ed. Modern Critical Views on Edgar Allan Poe. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1985. 2.Buranelli, Vincent. Edgar Allan Poe. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1977. 3. Lawrence, D.H. Studies in Classic American Literature New York: The Viking Press, 1961. 4.Lawrence D.H. Modern Critical Views on Edgar Allan Poe. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1985. 5. Wilbur, R. Modern Critical Views on Edgar Allan Poe. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House ...
- 3175: Ernest Hemingway
- ... wounded by a mortar shell. Even with both his legs penetrated with fragments of ammunition, he carried an Italian soldier to safety. For his courage he was awarded the Croce de Guerra and the Medaglia d'Argento al Valor Militare. During Ernest's stay in a Red Cross hospital he fell in love with a nurse. Agnes Von Kurowsky was seven and a half years older than Ernest, who was almost ... around the village together, as soon as Ernest could move on crutches.3 That October, Agnes was moved to Florence and Ernest fell into depression. He would write her letters, sometimes two or three a day, telling her how he felt about her.4 Just before he was shipped home on the S.S. Giuseppe Verdi in January of 1919, they agreed to be married after the war was over.5 ...
- 3176: Edgar Allan Poe 3
- ... only agreed to the deal if it would be a five-dollar magazine . Poe wanted the magazine to be elegant, therefore the price was twice that of any of the other popular magazines of the day (Anderson 113). Poe s next literary tenure was in Philadelphia, which he is said to have arrived there in the summer of 1838. While in Philadelphia, Poe had a brief period of success, writing The ... kill the old man, because of his filmy, vulture-like blue eye. After seven nights, he finally murders the old man, and buries his chopped up body under the floorboard of the room. The next day the police come over to the house to check out a call from the night before, which was placed by a neighbor who said they heard a scream. The police begin to question the narrator ... and a betrayer of one who had reposed confidence in him. After Poe s death, Griswold published the Ludwig article. In this article he said, Edgar Allan Poe is dead. He died in Baltimore the day before yesterday. This announcement will startle many, but few will be grieved by it He had few or no friends. This article was printed on October 9, 1849, and did irreparable damage to Poe ...
- 3177: Emily Dickinsons Private World
- ... the publishers all thought them too rough and irregular in form and style. It was only after her death that her genius with language and her ability to capture universal truths in descriptions of every day things were discovered. Dickinson observed much in the society of her small town of Amherst that contributed to her disaffection for the strictures of her Victorian era. Dickinson's amused disgust for the conventions of ... because of her shyness and fear of public places. As a member of a marginalized part of society--unmarried women--she faced the stigma of prejudices held about women and particularly women writers in her day. She implies that the "discerning eyes" of society often make madness out of sensible things and sensibility out of madness. She was perhaps alluding to her brothers' long-term affair with Mabel Loomis Todd, a ... disconnectedness from society. Because she did not subject herself to the standards of Victorian society, her poetry is full of complex images and "truth told slant" that is evident in few other poets of her day. Her poetry is multi faceted; the reader can repeatedly return to a poem and notice different aspects of her life and beliefs within the poem each time it is read. Dickinson was a unique ...
- 3178: Dwight Eisenhower
- Dwight D. Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas. His parents, David Jacob Eisenhower and Ida Stover Eisenhower, were a deeply religious couple who belonged to a Protestant sect called the River Brethren. Dwight ... While coaching sports teams when off duty at Fort Sam Houston, he met Mamie Geneva Doud, a visitor from Denver, and started taking her to social gatherings at the base. On July 1, 1916, the day of his promotion to first lieutenant, Dwight and Mamie were married. The young couple had their first son, Doud Dwight Eisenhower, died of scarlet fever at three years old. Later, the Eisenhowers had a second ...
- 3179: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal ...I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. Not only did Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. have a dream, he ... follow through the same way. I would continue that way because his efforts have gotten us where we are today. His philosophy on nonviolence has had a huge impact on society. We continue to this day both whites and blacks to use this method when demonstrating for other purposes, whether its gay rights, prohibit testing on animals, etc. In retrospect we can safely say that even with the problems with ...
- 3180: Dizzy Gillespie
- ... Hal Leonard Publishing, 1975. Powis, Tim. Bebop's Joyful Pop. Macleans. March 1989: 57-8. Span, Paula. Into the Company of Giants: Dizzy Last Jam-an All Star Farewell. Washington Post 13 January 1993: Sec D, 1. Watrous, Peter. Dizzy Gillespie, Who Sounded Some of Modern Jazz's Earliest Notes, Dies at 75. New York Times. 7 January 1993: Sec D, 12. Watrous, Peter. Thousands Gather to Hear Praise For Dizzy Gillespie. New York Times 13 January 1993: Sec A, 18. Watrous, Peter. More Than the Man With the Bent Horn. New York Times 17 January 1993: Sec B, 26. Yardely, Johnathan. The Happy Life and Breadth of the Devine Creator. Washington Post 13 January 1993: Sec D, 1. "John Birks 'Dizzy' Gillespie." Editorial. Washington Post 8 January 1993: Sec A, 18. "ANATA Concerts Listed In 5 Countries Tonight." New York Times 9 May 1956: p. 36. "Music: 'Cool' Jazz Fete." New ...
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