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- 2361: Pablo Picasso 2
- ... caused a climate unfavourable for his work. The war also caused his separation from his friends. In 1917, a young writer, Jean Cocteau, persuaded Picasso to leave Paris and travel to Rome, after the sudden death of Marcelle Humbert. Following a phase of depression, Picasso designed sets for the ballet "Parade", in which Cubist "stage managers" were involved. In the opening-night, the audience hissed at the ballet performance but applauded ... create the 11 by 25 foot masterpiece which he named "Guernica". This large mural was, without doubt, the greatest of all creations made by Picasso in his lifetime. It depicted war through anger, violence and death using the tragedy of the bullfight. The critic Jean Cassous stated, "it overflows with fullness and presence, with signs and cries." During World War 2, Picasso was forbidden to exhibit his work after the German occupation of France. He experienced severe hunger for the first time since his early days in Paris. His paintings were harsh and the colours used were, in a sense, cruel. Suddenly, soon after the death of his friend Julio Gonzales, he modelled the "Man with Sheep"(1944), a figure of peace and hope. One year after, Picasso joined the Communist Party and, for the first time, exhibited at the ...
- 2362: Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead
- ... Dixieland bandleader in the thirties, and he named his new son after his favorite Broadway composer, Jerome Kern. In the spring of 1948, while on a fishing trip, Garcia saw his father swept to his death by a California river. After his father's death, Garcia spent a few years living with his mother's parents, in one of San Francisco's working-class districts. His grandmother had the habit of listening to Nashville's Grand Ole Opry radio broadcasts ... security force. It proved to be a day of horrific violence. The Angels battered numerous people, usually for no reason, and in the evening, as the Stones performed, the bikers stabbed a black guy to death in front of the stage. The record the band followed with, Workingman's Dead, was the Dead's response to that period. The album was a statement about the changing and badly corrupt sense ...
- 2363: 1984: The Party's Control Over the Thoughts
- ... was about to do was open a diary. This was not illegal (nothing was illegal, since there were no longer any laws), but if detected it was reasonably certain that it would be punished by death..."(Orwell 9). Oceania has no courts or prisons, only the Thought Police and Ministry of Love. The Thought Police serve to help the party maintain the strictest level of orthodoxy among its followers, and further ... crime no longer encompasses action: "Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as thought by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought...(it means) protective stupidity" (175). Citizens, such as Smith, condemn themselves to death merely by doubting, questioning, or dissenting- "The consequences of every act are included in the act itself... Thoughtcrime does not entail Death: thoughtcrime is death" (27). Winston's job brings him face to face with the Party's destruction of the past when he mistakenly receives photographs of traitors, Jones, Aaronson, and Rutherford. Since the photograph ...
- 2364: Early Christianity
- ... In 63 B.C. Roman power spread to Judea, the Jewish homeland. At the time King Herod was the ruler of Judea, he accepted Roman rule and angered many Jews by doing so. After the death of Herod many Jews revolted against Roman rule for 10 years. At this time there were two main factions of Jews, one group, the Zealots wanted to rid Judea of Roman influence. The other group ... and yourself. The ten commandments and the basic foundation of Judaism was included in his teachings as Jesus was born a Jew. Jesus had 12 disciples, disciple means follower or pupil, even long after the death of Jesus these disciples would continue teaching about Jesus. The first four books of the bible were written by the Disciple these books are called apostles they are as follows Matthew, Mark, Luke and John ... both Jewish and Roman leaders. When Jesus visited Jerusalem around 29 AD, he found enthusiastic crowds greeting him as the messiah. However he was arrested for not worshiping pagan Roman gods and was sentenced to death on a cross. While he was hanging awaiting death he forgave those who had killed him and those who had worshipped him the day before were denying him. After his crucifixion he was placed ...
- 2365: Marijuana
- ... us focus on the tension and disagreement that exists between physicians and their patients. The population clearly seeks more control over both their future medical care and also the method, timing, and place of their death. Patients want ". . assurance that there will be no unreasonable efforts, an affirmation that the dignity to be sought in death is the appreciation by others of what one has been in life. . . the acceptance of one's own death is a necessary process of nature . . ."(Nuland, 1993, p. 255). Yet these statistics show that physicians often do not allow patient control. How disheartening for a patient to fear that the doctor cannot be ...
- 2366: Emperor Claudius
- ... folly were sufficiently grave to cause the summary execution of Messalina, Silius, and assorted hangers-on (orchestrated, tellingly, by the freedman Narcissus). Claudius was now without a wife. The Rise of Agrippina and Claudius\\'s Death (48-54 A.D.) The death of Messalina is presented as initiating a scramble among the freedmen, each wishing to place his preferred candidate at Claudius\\'s side as the new empress. In the end, it was Pallas who prevailed when ... married before. She therefore brought to the marriage with Claudius a son, Nero Agrippina\\'s ambitions for this son proved the undoing of Claudius. The years between his marriage to Agrippina in 48 and his death in 54 were difficult ones for Claudius. Whether or not sources are right to portray him as a dupe of his wives and freedmen throughout his reign, there can be little doubt that Agrippina\\' ...
- 2367: 2Pac Shakur
- ... assaulted a fellow rapper with a baseball bat. October 31, 1993, he was charged with shooting two off duty police officers. The charges were later dropped. November 19, 1993, he was convicted of sexual assault (“Death”). In November 1994, Tupac himself was shot during an attempted robbery outside a music studio in New York. Tupac did, however, mention this; “Thug life to me is dead. If it's real, let somebody ... life, mostly tried to keep others away from the life he had lived. He died after going farther than a lot of people would have gotten in their entire life. Some believe that Tupac's death was faked but I do not know which to believe. This man was great at what he did, rap, and movies and that is what I admire him for. Bibliography “Associated Press Life.” http://www.stallion.jsums.edu/~awi10997/Tupac/life.htm (19 September 1996). “The Death of Tupac.” http://www.stallion.jsums.edu/~awi10997/Tupac/death.htm (19 September 1996). Payne, Barbara. “Tupac Shakurr Has Died.” http://www.cpnet.com/shakur.htm (17 September 1996). “Thuglife Central: Unofficial 2pac Homepage.” ...
- 2368: Innocence Of Ophelia And Gertr
- The Innocence of Gertrude and Ophelia “Pretty Ophelia,” as Claudius calls her, is the most innocent victim of Hamlet’s revenge in Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. Hamlet has fallen in love with Ophelia after the death of his father. Ophelia “sucked the honey of his music vows” and returned Hamlet’s affection. But when her father had challenged Hamlet’s true intentions, Ophelia could only say: “I do not know, my ... for her to marry her lover, she was most happy and wished for the difficulties of the past be forgotten. The only thing left to make Gertrude unhappy is Hamlet’s refusal to forget the death of his father or to forgive her for remarrying so quickly. In order for her to completely bury the past, she must convince Hamlet to accept her new marriage and forget his father’s death. But as she sees Hamlet’s madness deteriorate even further, she seizes the idea that Hamlet’s madness might actually be caused by his love for Ophelia. “And for your part, Ophelia, I do ...
- 2369: Euthanasia
- ... http://www.iaetf.org/faq.htm). Why has only one state that happens to be in the United States contributed to this horrible controversy? Euthanasia tends to attract people that are terminally ill who desire death and are usually depressed. A "good" medical doctor would prescribe an individual some antidepressant medication before taking ones life. Euthanasia allows a "bad" doctor to have too much control over an individual's life before ... person needs to find a new doctor that can prescribe them drugs pinpointed more to their condition that can actually do something for their pain rather than taking the easy way out and resulting to death. People that have had someone like Dr. Jack Kevorkian assist in their death are crying out for help, they are allowing death to be their last measure to result to in life. Euthanasia activists are allowing people to believe that it is an acceptable solution to result ...
- 2370: Performance Enhancing Drugs
- ... are usually the select few that can afford them. The reasons for not using the drugs are more numerous and considerably more dangerous than the reasons for taking them. The most sever, of course, is death. One example of this tragic end is Florence Griffith Joyner’s death. Though she was tested and found with no drugs in her system, she was rumored to have taken small doses of anabolic steroids during her illustrious track and field career. Another reason is many health risks, many not resulting in death though. These include stoppage of growth, loss of bodily functions, dehydration, and many more. Plus, these drugs are illegal in sports. Many are available only through a doctor’s prescription for certain diseases. The ...
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