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- 991: Vincent Van Gogh The Successful Failure
- ... toward his parents. This hate finally became evident when he rejected both his mother and father at yet another time when his mother had tried to interfere with his life. Vincent van Gogh quit his employment at Goupil's after a violent fight with his manager. He pursued his life's dream as a preacher. Vincent got a job teaching Sunday school and occasionally giving sermons. This career did not last ...
- 992: Romanticism In Music
- ... piece a cultural flavour. Some of the exceptional composers who adapted this style of music are Tchaikovsky, Berlioz, Wagner and Franz Liszt. Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886) was born in Hungary to a steward in the employment of a wealthy family. He was allowed the opportunity to pursue his musical interests C and abilities by a group of Hungarian noblemen. While studying, he formed friendships with some of the great leaders of ...
- 993: Johann Sebastian Bach
- ... in this arrangement, Johann Sebastian won a scholarship to study in Luneberg, Northern Germany, and so left his brother's tutelage. A master of several instruments while still in his teens, Johann Sebastian first found employment at the age of 18 as a "lackey and violinist" in a court orchestra in Weimar; soon after, he took the job of organist at a church in Arnstadt. Here, as in later posts, his ...
- 994: Effect Of Film On History (1920s-1940s)
- ... time to move on to more current issues such as: The Great Depression. Starting off with Gentlemen Are Born, the story of four men just graduating from college only to find that there was no employment available to them in the fields they worked and trained so hard in, a small subset of movies, which included Wild Boys of the Road, delved into the subject of how young people were forced ...
- 995: The Thief's Journal: The Prince of Thieves - Genet
- ... perhaps the moral solitude -to which I aspire- that makes me admire traitors and love them -this taste for solitude being the sign of my pride, and the pride the manifestation of my strength, the employment and proof of this strength. For I shall have broken the stoutest of bonds, the bonds of love. And I so need love from which to draw vigor enough and destroy it! It was in ...
- 996: Fanon's Three Stages Related to the Indigenous People of Chiapas
- ... catholic religion. An example of Fanon's first phase is when the colonizer tries to calm the angry, poor and exploited colonized people by promising social reform.(Fanon 207) These reforms promise things such as employment, welfare and education. According to Fanon, the government rarely follows through with pledged social reform. They find it easier to simply increase the number of army troops, police officers and jail cells. The oppressors intention ...
- 997: The Feminine Mystique
- ... a wider acceptance of homosexuality and the existence of many homosexual organizations which promote homosexual support. The basic goals of the movement were to eliminate the laws which prohibited homosexual activity, provide equal housing and employment opportunities for homosexuals, and to create a wider acceptance among the heterosexual community. Still there was a lot of opposition to those who accepted homosexuality. Still there was a lot of oppression felt by lesbian ...
- 998: Power Shifts in Intergovernmental Relations: A Result of Fiscal Federalism
- ... Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program was state-administered and federally funded, another example of state dependence on the national government. The Works Progress Administration is one of the multitude of programs implemented to provide employment to aid in recovery. Formerly a state responsibility, the national government became the primary source for relief. The national government broadened its powers in response to this crisis and began to supersede the state governments ...
- 999: The Jungle: The Appeal of Socialism
- ... people know that what they would confront would be the complete antithesis of what they dreamed of. The enormous rush of European immigrants encountered a lack of jobs. Those who were lucky enough to find employment wound up in factories, steel mills, or in the meat packing industry. Jurgis Rudkus was one fo these dissapointed immigrants. A sweeper in slaughter house, he experienced the horrendous conditions which laborers encountered Along with ...
- 1000: Gulliver's Travels
- ... the amusement of children, Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift, proves, upon closer examination, to be a critical and insightful work satirizing the political and social systems of eighteenth-century England. Through frequent and successful employment of irony, ambiguity and symbolism, Swift makes comments addressing such specific topics as current political controversies as well as such universal concerns as the moral degeneration of man. While he incorporates them subtly early in ...
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