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- 1101: Catcher In The Rye - Holden Caulfield
- ... During the short period of Holden's life covered in this book. Shortly after Holden leaves Pencey Prep, he checks in to the Edmont Hotel. This is " what Holden Caulfield would call ‘the phony world’." (French) Holden spends the following evening in the hotel which was "full of perverts and morons. [There were] screwballs all over the place."(Salinger 61) His situation only deteriorates from this point on as the more ... losing their innocence. They will fall if they fall, there is nothing that can be done. "Wiser and sadder, [Holden] decides that he must return home rather than taking the responsibility of leading Phoebe astray" (French). Shortly after this point Holden has his nervous breakdown. His breakdown is due to this depressing realization that the world is corrupt and filled with evil. He knows now with a sickening certainty that he is powerless to stop both evil and maturation. As a matter of fact, it is "bad" to do so. Works Cited Coles, Robert. " Secular Days, Sacred Moments." America, Vol. 181, Issue 3, pp.8. French, Warren, "J.D. Salinger," Reference Guide to American Literature. St. James Press: 1994. P. 749-50. Salinger, J.D., The Catcher in the Rye. New York, New York: Bantam Books
- 1102: Behind The Urals
- ... as they went from one extreme to another. The old Czarist government was always out to serve the rich landowners, while treating the peasantry as second-class humans rather than equals. However, when the Russian Revolution came to a head, and the Red Communists or Bolsheviks defeated the White Czarists, Russia was left with an entirely new system of thought in its government. This ideology viewed the working class and peasantry ... was easier on workers, and did not concentrate so much on the well being of the upper class. Valdek was much respected in Magnitogorsk and many of his fellow workers questioned the lack of a revolution in Poland. Valdek explained to them that if there were talk of a revolution, the revolutionaries would be immediately thrown in jail. Khaibulin, who was a tarter, exemplifies the diversity of the people who traveled to Magnitogorsk. His ancestors raised livestock for centuries and overall were very primitive. ...
- 1103: A Tale Of Two Cities - Best Or Worst Of Times?
- ... father. The twofold nature of the novel, both light and dark, hope and doom, is reflected in foreshadowing and symbolism. The spilling of red wine is a premonition of blood to be shed in the Revolution. "All the people within reach had suspended their business, or their idleness, to run to the spot and drink he wine." (24) There will be people in the Revolution who will, figuratively, drink the blood like the wine. Another foreboding of the long and hard road of the Revolution is the image of the mail that goes up the hill along the difficult and dangerous Dover road. No travelers who venture on it are secure. "If any one of [the passengers] had the ...
- 1104: Behind The Urals
- ... as they went from one extreme to another. The old Czarist government was always out to serve the rich landowners, while treating the peasantry as second-class humans rather than equals. However, when the Russian Revolution came to a head, and the Red Communists or Bolsheviks defeated the White Czarists, Russia was left with an entirely new system of thought in its government. This ideology viewed the working class and peasantry ... was easier on workers, and did not concentrate so much on the well being of the upper class. Valdek was much respected in Magnitogorsk and many of his fellow workers questioned the lack of a revolution in Poland. Valdek explained to them that if there were talk of a revolution, the revolutionaries would be immediately thrown in jail. Khaibulin, who was a tarter, exemplifies the diversity of the people who traveled to Magnitogorsk. His ancestors raised livestock for centuries and overall were very primitive. ...
- 1105: The Self Portraits Of Gertrude Stein And Pablo Picaso
- ... home. Picasso proved to be rather opinionated, spending the greater part of his visits to the Steins’ residence sulking in the corner. He found difficulty in explaining his far-fetched opinions and positions, especially in French; in fact, he felt they needed no explanation. Frequent explication of his views, mixed with Matisse’s inspired advocation of his own way of painting, failed to entertain Picasso, and thus most viewed him as ... entitled “Insistent Presence in Picasso’s Portrait of Gertrude Stein” observed that, Stein was upper middle class, a trained scientist, a non-practicing Jew, a lesbian, over-educated, American and, in 1905, shy with accented French; Picasso, by contrast, was bohemian, a lapsed but highly superstitious Catholic, vigorously heterosexual, self-education, and a Spaniard with accented French. But their attraction was immediate. (4) Hobhouse writes, “Both were direct, a little rough with company, greedy, childish in their enthusiasms and petulant in their dislikes. . . . And both, at the time, were beginning to ...
- 1106: Propaganda In Film
- ... when it was used in Europe it was quite neutral and described various political beliefs, religious evangelism and commercial advertising. An example of the earliest use of political propaganda included the literature of the American Revolution The Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson was the ultimate form of rational propaganda. It was written with the idea of rallying the public around the idea of America as a country and to justify its existence to the world. Examples of literary propaganda include the histories of the French author Voltaire, the pamphlets of the religious reformer Martin Luther, and the works of Karl Marx. During the First World War, the meaning of the word "Propaganda" and its neutrality changed. With the technological advances ...
- 1107: Music In The Romantic Period
- ... inspiration, musical compositions were often named with descriptive titles and or complied to literary programs like paintings that attempted to illustrate stories. Romanticism can be thought of as a subconscious rebellion against the increasing Industrial Revolution and machines taking over work which some believed threatened mankind's dignity. Artists got their inspiration in stories of distant lands and times. They would also turn to nature, examining the raging sea and storm ... artists were also concerned with the slightly opposing ideas of nationalism and the universal brotherhood of man, longing for political and social freedom. The music represented the period of time that saw the American and French Revolutions, then the joining of Germany and Italy, and the abolition of slavery in the United States. The Romantic Era spawned the popular idea people have of a composer being a "long- haired Bohemian who ...
- 1108: Les Mis
- ... that if she could not have Marius, no one should be able to. So she wrote him a false letter telling him to meet Cosette when in actuality he was simply being led into the French revolution. Yet when the barrel of a gun was pointed towards Marius, it was Eponine who placed her hand over the end, sending the bullet through her and out of her back, slowly killing her. Though ...
- 1109: Leonardo Da Vinci 2
- ... Cathedral and architectural drawings. My largest commission was for a colossal bronze monument Francesco Sforza, father of Ludovico, in the courtyard of Castello Sforzesco. Unfortunately in 1499, the Sforza family was driven from Milan by French forces. I left the statue unfinished and French archers destroyed it before I went back home to Florence in 1500. Returning home in 1502 I entered the service of Cesare Borgia, the duke of Romagna. There I worked as the chief architect and ... Mona Lisa. I take the Mona Lisa everywhere I go and it will hang next to my bed when I die. I traveled to Milan one last time in 1506, at the summons of its French governor, Charles d'Amboise. The next year I was named court painter to King Louis Xll of France. Then for the next six years I would go between Milan and Florence when I would ...
- 1110: Existentialism And Theatre
- Existentialism is a concept that became popular during the second World War in France, and just after it. French playrights have often used the stage to express their views, and these views came to surface even during a Nazi occupation. Bernard Shaw got his play "Saint Joan" past the German censors because it appeared to be very Anti-British. French audiences however immediately understood the real meaning of the play, and replaced the British with the Germans. Those sorts of "hidden meanings" were common throughout the period so that plays would be able to pass ... in 1940 but managed to escape, and become one of the leaders of the Existential movement. Other popular playwrights were Albert Camus, and Jean Anouilh. Just like Anouilh, Camus accidentally became the spokesman for the French Underground when he wrote his famous essay, "Le Mythe de Sisyphe" or "The Myth of Sisyphus". Sisyphus was the man condemned by the gods to roll a rock to the top of a mountain, ...
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