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- 331: Art
- ... among the living. The palace art and architecture of these ancient kingdoms was intended to emphasize a hierarchical ordering of society, form ruler, to subject. Egypt's tombs and temples were ornamented with paintings of great distinction. A painting at the tomb of Theber shows floral offerings being made to the hawk god Mentu. This is highly stylized and rich, showing the worshipping of animal gods at the time. In Greece ... with enlightening Christian murals to symbolize the wealth and good times, and to welcome the prosperous times ahead. The development of the Flemish school of painting in the fifteenth century marked the end of the great gothic period. This happened just in time for a rebirth in painting - the ever famous Renaissance period. In this period of exploration, invention and discovery, artists traveled to new lands seeking fresh ideas, also studying ... it depicted feelings and recorded events which were occurring in various countries. In these times, where very few people were literate, art was an important way an individual could explain stories of the world with great expression. Ever since the colonial times, there has been a strong tradition of realism in the United States. George Bellows and Ben Shahn were both social realists who painted members of the working class ...
- 332: The 1930s
- The 1930s The 1930s were times of great depression resulting in sweeping changes. Some people starved trying to find work, while others did all they could to just hang on a little longer. All across North America, tough times were had by all. My ... A second banking panic occurs in the spring of 1931. Also in 1931 the GNP fell another 8.5 percent; unemployment rose to 15.9 percent. 1932 and 1933 are the worst years of the Great Depression. For 1932, GNP fell a record 13.4 percent; unemployment rose to 23.6 percent. Also, Industrial stocks lost 80 percent of its value since 1930. A total of 10,000 banks failed ...
- 333: How Has Film Influenced Lifestyles And Human Behavior In The
- ... influence people's lifestyles and human behavior. Film is for people who do not enjoy reading or other more stimulating leisure and want to be entertained or escape from everyday life. Movies gave society a great way to see vintage fashion, including how to wear period accessories that accompany the clothing. Movies also gave society a view of actors portraying wartime heroes, rebels or gangsters, which may influence peoples human behavior ... up and wore baggy dresses, which often exposed their arms as well as their legs from the knees down. The flapper movies were modern and influenced a revolution in fashion. During the time of the Great Depression, film was a source of cheerful escapism for most. People were out of work, but they did manage to find money to go the movies. Even during the darkest days of the Depression, movie ...
- 334: The Invasion Of Poland 1939
- ... one it started the world would never be the same. Cities and people were destroyed. Unimaginable things took place in Poland during this time, things that will never be forgotten. The invasion lead to a great amount of bloodshed, but Hitler needed to be stopped and if he wasn't there would have been even more innocent people murdered. In the early 1900's Germany was part of the axis countries ... over the Jews. All the competition between the peasants and the Jews caused tension and friction, which brought on an anti-Semitic attitude in Poland. The Jews in Poland were hit hard by an economical depression. Yet the Jews had a great attitude, and they wanted to better themselves. There were no Jewish schools subsidized by the Polish government. But the Jews worked hard to educate their children and enroll them in some kind of activity ...
- 335: Teenage Suicide
- ... food (Homer 19). Sudden behavioral or personality changes should also alert family and friends that something is wrong. The most obvious behavioral change in young people is his or her appearance. Someone that has taken great probe in appearance suddenly appears not to care. More important is the sign of cheerfulness and hope in a person who has recently appeared sad and hopeless. Plans have already been made and the person ... to extreme (Homer 20). Increased use of drugs or alcohol. Most experts say that drugs or alcohol does not cause suicide, but alcohol and certain drugs are depressants. Use of such substances may increase any depression already present (Homer 20). Excessive risk-taking-Driving to fast, as well as the lethal combination of drinking and driving, are the most obvious signs of risk-taking. The individual who is constantly injuring him ... where the person acts nervously, irrationally, peculiarly, differently is one clue, or critical indicator of possible suicidal thoughts coupled or clustered with other verbal or behavioral clues, this often signals suicide (Kuczen 251). The term depression is often referred to with the familiar expression being down in the dumps. Depression is widespread among teenagers and has been reported in children as young as six year old. It can be caused ...
- 336: Peter Tchaikovsky
- ... with that same impersonal candour always flashing out from him, he had scribbled the words: "dreadful muck." Yet now he had the courage to attempt his first symphony, "Winter Dreams." Musically it is not of great importance, any more than are indeed the second and third, one strongly "folk and the other rather featureless, in spite of a beautiful slow movement. But the First Symphony is interesting biographically for two reasons ... even St. Petersburg public. It was the last time he asked to have a work performed there." And no doubt this "complex," as a psychologist would be justified in calling it, was intensified by the great success of the symphony, a year later, in Moscow, when the young composer was called unexpectedly to the stage-terribly nervous, carelessly dressed, holding his hat in his hand, and making clumsy bows. So much ... personal side. Now for the impersonal. Decades later, hardly more than a year before his death, he was asked for his memories of Rubinstein. "In him," he wrote in answer, "I adore not only a great pianist and composer but a man of rare nobility, frank, loyal, generous, incapable of petty and vulgar sentiments . . . a man who towered far above the common herd. . . . I took him an overture,The Storm, ...
- 337: Eleanor Roosevelt
- ... study the life of any female American leader, I choose Eleanor Roosevelt for her achivements, her strugel and her vision of a United world. For someone who never held elective office, Eleanor Roosevelt wielded a great deal of political power. She wrote now laws and appointed no high officials, yet the self-knowledge and profound humility that invested her regard for every human being has made the story of her life ... an unhappy childhood," wrote Winston Churchill. "The stern compression of circumstance, the spur of slights and taunts in early years are needed to evoke that ruthless fixity of purpose and tenacious mother-wit without wich great actions are seldom accomplished." His words, about an unhappy childhood shaping the reateness of later years, were applicable to Eleanor Roosevelt. Eleanor Roosevelt was born on October 11, 1 make friends easily. She would have ... more perticularly, her mother-in-law's houshold. In 1910 when Franklin Roosevelt anounced that he was going to run for a state senate race, Eleanor wrote: " I listened to all his plans with a great deal of interest. It never occured to me that I had any part. I felt I must acquiesce in whatever he might decide and be willing to go to Albany." Politics was man's ...
- 338: Aging As A Mental Issue
- ... should not be frighten be it. As it turns out the fear of this process is enough to speed it up. The negative attitude is a very powerful factor in this process and has a great effect on the physical aspect of aging. It is enough to put people into deep depression or lose their confidence with many other things like good posture. On the other hand maintaining a positive thinking can really slow the process down. In fact it can do miracles, regular exercises and healthy ... life. They will give up more easily and forget about the beneficial things like exercise and proper diet. No new inspiration will come up on their horizons simply because they will stop looking for it. Depression will slowly make its way into their lives and take over whatever was left of their confidence. At this point, only a determined individual could make a change, everyone also will need professional help. ...
- 339: The Holocaust - The Way It Was
- ... around 600,000 in total, less than 1 percent of the entire German population. Nonetheless, Nazi propaganda identified them as a "race" (incorrect) and an inferior one at that, the source of all the economic depression and defeat in World War I- failing to mention that many of the more than 100,000 Jews who had served in the war were highly decorated soldiers. The Jews of Germany still had some ... two thirds of the Austrian Jewry, the latter fleeing between 1938 and 1939. Emigration took them to Palestine (mainly), but also the United States, Latin America, Shanghai (where no visa was required for entry, a great convenience), along with eastern and western Europe, (a poor choice, since the Nazis would soon catch many of them again as they conquered Europe). The Jews who remained in Nazi Germany were either unwilling to ... able to afford the trip. Many foreign countries made it even harder to get out due to strict emigration policies designed to thwart large amounts of refugees from entering, particularly in the wake of the Depression. The United States, Britain, Canada, and France were among these. Thirty eight countries met at Evian, France to discuss the treatment of the Jews in Germany, but no real help was offered, to the ...
- 340: John Ford and Frank Capra: A Study of Their Movies
- John Ford and Frank Capra: A Study of Their Movies "A great man and a great American, Frank Capra is an inspiration to those who believe in the American dream" John Ford "The megaphone has been to John Ford what the chisel was to Michelangelo.....Ford Cannot be pinned down or analyzed. He is pure Ford--Which means pure great" Frank Capra Frank Capra and John Ford have directed many classic movies and it is unfair to only view two of their works and summarize all there is too say about their styles, so ...
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