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- 2081: Giorgione
- ... delicate, and highlights on details, such as metals and fabric, are wispy. No signed and dated works of Giorgione exist, and few original paintings by Giorgione have survived the ages, however, he had a sweeping effect on the style of the masters to come. His better-known works include Laura, La Veccia, La Tempesta, the Castlefranco Altarpiece, The Three Philosophers, Sleeping Venus, and the decoration on Fondaco dei Tedeschi, on which ...
- 2082: Accomplishments of John D. Rockefeller
- ... 29,000 barrels of crude oil a day and had its own cooper shop manufacturing wooden barrels. Standard prospered and, in 1882, all its properties were merged in the Standard Oil Trust, which was in effect one great company. It is estimated that Standard Oil owned three-fourths of the petroleum business in the US in the 1890s. Rockefeller recognized the difficulties of wisely applying great funds to human welfare, and ...
- 2083: Sigmund Freud: 1856 - 1939
- ... go into private practice with a specialty in neurology. During his training he befriended Josef Breuer, another physician and physiologist. They often discussed medical cases together and one of Breuer's would have a lasting effect on Freud. Known as Anna O., this patient was a young woman suffering from what was then called hysteria. She had temporary paralysis, could not speak her native German but could speak French and English ...
- 2084: Van Gogh
- ... the post-Impressionists movement: Cezanne, Gauguin, and van Gogh. Between them they set European painting on a path which turned Impressionism into something solid and durable, like the art of the museums, a return in effect, to the main stream, but with minds alight with discovery and purpose. These three, as well as Mile Bernard who was a friend of van Gogh, all believed in the importance of color to express ...
- 2085: Albert Einstein
- ... where he had originally studied. It was not until 1914 that Einstein was tempted to return to Germany to become research director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics. World War I had a strong effect on Einstein. While the rest of Germany supported the army, he felt the war was unnecessary, and disgusting. The new weapons of war which attempted to mass slaughter people caused him to devote much of ...
- 2086: Caravaggio
- ... sharp and sudden relief it gives to the forms and the details of form emphasizes their reality in a way that an even or subtly modulated light could never do "p. 726 ( Gardener). The dramatic effect of dark next to light is called tenebroso, or the "dark manner." Caravaggio's reputation and income increased, and he began to be envied. Despite this, Caravaggio was still esentirc and violent. After the Contarelli ...
- 2087: Charles Manson: Orgins of a Madman
- ... figures. "It wasn't a very difficult process. He was dealing with lonely insecure people in need of a father figure, people who didn't have much ego to begin with. What he did, in effect, was to tear down that ego and substitute himself, thus gaining enormous control over his followers." 2 To his girls, Charles Manson was a "beautiful man who loved us all totally." Later, a group of ...
- 2088: The Work of Poet and Philosoher Archibald Lampman
- ... at Les Eboulements" and yet in his darkest moments we get the main topic of this essay "The City of The End of Things". Like most great poets, Lampmans moods and feelings had a direct effect on the nature and topic of his poetry. Lampman chief poetry was done after a great joy in his life, or a great sadness. Sadly, Archibald was not a rich man and lived not a ...
- 2089: The Life of Anne Frank
- ... wall. You read the announcements of their death in the paper, where they're referred to as 'fatal accidents.'"--October 9, 1942 "All college students are being asked to sign an official statement to the effect that they 'sympathize with the Germans and approve of the New Order." Eighty percent have decided to obay the dictates of their conscience, but the penalty will be severe. Any student refusing to sign will ...
- 2090: Anne Bradstreet: The Heretical Poet
- ... be eradicate, And buds new blown, to have so short a date, Is by his hand alone that guides nature and fate (Spiller 64). Bradstreet's "simplicity of diction and imagery carry a genuine emotional effect, until, suddenly Anne Bradstreet realizes that she is perilously close to writing rebelliously against God's decrees. She pulls herself up in the last line. It falls flat, even metrically, because it is dictated not ...
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