|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 2581 - 2590 of 12257 matching essays
- 2581: Michelangelo 3
- ... Ludovico Buonarroti, a Florentine official with connections to the ruling Medici family. At the age of thirteen, Michelangelo was placed as an apprentice in the workshop of Domencio Ghirlandaio. He then studied at the scuplture school in the Medici gardens. He was then invited into the Medici home where he met the two Medici boys who would later become Popes Leo X and Clement VII. Michelangelo produced two sculptures while in ... building on the outside of the chapel and the final form of the dome. Michelangelo painted in a time that was fluorishing with great artwork. He was one of the most influential people of the High Renaissance, along with the father of the High Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci. Michelangelo was a realist, as seen in his sculptures and paintings. A personal favorite is the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. I think that Michelangelo was the backbone on which ...
- 2582: Alvin Ailey
- ... YWHA. Revelations has been seen in every country that the company has toured and has been universally acclaimed. Born in Rogers, Texas on January 5, 1931, Alvin Ailey spent his formative years going to Sunday School and participating in The Baptist Young People's Union. At age twelve, he moved to Los Angeles and, on a junior high school class trip to the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, fell in love with concert dance. Ailey began his formal dance training inspired by the performances of the Katherine Dunham Dance Company and the classes ...
- 2583: Aum Shinkyria
- ... a very poor family in China. Throughout his entire life he had one solitary goal - to become a leader of some sort. This started from an early age, when he would run for class and school president every year in elementary, middle, and secondary school. Being the unusual boy he was, he would constantly be declined presidency, as the other children feared his political standpoint and his threats. According to Marty Butz, a writer for a prominent occult magazine, perhaps ... was when the Aum tear-gassed the Tokyo subway system, killing 12 and injuring 5000 others. The government moved in and shut the whole operation down. So cults form everywhere and everyday. They form with high hopes, good intentions, and a dream for a Utopian society. But they almost all fail, sadly.
- 2584: Abolishing Grades
- ... letters or numbers. Individuality and creativity were pushed aside so colleges, universities, graduate schools and employers would be able to judge their candidates. In the text, Celebrating Diversity, a short segment called, " Add Teaching To High-Risk Jobs," writes, "You can have an 'A'." Students' minds are generally focused on getting an "A," so they usually don't think about learning, rather they constantly render on the "A." Many candidates' acceptance ... getting a bad grade, even the dreaded "F." These classes might teach students some very valuable lessons. They will never find out as long as grades still exist. In our current system, students need very high grades to be accepted to graduate school and eventually to obtain a prestigious job. This is the case with many students. They fear the threat of a bad grade, so they forego a potentially valuable experience. In a short segment called ...
- 2585: Violence 2
- ... humans suppress in order to try to have law and order. Law and order are two things that just seem like guidelines from which a kid bases his or her rebellion. Just like in Columbine High School there was a small group of kids who were willing to break the law because there were restrictions on what they could do. And because they were teased by some of the kids, and to them it might have felt like the whole school was coming down on them, they got their revenge in one way possible. Although we will never know exactly why, even though they left a note, they rebelled against the system like they did; ...
- 2586: Andy Worhal
- Andy Warhol, the American painter, printmaker, illustrator, and film maker was born in Pittsburgh on August 6, 1928, shortly afterwards settling in New York. The only son of immigrant, Czech parents, Andy finished high school and went on to the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, graduating in 1949 with hopes of becoming an art teacher in the public schools. While in Pittsburgh, he worked for a department store arranging ... from respected commercial illustrator to controversial and influential artist. Such Pop Art images as Warhols soup cans and Lichtensteins comic book panels jumped from the vast American consumer culture into the realm of high artistic and aesthetic recognition. It is not known whether Lichtenstein or Warhol was the first to displace commercial images from the media to modernist painting, but Warhol, of all the founding Pop artists, first ...
- 2587: Walt Whitman
- ... he went. Whitman loved Long Island and it became a major part of his works. (Webster, Orville III- page 122). He held various jobs throughout his life. He was a printing apprentice, journalist, editor, and school teacher. Walt Whitman sold his first story to "The Democratic Review" shortly after leaving his teaching job. This publication was known to pirate literature from Europe to save money, but it also printed the works ... Hall Democrats. When Whitman turned 19, he took an apprenticeship at a local paper. Later he founded the weekly newspaper, the Long-Islander. He wrote, printed, and delivered his paper himself. Then, he became a school teacher. These factors would later aid him in publishing his own work, especially his first book of poems, Leaves of Grass in 1855. (Encyclopedia of World Biography- pages 249-250). When Whitman compiled poems for ... but he was the Poet of the human race. He stretched out his hand and felt himself the equal of all kings and of all princes, and the brother of all men, no matter how high, no matter how low." (Current, Williams, Friedel- pages 292-283). His friend said these words of praise to illustrate how Whitman was truly a great man. Whitman loved his country. Some say there was ...
- 2588: Legalization of Marijuana
- ... and by 1977 the majority of freshman ( 53% ) favored legislation. Since that time there has been an equally sharp decline in interest. In 1985, only 22% of entering freshman supported legislation. A national survey of high school seniors found increasing approval of marijuana between 1975 and 1977, followed by a substantial reversal of that trend. ( Johnston, O'malley, and Bachman 1986; Johnston, Bachman, and O'malley 1980 ). ( Sommer, 67 ). The possession of ... for Marinol showed that marijuana's main active ingredient is effective for these purposes. Opponents of medical marijuana say Marinol is an adequate substitute, but many patients and doctors disagree. Marijuana gives you a quicker high than Marinol, which causes it to be addicting. For people suffering from severe nausea, a capsule that must be swallowed, has it's obvious drawbacks. Even if a patient can manage the capsule, smoked ...
- 2589: What Do Employers Do,train Or
- ... has become a greater emphasis on technology skills by employers when looking to fill their vacancies, as these skills generally are vital in any industry. To obtain these skills, most students are now staying at school longer to obtain their VCE (or equivalent qualification), as this is a minimum requirement for the majority of jobs. Furthermore, greater numbers are then gaining tertiary qualifications to enhance their skills, and ultimately, their job ... training. To avoid the training program consuming the company's resources, the company could outsource the training to a company which specifically deals with training people in information technology. This too would come at a high price to the company, but would probably be more cost effective than training the staff themselves. This sort of outsourcing is now possible due to companies such as MVS Australia, a company recently created by ... survey it was found that "most employers expect staff to stay on board a mere three to five years" (Workers on the move, Herald-Sun August 10th, 1999). As the costs of retraining are so high, companies such as KPMG believe they will not see the benefits of their retraining if those employees were not there for the long-term, and this therefore sways the decision towards hiring IT skilled ...
- 2590: Odysseus A Hero
- ... that I had know for my whole schooling showed a movie every week. One week we watched Jason and the Argonaughts . Ever since then I could never get enough Greek mythology. In freshman year of high school we read the annotated text book version of The Odyssey. Lucky for me, I transferred English classes at the semester and I was able to read The Odyssey twice. And since then Odysseus has been ... hero you had to have certain advantages then the ordinary citizen. There was a very strict view on who could become a hero in ancient Greece. This stereotype was, a male born to a rich/high class family. Many heroes have come and gone, but Odysseus is one of the few that have remained. The reason that Odysseus is one of the few is that he displays all the characteristics ...
Search results 2581 - 2590 of 12257 matching essays
|
