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- 9631: Andy Warhol
- ... with a bachelor degree in pictorial design. After graduating he moved out to New York City, where his life blossomed. He lived for a couple of years with Philip Pearlstein, who he had met at school. Warhol, with his education centered around design, set out to begin his career on the right foot. He started doing drawings for advertisements in a women's shoe catalog. It may not have been much ...
- 9632: Alfred Stieglitz
- ... It wasn't until he got older that his photography curiosity begin to take charge of his life. Stieglitz formally started photography at the age of nineteen, during his first years at the Berlin Polytechnic School. At this time photography was in its infancy as an art form. Alfred learned the fine arts of photography by watching a local photographer in Berlin working in the store's dark room. After making ...
- 9633: The Grapes of Wrath
- ... its westerly journey. Steadily the turtle advances on, ironically to the southwest, the direction of the mirgration of people. The turtle is described as being lasting, ancient, old and wise: horny head, yellowed toenails, indestructible high dome of a shell, humorous old eyes. The driver of he truck, red ant and Tom Joad's jacket are all symbolic of nature and man the try to stop the turtle from continuing his ...
- 9634: "Paul's Case": Willa Cathers
- ... had began to flake. "The nearer he approached the house the more absolutely unequal Paul felt to the sight of it all; his ugly sleeping chamber, the cold bathroom with the grimy zinc tub..." His school was described with having "bare floors and naked walls". Paul's uplifting arena was either glaring up at the actors, divas, or performers at the Schenley Hotel or at the works of art at Carnegie ...
- 9635: Reverence
- ... born and they named Ellen. That was the first moment in his life that led him to lose faith in the Communist ideology. The second decisive moment occurred when his daughter was seated in her high chair. He was watching her and he came to the realization that she could have been created only by design. The implication was inexorable: Design presupposed God. In his autobiography he urges his children to ...
- 9636: The Catcher in the Rye: Now and Then
- ... Later in the book, Holden is confronted with sex, face to face with a prostitute. “Holden does not, of course, and does not want to wholly escape sex...” (Riley) In 1951, Salinger was taking a high risk in discussing this in his novel. Today the subject of sex is loosely discussed in many books and novels. This was a new step that Salinger took in this novel, that had not been ...
- 9637: The Scarlet Letter: Symbolism of the Forest In Puritan Society
- ... The Pastor and His Parishioner" reveals that the roles are now reversed. Where else could an divergence such as this occur, but in an accepting environment? What other platform is there for a man of high regard in the community to pour his soul to a woman who is shunned by the public for a grave sin? Nowhere else but in the forest, could such an event occur. Finally, the forest ...
- 9638: Edna's Suicide in The Awakening
- ... physical beauty is Adele Ratignolle. Adele as, “the embodiment of grace and charm”(Chopin 51). As we understand it, Edna is not envious per se, but also holds beauty, womanly charm, and social ability in high regards. For example, Edna finds Reisz’s use of French in speaking to Adele’s Husband at the dinner party to be rude, a mistake Adele presumably would have not committed. Along with this need ...
- 9639: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Vocation Sequence
- ... to know the place for the first time. -T.S. Eliot As Stephen questions whether or not his repentance and devotions served the purpose of expiating his sins, he learns that the director of his school wants him to become a Jesuit priest, therefore serving as a model of faultless excellence. At a time in his life when Stephen must realize his true calling, he considers both the greatest honour that ...
- 9640: Stillwatch: Summary
- ... wall, and she fell to the floor with a shattered leg and a fractured skull. Now that Toby is dead, and her entire life has been exposed to the media, Abigail decides that it is high time she be done with politics. So she doesn’t make Vice President, and we hear nothing else of her. But we do know that Sam and Pat are going to have a romantic honeymoon ...
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