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- 1101: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... passed away, succumbing to tuberculosis. After her death, Poe, his infant sister, Rosalie, and brother William were separated. William was sent to live with their paternal grandparents. Poe moved to Richmond Virginia to live with John and Fannie Allan; Rosalie was taken in by another family in Richmond (Silverman 1-15). John Allan was a successful businessman; the poverty that Poe had been accustomed to was a thing of the past. Although not extravagant with Poe, John Allan ensured that he had a Brassfield 2 quality education. While in living in England with the Allans, he attended private academies and continued his education in private schools when they returned to the ...
- 1102: Poul Voulkos Ceramist
- ... department at the L.A. County Art Institute, now Otis College of Art and Design, and during the five years that followed, he led what came to be known as the "Clay Revolution." Students like John Mason, Paul Soldner, Ken Price and Billy Al Bengston, all of whom went on to become respected artists, were among his foot soldiers in the battle to free clay from its handicraft associations. By the ... also was gaining attention, and he was invited to teach at the experimental Black Mountain College in Asheville, N.C., in 1953. Once again, timing was in his favor, as other artists on hand included John Cage, Merce Cunningham and David Tudor, with whom he later stayed in New York, where he met Abstract Expressionist painters Franz Kline, Jack Tworkov, Philip Guston and Robert Rauschenberg. That fall, he returned to Helena ... It didn't move fast enough for me." But soon Voulkos gained a supporter, sculptor David Smith, known for his balanced cubes of steel . Voulkos shared a studio on Glendale Boulevard with his former student John Mason (his neighbor was architect Richard Neutra), and in the evenings, he and his students, who were also his friends, would listen to jazz at the Tiffany Club. “L.A. Conceptual artist John Baldessari ...
- 1103: The Cherry Orchard
- ... of his actions is his incisive billiard shot calls. Sparatically in the conversation or in mid sentence he will call a shot as if he has a cue in his hand at a pool hall. John Fiero writes in his critical analysis of The Cherry Orchard: Madame Ranevsky is a foolish woman only too anxious to return to a worthless young lover; Gayev is an amiable ass who talks too much ... Trofimov a solemn windbag; Lopakhin, the practical self-made man, is confused and unhappy; Epihodov a clumsy idiot; Dunyasha a foolish girl; Yasha an insufferable jumped-up lad; and Firs far gone in senility (Corbin, John 33-37). This quote shows the comic elements of the character s personalities and how they are put to work in the play. Apathy and passivity contrast the comic side of the characters by roping ... to interpret The Cherry Orchard did so as a tragedy. Clearly it is neither. It incorporates both. Works Cited Chekhov, Anton. The Cherry Orchard. Best Plays by Chekhov. New York: Young, 1956. 226-296. Corbin, John. Russian High Comedy. Galens 38-39. Fiero, John. Galens 33-37. Galens, David and Spampinato, Lynn. Drama For Students. Detroit: Gale, 1998. 21-39. Pritchett, V.S. Chekhov: A Spirit Set Free. Galens 37- ...
- 1104: The Challenges Faced In Jane E
- ... forced to endure many hardships before finding them. First, she must cope with the betrayal of the people who are supposed to be her family - her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and her children, Eliza, Georgiana, and John. Then there is the issue of Jane s time at Lowood School, and how Jane goes out on her own after her best friend leaves. She takes a position at Thornfield Hall as a tutor ... places. At the start of Jane Eyre, Jane is living with her widowed aunt, Mrs. Reed, and her family after being orphaned. Jane is bitterly unhappy there because she is constantly tormented by her cousins, John, Eliza, and Georgiana. After reading the entire book you realize that Jane was perfectly capable of dealing with that issue on her own, but what made it unbearable was that Mrs. Reed always sided with ... or even hope. She has no idea where she is going this time, unlike before when she left Lowood. Luckily Jane is taken in by some friendly strangers, Mary and Diana Rivers. Their brother St. John helps Jane also by helping her find a teaching position at a local school. But Jane has a secret. She has not told them her real name because she is fearful of the scandal ...
- 1105: The Grapes Of Wrath 2
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck is a story about life in the great depression and how difficult it was to make ends meet. Steinbeck tells the story through the Joad family and how they struggle to survive. Also he ... many of the farmers, including the Joads and Muleys family, of the land, and that tractors now plowed the earth instead of men. Then Muley tells Tom that his family is staying with his Uncle John. The next morning Tom and the preacher set out to Uncle John's house. When they get there Tom surprises his dad and whole family with his sudden arrival. Soon after Tom learns that the entire family is going to go west, to California. After little ...
- 1106: France And England In A Tale O
- ... Contemporary Reception of A Tale of Two Cities A Tale of Two Cities proved a disappointment even to critics who had received Dickens's earlier works favourably. In The Life of Charles Dickens (1872-4), John Forster argued that "there was probably never a book by a great humourist, and an artist so prolific in the conception of character, with so little humour and so few rememberable figures" (qtd. in P ... s contemporaries would readily endorse. The merit of such a message becomes unquestionable when considered in relation to a historical event i.e. the French Revolution which is depicted as pure and simple carnage. As John Gross points out, the novel "doesn't record a single incident in which it [the French Revolution] might be shown as beneficent, constructive, even as tragic" (191). It is this image of the French Revolution ... R. "Antihistory: Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities." Dickens's Later Work: Assessments since 1870. Ed. Michael Hollington. East Sussex: Helm, 1995. 481-503. Goddard, Jim, dir. A Tale of Two Cities. ATV, 1980. Gross, John. "A Tale of Two Cities." Dickens and the Twentieth Century. Ed. John Gross and Gabriel Pearson. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962. 187-97. Hobsbawm, E. J. Echoes of the Marseillaise: Two Centuries Look Back ...
- 1107: Biblical Symbolism In East Of
- Biblical Symbolism in John Steinbeck s work East of Eden John Steinbeck is considered to be one of the most talented American writers of all time. Most of his works are regarded highly by critics and celebrated as magnificent forms of twentieth-century literature. Steinbeck s ... is incapable of being a good person. She is an inhuman being whose life revolves around cruelty and wrongdoing. She is solely satanic and destroys the innocence of man (Marks, Jay Lester. p. 126-127). John Steinbeck includes more of the tale of Genesis: 4 than is actually told in the bible. The basis of this is a Jewish story involving twin sisters of both Cain and Abel. The two ...
- 1108: Your Chemical World
- ... Although Boyle did define elements the credit of being the father of chemistry is given to Dmitri Mendeleev, who not only formulated the periodic law but also created the periodic table of elements. Sir Joesph John Thomson then proposed the idea of protons in atoms, followed by Sir Ernest Rutherfords Nuclear theory with an atom proton. Eventually all the elements that we have today were discovered and put into place on ... used to describe the change of matter. 1620 Sir Roger Bacon introduces Inductive thinking to pave the way for scientific theory 1661 Robert Boyle defines an element 1709 Daniel Fahrenheit devises an alcohol thermometer 1803 John Dalton puts atomic theory to paper 1870 Dmitri Mendeleev creates periodic law and table 1911 Ernest Rutherford purposes the nuclear model 1945 the first atomic bomb is tested 1994 The first glimpse of the top ... Although Boyle did define elements the credit of being the father of chemistry is given to Dmitri Mendeleev, who not only formulated the periodic law but also created the periodic table of elements. Sir Joesph John Thomson then proposed the idea of protons in atoms, followed by Sir Ernest Rutherfords Nuclear theory with an atom proton. Eventually all the elements that we have today were discovered and put into place ...
- 1109: Bright Shining Lie
- By: kurt simpson A Bright Lie Shining: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam Neil Sheehan has used this novel to tell the story of the Vietnam conflict utilizing the perspective of one of its most respected characters. This is the story of John P. Vann who first came to Vietnam as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army and later returned as a civilian official. It is the story of his life from the beginning to the end. It ... his connections and reputation. However no real action was taken until 1968, after the Tet Offensive showed just how ineffective the war of attrition was. When Nixion took office he was looking for new ideas. John's ideas were looked at, and partially adopted. He called for the U.S. to take complete control of South Vietnam in order to make ARVN troops more effective. This idea was doomed to ...
- 1110: Black Like Me
- By: nick Black Like Me was first published in November of 1961. It was originally written as an article describing the rise in suicide tendency among Southern Negroes. John Howard Griffin assumed that "it would be an obscure work, of interest primarily to sociologists." Historically, Griffin was the first white person to experience certain issues known only to black people. By simply darkening his ... I had expected to see myself disguised, but this was something else. I was imprisoned in the flesh of an utter stranger, an unsympathetic one with whom I felt no kinship. All traces of the John Griffin I had been were wiped from existence. Even the senses underwent a change so profound it filled me with distress. I looked into the mirror and saw nothing of the white John Griffin's past." (pgs.15-16) The theme of isolation is first discovered in this quote. Griffin feels imprisoned in a body other than his own. He does not like the person he sees ...
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