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- 6831: Remembering The Music Of George Gershwin
- ... ideas (Schwartz 119). This score brought a new sophistication to popular music and it established a firm partnership between George and Ira who were inseparable until George s death. Soon Enough, George and Ira were writing new songs everyday. The phonograph began replacing piano rolls and this was an added boost to George s fame. With the sale of records came more money and commissions. It even enabled him and Ira ...
- 6832: Rosa Parks
- ... boycott of the bus system by blacks, with Martin Luther King, Jr. leading the movement. In spite of harassment the boycott continued, and in 1956 segregated seating was challenged in a federal law suit. Parks' personal history has been lost in the retelling of the event. Prior to her arrest, Mrs. Parks had a firm and quiet strength to change things that were unjust. She served as secretary of the NAACP ...
- 6833: Rubens
- ... remained in Antwerp, living primarily at Castle Steen, his country residence. During this final decade he continued executing commissions for the Habsburg monarchs of Austria and Spain. More and more, he also painted pictures of personal interest, especially of his wife and child and of the Flemish countryside. The concerns of Rubens's late style, and indeed of his whole career, are summarized in The Judgment of Paris (circa 1635-37 ...
- 6834: Richard Nixon
- ... was traced to officials of the Committee to Re-elect the President. A number of administration officials resigned; some were later convicted of offenses connected with efforts to cover up the affair. Nixon denied any personal involvement, but the courts forced him to yield tape recordings which indicated that he had, in fact, tried to divert the investigation. As a result of unrelated scandals in Maryland, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew ...
- 6835: Robert Frost 2
- ... volumes of poetry, A Boy's Will in 1913, and North of Boston in 1914. These works were well received not only in England, but in America. Frost returned to America in 1915 and continued writing his poetry. He produced many volumes of poetry, among which are Mountain Interval (1916), West-Running Brook (1928), A Further Range (1936), A Masque of Reason (1945), and In the Clearing (1962). Frost received the ...
- 6836: Roger Williams
- ... of Highest Consideration, an argument for complete separation of church and state; The Hireling Ministry None of Christ's; and George Fox Digg'd Out of His Burrowes, a polemic against Quaker teachings. Of great personal charm and unquestioned integrity, Williams was admired even by those who, like both the elder and the younger John Winthrop, abhorred his liberal ideas.
- 6837: Revelation By Flannery Oconnor
- ... to see things as large instead of small. She looks over at Mary Grace, who is staring at her, and begins to realize that "the girl did know her, knew her in some intense and personal way, beyond time and place and condition"(348). The eyes of Mary Grace became clear, and Mrs. Turpin asks her "what do you got to say to me"(348)? Mrs. Turpin is expecting a message ...
- 6838: Vincent Van Gogh 2
- ... current techniques and color. Paris opened his eyes to the senses and beauty of the visible world and taught him the pictorial language of the color patch. However, his painting continued to be under his personal emotion. In 1888 van Gogh left Paris for southern France, where he painted scenes of the fields, cypress trees, peasants and rustic life characteristic of the region. He produced his greatest pictures there. Van Gogh ...
- 6839: Rupert Mccall
- ... has of this beautiful country that exists in his poetry. Rupert McCall is a 26-year-old solicitor who has put his legal career on hold to peruse his number one passion - poetry and creative writing. He went on a tour of the 163 world hotspots as part of his research and mental preparation for his third book entitled Green and Gold Malaria which has already sold 60000 copies. Rupert has ...
- 6840: William Faulkner
- ... is well worth the effort. I found some of his writings, particularly his early ones, difficult to understand because he sometimes changes tense in the middle of a sentence and he also seems to enjoy writing with a Southern accent which does not make his writings any easier to read. For example in The Bear and in "Barn Burning, Faulkner consistently uses hit instead of it. He has a very down ...
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