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- 101: How Sociological Factors Affec
- ... interpretation and participation in the Arts. In order to evaluate this argument and make any logical conclusions, it must therefore be examined through evidence which in this case will be referring to an Australian artist, Robert Klippel. “Every artist’s career has a ‘shape’ or a development which tends to be greatly affected by sociological factors which influence the life of that artist”.(Hughes 1964: 2). Robert Klippel’s career ‘shape’ was also a subject to formation which was promoted by factors such as education, family upbringing and background as well as the outer and inner environments which affected the life development of the artist. It is thus essential to consider these factors as they influenced and formatted Klippel’s artistic vocation and career. Robert Klippel was born in Sydney, 19 of June 1920, in a middle class family and became the second in a family of three sons. His father had emigrated from Poland in 1904 and ran ...
- 102: Robert E. Lee
- Robert E. Lee Robert Edward Lee was born on January 19th, 1807 in Stratford, Virginia. Robert's father was thrown in debtors jail many times for not paying on time. He was introduced to war early in his life; his brother Sydney had shown him a cannon ball and told ...
- 103: The Parable Of The Cave
- ... trying to relate, in that each person is faced with different realities as we travel to try and reach "the intellectual world." This journey of enlightenment draws close parallels to another piece of literature by Robert Frost. In his poem "The Road Not Taken," he describes how he felt as he came upon the fork in the road and chose to take the road less traveled "and that has made all the difference." The use of life as a journey is nothing new to literature, but with Plato and Frost both show that this journey is not easy and there are many choices along the way that we must make that will determine the quality of the life we will lead. The main factor ...
- 104: Cathedral 2
- ... his own unique blindness." It is through this initial blindness, that the character gains his greatest vision. The short story Cathedral includes three characters. These characters include the narrator, his wife, and her blind friend Robert. Early into the story, the narrator expresses that he possesses many stereotypes, these stereotypes keep him blind from the true reality of blind people. The narrator says My idea of blindness came from the movies, the blind moved slowly and never laughed. Sometimes they were led by seeing-eye dogs. This explains where the narrator originally gains his misconceptions of blind people. The narrator s wife tells him that Robert will be visiting for the weekend. Once Robert arrives at their home, the narrator is shocked to find out that Robert doesn t wear dark glasses, carry a cane, and is wearing a full beard. Throughout the story some of the narrator ...
- 105: Robert Penn Warren
- Robert Penn Warren Robert Penn Warren, born in Guthrie, Kentucky in 1905, was one of the twentieth century's most eminent American writers. He was a distinguished novelist and poet, literary critic, essayist, short story writer, and coeditor of numerous textbooks. He also a founding editor of The Southern Review, a journal of literary criticism and political thought. The primary influences on Robert Warren's career as a poet were probably his Kentucky boyhood, and his relationships with his father and his maternal grandfather. As a boy, Warren spent many hours on his grandfather's farm, absorbing ...
- 106: Robert Francis ("Bobby") Kennedy
- Robert Francis ("Bobby") Kennedy Robert F. Kennedy was born in 1925 in Brookline Massachusetts , and was raised with traditional family values. He was a true patriot, with a strong sense of nationalism. While Attending Harvard University, he saw that his ... During that time he exposed mofia figureheads such as Jimmy Hoffa and Dave Beck. He seemed to be obsessed with dismantling the Mofia. Under his brother's administration, he continued his attack on the Mofia. Robert Kennedy had no sympathy for the mob, nor did he care that he was being criticized by the media for his “harsh measures” such as his extensive use of wiretaps . In 1964 he resigned ...
- 107: Findley's The Wars: Analysis
- ... Wars: Analysis The Wars by Timothy Findley is a tragic story of a boy who goes to war, suffers many hardships and never gets to go back home. The novel focuses around a boy named Robert Ross who gets involved in the First World War and realizes that war was not at all what he thought it would be. Robert experiences one tragedy after another as almost all of his friends die off and finally Robert passes away as well. After being horribly burned, he dies 6 years later on a hospital bed. The novel deals with all aspects of war and a soldier’s life, but most of all ...
- 108: The Lives and Works of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning
- The Lives and Works of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning “The love story of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning is one of the most beautiful in all literature,” says novelist Irving Stone. (Winwar pg. 198) Through their lives, passion and works Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, they will forever hold a place in English Literature. They appeared at a time when the Romantic Movement was put into place for the younger generation. This movement asserted ...
- 109: Robert E Lee
- Robert Edward Lee was born on January 19th, 1807 in Stratford, Virginia. Robert's father was thrown in debtors jail many times for not paying on time. He was introduced to war early in his life; his brother Sydney had shown him a cannon ball and told him ... Point, he was appointed Staff Sergeant. When he was twenty-two, he took his money that he earned; $103.58 in cash and he started a home. On July 26, 1829, Lee's mother died. Robert was at her bed when she died. Then on June 30, 1831 Lee married Mary Curtis. On September 16, 1832, Mary gave birth to George Washington Curtis Lee. Then in 1835 they had their ...
- 110: Blind As A Bat!
- In the short stories "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver and "Girls at War" by Chinua Achebe, the theme of blindness is prevalent. In "The Cathedral" Robert, the man who comes to visit, is physically blind, but in his mind, he sees things more clearly than most others do. His "mental-vision" is seen when he travels to his ex-employee's house to visit for a couple days. Robert knows the implications of the situation he is putting himself in. The husband, who is the narrator, could be jealous and this whole trip could turn out adversely for the blind man. The husband could be nonchalant about Robert's knowledge of his wife and making the trip all the worth while. Robert is not the only one in the story to have vision. When the husband offers Robert some marijuana, he is ...
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