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- 2651: Roman Pantomime
- ... was considered a sung tragedy. The main difference between tragedy and pantomime being that pantomimes were usually danced tragedies. Caspo and Slater testify that pantomime became the preferred form of drama after the comic ballet school of Bathyllos lost ground to the tragic ballet school of Pylades. Simalarly, pantomime has roots in Greek mythology many of the pantomimes were based on Greek myths. We have evidence of the existence of pantomimes that were centered on Greek myths from very early ...
- 2652: Maria Mitchell
- ... sky. He also encouraged her toward teaching and passed on a sense of God as in the natural world. By the time Maria was sixteen, she was a teacher of mathematics at Cyrus Pierce's school for young ladies where she used to be a student. Following that she opened a grammar school of her own. And only a year after that, at the age of eighteen she was offered a job as a librarian at Nantucket's Atheneum during the day when it opened to the public ...
- 2653: Abe Lincoln
- ... her own. Abe and Sarah quickly grew to love their new stepmother, who kept an immaculate house and even pushed Abe to do his studies. At age eleven, Abe was to required to go to school regularly when there was a teacher, and whenever this was, Abe got to walk a beautiful four miles each way which he did not mind. Though his lifetime of schooling never amounted to more than a year, he was always reading, which kept him up at the pace of the other kids who went to school all the time. Many called him lazy because of his constant reading and thinking, which just made Abe grin. By the time he was fifteen, he was a tall and strong boy who worked as ...
- 2654: Creative Writing: Under The Spell - A travel tale by Danny O'brien
- ... up a conversation. At first the polite formalities of name and where we all came from. That out of the way, he excitedly informed us that he had just got the results of his national school tests. These tests are given to all school children in Ireland to determine if they qualify for advanced education, if not its back to the farm or factory. Proudly he told us he had just learned that he had passed his exam. We ...
- 2655: Secret Addiction
- ... problem peeling myself away from a certain activity. As odd as it may sound, my own computer dominated my life. I remember the situation quite clearly. In the typical day, I would return home from school at around 3:00 or so. You see, most kids would set their backpack down in their bedroom, head to the kitchen and grab a snack. On the other hand, I was different. The second ... my bedtime was supposed to be around 10 or 11 in the evening, I would manage to stay up on this computer until sometimes as late as 3 in the morning, and this was on school nights as well. I never really realized how serious this was, until one day my best friend Trevor called me up on the phone. He told me about a hot new movie that was out ...
- 2656: Personal Writing: Karate Class
- ... compete in the Olympics at the age of sixteen. My first chance to show my friends and family that I was good at karate was in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in a public school. I was so nervous about this tournament I felt sick. Well it was my time to shine, and shine I did. In the peewee division for my first event I had to display my form ... place, that I was honored to accept. I left not only knowing that I could have advanced, but with the confidence of my teacher. I stopped karate after that year, but I passed by my school once in a while. My teacher is always glad to help me when I have a problem. The energy the crazy little kid was guided into was karate. My teacher believes he has now built ...
- 2657: Portraits Of Ingres And Reynolds
- ... child unless they felt guilty for something or was the father of the child. This would explain his composure and complexion. Even through the family problem that was known by everyone, Burgoyne still went to school and participated in the comradery that exists between boys becoming men. As a man, he was an eager soldier, fighting in many of the wars between France and Britain that existed during that era. He ... deep within Bertins eyes. You cannot directly into his eyes, even though it is a painting. His one eyebrow raised makes you feel like you are under the gaze of a principal in high school when you have done something wrong. The way that he is seated also gives you a very decisive feel about his solidity. Bertin is seated with his hands on his knees, making his body language ...
- 2658: Oscar Claude Monet
- ... to be an artist. Monet spent a lot of time in Paris around 1859. By 1860 Monet met a pre-impressionist painter, Edouard Manet. Monet also met other French painters destined to form the impressionist school. Monet met Camille Pissaro, Pierre Auguste Renoir, and Alfred Sisley. Monet painted simple landscapes and sketch like scenes of bright color. Monet had some success in official exhibits. In 1874, Monet and his colleagues decided ... paint scenes of different impressions on colors. Monet went to the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts to study the effects of light and color. By mid 1880s Monet was generally the leader of the impressionist school and he achieved significant recognition and financial security. Monet was recognized, as the master of meticulous observation and true feelings for is paintings. In 1890, Monet was able to purchase some property in the village ...
- 2659: The Kingdom Of God
- ... Jesus' time viewed Gods' kingdom as a place above them yet unlike people today thought more literal terms actually believing that God was above them and was looking down on them. Even now, when in prayer, one may have a tendency to look up at the heaven in reverence since next to God it is the most endless, unexplainable thing in the world. Yet people are still able to know that as they look up they see God just the same as if they shut their eyes in prayer were to the people of Jesus' time God was seen as truly sitting above them in his kingdom in which only those who follow the laws exactly would ever see. To truly understand the kingdom ...
- 2660: Personal Writing: The Day of Surprise
- ... the garage so that we would not witness them fighting. We knew the routine. I was scared and I could still hear angry voices dueling back and forth. My brother was a senior in high school and even he seemed frightened when they fought. Although he tried to hide his fear, I knew he was afraid when my father would go on a rampage. An hour passed by and my brother ... get your jackets and get in the car. After we went to our rooms to get our coats, we went outside and got into our old station wagon that my brother used to drive to school. My brother put the car in neutral and coasted out of our driveway and down the hill. At the bottom of the hill he turned the ignition and drove to a friend's house to ...
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