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- 3081: Voltaire
- ... November 21, 1694 in Paris. Voltaire's style, wit, intelligence and keen sense of justice made him one of France's greatest writers and philosophers. Young Francois Marie received an excellent education at a Jesuit school. He left school at 16 and soon formed friendships with a group of sophisticated Parisian aristocrats. Paris society sought his company for his cleverness, humor and remarkable ability to write verse. In 1717 he was arrested for writing ...
- 3082: Gerard Manley Hopkins Terrible
- ... papers, each one several pages of uninspired student translations, five to six times a year (Benzel 370). His job demanded long hours which took away time for his admiration of nature and his time for prayer. The six "terrible" sonnets have a strong contradiction to his earlier works. His early works were filled with beautiful scenes in nature and praise of God. His realization that he was not dedicating enough time ... let go and fall into despair. The sonnet "I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day" reveals Hopkins feeling of isolation and self-hatred. The poem seems to have the directness of a prayer. I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This night! what sights you, heart, saw; ways you went! And more must, in yet longer ...
- 3083: The Lady with the Pet Dog: A Review
- ... Anna. He recognizes that they have a lot on common. They are both married, not of their free choosing. Dmitry, whos marriage was chosen for him when he was in the second year of school. Anna, who was married two years ago, did not even know what her husband did for a living. Dmitry learned that she had been a schoolgirl only a short while ago, doing lessons just like his own daughter in school. He started knowing that there was something more to this affair than what he expected. He would look at Anna and think to himself What encounters life offers! He remembered the past affairs, the happiness ...
- 3084: Film and Book Review of I Know What You Did Last Summer
- ... reporter for the channel five news. She lived in a nice apartment complex and was getting a taste of the good life. As a teenager her parents were poor and she dropped out of high school. Julie was on the cheerleading squad and was a straight A student. When she went to college her grades started slipping and she was miserable most of the time. After high school Ray went to the east coast to work on boats. Barry went to a local college to play football and lived in the dorms there. When a year had passed, Julie went home for the ...
- 3085: Romanticism: Grande Odalisque
- ... style. But Goya also uses the harsh reality of the dead body and the pool of blood accumulating on the ground to make a social commentary on the death of these men, drawing on the school of Realism. Courbet, considered by many the father of realism, also uses techniques of both schools. To illustrate, in Burials of Ornans, Courbet depicts a funeral scene with an intense feel for the emotions felt ... art and had a direct influence on one another. The division of art during this period is definitely due to the enlightenment and the revolutionary times, in which heated debates between moralist of the Romantic school and the scientific naturalist of Realism and the combinations and the divisions of the two schools. The art of these times paralleled the economic divisions. The industrial revolution helped fuel the fire of the rivalry ...
- 3086: Character Comparison in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Dead Poet's Society
- ... not to walk". Charlie is also the only one not to sign the paper that accuses Mr. Keating of being the reason of Neil's suicide. Because Charlie was daring, he was expelled from the school, When he found out that Cameron told about DPS, he could not contain himself and punched Cameron in the nose. Cameron and Helena are not very sensitive people. Both Cameron and Helena betray their friends ... Poet's Society, he says to the rest of the members of the DPS: " Yes I've told them, and if you haven't heard before, there is something called an honour code in this school, when a teacher asks you a question you answer or get expelled. And if you are smart you'll do exactly what I did
They are not after us, we are the victims, us and ...
- 3087: Feathery Friends Or Carnivorous Beasts?
- ... brings the love birds to his weekend home in Bogada Bay. Some other characters in the movie include: Cathy Brenner, the sister of Mitch; Lydia Brenner, the insecure, afraid mother of Mitch; Annie Hayworth, a school teacher and a former love of Mitch. Foreshadowing is used many times in the movie in order to build up suspense. When Annie Hayworth declares, Dont the birds ever stop migrating?, this shows all ... uses the lighting of a cigarette to signify tension between others. In many scenes, Melanie and Annie light up a cigarette, signifying the tension between their feelings for Mitch. Also, when Melanie is at the school house, she lights up a cigarette. She is unaware of the grouping of the birds on the jungle gym behind her. Alfred Hitchock also shows a character in the foreground when something in the background ...
- 3088: Gentlemen Of The Night
- ... considered to be mundane challenges. "The most pronounced instance where my life was influenced by this instinct was when I gave up my work at Harvard," said Frost. It was during the course of attending school that Frost learned that structure, school or otherwise, made him feel restraint to the point of being unable to complete things because they had to be done. In his life as in his poetry, Frost relied on the natural flow of ...
- 3089: The Catcher in the Rye: Holden Deals With Alcohol, Sex, and Violence
- ... so he does. Then the rest of them follow." In the book, Between Parent and Teenager, it states the substance abuse is the number one cause of death amongst teenagers. Studies show that among high school students age 14 - 17, 60% of the students use alcohol once a week, 75% use it at least once a month, and 85% have used it once in the year. In the novel, Holden Caulfield ... an early age so that kids won't make any bad or harsh mistake which they will regret when they are older. Sexual education is something that either the young person will learn about in school, on their own or their parnets will discuss the matter with them. Remember, ignorance is not the key in this matter, as mentioned earlier. Violence is something that will always be around. There is no ...
- 3090: Adolf Hitler
- ... 28 when Adolf was born. Klara and Alios had 6 children , but only Adolf and his sister Paula survived childhood. Adolf was a good student in elementary and got good grades. When he reached high school his studies dropped, and he dropped out of school when he was just 16 years old. In 1903 his father, Alios, died. Four years later, Hitler went to Vienna to study art, while he was away his mother, Klara, died. Hitler's hate for ...
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