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- 6541: Imagery Words And Their Role In Literature
- ... clean, well-lighted place. Light and dark act as a contrast to loneliness and shelters for comfort. Through images described in the story, the readers can actually feel the characters. When I was at high school, I read Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. It tells how lonely California ranch life was in the early 1930. George and Lennie, the 2 main characters, always come together. Lennie is retarded, like ...
- 6542: The Life of Beethoven
- ... father hoped to make Ludwig a gifted child like the famous composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. His father taught him how to play piano and violin. Even though his general education was not continued after elementary school, he studied piano, violin, and French horn. At age 11, Ludwig became assistant to the organist of the local court. In 1783, he first accompanied opera rehearsals at the keyboard. From 1788 to 1792, Beethoven ...
- 6543: Pablo Picasso
- ... maiden name to sign his pictures. Picasso's genius manifested itself early: at the age of 10 he made his first paintings, and at 15 he performed brilliantly on the entrance examinations to Barcelona's School of Fine Arts. His large academic canvas Science and Charity (1897, Picasso Museum, Barcelona), depicting a doctor, a nun, and a child at a sick woman's bedside, won a gold medal. Between 1900 and ...
- 6544: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- ... life to the education of women because at the time they were merely thought only good enough to be wives and housekeepers. Catharines hard and enduring work paid off because she eventually founded a school in Hartford, Connecticut. It was at this seminary that Harriet received her formal education. Oddly enough she did not attend college, but ended up becoming a teacher at her alma mater (Hedrick, BBR March 95 ...
- 6545: Robert Schumann
- ... 147). Schumann first studied piano when he was a young boy. He also took lessons from Friedrich Wieck and eventually married his daughter, Clara (Slonimsky 902). He began his education in 1816 at a private school. It was at this time that he started piano lessons from J. G. Kuntzsch. Kuntzsch was the organist oat St. Marys Church (Sadie 831). In 1820, he began studying the piano at Zwickau Lyceum. He ...
- 6546: Elvis Presley
- ... brought on a whole generation of imitators. Elvis Aron Presley was born on Jan. 8, 1935, in Tupelo, Miss. In 1949 his family moved to Memphis, Tenn., where young Presley attended L.C. Humes High School, graduating in 1953. That summer he came to the attention of Sam Phillips, president of the Sun Record Company, when he went there to make a personal recording intended as a present for his mother ...
- 6547: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- ... ministers, so Ralph Waldo knew in the beginning that he was to become one. By the time he was twenty-two, he wished himself called Waldo. At this time he was enrolled for the Divinity School at Harvard, but his being sick made him have to give up his work for a while. In Concord, New Hampshire he met another poet, Ellen Tucker, also suffering with tuberculosis. Even though she was ...
- 6548: Euclid
- ... is believed that he was educated at Plato's academy in Athens and stayed there until he was invited by Ptolemy I to teach at his newly founded university in Alexandria. There, Euclid founded the school of mathematics and remained there for the rest of his life. As a teacher, he was probably one of the mentors to Archimedes. Personally, all accounts of Euclid describe him as a kind, fair, patient ...
- 6549: Johann Bach
- ... a demanding one; he had to compose cantatas for the St. Thomas and St. Nicholas churches, conduct the choirs, oversee the musical activities of numerous municipal churches, and teach Latin in the St. Thomas choir school. Accordingly, he had to get along with the Leipzig church authorities, which proved rocky going. But he persisted, polishing the musical component of church services in Leipzig and continuing to write music of various kinds ...
- 6550: Johann Sebastian Bach
- ... a demanding one; he had to compose cantatas for the St. Thomas and St. Nicholas churches, conduct the choirs, oversee the musical activities of numerous municipal churches, and teach Latin in the St. Thomas choir school. Accordingly, he had to get along with the Leipzig church authorities, which proved rocky going. But he persisted, polishing the musical component of church services in Leipzig and continuing to write music of various kinds ...
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