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- 2831: Jacques Louis David
- ... a prosperous middle-class family in Paris on August 30, 1748. In 1757 his mother left him to be raised by his uncles after his father was killed. He was never a good student in school- in his own words, "I was always hiding behind the instructors chair, drawing for the duration of the class". When David was 16 he began studying art at the Acadιmie Royale under the rococo painter ... works. The cold colors and severe compositions of the heroic paintings gave place to a new feeling for pageantry which had something in common with Romantic painting, although he always remained opposed to the Romantic school. With the fall of Napoleon, David went into exile in Brussels, and his work weakened as the possibility of exerting a moral and social influence receded. (Until recently his late history paintings were generally scorned ...
- 2832: Comparison Of Shakespeare Shal
- ... you to believe. The poem is made up of seven three lined stanzas with a solitary line ending. Heaney is writing about the death of his younger brother, which happened while he was at boarding school. The poem has a deep meaning. It is an expression of grief, a young person s perspective of life and death and an exposition of raw feelings and emotions. Not only the title is deceptive ... people s emotions. After reading and studying the poem, and looking back at the title, I now realise it may also have a deeper meaning. In Heaney s case, where he was at a boarding school, the mid term would have been one of the few chances he got to see his family, in this instance he does see his family but his brother has passed away. Mid term could signify ...
- 2833: Literature and Life: Of Human Bondage and Beyond
- ... more power and significance if a person can relate this quote to their own life and experiences. I myself, after reading this quote, was instantly able to identify with it. This quote describes the middle school years and my early high school years almost perfectly. Many nights I would find myself staying in, watching TV, doing one thing or another around my house. I would almost never leave the house and I had nothing that could even ...
- 2834: The Sociolect of Teenage Jocks
- ... portrayed image. The image of the ever popular, ever powerful teenage jocks and this is their sociolect. Jocks are rocks, strong, rarely broken and without common sense. Therefore, whether during half-time or in the school corridors, a jocks vocabulary level is not excelled, uses exceptional amount of slang words and is usually considered highly unacceptable. To give an example of all these features, I once witnessed a jock get ... dominance and power. Structuring their sentences by using phrases such as, You gotta problem with me? or Come here," illustrates their incredibly simple, seemingly plain sentence structure. Every year, more future jocks come to high school and they are greatly influenced by the current highly popular big guys on campus. Thus, a jock's sociolect is dominated by those legends who came before him, leaving their eternal mark on the rest ...
- 2835: Buddihism
- ... s followers. About the first century C.E. a major split occurred within the Buddhist fold--that between the Mahayana and Hinayana branches. Of the Hinayana ("the Lesser Vehicle"*) branch of schools, only the Theravada school (founded 4th century B.C.E.) remains; it is currently found in Sri Lanka and all Southeast Asian countries. This school stresses the historical figure of Gautama Buddha, and the centrality of the monk's lifestyle and practice (meditation). Theravada monks hold that the Buddha taught a doctrine of anatta (no-soul) when he spoke of ...
- 2836: Slangs in The English Language
- ... claim that the lack of standard English is due to an education deficiency. They explain that the reason some slang is created by kids in inner-city areas is that the kids drop out of school, because the kids are stupid, and therefore never learn standard English. In reality, the kids drop out of school because they are told that the way they speak is stupid (Seymour 123). The Conservatives are not willing to help the kids with "bad" dialects. Perhaps this is because of a prejudice, sort of "once ...
- 2837: Their Eyes Were Watching God 2
- ... plays with the grandchildren of Ms. Washburn. It isn t until Janie is six years old that she realizes that she is black and different from Ms. Washburn s grandchildren. When Janie starts to attend school she is treated differently. Her classmates do not give Janie a chance to be friendly instead they decide Janie considers herself better than they are. This attitude causes Janie to make no friends at school. When Janie is sixteen years old her grandmother marries her off to a potato farmer named Logan Killicks. Janie s grandmother feels that Janie needs to be married to a man that can take care ...
- 2838: A Separate Peace Analysis
- ... as Gene wished he was, on one occasion Finny wore a bright pink shirt "symbolizing the first U.S. bombing in Europe. Gene called him a "faerie" but really envied him. Later Finny wore the school tie as a belt and when questioned he claimed that it represented "Devon in the war." Gene was hopeingly awaiting a scolding for Finny, but again, he got in no trouble. Another day the two ... Finny and Gene. One day, Finny wanted Gene to come jump off a high limb into the river with him, as they have been doing for several weeks now, and he claimed that Leper, the school nerd, would be jumping today as well. Gene burst out angrily at the idea because he was studying, and thought Finny was trying to wreak his studies, so he said no. Finny took no offense ...
- 2839: Interpretation Of I Heard A Fl
- ... It seems as if the concept of time is lost during the poem. This is significant because it shows that when one dies the concept of time is lost. Stanza three states, We passed the school where children played, their lessons scarcely done; we passed the fields of gazing grain, we passed the setting sun. This stanza, like the first two stanzas, possesses a strong rhyme to it that puts an uplifting mood to the idea of death. The speaker mentions children at the beginning of the stanza because she is reflecting back to a time in her life when she once played at the school. In the third line of stanza three the speaker revisits the years that were spent working. The fourth line mentions the sun at a time in which the dying years of the speakers life ...
- 2840: Brian Mulroney And The Free Tr
- To many Canadians, Brian Mulroney seems an open book: a politician of the old school who owes his triumphs more to the opposition's weakness than to his own intrinsic strength. But behind the "jutting jaw, the smile that seems a little too self-satisfied, and the artful rhetoric is ... Free Trade Agreement with the United States. Martin Brian Mulroney was born in Baie-Comeau, Quebec in 1939, the son of an electrician. At fourteen, the young Mulroney went to St. Thomas, a Catholic high school in Chatham, New Brunswick. In 1955, he attended St. Frands Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, studying arts and commerce before majoring in political science. After graduating with honours in 1959, Mulroney started studying law ...
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